Bits and Pieces

"What happened?" the princess asked after Aries had completely absorbed the corrupted soul. "Why did you let yourself get stabbed?"

She put both her hands over the bleeding chest wound and healed it. She also healed the unconscious stalker.

"I don't think this man is stronger than you. I easily blocked his blade and knocked him unconscious."

Aries was about to answer when another set of blurry memories flooded his mind and after the flashes of foggy memories came a vivid one.

He and Pieffer were in the same forest near the boundaries of the House of Ram.

Aries was kneeling over the princess who was lying with her back flat on the ground. Her left eye was pitch-black while her right was sapphire blue.

"I will now free you from the dark spirit," Aries was holding a crimson dagger in both his hands. The edge of its blade was pointing at the heart of the princess.