Surprise

A couple weeks pass by, and things were going well. The child was behaving well, and they learned that her name was Lilith. Camilla and Fleya were both helping Lilith, and they got along brilliantly.

Though things were going so well, everything went downhill that day...

March, 8, 1388

There was a knock on the door in the small home they rented. Before they could get up, the door burst open as the royal knights came in. Fleya was quick on her feet, telling Lilith to hide while covering her with her body. On that day ,however, Camilla was absent and nowhere to be found...

Though shaking with fear, Amphitrite calmed her jittering nerves and stood tall.

"IMPUDENCE! How dare you break in here without permission? Don't you know who I am?" She declared, putting all of her confidence in this line.

Even so, the knight did not back down.

"Amphitrite van Blissia, you have been charged of the crime of befriending a monster"

She froze. Every nerve and cell in her body was shaking with fear. How did he even find out about Lilith? At this point, she knew she was done for, but, she wasn't about to go down without a fight.

But, before Amphitrite could even open her mouth, there was a shriek. It turns out that one of the knights had found Lilith in the closet. As a form of self-defense, Lilith had scratched one of the knight's eye. She ran out of the room, grabbing Amphitrite's dress as a signal for her to run. Fleya was quick to understand the situation, dashing out the door right behind them.

In the end, it was no use...

One of the knights had a Mana Shot, a long range weapon similar to a bow, using bullets instead of arrows. They shot Lilith in the leg. She kept stumbling, blood dripping out, but she still ran. They shot her in the stomach next. The bullet shot through her liver, resulting in her puking up a gigantic amount of blood. But still, she kept running. Amphitrite tried to help by covering Lilith's stomach with her dress, though it didn't do much.

They shot her in the head. As the recoil stopped, Lilith fell, blood dripping out immensely, still grabbing Amphitrite's dress. As the sight registered in her brain, Amphitrite's legs buckled, landing on her knees. She carefully picked up the corpse of Lilith in her arms, as if holding her own baby. Before she knew it, tears dropped down on her crying face as she drowned in sorrow. She hugged tight to Lilith's body, as if Lilith would disappear if she let go. Fleya tried to help, defending Amphitrite as the knights tried to capture her. However, they had soon paralyzed Fleya, who dropped to the floor. As the knights surrounded Amphitrite, one took Lilith's body as the others dragged her away.

...They grabbed her hair and pushed her down, forcing Amphitrite to kneel in front of tens of nobles, from the baroness of House Vermeil to her father and brothers. Everyone had a disgusted look on their faces, even the Emperor and the Empress. After a few minutes of chattering, a loud voice boomed over the whispering.

"Amphitrite van Blissia, You have caused a grave crime!"...