Chapter 221 - 220 - Why Did You Help Them?

Armor picked up the body of the king's brother and held him with only one hand.

"And you, what are you going to do? Do you want me to kill you here or do you intend to run away together with your daughters? This is the last chance I am giving you." The armor pointed his sword at the queen and the princesses in the middle of the room.

The queen bit her lips and didn't know what to say. But she changed her mind soon after when her daughters began to speak.

"Mommy, I don't want to die."

"Let's get out of here."

Hearing this was enough to make the queen take a deep breath and think better about everything that is happening. Her country has been invaded by people she doesn't know, her husband has been killed, there is no reason for them to stay here.

They wouldn't be able to fight to get their country back or anything like that.

They just need to get out of here and go live a life away from this place, so that maybe one day she would have the opportunity to come back.

'But will that be possible? Will I be able to go back to this mansion in the future? Will I get my old life back?' The queen looked at her husband's body on the floor and gritted her teeth.

''All right, I'll get out of here, but how will I do that? We're on the third floor and I can't get out the door."

"I'll help you down through the window. First of all, put on something that hides your appearance so as not to cause a commotion outside."

"Okay." The queen said and afterward warned her two daughters not to open their eyes. After the warning, she stood up.

'I think there's something in here.' She went to a closet inside the room and found some blankets.

''I think that will do. But that alone is not enough, how are we going to survive without money?" The queen tied the blankets together and formed a kind of jacket to protect her daughters.

"Just leave for now and hide in some inn at least until tomorrow. After that I will come to you and help you, what do you think of that?" The queen thought about the armor's proposal for a while and decided to accept.

"Fine, but make sure you do it fast." The queen took another blanket and also made a cloak that hid her body, hair, and much of her body so that she would not be recognized.

She then walked over to her daughters and took both of their hands.

"Keep your eyes closed you two, you don't want to see what happened inside this room." At this warning, the two girls began to tremble and shook their heads several times.

Then the queen turned to the armor.

"So how do we get down without hurting ourselves?"

"You can jump, I will use my magic to help you. Then you need to run far away because I think there are some people down there because of the nobleman who ended up jumping."

The queen walked to the window and looked out. Down below she could see the nobleman's body and a group of people around her who looked quite confused and frightened by what had happened.

"I can't go down there, we will surely be caught and accused of having killed that man."

"I don't think they would do that."

"Are you sure? We're completely hidden in these blankets, they would suspect us."

"You're annoying, you know that? Why did I decide to help you?"

"You're the one who had the idea to save us! Now deal with it!"

"Haa~~" The armor sighed and looked at the queen for a while longer.

"All right, I will help. Just get away from the window." 

The queen walked away and armor leaned in the window. The residents below did not notice the armor's presence until its magic began to be cast upon them.

The residents were confused by that black smoke that suddenly engulfed them. And the residents in the distance seemed frightened as to what that would be.

"All right, they're not seeing very well right now and they're confused, they won't mind you three."

"But how are we going to get down? If we jump we'll die."

"Don't worry, I'll help you." An even denser smoke appeared just in front of the window, creating a platform for the three.

But of course, the queen was doubtful if it would work at all, so she didn't allow her daughters to climb on it before testing it. So she reached over and brought her hand up to the "platform".

"How do you do that? It looks like a piece of the ground."

"I don't have time to explain, just climb up there with your daughters and come down."

"Okay." The queen nodded and climbed onto the "platform" along with her two daughters. After that, she was lowered down to the ground.

When she got downstairs, everyone was confused and screaming.

But the queen didn't mind this and started running while holding the hands of her two daughters.

In a few minutes, they were already far away from there in a narrow alley in the capital's residential neighborhood. 

"Haa~~" The queen sighed while smooth and soon after she bent down to look at her daughters.

"Are you guys okay?" She asked.

Her two daughters nodded.

"Yeah, I'm fine.''

"My feet are hurting."

"Right. I took some money that was inside the cupboard, let's go after an inn for now, okay?"

The two agreed and the queen held the hands of the two princesses. Then they started walking towards an inn that was on the main street of the capital.

'I shouldn't trust that armor... But... What can I do? I have no one to ask for help. There's nothing to do!!!' While on the path, the queen finally began to express how she felt.

She started crying and shaking as she continued walking.

The two princesses watched their mother finally let her true feelings out. They had already cried so much that there were no more tears, so they just continued walking in silence.

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The armor came out of the room as it carried the nobleman's body in its arms. The man was still passed out and a mark had appeared on his neck where the armor had hit.

As soon as he left, the armor was met by his three brothers who were standing in the hall. The first thing they did was look at the man.

"Is that the king? Where are the others? Were they all killed?" One of the armor asked.

"Yes, the twin princesses and the queen were killed and were swallowed by me, and the other nobles are in there inside the room."

"You and your mania for swallowing only women. You are strange." One of the armors entered the room to swallow the other bodies. After that, the four armors walked down the hall toward the throne room.

They arrived there in just a few minutes.

They were met by armor number 1 and two other brothers.

Arriving there, the armor carrying the "king" threw him on the floor in front of Ward who was sitting on the throne.

"So that's the former king? He doesn't look too young?" Ward asked a little suspicious.

"Yes, that's the old king." The armor said without flinching.

Ward looked at him for a while suspiciously but soon began to smile.

"I get it, but what a miserable man." Ward stood up and walked over to the man who was lying on the ground. After approaching Ward grabbed the man's hair and lifted his head.

Slap~~

Slap~~~

And after slapping the man twice hard on the face, he woke up startled and looked directly at Ward.

"Hi, did you sleep well?" Ward asked as he smiled.

"Who are you?" The man shouted. After he shouted, Ward punched him in the face.

"Stop yelling, you idiot, my ears hurt." Ward let go of the man on the ground.

The man who was "freed" got up and looked around. And after noticing the presence of the seven armors right behind him, he tried to calm himself so as not to say anything strange.

'I have to pretend I'm the former king, is that it?' He remembered the conversation he had had with one of the armors.

"So, what do you want with me?" He asked Ward as he tried to remain calm.

Ward looked at the man and smiled.

"I don't want anything, I just wanted to talk to you a little bit before I throw you in prison." Ward sat down on the throne again. After sitting down, he stared at the "King".

"..." The man not knowing what to say continued in silence. Because of this Ward sighed and looked at one of the armors.

"Take this guy to the prison. Take good care of him, I don't want him to die just yet."

"What?" Hearing Ward's words, the man turned to look at the armors. Since they were all the same he looked at them all in search of the armor that had made that offer to him.

Unfortunately, none of the armors came forward and he was grabbed by one of them. Without struggling he let himself be carried to the prison that was just below the mansion.

"You will stay here for a while, in the future I intend to let you out. Don't worry, I will take good care of you and I won't let you die here." 

"Wait, so you are the one who made that proposal to me? Why did you let the princesses and the queen go? And why are you helping me?"

"For some reason, I felt very angry to see the former king treating them like that. And about you, I only helped you because I made the mistake of killing the king on impulse."

"Urgh.." The man stepped away from the prison bars and watched the armor move away.