Chapter 192 - HOPELESSNESS

"But Young Master, the Eldest Master Dastan is on duty. He can't–"

"Shut your mouth!" With the Young Master's warning, the minion sealed his mouth.

Just then, two minions came and reported, "Young Master, we killed everyone excluding the ninja and the woman in the room. They are both unconscious."

"And, we found our ring with him." Another one gave the Young Master his silver ring.

"Splendid. Our work ends here. Remove the tracker barrier. Let's go."

The yellow blonde-haired walked away. Fifteen men followed him, carrying their dead fellows' bodies.

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Twenty minutes later, Sebastian woke up and found Veronica on the bed. He rushed toward her and called her desperately, "Mistress, please don't die on me. I'm the worst bodyguard in history. I promise I will become a better bodyguard and protect you. So, please come back!"

He burst into tears and cried loudly. More than worrying about his life, he was more agonized over the fact he failed to protect her.

Veronica heard some racket from a distant land. She frowned.

'Who is this? Who is calling me?' She tried to locate the source of the sound.

Slowly, her eyes fluttered open and she saw Sebastian's tearful face.

Sebastian also noticed her eyes opening and he was relieved. "Mistress! You are alive! Thank goodness! I thought I failed you!"

"What happened…" she mumbled and tried to remember what caused her to pass out. When she did, she sat on the bed.

"That man, where is he?" she looked around but there was no one.

Sebastian shook his head. "I don't know. I was fighting with those killers and they got me good. After I regained consciousness, I looked for you and found you here. How did this happen?"

Veronica looked down and mumbled, "He knocked me out and left."

"Ahh…" He knew even if he wanted to regret it, it wouldn't give them that man back.

"Let's not worry about them, Mistress. We should get out and make Merlin explain to us why he couldn't bring the guards sooner." He stood up to leave.

Veronica instantly held his hand to prevent him from leaving. "But the people. All innocent people, what happened to them?"

"I'm sorry, Mistress." Sebastian looked down. He had no excuse.

"No… way…" Veronica covered her mouth. Her body was shaking. "I don't believe this."

She stood up and stepped outside the room. Her eyes turned red as she saw women, teenage boys, children's dead bodies lying behind the bars.

Looking at the dead bodies, she couldn't stay standing anymore. Her legs gave out.

Before she collapsed on the bloody floor, Sebastian caught her.

"I'm sorry, Mistress," he apologized once again. He too didn't feel good seeing all the innocent dead bodies.

They didn't deserve to die like this.

"…" Veronica couldn't utter a sound. Her vision became blurry as tears poured from her eyes.

Her mind was blank. She felt suffocation while looking at the pile of dead bodies.

'I was here… but I couldn't save a single life… not even one life?'

She was unable to bear the fact that so many people died and she had the power to help them but she couldn't do it.

She suddenly opened her mouth. Her eyes widened. However, she couldn't breathe.

"Mistress! Mistress!"

Sebastian noticed her odd behavior and called out frantically. He had no idea what to do.

"Sebastian! Sebastian!"

At that moment, he heard a familiar voice, calling his name.

Afterward, several footsteps rushed toward the prison.

Merlin, Darius, and Ironin rushed to the spot and saw Sebastian and Veronica. Both were covered in blood.

"What happened? Are you injured?" Darius sprinted in their direction. His usual relaxed expression was gone.

"Where were you?" Sebastian barked at Merlin. "We have waited for so long. If you had arrived earlier then this wouldn't have happened!"

"What? Is she dead?" Darius's face paled. He examined Veronica's wrist and relaxed his muscles.

"She is alive," he announced.

Merlin and Ironin exhaled loudly. They were concerned that she was dead.

Darius stated, "We were trying to locate your position a hundred times for forty minutes. But we weren't able to do so. We were just able to get a hold of your position and came to you."

Merlin looked down. The vexing emotion was making him regret.

He explained, "It could have been a tracker barrier. That's why we couldn't detect your presence. They had a magician with them, didn't they? Now, there is no trace of any magic around here. The magic barrier must have vanished after the death of the magician. Had I known that there would be a tracker barrier, I would have-"

Ironin frowned and interrupted with a poker face, "Enough, you couldn't do anything even if you knew it. You have to break the barrier to use the tracking device. If you did that, you would notify the enemy. Now the question is, why is everyone dead?"

Veronica already started to breathe properly. She took deep breaths to control her emotions. She didn't feel like showing her weakness in front of them.

Sebastian narrated the whole story, "I don't know. We thought it was you guys. But then, they started killing everyone including these innocent people. Twenty men were wearing back clothes like professional assassins. Mistress wanted to save the innocents and so I tried to fight those guys. In the end, I only killed five men and before I could do anything, I was overpowered.

"When I regained consciousness, I looked for Mistress. She was attacked by the man who chose performers for trafficking. I think he is their leader. He had the same silver ring as the guy who tried to abduct Mistress from the barge. They must be connected."

Merlin commented, "They must have found out that their documents were missing. They had seen through our plan."

"So, they wanted to destroy all the evidence before leaving. Now, we won't be able to trace them," Darius remarked. "Clever!"

"If that's how it is then why are you still alive?" Ironin questioned as he glanced at Sebastian.