Without wasting time, she forced herself to rip from the grasp and took the arc. The minute she held the bow, she felt great energy flowing in her then and there. It increased her confidence.Despite not having an arrow, her body moved on its own to prepare to fire at one of the bandits. Miraculously, an arrow of fire immediately appeared in her right hand. She smiled happily seeing this and immediately shot an arrow at them.
It only took two minutes. She managed to beat the bandits, amounting to twenty people. When the clouds covering the full moon began to move away, the darkness of the village began to appear bright.
Besides there was something very bright covering Scarlet"s entire body. Her appearance at the moment looks very different among normal elementalist. After observing Scarlet clearly, the bandits became very frightened.
"Kn... the RED KNIGHT! She is the knight of the FLAMES!" after that the bandits ran away in fear and since then they never appear in this village again.
Meanwhile, Scarlet was in a daze thinking about the exclamation.
Red knight?
Knight of Flames? Scarlet asked herself.
Who? Me? I am the knight of flames?
She began to notice that the hair fluttered in front of her was indeed red instead of brown. She immediately pulled her long hair forward to see it was red!
Her hair was longer, wavier and the color was b.l.o.o.d.y red!?
Scarlet still could not believe it. She instantly returned to the old lady"s house and looked for a mirror. Her eyes widen to see her red hair. Red as in like a blazing fire.
After comprehend her confusion, she remembered the old lady of the owner of the house.
"Old lady, old lady! Please! Anyone, please help me lift her into bed."
At first the villagers were doubtful and afraid of her. But when they saw Scarlet began to cry for help, they immediately helped her lift the old lady.
***
Scarlet was relieved when she knew that the kind-hearted old lady was fine. Only bruises on her elbows and shoulders due to collision when falling earlier.
Fortunately there was a water elementalist in the village so that they could immediately treat her bruises.
"Kn... Knight of the Flames" called one of the villagers in fear.
"Please, just call me Red. And also you, you guys..." while glancing at the people who are on wary of her gesture "don"t need to be afraid of me. I will not hurt you. It"s just ... I didn"t know that I would become the Elementalist knight. I never dreamed of it. I heard, the knights had to hide their ident.i.ty. So I hope you can keep this a secret."
"Yes. You are our savior. We will not tell others. And ... " the person glanced at his friends while nodding his head once. "Thank you." said the person again, bowing his body to salute followed by other residents behind him.
"Thank you." followed the others.
"Wh.. wake up, please." Scarlet was baffled. "Really, you don"t need to thank me. I must thank you instead. You are willing to accept me as who I am. That alone makes me happy."
The villagers were no longer wary of her instead they gave her a warm smile.
"To be honest, I ran away from home. I feel like my parents don"t love me and I can"t stand it. So I..."
"Red, there are no parents who do not love their children. There might be a misunderstanding between you and your parents. Just go home and talk to your parents. But if you need a place to calm yourself, our place will always be open for you."
Scarlet smiled and involuntarily shed tears hearing that. "Thank you. Thank you very much."