She's That Knight Known As Zero

They had just finished defeating the ones in the eastern border but even that fight made him uncomfortable, they were too easy to defeat.

As compared to the ones from the western border who were wrecking havoc, he can tell that something was not right. After feeling this way for a while, he took Hideyos.h.i.+, Azusa and Feena to go straight to the eastern border.

Today the rebels in the western border were doing their best to wreck havoc, it just so happens that today the princess will be visiting the eastern border.

All of them became complacent not even noticing these subtle hints.

Raven, who realized it, was already in the western border, by the time he arrived back to the kingdom. Eureka and the others have already left for an hour.

They could only rush afterwards, the four of them are way ahead the others already. They of course knew that Eureka"s body might be able to move but she has no memories now.

They trust the knights that was with them but they still need to see for themselves how they were.

Another half an hour before they met with the knight Eureka sent who was already out of breath but still doing his best to run back.

"Why are you here?" Raven stopped his horse and questioned him.

"Th- The princess was abducted, the aide followed after them after she had sent me back," the knight was panting so hard and wanted to explain everything but he knew that the time was ticking he can"t take up their time.

"Hideyos.h.i.+," Raven called before he made his horse gallop once again.

Hideyos.h.i.+ understood what he meant as he picked the knight up and the four of them rushed to where the incident have happened.

"She had told me that she will be leaving marks in order for all of us to be able to follow. I don"t know if I can trust her but I can only run back as fast as I can to inform everyone."

Seeing the condition of the horses, they knew that he really could only run back. Everyone was still asleep.

"Sleeping powder," Feena commented as she check each and every person on the ground.

"What"s with the blood?" Azusa asked upon seeing the blood in the carriage which dripped until outside.

"The aide have wounded herself in order to stay awake, she also wounded me to wake me up. Could we really trust her sir?" he couldn"t help but ask.

"If we can"t, why do you think we allowed her to be the princess"s aide? Stay here and wake this people up, we will follow her marks. We are short of time," Raven replied coldly as he and the others run to the forest.

They were quiet as they look around, not long after they were able to see the marks he was talking about. The four of them were silent, they were nervous at the same time scared.

Eureka may have shown signs of her body"s memory but she still has no memory of everything. Why is it that she was the one who went ahead and followed them?

If it was not because of the time constraint, Raven would have hit those sleeping knights. Just how careless could they be? Why is it that it was her who had to be so attentive to everything?

He was completely mad right now, angry towards those people but what"s more, he was in complete rage towards the rebels whom they left alone.

Raven couldn"t help but to ridicule himself, he has no right to get mad at them when he was the one who allowed those rebels to do what they please.

If they have just restricted those people earlier then this wouldn"t have happened.

They too were complacent that they could bring those people down the moment they act, yet look what had happened now. Not just one princess but two princesses were in a position of danger.

Raven grits his teeth as they kept following the marks, he soon realized that the place was close to the marks he created on the map.

If he was not mistaken, no matter how good Eureka"s body was, she wouldn"t have been able to follow them like a piece of cake if she was unsure of where they were going to.

Adding to the fact that she had to keep herself awake then she had to wake that knight up. The time that took should have allowed those people to take Hikari far enough for her to be able to follow.

"Why are there marks that had additional instructions of it being crossed out? Did she follow them purely on instinct?" Hideyos.h.i.+ couldn"t help but say as he too noticed this marks.

"No, she had memorized the marks on the map in my house. She incorporated that to this location and started following each path," Raven replied.

He remembered that upon coming out of the bath that day. He saw Eureka standing in front of te map.

"She memorized it?"

"It may have been a subconscious reaction of her being. But that is the only explanation I could think of after seeing all her marks."

The four of them returned to following the marks she left behind in silence.

*****

Hikari was trembling as she gripped at Eureka"s clothes. She was doing her best not to cry, despite wanting to.

Upon waking up she realized that she was kidnapped and was tied in a tree. The rebels were even looking at her like a prized treasure they took.

After they spoke to her of what they plan on doing, their attentions finally left her. She wanted to cry right there and then. She wanted to go back home.

Not long after she saw Eureka close by, she signalled Hikari to keep quiet as she did her best to move closer and closer to Hikari. It was not easy for it was in daylight.

If others of the same age as her would be here, they would surely be wailing now. She was just a four year old one, she just turned four a month or so ago. Such a young age and was already subjected to such terror.

Hikari indeed kept quiet and Eureka successfully get close to her and was able to cut the rop tying her to the tree. But to her miscalculation someone appeared behind her and hit her head with the sheath of their sword.

Such brutality towards a woman, these rebels truly did not show any kind of pity to others.

Despite that Eureka was able to stand firm and hugged Hikari tightly as she jumped to the side trying her best to move away from them. But obviously it was futile.

She is now having a terrible headache, other than the hit she got, there"s something else that"s making her head ache. She just couldn"t grasp what it was. It felt like her head was being split into two.

Her body wanted to move but she couldn"t do anything especially since Hikari was in her hands.

Upon seeing her being kidnapped just like that, without second thought she followed them. She didn"t even know why she was so attached to this little girl.

But she just couldn"t keep still knowing that Hikari was placed in danger, that is why she didn"t care whether she had the ability. She just went ahead and followed them.

Now just as she was about to escape with Hikari, those b.a.s.t.a.r.ds noticed her and hit her hard in the head with the sheath of their sword, depite that she didn"t let go of Hikari. She hugged her tighter as she glare at the people laughing at her, approaching them.

"What should I do? My body is moving in a way I didn"t even understand. I was easily able to follow them but I don"t know what else I should do now," she thought as she looked down at Hikari.

They were slowly approaching them, Eureka could only grit her teeth as she hugged Hikari tighter.

"It"s fine," a voice inside her suddenly said. She had her brows furrowed, is she having a dual personality now?

"How brave of you, to actually run here on your own?" the scarred face man grinned evily as he look at Eureka.

For some odd reason he felt strong hatred towards this person, he just didn"t know the reason behind it.

On the other hand, if Eureka were to regain her memories she would instantly remember this person. He was none other than the man she threw out the kingdom, the one who insulted Azusa after the people found out about Leo being the enemy. He was thrown out using her ice ability.

She could only glare at him. She saw him pull out his sword and slice her with it before feeling a tremendous headache.

After that everything was a blur to her. She can still see what was going on but she felt like a first row watcher. She could also feel herself speaking but she felt like it was not her at the same time.