Chapter 10: Between Lies and Truth

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"Talk"

'Thought'

A certain knight is sitting on a chair in the small living room with a medium-size package and a ring placed on the table in front of him while he's facing a nervous female assassin with his face on his palm. He groaned before facing toward the assassin.

"So… let me summarize everything that you've just told me. You are telling me that in order to be allowed to live in MY house without anyone getting suspicious, you told the people that were assigned to check my house every month that you are my WIFE."

Melisa nod her head silently before her "judge" continues,

"You even go as far to make a fake wedding ring as the proof."

Twin took the pink ring with a fake blue jewel on top of it and put the ring on his palm as he showed it to the guilty girl in front of him as if to emphasize his point while the said girl nod her head sheepishly before replying.

"Well, I have another fake ring for you to use…."

Twin growled as he slam the ring on his hand on the table with a crash, breaking it into pieces as it made contact with the wooden table and Melisa immediately realize she has said the wrong thing as she goes back to silent guilt.

"That is NOT the point!!"

Twin takes a deep breath as he tries to calm down his anger.

"Lastly, you ALSO makes a stupid AND cheesy story about how we somehow met each other at Payon and a months later I decided to court you and we got married at Geffen blessed by the Master Warlock himself before splitting to train individually with promise to find each other back here?"

For the third time, he got a nod as an answer before he lean back on the chair with his palm covering his eyes as if he's trying to ease a sudden killer headache and asked,

"Tell me, how many people have you lied to?"

The girl perks up slightly she put up a finger for each person as she listed the people before replying,

"Not many, your neighbour is 1 of them, and the fruit vendor too also the guy that was checking your house too, of course…. Yep, I think that's all."

Twin sighed as he stands up and walks toward the door silently while picking up his sword along the way and straps it on his back. He opened the door before stopping and speaks again without turning to face the assassin,

"If there are only 3 people, then I guess its okay. At the most it will only create rumour that will be gone after a while. For now, I have to take a walk to clear my mind."

He walks out the house into the crowded street of Prontera before closing the door behind him. Meanwhile, Melisa took a minute to make sure that she's safe before sighing in relief and sit back on the chair where Twin has just sit on just a few minutes ago. She took a glance toward the now broken ring on the table sadly before whispering as if she's talking with someone,

"Has it ever occurred to you? That maybe… just maybe… I wish it to be real?"

She sniffs silently as a lone tear run down her cheek before stopping on her lips, letting her taste the salty taste.

(Scene Break)

Twin is walking through the crowded street of Prontera with a deep scowl on his face, but his mood slowly gets better as he continue walking down the street as the cool autumn wind blowing on his face. Not many people knows but Twin is always fond of the Autumn season, as he sees it as the sign for the approaching winter that with its white snow will seemingly cleanse the world back into its pure state that will allow a new beginning for Spring. His musing is cut short though when he heard someone rudely called him.

"You, the 1 with a Claymore on your back!!"

Twin stopped walking and turns around before he saw a group of 5 men from various jobs. He look at them for a while and decide that they probably was calling another person as he turns back and walks away before he feels a killing intent from behind him. He distinctly heard of a whizzing sound getting nearer to him and quickly side stepped the incoming object which struck the spot where he was standing just a few seconds ago before turning back to the group and see that the hunter in the group is staying in position as if he has just let loose an arrow. Twin immediately realize that the man was the one who has just attacked him. He turns to the group and asked sharply.

"What do you want?"

The hunter, showing that he's the leader of the group, walks forward and asks in reply.

"Are you the one they call Twin?"

Twin look coolly at the group as he answered,

"What is it to you?"

The hunter points his bow toward him and spoke again,

"We challenge you to claim marriage over Miss Melisa Artemis. If we won, you will divorce her ASAP."

Twin looked at the hunter in disbelief as his brain processed the words that the hunter has just told him word by word to see if he heard him correctly before replying.

"You're kidding, right?"

The hunter apparently took the knight's question as an insult as he yells back a response,

"You do not deserve someone like her, she belong to someone who can match up to her beauty. And that… is…me Sir Andrew Marks."

The hunter puffs his chest and run a hair through his long blonde as if he's a noble while Twin put his face on his palm and sighs dejectedly as he shook his head slowly, unable to believe what he has heard. After a while, the hunter finally had enough and shouts an order to his group.

"All of you, surround him! Today, we will free Miss Artemis from this foul creature's grasp."

In a synchronized moved, the rest of the group surround the still shocked knight from 5 direction while readying their weapons. The hunter sees that his group members are in position readied his own bow and arrow before yelling the order to attack as he let loose a barrage of arrows toward his target.

Twin swiftly side stepped the arrows before he saw a blur from his left, he saw his attacker's weapon goes into an overhead arc and react quickly by rolling out the way as the huge weapon slam against the pavement, revealing a Two-handed axe being hold by a bulky Blacksmith with short brown hair.

As he got away from the blacksmith, he felt a shadow creeping up from behind him and his reflex kicks in as he quickly duck under a gleaming damascus held by a blue haired stalker Twin threw a leg sweep toward the stalker's leg but the enemy managed to jumps away to safety as Twin felt a cold wind coming from above him.

He looks up and his eyes widened as a storm cloud gathered above him. He glance to the side and saw a wizard casting a spell that by the looks of it going to finish anytime. He quickly jumped away from the spell area and managed to get away just in time as a snow storm fall down on the spot where he was. Feeling a bit safer now that he got away from the spell, Twin feel something struck him from behind and feel his body got thrown to the front. He roll away to minimize the damage and look toward the source of the attack that hit him, revealing a red haired monk with a smoking fist and a smirk.

Twin quickly realize that they are experienced in fighting together as shown by their teamwork quickly decides to get himself into the fight. He suddenly felt a shadow covering him, he look behind him revealing the blacksmith ready to chop him, but this time, Twin quickly draw his claymore from the sheath and blocked the weapon with it before throwing a well placed kick on the stomach to get some breathing space. He activate his 'Two-hand quicken' skill and immediately felt the effect as he feels his body becomes much lighter before rolling away from a line of spikes made of ice courtesy of the wizard. Suddenly he felt a presence from his right and side step the incoming slash from the stalker just in time as the attack narrowly passed him. A scream from his right force Twin to look at the direction and his eyes widened as he saw a girl encased in a block of ice before he kicked the attacking monk back.

'There are too many innocents here. If I stay here, their stray attacks might hit the passer-bys. I have to take the fight to somewhere with less people.'

Looking around, Twin found a way that leads to the old swordman training ground before it was moved to Izlude. He smirked as he devise a plan to take the fight there. He look toward the hunter and see that he's standing on the way, using his enhanced speed, he run toward the hunter and throw a wide slash toward him, forcing the hunter to move out of the way as he run pass him toward the empty land while the hunter pick himself up and throw another order.

"Shit! Everyone, chase him!"

Twin throw a glance to his back and inwardly smirked as everything goes according to his plan. He let the group caught up to him and he stop right in the middle of the training ground as the group surround him once again before speaking.

"Before, I can't fight freely but now, I have a reason to kick your asses. You have threatened to harm the citizen of Prontera, so it is my duty as a knight to protect them."

The battle is on...

I thank everyone that supports me for writing this fanfic, this story has finally reach chapter 10 and personally, I think its quite a feat to me. Starting tommorrow, I will be very busy with Uni and work therefore update will be few and far in between. I hope you guys/girls will be patient in waiting for it.

(Spoiler) PS: For those that are expecting action or fight scene I already give you a teaser of it at this chapter but the next chapter will be a full blown fight. Hope you're looking forward to it look forward to it

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