"It's getting late, you need to go to bed," Haru told Rina as they were finishing up for the night. Some customers, a bit drunk but cheerful, were leaving the bar.
Rina was using a mop to help clean up. She was always willing to assist her sisters, especially with cleaning.
"None of that, you've got school tomorrow," Haru said firmly as she took the mop from Rina and gently pushed her toward the stairs. She didn't want Rina staying up too late and risking Caede's anger.
But just as Haru was heading upstairs, the front door swung open suddenly. "Dad's here!" A big, bald man barged in, followed by a man carrying a staff and a woman with a bow and arrows.
"Sorry, we're closing."
"Oh, come on! We've got a lot to spend," the eldest of the newcomers said, smirking as he brandished a bag of coins, clearly convinced they could buy anything.
"Well, you'll have to spend it somewhere else." Haru knew they were troublemakers not worth the trouble, no amount of gold was worth dealing with them. "You need to leave."
"Our money is as good as anyone else's." The woman with the bow walked in and promptly began taking bottles from the bar. "Besides, I don't like being told what to do."
Tensions rose as the mercenary shattered some bottles on the floor.
"What do I need to do to get good service?" The man with the staff gave Haru an inappropriate look, coming closer and delivering a hard slap on her backside.
Haru maintained a serious expression. She met the man's gaze for a moment and then, as a form of submission, she lowered her eyes and slightly bowed. "How can I help you?"
"It seems you've had a change of heart. My brothers and I want your best, right? Wang? Ryuka?"
"You're absolutely right, Ko." The newly introduced Wang and Ryuka grinned like their older brother, who took a seat at one of the tables. All three of them looked arrogant and sly.
Haru and the other girls had no choice but to attend to them.
"How much for the girl?"
Haru was petrified when the largest of them looked at Rina, who was on the stairs, looking at everything with concern.
"Rina go up and lock yourself in your room"
"No one is going anywhere," with a repulsive smile, he took out a bag as big as his fist, and left it on the table scattering hundreds of gold coins, "Give me the girl for the rest of the night and the gold is yours." "
"Get out of here!" Haru rarely felt so disgusted, in a burst of rage she threw the coins at the mercenary's face.
Ko's smile disappeared and his younger brothers looked regretfully at the whore, who dared to make their older brother angry.
Ko stood up, grabbed Haru by the neck and lifted her off the ground, only to let her go when a chair broke on her back, all eyes turned to a furious Caede who dropped the remains of the chair.
"She said leave!" The dark-skinned woman had to retreat when an arrow almost stuck in her head. In her carelessness, she received a devastating blow to her head from the mercenary with the Bo staff.
"Fall!" Rina ran down the stairs, when her older sister was carried away, with blood running down her head, "Fall! Get up!"
"Wow... this went to shit" Ko patted the backs of her younger brothers, smiling at the mess she was seeing, looking around she saw the other girls, who had murderous looks on their faces, "Come on!? Who's next?"
"Yo"
The three brothers could barely notice a silhouette that jumped from the stairs and fell between them, Wang received a hard kick between his legs, Ryuka a sharp blow to his throat and, finally, Ko a blow to his jaw that ended up knocking him down. .
"Zu!" Rina couldn't help but shout her name with joy, seeing her guardian come to save them. Caede, who was next to her, began to get up slowly, stunned, but smiling when she saw the arrival of the princess.
"You again?" Ko stood up calmly, followed by his brothers, "Are you still alive? Looks like I'll have to make sure to leave you dead this time."
"Try it" Azula took an attack position, raising her fists and separating her legs, this would not be like the last time, she would enjoy killing each of them.
"Ha! The bitch thinks she can win!" Ko was going to take the ax from her back, but instead, he moved her arms and stomped his foot.
Azula could not prevent the wooden floor from shattering, when a pillar of earth emerged and hit her in the center of her stomach and ended up knocking her through the window, abruptly she ended up falling in the middle of the street.
Getting up, she was able to react to roll and avoid the hail of arrows fired by the archer, only for a chunk of earth to hit her back and knock her down.
"Don't tell me that's all!"
The three brothers left the brothel to continue the fight outside. Several people who were still walking the streets stayed to see how things would unfold. What no one expected was that a bottle would break on Ko's head.
"Leave Zu alone you damn bastard!" He fell with the piece of bottle and was going to cut the earthbender's neck, but with just one step, he caused a plate of earth to raise the entire brothel by at least ten meters.
"No interruptions." Ko shifted his gaze to the princess, who was crawling on the ground, trying to move away from them. With heavy steps, the three brothers got closer. "You owe me for what you did, you..." he growled, raising his right hand while grimacing from his injured fingers.
Azula stayed still as the three brothers approached her. Swiftly, she scooped up some dirt and flung it at their faces, using her hands to propel herself to her feet. She landed a solid punch on the giant, but her strike was blocked by a sudden wall of earth.
The wall surged, slamming her into a nearby store. Dazed, she fell to the cold dirt floor. When she tried to stand up, they forced her head back to the ground.
"This is too easy." Wang pressed his foot against the princess's head, seemingly eager for her to scream in pain. But she refused to give them the satisfaction. "Finish her," he ordered his younger sister, who readied an arrow aimed at the princess's head.
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