Chapter 56: LVI: the little girl's student
"The king is my father. I will be a bad daughter to take you into the capital in your complete state."
"What do you want?" She was forced to ask as she tried to struggle but the girl who seemed so little had excessive strength in my her.
"To kill you," the little girl replied easily as she moved the knife that Aurora once held to her neck.
After struggling fruitlessly for a few minutes, Aurora still did not give in. Her cousin will get killed if she does not arrive in the capital early enough.
"You were asked to protect me," she reminded the girl who seemed to have forgotten the mission she was given to accomplish.
"Yes, with the aim that I will be able to persuade you that you should not try killing the king," the girl replied seriously. "All my efforts seems fruitless."
"Try to persuade me once again," Aurora begged not caring how silly that actually sounded even to her.
"Stop it, teacher," the girl was stopped by a pair of hands gripping her wrists.
"Get off me!!!" the girl's face was red with anger and embarrassment as she tried to stop the owner of the hands from carrying her like a little child that she was away from the helpless princess the girl was trying to kill.
"I will when you give me the knife," the young man who came to rescue the princess replied his teacher whose skin looked so red like she was a flaming fire.
"I won't give you. She deserves to die," the little girl shouted with her legs wriggling in the air while she was held in the arms of the youth who seemed bent on not letting her go.
"No one deserves to die without a chance. Her chance awaits her in the capital which you are only a day from. When she gets to the capital and still decides to stand with the people who killed her family then I will kill her personally," the youth promised his teacher.
He watched carefully waiting for his teacher to calm down. When the girl stopped struggling, he released her and she gave him a strong kick on his shin when her feet touched the floor.
Aurora exhaled when she saw the girl was no longer making any attempt to kill her however she did not relaxed knowing the girl still held strong hostility towards her.
"Take your knife. I swear to kill you if you ever attempt to kill our king again," the youth promised after taking the knife from his teacher' grip.
"Who are you?" Aurora asked after taking her knife from the youth wondering why he gave her the knife back knowing that the knife was no ordinary knife.
"My name is Miles. She is my teacher. I hope you forgive her for what just happened. The prime minister will be unhappy to find out you got attack by my teacher," the youth said while glancing at the knife Aurora now held tightly to defend herself.
Aurora looked down at the knife by following his gaze and understood why he gave her the knife. It was actually a bribe.
Was she that important as a guest in their capital that she could get the little girl in trouble by telling their prime minister about the mistreatment she faced under the girl's care?
"You should go back to sleep. She won't hurt you again, I guarantee," the youth said as persuasive as he could.
Aurora ignored his suggestion. How could sleep when her heart was still racing so fast that she feels like it might pop out of her chest?
This was near death experience which was very hard for her to believe considering the fact that she was attacked by that little cute girl who was now stealing guilty glances at her from the other corner of the improvised cave.
She sighed as leaned her back against the wall of the cave while watching the teacher and student duo.
"She does not believe you. Can't you see how innocent I look, I won't hurt anyone," the girl told her with an innocent smile that showed off a pair of dimples Aurora had not noticed earlier.
That smile made her more alert rather than making her relax. She knew that the girl looked just as innocent when she had a knife against her neck.
"You don't look innocent at all," the youth told his teacher after noticing the horror in the princess'eyes.
"Oh come on, you know I do. Princess, with my student here, I won't hurt you because he was probably sent by the prime minister to prevent me from killing you," the little girl told her truthfully.
"No, the king sent me to track you down," the student informed his teacher to the astonishment of the females in the cave.
"I was shocked myself but I think the Oracle played a part in it. She was there when I received the command. I guess the goddess told her you were going to kill the person under your protection.
"You should be careful and watch your back. You have offended the four most important entities in the kingdom. You offended the prime minister by disobeying his order of protecting the princess.
"You offended the goddess and the oracle too. The king will most likely punish you for attempt to spill her blood on the soil of his empire."
The little girl groaned while scratching her head. "That is why you should have let me kill her. I can't get punished for an attempted crime," the little girl said bittlerly.
"You . . .," the youth began but held back his words before shaking his head tiredly. "I am glad I was not a second late or the prime minister will definitely have executed me along with you."
Aurora was not comfortable listening to their conversation. Why were they talking about her like she was not sitting only few meters away from them?
The youth was clearly about eighteen or nineteen getting close to being a matured man which will normal happen when he turns twenty.
Sitting beside the little girl quietly, he looked like a caring elder brother very different from the disobedient student he was to the little girl.
Gifts
-- Gift
received Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
-- Power
stone