Chapter 440: A Generous Offer

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After lunch, the kids were brought upstairs by Lucia, while Mary stayed with us alongside my parents and the rest of the adults. She seemed to quickly change her face expression as she grew progressively more concerned. My parents quickly asked her if she had seen anything suspicious before, and she seemed to have noticed a few things.

"I've been lately seeing Soldiers around these areas of the streets. Usually this place is completely barren of any security, but the last week they had constantly been appearing more and more. And most of the time, always wandering around our orphanage. Due to fear this morning I didn't wanted to come out, nor let the children come out either." Sighed Mary. "And then, right after we had breakfast, they came in a group of over twenty people… We don't have any strength ourselves, against so many people, we would had been easily defeated trying to protect the children."