"Do you want to fight you? Co on, bring it on, I won't say no to give you a hell of a beating…"
"Alright alright, you seem ok to ," William decided to play along, "you just need to rest and everything will be fine…"
"Rest? I'll go and find that ho…"
"No!" William swiftly rejected what Fang had in mind, "this ti we managed to bring you back from the doorsteps of death. What will happen next ti? Get your dead body back?"
"..."
Fang knew what William said was true, and yet he still felt insulted from hearing this out loud. He truly didn't have any intention at doing it the way he said it, just trying to look cool. And now everything was destroyed.
"Make sure he'll get well rested," William said to his friends, and they nodded.
He went and checked on Sara. weirdly during this ti she didn't wake up, sothing that made him check her body. And yet he never found anything alarming.
"She can't hurt her daughter, right?" William left the room while telling himself that. He still didn't know why she didn't wake up, and sothing started to feel uneasy about this.
"Do you think she will be fine?" Berry followed him, while Anjie also tagged along.
"She won't get hurt by her mother, right?" Anjie said what William was thinking about. And yet hearing the sa opinion from Anjie made him feel a bit worried.
"Sothing isn't right," William paused, looking at the two girls, "make sure to keep an eye on her. I'm going to take a day off and sleep, that old man exhausted most of my ntal power."
"Is he alright?" Berry asked, and William briefed what happened to the two before he finished his words by saying:
"Make sure to not get to the underground city, or let any of our mbers go there. That lady… I sll danger from her."
"She did enough already," Berry sighed, but Anjie grabbed the worry in William's words.
"Do you think she'll try sothing?" Anjie asked, and William nodded.
"She won't stay there and do nothing."
"If she can do anything else, she would have, right?" Berry asked, but the two didn't respond, and that made her realise how dangerous the situation was.
"We should strengthen our guard then around the town," Berry said, but William faintly smiled.
"Do whatever you feel right," he said before turning around, "I'll go and enjoy a day long rest."
"Why did he smile like that?" After William vanished, Berry turned to Anjie, and the latter rolled her eyes.
"Do you think we, any of us, can be a match to any of them?" Anjie shook her head before adding, "but it's a good point to strengthen our guard. We also need to train."
"I agree with that," the two of them moved outside the mansion, and started their arrangents to make this place like a real fortress.
William went back to the room he found himself in when he woke up. He laid there on the bed, closing his eyes, thinking about the weird things that happened.
"Am I cursed?" he laughed on his thoughts before thinking seriously about that. "That lady ca without in her plans, that ans she retreated to think of a way to change Sara's mind and get rid of … Quite sneaky b*tch she is…"
William thought about speaking with Sara's grandfather, but this wasn't going to help. That old man only knew the woman his son married, not the professional assassin Sara's mother was.
On top of that, William knew how cruel and ruthless the ladies from the Palace of One Desire were. They were infamous for being relentless, and never hit unless they were sure of a kill. That made their failure rate close to almost zero, and that built their infamy across a large area of the outer world.
"I need to be prepared, she won't stop," William's eyes kept closed, but his mind was working like a machine. He recalled everything he learnt about this palace, how they worked, what was known about their habits, even to the rumours that were considered insane to anyone, even to him.
He wouldn't miss the tiniest detail about them. And yet everything made him wonder if he could handle them on his own, or it'd be impossible to do.
That palace was known to get rid of the basic obstacles first, creating the perfect conditions to reach their goals. And now he was the main obstacle in front of Sara's mother. And it seed killing him on her hands wasn't an option.
"Will she send soone from her entourage?" William considered this option, before feeling like this wasn't how things would turn out to be, "if she could do that, she'd have ordered them to kill . No, she will lean towards sothing else…"
William was getting on the right track, and yet he was only speculating. So his thoughts drifted between other options, and ended up without having a guess to bet on.
All he knew he was going to wait, wait for the lady to make her move. And he hated this. After a long day of thinking, and little rest, he went down to check on Sara.
"She hasn't woken up yet?!" William was now sure what Sara had wasn't just simple sleep, "don't tell she used a sleeping technique on her daughter…"
Three days passed since eting Sara's mother, and yet William could tell this wouldn't be over this easily. Sara's unconscious state wasn't normal, and he lacked any way to detect or undo what her mother did.
As he was puzzled and without a clue, he kept trying to test various things with Sara. He also strengthened her room and the entire mansion with arrays and formations of different kinds, even using outer world materials to form many protective formations.
And yet what Sara's mother prepared wasn't any of what William thought of!
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