Villainess Want's To Ignore Them!
Chapter 42: The East People 1

Chapter 42: The East People 1

The carriage stopped, and Acantha saw that Helion went down from his horse to see what happened.

Acantha was still looking out the window, and she saw that Helion seemed to be talking to some people.

"Who are they?" She asked Mildred, who was looking out the opposite window.

"They were travellers from the east; it seems like they were caught with some mountain bandits who were stealing the travellers things," Mildred explained to her, and Acantha just nodded.

She closes the window and settles back to her seat again. They should’ve used the mana stones to travel to avoid delays.

But, based on Flamear, they can’t use it on the mountain, and beside Helion refuses to teleport them there, as he said it would be dangerous if someone sensed their power.

Acantha was about to take a nap for awhile when she heard some knocks on the window as it opened, and Jarnus came out of it.

"Lady Acantha, His highness wants to ask if those travellers can come with us as they too are going home to the east, but they were robbed by some mountain bandits," Jarnus said.

Acantha nodded as she was really feeling tired; it has been an exhausting day for her. She gets the cushion that was already in the carriage as she puts it on her head, while the other one was where Flamear was taking a nap.

She has been wondering why he didn’t wake up when the carriage suddenly stopped; maybe he was too tired too.

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Acantha woke up, and the first thing she did was to open the window; it was already evening.

How long did she fall asleep? She looked inside the carriage and saw that Mildred was already asleep.

"You’ve been sleeping the whole day; the prince didn’t want to wake you up, but he left you some food there," Acantha startled a little bit when Flamear spoke.

"What about you?" Acantha said as she looked at Flamear, who was now sitting on his cushion.

"I already ate; close the window. It’s dangerous." Flamear said as he looked at the open window behind her.

Acantha looked at Flamear as she frowned at him. Why was it dangerous?

"We are now in the middle of Barua," Flamear said, which made her frown as she doesn’t know what that is.

"Barua? What was that?" Acantha asked as she got the food beside Flamear.

"Barua is a place that the bandits were staying; this place was a dangerous one, as it has been said that someone was protecting them." Flamear said as he looked at her while she was eating.

"I’m saying it as we had some travellers who were with us." Flamear explained to her.

He was right; they may had the power to protect themselves, while those people doesn’t.

Acantha put all the plates back in the basket after she finished eating, when suddenly.

The carriage stopped.

Why is the carriage always stopped?

"I can feel someone using the same stone that was surrounded and powered by dark magic," Flamear said as he looked like he was readying himself for what would happen.

They heard some clashing of swords, and Mildred, who just woke up, was startled when suddenly there was another explosion coming near their side.

Acantha was about to open the door when suddenly it opened, and there she saw Helion.

"You shouldn’t leave this place; Ernie and Jarnus were just beside; they will protect you." Helion said, which made Flamear snort at him.

"You might forget something, young man." Flamear said, and Acantha looked at her when he was looking at Helion.

"I can protect my master without any of your help," he said as he went to Helion.

"Hey, we cannot just stay here and do nothing while the knights were fighting for their lives." She said as she was worrying about the knights and the travellers

Acantha saw how Helion clenched his jaw and sighed at the end.

"Just be careful; the duke will have my head if I let something happen to you," he said as he looked on us for the last time before he went to where the explosions are.

Acantha looked on her back and saw Mildred was about to stop her from going out.

"M-my lady," Mildred said as she was holding the hem of her clothes.

"Just stay here, Mildred; I’ll put some barriers to this carriage so you’ll be safe," Acantha said before she left the carriage.

She saw that the knights were fighting with some people, and her eyes grew bigger when she saw that the bandits were using some explosion and threw it to them.

Acantha uses her power to stop the thing that the bandits were using and make it explode.

"Flamear, try to look for the travellers; as I heard when they were speaking with the prince awhile ago, I heard some children cries," she said as she looked at Flamear, who was beside her.

Flamear obeyed her and ran somewhere.

Acantha walks while she is shielding herself from any flying objects that’s coming in her direction.

"My Lady!" She heard someone call her, and she turned around and saw Ernie with Jarnus, who was fighting with someone.

Acantha uses her power to throw the bandits who were Ernie and Jarnus fighting.

The two who look surprised when she uses her power.

"What are you doing here, my lady?" Jarnus said as he was looking at her hands, trying to see whether she was using a mana stone or not.

"What was that, My Lady?" Ernie asks, as he was still surprised at what she did.

"It’s nothing; I just wanted to help." Acantha said as she looked above when she felt that something was coming to them.

"Run, my lady," she heard Jarnus say as he was about to pull her on her hands when she uses her power to make the big ball float in the air and throw it back to the one who threw it to them.

She looks at the two, who were in awe of what she did. I told you I want to help, not be a burden," she said at them, which made them gulp.

"She really has a power," she heard Jarnus say to Ernie.

"His highness wasn’t really trying to uplift her; he was really saying the truth," she heard Ernie say to Jarnus.

Acantha shook her head as she went to find Flamear when she saw one of the knights was badly hurt.

She went to that knight, and she saw at the corner of her eyes that the two followed her.

"L-lady A-Acantha" she heard the knight say while struggling to open his mouth.

Acantha looked at his wounds, and they were very severe. She put her hands as she started healing the two.

Acantha looked at the wound as it was slowly closing on itself. The two who were behind her gasped when she healed the knight’s wound.

"My wounds are gone!" The knight exclaimed as he looked at his body to see if he wasn’t dreaming. "Thank you so much, my lady," the knight said as he kneeled in front of her.

"It’s nothing; you should be careful when fighting," she said as she stood up and walked to where she could sense Flamear.

"That was so awesome, my lady," she heard Ernie say as he walked beside her.

"Yes, she really looked awesome when she did that. I wonder how Lady Noraya would feel when she learned that Lady Acantha has some healing power too, and worse, it was even better than hers," she heard Jarnus say, which made her stop.

Does Noraya have the same power as her? Why didn’t she read about them? Maybe she skipped some parts of the book.

"Lady Noraya has healing power?" She asks as she wanted to confirm that what she heard was not wrong.

"Yes, my lady. That’s why the people in our kingdom really want her for his highness," Jarnus answered in a cold tone, like he wasn’t pleased with it.

"Yeah, that’s right! That’s why the baron has the guts to falunt his daughter in front of his highness, because Lady Noraya was the only woman who could use power without using any mana stones," Ernie said as he looked at her.

"But now she would be really pissed to know that she wasn’t the only one who can use some power without using some stones," Jarnus continued to say as he grabbed the bandit who was about to attack them on its neck.

Acantha was just listening to them while she too was using her power to throw some bandits who were attacking them; she wonders where Helion is.

She looked in front of her and saw that Flamear was guarding some people who had children with them.

The children were crying, as she could see from not so far, while she was sure that Flamear had already made a barrier to protect them, just like what she said to him.

She looked on her side when she sensed Helion’s power, and there she saw that someone was about to attack on his back while he was suppressing to bandits in front of him.

"Your highness!" As Jarnus and Ernie shouted and prepared to run to Helion, Acantha used her power to shake the ground and send the bandits flying.

She looked around her and saw that they had already suppressed the bandits as they were running to retreat.

She took a step when she-