CHARLOTTE: The Injured White Peacock
A Heart that Freezes

Varl gawks, while Elise gets up. He stared fiercely at Ellena who was currently descending from Manu's back.

A moment of silence.

Only the sound of the wind softened between them. On the other hand, Manu narrowed his eyes as his two manics caught the slave mark just below the unidentified woman's shoulder blade.

Without further ado, Manu approached. Then, the white horse sniffed the tiger at the carcass. Getting such treatment, of course Elise felt angry. He tries to get away from Manu's nose, but the horse is always approaching, trying to recognize something.

Seeing Manu's exaggerated behavior, Varl takes action. He quickly removed the horse from Elise. Really, Varl doesn't want Manu to sniff out more information.

“Already, Dude. You just freaked him out,” stopped Varl while pulling Manu away.

However, the white-winged horse remained steadfast. His body is really strongly bound because of his high curiosity. While neighing occasionally, Manu continued to sniff.

“Manu, stop,” Ellena said after seeing how messed up the situation in front of her. He walked closer to Manu in limp as his leg was also injured. Then, he stroked the horse's head slowly. “Now, we just need to trust each other,” continued Ellena followed by her charming smile.

Although Ellena said so to Manu, she was also actually curious about the woman who was suddenly in the arms of the curly-haired man. “Who is he?” Without waiting for long, Ellena immediately interrogated Varl with a sharp gaze.

Seeing Ellena's attitude made Manu pout. Because, the girl had told him to just believe, but now Ellena even asked for an explanation.

Occasionally Ellena squinted, scanning the man who seemed to be storing something precious.

Sure enough, really in some corner of Varl's face there are grains of sweat. Varl also avoided eye contact with Ellena and Manu.

Seeing the suspicious behavior of the man, Ellena squeezed his upper arm while feeling how painful the almost fractured shoulder bone was. Sometimes he sighed while looking at Varl sharply.

“Varl,” call Ellena ask Varl to answer immediately.

Varl also began to give up, let alone see Ellena's condition looked miserable. How not, the girl's clothes were tangled with dust stuck everywhere, the shoulder bone was almost broken, and Ellena's forehead was still bleeding.

Really, Varl couldn't bear to see a girl with such an appearance. Moreover, the girl before him was no ordinary girl. It was Ellena, a girl from another world who also had the same mission as him.

“Ck.” Varl. Maybe he did feel sorry for the girl, but honestly all this time he felt that Ellena was sometimes too busy taking care of others. “This is none of your business, Ellena! You're just a girl from a strange world who sucks! You're intruder! All this time you were just my mission barrier!”

After saying that, Varl clasped Elise's hand, then carried her quickly to where she was headed.

Getting such treatment, Ellena frowned. “Hei Manu, isn't he the one who blocked my path?!” upset Ellena. Varl blames his hard-earned self for being called by Ruby to save the queen.

The pain and the pain are mixed. Ellena felt that she was only a hindrance. There has been no progress so far either. I feel like I just want to give up.

“Don't be upset just because of what he said, Ellie.” Manu put his face on Ellena's cheek which was bulging due to pouting. The girl really harbored a deep resentment towards Varl.

“During this time Varl always acted like he wanted to! He is my mission barrier! If it wasn't me who saved Queen Charlotte, how could I go home?” Ellena's gaze turned soft.

“Stay forward, Ellie. Didn't your mission also increase to save Kuro?” Manu tries to encourage Ellena with a mission that makes the girl rise again.

Ellena just nodded. Then, he exhaled in agitation. There were many things he had to do, while he could not stay here for long. Although Everfalls is very beautiful, but in her own world, Ellena is being sought by people.

It's not Ellena just giving up here. Although he did not have many plans, he would find any way to complete this very difficult mission.

“Let's follow Varl!” ellena exclaimed in spirit with a sharp look in her eyes. He was determined and hoped that this time would succeed!

Without lingering any longer, the two of them chased after Varl who continued walking to dark places and was also slightly in the lower room of the palace.

“Where is he going, Manu?” asked Ellena when they had entered a dark hallway. There's no light around here. Silent and also. It felt an aura of sadness so profound.

Stuffy.

The magic aura here was so concentrated, it could even pierce through the chest and result in the suppression of the breathing area giving rise to a sense of peerless tightness. They try to keep breathing even though they have to sting.

A few moments later, they descended a staircase like entering a basement. The air is thick and smells fishy. However, there are dimly lit white lights that seem there is a new hope.

Right, Varl just smiled proudly. Finally.just one more step.

But suddenly.

The cling!

In a flash, the once dark atmosphere turned instantly into a throne room. Many white peacocks stood up while ignoring. Around the throne there are small pools whose water flows out of nowhere.

The roof of the room was shrouded in vines that spread some beautiful flowers. White and blue peacocks were everywhere. The fragrant smell of the flowers poured out all over in this peaceful room.

While on the regal throne, each edge is covered in pure gold, there is a woman in a black dress decorated with some white peacock feathers, lined neatly and beautifully.

“C-Charlotte?!” call Varl and Ellena together. Both their eyes were wide open, and so was Manu. How not, suddenly they moved places and directly faced with the queen of this country.

While Elise bowed her head respectfully, but because of the magic of slavery, she was immediately struck by lightning in broad daylight because she could no longer bow to other than her master.

Elise's body went up to the creeps. He screamed, his voice filling the room. In fact, the two maids beside Charlotte's throne glared intensely as they horrifiedly stared at the torturous scene.

Ellena was also astonished, she had never seen someone like being struck all of a sudden. Poor, thought. Ellena was about to help, but she remembered that she was not protected by insulators so she could not get close rashly.

Even if he directly helps without protective equipment, he will also be struck and cause a lot of problems.

After a moment of intense torture, Charlotte stood up.

Brak!

He kicked down the right side of the arm of the chair hard. In fact, his voice echoed in his throne room.

Although Charlotte's countenance was flat, the dim silver eyes were staring intently at Varl. A black magic aura surrounded him.

Charlotte's two hands began to clasped tightly, it was clear she harbored a great hatred.

“Magic slavery!” terka Charlotte with her flat face. Even so, he seemed very upset by the uncomfortable gestures. “How dare you throw slavery magic to Elise!”

Instantly, a ball of white-colored light began to form above his right palm. Charlotte was chanting so fast that the ball of light was also formed without taking a long time.

As soon as the ball of light was perfectly formed, Charlotte immediately threw it away saying, “Glacies!”

Wuses.

Kratak up!

The magic hit Ellena, went into the heart of the girl. Instantly, an ice-like coldness spread throughout his body. Shivered. Ellena's teeth snapped quickly.

In the next second, so unable to withstand the cold, Ellena dazed and sprawled on the ground quickly without warning.

Bruk!

“ELLENAAA!”

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