The destined one

The next morning, Vale woke up and saw his rapier next to him. Feeling thankful that he didn't have that dream today. He moved out of his bed.

“Morning, Vale.”

“Huh?”

“Miss Everina?”

Vale was surprised to find Miss Everina standing behind him when there was no one there.

Everina raises her hand and Vale instinctively prepares himself for a fight but She pats his head gently.

“Huh?”

Vale again raised a dumbfounded voice. Everina looked at him as if she was looking at an abandoned child.

“Did you see or hear anything?”

Vale asked the question, becoming serious with a glare in his eyes.

Everina kept looking at him gently and patting his head which only irritated Vale more.

“Wh-What is it?”

“Nothing, if you ever feel like it, you can always come and talk to me.”

“I appreciate your kindness but I am far from that point.”

Vale said non-chalantly without any emotions in his voice yet his eyes said everything that needed to be said, seeing that Everina instinctively tried to hug him.

“This is enough”

Vale raised a loud voice from his throat by mustering all his power in his throat and all the courage he had while dealing with these kinds of situations.

“Vale, what happened to you is unfortunate.”

“How do you know about it? Do the Sable people not know about privacy?”

Everina didn't reply and just kept staring at his face.

“How many people have you pushed away this way Vale?”

Everina raised a serious question which baffled Vale as he was seen through this easily.

“So?”

Vale said and continued further

“What is wrong with it? I have an evil personality, I am a rabid narcissist also I am a murderer.

“Vale, you are not.”

“Killing people that cause harm to you is mere self-defense.”

“Your logic is abnormal.”

“Sable tribe is abnormal, so don't worry.”

Everina then signaled him to look outside and found Seraphina quietly sobbing there outside the door.

“Go and talk to her”

“Yes”

Vale said with a quiet voice devoid of any energy and that signaled that something that he has seen may happen again.

“Seraph-”

Before he could continue his words Seraphina had hugged his face by bringing his head to her chest.

(Yeah this, this might be what I never had in my life after all.)

“Oh, this has happened before.”

Vale thought to himself but ended up saying it out loud. Which brought Seraph to reality and she didn't let go.

“Hmm” Vale quietly said “You are too kind Seraph.”

“I know”

“I may fall for you.”

“That's fine”

Seraph raised his face from her chest and said these to Vale.

“I want to spend my life with you, Vale.”

“It's the other way around, Seraph.” Vale said that and quietly got on his one knee.

“Please make me the happiest man for the rest of my life while I rest your head on my chest for the rest of my life.”

“Yes! YESSS VALE.”

Seraphina once again plunged into him but this time she put her head on Vale's chest.

“Vale” “Seraph”

“Ahem”

Everina interrupted both of them just at the important time. Spoiling both of them moods.

“Miss Everina.” X2

“First permission"

Saying that she raised her fist and landed it on Vale head.

“Ah!”

Vale raised a cry and looked at Everina as a silent protest.

“Huh?”

A voice not from the three of them was raised.

Which prompted all three of them to look into that direction, they found Evan the captain of the Sable kingdom army.

“Wh-What does this mean? Princess Seraphina?”

“Evan.”

“Miss Everina, can you please stay silent for some time.”

“Huh? Punk, who do you think you are talking to?”

Everina shot a sharp glare at Evan and both of them readied their sword at their waist.

“You may be a captain, but I won't let you try to make fun of me.”

“We will see that.”

As both of them were going to start their clash. Vale quietly got in between them.

“Evan, you are delusional. Get lost from here.”

“Oii, you punk.”

“I am always ready to fight you, chihuahvan”

Vale said, mocking him.

Hearing that Evan jumped at Vale and tried to pierce his heart with his sword.

“Stupid.”

Vale called him stupid and slightly moved his body and caught his hand with the sword and threw him on the ground.

“Thud”

“Crash” “Crackle”

The impact of Evan getting thrown on the ground was huge, which showed he was serious about killing Vale.

“Clang”

Vale pierced the shoulder of Evan and quietly started thrusting the rapier into his shoulder, which caused a lot of pain to him as he screamed in pain.

Evan after getting back to his senses silently called a word beneath his breath.

“Wind Flame.”

It seemed that he was not lying there for show, rather he was quietly chanting the spell.

The entire atmosphere burst into flames which prompted Everina to use water magic chantlessly. The effects were slower which led to burn marks on Vale's body.

“Water Wind.”

“Vale he might be a loser in the sword fights, but he has a large mana pool. So, be careful.”

“Yes , Miss Everina.”

Vale ran towards him and seemed he was going for the front attack, which doesn't seem that bad but Evan could use magic.

“He is chanting a spell.”

Everina raised her voice and alerted Vale.

Vale after getting at the right distance from Evan instead of using his sword front used its back and plunged into the fire that Evan casted with his Fire Magic.

“Hahahaha” Evan laughed as he thought he got Vale “This is what you get for standing in front of me, you stupid human.”

As smoke rose from everywhere anything was barely getting seen in the room. Just at that moment,

Vale came out of one of the places from where smoke was getting raised and pierced the right side of the chest of Evan.

“You deserve to suffer, Evan.” Vale said in a cold voice “Your death will not be peaceful Evan.”

As Valerius said that he punched the gut of a shocked Evan.

“Aahhhhhhhhh”

A painful shriek was raised by Evan and he quietly crouched on the ground but Vale didn't miss the opportunity and started punching his face repeatedly.

“Thud” X5

“Thud” X10

Vale kept punching his face until his entire face was barely seen and could be differentiated and as Evan was going to use magic once again. Vale kicked his face with brute force which led to his body getting thrown back into the wall and led to the creation of a crater of several meters on the wall.

“Good work, Vale.”

Everina said happily while Seraphina was all smiles as well looking at the victorious Vale.

Just as Vale was about to move towards them. A loud voice calling his name was heard.

“VALERIUSSSSSSSSSSS”

Evan jumped at Vale and at the final moment tried to use a spell which he was chanting on him.

Vale knew it was coming and that's why he was prepared for the attack but the attack was not aimed at him rather it was aimed at Seraphina.

“SERAPH”

Vale's loud voice echoed.

At the very moment as it seemed tragedy would hit, all the damage taken by Seraphina was taken by Vale and his hand burned and detached from his body and was now on the ground.

“What?”

“Is this your Rakta power, Vale?”

“What?”

“It seems Valerius has a power that lets him take all the damage for the people he seems necessary to protect.”

“Huh?”

Seraphina was surprised yet happy.

“VALE” X2

Both Seraphina and Everina's voices were raised.

Yet the eyes of Vale were empty and it only showed one thing “anger.”

Vale moved instantly behind Evan and pierced his stomach with his rapier and cut his half of stomach only enough to cause a mortal wound but not death.

Evan finally used one more magic attack and made some distance between him and Vale. He moved behind Vale and tried to attack his back.

Vale simply looked behind silently and used his back of the sword to attack the stomach of Evan.

“Blueh”

A weird voice was raised by Evan. As the pain seeped into his body he quietly cried seeing Vale and complained on his name.

Vale raised his sword to pierce his heart but just at the moment an arrow pierced the right eye of Evan and then the left eye and finally an arrow passed through his mouth which led to him getting choked on his own blood.

Vale looked at the place from where the arrow was shot and he could see a figure of a woman who was tall

and had tan over her body. The kind of woman whose presence had more voice.

“Lady Amanda."

“Amanda.”

Everina and Seraphina raised their voices in surprise.

“Pitiful yet a deserved death, Evan.”

The woman called Amanda said.