Book 16: Chapter 27
“Your Highness, are you all right?!”
As soon as we landed, Lucia leapt over and tightly hugged me. At the same time, Mom grabbed the young girl from me and took her away. I went along with Lucia. I hugged her back and spun two circles. Lucia giggled with joy, but there was a trace of blood on her face.
Lucia touched my body and enthused, “Aside from your clothes being tattered, you did not get hurt anywhere else, did you? I knew it was safe with Her Highness accompanying you. Your Highness, what happened there?!”
“I’m more worried about what happened here with you than what happened there. I haven’t seen you stained with blood in a long time. Lucia, what exactly happened? Who did you fight with?”
“Not elves or humans but a group of crazed white deer. I’m fine, Your Highness. They’re just white deer no matter how crazy they are. I killed one monthly in the past, didn’t I? Therefore, killing that group of white deer wasn’t hard in the slightest. In saying that… I didn’t kill all of them, as the White Deer King protected some of them.”
“The White Deer King?”
“Uhm…”
Lucia’s expression changed upon mentioning the White Deer King. She looked sad and afraid to say something. The foreboding rustled me. I tightly grabbed her shoulders and anxiously questioned, “How is the White Deer King?! It didn’t get hurt, did it?! How is it?! What happened?!”
“It’s all right… The White Deer King is all right… It… it just got hurt and, well, it suffered severe physical wounds, but the mental blow was a lot more significant. The white deer attacked it last night. As a consequence, the attack left it hurt and despondent.”