Chapter 9: Flee
They didn't get far, both figuratively and physically. The knight's order post was nearby, but when they queried the knights, they were essentially turned away at the door.
"Hm? You were unjustifiably captured by the knights? The knight order has the authority to question citizens. Please return to the said knight order and answer their query."
"They said we killed Alex. We already told them Alex was killed by bandits, but they didn't believe us!"
"So, what did you expect us to do? Guard you all day? Go and talk to Balto's knight order? We already gave them our reports. The said reports also mentioned the death of Alex Balto. Looking at the corpse, his neck was indeed cut by a sharp object. However, the cut was too clean. So, maybe the knights suspect you killed him in his sleep?"
"How could that be true? You guys are ridiculous!" Rebecca said, annoyed.
"Regardless, you did bring the bandit's head. Our scouts have also found the rest of the bandits' corpses. We believe you to be innocent. But as of this moment, we can only ask you to cooperate with Balto's knights' query. Lord Balto has yet to query Horaine's knight order, after all."
"Fine!" Rebecca huffed as she left the knight's order. Cecile went pale at the mess they got themselves into.
"Are we going back to Balto's villa?" Cecile asked.
"Of course not. The knight said Lord Balto has yet to query Horaine about Alex. This means those knights acted without orders. If we meet them, they will kill us. Let's go to the market to buy supplies, then we need to travel to the royal capital to meet my father. It's better if we travel via carriage."
"Our money was stolen by the knights...."
"Let's go to the adventurer's guild.... we can take some quests to gather money or send a message at least..."