Rise of the Legendary Emperor

Chapter 160: The past came hunting II

"Are you the one called Adria?"

When Don was talking with Joel, he suddenly heard a feminine voice, again. He turned and saw a black-haired girl with a longbow on her back walking towards them. Unlike him, Joel and Arrora seemed to recognize the girl as Don could even feel a slight killing intent radiating from Arrora as she stood there clenching her fists.

"Who are you?"

Don moved an inch away and hid Arrora's clenched fist with his body and asked the girl.

"Chase, the one who's going to kill her"

The girl pointed at Arrora

"You wish"

Arrora gritted her teeth and said as he frowned

"What's your grudge against her?"

"She hurt my friend, she will die for that"

He hated arrogant and overbearing girls like her the most but he couldn't make a move against her without knowing who she is and how strong she is.

"You and I in the arena, don't think about running away, I'll find you even if you run to the end of the world"

"There you are, Chase"

Another silver-haired girl came with a smile on her face and stood beside Chase.

"Are they your friends Chase?"

"She's Adria"

The moment Chase said, the smile on the silver-haired girl disappeared 

"It's you who put Kate in that state, how could you do that?"

The killing intent radiating from Arrora increased after the silver-haired girl's arrival.

"Enjoy your last moments"

Chase said as she turned back and walked away leaving the silver-haired girl behind

"It took days from me to heal her face and bring her back to consciousness, and still the poor girl is so traumatized by the beating she took"

"You're a hypocrite"

Arrora said as the silver-haired girl looked shocked and surprised when she heard her

"What do you mean by that?"

Arrora did not repeat her words, she quickly rushed out of the hall through the nearby door as Joel followed her behind

"Why did she call me a hypocrite? Anyways, if I were you, I'll look for a way to hide her from Chase, once she stepped onto the duel stage against Chase, no one can save her"

Even though Don was burning with anger inside, he remained calm so he wouldn't get into any unnecessary trouble without knowing who these girls were first.

After she said, she walked away from him and disappeared into the crowd as he went outside to meet Arrora and Joel.

"Who were they?"

He asked Arrora after coming out from the hall and when Arrora turned back, he was surprised by her watery eyes. Don looked at Joel before asking any question as Joel excused himself from them and went into the hall.

"They...they were the guards of Brian"

The tears started to flow out of her eyes as she sobbed

"I...I begged them to save me...they knew, they knew what was going to happen to me but still"

Looking at her weeping, Don wanted to rip the throat out of Chase and the silver-haired. The two of them acted like Arrora was a horrible person for attacking Kate but they themselves weren't saints as they did nothing when an innocent girl begged for their help.

"Why didn't they help me? Because I'm not a princess like Kate, because I'm not a human"

He had never seen her like this since he rescued her from Brian. He gently put his hand on her face and wiped the tears away. Even though she was trying to hold back her sorrow and tears, she couldn't stop them from flowing out. He knew that the life she had before he rescued her was a pretty bad and miserable one as she basically lived in the wilderness and slept under trees and rocks fearing for the people who killed her parents as well as the slave traders.

"Look at me"

She slowly looked at him

"You're not that weak girl anymore, no one can hurt you, it's you, who do the hurting now. You go one there and show that bitch that what will happen if anyone tries to mess with you?"

"I'm sorry that I brought you this trouble"

He shook his head

"Sometimes no matter what you do, trouble always finds you and when it does, you can either run away or face it head on, now it's time to face it head on"

He let go of her face and stepped back

"Yes, you're right, I'm not that weak girl anymore"

He nodded and walked away from there giving her some alone time but she followed him behind to the hall back again.

When the two of them got inside, King Edward came with Lord Clemo 

"King Don, where have you been? Did you meet King Noa and King Mattia?"

King Edward glanced at the two kings talking with Queen Cassia and King Enrico.

"Come on, I'll introduce you to them"

Looking at them walking towards her, Queen Cassia and King Enrico excused themselves and went to talk to another guest.

"King Edward"

"King Noa"

Don was surprised to see the makeup on King Noa's face as he wore dark red lipstick and powdered his cheeks with rosy red talc. Don couldn't help but notice a strap that looked awfully similar to a woman's breast support beneath King Noa's transparent tunic.

"Hello, handsome"

King Noa greeted him with a wide smile on his face and even his voice sounded feminine to Don

"It's nice to meet you, King Noa"

He shook Noa's hand and he felt like shaking a girl's hand who never done any hard labor in her life.

After greeting King Noa, he then looked at the man beside King Noa.

"King Don, this is King Mattia of Monivelle"

King Mattia was a brute looking man with a long greasy beard, his right side of the face had a big burn wound. 

"It seems nowadays everyone can be a king huh?"

King Mattia snickered and startled everyone around him

"You're a king of what? One with no water and another with nothing but water"

This day was getting worse and worse for him and now he had stuck with another one who has a bone to pick with him for some reason.

"Mattia, what's with you? aren't you being rude? "

King Noa asked as he pouted at Mattia like a girl

"He's being rude just by coming to this gathering"

Don didn't understand why he's acting this way since he had no clue what he did to this man, but when he saw the grin on King Virgo's face, it made sense.

Unlike they had expected, Don didn't reply to Mattia as he nodded at him and King Noa

"It was a pleasure to meet you both"

As he said, he turned back and walked away from the two while Mattia seemed surprised by his reaction.

"What the hell was that King Mattia?"

He heard King Edward's furious voice when he was walking away. Some of the nobles witnessed the scene snickered and looked down on him for walking away.

"Your majesty, why didn't you say anything?"

Even Lord Clemo was pretty furious of Mattia's actions as he asked Don

"Never respond to rudeness, when people are rude to you, be silent and kill them at the first chance you get"

Lord Clemo realized that King Mattia just made into a grandmaster's kill list and since he saw Don in action, he felt bad for King Mattia because he could have avoided all this if he had shut his mouth.

Because of how he treated the nobles in Agoria, most of them ignored him in the gathering and some of them were too high and mighty to associate with a king of two worst kingdoms in rank 4 regions. Yet King Edward and Yvonne did not act like the others but Yvonne did warn Arrora about her upcoming duel with Chase.

"Gentlemen and ladies, follow the guards to the arena, we have something planned for you all"

Hearing Queen Cassia, he doubted that he and Arrora is the only one who's going to battle in the arena.

"Just so you know, I'm betting everything on you two,"

Yvonne said in a low voice when they were going to the arena

"There's betting?"

Arrora asked as Yvonne rolled her eyes

"Of course, there is, because I'm the one taking it"

"Lord Clemo"

When he heard Yvonne, a figurative light appeared in his mind as he retrieved a pouch of coins from his space ring without anyone seeing it

"Here, bet on us "

Since this gathering brought him more trouble than benefits, he decided to make wealth out of his trouble

"Ah yes, yes, your majesty"

He was already planning to bet on Don and Arrora with his own coins.

The arena was a large circular hall with an open roof and there were rows of seats for the commoners and the hundreds of seats were filled by people of Enarin. Seeing the nobles and kings entering the arena, the people cheered for Queen Cassia and waved the flag of Enarin. There were thrones built on a platform for the kings closer to the battleground where they could witness the fights with the best view possible.

"Hail Queen Cassia"

"Long live the queen"

"Enarin"

The people kept shouting and cheering as Queen Cassia waved her hand at them, which made the people shout even louder. Don's throne was the last on the edge of the platform where Cassia and Virgo took the thrones in the center.

King Enrico sat beside Don with the help of his people and there was no sign of Rodrigo yet.

After the kings sat on their thrones, Queen Cassia stood up and motioned her people to stop cheering.

"People of Enarin, let's welcome our guests, the kings to the fifty-first gathering of kings"