Chapter 155 - 155 Who are you?

155 Who are you?

A beautiful young lady with red hair and green eyes was staring at Henry. She smiled warmly at him. “It’s good to meet you again, Henry.”

“Sabina, what are you doing here?” Henry’s eyes were far from the warm gaze. All he had was a cold expression of curiosity in it.

“Well, I was just passing by, and I happened to see you.”

Henry gave a sigh, “Would you believe that?” Said Henry with a tone of sarcasm, “Now you already saw me, you can leave now.”

“Oh, come on! Don’t you miss me? Even a bit?” Asked Sabina with pouted lips.

“Suit yourself, I must tell you, we were in the middle of an isolation right now, if you go in, it would be hard to go out.” Henry goes away, leaving Sabina alone with the guards and the knights, but not before he turns around one more time, “Oh, and I never miss you, not in the slightest.”

“Liar!” Shouted Sabina while she looks at the man who was already walking inside the encampment.

Henry was a bit worried, he knows Sabina, probably a bit too much. Thinking that Justice could help him, he heads out to the crown prince’s tent hoping to see him there. What a relief Henry was when he looks at Justice, who walks towards his tent with Vale. Both of them saw him and were distraught to look at the blood all over Henry’s body.

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“Henry?! Good Gods! What happened?!” Asked Justice to his friend.

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“I am fine. This was the monster’s blood.” Said Henry, he looks at Vale and Justice. “How’s Anne?”

Both Justice and Vale refused to discuss her outside the tent. He proposed to Henry to go inside his tent after he cleaned himself in the public bath. Not more than thirty minutes, the knight captain was already inside Justice’s tent, with fresh clothes and a clean body.

“I assume since you told me to freshen myself first, Anne would be alright?” Henry asked Justice while he prepare a cup of caftea.

“She was stable, but I need to ask you, did you see something before Anne collapsed?” Said Justice to Henry.

Henry knows something was wrong when Justice gave him a vague answer, and even asked the man about something that Henry doesn’t even aware of. Henry looks at Justice and asked him back, “What do you mean? What happened to her, actually?”

Justice drink his caftea and then explained to him carefully, “She… had something on her palm, it was moskeeto’s stinger.”

There was a wave of anger in Henry’s eyes, he stand up from his seat and shouted, “She what?!”

“Calm down, shouting and being frantic isn’t going to help her.” Scolded Justice to Henry.

“Nor giving a punishment to Hector, either.” Muttered Vale while Justice gave him a glare.

“I hope she was at least not in any pain, right? I mean… she…” Henry was afraid that he will lose her one more time. “I can’t believe how I was always trying to get on her nerve, Gods!” Henry close his eyes, and with soft whispers asked his friends once again, “How is she? This time, please just tell me the truth.”

Vale and Justice looked at each other, Vale is the one who gave the whole truth to Henry, “Look, all we know for now, is that she was fighting for her life, and Hector the alchemist still conducted the antibody test on her.”

“So, was she conscious?”

Justice shakes his head. “Not for now, she… Had a fever, probably resulting from the stinger that she was holding for a while.”

“No…” Vale looks at the table, he remembered the conversation he had a while back, “She was tired and overworked,” He then looks into Justice, “Did you know that Xavier was being treated at the main hospital right now?”

Justice was intrigued. He doesn’t know about this. “No, what happened?”

“He was a suspect patient, one of his ladies’ friend’s brother got infected, and he happened to be there.” Henry explained to him, and after he cleared his throat, he also tells him about the other matter, “He also… impregnated his lady friend, that was why he was at her house, he was visiting.”

“Dear Gods! Such a fool! How come he could be so unprepared?!” Justice was in shock, over all of his three friends, only Xavier and Vale who remain celibate in the past, although not as indulgence as Henry, Justice was carefully chosen his bedchamber lady before Anne arrived in their life.

“He was unconscious. The only thing that he remembered was the morning afterward. He was too drunk back then.” Said Vale again.

“Then he was a fool!” Henry said suddenly to both of them.

Justice looks at Henry and warned him, “Careful, Henry, he was still our friend.”

“Then you get my meaning all wrong, what I have meant is that he was supposed to be asking around about the night where the baby was conceived, and also there was a test to determine the age of the pregnancy of the woman.” Henry solemnly drinks his caftea, “There once a woman who tried to do this kind of trap towards me, knowing full well the wealth and my family name.”

“What do you think?” Asked Vale to Justice.

Justice nodded his head. “Worth a try. I’ll be writing a letter for Xander, he knows what to do.” He sat on his desk and make a letter, while he wrote the letter he asked the other two to leave him alone, “I need my rest, and both of you need it as much as I do, you should probably go now.”

Yawning, and doing some stretching, Vale excused himself and leave Henry and Justice alone. Henry, on the other hand, stubbornly sat on the sofa, waiting for his friend to be done with the letter. Justice knew there was something that he needs to be asked of him.

“Alright, what do you need?” he was tired, but knowing full well that Henry was rarely asked for help nowadays makes him curious.

Henry awkwardly scratched his head, “There’s a huntsman lady that came here, she… was an acquaintance of mine. Could you perhaps give her a task that will make her as far as possible from me?”

A smirk came onto Justice’s face. “Well, it seems that you still have your past charm, I see?”

“Shut up!” Said Henry, rolling his eyes. Before he goes out of the tent, Henry gave him the name of the girl. “Her name was Sabina. She was probably observing the Gardoran’s heads that I brought.”

Looking around the area, Henry still trying to hide from the persistent Sabina, he thought to go to visit Anne, but knowing that she was probably still unconscious or need it much rest, Henry opt to ask the helper that he saw instead.

“Oh, miss Anne?” Said the helper. “They move her into the observation tent. I’m afraid you need to wait the next morning to visit her.” The helper pointed at the small tent behind two large trees.

He goes right away to the front of the tent. He was standing in front of one of the largest trees, intending to climb the tree and observe her tent. Before he was climbing, however, a faint voice came from inside the tent.

“What are you doing here? Can’t you just leave me alone?!” It was Anne’s voice. It seems there was another person inside her tent.