Seeing Rurik leaving, Anna slowly let go of Dast and shrank back to the corner of the bed.
"How cunning, Dust. This is a plan you set up to escape."
Anna lowered her head and hugged her knees in despair.
"Okay, Rurik has left now. You have enough time while he prepares the duel venue. Run quickly. I am injured and can't walk far, so just leave me here.
."
"This is not a trick, I'm already ready for a duel." Dast patted himself and stood up, "He beat you like this, I have to show him some mercy."
Anna bit her lip, then suddenly grabbed a wooden pillow and threw it at Daxter! Her anger suddenly poured down like a summer rainstorm: "What qualifications do you have to say this? Are you a knight?
?You are just a liar. Don’t you have any idea? What ability do you have to duel with Rurik? You even lost one of your hands? You are so powerful, why didn’t you protect me and run out of the city from the beginning?
What? Liar, liar, liar!"
She took a few deep breaths, and her anger suddenly stopped like a summer rainstorm.
"...Kneel down before me!"
"Princess?"
"Do as I say!" Anna slightly enlarged her voice, "Or do you think I am not a princess and there is no reason to obey my orders?"
"Are you going to step on me again..." Dust muttered and knelt in front of Anna.
"Take a knee!"
Dust was stunned for a moment and changed to a kneeling position.
"Pull out the sword from your waist."
Dast didn't know what Anna was thinking, so he pulled out the sword with a sudden movement.
"You point the tip of your sword at me???"
Anna became angry and began to cough up blood violently.
"Princess? You...?"
"It's just a small injury." Anna wiped the blood around her mouth with the corner of her clothes, "Kneel there and don't move, just do as I say!"
Dust had no choice but to turn his sword around.
"Hold the tip of the sword in your left hand, hold the blade of the sword in your right hand, and aim the tip of the sword towards your heart."
Dast did it again. His left hand had just been seriously injured, and it would cause severe pain whenever he moved it. It was even difficult to bend it under the restraint of the bandage. But he still bent his left hand a little harder and gently held the tip of the sword.
.
Anna staggered out of bed, grabbed the hilt of the sword with her right hand, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth: "In this position, as long as I pass the hilt forward, the sword will pierce you.
heart. Aren’t you afraid?”
"What are you afraid of?" Dast tilted his head, "There is an iron plate stuck in front of my heart!"
"You..." Anna was so angry that she choked. She closed her eyes and took several deep breaths before she calmed down and opened her eyes again.
"Forget it, I won't argue with you about this kind of thing."
"So princess, what exactly do you want me to do by asking me to do this gesture..."
"This class does not exist in the Seven Hills Empire. But I can make a special case for you and make an oath just like what is described in "Tabassa and the White Knight"."
As soon as these words came out, even Dust realized what Anna was planning to do.
Anna grabbed the hilt of the sword in Dast's hand and asked seriously: "Dast, are you willing to be my knight and fight for me?"
Dast immediately lowered his head and answered seriously:
"yes,your highness."
"Are you willing to give up your selfish desires and turn them into a sword and a strong shield for the sake of justice for the majority?"
"yes,your highness."
Anna pressed the tip of the sword on Dust's right shoulder, and then on his left shoulder.
"Dast. I, Anna Cornelia Scipio, the first princess of the Seven Hills Empire, hereby canonize you as my knight. From today on, 'White Knight' will be your official title."
Dust took the sword back from Anna's hand and put it into his scabbard.
Anna tore off a piece of fabric from her own clothes and tied it to Dast's chest: "Dast, I don't want to marry Rurik at all... I must win the duel tonight!"
…
The venue for the duel was a street that had been swept casually. Since Rurik kept quiet, there were only a few scattered pirates as witnesses watching on one side. Next to the open space was the house where Rurik currently lives.
Anna was lying on the balcony, anxiously watching the situation in the venue.
Dast held a sword and came to Rurik.
"You actually came. I thought you just wanted to find a reason to escape."
Rurik clapped a few times to show his respect for Dast, and then he took out his war hammer.
"One last thing to remind you, I will not hold back. Once you take another step forward, the duel between us will be to the death. If you just want to show off your strength, leave here immediately."
Dast shook his head and took out the sword from his waist: "Rurik, what are you talking about? I'll tell you secretly that I learned swordsmanship from the sword master on Antilia Island. If you
If you are afraid, just surrender immediately, I have no reason to take your life."
"The swordsmanship of the Mistertin clan?"
Rurik was obviously taken aback. He came from the Pirate Kingdom, so he knew who the Sword Master in Dast's mouth was. For the pirates, the swordsmanship of Hunter Mistertin and the Sword Clan is their eternal nightmare.
.
"This fool!" Anna cursed in her mind. She didn't know who Mistertin was, but she could roughly guess from Rurik's reaction that he was a swordsman. But just because Dast was followed by an undercover agent from the Island Republic,
To the extent that he was kidnapped casually, this sentence is probably just a lie. Moreover, this kind of lie will only have the opposite effect.
Sure enough, Rurik's posture became more cautious.
"If this was a lie to scare me, you failed miserably. Because it made me get serious."
Rurik did not dare to attack immediately. He took a stance and watched Dast's every move carefully, trying to judge whether Dast had spoken or not through his movements.
However, Dast did not put up any fighting posture. He held the sword and tilted it to the right. As soon as his hand was loosened, the sword fell to the ground with a clang.
"Come on, Rurik." Dast, who was empty-handed, raised his fingers towards Rurik, "Try to attack me!"
How could Rurik endure such a provocation? Seeing Dast throw away his sword, he also threw the hammer back and rushed towards Dast's direction with his bare hands!
"Dust! Be careful to dodge!" Anna shouted anxiously from the balcony, "Even if he doesn't use magic, you can't match him in strength!"
However, Dast just stood there quietly, waiting for Rurik to approach. Twenty steps, fifteen steps, ten steps, nine steps, eight steps... everyone held their breath.
Anna's screams became more and more urgent: "Dust, move quickly! Move!"
Dast nodded. Suddenly, he squatted down and picked up the sword that was thrown on the ground!
"I just didn't say a word about not using a sword! You threw away the hammer!"
Dast shouted, raised his sword and struck at Rurik.
This high-sounding and shameless reason stunned the surrounding pirates. Even Anna was so angry that she broke off a section of the balcony fence.