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Pack, the Halfcrest's ho

Bang

sed her hea

ng to push it open. Mallory raised her vigilance and tried to find a weapon

released her grip on M

otions were still all over the place. She couldn

fulfill her promises–to grow stronger, to take care of he

dy to dash out from the house when she

kept on banging on the locked door. Mallory listened for

r she said that, the banging contin

d down. Without a second thought, she unlocked the trapdoor

ands were tied up. She probably used her shoulders and back to bump into the wooden trapdo

took the gauze out from her mouth, and released h

her. At the same time, her heart tightened again after realizing

r cheeks. Mallory looked through Oddny's eyes full of tears b

onger. Mallory looke

und for one thing; to let her witness as he committed murder. She probably heard every

heard Mallory and Melita talking, thinking that everything is already okay. But

caped from Mallory's hands and kneeled, taking

s filled the

p along with her grief. Seeing Oddny pathetically crying like s

her lips and ma

oor and felt a surging wave of sadness in her

ld Oddny's hands and said sternly. "L

t she will drag her out from there if she resisted. Oddny almost broke down, realizing that she c

oble vampire. Oddny saw the vampire's body in a corner of the house. A body of a d

o, she cou

efully at all. She wished that he experien

fore taking something on a chest. It was a bag. "Y-y

ps and slowly nodded. "Y

ye. She looked at Mallory, urging her to do the same.

kin and felt that the sensatio

up and had her resolve

p her safe

, and without a wor

the house, her eyes lingered o

ooden houses in the village. There were already dead bodies on the ground;

y and ran towards the exit of the village. While they ran, t

himper and asked

her hands t

and. She cried even more, however, h

out and directly headed to

m the pack. Their eyes met, and after

are, they won't get ca

Small wounds accumulated on their cheeks, legs, and arms from the sha

e forest would never end, in the di

king that the vampires

r when suddenly, a creature with

looked at the gr

as a

fore looking up ahead as i

her heart loosened for a bit. She looked at Od

lory and Oddny finally confirme

other werewolves

m desperately. Some were on their horses, while others were in the

r seeing their situation. 'Or a scout? Either

Mallory concluded that they had someone who s

s them and comments. "Unblessed, I see. Qui

wo mounted the horses

s gaze. It was a man her age. It was someone you can determine in the middle of a crowd, a presenc

ng to reassure her that eve

ond before he looked away, focu

t's

arted galloping away fro

k and cast her eyes back to the

stance between them. Mallory can feel

rength for her to n

the Halfcrest lived. The pack that took years

Halfcrest's home,