"Die!"
The assassin saw this chance and dashed forward, brandishing his blade and hacked towards the young boy while blocking the escape path.
Bang!
Jleb!
The moment Nan Luo noticed that he was in dire situation, he focused on diving down when the assassin came close. The sword in his hand stabbed forward towards the assassin's abdomen as he kicked the ground to push him away.
"Imposs…"
Thunk!
Several pieces of wood dropped on top of the assassin, pushing him down. It caused the sword that was embedded deep into his stomach to go even deeper inside.
"Luo?"
"I'm okay!" Nan Luo replied almost immediately. He managed to push himself away from the falling woods. The distance was pretty near, though, as several pieces had fallen near his legs.
He felt chills on his back as he couldn't imagine himself losing his legs because of this incident. If something happened to him, he was sure that he wouldn't be able to fulfil his grandfather's dream.
Nan Hua was looking at the assassins and fire in front of her.
Suddenly, she recalled the novel once more. It was said that the novel Nan Hua had a twin brother but the twin brother was a useless cripple. There was an incident during Nan Luo's youth that caused him to be unable to walk properly.
Looking at the scene before her, Nan Hua was suspecting whether this was that one incident or not. After all, her appearances had changed many things.
There was also not much mention about Nan Family.
It didn't say anything about the incident regarding Nan Family and only mentioned briefly. Nan Hua in the novel was an extremely cold person who was not close to anyone in Nan Family.
Thus, when she was brought to ruin, her family members didn't care for her in the slightest bit.
'If I want to protect my twin brother, this is not enough.'
The information from the novel would soon deviate thanks to her existences. Nan Hua couldn't possibly wait until it happened and caught her unprepared. She had to understand everything about this world and the many people who interacted with Nan Family.
Only by having enough preparation and knowledge would she be able to make sure that this kind of incident would not happen again.
Thud!
Nan Luo pushed the wood away and flipped the assassin's body over with ease. He pulled out the sword while looking at the spreading fire. "Hua'er, let's go. We shouldn't stay here any longer."
"En."
Nan Hua looked at her bloodstained and dirty clothes. She swiftly took it off and threw it to the fire before following Nan Luo outside.
"You use my clothes?" Nan Luo only noticed Nan Hua looked different after they were outside. He saw Nan Hua's clothes were clean and only slightly rumpled. At this moment, the corner of his lips twitched as he glanced at the robe that was thrown inside.
It seemed that Nan Hua was absolutely prepared to burn everything to erase the evidence that she was involved in the battle.
Nan Hua nodded. "Luo is the one protecting me."
Nan Luo blinked his eyes then his eyes landed on the nearby assassin's corpse. He could see that it was killed with one strike with his sword. His eyelids twitched badly. As much as he wanted to take the credit, he was absolutely unconfident to catch an experienced assassin unprepared like Nan Hua.
Uh… he would just go with the excuse that these assassins underestimated him and caught unprepared.
While it might be hard to believe, it was more believable than a 9 year old girl killed two assassins in the row….
"We should go." Nan Luo stretched his hand and grabbed Nan Hua's hand. After that, he turned around and rushed to the direction of the Southern Courtyard.
Nan Hua was looking at the small hand that was holding her tightly. Honestly, she never thought too much ever since she came here as she thought that she should just follow the same route that the original Nan Hua took. But seeing Old Master Nan and Nan Luo protecting her with everything they got, she wavered.
She couldn't just possibly let these two walked to their doom.
They were protecting her carefully, something that had never happened in her previous live. Thus, this time, she would be the one to protect them from harm.
Drap! Drap! Drap!
"Young Master! Young Miss!" Hou Liang was glad when he saw the two brats appearing before him. While Nan Luo looked like a mess, he still ran around energetically, which meant that he should be fine.
"Commander Hou!" Nan Luo waved his other hand that didn't hold Nan Hua. "How's the situation over there?"
"It's pretty bad. The assassins are attacking randomly and the other people have already evacuated."
"Where?"
"There's a small open field at the base mountain. It's also protected with more soldiers, so we should be save if we head there."
Nan Luo nodded. "In that case, we should head there."
"We'll prepare the carriage."
"Just a horse is enough."
"Young master, your horse riding skill is still poor."
Nan Luo: "…" he couldn't deny that.
There was the horse riding training in the academy. While Nan Luo could ride horse, his controlling skill was still not the best. It was actually more like he didn't seem like he could ride horse properly if one were to look at his performance because of his small stature.
No one looked down on him, though.
When they were 9 years old, their performance was naturally worse than him.
"Please ride the carriage." Xiao Yun and Xiao Yan had come and prepared the necessary carriage.
Nan Hua glanced at the carriage then at the mess in the residence. It seemed that the servants had specifically prepared the carriage for her and her twin brother. If not, they would not make sure this carriage escaped unscathed from the barrage of attacks from various assassins.
"Alright, let's go, Hua'er."
"Mhm."