Jacob became frustrated,
“What the hell is Zara doing down there?! And where’s Ruth and Amelda? I was afraid this would happen so I told them to keep an eye on her.”

“I spotted Ruth over there.” said Nina as she pointed at the small house's rooftop, “It seems, she’s out cold.”

Nina spotted their fellow comrade, a little girl with black twin-tailed hair laying unconscious on a rooftop of a nearby house.

“What about Amelda?” asked Jacob.

“No sign of her.”

“Nevermind, Amelda can take care of herself. So I shall go to Zara’s aid, meanwhile you go check on Ruth.”

“Sounds like a plan.”

Both Nina and Jacob split to help out their fellow comrade. Nina climbed down the building sneakily and used the rooftops to travel to their unconscious comrade's aid.

Although, Jacob seems to have other plans.

“Who’re you? And what are you doing here?” asked one of the Rebel.

The Rebel soldiers had surrounded Zara who appeared on the street out of nowhere. They hadn’t attacked yet and proceeds to question her instead.

Although, Zara was not even slightly bothered by the fact to be surrounded by dozen of rebels pointing their weapons at her.

“Umm, I am looking for my friend. She’s a girl about my size but with a bob cut hair. Last I saw her was walking the street. As being one of the eldest people in my battalion, I should look after her. But she went and…” mumbled on Zara in quite a tone that was almost inaudible.

“What is she saying? I can’t even make out anything from that mumbling of hers. Speak out loud.” said out loud one of the Rebels.

Zara was shocked to hear the reply and became a teary-eyed.

“I see. I am sorry, my voice has always been an issue since my childhood. Since a little kid, I have been training to overcome my shallow voice and be able to communicate with others, without any trouble. But again just try to understand for once, I will try to speak louder. I am looking for my friend. She’s a girl with…” Zara continued to mumble on and on.

“What is she muttering? Some curse spell? I don’t understand a word she's speaking.” said the confused rebels.

“But what should we do?” the other rebel asked.

The Rebels have not attacked Zara yet. If she was an ordinary girl, the rebels would have attacked and killed her mercilessly like the other citizens. But because they were wary of Zara who was carrying an enormous hammer on her back. The Hammer was almost twice her size and could easily be weighed a ton.

But Zara seemed to be having no trouble carrying that around her back.

“Be on your guard, she’s no ordinary girl. Should we call for backup?” suggested one of the Rebels.

Just when Jacob jumped from the building and made a flashy entrance.

His landing was quite loud that it created a small crater that even shook the ground, thanks to the heavy armor and weapon he carried with him. The impact was powerful enough to knock some rebels from their feet.

“Hey there! What are you guys doing cornering a girl like that?” asked Jacob out loud.

The rebels were quite surprised to see him and the big lance that he carried on his shoulder.

“What the- she's not alone!” shouted one the rebels.

The rebels were now cornered, one side was Zara, a girl with an enormous hammer, and the other side Jacob armed with a huge lance.

“Trying to outnumber a girl with numbers, how cowardly,” said Jacob as he smiled, “Let me be your opponent- Huh?”

Just when Jacob noticed that his feet were stuck in the ground. He tried to lift his feet but was unable to free himself.

“Damn it! I guess the building was a little too tall. Shit!” said Jacob as he desperately tried to free himself.

The rebels noticed Jacob was in a pinch,

“Nows the time! Kill him.” saying so the rebels charged at Jacob who was just an easy picking.

“Hey! Wait for a second! We are your allies!” shouted Jacob.

The rebels stopped for their charge quickly.

Jacob made a friendly smile,

“Yeah, we are allies sent to help. So could you guys lend me a hand here?” he asked as he continuously tried to free his legs.

Although, the rebels weren’t buying it,

“His spitting nonsense! Let’s just kill him before he can free himself.”

Jacob glared back at those rebels,

“Oh, so you wanna attack? Go ahead then. I can easily kill you guys with a single swing of my lance without even need to take a step. Alright then, come at me but be warned I will make sure to remember your faces so that I could inform the General of the Revolutionary Army, that you attacked a high ranking officer. Your commander along with your family, every one of them will be put to death.”

The Rebels started trembling at their feet after listening to his words.

Jacob was rather enjoying this,

“The General was kind enough to send two relic wielders to aid your army but instead you repay our gratitude with a sword. What a shame, we also traveled so long to get here,” said Jacob as he sighed.

The rebels lowered their weapons and started to buy Jacob's crap.

“I… um. I am sorry, sir. We had no clue that the general sent reinforcements.” said one of the rebels.

“Yes, please forgive us. We thought you were the remaining Gleyon city relic wielders. Please forgive our rude behavior. I beg you, please don’t tell the general about this.” begged the Rebels.

Slowly all the rebels lowered their weapons and instead begged for forgiveness.

Jacob stood tall while puffing his chest,

“Alright, I will overlook this one time, just help me out here.”

Meanwhile, Zara was just standing there the whole time as she watched the drama unfold as she thought to herself,

'I must take lessons from Jacob about communication skills.'

Jacob then used his lance to dug the ground under his feet and finally able to free himself.

The Rebels later even apologized to Zara.

“Alright, give us a quick status update,” commanded Jacob.

One of the rebel saluted,

“Sir, the city has already been captured, but the Sinnet nobles are making their last stand at their fort.” said the rebel.

“Hmm. I see.” nodded Jacob.

“Sir you guys came at the right time. We would need your help to capture that fort. We should head there at once.” answered the Rebels.

Jacob just smiled,

“Well, but first I need to meet the commander,”

The rebels were a bit confused,

“But sir, why would you wanna-”

“You fools.” replied Jacob furiously, “Me and my companion here, would like to pay our respects to your commander. It would be quite disrespectful otherwise.”

The rebels immediately bowed their head,

“We are sorry. We’ll take you right away.” replied the scared rebels.

The rebels then started heading to their commander meanwhile, Jacob and Zara followed them from behind.

Zara elbowed Jacob,

“Nice work, please teach me to speak like that,” she mumbled.

Jacob proudly smiled,

“Well, what do you expect. I am quite the-”

“Hey, there’s Nina and Ruth there,” mumbled Zara cutting off Jacob.

"I was trying to sound cool- uh... nevermind."

Nina and Ruth were peeping from the rooftops.

Nina looked pissed as if she had a bad day.

Ruth scratched her head and smiled as she waved at Jacob and Zara. For some reason, she had a big bump on her head.

Jacob took a sigh of relief,

‘Thank goodness looks like Ruth’s doing alright.’ he thought to himself.

Jacob and Zara kept walking with the Rebels without alerting the rebels of Ruth and Nina's presence. Then Jacob carefully gave some hand signs.

Nina nodded her head in reply whereas Ruth was confused.

Zara and Jacob went along with the rebels to their commander's camp as the Ruth and Nina watched them from afar.

“What did he mean by that hand signs?” asked Ruth.

Nina was still angry at Ruth,

“Didn’t you take the lessons for hand signs?! Or were you sleeping in the lectures too?!” she asked furiously.

Nina just scratched her head and laughed in her reply.

“Oh jeez, Ruth! How could you sleep at such an important mission! I can't believe you fell asleep on the rooftop like that. Anything could have happened to you! We are in enemy territory.” scowled angry Nina.

“My bad! My bad! I was keeping an eye on Zara as you instructed but then the next second I fell asleep! I can’t help it, I was awake all night, remember?!” argued Ruth as she played with her hair curls.

“I still don’t get how- Uh, nevermind, where’s Amelda?”

“Oh Amelda, she was with us before I fell asleep.”

Nina once again glared at Ruth angrily.

“I am really sorry! Come on, forgive me already!” begged Ruth as he hugged Nina.

After Nina calmed down a little, the two girls went to the fort as instructed by Jacob.