My guts feeling is right this Time... it looks like Rowan and I are in trouble now. Rowan seems like he doesn’t want to give the golden pin to Jack. My guts feeling is right after all because Rowan takes out something on his sleeves and throws it in the middle of the room. The store suddenly filled up with gray thick smoke, while someone pulled my hand away in one direction. It's a ruckus. There is a sound of broken tables, glasses, and cracked wood.

"Over here!"

"Don't let them escape!"

"Grab one of them!"

One of Jack's men holds the expensive outfit from Rowan's hand.

"Don't you dare to put a cheap trick in front of...... Aaargh..!"

Rowan kicked one of Jack's man and he tried to make that man release the outfit by punching him several times. But it's all for naught, that huge man didn't even move an inch. The other guy even gets close to Rowan and tries to immobilize Rowan. Rowan hardly escaped, he is forced to throw away the outfit that he holds firmly in one of his hands. Rowan fights against three of Jack's people. I try to help Rowan with the fight.

"Brak!

"ZZREAAK!"

Meanwhile, one of Jack's men comes near me, trying to make me paralyzed. I tried my best to counter it, successfully managed the situation. Unfortunately, both Rowan and I have outnumbered as another guy come into the fight. Rowan and I knew that we must try to escape from there if we want to be alive. Rowan signaled me to go out first, so we both tried to use the smoke in our favor.

"BRAAAAK!"

"Kraak!"

When I finally can open widely both of my eyes and see through things, we're already outside in a dark alley. We're still running since there is a couple of men who chase us. My vision is still quite blurry, so I can't see some spectacle ahead of me and suddenly fell to the ground. Rowan helps me to stand again. I hurt a Lil bit of my ankle in that fall.

"Hurry! Catch my hand, we need to hide, there!" Rowan said.

I catch Rowan's hand, and he started to pull me up the wall, climbing upstairs and through gates. We're trying to escape the pursuit. I run until I feel the loss of breath, trying to match up to Rowan's speed with my hurting leg. Rowan steered us away from the crowd, as he tried not to bring any unnecessary attention from Houz's official and guards.

One of the pursuers shoots arrows targeted at us, destroying some guard rails beside us. Rowan counters it by throwing several flying knives to them, that they successfully evade. Several men that keep chasing us are quite skillful and like professional assassins, especially that one tall slim man with a snake tattoo. They can run fast and pass a lot of barriers effortlessly. Rowan often tried to hinder them, to make time for me to catch up on the phase.

I tried so hard to run ... so hard that it reminds me something about my past. My brain aches. A glimpse of what supposedly my old memory comes through. It seems I used to be on the run too when I was a kid. Yet, I don't know whether this memory is mine or could be someone else.

Rowan did a good job to hinder Jack's man.

Three remaining men keep chasing us behind. They're 1 tall slim man with a face cover and 2 big men with a dark shirt. These annoying men keep following them like parasites.

Now Rowan and Ilios are in a dock that has not operated anymore and has been abandoned by its owner for a long time ago. They're trying to hide in some gaps between the carriers.

"I should try to stop my breath, and not make any noise as much as I can," said myself in mind.

It's such a relief when finally the pursuers lose the track of us and no longer follow us anymore. We're waiting for couple of hours to make sure that no Jack's man is around us anymore before we are out from our hiding place.