Chapter 41 Eva Goes Back

As soon as the next morning came, Eva went back to her tribe again to pick up everyone unable to come here earlier.

Usha gave her two wagons with horses to pull them just in case, they didn't have enough wagons.

"Be careful on the way, sister," Lydia decided to stay in the Ron tribe to help everyone because even though they took the decision to cooperate, everybody couldn't agree with it.

"Keep everyone in check, don't let them do anything unwanted ok," Eva advised her before going back.

Those who were remaining in the tribe were either elderly or children below age 10, but they were not in the usual place they used to live as it might be dangerous for them to stay in one place because of the threat.

Since Eva was strong people were not worried about her but still Lydia didn't let her go alone,

"I told you, I can go alone," Eva argued her.

"Sister, don't be stubborn, I will not let you go unless you let these four girls accompany you," Lydia didn't compromise with her, as she kept insisting about it.

"Fine, but I need them to be fast," She said in response to Lydia's complaints.

One might feel like Eva was the younger sister but the truth is the opposite. Even though Lydia looks externally mature and cool-headed, she is the younger one making her the brain around them.

Nikol didn't forget to say goodbye to Eva before she left the city to go back, Lydia saw Nikol being all friendly with her sister and she couldn't help but feel amazed because Eva never got friendly with anyone from her clan, so it was strange to see her being friendly with a stranger.

"Interesting!" Lydia muttered with a small smile.

She already heard about what caused this war to stop and it made her wonder what Nikol really meant in his speech, she wasn't conscious when he was giving his speech but, she heard everything about it from her friends,

"Hello, do you remember me?" Lydia got close to him rather slowly without alerting him.

By now Eva left to pick up others so Lydia had free time before going back to help others.

Alva or Usha wasn't there as they weren't interested in sending off Eva back to the tribe, but he wasn't allowed to go anywhere alone as he was assigned the same two guard girls, who failed to stop him the previous time.

Usha wanted to punish them because they didn't do their job of protecting Nikol, but Nikol asked Usha to forgive them as it was his fault for not listening to them.

They were assigned to guard Nikol for a whole week without any sort of payment as a punishment. Even though it was said like that in front of others with little flirting, Usha couldn't help but lighten their punishment.

She always cursed herself for being weak against his tricks.

While he was thinking about all this, Nikol quickly answered her because he didn't want her to think that he was ignoring her,

"Hello, I'm really sorry, have I met you before?" Nikol's words caused her to feel bad.

"So am I even not even worthy of remembering for you?" She didn't want to admit that the one who beat her to go unconscious didn't remember her.

"You fought me before, can you remember now?" She asked expecting him to remember her.

"I'm really sorry, my memory is somewhat fussy about that day, why don't we introduce each other? Now that we are friends," He saw her mood becoming upset so, he decided to talk a little more with her.

"Oh! Then it's okay,"

"My name is Lydia, I'm the younger sister of the Kano tribe chief," She introduced herself.

"Heh~ so you're the one, well I'm Nikol Page, you can call me Nikol," He said looking at her while giving his hand for a shake.

Lydia wondered what he was doing because she wasn't familiar with handshakes, She awkwardly took his hand thinking she did wrong but Nikol gave her a heartwarming smile,

"Good to know you, Lydia"

"From now on we are going to be comrades, so let's do our best together," He said while shaking her hands. Lydia found it quite enjoyable as she went with the flow.

"I'm quite free now so why don't we go and have some food? Are you okay with that?" Nikol suggested to her.

Even though a war happened recently, cooks and other workers didn't stop their job as it was the most crucial time for them to help others.

They talked about many things including the past of Eva and Carol's condition. Nikol found Lydia's personality to be more comfortable than anyone's as she acted all mature and reasonable.

He got surprised by how logical her thinking is,

"So you don't hate Usha?" Nikol asked in a surprised tone.

"I can't hate her really because if I was given the same choice, my actions would be the same," She said with her ever-calm smile.

Nikol slowly started to see her in a positive light, he didn't exactly remember how strong she was but, if she is the vice chief of the tribe, he knew she should be fairly strong.

Both of them were happily talking until Alva came to pick up Nikol to go out for the lunch, she was worried about him because of the announcement he made, she feared that someone might attack him.

"Nikol, you were here, I was searching everywhere for you, come with me for a moment," She didn't see Lydia at first but, her face became wary looking at her.

Lydia noticed it but, she didn't want to say anything because she thought Alva hated the Kano people.

"Alva, I'm sorry I was talking with her, that I didn't know you were searching for me," Nikol said with his normal tone.

"Okay," She just gave an abrupt look at Lydia before focusing her attention back on Nikol.

"Who's she?" She pretended like she was whispering but it was obvious that even Lydia can hear her voice.

Alva remember fighting with her but, she didn't know any information about Lydia.

"Alva, I couldn't introduce myself last time because we were fighting, let me introduce myself," Lydia got up from her seat while talking with her with not so aggressive tone.

"My name is Lydia, you might not remember me because I didn't come here as much as my sister did, but I used to take care of you and Emily when you were small," She said remembering the old times.

"I don't remember- I'm sorry," She didn't know that she was someone that important to her.

Alva knew unlike her mother, Eva had a sibling, which was a rare occurrence because only 2 out of 10 people can get pregnant twice.

"It's okay, darling, now that we are neighbours we will meet often beside, I want to ask you to be good friends with Emily like before," Lydia's words brought nostalgic feelings to her mind.

"Emily~" Alva remembers the cheerful little girl, she used to play with when she was younger.

"I will try," She said.

"Good, we will meet later and talk, I also have to be there to supervise my girls otherwise they would make a mess of everything," With those words, Nikol and Alva said farewell to her.

After giving farewell to her, both of them visited many places because Usha ordered them to do it. Most of them were giving strange looks at Nikol because of his bold announcement in the battle but, he just ignored all of them.

He was pretty confident in protecting himself when he felt strange power coursing through his body, right now he didn't feel it so he stayed with Alva and two guard girls just in case.

"I'm sorry girls, because of me you had to go through this punishment," Nikol said looking at the two girls.

They couldn't help but laugh wryly hearing his words,

"Well for some reason, chief didnt take it seriously as we thought, so it's all okay, I guess," One girl said.

"Please don't do that next time, We were scared about you," She didnt mind getting a small punishment for their mistake but if something happened to him, it would be their responsibility to bear.

"I won't, anyway girls what do you think about these two tribes joining together?" He heard about Usha and Alva's thoughts but, Nikol was interested in knowing what others thought about it.

"I honestly have no idea, when we were friends in the past it was a good thing but I'm not pretty sure, right now," She answered him after a short pause.

The other guard girl also agreed with her words giving a slight nod at her words.

"Is that so? Let's see what will happen," He said while following Alva who was walking rather fast.

A day passed with all the girls recovering from the damages caused by the war, at this point Usha got the feeling that the wall, they were so proud of was useless because every time someone attacks the tribe, it is the first thing to go down in the fight.

The whole village was highly protected because the fights may occur at any time between the two tribes, Usha and Lydia took the responsibility for them.

While all this was happening Eva was able to safely pick everyone up and come back within a full day trip back to the city.

"Phew! At last, we made it back," She thought while looking at the destroyed wall. She hoped that nothing would go wrong this time.