NoGift

ARGENT stared at the red dot constantly flickering on her light brain. It was the signal being released by Ruby's sPhone. Once she learned of Ruby's current situation, she immediately asked White to track the signal of Ruby's sPhone. White found its location and sent it to Argent in no time. The signal was coming from somewhere just in the outskirts of Londinium.

Argent didn't waste time and immediately called one of the coachmen. She specifically told the coachman to use four horses to pull the carriage. In that way, their travel time would be lessen by quite a lot. Of course it would be much faster to use her flying car. But she couldn't take the chance that it won't be seen by anyone. After all, it's broad daylight and the place was not far from the capital.

She just hope that nothing would happen to Ruby during this time. She still finds Ruby a bit noisy at times but spending time with her for the past seven years, Argent already got used to her quirks. She already put Ruby under the category of 'friend' along with Finn and Jaxon. So Argent wouldn't wish for something bad to happen to her.

Just like she predicted, they arrived at the place much faster than normal. Argent turned off her light brain and went out of the carriage. She stood in front of a two-storey mansion. Two guards were outside, the both of them were wearing the same clothes with an emblem of the royal guard attached to it. When Argent heard of how Ruby ended up in this kind of place, she already had a hunch on who was behind it. But seeing these guards here now only solidified that hunch.

She let out an exasperated sigh. This was probably the place of that perverted first prince - Jasper William di Albion. Seriously, do the members of the royal family have nothing better to do than to piss her off?

The two guards of course noticed her arrival. But before they could ask what's her business there, she turned her bracelet into a silver stick and didn't hesitate to attack the two. Both quickly lose conciousness and fainted on the spot.

Argent walked inside the mansion. She was glad that she decided against disguising herself. Because her identity as the Duke of Hanover would surely be advantageous in this situation.

Two men who were in the mansion's entryway immediately noticed her arrival. Unlike the two men outside, they were not wearing a guard's uniform. They were probably the first prince's personal goons.

"Hey, you! How did you get here?" one asked, shouting at her.

"I opened the door and walked inside," Argent answered, her voice full of sarcasm.

The one who asked her immediately flushed red from embarrassment. "This is not a place someone like you could easily enter!"

When the man obviously couldn't wait to attack her, the other man suddenly stopped him. Because he recognized the tall teenager in front of them. It was the Duke of Hanover! "Milord, this is the first prince's private property. I don't know why you're here but I hope you would leave peacefully and not make unnecessary trouble."

Argent raised her brow. Well, looks like this one has a bit more brains than the other. "I certainly could do that. But I won't. Because you just took someone you shouldn't."

She used [Mizukodo] to hasten her pace for an attack. She arrived in front of the stupid one in just a few seconds it took for them to blink. She raised the silver stick in her hand and it landed on the man's neck. She heard a loud crunch, like bones breaking. If this guy couldn't find a healer to heal him, then he might not be able to move his body in this life. The man fell on the floor.

Argent turned to the one with a bit more brains inside his head. The man was petrified with a horrified look on his face. Before he could react, he already felt a searing pain from his knees. He doubled-over and also fell on the floor. The man couldn't believe what just happened. The duke might be a genius but he was still a powerless NoGift. And yet this supposedly powerless duke was able to supress two grown men in just a matter of seconds. They didn't even have the time to use their Gifts to defend.

The man started to gather Mana in his left hand but before he could even do anything with it, the stick the duke was holding suddenly came down. It almost crushed his nose, making him even more horrified.

"What do you think is faster, you attacking me with your Gift or me gouging your eyes out with this stick?"

The man gulped, clearly he wasn't sure which one was really faster. "W-what do you want?"

"The girl you took from Londinium, the one with red hair, where is she? And don't even try to deny it because I'm just a hair's breadth from losing my patience," Argent said while poking the man's face with the stick.

This was all about that girl? Was she a friend of the duke's? But how did the duke found out that they took her here? No, none of that mattered now. Because they did take the girl. Now he really wanted to punch himself. If he knew the girl's identity, then he wouldn't agree on nabbing the girl and giving her to the first prince.

Argent added a bit more force on the stick. "Answer my question."

The man felt like the stick would soon drill a hole on his cheek if he didn't answer soon enough. "A-at the second floor, the end of the hallway."

After saying that, he felt a pain at the back of his head and immediately lose conciousness.

Three more men of the prince heard the commotion in the entryway. When they arrived there, what they saw was a tall youth with beautiful features standing indifferently over two of their comrades. They were so surprised that they didn't even notice when the teenager moved. Before they knew it, they were already lying unconciously on the ground.

Argent sneered. What weak security. Anyone could seriously just enter here and kill the first prince. She wondered why no one ever tried it yet.

She climbed upstairs and walked towards the room the man told her about. She opened the door and what she saw immediately darkened her mood. The first prince was now looming over a girl lying on the bed. Based on the red hair she saw, the girl could only be Ruby. One of the things Argent hated was people forcing themselves on others. It was vile and disgusting.

She walked towards the bed and didn't hesitate to pull the prince by the scruff of his neck and throw him away from Ruby.

Ruby's eyes brightened when she saw her and immediately stood up. "Argent!"

"Are you okay?" Argent asked, inspecting Ruby for any injuries.

"Aside from wanting to throw up, yes, I'm fine."

Jasper stared venomously at the teenager. Of course, he knew who this 'Argent' was. It's that waste duke! He could always see that annoying face everywhere in [Jiffy]. So what if he's a genius? He's still trash! A NoGift waste! How did his men even let this trash enter here? "You barged in here and attack me, do you think you could get away with this?"

Argent glanced coldly at the prince. His handsome face was now distorted by hate. But she didn't care about that. This idiotic prince doesn't even deserve a tiny amount of her time.

"What about you, do you think you could get away from abducting the Duke of Hanover's guest? I think the King would have a lot to say about that, don't you think so, Your Highness?" Argent asked, her voice while calling his title was full of mockery.

The mockery didn't get pass Jasper. Of course, he knew just how much he would be in trouble if his father knew about this. But so what? He's a prince. He's entitled to have some fun. He looked at the duke and smirked. "You're mistaken. That girl came here on her own free will. I just did what she wanted me to. In fact, she even begged me to touch her."

Ruby rounded her eyes because of the man's shamelessness. Based on what Argent called him, he must be a prince. But if all princes were like him, then she'd rather not meet one. "Shut up, you disgusting pig! Who would want to be here and be raped by you?"

Jasper felt like his head would explode because of too much rage. This was the first time someone dared to call him disgusting to his face. "You--!"

He raised his hand and three sharp ice cones suddenly appeared and flew to the girl's direction.

Argent changed the stick she was holding into a sword and easily cut off the ice cones into pieces. Then she moved in front of the prince, raising her sword to his throat.

Jasper's whole body stiffened. He could feel the sharp edge of the sword on his throat. He didn't even have the time to think on how the stick the duke was holding earlier suddenly turned into a sword. The duke right now was exuding such a strong killing intent. He has no doubt that if he made the wrong move, the duke wouldn't hesitate to kill him.

"You- you can't kill me," he said, trying to sound confident even though his knees were already shaking.

"Yes, you might be right." Killing the prince wouldn't be beneficial to anyone. Besides, all those planning would go down the drain if this pervert died here. "But that doesn't mean I can't hurt you."

The sword turned back into a stick and she thrusted it to the prince's crotch. She didn't even hold back her strength. The prince screamed like a little girl and doubled-over on the floor, holding his crotch. Now let's see if he could still get hard after that.

"Y-You-- you will p-pay for this!" the prince threatened.

"Then I will wait for His Highness' payback," Argent said, full of sarcasm in her tone. Then she pulled Ruby out of the room.

Ruby couldn't hold it in anymore and laughed out loudly. "Did you see his face? That was really amazing," she said, her eyes tearing up because of too much laughter. "But was that really okay? He's a prince, right?"

"It's fine. Don't think about it."

What could a prince who's not favored by the King even do? Even if he told the King about this incident, Argent was sure that the King would just turn a blind eye to it. Especially now that he's trying to get the second prince engage to Aurum. He might even punished the first prince if he knew that he abducted the Duke of Hanover's guest.

Ruby saw the five unconcious men near the entryway. There was no doubt in her heart that it was Argent's handwriting. Even until now, she still couldn't believe how much of an expert Argent became when it came to sword fighting. She knew how much hard work he put into his training, just so he could be as good as he was now. Because he knew how weak he was. So he worked hard to be stronger. Argent really was indeed amazing.

Ruby hugged his arm and said, "Thank you for saving me."

"I'm just afraid you would start a fire if I didn't come soon enough."

Ruby grinned. "Actually, I was planning on doing just that. Good thing you arrived in time."

Argent just shook her head. They walked out of the mansion and Argent furrowed her brows when she saw her coachman talking to a tall man. The man was wearing a simple black robe - the kind that could be found in those ancient historical films in her original world. His face was being obscured by his long black hair. The coachman appeared to be explaining something to the man. But it looked like the man doesn't understand what he was saying.

Argent walked towards the two and she temporarily faltered in her footsteps when she heard the man talk. It was in a language she hasn't heard since she came to this world. But she immediately regained her bearings and continued walking.

"What's happening here?" she asked.

The coachman appeared relieved when he saw her. "Milord, this man seemed to be a foreigner. He just suddenly appeared here and started talking to me but I couldn't understand a word he was saying."

Argent turned to the man who was currently staring at her. The intense power in those obsidian black eyes almost made her want to step back. He was looking at her as if he wanted to memorize every parts of her. It was quite... unsettling. But the weirdest part was, she felt like she had seen that gaze before. She just couldn't point out when or where. Then he turned down his gaze, cutting off the connection.

"His clothes, he must be from Xing," Ruby whispered to Argent.

Yes, she already guessed as much.

The man looked up again. This time, the intensity in his gaze was no longer there. "I'm lost. Could you help me go to the place I'm supposed to go to?" he asked using the Xing language.