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I smile in triumph.

"That?" Mrs. Shiji creeps in with a crooked smile on her face.

"If the worst thing Travis can do is bother me once in a while, I think we'll be fine in the long run." I smile back.

Then, out of the corner of my eye, I see something rise rapidly a few inches from her head and another is heading straight for her.

"NO!" Scream.

I quickly push Mrs. Shiji aside, pull a knife out of my sheath, and deflect the projectiles with the plane of my weapon.

"We are being attacked!" I yell at the others, but when I turn to look at them, they are already deflecting projectiles with their swords.

"Dispersion!" Travis instructs the unarmed members of our convoy.

In an instant, the servants and servants are launched in different directions through the dense forests. On the way to Japan and on the way back, Travis had instructed each member of our convoy on what to do in case we were attacked.

"We are a large group," he