"You realized it too late."
"Maybe they had a sudden mission?" Rasie said, her eyes still scanning the surrounding crowd.
"A sudden mission?" Zaefal shook his head, his jaw tightening.
"If so, they should have left some Guardians here on watch."
His brows furrowed.
"The only one who can command the Guardians is the royal family. The governor and other authorities can't."
He stopped walking, forcing Rasie to stop with him. The festival crowd flowed around them.
"So what? What urgent business? How urgent could it be that all of them had to leave the city?"
"There's something. I don't know what. But there's definitely something."
Zaefal turned to Rasie, his eyes serious.
"What do you think, Rasie?"
Rasie fell silent. She slowly tilted her head left and right.
"Maybe..."
"Maybe... there's something extremely urgent at the capital that required all the Guardians to go there?"
Rasie then flinched, her eyes widening slightly.
"Or maybe... the king is dead!"
