Anger filled tears broke through her eyes, as she tried to restrain them back. The feeling of the only family she had left in this world laid lifeless before her, and now she grasped the blade which had killed him. She felt the blood drip down her pale hands. Her one reason for existence was to protect this man, and now without that, what did she have left? Was she to govern his son, or the new emperor that he would have instructed to replace him. Words couldn't not describe the feeling of loss that she currently held, because there were no words to help one deal with loss. Hoishi sniffed a few times, as she tried to force back her anger filled emotions.<br/><br/>That's when she felt a shift in the area around her, she couldn't quite place it, but she felt it coming from the side of her. It wasn't directly in her eyesight, but from the corner of her eye she could see the shadow of two figures. One larger and one smaller, as her eyes narrowed.<em>It's the murderers</em>, she thought in her head, as she clenched on to the elaborate blade further. Quickly raising herself to her feet in one quick and swift movement, as she rotated herself on the heel of her foot. The blood beneath her making it easy for her to slide and face the people, but the second her eyes were laid on the attractive pair, something seemed amiss. The way that they looked at her, and the expressions on their faces mixed with their clothing didn't seem to fit the situation. The instant look of curiosity came over the ice blue eyes of Hoishi, as her almost white hair stuck to her face, because of the beads of sweat that were forming from her pure anger.<br/><br/>It only took a few looks of their composure, combined with their own confusion of her holding the blade. Also the lack of blood on their clothing, combined with them instantly not yelling for help or guards. The two seemed unlikely to even be in this situation, then why had they came out of the secret passageway. Hoishi gripped on the bloody knife harder as she took a step closer towards the strangers, as she heard the male of the pair beginning to speak to her. "I should be asking what you're doing here." she responded back to the male, before she lowered her knife down, realizing that if they were to attack her they would have done so already. Hoishi highly doubted that they had killed her beloved lord, but she was unknown of their intentions of being here.<br/><br/>His second question was directed towards the blade she was holding in her hand, as she looked down at it. Had they known about this blade? This only compelled her curiosity further as she shifted forward stepping towards them, "What do you know about this blade?" she demanded to know from him. Although she realized that she may look like the culprit of her Lord's death to the people who had just entered their way into her lord's chamber, she was quickly distracted by the sounds of footsteps coming towards the chamber. Quickly Hoishi turned around in her blood stained clothing, and went to face the guards who's faces looked extremely distraught by the looks of their noble lord's death.<br/><br/>"Wait!" she began to instruct towards the guards, but they seemed to have been paying little to no attention to her wishes. They seemed to rally themselves and accuse the pair in front of her of murdering the Lord. "No, that's not right. There's no way they could have," she continued to try and push through the loud voices of the guards starting to rally each other. Completely ignoring the wishes of someone above their rank, as Hoishi started to become very annoyed. Her patience was running thin as she felt as if she wanted to scream on the top of her lungs, but her thoughts moved to the lady of the pair speaking. When she finally noticed her oddly colored eyes, as she titled her head slightly and watched the situation unfold in front of her.<br/><br/>Hoishi believed what the oddly colored eye woman sad, as she then raised her eyebrows. Wondering if any of the guards had been listening to her, but they seemed to still be overwhelmed by their own emotions. She raised her head to her brow as she thought in her mind<em>If I was in charge of training these fools this situation would never happen,</em>she ground her teeth together as she though, stilling holding the bloody blade in her hand as the blood started to dry on her hands and her clothing. But then she felt the movement of bodies being throw around her, as she raised her eyes to see the fighting had begun. "STOP," she loudly attempted to instruct, but they didn't listen to her. Hoishi just watched the woman almost easily defeat the swarm of guards in front of her.<em>Those are the sort of people I'd want working for my guards</em>, she suddenly thought in her mind idolizing the pair in front of her.<br/><br/>That's when Hoishi really had to start thinking about her next actions. What was her purpose for even being here anymore. She had guards that didn't even listen to their instructions and who she considered the majority of them to be incompetent. And now that the Lord was dead, she would probably be stripped of her rank, as no one thought a woman could truly guard an emperor. Especially now that she was a failure. The only thing she had sworn to protect was dead, and now she just wanted to avenge him. Hoishi watched the guards scatter around her, attempting to stand up, as her mouth curved into a frown of disgust.<br/><br/>Even if the guards probably weren't paying much attention to her, Hoishi looked down at their stumbled bodies as they tired to raise. "You men are idiots, tell the advisers that I quit. There's no reason for me to be here anymore," Hoishi raised her hand to one of the straps on her elaborate armor that was draped over her shoulders, as she used the bloody blade to cut them and let them fall to the floor. Making sure to let the heavy shoulder armor on the man who had fallen, as he struggled to stand again. Hoishi decided to keep her katanas at her side, as giving up the shoulder armor was more of a symbolism of leaving the grasps of the idiotic military. But then, within a matter of seconds everything was shifting around her the pair of people had left. The only people who possibly had an answer to her question. It was her only lead.<br/><br/>"Wait!" she suddenly called towards them, as she started to dash towards that direction they had left and the guards had been chasing. She heard the girl mention the stables, so rather than following the clanking and clumsy guards, she took off in the opposite direction. Knowing that her body was so much faster and the guards would have slowed her down. She could even take a detour and still beat them towards the destination. Hoishi was fast, and she may have not known about all the secret passageways, but she knew of enough to find her way trailing the escaped pair. Following them as she was parallel to them, waiting for them to come to a halt so she could trail them further. She was in plain eyesight to them, even though she was quite a few meters away from them, but the dumb guards would probably never notice, as she watched them stumble and fall one by one. She looked ahead, seeing the stables near as her eyes narrowed. There were so many questions that needed answers, and they were her only direction left.<br/>