Saya stared down Leo, not flinching at all. Four days? That was it? She had been in the area for weeks fighting bandits for various villages. They were always extremely grateful to her. They tended to like her more than the guilds too, because she didn't charge for her bandit hunts, she did it because it needed to be done. Sometimes they tried to pay her anyway, but she never accepted it. In fact, she usually gave them money afterwards, because she tended to empty out the bandit's storehouse when she was finished. She had grown up in a little village like one of these, she knew how hard it was to get help.

[color=9400D3]"I bet if we went to the village right now, they would rather I hunt the bandits for them. I don't charge when it comes to saving people."[/color] She would have continued but Ricard was suddenly changing shape. She took a few steps back, the fingers on her left hand were splayed out and she was ready to make one of her weapons at any time. Saya had never seen any magic like that before. It made her really nervous. She was still in the way of Leo moving forward, but now there was a little distance between the two of them.

Ricard spoke and it sounded just like the bandit he now looked like, yet again it made Saya uncomfortable. Bandit Ricard suggested that they work together, because Leo was the only fighter of the two, sometime she had already figured out. Leo didn't seem to like that idea. [color=9400D3]"Like I said, the villagers would rather have me to the mission than you."[/color] After that, Saya ignored Leo, though still kept her spot in front of him. This time she focused on bandit Ricard. [color=9400D3]"I'll work with you on one condition, you don't take payment from the village. If you don't accept the terms, I'll go to every village in the area and tell them not to use Fairy's Blossom for anything. Trust me, they'll listen to me before they listen to you."[/color] Saya was one of them after all. Not from the same village of course, but she what it was like. She could empathize with them.