"Who are you!" Arin asked, a bit surprised.
"Don't answer him, Portia!" the lady behind warned her.
"Yes, mamma!" she assured her with great conviction.
The lady behind facepalmed at her daughter's naivety.
Arin could not hold himself anymore and burst into laughter.
Portia, the little girl, looked with wide eyes at the strange masked man laughing like a maniac.
Meanwhile, her mother was now sure that the man was a psychotic criminal and would now use her daughter to torment her psychologically to break her down.
As a Princess, she could withstand all the pain and humiliation for the sake of her bloodline.
But before she was a Princess, she was a mother as well, and she could not let a psychotic villain hurt her little daughter.
"I surrender!" she declared, "I would do whatever you wish if you promise to not harm my daughter."
