In the villa,

Noah was fine after Eva wiped his face with a cold wet towel a few times. Rian was glaring at the rose.

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Roxy had dusted down the finely grained powder and tried to guess what it could be but Rian didn't let her smell it or taste it.

Pacing back and forth, Eva was very nervous about Aria.

Isaac knew a little about Aria and Alan. Vince knew completely because he had trained her to the level she could work in his minor mercenary missions.

It's just she couldn't get physically stronger for head-on fights unless she used martial arts but it wasn't enough to bring down Alan or his top-level elite guards.

Using sticks, fences, or any possible props, she could drain the energy of the opposition.

Aria was glad those men just used unconscious powder, unlike some deadly drugs. That finely powdered drug was very minute to easily travel in the air.

Joy didn't believe four men crying out that the girl actually hit them. Isaac was chuckling hearing it until Alan brought Aria out.

Isaac had heard her say she knew stick fighting but didn't expect her to be so good at it that those men of double and triple size of hers were crying their eyes out. He had learnt many forms too which was helpful in movies but he never tried on for real.

Seeing her swollen eyes and flushed face after crying, Joy scorned at the men looking down on women, "Aren't you shameless to say that little girl beat you up? How could women be strong?"

Alan gritted his teeth hearing him. Aria controlled smacking him, "You think women are useless?"

Joy indifferently responded, "Isn't it the fact? Other than cooking and looking after the house, what else can they do?"

Aria smiled and her left hand sharply moved near his neck and it vanished as if she didn't move at all.

Joy felt a sharp pain through a nerve and his hand was numb to move. He looked at Aria in amusement, frowning harder.

Aria hooked her hand around Alan's arm and walked as she spoke, "Yeah right. Because women here are taught to work in the house where the men like you don't respect their hard work just because they work their ass off inside the four walls to bring you up strong. Try to know how much pain your mother went through to get you on the earth to know the value of women that might knock some sense to your birdbrain... And thank you for guiding Isaac to this place."

Five men stood speechless looking at her back.

Alan guided her patiently on the path. Isaac was chuckling hearing her. Both knew Aria hated when anybody looked down on females just because of their gender or appearance.

Joy got a life to his arm and shook them once to check to realize those four men were right.

He shook his head to disperse his thoughts thinking Aria was an arrogant witch. For him, women should be timid and modest around men keeping their voices and head low with due respect.

He took those men to their village and complained to the village chief to keep their men at check if they don't want to bring cops to the matter.

"Aria..." Alan warned looking at her too silent on their way.

"No no, I'm not overthinking anything. My palm is paining and so I had to clench my teeth." As soon as she voiced it, she bit her tongue.

Alan controlled from smacking her head, "You should have thought that before clutching the knife."

Isaac was bewildered. "Are you nuts to hurt yourself?"

Aria pouted accepting it, "Kind of." and passed her mobile to him playing the video which she had recorded.

Isaac first burst into laughter watching Aria dance them on fingertips and thought she was enjoying the show.

But when Aria hit the man's head brutally, his laughter died down to pin-drop silence.

Isaac silently watched till the end and asked seriously, "Did Vince train you?"

Aria didn't know Isaac knew about Vince. She glanced at Alan in shock and the latter nodded. "Isaac was visiting me in country S."

Isaac asked because her moves weren't trained as an academy trainer teaches. He knew the difference between his style and Alan's style who learnt with Vince.

Alan's precision was high as Aria's. Isaac had thought Finn Stanley was training her, now he understood why he always heard from Alan that 'Vince visited Aria' whenever they were talking about Aria.

Isaac asked curiously, "How is your marksmanship? I want to learn shooting too. Your husband didn't allow me."

Aria was surprised to hear, "Aren't you scared of me? Or might..."

Alan twisted her ear before she could ask what she wanted.

Isaac grinned, "Aria, do you want to act with me in an action movie? I bet it will be super successful."

Aria: "..."

Isaac tried to coax her to enter showbiz but failed like every time.

"I can try a guest appearance but I'll not die in it. I should be super stronger than Male lead in it."

Isaac's lips twitched. 'Where should I find such a movie?'

Isaac actually admired Aria for standing strong and fighting her way out. There was nothing to be scared or hate about her.

Aria apologized for everyone for worrying them. All poked her head hard to tell there wasn't anything to apologize before sending her with Alan.

Alan confirmed to them that the drug was just to make Aria unconscious so that all could rest at ease.

After washing up, all left towards the airport. Aria and Alan ordered their men to deliver quite a lot of things for the village chief for the development of the school and a few things to his home.

All were asleep excluding Aria, Alan, and Isaac on their private jet. Aria was safely tucked in Alan's arm leaning on him who was working on his laptop.

Isaac knocked on the door before entering the compact room of a plane. Alan pulled her closer when she tried to move.

Isaac directly came to point, "There are hundreds of villages around city S. If they wanted to track any of our mobile locations, they could only reach on Sunday but those men knew before Saturday. Who knew our location?"