(A/N this chapter is R rated, there's a lot of blood, almost gore and the bad words filter is removed too don't read the chapter in public and if you did, don't blame me for the bad words in it.
Also this chapter has torturing blood and some other things won't be perfect with pacifist people so don't condemn me just leave and don't read this chapter are not for you.
Anyway enjoy the chapter).
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After carrying Sylphy inside, I found the two women running inside the house closing the doors and windows. Also I found Ms Lilla with a sword she brought it from her room (first time seeing it) and Ms Ena too got a sword from her luggage.
"Where's Anna? Is she fine?" I said suddenly making both of them halt, but Lilla came closer before gesturing to Ms Ena to continue by herself until she was free.
"Yes, Young Master Rudeus she is fine. She is already asleep in the guest room on the first floor." She said while pointing where she's sleeping.
And I nodded in acknowledgement of that.
"What about you Young Master? Are you or little Sylphiette suffering any injuries." She asked, having a concerned face.
"I'm fine." I replied dryly.
(Somehow the words came harsher than intended).
She nodded before looking at Sylphy who I was carrying.
"She just fainted from the scene." I said with a grim face.
She didn't talk so I continued.
"Reeve Ferland is dead. They cut off his head." When I said that the two women freeze on the impact of the words.
I ignored them before looking at Ms Lilla.
"Lilla, I need a sword." They both looked at me surprised and confused.
"Lilla the swords dad left to my knowledge are all blunt. If there's one with a sharp edge please tell me. I need to kill the—" I was stopped by Ms Ena who hugged me.
"Listen little Rudi I know what you saw was hard, but let adults see their job you just look after little Sylphiette and Anna o..."
"I need a sword." I said with deadpan eyes.
"Listen well, we can't..."
"I need a sword." With a dead tone like a robot.
"No, we won't give you one." She shouted.
"Okay, Ms Ena." I said with a fake forced smile ☻ to shut down the conversation.
(They won't listen anyway, when I kill one of the bandits with magic I will use his sword as a cover).
I looked at Lilla before saying.
"Lilla, carry Sylphy to her room." I ordered.
"Yes, Young Master Rudeus." She replied with her usual poker face. (But there was hint of confusion on both my sudden change and the way I removed Ms).
After putting Sylphy to bed. I looked at Lilla before saying.
"Lilla, did you use nails and wooden blanks to shut the windows?" I asked calmly.
"No, why is that?" She asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Because if they want to attack this house they will break the windows easily to get in. At least the wooden blanks will give us sometime to get ready." I said with a dead tone like not caring about what happens.
She just nodded and went to the study to get both.
After covering Sylphy with the blanket I kissed her forehead.
"Forgive me Sylphy, you saw an awful sight today, but don't worry they will die soon." I said in a low whisper near her ear.
After that I went to my room I closed the door behind me and summoned a big 『Stone Bullet』to be in my place on bed and covered it with blanket.
Next, I opened my window and climbed it to jump from there.
But before jumping I closed the window and sealed the window from the outside with two 『Earth Lances.』
I focused before jumping on how much mana I have.
93% good to go.
I jumped to the ground and at the last second, I used gravity magic to descend safely.
"Now where are these bastards?" I said after summoning 『Earth Lance.』 And sharpened the two vertices of it. (Making it a double edge spear).
"Now I'm ready for close combat." I said while trying how easy to control it and how much different it, from the normal spear.
Then I removed the the belt from my shorts and tied it on my torso like a sword holder before summoning another 『Stone Bullet』 and making it hollow with a holder to make it tied with the belt.
(Now I'm armed and can move fast with it).
Making sure it won't fall I started to run towards the village plaza.
After moving sneakily to the village plaza to find many of the bandits' bodies and a lot of blood.
(I wanted to shout if anyone needed help, but decided against it I will delay this, until I will kill the bandits then I will heal the villagers without them noticing).
After moving for some time I found an arm with a sword in its hand.
I picked it and tried the edge of the sword by stabbing one of the bandits' corpses.
"This will work." I said as I searched for the owner.
I found the owner almost immediately, it was Mr Ferland. Or what was left of his body. The bastards disfigured his body. Or he fought them until the end.
He had a large slash on his torso, a big cut on both of his legs and his arm (the one still attached) has many cuts on it and missing two fingers.
"Rest well, my friend. And don't worry I will take revenge on you from those bastards." I said with a grim face as I gathered his pieces and cremated his body before burying it.
"Don't worry I will... Shit!.. Samantha ." I was about to shout, but bit my tongue.
(At first I intended to say don't worry I will make sure your family is safe but I remembered his daughter).
(How did I forget the four weeks new-born. And her mother died at her birth. I need to reach her before she dies.).
I ran toward his house to find the house thankfully safe, they didn't break into it yet. But I heard little Samantha crying.
I ran toward the sound to find her laying on her back crying in the main bedroom in the mini house he used to live in.
After carrying her and hugging her.
"Here, here calm down little Samantha." I said while trying to calm her down.
After 10 minutes of trying to calm her down and finding no avail, I tried to search for the reason for her crying and she had dirty diapers.
(Man, do I have to do this?) 🤢
After removing the dirty diapers and before changing into clean one I tried the new effect I'm training on.
I make a big 『Waterball』 then a small 『Fireball』 with the other hand to make warm water and I putted both on the bucket to use it to clean her up.
I made her wear the clean diapers and after that I washed my hands very intensely. You can say I'm disgusted from it. (You owe me one little girl even my nephews and nieces didn't get this honour. You're the first one I changed her diapers. And in a medieval world on top of that). But still she was crying and after I put my finger in her mouth.
She started sucking, so she is hungry.
(I remember Mr Ferland said once he is keeping some goat milk for her as an alternative for her mother's milk).
So after searching for it and slowly helping her drink it and after this making her gulp.
After she gulped she started yawning and started to get sleepy.
After humming a lullaby to her and singing a song for her. She finally went to sleep.
"Now that's tricky, I don't think I can leave you alone until I avenge your father.'' I said while patting her head.
After 5 minutes of thinking, I picked one of her father's shirts then tied it from below then I tied it another tie on the other side, before making one last tie to the sleeves by tying it to my body and the shirt.
And with this I made a baby holder.
"Let's give it a try." I said while slowly but carefully putting her in it.
Also I was preparing my hand aimed at her to lift her with gravity if she falls.
After 10 minutes of waiting, thankfully nothing happened.
(Man, carrying the third of your weight is hard, it won't be long before it wreck my neck, but I can't leave her alone).
"Now let's search for the bas— the bandits." I said I was scratching my cheek.
(I was going to bad mouth them but decided against it because of the girl).
(3rd person POV).
In the mayor's Manor in the Buena village. 21 people are staying in the house, 14 are sleeping and 7 are staying guards.
"Hold on Adrian, yar lucky that advanced North God Style user shot ya from afar and he shit at aiming." Said one of the bandits who was wearing a bandana on his head trying to calm his friend.
"Ya shud up. That bastard destroyed my dick and gone through the other side. If I saw him his death would be hard one and I would play with his body for sometime before killing him." Said the bandits with many bandages at his crotch area his anger can be realised from mile away.
"If he saw yar died, at this level only the boss would be capable of killing him." Said the bandit who has scar on his face interfering in the conversation. He said it very dryly to the point like everyone hears him he think he is picking a fight with him.
"Well it hurts anyway and if as ya say only boss can kill him I will help boss in fighting him, then after removing both of his arms, I will torture him." Said the bandaged bandit while banging the table.
"Yar hopeless Adrian." Said the bandana bandits while hitting his colleague's back.
"Ah that hurt bastard." Groaned the bandaged bandit.
"I forgot he fucked yar back too. Here, oh right, wait a second I will bring us a new round of beer." Said the bandit who felt bad for hurting his friend and after giving him a cup that was filled with beer, he found it empty. So he left to bring another.
After 2 minutes.
"Drink 'for the easy life.'"
""For the easy life.""
"I can't believe this without a knight nor the hunters and with only 5 Reeves and some militias they killed 19 of us, 3 crippled and 4 heavily injured and another 2 can't fight for the day." Said the bandaged man.
"Ya forgot something." Said the boss who was sitting at one of the corners sharpening his sword.
"What is it boss?" Said the scar face.
"We have a woman now too."
At this the bandaged bandit raised a brow only for his friends to finally understand and laugh.
"Hahaha.. Yeah boss, Yar right boss we have now a nice woman on the team." Said the scar face while laugh hysterically.
The bandaged bandit shut him up by giving him a punch to the gut.
"Why are we here anyway? Why not escape using the night as a cover? We already have the mayor's Manor and we stole enough weapons and food too." Said the irritated bandaged bandit.
"Ya just drink and stay silent. As for why we are here? Did ya forget why are we here? We were paid three golden coins in advance for bringing all the knight's children from the villages to the caped man and if we succeeded he promised us 20 golden coins. That's real money, it will keep us afloat drinking and gambling even women for 2 decades at least." Said the boss threateningly.
"...Oh right! But.. even if we get the kids in here I will have to ..kill the ..bastard who attacked me." Said the bandit who started to get doused by the many alcohol he gulped.
"Idiot he drank his head out isn't that right frank?"
".."
"Frank! Answer me damn it." Said the irritated boss.
".."
"When I say answer me answ—"
The boss stopped because when he hit his subordinate just for his head fell off.
"Hey! Everyone wakes up, we are under attack."
"That's useless. They are all dead except you and the bastard I will torture." Said a whisper in a low voice, yet the voice owner's voice was high pitched. The voice came from the shadows.
"Who? Where are ya? Face me like a man." Said the bandit boss who pulled his other short sword to his weak hand to be armed with two swords while being in guard. He started using advanced level North God Style 『Dual Master.』
"Like a man you say? Was your men doing the same when I saw 7 people fighting Ferland? And even then they didn't leave unscathed. I found three bodies that he killed." Said the voice from many areas at the same time.
"Where are ya? Why yar voice coming from every? What are ya?" Said the boss who didn't know where to take cover.
"That's because I was flying, killing or bonding the sedated bandits with ropes. You didn't realise I put sedatives from the clinic in the beer. Your men drank a lot of sedated beer they won't wake-up anytime soon." Said the voice with a lot of blood lust.
(But the boss was thankful for another reason the wall behind frank no sound coming from it).
"Flying? What the hell are ya blabbing." Said the boss after finally finding a wall near the shades where no voices are coming from.
"Oh right my bad, don't worry you won't live to tell anyone about it. Also don't think you will be avenged. I only kept the weak looking one alive, so I'm free to face you now." Finally the voice owner appeared.
"You brat! Yar saying ya killed my men?" Said the very irritated, yet cautious boss from any other attack from another angle.
(The boss thinks it's impossible that the toddler in front of him is the killer he was sure of one thing: he is a decoy until the real assassin will find a way to kill me from the shadows).
"I'm not saying I did it. I have already done it." Said the kid after aiming his hand at the boss.
Just for the boss's arm that has a sword to fall off.
"Ahhh ya bastard. What did ya do to my arm?" Said the bandit boss while clutching his arm letting the short sword fall from his other hand and when he tried to regain his short sword that fell from his arm while clutching his other arm.
"I did this." Said the kid who cut his other arm the same way.
"Ahhhhh. I will kill ya bastard." Said the bandit who looked at the kid angry and was running toward him.
"You talk very big for someone about to die." Said the kid who had a rod that appeared out of nowhere and struck the bandit boss' knee with it.
The boss groaned on the floor because of pain.
"Now, now let's focus, because I have more important person to torture. Who sent you to kidnap me again? And why?" Said the kid who was standing in front of the man who was groaning in pain.
".."
Without thinking the kid used the skill 『Arm Chop.』 on the man's knee that he just hit, smashing the bone.
"Ahhhhh that hurt bastard." Said the man who was screaming out of pain.
"Just you know I'm a healing mage and this will be a long process." Said the kid who fixed the man's knee just to destroy the two knees this time.
"Ahhhh. I will talk, I will say all I know, just stop. Please!" Said the man who was groaning of pain intensely and many foam got out from his mouth because of intense torture.
"I'm listening. And if you tried to lie or said something to me, I don't like I will start all over, maybe even use this." Said the kid who suddenly attracted a strange rod almost like a double edged spear.
"All I know about the man is he is huge with a big belly, he is very tall too. And he said this: I want you to kidnap all the knights ' sons of these villages he pointed at four villages. And told us to start in your village..."
"Continue." Said the kid who was about to stab his eye because he stopped.
"From the looks of it the man from the Roa Lord's Manor or one of the big merchants is son or something like that no one else has the money to do something like this or to have this build."
"And?"
"He didn't have any ring or a trace of one so I don't think he is a noble."
"Your information is still useless, this way I will have to start all over again." Said the kid who stabbed the man's thigh.
"Ahhh. Wait wait, I remembered something." Said the pleading man to the monster torturing him by moving the lance in his thigh making it cut more meat from his thigh.
"Talk!" Said the kid after removing the spear from the man's leg.
"His eyes appeared once and they were grey and he said if we proved powerful enough he would give us another job with the Tri-Daggers for a bigger paycheck." Said the heavily bleeding man.
"And what's the current paycheck and how much the big one is a possible as a big paycheck?" Said the kid while narrowing his eyes at him.
"The current one is 30 gold coins in total. 3 As appetiser 7 as compensation for possible losses and 20 for the success. As for the possible bigger, it depends on the job, but if the man is filthy rich like this I think it will be around 50 to 100." Said the pleading man.
"That's enough, I can pinpoint what he wants."
"Really, you will let me live." Said the man relieved.
"Who said that? I never said if you give me good information I won't kill you. No one said anything about you living. You just speculate things the best I can offer is a painless death."
"You bas—" The man tried to bad mouth him just for his heart to get pierced by the lance in the kid's hand.
"Now, now. There's a baby sleeping. No, shouting." Said the kid before leaving the room to take care of the crying baby.
"That idiot, couldn't he die in silence." Said the kid with a grim face. After reaching and trying to calm the crying baby down.
"Anyway the sedate I put on the drink is quadra the normal dose, so I think they won't wake-up without detoxifying magic for at maximum three days." Said the kid while the crying baby started to calm down.
Then the kid face-palmed. 🤦♂️
"I forgot to ask. Who are the Tri-Daggers?" Said the kid while shaking his head.
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"Now let's bond you and unlike your friends you won't be so lucky to get fast death nor I will tore your limbs to focus on torturing you. I don't have that much mana left." Said the kid who closed his eyes and started assessing his stomach.
"9,2% it's more than enough to torture you. Man the new spell is mana steal."
"Who would have thought manipulating a Beginner level spell 『Air Slice.』 so much can make it that lethal."
"Anyway let's start." 『'X-Antidote.'』said the kid on the bounded bandit is body.
Rudeus' POV.
(4 hours earlier).
After searching the entire village sneakily I found the bandits thankfully they didn't kill anyone else after killing Mr Ferland and only heavily injured or crippled that's the rest of our big losses.
(Don't get me wrong, I'm sad about his death but relieved he is our only loss).
The two Reeves other than Mr Andrew is crippled.
(Thankfully Mr Bragg is fine, he is patrolling the village now to make sure the bandits are holed in place).
4 out of the 9 militant villagers are heavily injured and two of the left 5 are injured on their limbs.
I found all the bandits holed down taking rest on the mayor's manor.
So I started to think for a plan and to search for somewhere safe to keep Samantha in until I annihilate them.
I picked 4 violet flowers from Mom's garden.
(I took 4 out of 40. I hope she will forgive me if I apologised).
She warned me about those violet flowers before.
She told me. When I was about to smell them like I did to every flower in her garden. "Rudi, those plants make you feel sleepy, don't smell them, okay."
And the fact she has sedatives in the clinic must be from that flower.
So the plan is to simply crush the petals with a stone bullet on another one that looks like a plate.
Put the sedate solution on something they use. If they don't use something I will cover my nose and put it on the fireplace after covering the chimney then let them get dosed off by the smell.
For Samantha I found a certain stall with many blankets which I borrowed from it for a better hanger and decided to leave her in my room for now.
It is already early night and all the villagers are holed up in their houses. Only Mr Bragg is out.
(And I returned to check on Lilla and told her: I was asleep and will continue sleeping. So she doesn't bother me while I'm sleeping, in another means she will probably leaves the 『Stone Bullet』 unattended).
After leaving Samantha sleeping safely in my bed, but the moment I left her on my bed she opened her eyes. So to avoid her crying and wasting everything I did, I escaped with her again.
And to solve the problem. I took the tip of my pinky finger and dosed it in that solution before making her smell it.
She immediately fell asleep.
(I decided after everything is safe I will heal her. I have enough mana anyway. Right?)
After checking what's the status of my mana after an hour of the new tries to fly (I finally had a chance to learn to fly with gravity magic. Even though its more of an awkward flying where I fly like a bird who tries to copy helicopter. But still flying is flying ) or jumping from house to house cushion the fall with gravity magic (I got even better with using gravity magic in last second to cushion the fall. And sometimes I use amplified 『Air Gust』to save mana). To find it at 81,4%
Still good to go.
"Now initiating the plan." I flew and entered the manor through the chimney and made two bars to serve as something a kin to harsh bed, for Samantha to stay on until my return midway through the chimney.
After looking through the chimney by dangling my head to look if the room is safe and thankfully yes.
So I returned to pick Samantha and put her on one of the sofa that gives it back to the door and covered her with the sofa's cover.
"Stay safe my girl." I said while kissing her forehead.
(Shit for a second the old man in mind worked and thought she was my daughter, instead of the girl I am taking care of, when I'm still a toddler myself. The best scenario in normal circumstances is that she will be my cousin and I'm the older on—).
Let's focus on the important stuff after silently sneaking and pulling the staff from her belt from my back. (The double edged spear I made from 『Earth Lance』 spell).
After moving silently through the shadows, I found my first target one was looking through the closed windows corridor to see the outside.
I throw the lance right in his heart. He fell dead immediately he couldn't even react.
(That's my first kill in this world but unlike the last time it didn't have any effect on me, but like the last time I regret delaying killing them).
"One down, more bas— bandits to go." I bit my tongue midway through the bad word.
(Man trying to keep myself well-mannered when I'm angry is hard).
After searching silently I found four together in the dining room so I decided to leave them for later with magic I will kill them.
Maybe it's better to think of some kind of magic to kill them both silent and efficient.
I returned where I killed the first bandit to use him as Guinea pig. 🐷
I tried 『Air Slice.』 I inspected the corpse, after trying it in the corpse of the man I killed first.
And the conclusion, is it made a cut but didn't go all the way through.
So I moved to the next level.
『Air slice.』
After trying it did a more than perfect job, it cutted the man in half and made a big derp hole on the floor that looked like a slash.
"I will keep it thin, to keep it invisible and I will remove the sharpness and decrease the speed by a little." I muttered silently.
But man this thing is great at mana stealing 5% of my mana in one go.
I decided to try it again on another Guinea pig 🐖 to save mana.
And after searching found the perfect target, the one guarding the main door.
So after aiming slowly toward his neck.
And Fwoosh and the man still standing.
(Huh!? No, effect, are you kidding me? Must I get closer to do damage?)
After getting closer still not a single move from the man until suddenly he fell to the ground and the head rolled towards me.
"So he was dead, but because the speed was too high the head was almost intact." I muttered under my breath.
"I will decrease the speed to half of what it is now. I need to see the effect to trust my skills." I also muttered silently.
After that I ascended the second floor to find a single man guarding so I tried the new 『Air Slice.』 On him.
I saw a line of blood coming out from his neck.
After ascending there I saw he was guarding the bedrooms where I found many of the bandits sleeping or too injured to be conscious.
So to be safe I burned some of the solution on the second floor in every room they are in. And decided to sedate the beer with the rest of it and attack after they drink from it.
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After waiting for them in the shadows I found out it was organised crime and I was the target. Funny enough I'm right next to them.
After they drank one after another I started hunting them. (But decided against killing the boss immediately and the one who killed Mr Ferland he must be tortured. And as for the gang's boss of bandits, he knows a lot I need to make him talk).
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After 15 minutes of interrogating the gang's boss of bandits, here is the useful information I got.
One of the employees of Lord Sauros or Lord Philip without their knowledge decided to get the easy money that was put on father's head by a simple idea: bring proof of his existence and make it like it was normal kidnapping.
I will say that the man is a genius who thought of this.
He will make the bandits attack the villages including ours, kidnap the children for slavery and one of them won't be sold to slavery that will be me.
I will be sent to Philemon (must I add uncle? Anyway) to be alive proof that Paul (must I add dad? Anyway) is in Buena.
(I call him dad in normal circumstances but this time because of his idiocy I was forced to kill, torture and interrogating people at the age of two. So he lost his right to be called that).
So he can get the big bounty and if my calculations are right the bounty is somewhere between 200 to 1000 Asuran golden coins. (From 200K$ to 1M$ in USD in medieval age like this it worth almost 1B in the current US currency).
(A/N as for the current currency in IRL is 3B dollars).
(If he is genius to this level he should be willing to make it one time thing and flee afterwards).
So of course he will escape with a big chunk of most of the money he gathered. I know all of this because the warning dad received from Lord Phillip that he has to be careful from the knight Alfred black snake.
(The knight of the Green Creek village).
Also something adds up to prove that this capped man is loyal to James (I won't add Lord even if he is Duke if he is after my life or my family's life) because out of the four villages the four are loyal to either Lord Philip or Lord Sauros.
That is the first lousy part.
The second lousy part he said knight child then the knight's son.
That proves he is after me.
(And he didn't know I'm a boy before father renewed his information when he met Lord Philip a year ago).
The third is he said that he is after knights' children when they are out so in normal circumstances they would be used as ransom for hostages but he wants them to be handled through a tavern not a professional place.
(Normally when kidnapping children of strong people like the knights who are capable of cutting through overgrown animals called monster with ease, then you should do it with more professional people and with better places not some tavern that your information and the conversation can be used against him or even worse the tavern could be friend of one of the knights).
That's 2 points in one.
That means he doesn't have enough experience nor does he know how to work in that department.
What I reached with the information.
So he works in the manor with high status there, maybe a retainer or special guard.
I'm sure of that for four reasons.
1 He knew the day the hunt would begin and sent the bandits exactly 4 hours after they left.
(It's impossible to be a merchant and know exactly when dad will leave with the hunters and mom because the information was left confidential).
2 He knows who's an ally and who's an enemy in the dirty noble game.
(That's another proof and he must be from the retainers who were there in the two meetings and from the looks of it, I almost even suspected it was Philip himself).
3 the secret benefactor that will pay him more if he somehow delivered the son of the disappeared knight who is nowhere to be found and no one about his existence except 6 or 7 people according to Philip's letter to dad.
(I will have to discover who those 7 people are. Well That's the only information that says Philip or Saurus are the ones after our lives. If they really wanted it, they could pay better money for more security and for better people).
4 the fact had a build identify him as some kind of noble but he doesn't have an identifier nor he appears to ever wore one.
(That removes any possible chance he is someone who isn't from the close circle retainers of the Boreas).
I guess he is an illegitimate son of the Boreas household who works there as a retainer and he tried to offer Philemon and James a great offer.
(I will bring you proof to make you able to kill both Philip and Paul, in exchange for money from you and title from you, please).
While I was thinking I had already detoxified Adrian according to the formerly alive boss of the gang of bandits.
Also after bonding him with a rope, I broke all the bones of his four limbs. (Man, I wished to do it when he was conscious).
Then went and killed or broke the bones of the drugged bandits.
(If he has a strong build or he appears to be strong I cut his head with my new sword. The dead boss's sword. And if he is crippled, heavily injured, doesn't look that strong or is still young, I let them live after breaking all of his limbs before bonding them).
(If I had learned the intermediate spell 『Earth Cuff』 I would have done it more better but what's done is done, anyway).
"And, all done." I said this after moving all the weapons to the weapon's chest in the basement. I said while clapping dust out of my hand.
(I left my new short sword and Ferland sword out. I plan on giving Ferland's sword to Samantha when she grows up).
Also I found the blunt decoration sword but it had lost a big part of it and it was wasted.
(The bastard probably vent his anger on it).
Then I gathered all the sleeping bandits in the same room. (The still alive ones).
And the dead ones I used their dead bodies as coal for the fireplace and heads were made into a pyramid in the dining room. (Of course after looting them to the point I was sure they don't have a single thing worth penny except there destroyed clothes on them).
(The view of the heads can work very well in some kind of horror movie. Good thing I moved Samantha away, when she slept again. The view could work in nightmares even better especially for a young girl like her).
After moving the head to a less terrific form and still looked awful I decided to put the heads in a sack.
(That was a complete waste of 30 minutes).
"Anyway I want to start with that bastard soon." I said with an evil smile. (I can badmouth him as much as I could since both mom and Samantha are away).
"Also I need to think. What to do with the information I got?"
(Telling dad is a terrible idea, he isn't the right man for this kind of problems he is more of brawns than brains. Telling mom will add more to her concerns and I'm fine annihilating any bandits attacks on our families, as for trying to reach either Lord Sauros, Philip will be useless or even worse will make everyone know, I'm a Miko).
Ignore all of this, let's ignore the information for now. But I will be more cautious of the help coming from the Manor until I kill the traitor.
"Now let's review the loot." I said counting what we got from the bandits.
"For coins, 5 gold coins, 18 silver coins, 56 big copper coins and a big purse of copper coins." I said after separating every group of coins in place and writing the right amount in a paper I found in the study.
(I didn't bother counting above hundred or two of the least worthy coins so I just collected them in a small sack for coins, but this one is completely filled. I remember dad said once you can keep 250 copper coins inside).
"For weapons, 18 double edged swords, 10 single edged swords, 5 short swords, 20 throwable knives, 7 daggers, 4 axes, 2 battle axes and 1 hatchet."
(The bandits many of them had two swords and who didn't have a sword had many throwable knives also none of the dead bodies outside didn't have it's weapons so no one looted them).
Also I wrote on the same paper and said they separated them from the rest of the village's old weapons by layer of stone.
(I recognized the weapons belonged to our village because bandits were leaving them in another room).
"For armour, the only surviving armour are 3 leather breastplates; for the damaged ones there's 10 dropped near the chest." Also wrote in the same way as the former ones and on the same papers.
"For bodies, you will find the heads in a perfect shape on a sack in the dining room, open it if you will not vomit from the view." I added two wide, thick and very visible lines below the warning. For real the view is horrific.
(Being a doctor for sometime made me tolerant to blood. I know for sure I'm okay with blood as long as it isn't blood of my family).
"And injured prisoners can be found in the guest's room in total 8 people. They are drugged sedated and will wake-up from tomorrow night to the day after tomorrow." I wrote those two on a different paper than the rest of the report.
(Also there was some of the men wearing accessories and the boss and the huge man had strange accessories, the big man had a ring that pulled some of mana in exchange working as flash light and a necklace that absorbed the lance that I was using to kill the bandits. I still have the one I break their bones with).
As for the earrings with the boss pulled a lot of mana and I dont know the effects yet so I'm delaying it until I have full mana. (Who knows maybe that will be my new way of wasting mana, and probably I will gave it to mom. After thinking about it the only bandit I know is dad he will be the best new owner).
Other than that no other accessories that uses man is in them. (I didn't report those I will ask mom and dad about them first I hidden them well in the chimney).
"Now, how much mana is remaining for the bastard down the floor?" After assessing my liver and mana viens near it.
"2% that's disappointing, now I got 10 『X-Healing.』 Only and I will be left dry afterwards." I said with a disappointed face. 😔
(Also I need some mana to return to bed before Lilla realizes my disappearance).
"Hmm...I'm pretty sure the four hours I left the house she wouldn't realise she usually dont bother me during my sleep." I Said after yawning.
(A/N. Rudeus doesn't know he pulled all nighter and the sun started rising. Being isolated from the world is really bad).
"Well I will torture him until I feel like it and leave a note for the villagers saying he was the one killed Ferland. So they can do the right thing." I was scratching my chin 🤔 then nodded.
"And done." I said as I wrote the piece of paper and after not finding any glue or anything like that I took the alternative. I put a sword on fire then waited until it became red then posted it on the man's chest then sticking it to him I looked at the man who was groaning in pain.
"I will kill ya bastard ya and that advanced North God Style user who attacked me." He said with disdainful eyes and a look that if I was a normal toddler I would have cried.
"Stupid I'm the same person, and seriously your boss with full power didn't even scratch me. What will a broken swordless man do? Sorry woman like you will do?" I said with a mocking smile. That made him look at me with widened eyes then he tried to fidget on the ground to remove the ropes.
"Nah, that's cheating, it isn't allowed and you will be punished for that." And without other word another try for the skill 『Sword Slice.』 Was done on the man's body.
The man immediately groaned in pain because the hit on his ribs made a sound of cracking bones.
"The cracking side of bones is music to my ears. Tell me how many ribs I broke in this hit?" I said with evil smile 😈 to the man coughing blood.
"Don't be a cry baby I can't use anything except for 10 『X-Healing.』 So don't suspect any healing because of blood except when you will bleed to death." I said dryly to the man after reinforcing the rope bonding then decided to hang him on the chandler.
(Somehow I felt I'm from dark comics where a crazy clown was torturing a colorful bird until it betrayed the bat it served).
"Well at least I'm not smiling while torturing h... Ufff. Thinking about it Mr Ferland wouldn't want this, he would want his daughter to be safe and sound." I said with a grim face.
"Adrian it's your lucky day, you are free man." I said with a smile. 😁
"Really will ya let me leave, but can ya heal me too." Said the man surprised and in disbelief 😲 trying his best to not anger the psycho in front of him.
"Again why would I let a person who harmed the village, killed a good man and above all his true mission is to kill my family alive? For real you and your boss are stupid." Said the kid when he was already cleaning the sword from the blood of all the men who were killed, including the one he was just talking to.
"Anyway it's about time we leave." I said to Samantha who was sleeping in her baby hanger. (The piece of cloth I used to tie her to me with).
"Are you the one who did this?" I found a sound suddenly speaking from my back that made me unsheath my sword and point it toward the voice.
(The mastermind fin—? Huh!?)
"Mr Andrew what are you.. all... were you planning to use the night as cover like I did to attack them?"
"What night? We are early in the morning and you didn't answer my question. Did you kill him by yourself Rudeus?" Said Mr Andrew with his side three men and a woman behind them. (Oh shit! Lilla?)
"Then what? Did you want me to let them live? After killing Mr Ferland?" I said in a very harsh tone.
(Shit! I forgot he is his cousin, and his face became grim immediately after what I said).
"...No, but that doesn't answer the question how?" He said while some of them are looking at me with fear, after focusing on them, all of them are afraid of me.
"I used sedatives from the clinic on them, before starting to hunt them. But not everyone fell for it, so I had to fight them, that's why please send my apologies to the Smiths about the damage caused in the house by the fight." For some weird reason some of them looked at me even more scared by this.
"Did you kill all of them?" He said with a very grim and dark face.
"No, I left the crippled the heavily injured and weak looking ones after breaking their bones so they won't fight back. And according to mama's words they will wake-up at the worst case scenario tomorrow at night and at the best case we have two days. Can you all stop trembling and tell me what I did wrong? They were planning to kidnap us, the children of the village, your children, kill you all and from what they were saying they were going to do bad things to women and us? Is that okay with you? If yes then punish me already? Or why not you use the sword you didn't sheath until now even after knowing no enemies in here?"
I was explaining the situation before exploding on them.
(These people never learns even when I was still in the former world, when I killed smugglers and illegal hunters who killed my friends and two whole villages for their own selfishness and when I fought back, I was the one in front of the judge. "They were saying: how are you a doctor and killing people?" Idiots I saved the world from these people).
I found all of them in silence looking away from me and some of them have some broken faces, but all I can say the mood is grim.
"Still no answer, I will say it again I did nothing wrong. And if you want to talk, then at the very least you wouldn't have left Samantha crying from hunger and needing someone to look after her. I found her crying hungry and needed someone to change her diapers."
When I said this they all were surprised and even more surprised that the white piece of cloth is Samantha's blanket and she was with me all along while I was massacring the bandits.
"She .. was she with you all along?"
"Yes and no, I was always putting her in a safe place until I kill them all, then I return to look after her. The only one she saw while I was killing him was her father's killer." I found all of them with widened eyes and scared even more than before.
"Anyway no one answered me. Why are you afraid of me now? I avenged your cousin, protected you and did your job." I said looking at Mr Andrew then Ms Lilla then the militant villagers.
I said while looking at them with disdainful eyes.
"Haa. Young Master Rudeus, have you looked at your state or the state of little Samantha? And we told you back home, 'let adults do their job.' I wouldn't say what you did is right, nor I would say if we were in your place we were going to do a nice plan like this we were at best to strike from the shadows.."
"Won't work, their boss was an advanced level North God Style user. He can feel presence and he was cautious, I couldn't sedate him." When I said this all of them were shocked. And some of them looked at me with disbelief.
"If you don't believe me, ask the people upstairs you will find them in the guest's room. And you are talking about how bad my state is. Like I will be free to look and see how I loo—."
I found myself covered in blood from head to toe with many cuts in the sleeves, the torso and my legs were bleeding too.
(When all of these cuts happened, the sleeves may be in the chimney? The rest when did they happen? And wasn't Samantha in white cloth since why is the cloth is red?)
"Calm down you—"
Lilla was saying something but I couldn't listen all the way to it.
Mr Andrew was talking but for some reason I wasn't hearing him at all.
And suddenly it hit me. I had made a blunder.
All the windows are closed and I burned the sedative solution on the second floor and climbed to there last time with Samantha while moving the bodies without covering either of our faces.
We both are drugged.
(Is that why she didn't cry when I was shouting?)
Before falling I gave Mr Andrew the girl and immediately fell on my head.
Everything turned black afterwards.
(3rd POV).
(50 minutes earlier).
"Are you sure about this Ms Lilla?" Said Reeve Andrew to the armed maid.
"Yes, Sir Andrew young master Rudeus is still sleeping anyway and Lady Ena said she can look after both of the crying girls." Said the maid after she entered the manor's garden.
"Let's review the fighting structure one last time Ms Lilla isn't here as a fighter, she is here as support and Marc, Rous and Daniel you will be making sure to help me to make sure all of our fights are 2 vs 1 at worst."
Said the Reeve as he took the leader role and started to instruct them on how to fight in silence.
"Also because they are in greater numbers and the fact that their boss had beaten two Reeves who were intermediate level warriors in Water God Style alone." He said with a grim face.
"He is a stronger warrior and it's better to fight in the shadows and he is a prime target. Killing him silently is the key." All of them nodded.
"Now we will get from inside the basement through a hidden door." He said as he took the lead towards the basement's door.
After they got inside they realised the place was silent.
But that wasn't normal silence, it was a dangerous kind of silence, so all of them were on guard immediately.
"Really will ya let me leave, but can ya heal me too." Said a shocked voice.
That made all of them look confused but Reeve Andrew made a gesture with his hand that they will continue in more silence.
But they realised the basement for some weird reason is full of destroyed armours and it looked somehow organised other than that.
Sweesh.
They heard the sound of a sword swing before a voice said.
"Again why would I let a person who harmed the village, killed a good man and above all his true mission is to kill my family alive? For real you and your boss are stupid." Said a kid.
That made them halt their silence and move towards the voice faster.
"Anyway it's about time we leave." When the voice said that, Reeve Andrew ran at maximum speed to stop the owner from escaping.
But suddenly he stopped because of the gruesome view in front of him.
Corpse of a headless man in front of him is a toddler covered in blood from head to toe and the blood is increasing from his legs.
He is carrying what looks like a red cape in front of him and he appears talking to it.
"Are you the one who did this?" Said Reeve Andrew asking about the terrible state of the former bandit.
The kid immediately unsheathed his sword and aimed it towards the Reeve just to look surprised.
"Mr Andrew what are you... all... were you planning to use the night as cover like I did to attack them?" Said the kid that all of them recognised immediately. He is the son of their Lord, the son of the knight in charge of guarding them.
When he saw them all he smiled and sheathed his sword immediately.
But all of them surprised that he escaped in middle of the night and didn't realise what time is it.
All of what he says is a way too vague that made them have many questions.
Where is the bandits? Why are let him torture their colleague to this level? How did he got this many injuries? But what is he doing in here was the most question they want to know?
"What night? We are early in the morning and you didn't answer my question. Did you kill him by yourself Rudeus?" Said Reeve Andrew. While he doesn't know what's worse him saying yes or no.
"Then what? Did you want me to let them live? After killing Mr Ferland?" said kid in a very harsh yet broken sound with tears coming out from his eyes.
All of them were stunned by the answer. The fact he done what they saw as suicidal mission as a whole team. He done it alone, for one reason revenge for Reeve Andrew's cousin. And he is crying for the dead man that according to their knowledge he is nothing more than a friend of his father at best rate.
"...No, but that doesn't answer the question how?" said the Reeve hardly holding his pocker face. While the rest of them looked at him with fear. Even his maid who was raising him.
"I used sedatives from the clinic on them, before starting to hunt them. But not everyone fell for it, so I had to fight them, that's why please send my apologies to the Smiths about the damage caused in the house by the fight." No one by the mean of the word anticipated this answer. Not the Reeve, not the maid, not the militants, no one.
The fact he used his mother medicine for the people who have strong fevers to help ease the pain to massacre the bandits.
Not even in the wildest horror story they would dreamed that a toddler stop there enemies that way.
But the Reeve tried to hold on they need to be cautious to anyone who didn't fall for it.
"Did you kill all of them?" Said the Reeve with a very grim and dark face. Sad for the responsibility pushed towards the toddler or maybe feels bad because if he become sure he is somekind of devil like the superds his job is to kill him.
"No, I left the crippled the heavily injured and weak looking ones after breaking their bones so they won't fight back. And according to mama's words they will wake-up at the worst case scenario tomorrow at night and at the best case we have two days."
The kid explained what he did in detail of who is alive like he is expert or someone who used to be executioner not feeling a single hint of regret or fear of what he did.
That made some of them get a better hold of there weapons.
That made the kid snap.
"Can you all stop trembling and tell me what I did wrong? They were planning to kidnap us, the children of the village, your children, kill you all and from what they were saying they were going to do bad things to women and us? Is that okay with you? If yes then punish me already? Or why not you use the sword you didn't sheath until now even after knowing no enemies in here?"
Some how the kid hit all of them by words that no-one. Had an opening to counter.
But what made them feel silent that a kid is bleeding heavily from his legs yet fought there fight and before they bandaged him or look after him they were interrogating him and even worse their swords is aimed at his neck. Even his own maid has hee sword aimed at his neck.
Only one question they wanted to ask but no one can muster the words.
'What did you saw to hate them to this level?'
To their knowledge only thing he saw was a man lost his head in gruesome way only that.
"Still no answer, I will say it again I did nothing wrong. And if you want to talk, then at the very least you wouldn't have left Samantha crying from hunger and needed someone to look after her. I found her crying hungry and needed someone to change her diapers."
When he said this all of them looked surprised or hurt how did they all forget the fact 4 weeks new-born baby and no one cared to even check on her.
But the one was hurt the most her uncle who can't blame the toddler of either jumping alone in bandits den or now he jumped with yet another baby.
Who happens to be last thing that his dead cousin had left.
"She ..was she with you all along?"
"Yes and no, I always putting here in a safe place until I killed them all, then I return to look after her. The only one she saw while I'm killing him is her father's killer."
They all were stunned he was killing them with ease to the level he took a baby to increase the burden on him by a lot.
And they were thinking they were going for their death until the reinforcement reaches the village. But yet what happened is wrong the toddler done something he wasn't supposed to do.
They all fall silent and widened there eyes but still none of them sheathed his sword.
"Anyway no one answered me. Why are you afraid of me now? I avenged your cousin, protected you and done your job." The kid snapped again saying while looking at Reeve Andrew then the maid then the militant villagers.
He said while looking it them with a disdainful eyes. And if they didn't saw his tears and how broken he looks they would have thought he will go after them next.
They wanted to all of them they all have many questions and many things they wanted to say but still no one could muster the words.
Finally the maid broke the silence by sheathing her sword and moving toward him before sighing.
"Haa. Young Master Rudeus, have you looked at your state or the state of little Samantha? And we told you back home, 'let adults do their job.' I wouldn't say what you did is right, nor I would say if we were in your place we were going to do a nice plan like this we were at best to strike from the shadows.."
While the maid was explaining he was listening attentively until he suddenly stopped her.
"Won't work, their boss was an advanced level North God Style user. He can feel presence and he was cautious, I couldn't sedate him."
When he said this all of them were shocked. And the militant men looked at him with disbelief.
But the the Reeve belived him his friends weren't weak and if he was right.
Then even if all the Reeves in the village fought him together would have lost.
None of them on level of the knight, the elder Reeve or the elf-hunter only one of the three could beat him.
When no one answered the kid continued.
"If you don't believe me, ask the people upstairs you will find them in the guest's room. And you are talking about how bad my state is. Like I will be free to look and see how I loo—."
He was giving them more proofs that he killed an advanced level North God Style user in the perfect situation to the enemy and yet he was the winner.
And he even gathered men 6 times his weight and the shortest one will be 4 times his tall and and the tallest that huge man too was at least 200 lbs.
When he was explaining he wasn't exactly free to look after himself he suddenly felt silent.
And he was checking himself frantically.
"Calm down young master, you will hurt yourself. Calm down are you hearing me?" Said the maid trying her best to calm him but no avail.
The Reeve immediately ordered one of the militant men.
"Rous run to the clinic and bring bandages now." It was more of a barking order than a request.
"Hey kid calm down." Tried Mr Andrew after holding the toddler shoulders just for him to give him the young girl.
And the moment, he took her from him he fell to the ground.
He couldn't catch him, because of the baby on his arm and Lilla reaction speeds wouldn't work and the rest of the men whether they were still afraid of the kid or being cautious they stayed away and couldn't help him.
After he hit the ground the Reeve barked new orders.
"Lilla you take young master Rudeus to the house attend his wounds until his mother returns to heal him." She nodded and carried him and went home.
"Marc, Daniel get to the guest room and see the bandits and see what state they are on." Both nodded and climbed his stairs to the second floor.
Reeve Andrew himself went to check on the dead bandit, just for him to find strange sack and it was closed very tight.
"What's that?" Siad Reeve Andrew as he opened the sack just to see more gruesome sight than the the tortured headless bandit.
He found heads of 12 men inside the sack including the head of the boss of the bandits and the huge man. (The most powerful two).
The man didn't have enough time to react and the odor of the room turned suffocating.
"What the hell is that smell?"
What stopped him to look any further is a strange smell is of rotten flesh being burned.
He immediately opened the windows.
"I will check the fireplace."
After seeing more gruesome sight of 12 ash black skeletons he was already about to vomit from the odor that sight broke the dam.
"Bleurgh ....I should had given little Samantha to Ms Lilla with that kid." Said the vomiting man who is barely standing from the sight, the odor and the shock that he just take.
"Im glad that the kid until now didn't decide we are his enemies he could very easily make us disappear out of existence without a proof." Said Reeve Andrew after running out of the house to take a break out of the hell in the Manor.
.
"What's taking this Idiots too long for giving me a report about what they saw?" That's when the Reeve realised maybe the kid did a blunder and one of the bandits didn't fall to his trap and maybe he killed the two militant villagers.
"Sir Andrew, I brought the bandages." Said Rous who finally decided to appear.
"You are late, but anyway take Samantha and send her to the Greyrats and if I didn't return in an hour tell Bragg to take the men and surround the house until the reinforcement reaches." Said the Reeve to the huffing and puffing man and before he could respond he gave him new orders.
In which he could only nod to him.
"Now I will hope at least they wounded him and he didn't kill them both." Said the Reeve who returned to the house and ascended the stairs silently.
He on guard and listening to every sound just to hear snores?
"What the hell Marc, Daniel? Are you both sleeping?" Said the irritated Reeve.
Wait something doesn't add up, how come both are sleeping and they were sleeping like logs yesterday on the other men is guarding shift.
Thats when he remembered something he said he used sedatives and the medicine is used by smelling it.
He covered his nose and hoped he will stay awake until he reaches the window and he opened it to take a huge breath.
(That kid he is born assassin. Was the only thought Reeve Andrew could think of).
He tried to open as many windows as he can without returning to the area where sleeping people in.
Then he decided to go and calm the villager Rous for now then see what is the state of the bonded bandits.
.
After staying for while he found almost all the men on the village (who isn't injured) are in front of him.
"Andrew, what happened? Are Marc and Daniel... ?" Said Reeve Bragg.
"The idiots sleeping like logs, he told us he used sedatives in fighting bandits and they were stupid enough to fell for it." Said the irritated Reeve.
"Who?"
"That's for later. Now sorry everyone seems that we used idiots for helping me they got themselves sedated even when they are warned about it." Shouted the Reeve.
"Bragg come with me we will check the manor together. And hold on on the view." The Reeve whispered the later parts.
"We have already checked the living, the dining, the bounded sleeping bandits and the dead ones."
"What bounded? Did they surrender to you?" Said the impressed Reeve.
"You held me in high regard my friend..." And he explained the situation.
Where the other Reeve turned pale from the horror story he entered.
While reviewing the study they found the papers explaining the loot, the bandits status and the unfounded amount of money.
(Poor kid in normal circumstances these will be his but it seems someone stole his share, and the weapons and armours since he is the knight's son they will be all his and shall distribute them as he wants).
As for the bounty on the heads.
The alive ones is fully his and normal bandit is worth 5 big copper coins. The dead one is worth only two and he will have to share half of it to the village.
As for the ones that can use Touki or the one who are experienced warriors are worth 1 silver coin dead and it fully his. The alive ones for 1 gold and if the circumstances are good maybe even higher also all his.
As for the boss depends on how big he is in the underground world but at the very least the kid got himself 2 gold coins from him and if he is lucky he could regain his 5 cold coins from him.
(The kid is now the richest person in the village was the only thought in the Reeve's mind).