
"So this means don't dirty the train, but this is outrageous, so you have to go back and get off my horse to clean it up." Adam muttered as he saw the carriage had far left him behind.
Adam sighed heavily as Troy kicked the coachman too far, making him have to get off his horse to take care of it.
“Spirit!” nina encouraged Adam and then immediately dipped his horse to catch up with Troy in front of him to continue his journey following the train that was now taken over by Troy.
“Ah! Careful, old man is not alone.” Shouted Nina again telling Adam before actually leaving.
“Tu-lord, sir, please forgive me.” The coachman who was still holding back the pain of falling from the train quickly got up and immediately knelt as Adam walked towards him and then begged for forgiveness so as not to be killed by Adam.
“Tu-u-mister please don't kill me, I beg you!” Still hoping to be forgiven by Adam
Adam did not respond at all to the coachman who was still asking to be released Adam himself even more quickly approached the coacher because he wanted to quickly take care of it and immediately followed his entourage who had left him alone in the backside.
“Tak!”
When Adam had swung his sword with the coachman's neck as his target suddenly an arrow shot towards him then nimbly he blocked all the arrows coming at him with his sword to protect himself, it made it difficult for him to finish his affairs with the coachman because every time he approached the arrow always came to him.
“Ah! Die you, you think I fear you.” The coachman when he saw Adam now tried not to be hit by arrows.
“Sial! My waist hurts so much, the big man had no brains how could he not feel sorry for an old man like me and push me to fall from my own train.” Omelnya while trying to stand back up and then pat her knees to clean her pants from the dirt that stuck when she fell.
“Now I must quickly catch up with the bastards and take back my carriage which they stole from the big brainless body... Awwwww!”
The coachman screamed in pain when hit by the slash of Adam's sword right on his right thigh made him fall back while holding back the pain so that he could no longer babble because he had to endure the pain in his leg, his blood began to wash his pants that he had just cleaned from the dirt.
“Akh!” his screeches.
“You don't think you're going to die today,” said Adam and again swung his sword to finish off the coachman as quickly as possible because he couldn't bear to hear his ravings.
“Trak!”
When he was about to kill the coachman again an arrow intercepted him made Adam start to get emotional because his work was constantly delayed by others.
“Get out of you all! I'm getting sick of your childish hide-and-seek game!” exclaimed Adam to challenge the people who from earlier continue to disturb his work.
“Akh! The coachman choked in pain as Adam intentionally stomped on his injured leg.
“Ke- out! Finish this motherfucker, don't give me mercy!” Shouted the coachman.
Not long after, several men came out from behind the bushes and each man held his own weapon.
“Ah! So you.” Adam pointed at a skinny man holding an arrow and carrying an arrow bag on his back, “You know I really don't like you for slowing down my work, I will kill you first.” Adam said furiously, while the person in question immediately hid behind the back of his friend who had a physique stronger than him.
“Coward!” scorn Adam then spit.
“Akh! You spit on me damn it!” the coachman with emotion wiped Adam's saliva from it, “You will have my children dismember your body into small pieces!” threaten her again with overflowing emotions.
“Oh! So they are all your children,” Adam nodded his head, “Alright then I will make your funeral all one family at a time.”
“Kill him now!” the coachman's screams reigned, then the men who had come out from behind the bushes began to attack Adam all out.
“Shop!” before replying to the attack, Adam quickly slashed the left leg of the coachman who tried to leave, deliberately Adam made both legs not function at all so as not to escape during the fight.
“Srek!”
“Shop!”
“Shelf!”
Adam continued to fend off the attacks aimed at him then retaliated against the attacks by inflicting minor injuries on his opponent without any intention of killing him.
“Akh! Old man, you said today's prey is pretty good why it's like this.” Said one of the bandits whose half-body was covered in the wounds Adam had given him.
“Sial! I also don't know why it could be like this, stop talking to me I'm in pain just focus on killing that son of a bitch!”
“You think you're the only one who got hurt, old man!” his shout which is now accompanied by emotion, occasionally he bounced backwards due to not being able to withstand the attack given by Adam.
“Stop talking shit boy! I'm your father, why do you keep calling me old man, sorry I raised you.”he said annoyed while enduring the pain in both his legs that were still bleeding.
“Ah! Don't you want to let us all die, and take the promised gift for yourself and won't share it with us!” he said he was suspicious of the old man who from earlier nagged at him and of course the conversation can be heard with other colleagues even by Adam.
Because his suspicion made the bandits who had been busy attacking and wanted to kill Adam suddenly stop, their gazes were all fixed on the coachman who was still grimacing with the pain in both legs.
“A-what!” he asked nervously, “You think I'm stupid to make both my legs like this.” Say again.
“You said they were just a traveler who happened to pass through the village, why suddenly he became an expert using sword and martial arts, is it true you want to kill us.” Say something else suspicious too.
“And why from earlier I did not see the red-haired woman you said yesterday, you wanted to keep it to yourself and bring it to be exchanged for gifts after we were all finished by him.”
“Hei! Oi! You all are why! You think I want to be like this too, I didn't know that they had a swordsman in their entourage!”
“Srek!”
“Srek!”
“Srek!”
Adam who was tired of hearing their quarrels again attacked and immediately hit the vital points in their bodies to make the bandits no longer able to lift their own swords because they held the pain even move arduous.
“Do not chat while fighting!” adam then stopped when he saw one of the bandit members who seemed to be underage.
“You?!”
“Aaaa, please don't kill me sir!”
Adam had not yet finished his sentence the child he saw immediately dropped the axe that had just been in his embrace and then immediately knelt down to beg for forgiveness so as not to be killed.
“How old are you?” ask adam.
“Sa-I twelve years sir.” His answer while sobbing held his cry so as not to break out of fear if suddenly Adam was angry because he was too noisy and immediately killed him. “T-master don't kill me, I'm not his son really.” Say with fear – fear.
“Sa-I am really not her son, ka-we are all children that she adopted from the orphanage then raised by her and forced into bandit master, I beg.” He continued to try to beg Adam not to be killed.
“Uhm... You're lucky there's a rule made by boss Ed that all his subordinates should not kill children under age.” He said coldly, “You I give a chance to live and give a proper burial to your brothers who will become corpses later.” His welcome again then left the boy who was still kneeling in fear.
“But before that I want to ask you some questions, if you guys want to cooperate with me then I will be generous to kill you guys without lingering in pain.”
“Damn it! Why would I work with you, huh?!” Say one of the bandits who is now difficult to move because of a wound in his vitals.
Sure enough the incisions made by Adam made them all difficult to move because the incisions were deliberately made near their blood vessels, if they were all reckless to move their veins could just rupture and die slowly from blood loss.
“Akh! You fuck!” his throat endured the pain that gnawed all over his body, as well as the coachman who was now lying weak as he began to bleed out, his lips began to turn pale and his eyes were heavy.
“So what I want to ask is why do you mention redheads?” adam asked that he did not care about the people in front of him were now trying to endure the pain all over their bodies even to the point of taking lives.
Adam looked at them all one by one waiting for someone to answer his question but in the end everyone even deliberately closed their mouths not wanting to tell Adam.
“Ah! You think I'm joking yes.” muttered Adam smiled then ruffled his own hair holding back his sense of regret.
Had he not needed to dig up information already Adam wanted to kill them all for wasting his time.
“Shop!”
“Akh!”
One slash Adam swung ended up killing one person because no one was willing to answer his question.
“It looks like there really will be a family funeral today.” Adam then went back to the other bandits to ask.
“You also don't want to tell me yes?” adam asked one of the bandits and his sword had been stuck in the throat of the next victim and when he found out he also did not want to answer smoothly his hand had moved his sword and immediately removed one life again.
“You!” ask Adam again for the next time.
“Ekk!” pekik asked in fear.
“You want to answer or die directly?”
“A-will, will I answer!”
“Alright, I'll give you a little leeway later for answering my question, so tell me why you called – redheads?” Adam became a little more friendly unlike before this time he smiled at his interlocutors.
“A-there was a notice from the city that the kingdom was looking for a woman with red-haired features, even just by giving information they would pay dearly to buy the information to be given.”
“So that?”
“I-iya sir, even we heard he is the son of one of the high nobles in the kingdom, his master's people do anything just because they want to find his lost son then of course if everyone wants to find him because they want to exchange him for a gift.” The answer became more excited because Adam now looks friendly than before.
“Ah! The nobleman he was referring to must be Duke Leonard Yarnell Leathina's father. So it's all because of Duke Leonard, he announced to all corners of the country that whoever finds his daughter or gets information about her missing daughter will be rewarded, I was quite amazed that the announcement issued by the Yarnell residence half a year ago could make it to such a remote village like this, I thought it would have no effect because the announcement had been out for a very long time I did not know there were people who were still aggressively looking for Leathina. in addition to Duke Leonard and Winter.” The inner Adam felt something strange because it turned out that they were all looking for Leathina as if she had just disappeared yesterday.
“Hei! Do you know who brought the announcement into your village?” Ask Adam to wonder.
“Be-how many months ago in a nearby town there were some robed people who posted the announcement on the town square and people from the village who happened to be in town and accidentally saw the announcement telling people in the village when returning from the city.”
“You know who the cloaked man is, is he from the nobility or a commoner?”
“Say they're guests from the richest family in town and I heard they came from ... akh!”
He had not yet finished his sentence suddenly an arrow shot towards him and killed him instantly.
“Hei! Hey!” Adam tried to wake him up again hoping to listen to his sentence until the end but his efforts were in vain bandits who asked it was completely dead because of the arrow.
“Hei! Do you know where they come from?” ask Adam again to find out more.
“Tak!”
“Tak!”
“Tak!”
“Damn it!” as Adam said when suddenly several arrows shot back and killed all the bandits simultaneously, including the coachman who had run out of blood.
“Ah! The arrow is poisonous.” Adam muttered while examining.
He saw the body of the bandits that were hit by the blue arrows and from their mouths all came out white foam.
“Stop there!” adam shouted when he accidentally saw the culprit, quickly Adam chased but unfortunately stopped when an arrow shot back.
The arrow was not intended for him but rather towards the bandits brought in the age he had just let live.
“Tak!”
“Awas!”
Adam's reflexes immediately pulled him to undo his intention to pursue he also had to quickly return to his entourage because they had been separated for too long.
“Sial!” adam again felt annoyed at not getting information which means even losing people who could potentially be bullies for them later in the future.
“Hufft ..” Adam breathed a heavy sigh when he looked at the child he had accidentally helped because his body automatically moved itself to save him, “I guess I was too good for the children, it's just fitting that Ed's boss makes a strange rule like this. If I kill children, surely the guilt will be ten times more than killing the targeted people.” He mumbled slowly flattering himself.
Adam spoke to himself while closing one by one the eyes of the corpses that were still open and their mouths were still gaping.
“Hey you!” adam said suddenly and startled the twelve-year-old boy who had survived his death.
“I-iya Tu-tuan.” The answer stuttered with fear.
“This time you survived because of the rules made by the boss I worked for, but in the future, if you see me somewhere, whether it's intentional or unintentional, run away as fast as you can or hide as best you can, until even the ants can't see you don't let me see your face because I'm going to kill you right then and there and you know my memory is strong so I can recognize you right away even if you grow up, okay?!”
“I-iya Tu-lord!”
“Alright, bury your foster father and brother – your brother well.” Adam glanced at the collection of bodies that now began to stiff then immediately jumped up on his horse and drove him away leaving the child alone along with a collection of bodies of his family that began to stiffen.
“Good luck son!” adam said before he left.
Adam darted quickly with his horse and then disappeared from the sight of the boy who is still trying to suppress his fear.
“Haa ..” he was only able to breathe with relief after Adam had completely left and was not seen again.
He longed to mourn his fate and looked at the bodies of his adoptive brothers who had been stiff and after a long pensive wipe of his tears that soaked his cheeks he could only cry after a little calmer then quicklyquickly dug a hole in the forest and painstakingly moved one by one the bodies of his brother then buried him in the same place.
“Rest peacefully and Forgive me!”
He said softly and occasionally sobbed then bowed towards the mountainous ground where he buried the corpses of his brother to pay his last respects, then immediately go to find a safe place afraid if the killer who shot his brother or Adam come back and meet them.
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