The Cold-Blooded Sword Expert
Silence for a moment

The condition of the former village of Caprae is truly terrible. When the fire seemed to burn the place until there was nothing left except black ash and scattered debris.

Several bodies were collected, the condition was so alarming because it was shapeless and difficult to identify who the bodies were found. However, a family member who lost one or maybe more definitely could only cry and shut his mouth as if he did not want to see the true state.

Elric, and Leo he stood next to each other. Clearly, Leo could see the deep sadness in Elric after this incident had killed the village chief or Elric's father.

“How can the attack happen?” Leo asked Elric.

“Three hours ago, almost everyone fell asleep. However, the situation was so shocking when a fire occurred in front of the gate. The citizens of the eastern part woke up, only they were quite surprised when a woman came with fiery hands.”

Erlic was silent for a moment as she told that. What he did was wipe his flowing tears and sigh to remember an incident.

Elric recounted, that the woman asked about who killed the son of the city's chief soldier. Of them, no one knows it. So that Hellfire unhesitatingly enlarged the flames.

The situation grew increasingly violent, everyone in this entire village instantly woke up. Because they were quite surprised to see that in the east there was a great fire. Moreover, the people who lived in the eastern part, they ran westward because their main gate seemed to be blockaded so they could not get out.

People wake up their wives and children, trying to find Leo to ask for a refuge. Their guess is that Leo is currently on the verge, but in fact it's completely wrong!

Why Leo? Just because Leo is a strong figure among them. So inevitably they have to ask Leo for help.

The old men are old, there are also some young people who have the ability, they stand gallantly without fear. Likewise with the village head to prevent and fight Hellfire so as not to multiply the existing victims. The problem is that the casualties in the eastern part are really very much.

“Elric! Go find Leo! dad will beat back when you lead people to look for safe.”

Hearing his father's words, Elric froze. His face was as white as paper as his father would fight the figure of the woman who attacked the village of Caprae blindly. Obviously, as a child, Elric himself could not accept that with his chest.

“No! father is a village chief! Dad should be safe!”

“Even father is the village chief, father should protect the villagers.” Elric's father insisted.

Elric's father kept insisting on making Elric leave. Moreover, the condition has been so heated and the elderly are very overwhelmed to fight women who commit this attack or burning.

With a little weight, Elric then left. But before leaving, Elric looked at his father and said quite seriously. “Dad should be safe!”

“Of course, dad will be safe.” Said the village chief before he looked ahead.

The state of the fight took hours, until the village chief and the others had to be charred in flames. And at that very instant, the entire population regardless of their treasures and residences had already completely left. Fortunately the adventurers and warriors appeared to fight against Hellfire, so Hellfire alone back then had no chance of killing the other residents.

Indeed, it turns out that the wheel of revenge will always turn if not carried until the end as he asserted before. To be clear, he has had a grudge against the former chief soldier that caused the villagers of Caprae to be killed.

The root of the problem is only one, if the child of the head of the soldier does not attack. It is clear that Leo will not kill. He really did not expect that everything would become this complicated.

Therefore, with all my heart because some of the Caprae villagers seemed to bear Leo's fault, Leo provided the land for them, became a leader for them and was responsible for everything. And he also gave a new name to a village that would stand on the forest territory of Esves with the name Griefhaven village.

Leo sighed, “I will kill the mastermind of all this. I promise because Hellfire is a paid person.”

“Paying someone that strong? It must have been really very expensive.” Elric commented.

“I know Hellfire is a strong figure. Because he is not a human being in general. Rather than humans being used as a test practice the members of the Stealth Brigade. The figure that became a demon earlier was probably a trial of planting spirit seals on humans so that the human could turn into a demon spirit at any time.” Leo says.

He then continued his words. “Only, he turned into a demon after uncontrollable emotions, as if it was part of evolution. So, when he became an ordinary man, he was a weak figure and only relied on fire. And it can be concluded that renting himself is not too expensive.”

Leo could see that the woman who seemed to be Hellfire, he could not accept it. It was as if he wanted to fight himself so that Hellfire would not be out of bounds. The emotions embedded in the woman were also so high when Hellfire took control of her.

He or Leo could see clearly through the Lord of the eye.

Who likes to be an object of experimentation? He seemed to want to get a lot of kidnapped children to please Luvria was actually a forced situation! That's what Leo saw.

And he was paid by the former chief soldier, because he needed the money. Because he became an object of experiment like a mouse that was restrained and not fed. Only, the woman could not get out of Luvria's trial.

Leo didn't say anything about the emotional vision and a bit of the woman's past to Elric. Because, it seems that he is eager to respect privacy or a secret about the dark past that is owned by someone.

Everyone has been buried. Including someone who might be the village head though. This land, the land of the village of Caprae will be a cemetery for people who fight to protect the village and social groups.

They then stood in front of the gates of the village of Caprae, right at night. Staring at the village of Caprae that may only be a dark remnant overnight in a tragedy that is quite terrible. They gave little silence to honor the dead, including the village chief.

Leo followed them, he closed his eyes and reaped a wish that they might be given a better life in the afterlife. At least be a strong person in order to survive.

After which, he opened his eyes and sighed.

“We go.”