The Journey of the Genius Failed
21. You thought I was dead

After piercing the eyes of one of the bandits, Rouzen became extremely shocked as he saw the Bandit with a burn on his face talking to him.

While Rouzen was still shocked, the bandit who was pierced by Rouzen felt ignored. Therefore, he also spoke.

“Hei rancid boy, how dare you stab me in the eye. And now you're ignoring me. Ap...” The bandit who pierced his eyes had not finished speaking, because a sword strike was pointing towards him. Because of the sabetage, the bandit who pierced his eyes became dead due to being hit by vertical strokes that hit his face and body.

“Whisper once.” And it turned out that the sabetan was the work of Rouzen.

Not only that, Rouzen also issued the same sabetage to one bandit to another, so that the bandit was killed.

Now only one bandit remained, and that bandit was a Bandit with burns on his face. Rouzen was still in disbelief and surprised by the bandit.

“How can you be here?.” Rouzen asked with a surprised expression.

“Hehehe... Secrets.” The bandit with the burns on his face smirked.

“Cih.” Rouzen did not accept.

The bandit continued.

“Are you surprised by me? because you thought that I was dead?.”

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On the previous mission, Rouzen had already faced off against that bandit. Even the burns on his face, it was caused by Rouzen's style. On that mission, Rouzen and his partner managed to defeat the bandits, even Rouzen also knew clearly that the bandit with a burn on his face had died in the previous fight, so at the time of seeing him now, it was clear that the bandit with a burn on his face had already died in the previous fight, Rouzen became very surprised.

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“...” Rouzen simply fell silent and was still shocked.

“Because you have appeared here, so I will repay your actions that have made my face like this.” The bandit immediately moved closer to Rouzen and attacked him.

The bandit carried one machete in his hand and attacked Rouzen quickly.

Fellow Rouzen became worried.

“Rouzen! beware.” Bufan is exhausted.

Rouzen however responded to him casually and while dodging the bandit's attack.

“Do not worry. And Yessie, please give first aid to Lowis and Bufan.”

“Good.” says Yessie.

Rouzen and the bandits with burns on his face fought quite fiercely. In this fight, the Bandit was only using his Talist abilities and could not bring out Tiser's moves or control. However Rouzen was a little strange with the abilities of those bandits, as the bandits were moving quite well and well than the previous fight.

“What's with this bandit? why is his ability so much better than before? whereas if his ability as before, I would have been able to defeat him from earlier.” Rouzen muttered in the middle of the fight.

Until the moment Rouzen let out a flaming streak, he saw a shadow behind the bandit, like the thread controlling the bandit.

“Benang? is that the reason?.” Rouzen muttered and realized something strange.

Seeing the thread that was like it was stuck on the body of the bandit, Rouzen now took out his fire hand. So because of that stance, one of Rouzen's hands was wrapped in fire. Rouzen tried to shoot at the back of the bandit, to break off the thread attached to his body.

“Ombak api.” Rouzen pulled out a move. Thanks to that stance, a sizable flame shot out from Rouzen's hands and burned the body of the bandit.

“hosh..hosh...” Rouzen was a little tired and watched the bandits who were burning meticulously.

But not too long later, the flaming streak unleashed by Rouzen disappeared instantly.

“Hahaha... Your ability is indeed quite awesome boy.” The bandit praised Rouzen.

Rouzen ignored the praise and immediately attacked again but without his fire hand (because if using the fire hand, the tiser would be drained faster ). The buying and selling attacks continued to be carried out by the two of them, until at the time Rouzen issued his fire style again (with no fire hand) to the bandit, his style vanished again. But Rouzen realized something that his style was lost because of the thread attached to the body of the bandit.

“What is this move?.” Rouzen muttered in disbelief at what he saw.

Realizing that, Rouzen again took out his fire hand.

“For what did you bring out that style again huh? It's free. You know that won't work?.” The bandits underestimated.

Rouzen's three colleagues were astonished by what Rouzen had done.

But Rouzen did not care about it all.

“Know what you are huh?.” Rouzen immediately attacked back the bandit.

Rouzen continued to force the bandits into close combat. Until the moment the thread was seen due to the light from his fire hand, Rouzen immediately took out his sword and cut the thread with his sword.

Because of that incident, the thread attached to the back of the body or precisely on the back of the bandit's arm became severed.

“I've been expecting it to work.” Rouzen said as he moved away from the bandit who was about to strike back at him.

“Cih, you realize also yes.” The bandit spoke, with one of the hands paving down as if the hand was dead.

Rouzen had already realized that the bandits could not be attacked by the Tiser-using moves, so in his last few attacks he had only used his Talis abilities. Even as he cut the thread behind the bandit's body, he cut it without using his Tiser's control.

Rouzen then again attacked the bandits with a similar attack. He continuously targeted the back of the bandit's body to cut off all the threads attached to his body.

The fellow Rouzen who saw Rouzen's fight, they still did not understand about what Rouzen was doing.

Until when Rouzen managed to cut off all the threads attached to the body of the bandit, Rouzen grabbed the hair of the bandit using his hand of fire, then he banged the head of the bandit into the ground. And not long after, the bandit became burnt and charred.

Fellow Rouzen who was currently slightly recovering became surprised, as it turned out that Rouzen's fire style could defeat him.

“B-how can it be?.” Bufan surprised.

“So it doesn't work its fire mode? why can it now work?.” Lowis surprised.

And as for Yessie, she was still loyal to her cold demeanor so that at the time of the incident, Yessie was just speechless and confused.

Not long after that incident, the bodies of Rouzen and his comrades became trembling like fear.

“What is this?.” Rouzen.

A man in a red robe and a mask came to them. That person was quite a distance away from the four of them, yet that person continued walking towards them.

“What feeling is this? why am I trembling and scared? even I can't move.” Bufan panic.

The same thing happened to the other three people.

Until the moment the red-robed person was already about 4 meters away from the four of them, the robed person spoke.

“Hehehe... great also you can quickly realize my controlling thread.”.

“S-who are you.?.” Rouzen panicked and could not move.