ã€ŠGreat War of Cheater! Another World Strategic Warfareã€‹


 Chapter 0 - Prologue

    W-Where¡­ is it?

    Confused because of my current situation, I can only tilt my head to the left side.

    Pure White.

    That¡¯s the only thing I can see right now. I think¡­ currently I am inside a pure white space like room. As far as I can see, I can¡¯t find any dirty spot in here. Like an isolation room that I always seen in a Hollywood movie. Its so wide, even I can¡¯t see the end of this room.

    Actually¡­ where is it?

    Step by step¡­ I move my feet straight forward. I don¡¯t have any fixed destination, just walk straight without even a single turn I make.

    More and more I walk, I feel like my mind will turn crazy.

    There is no sign of another living thing aside me. Dead silence. As if¡­ I¡¯m the only one people in the universe.

    ¡°Is anybody here?! Answer me!¡±

    For the first time, I try to call someone in this white space. I shout the exact same phrase like that a lot of times. Shout and shout with all of my might. But, of course there is no answer.

    I feel like my cold sweat is started to came out of from my body and forehead.

    Every step I make, I hear my own step echo from around of this room. I try to use this echo to find the end of this white space but I find it useless. My step just ringing until it lost its echo. From this try I finally found that this room is very wide.Unauthorized usage: this narrative is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings.

    Once again¡­ I feel like my mind is gonna be crazy.

    I don¡¯t know how many hours I walk in this white space. Straight or not, I don¡¯t know anymore.

    For the third time¡­ I feel like I will lost my mind.

    I''m laughing.

    I laugh without any clear reason. I don¡¯t even know what I laugh for. Only one think that I know¡­ I just want to laugh. I don¡¯t know what people may think about me if they see me like this but I feel like they will think about me as a man that already lost of my mind. Honestly, I can¡¯t disagree with their opinion about me.

    Every time I try to think why I end up in a place like this, I feel like my head will blow up. It¡¯s very hurt, like a killer bee¡¯s sting stung on my head. It¡¯s hurt so much.

    Before I realize it, my body already in spread-eagle pose.

    Once again¡­ I feel I really lost my mind.

    Without I realize it I cried.

    I cry very lout. I scream with all of my power while I cry. Crying¡­ after that laugh out loud. I don¡¯t know how many times I repeat this behavior without realizing it. Crying after that laughing. Laughing after that crying again.

    When I feel tired, I lay down in my standing spot. Finally I stop laughing while crying.

    Silent.

    That¡¯s the only thing I can do right now. I shut my mouth without any sound come out from my lung. I gaze to the white space with no end in front of my eyes.

    I open my right hand and move it toward the ceiling as high as I can. I catch my breath after that inhaling it. I try it again and again to make my mind calm.

    I close both of my eyes with my right palm. After that I catch a long breath. Without I realize it¡­ I sing very loud. I sing a lot of song that I know. From a child song until heavy metal. I sing all of that.

    And this time I realize it¡­ I realize that I already lost all of my mind right now. It took me a very long time to realize it.

    After my voice dry, I close my eyes once again. Now, I try to find why I end up in this fucking crazy white space. Even I got a headache, I continues to remember. Blood suddenly came out from my nose. My head without fail is gonna blown up. I try to suppress this pain. Its hurt. Very hurt. My tears too is start to flow. I can see some of my nerve from my hand. I feel like I¡¯m going to¡ª

    ¡°Welcome to all of our candidate¡­ Now, I¡¯ll explain the rule of this Great War for all of you!¡±

    ¡ªDie.

 Chapter 1 - Condition

    Haaa~ Life is¡­ Boring, huh.

    That¡¯s the feeling that I always carry on from my first time entering elementary school 19 years ago. I¡¯m born from a very rich family, rich enough that I don¡¯t know how to use all of my daily pocket money. A lot of people know my family, there is not even one who don¡¯t know them. If they don¡¯t know my family name, maybe it is them who live around the slum or they who don¡¯t have a socialize life. But don¡¯t worry, they are just a minority to the society.

    ¡°Hey, Do you know ¡®Alba Group¡¯?¡±

    That¡¯s not weird if everyone answer the exact same thing,

    ¡°That¡¯s the name of the company where a lot of futuristic car were made, right?¡±

    Right, I¡¯m the one who will inherit the biggest futuristic car company in Asia, Renardi Putra the next Alba Group Heir. So that¡¯s not weird if I can got a lot of thing what I want to get.

    Maybe if that¡¯s the only problem I have, I won¡¯t got bored like this. But, what if you got a title as a ¡°Doctor¡± when you still not 20 years old? Finish all of your study with 2 times acceleration in your class, so you can skip your grade whenever you are enrolling. What will you feel if you can do it? It¡¯s cool right. But, what wait you after that? What should you do after you got all of that? Honestly, I don¡¯t know what should I do.

    Work for the biggest software company as the youngest person who got doctorate degree in your hand for IT graduate, I feel like my life is very easy. In fact, it make me think¡­ ¡°Is it Tutorial Mode like life in reality game look like?¡±. Isn¡¯t it make you want to laugh? If my life will be this easy, so¡­ for what purpose I¡¯m alive right now? For what purpose another person struggle for their own life? To get their dream? Don¡¯t joke around, after all dream is the first thing that will betray them in the end. That¡¯s why I said that my life is boring.

    Not just that, when you wish to get something that will make you struggle on, I try to confess my falsehood feeling to the girl in my school who got the title of ¡°Aphrodite¡± or its meaning is the goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation from greek myth with the purpose to got rejected, and you know what happen next? Its exactly as what you think, she accept my feeling with the most bashful face I seen for the first time in my life. Is it weird right? I even heard a rumor that she didn¡¯t even go on date once in her life time. Didn¡¯t stop on that, all of rumor I heard about her is she rejected all of boy who confessed to her. If you see it from a lot of point of view, all of it feels to easy for me. Very easy. Is it luck not distribute equally from before we born? Honestly, I don¡¯t even know for that answer.

    Moreover, I try to play a lot of online game that have a competition. All of game with the hardest level I find from a lot of forum. From FPS, MMORPG, until Tower Defense. I played all of them. Moreover, I got the first ranked for all of them. First, I think that the player skill in my country is terribly suck. Isn¡¯t it irony? Of course¡­ yes.

    Finally, I try to put my wish high up for upcoming tournament and try to get my first challenge in international competition. Remember that time I¡¯m still 16 years old and currently enrolling in college to get my bachelor degree for computer science, so I take my rest one year from college to participate in all of international online games competition.

    Although, I forcefully think of our country member as ¡°Teammates¡±. In the end¡­ I feel like my team win with just I¡¯m alone. Of course, I got my ¡°MVP¡± title in all of the tournament I participated in. that time I think once again that my life is too boring for me.

    Maybe a lot of people ask me, why I got my doctorate degree when I¡¯m still 20 years old and not in my 22 or 23 years old? Once again my answer is very simple, it¡¯s because I make a new technique of sort that blown up all of technique that already used up until now like quick sort, merge sort, etc. for IT industry, this new technique that I make bring a very good influential to them. I named it ¡°Semi-quantum sort¡±. Of course a lot of people give a good impression for my research and that¡¯s why I got my doctorate degree.

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    That¡¯s what they called about me. Honestly, I don¡¯t think of myself as prodigy. For me, I¡¯m not one of the geniuses. But, its just another people specification is too low if they trying to compare it to me. In fact, normal people that I recognize have a normal specification such as Edison, Einstein, or Phytagoras. For me, that the normal people I know. But, I don¡¯t care anymore, all of this thing just make me want to laugh to this kind of society. Laugh to this fucking boring world of mine.

    Why life is too easy for me?

    When I¡¯m 22 years old, I already have my own software company. In just 3 second, I got $5575. Isn¡¯t it too excessive? That¡¯s what I think, but¡­ whatever.

    When I turn 25 years old, suddenly I want to try to swim in the sea. Although this is my first time to go to the sea, I don¡¯t feel anything special. Of course I also think that its normal if I can suddenly swim like a professional, right?

    In my first attempt, I can swim until the middle of the sea, maybe around 1 Km from the beach. Also I swim when the weather is suck. It like a storm will come anytime. Currently, rain in torrents. The wave are high, it¡¯s like to swallow me anytime soon. But for me, it¡¯s not a big deal. That¡¯s what I think that time. However, its like this time I really screw up with my own fate. I feel I already used all of my luck. When I try to swim to go back to the beach, I see a fish fin and of course a big one. Even I didn¡¯t try to find what fin is it, I already have a guess about it. It¡¯s a shark fin. Moreover, its Great White Shark. This shark is on top five most dangerous shark in the whole world and its really rare to see this kind of shark around Bunaken. This is the first time I aware that,

    This is the kind of life mode that I seek for a long time!

    Its very hard to swim to the beach in this kind of storm and with great white shark that chase after me. Of course its very challenging.

    Before I aware of this kind of situation, I feel like I felt something for the first time. Not a fear nor panic. But one and only one emotion that I felt right now¡­ its fun. That what I feel right now.

    Until this moment, I remember that this is the broadest smile that I ever make in my whole life. My heart beat so fast. Like a child that play a tag game in the middle of the storm around the sea. For the first time I struggle so hard to run away from the beautiful teeth of shark that already smile to me like it whisper to me like ¡°Come on to daddy¡±. I feel like my body are dancing in the middle of this vicious billow. However, like I said before, this is the first time that I¡¯m in this ¡°Expert¡± mode of my life.

    I see one of the ship come to get me like it want to crush me. Come straight to my face. I feel dizzy, weaken, and of course tired. For the moment, I feel like I will drowning to death in the middle of storm. But don¡¯t worry, I still conscious, and of course with my broad smile attach to my face. Without fail I will try this kind of excitement again later. Maybe I will try to provoke a bunch of tiger or maybe wolf, I think it¡¯s not bad idea.

    Or maybe¡­ I will try to swim in amazon river with my finger bleeding, hmm¡­ maybe that¡¯s the right choice?

    That will be my plan later. But, when I try to climb to the ship, I see the shark fin is still after me. When I see to the upside of the ship, I see someone with Bali blue clothes and a straw hat come to my way and offer a his hand to me. When I see it, he is my right hand in my company and of course I trusted him. He is just like a normal person like me. He trying to call my name again and again.

    Some of people inside the ship have a lot of spear in their hand. of course they are ready to hunt back the shark. What should I say, its like¡­ hunter be hunted, right? If you ask, why they know about the shark, maybe they see the shark fin from the ship. Without delay, after I got to stand in the ship, my right hand man, Anang and his men throw the spear with the exact harmony. And yet, not even one of the spear hit the shark. its like they skill is very suck. But you know, I suddenly feel hot in my belly and its¡­ hurt. Very hurt.

    ¡°Ugh!¡±

    I feel like my sight is turned blur. A red liquid like blood¡­ or maybe its my blood came out from my belly. I can see my intestines got pierced in the end of the spear. As I expected it is very hurt. It¡¯s like my body is burned by the intense pain.

    ¡°!¡±

    Blood came out from my mouth too. I coughed a lot of times. When I want to switch my vision to my back, one spear pierced my lung¡­ its very hurt. Before I realize it, my body fall to the ocean. This kind of pain is very fucking hurt. Before I lost my all of my consciousness I heard a voice. A voice of my trusted man in this world.

    ¡°Goodbye, Mr. Renardi Putra¡­ I hope you go to hell¡±

    ¡°!!!¡±

    Its really expert mode in my entire life, huh¡­

    When I think that, my consciousness is really turned blurry. Before I lost my feeling, I feel like something bit my belly. When I see that, I already lost half of my body in this stormy blood sea.

    I¡¯ll correct what I think before, this is really a very expert mode that I want from a long time.

    However, its to late for me because I already lost of my feel, and the only thing I saw last time is a small fish eat my left eyeball and trying to eat my right eyeball too.

 Chapter 2 - Rules

    ¡°Welcome to all of our candidate¡­ Now, I¡¯ll explain the rule of this Great War for all of you!¡±

    Ha~ that¡¯s right, I Already death, huh¡­but, wait¡­

    When I realize it, I found someone in front of me. Pure white living thing like person standing in front of me with a cloth you called king¡¯s coat.

    ¡°Hey, what did you say just now? Great War¡­ what is that? And¡­ all of your candidate? It is only me in here though¡­¡±

    ¡°Hmm? Ah¡­ sorry I forgot to tell you that you are the third last who came here and of course you and all of the candidate can¡¯t see one another. After all it¡¯s a battle royale you know¡±

    When I ask to this weird thing in front of me, he just answer it playfully like its not its own concern. And battle royale¡­ what did it say to me who already dead.

    But wait a minute, he said extremely dangerous thing like Great War or Battle Royale, right? It means¡­

    ¡°Ah you mean we can¡¯t see one another so the so called ¡®Great War¡¯ or ¡®Battle Royale¡¯ game for you to make it interesting right. Am I wrong?¡±

    ¡°Hu~h? Interesting you say? Who are you Bastard? Why you can say such a dangerous thing like that?¡±

    As I expected, the fish bite the bait huh¡­

    When I said that to collect of my own information, I think it¡¯s a jackpot. Because it says that you can¡¯t see one another it doesn¡¯t mean you can¡¯t hear another too. So the question is why I can¡¯t hear all of them before? The answer is simple, it is because I don¡¯t have a server before and the server that I mean is this pure white person.

    ¡°Stop it, don¡¯t make it more terrible¡±

    ¡°Mama¡­ I Want to go home!!!¡±

    I hear two voice of girl. I don¡¯t know their ages but from just the voice I can assume its around 15 until 18 years old.

    ¡°I Just Want to verify it, Are you all already de¡ª¡±

    When I trying to say that, suddenly the white person interrupt me.

    ¡°Okay, everyone stop this chit-chat time right now, because I¡¯ll explain everything to you right now.¡±

    When he said that I trying to count how many people around me right now from their breath. You can still count it even you didn¡¯t see the people yourself because from some research that I read, I find that people have different way to breath and it has its own rhythm so I try to figure that from the rhythm. Of course it¡¯s not the first time I tried it¡­ maybe the second time I think.Reading on Amazon or a pirate site? This novel is from Royal Road. Support the author by reading it there.

    Hmm¡­ 15¡­ not it¡¯s 16 person, huh¡­ from the way they breath maybe 10 of them is girl huh¡­

    ¡°Okay Everyone, maybe for us this is just a game but, for you its your second life and of course the hardest one¡±

    My question is already answered by this thing. So like I assume, we are already dead.

    When he said that, I hear some of people crying or throwing a curse to something. After all people below average is troublesome.

    ¡°First, in this Great War you must suppressed the wave that will come in 15 years later. There will be 9 wave that will come. 8 wave of them will represent the skill you choose later. I will explain about the skill later.¡±

    ¡°Hey, why 8 wave represent our skill that you said before?¡±

    A boy voice around middle school ask that.

    ¡°the answer is simple, its because every wave will represent 2 skill from all of us¡±

    ¡°2 skill? Not 1?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s because there is 16 of us right now¡±

    He~ so there is another normal person except me here huh

    The people who answer the question to the boy are male and female. But he said wave¡­ its like one of tower defense feature that I try to play huh? Is it interesting for me? I think its boring because if you already know the algorithm its pretty easy.

    When I think that, the white thing continue his explanation.

    ¡°As The two of them said there is currently 16 of you present in this white space that I, Mogu made¡±

    Mogu? Is it¡­ it¡¯s name? Uwaaa~ it¡¯s a very suck name

    ¡°Second, why I said 15 years later? Its because after you get out from this space you will reborn as a new cute baby. You can choose what you like later and such as the description you want. After all I give you a privilege to choose what you want for your second life. And in the next world you will came, they call an adult person after children turned 15 years old. How can I put it, we can¡¯t make you killing each other before you turn adult you know.¡±

    ¡°!!!¡±

    When I and all of the candidate hear Mogu playful explanation about killing each other I can hear their breath stop for a while and some girl who sob can be heard.

    ¡°Third, if you trying to refuse to killing each other you can do it¡ª¡±

    ¡°So it¡¯s just your threat, huh! You fucking Bastard!¡±

    Suddenly someone interrupt Mogu Explanation but what came for after that make the candidate stop their breath again.

    ¡°¡ªBut, every year¡­ your beloved one will die one by one. After that you can face each other in this white room once again and you will be force to play a Judgement Game. This game will contain what will you do in a whole year and you must find who make a great disorder to the world. The only one who knows about that of course is the culprit but if you can save yourself and make a false accusation based on others and all of survivor candidate choose your blame target as the culprit, you can live and your target will take the punishment for what you do, isn¡¯t that great?¡±

    ¡°is it mean¡­ they will die?¡±

    ¡°Huh? What are you saying?! Of course they are die¡­ if not it won¡¯t be interesting you know¡±

    What should I say¡­ its hard to believe¡­ but so real to understand.

    ¡°Fourth, you can choose your skill after I finish this explanation, and you know its just my suggestion but¡­ you can choose a Cheat based skill too. Whatever you like, except being a god and etc. Ah! But if you want be a demon king or maybe overlord, you can choose that in your race description later.¡±

    More and more I heard about this, more and more absurd information I got. But one think that I can be sure is¡ª

    ¡°Last, if you win and successfully suppress all of the wave, I can grant all of your wish later, so let¡¯s begin our Great War!¡±

    ¡ªI can choose the hardest mode that I wish for long time.

 Chapter 3 - My Cheating Skill

    ¡°So¡­ As you say before, I can Choose Whatever Skill that I want and your recommended is of course a cheat based skill, am I right?¡±

    ¡°Of course¡­ you¡¯re right!¡±

    Currently, I and Mogu discuss about the description and skill that I want to choose. I don¡¯t know the exact time but if my natural clock isn¡¯t wrong maybe now I already spend around 30 minutes with this pure white like person thing, Mogu.

    After Mogu finish his explanation, he tell to us to choose whatever we want like how will your look looks like, what kind of family background will you prefer, or what kind circumstances do we want. He gives us a privilege to choose all of it.

    But¡­ is it really ok to tell what skill I want right now? I mean¡­ aren¡¯t another people will hear it too? But¡­ even after all this time I do to collect the information I want, I still didn¡¯t hear any noise from another people except me. Or maybe¡­

    ¡°Hey, Mogu¡­ I want to make sure of this but, another candidate won¡¯t hear us, right?¡±

    ¡°Hmm? What are you asking an obviously question? Are you stupid? If another candidate can hear one another, the game won¡¯t turn interesting you know?¡±

    ¡°Stupid¡±, he said. Wow, this is the first time another living things said stupid to me and in front of my face without any concern. This thing called Mogu is really something huh.

    When I hear what Mogu said to me, it really make my eyes open wide, as I said before this is the first time in my history another living thing call me a stupid. But, put that aside, if another people didn¡¯t hear what one another said, he said that the game won¡¯t turn interesting. What should I said, isn¡¯t Mogu the one who stupid here? Of course it will turn interesting you know. But, whatever¡­ its not my game after all.

    So¡­ what should I choose¡­ hmm¡­ ah! I got it!

    When I still thinking about that, a very interesting idea pop out from my mind. Its like a crazy idea but in reality, it really make my heart skip a beat. I hope my idea can bring me to the kind of world that I seek for the long time. A world that can make me feel that I really living in there.

    Without I realize it, I make a very broad smile. Broad enough to make Mogu said,

    ¡°What are you thinking about? It¡¯s disgusting you know¡­ the way you smile so wide suddenly, it make my skin chill¡±

    ¡°What are you saying so suddenly? Its rude you know to say that my elegance smile is disgusting¡±

    ¡°So, are you already finish thinking about your description for your next life?¡±

    ¡°Why are asking something so obviously?¡±

    Finally I got him back!

    I let out my cunning smile without him realize it.

    ¡°It¡¯s because you¡¯re the one who still didn¡¯t finish it!¡±

    ¡°Are you saying all of the candidate is already done except me?¡±

    ¡°Yes, They are¡­ except you¡±

    Finally, my plan to kill time bear a fruit, its really troublesome to wait for this moment you know.

    When I hear Mogu said that, I feel relief. Its not like I didn¡¯t think anything the whole time but, I just want to hear what Mogu said about our¡­ my situation. After all Mogu only think that our situation is like a game for sure. He make his own toy with all the dynamics traits and after that put that toy that failed in the natural selection into garbage. That¡¯s the feeling I got after speak with him. But,

    Don¡¯t worry Mogu, because I¡¯ll be the one who will steal your toyThe story has been illicitly taken; should you find it on Amazon, report the infringement.

    ¡°Okay, Mogu¡­ so first, what I want for my race is an unlucky one, maybe you can say like a half human and half demon that the tribe already extinct¡­ maybe like that. Ah! And don¡¯t forget to put some curse on me, so I can value my live even more.¡±

    ¡°Wow, you¡¯re such an extreme one huh¡±

    ¡°second, my place when I born, huh. Honestly, I don¡¯t really care where I born but if you can do it than just put me in some dangerous region that the normal people can¡¯t get easily in. like the last place that will unlock before you fight a demon king or boss in the game.¡±

    ¡°Are you sure about that? I mean to put you¡­ when you still a newbie in a dangerous region? Even you are a cheater you still a ¡®Reincarnator¡¯ you know? That time maybe you still in your infant period you know?¡±

    ¡°you¡¯re wrong about one thing!¡±

    ¡°one thing?¡±

    When I say that, Mogu tilt his head to the left and still trying to figure where is his wrong. Before he figure it out, I continued.

    ¡°it is not ¡®Dangerous¡® but, a Very dangerous situation, got it?¡±

    ¡°Hey! I¡¯ll just say this once but, I think you had some screw loose in your head!¡±

    ¡°What are you saying right now? Of course I had! And¡­ a lot of it! Even you didn¡¯t point that out, I already know about it from a long time ago.¡±

    When I said that, I saw mogu¡¯s body trembling. It¡¯s like he afraid of me. But, like I care about him. Its my second life after all. I want to feel what life is and value my life even more. Not just an easy life I got in my past. But a real normal life that I recognize.

    ¡°Third, Hey Mogu!¡±

    ¡°What is it now?!¡±

    ¡°Tell me the weakest cheat based skill that you know!¡±

    ¡°Huh! Are you perhaps¡­ making fun of me?!¡±

    Woa~ he will snap soon, but like I care about his emotion.

    when I ask him, I see a vein pop out in his round head. I try to asking my self that where is vein pop out from? But, whatever I don¡¯t find its interesting to figure it now.

    ¡°Just say it! There is no problem with you right?¡±

    ¡°What should I say¡­ you really take thing lightly, huh¡±

    ¡°Whatever just say it right now! I don¡¯t care your opinion¡±

    ¡°Huuu~h, fine I¡¯ll tell you!¡±

    Finally, Mogu tell me the weakest cheat based skill that he know. He said it based on current skill that all of the candidate choose.

    The name of the skill is ¡°Funtasia Board¡±. From his description I got that this skill like a two eyed sword. If you can use it wisely, you can bring a very strong power. But if you just a fucking retard newbie that didn¡¯t know anything about strategy, its like a graveyard for you. Really a troublesome skill, huh.

    From what he say, this skill will give you a real time screen projection and tell you where is your enemy, allied, monster, and even an unknown being in exactly 4x4 Km radius with a very real contour that will be divided in 64 sector like a chess board. I¡¯ll get 16 chess pieces exactly like a chess. Every pieces have a different ability and of course the king piece is mine.

    ¡°So, to say it bluntly¡­ it is a very useless cheat based skill if you didn¡¯t even have an allied yourself, right?¡±

    ¡°you¡¯re right! And¡­ don¡¯t forget if you really choose this kind of cheat, you¡¯re as useless as a support character that trying to defeat a coliseum alone.¡±

    Oi! What kind of comparison you make! But, I think he didn¡¯t know if you expert enough to use that kind of character, you can get a strongest title in coliseum with out any problem. Why I say it that way? The answer is simple, because we are cheaters that¡¯s all.

    Cheat like this isn¡¯t really troublesome for the late of the game but the real problem lay in the early game. I can¡¯t just search for my own allied with only this kind of cheat skill. As he said it¡¯s useless to fight alone. When I still thinking, suddenly Mogu continue,

    ¡°But, if you really choose this skill, I¡¯ll give you another cheat for you.¡±

    ¡°Another cheat? Hey do you want me to ruin your game or do you really want to mess up with my beautiful second life plan that I already made?¡±

    ¡°What kind of screw life plan that you already make?! I don¡¯t care about your life plan! ¡­back to the topic, even I say another cheat, after all its just a bonus. Like I said it will be a war between a Cheater you know, so I¡¯ll give you a cheat that expand your ¡®Mana¡¯ and of course you can use all kind of elementary magic like cheat, not too great right?¡±

    Expand a Mana? I don¡¯t know about the Mana he is talking about, but¡­ of course I need that kind of attack magic for the early game. Not just that, if I think about it again, it¡¯s not that kind of cheat will ruin my plan, so¡­.

    ¡°Okay I¡¯ll accept it¡±

    ¡°Finally, I can relax now, ha~¡±

    ¡°Relax? What are you talking about? I have one thing to ask you to do¡±

    ¡°What?! Again? Ha~ just say it already¡±

    When he said that, I realize that my mouth smile more cunningly than before. It really make my heart skip a beat. Something that I really want to do from the start¡ª

    ¡°Please make that every candidate can hear my voice¡±

    ¡°For what purpose?¡±

    ¡°Just do it like that, please¡­ I promise that I¡¯ll help you make your game more interesting than you think¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t know what you want to do but, if its for that purpose¡­ okay I¡¯ll do that.¡±

    ¡ªI¡¯ll make your Great War game¡¯s mine.

 Chapter 4 - Lets Play The Game

    ¡°Welcome to all of our candidate¡­ Now, I¡¯ll explain the rule of this Great War for all of you!¡±

    Huh? Great War? What exactly this Cosplay person talking about? Is it some street performance or television program? I really don¡¯t get it! Just a Minute ago I¡¯m still in Shibuya Station. With my Girlfriend and after that¡­ Ah! I meet my second girlfriend and¡­ and¡­ I can¡¯t remember anything¡­

    When I still confused about my own condition, I¡¯m trying to inspect the white room around me. What I see is just a pure white space with no end to it.

    ¡°Hey, what did you say just now? Great War¡­ what is that? And¡­ all of your candidate? It is only me in here though¡­¡±

    ¡°Hmm? Ah¡­ sorry I forgot to tell you that you are the third last who came here and of course you and all of the candidate can¡¯t see one another. After all it¡¯s a battle royale you know¡±

    What should I say, I don¡¯t really care about that white thing in front of me who currently talking to himself.

    Wait, talking to himself? Is he Crazy? But, wait¡­ wait¡­ its clearly that I can hear another voice of man mix in there¡­ but who is it? Is this man the same as me? Isn¡¯t it that you called an abduction?

    When I still thinking about that, this white man say something that I can¡¯t understand. He said,

    ¡°Okay Everyone, maybe for us this is just a game but, for you its your second life and of course the hardest one¡±

    Yes, he said that it¡¯ll be my second life. Is he saying that I¡¯m already dead? I¡¯m, the charismatic 16 years old male student, Kotobuki Sora is dead?! But wait a minute, if my mind not wrong, before I arrived at this creep white space, I remember that I trying to tell that I¡¯m not cheating to both of my girlfriend but suddenly my third and fourth girlfriend come and the fourth of them slap me in the face one by one. After that,

    Ah! I remember right now¡­ after the four of them slapped my cheek, my fifth girlfriend come to me and suddenly hug me very gently. But when I give her my hug, I feel my stomach is burnt and its hurt enough to make me loss all of my strength to stand on my foot. When I see her face she is crying and it really make my heart pain so much¡­ after all I can¡¯t reject all of my girlfriend when they are confess they love to me. I just¡­ can¡¯t see them crying like that. I know it¡¯s my punishment for what I did to them but when I see my fifth girlfriend ran out after make my stomach half open, I really forgot that I have sixth girlfriend. And I see her grim face from the place I sat and she already wait her turn to kick me when the train arrived.

    When I remember that its really make my heartache. After my sixth girlfriend kick me, I remember that a train hit my body from the right side. Not stop on that, the last thing I remember is my head¡­ maybe shattered to pieces. Its really awful.

    After all, become a male who kind to any girl who love you is¡­ hard, huh. But you know, I do all of that because I didn¡¯t want any girl who care about me cried. It doesn¡¯t matter if I¡¯m the only one who get hurt. Yet in the end, I¡¯m the only one who make all of them cried. Really I¡¯m the worst.

    But, when the white person in front of me who claim as Mogu said that, I can hear a lot of voice around me. I don¡¯t know the exact number but I think it is more than 6 people.

    Mogu started to explain the rule of the so called Deadly Game. First, He said that we must suppressed all of the wave that will come every year and there is 9 waves in total. Second, Mogu forbid us to trying killing each other before we turn adult or 15 years old.

    Its like some anime, manga, or light novel that I read sometimes ago. What they said¡­ reincarnated stuff like that¡­ yeah that¡¯s it, that kind of thing I guess.

    Third, there is a punishment if we refuse to kill each other. Like our beloved one will die by something like curse or what we don¡¯t know. And the last is,

    ¡°Fourth, you can choose your skill after I finish this explanation, and you know its just my suggestion but¡­ you can choose a Cheat based skill too. Whatever you like, except being a god and etc. Ah! But if you want to be a demon king or maybe overlord, you can choose that in your race description later.¡±

    As I think, if its reincarnated development, its not wrong if I expected about something like Cheat exist¡­

    After Mogu explain that if we win and successfully suppressed the wave, he will grant the winner¡¯s any wish that we want, Mogu came to me and ask about my race description and something along that.

    ¡°I don¡¯t know, I just want to make up for the mistake I made in my past life or maybe¡­ can you just give me the same appearance like I have right now?¡±

    ¡°If its just that I can give you that. But is it alright?¡±

    ¡°That will help. And is anyone can hear our conversation right now?¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t worry about that~ I already cut the communication among all of the candidate.¡±

    So right now I can say anything I want, huh¡­.

    I keep quiet for around 10 minutes. I think about what circumstance I want in my second life.

    ¡°Okay, for the circumstance¡­ maybe I want to live in orphanage¡±

    ¡°Orphanage? Why in there?¡±

    ¡°If you ask about that¡­ maybe I don¡¯t want my beloved one die every year if there is no candidate who want to kill each other¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s too na?ve you know! ¡­and don¡¯t forget about the person who care about you in that Orphanage, what will you do about that?¡±

    ¡°About that¡­ maybe I¡¯ll think about that later¡±

    After I said that, Mogu think about something and suddenly show his eyes wide open.

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    ¡°Mogu? Why you suddenly look so tired?¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t worry its just someone in here have a few of screw loose in his head¡±

    Are you saying there is someone crazy among us? Are you kidding me?!

    When I think that, my body is slightly trembling before I realize it.

    ¡°So, what skill will you choose¡­ Kotobuki Sora-kun?¡±

    ¡°About that, can I really choose a cheat based skill?¡±

    ¡°Of course you can! After all if you didn¡¯t choose that, it won¡¯t turn interesting you know!¡±

    If Mogu said like that, without any hesitation I¡¯ll choose that!

    ¡°Okay, I¡¯ll choose a cheat based skill like an Invincible shield. A shield that can protect me and my beloved person. A shield that I can make whenever I want. A shield that powerful enough so I can protect the one I cared from the jinx, can you give me that kind of cheat ability?¡±

    Of course¡­ he won¡¯t give me that cheat right? After all if there is one with that kind of cheat, the rules number three will be annulled, right?

    ¡°Hmm? That¡¯s itself is interesting, okay~ I¡¯ll grant you that skill! ¡­the name of the skill is ¡®Shield of Heart¡¯, a skill that can protect anything even its your beloved one from the jinx. But, don¡¯t forget even you are a Cheater, when you face another candidate, there will be a condition which can make you in disadvantage. And this condition applied to the other too, so don¡¯t worry.¡±

    ¡°!¡±

    He really give me that kind of cheat! Are you kidding me? Then what happen to your own rule?

    When I still thinking about that, my mind are going blank for about 40 minutes and suddenly I hear a voice of another man talk to Mogu.

    ¡°So, Which Cheat will you choose?¡±

    ¡°But before that, is it really true that another candidate can¡¯t pick the same skill one another?¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t worry, I can guarantee it~¡±

    ¡°Then, I want to choose a cheat that can expand my mana so I can use all of magic that I want and a cheat like map that will represent a location of another cheater candidate, can you grant it!¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s no problem, but why such a weak cheat do you pick?¡±

    ¡°Hmm? ¡­even you ask that, I think I have a confidence to KILL all of them by myself. So, what is wrong for me to be a hunter in this game¡­ and of course all of them will be my prey. As you said before, this is a GAME and a DEADLY one, am I right? So, what¡¯s wrong if I want to get a title like MVP?¡±

    What! Is this man Crazy?! What is he talking about?! Wait in the First place? Why that man voice can reach me? Is it perhaps¡­ all of Mogu said to me is a lie¡­ about the other candidate can¡¯t hear my voice? What¡­ what should I do if my assumption is right? I means¡­ they can hunt me before I turned adult?! Don¡¯t screw around with me!

    When I heard what the man talking about to Mogu, I realize that I can¡¯t trust what Mogu said. Maybe its true that he will give us a Cheat but I can¡¯t be sure if anyone know what cheat ability I choose.

    But, what make me really worries is that man who declared that he can kill all of us with such a weak skill¡­ I still can¡¯t believe it. One thing that I can be sure from the declaration he made is if he really can do that, then he is a real deal. If he is just a stupid than he will be the first victim.

    When I started to doubt Mogu, the man continued his declaration,

    ¡°Why you make such a shocking face, Mogu?! I¡¯ll tell you this because you¡¯re a Game Master, the key to win this war is to get a lot of nations help you. Then, the first one I will do is conquer all of the nation. Massacre the kingdom who didn¡¯t take my side. After that I¡¯ll rape all the beautiful princess to my full extent.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re really crazy huh!¡±

    Indeed, this guy is really crazy! Maybe he had some of¡­ screw loose¡­ in his¡­ head¡­ wait! Isn¡¯t this man which Mogu talking about a moment ago!

    ¡°Heh! ¡­not stop at that, I¡¯ll make all of nation to search and hunt for all of the candidate. If they can¡¯t find even a single one of the candidate, I¡¯ll annihilate that kingdom from the history. So you know what I mean, right¡­ Mogu?¡±

    ¡°You mean, you¡¯ll plant a seed of guilty to them¡±

    ¡°Exactly! If they want to stop me¡­ then the only reason is too kill me! But, if they can¡¯t kill me, they are the one to be killed by me. Even if they can kill me, there will be another me that born among us¡­ Cheater Candidate! ¡­but I have one simple question that I¡¯ll ask to the other candidate if I meet them personally¡±

    ¡°What is that?¡±

    ¡°Is they really can massacre a battalion that I deploy to hunt them? I mean¡­ its human we¡¯re talking about after all. If they want to stop me, of course they must massacre the army that I command to hunt them. If they think they can kill me without any casualties¡­ they are too na?ve.¡±

    ¡°why do you say that they are too na?ve?¡±

    ¡°After all¡­ if they can¡¯t even kill a people who have a family, I¡¯ll be the one who will execute them in the end. So, the only reason is to kill me before I can make my move, right. Even if you, Mogu lie to me that the only living thing who can hear my voice right now is you¡­ the question will change based on the condition. In the end, who am I, right?¡±

    ¡°Pft! Ahahaha¡­ you are really something, huh!¡±

    He is¡­ a real deal! I must stop him¡­ but with just a cheat shield ability, that isn¡¯t enough to stop him!

    When I starting to think that, I can¡¯t hear any voice from that man. After all, I can¡¯t believe Mogu¡­ even another candidate, I can¡¯t believe them. But, I still have to struggle to stay alive no matter what happen.

    ¡°Mogu!¡±

    ¡°What is it?!¡±

    ¡°Give another Cheat that I can use to attack a man like him!¡±

    ¡°Oh ya~ but I¡¯m sorry, Rule are rule so I can¡¯t give you another cheat ability.¡±

    ¡°What!¡±

    Are you Kidding me!

    ¡°But, I¡¯ll give you an exception¡­ I¡¯ll give you 10 shield that can you use to attack and of course there will be something you must pay to use them. Are you fine with that?¡±

    Some punishment! Like I give a shit to that kind of thing!

    ¡°I take that!¡±

    ¡°Hehehe~ it really become more interesting!¡±

    Around 20 minutes later, Mogu open all the communication to another candidate and continue his final explanation.

    ¡°As you can see, there will be a punishment if you kill another candidate before all of you turn adult. But, if you put them in worst state before they turn adult, feel free to do it! Maybe like¡­ cut both of their leg and hand¡­ something like that~¡±

    Even Mogu still explain it, I can hear some of voice around me said who is the one that declared such a declaration before. As I expected, I must assume that the other candidate know about my cheat ability too. Its kind troublesome in a lot of way.

    ¡°Ah one thing I forget to tell you, maybe a lot of you will ask this in later time, but after thinking about it I find it troublesome to explain it again and again so first, all of you can wish a dead person to be revive. Second, all of you can ask 3 question from me except another candidate skill, location, and something along that. Third, when you born maybe you¡¯ll ask something about your birthmark later¡­ so, I¡¯ll tell you know that your birthmark is your emblem. It means everyone will have an emblem that represent your current status and type of your cheat skill.¡±

    Type of¡­ our cheat skill?

    ¡°What do you mean?¡±

    A voice of a girl I didn¡¯t hear from the start suddenly ask about the same thing that make me wondering.

    ¡°It means, it will represent about your cheat trait. There is 16 of them and start from 10 the weakest and 3 Joker emblem as the strongest. Where Diamond represent Magic, Clover represent Intelligence, Heart represent Support, and Spade represent Strength.¡±

    It looks like a poker card huh¡­.

    ¡°When a Heart face a Diamond, Heart will have an advantage. When Diamond face a Spade, Diamond have an advantage. When Spade face a Clover, Spade have a advantage. When Clover face a Heart, Clover Have an advantage. And the other conditions is normal like Heart face a Spade there will be a normal condition.¡±

    What should I say¡­ its like rock-paper-scissor game, right?

    ¡°And the last thing I want to tell you all is¡ª¡±

    This time a voice of man that I heard 20 minutes ago interrupt Mogu next words and it really make me want to punch him. Of course, a very strong one. Because what he said¡ª

    ¡°¡ªLets Play The Game!¡±

    ¡ªWill become a starting sign of this crazy deadly game between us¡­ ¡°Reincarnated Cheater¡±.

 Chapter 5 - Good Bye My Second Life

    ¡°Hey in the beginning I don¡¯t really understand what is your meaning to do that but¡­ as you said this time¡¯s game turn more interesting that I think before!¡±

    ¡°So what the other candidate response about what am I to do before?¡±

    ¡°Well¡­ it turn almost all of them ask me to give a spade class cheat or give them another simple ability to attack like yours though.¡±

    Well, I think its great if they started to doubt each other. Even I think there is still a candidate who have a normal trait like me who won¡¯t fall to such a taunt speech but it¡¯s like Mogu didn¡¯t understand the whole meaning of my speech.

    Currently, all of the other candidate already go to their new life and in this room there is only me and Mogu. Even I talk to Mogu normally, I still insert some question that will make me gain a new information about this battle. But, its not easy as I expected.

    From what I got, this is not the first deadly game that Mogu make. Not just that, I got the abstract information about the other candidate skill. Even Mogu said that almost all of them change their skill to Spade class, for what I assume¡­ only 5 of them that really change their skill. Of course the first casualties will come from the 5 of them. Why I said that? First, they are just a group of people who didn¡¯t have a slightest suspicious about what I said. It means, they are too scared too think realistically in this kind of weird situation. Second, the 5 of them will be an easy target for brainwashing by the other candidate. If they fall to the brainwashing state, they will die with no time for the culprit sake. If they are guy, maybe they will be a great pawn to declare a war and if they girl¡­ you know what happen next, right.

    Not just that, maybe¡­ around 7 of them will ask about some new skill for self defense. This kind of people will become troublesome later. Maybe they will be a parasite and kill you in the end or a saint who will refuse to kill another candidate before they got killed in the end. This kind of personality without fail will make this game more interesting.

    But, the real problem is the other 3 candidate. I can¡¯t guess just from their breath. If I take what Mogu said before they will be the third people who got the Joker emblem for current deadly game. Or they are who have a confidence in what skill they are choose. After all, this kind of people are the people I must face to understand the true meaning of ¡°Value my own life¡±.

    ¡°So, are you ready to go to your next life, Renardi Putra?¡±

    ¡°But, Don¡¯t forget what I said to you¡±

    ¡°You want a very hard Mode for your second life, right?¡±

    ¡°What are you saying? It¡¯s not ¡®Very Hard¡¯ but a ¡®Very Extreme¡¯ one you know!¡±

    ¡°Okay, okay, I got it that your head is crazy enough for me to understand you!¡±

    I think Mogu still doesn¡¯t get it¡­ about the fact that almost all of the candidate already doubt him¡­

    When I make a very cunning smile,

    ¡°!¡±

    I realize that Mogu make the same exact smile as mine.

    ¡°Pft~, Hahaha~, shit! You tricked me, huh¡­ Mogu bastard!¡±

    As I expected, Mogu isn¡¯t a stupid Game Master, huh¡­.

    Just from seeing that I already understand that Mogu has the same vibe like me. Where I want trying to steal his game, he make use full of me to make the game more interesting. Just from thinking about that, I feel like I got a new target that I must defeat later but,

    Before that I must win this game first¡­.

    When I still thinking about that, I close my eyes for a moment. But when I opened it again, I see a very strange thing around me.

    A very tall trees and a lot of it grow around me. I can¡¯t see too detail around me because its too dark, but from where am I right now, I can see 4 moon shining so brightly above me.

    Is it¡­ forest?

    That¡¯s the only simple thing that I can describe where I were right now.

    When my eyes accustomed to it, I can see a lot of people¡­ with horn fighting a very big monster that looks like a bull who carry a big axe in its right hand and a very big sword in the left hand. trying to move my hand, I can see a small red¡­ no maybe its blood around my hand in front of me. From that sight, I can say that I¡¯m still an infant that born just from a moment ago.

    I try to inspect the area around me. I see a very wide pool of blood. That time I can finally hear a voice. Maybe it is what you feel when you still a new born baby. It needs time to accustomed to all of my 5 sense.Reading on Amazon or a pirate site? This novel is from Royal Road. Support the author by reading it there.

    ¡°Hey¡­ Take my wife and run!¡±

    ¡°But¡ª!¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t worry about me, just run! Argh!¡±

    That time I hear a man voice that scream to my direction. When I trying to look to the left side, I see a very weak beautiful woman lost his consciousness beside me.

    Maybe, he is my mother¡­ that means¡­ the one who scream is my father!

    When I realize that, I trying to help my father but, as expected I don¡¯t know how can I do to save him. Not just that, some group of people already carry me and my mother to flee from this situation. What should I say¡­ that time when a young man carry me, I can see my father right hand got cut off with a big axe. After that the bull like monster¡­ maybe its what you called a Minotaurs, swinging its great sword from above to cut my father body in half. After that the Minotaurs take my father left side and throw it to my direction.

    I hear a scream from around of me. when I see to the direction where the scream come, I can see a bunch of Minotaurs came from around of the people who flee and without any problem swing its great sword from left to right to cut half of the body of the people around me. from that one swing more than 20 people lost his upper body. Luckily, I were thrown to the sky by the man whose carry me. That time I realize that there is another baby who fall beside me.

    I don¡¯t know whose baby is that because even my mother body already just a lump of meat after a lot of wolves that come behind the Minotaurs ate her.

    Its strange that I didn¡¯t feel anything after seeing my family got killed in front of me¡­ maybe because I didn¡¯t really know about them?

    When I realize it, it is really an extreme way that Mogu give me for my birthday present, huh. But¡­ in another way, how can I survive a situation like this when I¡¯m still an infant?

    When I think that, I heard a voice. Frankly to say, I know whose voice it is.

    ¡°A¡­ A¡­ Check¡­ Okay~ I¡¯m forgot to tell you all but, you can see your status and skill description after saying ¡®Emblem¡¯, you know! ¡­and if you can hear my voice it means, you all already born but don¡¯t worry because I make all of you born not in the same date but only in the same year. And even all of you still an infant, you can already use your cheat you know! Of course you can use just twice a day! so, be care full and have a nice day~¡±

    What he said just now? We already can use our skill! And twice a day! Are you kidding me! You can say¡­ as expected from Cheater, huh.

    That¡¯s right. Its Mogu¡¯s voice.

    But that¡¯s not the problem here. The problem is what kind of skill I must choose right now. In the first place, the skill that I pick is the weakest one and from what I have heard, it¡¯s a clover or heart class. So the only choice is a bonus skill that Mogu gave me.

    In a lot of way, that¡¯s still the problem too. Even I can use that skill, I can only use it twice a day but, as I am right now what can I do as an infant? Even if I use it now, after that what can I do? In the first place, what kind of elementary Magic that I can use to kill all of the monster around here?

    Before I trying to make a taunt to all of the candidate, Mogu said to me that the only elementary magic I can use are like Fireball, thunder bolt, water ball, sand screen, and another useless ability. that¡¯s why he gave me that skill as a bonus.

    Is it the wrong one here is¡­ me? but wait¡­ people call me genius in my past life even I don¡¯t really care about that but¡­ I must trying to think about something here! Something that can make a lot of monster disgusting¡­ the only infant can do¡­ but exactly what is it? I don¡¯t get it!

    When I have a dilemma in my mind, I see one of Minotaurs approaching me. I realize that I don¡¯t have much time left to think about something so difficult.

    I think it¡¯s not the right time to see my emblem status, huh¡­

    With that thing on my mind, I use my first cheat,

    [Funtasia Board]

    When I think about the name of the cheat I choose, I pick my original skill. There is a very bigger chess board with 64 sector divided in there and of course that board tell my current position as a golden dot in the middle of the board.

    Based from what Mogu said, this board have a size about 4x4 Km realtime radius. In that board currently there is 5 dot. The golden one is mine, the green one is the baby beside me,

    Wait¡­ Baby? Is this baby still alive? I don¡¯t believe it, I think this baby got eaten by the wolf or got crush by the Minotaurs. I really forgot about that baby I see a moment ago.

    The red one is the enemy¡­ and a lot of them maybe around a hundred¡­ I don¡¯t know, the white one is an unknown being and there is 10 of them scatter around the board, and about 7 spot have a very dark dot with red core in the middle of it.

    I think there is no way out for me now. I already use once of my skill that I can only use twice and I only have another one, so what should I choose?

    This kind of choice is really troublesome but, I feel very excited right now. Its like that time when I chased by a shark before I met Mogu. Its that kind of feeling.

    Maybe if I have a mirror now, I can see my cute baby face that smiling so cunningly right now. Really, I want to see it.

    Beside, around me there is only enemy and my only allied is the baby that 50 meter far from me. what do you think a baby can do in this kind of situation? The answer is simple.

    Cry.

    That¡¯s the only weapon we infant hold. Even a lot of people didn¡¯t know I still have my special weapon.

    ¡°Gu¡­ gagu¡­ Da¡­ Bu! (Eat My Special Attack!)¡±

    ¡°!¡±

    Dead silence.

    Of course that the only thing you can description it. What do you think my special attack are? Its¡­ poop.

    That the only thing, we infant hold dear. Guhahaha! That¡¯s our special attack that make another people confuse even just for a second and to make it stronger there is support character beside me. you¡¯re right¡­ it¡¯s a finishing move from the baby beside me¡­ it¡¯s crying voice of a baby that loud enough to make an echo around this dark forrest.

    Of course all of this goes as my plan. Why I can say that you said? Its because I know the baby beside me is yet to cry even if it fall a while ago. That¡¯s the simple reason that I think this baby will crying soon.

    When all of the attention goes to the baby beside me, I make a first gamble in my life¡ª

    [Solar Flare]

    ¡ªI think about the skill name and shoot it to the night sky and make a very dazzling light before I fainted. Even know it, I still asking myself that why I can use my skill by only thinking about it.

 Chapter 6 - 7 Years Old

    ¡°Hey, Exy-Kun! Can you help Orfa-Chan bring this Cream Soup to the Bard-San¡¯s House?¡±

    ¡°Why do you ask me?¡±

    ¡°Because you are the only one who already finish with your task, alright?¡±

    Why always me? But okay¡­ since I don¡¯t have anything to do right now.

    ¡°Okay lilina-Nee~, I¡¯ll help Orfa-Chan since her face right now looks like a child who will give a birth anytime soon, ahaha~¡±

    ¡°Muuu~ Exy-Kun so mean!¡±

    ¡°But that¡¯s true you know, Orfa-Chan¡±

    When I say that to Orfa-Chan directly, she puffed her cheek and still grumble about something I can¡¯t hear.

    ¡°Okay Lilina-Nee, I¡¯ll go right now!¡±

    ¡°Lilina-Neechan, Orfa too!¡±

    ¡°Be careful you too!¡±

    When Lilina-Nee said that, I and Orfa-Chan already leave the Orphanage to bring this Cream Soup to Bard-Ossan¡¯s house.

    But still, if I see Orfa-Chan walking while humming happily like this, I can¡¯t even think that Orfa-Chan is the baby beside me at that deadly night 7 years ago.

    That¡¯s right, that night 7 years ago In the Darkney Forest in the Restrict Continent, I¡¯m, Renardi Putra¡­ currently my name is Exypno Agori, make a gamble. I put my hope into the unknown existence that I see from the Funtasia Board as a white dot that scatter around the Darkney Forrest. I can make that gamble because when I see the movement from the white dot, I realize their movement is like a group who trying to find something because they move very fast from the bushes, lakes, and caves. From that movement, I make a fast conclusion that this white dot are a rescue team. But because I don¡¯t have any time left to think another possibility that¡¯s why I said that it¡¯s a gamble. But luckily, it¡¯s a raid group of high adventurer that take a request to find some herd of wolves and annihilate it. After all, that¡¯s the story what I heard from Lilina-nee. And this Bard-Ossan is the first one who kill the Minotaurs who trying to crush me when I¡¯m fainted after shoot that Solar Flare magic to the night sky.

    Really, Mogu¡¯s Birthday present that time almost make me die. But after all, the one who request this kind of thing to Mogu is me. So I can¡¯t complain about it.

    ¡°Hmm? Why Exy-Kun looks so scared?¡±

    ¡°Ah! Haha~ don¡¯t worry about that, I suddenly have the urge to punch myself¡±

    ¡°Hee~ Exy-Kun weird *Giggle*¡±

    Really, whenever I see Orfa-chan like this make me relieved.

    Maybe some of you ask, Why am I suddenly use some weird honorific like ¡°-Chan¡±, ¡°-Nee¡±, or ¡°-Ossan¡±? This is just my guess but¡­ it is because the effect of the last game between Japanese reincarnated person that this kind of honorifics is like a tradition to this world. Because whenever I have a chance to ask this to Lilina-Nee, she always answer that its because of our Ancestor do that too, so what else the answer I must seek for the conclusion except that? There is none, right.

    After that night, Bard-Ossan placed me and Orfa-chan in the Louloudi Orphanage in this Dynami Country on the Restrict Continent where Bard-Ossan take the request. From what I hear, in this Dynami Country, Strength is Everything. Not just that, Restrict Continent in itself is a continent that the only High Level Adventurer can got in. What level I mean in hear not a numerical type like in the online game but only an adventurer who achieve above a Silver tags in adventurer guild.

    That rank start from [Wood] as the basic until [Black Gold] as the highest, where every tier have 5 level like if you want to get [Bronze] from [Wood] you must get J, I, HI, H, and GH before take a [Bronze] Promotion Exam. That¡¯s why in this country there is not someone who you can call weak. Even us as the baby who born in this country or who growth in the Orphanage will get a lot of basic technique from we are 3 years old. After all, the requirement to leave this continent are [Silver] tag as an adventurer or become a [Red] Bracelet in Coliseum. Like I said before, in this country¡­ strength is absolute.

    There is still noble in this country but it seems that their power not as strong as outside the Restrict continent. In this place you can use money but a lot of money can¡¯t be used as an absolute power.Unauthorized duplication: this narrative has been taken without consent. Report sightings.

    ¡°So, Orfa-Chan¡­ what¡¯s with your magic practice with Lilina-Nee?¡±

    ¡°Hmm? Its really though you know~ Orfa currently can only use dark attribute Magic until intermediate class but its still make Orfa¡¯s head dizzy, you know~¡±

    When Orfa-Chan answer my question, her gesture really make me want to hug her, its because she¡¯s too cute.

    After I¡¯m reborn as Exypno Agori from the Misi Anthropini Tribe, I really feeling alive like this. It¡¯s like I become honest to my feeling. Because, its different in my past life. Every people who trying to approach me, in the end the only motive for them to do it is my money or status. But currently, I¡¯m just a normal Orphanage boy that hold any money or status.

    Ah! If you ask about Misi Anthropini Tribe, it really turn that Mogu keep his promise about the condition for my second life. This tribe itself is a demi-human tribe who possess some unique curse. The curse I possess after I see my Emblem Status is a curse that will move another people¡¯s disease to me if I touch them. In the end, its like I can save them from the disease because the one who will carry it is me.

    When I still 4 years old, I am trying to test it on Lilina-Nee when she got a fever. The result as I expected, after I touched her, in 5 minutes suddenly Lilina-Nee¡¯s condition is completely heal but in the other side, after 20 minutes¡­ my condition turn worst and it seems that I completely got Lilina-Nee¡¯s fever. What should I say¡­ for another people this curse is like an ultimately medicine. But, for me¡­ its really a troublesome curse.

    If we talk about my appearance now, I got a very cool horn in my head. The color is black with white stripes. My skin color is the same as normal human but my eyesight is much better at night. As what I heard, my tribe life span is around 130 years.

    Even Orfa-chan is the baby that born before me, his tribe is Misos Daimonas. Our tribe lived together in the same placed. The different between our tribe lay in their curse trait, appearance, combat skill, and lifespan. Orfa¡¯s tribe curse trait is to make another people sick for a long time after she touch a people who has an ill intent toward her and the whole tribe got the same curse. It really difference from my tribe whose every person got a different type of curse yet every 20 new born babies, they will will carry a unique curse that I brought. That¡¯s why our tribe can live together without any problem¡­ except the one who will be the carrier. For the appearance, the very simple way is to see their horn. In my tribe there is only one horn that will grow but in Orfa-Chan¡¯s there are two.

    In combat skill, my tribe really suited to be a knight or archer but in Orfa-Chan¡¯s most suited to be a magician and of course an advanced one. Last, our lifespan¡­ my tribe¡¯s lifespan as I said before, its around 130 years but in Orfa-Chan¡¯s it almost 4 times mine. Its around 500 years, that¡¯s why Lilina-Nee only tell me about this trait and not even Orfa know about it.

    If I compare myself from that Deadly night and now, currently, I can use all of the Elementary magic I know without any problem and of course without chant like the others do. But as Mogu said before this bonus cheat ability only allow me to learn spell equal to Elementary class, above that¡­ I can¡¯t do it no matter how much times I tried. Its like something in my mind trying to constraint me from learning it. So in conclusion, the only spell I can use are elementary spell.

    ¡°Ah!, Exy-Kun, we already arrived at Bard-Jii¡¯s home¡±

    ¡°Then Lets give it to him and we can back to the Orphanage¡±

    ¡°Um!¡±

    I knocked Bard-Ossan¡¯s house several time before he opened it.

    ¡°Why are you so loud in the Morning?!¡±

    ¡°Ugh!¡±

    ¡°Uwawawa~¡±

    Before I realize it, my head got a light punch from him. Beside me, Orfa-Chan just fidgeting because she afraid about the current situation. As I expected he still have a grudge for me after I steal his cloth in the public toilet at the adventurer guild because he make fun of me after I ask him to teach me about sword technique so I can participate in the coliseum.

    ¡°I say I¡¯m sorry about yesterday Bard-Ossan! And you mustn¡¯t hit a child you know¡±

    ¡°What kind of child that steal your cloth even your pant after that sold it in the black Market to buy a new onepiece cloth for Orfa-Chan!¡±

    ¡°Uwawa~ so-sorry Bard-Jii, Or-Orfa will take off this cloth immediatelly¡±

    ¡°Uwaa! Stop it Orfa-Chan! Don¡¯t heard what Bard-Ossan say just a moment ago!¡±

    ¡°Orfa-Chan, don¡¯t worry about that, just don¡¯t take off your cloth please, I beg you!¡±

    When I and Bard-Ossan aware about it, we trying to stop Orfa-Chan before someone see her take off all her cloth. After Orfa-Chan calm down, Bard-Ossan make us come in to his home and give Orfa-Chan a lollipop like candy that only produce in the Capital City in Ippotis Continent.

    ¡°Tell Lilina-chan, thanks for the Cream Soup, Orfa-Chan¡±

    ¡°Okaay~¡±

    Smiled after saw Orfa-Chan reaction toward the candy, Bard-Ossan sipping his tea calmly.

    ¡°Good for you Orfa-Chan!¡±

    ¡°Um!¡±

    I¡¯m stroke Orfa-Chan¡¯s hair gently after seeing her energetically response.

    ¡°Then¡­ why you come in too, little bastard?¡±

    ¡°What with this different of treatment between me and Orfa-Chan?!¡±

    ¡°Orfa-Chan is cute after all~! So, there is no problem!¡±

    ¡°Hey, but I¡¯m in the same age as her, you know! Even I¡¯m agree that Orfa-Chan is very cute¡±

    ¡°Its different from a barbarian child like you! Orfa-Chan is more and more Cute compare to you¡±

    ¡°Then don¡¯t compare it to me! Indeed Orfa-Chan is cute but¡­ whatever, just teach me about the sword technique already, Ossan!¡±

    Beside me Orfa-Chan still fidgeting and touch his own cheek that blushing like an apple. She smiling happily like a cute hamster. Maybe the reason is because the both of us call her cute all the time in front of her directly.

    ¡°Haaa~ that again. Then after you can do it, what will you do with that?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ll go to coliseum and start my Journey of course!¡±

    When I give my answer¡ª

    ¡°Then My answer is no!¡±

    ¡ªI feel like the atmosphere between us change drastically and turn more serious than before.

 Chapter 7 - Dont Dare You Touch Her

    ¡°Hey, Ossan! Why you didn¡¯t want to teach me even a little bit about your sword technique?¡±

    ¡°Because your reason is not good!¡±

    If this condition goes on, I¡¯ll really die if I meet another candidate right now!

    Its already 1 hour I¡¯m stay in Bard-Ossan¡¯s house. Its not like I can¡¯t self practicing about the sword technique by myself. In truth, I already remember some of the basic after I trying to remember some of the movie I watched in my past life. yet, even I secretly trying to swing my wooden sword, that I brought from Lilina-Nee¡¯s storage room, 200 times every morning, I still didn¡¯t get the right feeling about it. It feels like something is wrong.

    Aside from it, from the information I got¡­ Bard-Ossan is one of the ¡°8 Sword Guardian¡± that specialized in sword magic style. It means he is one of the strongest people who wield a sword technique in this world. That¡¯s why I really want him to teach me everything about sword.

    But every time I give my honest reason to him, he always reject me. What should I say? It seems like he didn¡¯t really like everything about coliseum.

    ¡°But¡­ are you sure, you didn¡¯t walk home Orfa-Chan to the orphanage?¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t worry, even she looks like a really, really cute hamster¡­ Orfa-Chan is strong. She is currently already use an intermediate spell in dark magic type.¡±

    ¡°Hee~ so, what about yourself? Everyday you force me to teach you about my sword technique¡­ it really make me chill down my spine every time you tailed me like a stalker.¡±

    ¡°What are you saying, right now?! Of course I won¡¯t give up until you agree to teach me about your sword technique.¡±

    ¡°But, are you aware about the condition in that orphanage after you turn 8 years old?¡±

    ¡°You mean about the condition to leave the orphanage after I¡¯m turning 8 years old, right? Of course I¡¯m aware about that, after all I¡¯m not like the other average child you know!¡±

    Yes, in this Dynami Country, there is a certain condition that the Orphanage must agreed on. There are three condition in total.

    First, every orphanage must teach every child who already turn 3 years old to something like magic. Of course, I learn it too. I finish my elementary Class magic study in no time. However, I hide all my element except fire and wind. Because when I found about the fact that my tribe didn¡¯t have any strong affinity toward magic, I realize that I mustn¡¯t stand out too much. In fact, its my blunder to use two attribute in the same time without any concern in the first day we all learn about magic. After all, if by any chance another candidate heard about it, it¡¯ll turn troublesome.

    Second, every child must leave orphanage after they turn 8 years old. Because in this country, every child that already turn 8 years old already consider as a teen and not a child anymore. So, after we turn 8 years old we must trying to living independently. It means, if we already has a job, we can automatically have a place to stay but if we don¡¯t have any, it means we must live in the slum. Luckily, Orfa-chan already got her job in a restaurant where Lilina-Nee asking her to help her friend¡­ and it seems the owner really like how Orfa-Chan do her job in there. Even her personality looks like that, she is really diligent while it turn to work.

    Third, every child that already turn 8 years old, will not got any financial support from the Dynami Govern anymore. This condition certainly will burden the orphanage so I¡¯m already aware about it and I didn¡¯t want to be a burden to the orphanage. What should I say¡­ even if you reincarnated into a whole new world, it didn¡¯t mean you can already make whatever you remember in your past life. It didn¡¯t as easy as you think. The technology is different. Social life, tradition, and mindset is different too. So, if you trying to make something so modernly, it¡¯ll just backfire at you in the end. I said that because¡­ if you stupid enough to make something really looks alike as our technology in our past life, it means your identity will be found out in no time by the other candidate. But, if my opinion hit the bulls eye , maybe some stupid candidate already dig his own grave in their new life right now.Unauthorized duplication: this tale has been taken without consent. Report sightings.

    That¡¯s the three condition that force us, Orphanage child must leave our home to go to the outside world.

    Of course if you ask me what should I do after that, I¡¯ll answer that I¡¯ll leave in slum in the meantime. I¡¯ll reach a [Red] bracelet and go on my journey to the outside world.

    After all, I must search my pawn before the war break in 7 years later. But, currently I really feel alive. Because I have something to struggle on. Not just an easy money that I can get just because my status as a heir of great company in my past life.

    ¡°What are you saying? For me you still a child¡­ more preciously a little bastard. Gahaha~¡±

    ¡°Hey! Don¡¯t make fun of me, I¡¯m really serious right now!¡±

    ¡°Then I¡¯ll ask you, are you already got a job? Your birthday is next month, right? If you really want to start your journey, you can just be an adventurer you know¡±

    ¡°But its too long to get a [Silver] tag, the shortest way lay in the coliseum! In there, I only have to get 15 win streak to raise up from [White] Bracelet to [Red] one in one try!¡±

    ¡°So, do you want to leave Orfa-Chan alone in here? In this restrict continent by herself?¡±

    ¡°But, Orfa-Chan can leave by herself you know, I mean she can already use dark magic until intermediate class in her age, and if my guess is right¡­ Orfa-Chan have 4 attribute that she can use beside dark magic¡±

    ¡°But there is another reason you must concern¡­.¡±

    ¡°Another¡­ reason?¡±

    Its not like I don¡¯t know about it, I just didn¡¯t want to admit it.

    ¡°The reason is¡ª¡±

    Before Bard-Ossan finish his word, suddenly someone open the door strongly until make a ¡°Bam¡± like sound. It seems a very urgent matter.

    ¡°What¡¯s wrong, Lilina-san?¡±

    ¡°Lilina-Nee?¡±

    Its Lilina-Nee who interrupt Bard-Ossan word after he open the door strongly. From what I can see, Lilina-Nee run from the orphanage to this house as fast as possible. Her sweat make her blue dress drenched. Her beautiful black hair messed up because of that. And she still trying to catch her breath before she state about the urgent matter she bring to us.

    ¡°Is¡­ Orfa-Chan come¡­ here once¡­ again?¡±

    ¡°Nope, Orfa-Chan already back to the Orphanage a while ago¡±

    ¡°!¡±

    Once again? What the meaning of this? Is it Orfa-Chan already arrived at the orphanage and trying to come here again?

    ¡°Lilina-Nee, is Orfa-Chan already arrived at the orphanage before Lilina-Nee immediately come to this house?¡±

    ¡°Eh¡­ Ah! She¡­ already arrived, but¡­ ha~¡­ hu~¡­ when I ask her to buy some vegetables and bread in the market district around 30 minutes after she arrived at the orphanage, she isn¡¯t come back after that errand. When I ask around the market district, it seems she already finish her errand a few hours ago.¡±

    After I heard about the condition, I realize that I already in here for 5 hours. It means Orfa-Chan still not come back to the orphanage around 3 hours after she finished her errand. From where I see it, its too strange if Orfa-Chan suddenly go somewhere when she still have an errand. Its not like what her always to do and if I think about the time from the orphanage to the market district is only about 20 minutes. So, its strange if Orfa-Chan still not come back to the orphanage.

    It seems, suspicious.

    Even in this restrict continent which hold dear to the bond of family, there is still some of underground organization who trying to abduct us a child, so they can sold us as a slave in the outside of the restrict continent.

    Before I realize it, I grind my teeth and dash out as fast as possible from the house leaving Bard-Ossan behind and straightly go to the slum direction.

    You bunch of shit head, don¡¯t you dare to touch her even a single of her hair! Without fail, I¡¯ll Massacre all of you!

    The reason I take the slum direction is pretty simple¡ª

    [Funtasia Board]

    It seems I got the bulls eye!

    ¡ªits because I already found where Orfa-Chan¡¯s location right now.

 Chapter 8 - Real Practice

    ¡°It looks like an abandon factory, huh?¡±

    When I arrived at 100 meter before where Orfa-Chan¡¯s location is, I can see a very old abandon building that looks like a factory building in my past life. From the description that I got from [Funtasia Board], this building have a size around 960 meter square with the color of this building is pale blue. Some of the rusty iron around the building make me sure that this building is pretty old but still hefty.

    I can¡¯t believe It, this kind of building is located in the slum area¡­

    Just from what I see it, its about half of the size of the adventurer guild in the center of Dynami Country.

    ¡°The red dot¡­ is around 30, huh¡­ it¡¯ll be tough¡±

    I try to cast a wind elementary magic to myself.

    [Wind Enchance (weak)]

    This magic spell will increase my speed to several extent. Because I can¡¯t use any magic except elementary magic, I must carefully approach that building.

    I move while trying to press my breath to a certain degree. I don¡¯t really know about adventurer so I make a simple assumption that all of the adventurer who can enter restrict continent can feel my presence with their instinct or something along that.

    From what I see, around 12 adventurers guarding around the building and some of them wear a [Silver] tags in their necklace. From their clothing I can assume that 5 of them are magician, 3 range weapon user, and the other 4 is melee weapon like spear and sword.

    I can¡¯t carelessly approach them like this, just one miss step, I¡¯ll be the one to be hunted.

    While carefully observe the situation, the dusk is approaching. If its turn like this, I can use this for sneak attack. From what I see from the [Funtasia Board], Orfa-Chan status still a Talented Child. It means they still not put a slave crest on Orfa-Chan¡¯s body.

    But if I think about it, I must use it as a real practice for my experience. While I trying to distract all the adventurer in this building I hope Bard-Ossan can arrived at the right time.

    I wishfully hope about it. After all I know that Bard-Ossan still searching around the Market district from my original cheat skill.

    ¡°Still¡­¡±

    What Magic should I use in this situation? If I want to beat another cheater, I think I must put some handicap right now¡­. because Orfa-Chan only know that I can only use fire and wind attribute, maybe I must use only that attribute as my handicap. But if the condition turn to the worst direction, I¡¯ll abandon this kind of thing to save Orfa-Chan¡¯s life first.

    While still thinking about that, I make my move and trying to go to the roof of the building. From there, I sure I can understand what happen inside the building. But the problem is how must I deal with the guardian.

    In fact, I can just bombardier that building with a more than ten million elementary magic circle in fire and wind attribute, but I¡¯ll endanger Orfa-Chan¡¯s life and the other kid inside the building as well. Not just that, the current me will fainted after use them. After all this kind of tactic is out of my choice.

    Ah! I got it¡­.

    Suddenly, an idea pop out.

    ¡°if¡­ if only in this world, magic are divided by class like Elementary, Intermediate, Advance, Secret, Curse, Restrict, and God only to cut the manual process of the condition to make the magic appear, then what happen if I trying to make that magic manually?¡±

    From my observation from the day I learn about magic, I vaguely figure that this world works based on potential of the individual itself. It means¡­ even you can only use the elementary magic, it doesn¡¯t mean you can¡¯t use a higher one. But what makes the different is the process.Support the author by searching for the original publication of this novel.

    I¡¯ll ask you one question to make you understand about this world concept¡­ what will you do if you want to make a coffee yet you don¡¯t have a coffee seed at that time? Even if you are trying to buying it, there is no coffee seed anymore in your region even in online shop? Will you still trying to make a cup of coffee from a coffee seed? Or will you search an alternative way to make a cup of coffee? If there¡¯s a simple way to make a coffee what will you choose? A Simple one or a hard one? So, can you get what I mean now? if you still don¡¯t get it, I¡¯ll make you clear¡­ you can just buy a sachet of ground coffee in the market because all the coffee seed stock already sold out to the sachet coffee factory. It means, you can just make a coffee automatically or instantly without need to grinding the seed before you make it. In another way, you can call it a simple way to make a coffee.

    If my assumption is right, I can see a lot of potential from my elementary magic. Lets give it a try, maybe if I trying to use it from here, tracking type magic can¡¯t find my location.

    When I think about a magic I want to use, I make a clear figure in mind first, after that I cast around 60 magic circle for elementary magic around of me so the adventurer won¡¯t notice my Magic essence. The magic that I cast is a very simple one.

    [Breeze]

    After I make this breeze appear around me, I¡¯m trying to control it with my magic power. It¡¯s a bit hard to control it in the same time but after some trial and error finally I can control it as I want. It really takes 20 times error, before I succeeded to control all of the 60 [Breeze] spell in the same time. in fact, this spell is not for combat purpose but just a useless spell to make you pass through the summer session. But what will happen if I use this spell as my assassinate weapon?

    From the [Funtasia Board] I can see a green transparent dot with the golden border around it, approach the 12 adventurer that guarding the factory slowly. This kind of dot can tell me that this is my magic I use, in fact I figure about it just 4 days ago while I practicing magic with Lilina-Nee. After all the only one who can see this Board is me, so Lilina-Nee didn¡¯t know about it.

    While the [Breeze] got a perfect distance, I make the [Breeze] to make a sharper wind like a cutter. Slowly and naturally approach their target, so the adventurer didn¡¯t get the time to figure it out. There is 5 [Breeze] for every adventurer. From this distance I can¡¯t really hear what they said but I can see that their face is relief because a very gently wind blow around them. Yes a gently wind¡­ that make all of the adventurer lost their body¡­ and in the next second, the only one left are a lump of meat that scattered around the place. Silently, without any sound. A wind that gently brought them to the underworld and the most important thing are¡­ They death without realizing it.

    Really¡­ what a clean assassination tactic I got there.

    Wahaha~ I think I can¡­ *Hoeeek*¡­ use this tactic later¡­.*Hoeeek*

    After several times I puked, I finally realize that this is my first time killing a human. But, because I know how to be killed feel like, I don¡¯t particularly feel guilty about it. Its just like the same feeling when you kill an animal so you can eat it.

    I feel a little dizzy right now.

    But, I guess my assumption about how magic work is right. It¡¯s feels like you find a bug in an online game and you trying to make a tactic from it so you can use it to fight the player who use their cheat to win the game. I can call it a very legal cheat tactic.

    After I found the tactic that I think a moment ago is worked, I finally have another trump card in my hand. But its not like I¡¯m just an idiot who don¡¯t know his own limit. After successfully massacre the guard, I still carefully approach the building. I take a sword that already lost his wielder and jump to the roof to observe the condition.

    Because my [Wind Enchance (weak)] only last for 3 minute, I cast it every time I move continuously to avoided some tricky situation that can suddenly turn the table between me and them. Because of this spell, I can make my movement sound more lightly than the normal one.

    I move some roof so I can take a peek to the inside of the building. Because the condition around me already dark, the adventurer who guarded inside won¡¯t suspicious about it. In fact, this condition give an advantage for me since I can make use full of my eyesight in the dark.

    The sound echoing enough so I can heard the conversation inside.

    ¡°Boss, what should we do this time if there is a broken goods in here?¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t worry about it, even if they are broken goods, some of twisted noble will buy them to make full of their lust.¡±

    Broken Goods? Twisted noble? Don¡¯t fucking around with me?! Do you say Orfa-Chan is goods? And all of this bastard want to sell her to some pedophile noble?! Okay¡­ I think I won¡¯t show any mercy for them¡­ if I have¡­ not have, I¡¯ll certainly make a chance to massacre them slowly and painfully!!!

    After I heard about it, I think I¡¯ll snapped soon. But I trying to catch my breath so I can calm myself. Ah~ I think¡ª

    Its not like I am the one who kill them personally, instead¡­ my magic who will do It for me.

    ¡ªI calm enough so I can massacre them without any problem. Maybe because of the way I think right now, I didn¡¯t feel any guilt for killing another living things now. even they looks like a human, deep inside they are just a herd of animal. So, I mustn¡¯t restrain myself after I save Orfa-Chan.

 Chapter 9 - Torture

    ¡°Where is Orfa-Chan¡¯s location?¡±

    When my urge to massacre all of the adventurer and the man who seems to employed all of them is at my peak. I must finish my goal first before I execute my plan.

    I¡¯m trying to figure Orfa-Chan¡¯s exact location from rooftop of this factory building. When I¡¯m trying to ignore all of the conversation between the adventurer who make a cunning yet disgusting smile, I see a new figure from the shadow. A man with a white headband and his green cloth appear from the shadow. From his clothing I can guess that he is an adventurer and a higher level one if you compare to the other adventurer in here.

    Is he their leader? Wait, more importantly where is Orfa-Chan? ¡­Ah! Its her!

    After more than 10 minutes, finally I find the exact location of Orfa-Chan. But, when I look at it carefully, I figure that Orfa-Chan is inside a huge cage. An animal cage.

    Really just from this sight alone is enough reason for me to massacre them.

    I think they still not figure about the condition outside, huh.

    While I think about it, once again I cast [Breeze]. I cast it 10 times. My first priority now is to save Orfa-Chan. So, I make it enough to free her from the cage. Before, I send this spell to break the cage, I cast a simple illusion type elementary magic.

    [Daydreaming]

    With this magic I can make a simple illusion so they can get distracted. The illusion that I made for this magic just the same situation as they can see right now. the situation that exactly same from 5 minutes ago that will looping in their mind for several times. I cast it more than 10 times for every person except the children inside the cage. I do it like this to prevent some unwanted situation.

    When I feel like the situation is already safe I make the [Breeze] to annihilate the cage completely. I must free all the children as fast as possible so they can¡¯t get in my way. Of course I don¡¯t want Orfa-Chan to see my torturing section later.

    My [Daydreaming] magic can only last for 7 minutes, so I don¡¯t want to waste every second I have. That¡¯s why, in the same time when the cage is gone, I jump from the rooftop with my [Wind Enchance (weak)] to minimalize the sound and the mass of my body when I make my landing around the abduct children. I make a gesture for ¡°sheesh!¡± pose with my right hand to prevent the children make a noise.

    I think¡­ all of the adventurer here still unaware of this condition after they got trapped by my illusion, huh.

    The reason I make my illusion so simple is to prevent the other adventurer to figure it out. After all, the nearest thing that lay beside you is the most difficult thing that you can figure it. I remember this quote from a certain someone in my past life.

    Carefully I use my [Breeze] that I hold before jump to the inside of this factory to cut the rope that tie their both hand and leg. After I do that, suddenly I see Orfa-Chan¡¯s crying and trying to hold her sound.

    I see¡­ it seems she is very scared, huh. How cute¡­.

    When I approach Orfa-Chan, I pat her head and trying to comfort her. While Orfa-Chan crying in my chest, she hug and hold my shirt very strong with both of her small hand.

    ¡°Don¡¯t worry, Orfa-Chan¡­ you¡¯re fine now.¡±

    ¡°*hic*¡­ *hic*¡±

    She hiccupped several times before calm down.

    Around 1 minutes after that, I give an order to Orfa-Chan to bring all of the children to the outside of the factory and to find Bard-Ossan to come here.

    In the meantime Orfa-Chan already outside of the building, I closed the iron door with my wind magic.

    ¡°Oi! Don¡¯t pretend to be an idiot! I already figure it from the very beginning that you didn¡¯t even caught in my illusion magic, right?!¡±

    ¡°Hyahaha~ I don¡¯t think the one who will infiltrate this base is just a kid. Really¡­ what the guard doing right now, but¡­ from what I see it, I can say that you beat all of my underlings outside because you didn¡¯t even think about walking home the children and purposely closed the door. Really¡­ you take it so lightly¡±

    The man who didn¡¯t get caught by my illusion magic is the man that came from the shadow while I¡¯m still observing the situation. Just standing in front of him, I can guess this man is really skillful. The weapon that he used is a sword¡­ a long sword with the green color in the blade.

    From what material that sword is made?

    While I¡¯m still thinking and admire his sword, without realizing it, this man already in front of my face. Maybe our distance is about 30 cm.

    Shit! My [Breeze] didn¡¯t caught him!

    After I failed with my assassination tactic that I set up while he still talk to me, I realize that its completely a blunder on my side. Because this urge of mine to torture all of them slowly, make my decision full of flaw. And the result, is my current condition.This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report.

    To say it bluntly, my fatal weakness right now is my lack of experience in real fighting. From what I assume if I must face all of the guard outside that I already killed very easily to fight me face on face, I can fully guarantee that I¡¯m already dead right now.

    I can¡¯t believe that I made this kind of mistake now, Shit!

    While I¡¯m trying to dodge it, I use my wind magic, [Gust Ball], to hit me from the right side. In result, I can avoid any major damage in my body because of his attack. But, with this method is enough to make me vomit all of my food in my stomach.

    ¡°*Hoek*¡­ ha~¡­ ha~¡­¡±

    ¡°Hyahaha~ I don¡¯t think you will use your own magic to hit your body directly¡±

    ¡°Ha¡­ ahahaha~¡­ its¡­ about what you¡­ said before¡­ actually, I didn¡¯t beat¡­ any of your underling¡­.¡±

    ¡°So, what do you mean about that, Kid?¡±

    ¡°As I said¡­ Ha~¡­ I don¡¯t beat any¡­ of your underling¡­ Ha~¡­ *Hoek*¡­ I only turn them¡­ into lump of meat¡­ aha¡­ ahahaha~¡­.¡±

    ¡°!¡±

    When I say that, I can see some vein pop out around his face. Without fail¡­ he will snapped soon, after hear my provocation. But, it is enough to buy time for me to cast more than 50 [Fireball] around my surrounding.

    I control all of the shape of my [Fireball] into an arrow and release it in the same time.

    Die you bastard!

    I cursed him while I shoot all of the arrow to his direction.

    I make use of the dust that thick enough to hide my position from his eyesight. After that, I cast and cast again while hiding in place where there is a lot of box around me. From my point of view, I can call my cast technique as a Gattling Cast. I trained a lot to use it while I¡¯m still 5 years old to prevent this kind of situation.

    ¡°Hey, Kid! Not even a single attack hit me though! Don¡¯t just hide and show yourself to me! Hyahahaha~¡±

    What! He still didn¡¯t figure it?! Then¡­.

    ¡°Try to look to your surrounding! ¡­and tell me, what happen in there?!¡±

    ¡°Even you say th¡ª!¡±

    Before he finish his word, it seems he already figure what happen to his surrounding.

    My real target except for hiding my position is to kill of all his companions that still get caught in my [Daydreaming] magic before the time limit is over while pretending to attack him and make he think that I miss all of my attack.

    After all of this situation, I figure that¡­ if even one of his teammates break my spell, I¡¯m seriously in a pinch at that time. That¡¯s why the best choice is to kill them before I¡¯m the one to be killed by them. I use my [Fireball] arrow to pierce their brain twice and with the 14 arrow left I intentionally hit the floor so I can distract him to figure my real aim.

    ¡°Kid! You really piss me of, now! Seriously, I won¡¯t be easy on you anymore!¡±

    ¡°Wha¡ª!!!¡±

    After he say that, I finally realize that from the beginning he didn¡¯t show his true power. Not even 30 second past, he appear in front of my face and swing his sword in my direction. Once again I use [Gust Ball] to hit my left side because my right shoulder is still hurt.

    ¡°*ack*!¡±

    ¡°!¡±

    But, different from before, he successfully make a wound around my kidney. Its very hurt. It makes me remember the pain I got before I¡¯m dying and coming to this place. Not just that, he swing his sword to my right hand joint and crushed my right arm completely.

    Even with cheat ability I hold, Its not as easy as in the movie I watch! Real fight is very different¡­ shit! If this goes on like this¡­ I¡¯ll be dead for sure!

    ¡°*Cough*¡­ *Cough*¡­ argh! *ack*¡­¡±

    ¡°Kid! I¡¯ll slowly send you to the underworld right now! Hyahaha~¡±

    After my body hit the wall very hardly, I can feel my body is light. Very light until I can¡¯t feel it anymore. I think some of my bone already break. I can see that I vomit blood from my mouth¡­ a lot of it. My right hand already turn blue and I can¡¯t move it or even feel it.

    This kind of pain is not a joke for 7 years old kid like me. Shit! It is very painful!!!

    But even so, I will not waste every second. That¡¯s why, I use my chance while he still talking something that I can¡¯t hear anymore to cast my magic while trying to ignore this pain.

    [Fireball]

    For the first layer and,

    [Wind]

    For the second until seventh layer in front of [Fireball] magic circle.

    I cast two type of my magic until this room full with magic circle. Because currently there is no children in here, I can use my magic without any restraint.

    ¡°*cough*¡­ *ack*¡­ I¡ª¡±

    ¡°!¡±

    Hehe~ really¡­ it seems I screw up this time¡­ enough with some complicated tactic, I don¡¯t have anything in my head right now. even for breath is already hurt for me. Hand¡­ I think I can barely move my left hand, but¡­ it is enough for now.

    When I make a very provocative yet weak smile, I feel like this guy in front of me who I didn¡¯t even now what his name, make his eyes wide open. It seems he already realize how bad his situation is.

    Right now, my eyesight already blur so I can¡¯t get a clear image about his face or what his clothing are. I can¡¯t even look straight at him because I can¡¯t move my head anymore. Really¡­ just because you¡¯re a cheater, it doesn¡¯t mean you invincible. One misstep can lead you directly to your graveyard. But,

    ¡°Die! You Kid!¡±

    It doesn¡¯t mean I can give up right now.

    ¡°¡ªGot you! *Ack*¡­ argh! SHIIIIT!!!¡±

    I¡¯m trying to defend his sword attack that he used to pierce through my heart with my left hand to bend the direction of the sword. It seems my provocation successfully make him want to quickly kill me by thrusting his sword to my heart. But because of that I can successfully defend myself from his attack with my left hand. But, the cost itself is too great for me. I must sacrifice all of my left hand to got pierce from palm until shoulder. The shocked from this attack make me scream without holding back anymore. I can feel my scream echoing through this building. While I¡¯m crying and screaming because of the pain I feel, I didn¡¯t miss this chance.

    Only one type of combo magic that I already finish creating it after I hit the wall before. It¡¯s the time for me to releasing it. If I will die from all of this wound I got, without fail I will bring him down with me. But, if I really die now¡­ Mogu will definitely laughing at me.

    Not waste any more time, I releasing my [Fireball] magic that the shape already change into a sword that created from the fire and fly straight to the [Wind] magic circle so the fire become more and more bigger than before. In simple way, I use this [Wind] magic circle as a boost type magic that normally people in this world didn¡¯t know about the theory to increase the attack of my [Fireball] magic.

    All of the sword that I created from the fire magic go straight and hit¡­ pierce the body of the man in front of me. Not stop at that, I make the sword fire stop inside the man¡¯s body and greatly pour the magic to make the fire run wild.

    I can¡¯t really see what happen to him after that, but¡­ I can smell a roasted meat from in front of my direction. Really¡ª

    ¡°*Ack*¡­ Is¡­ he¡­ Dead?¡±

    Ah~ my head feels really dizzy and I can¡¯t move anymore. It seems I lost too many blood. My body is really hurt, maybe some of my bone is broke permanently¡­ Shit! If I didn¡¯t cast [Wind Enchance (weak)] and [Heal] every time, I might already dead. After all, too arrogant is not good, huh. It seems, the one that got tortured¡­ is me.

    ¡°¡­¡±

    ¡ªI hope¡­ when I awake, My Plan already goes to the next stage.

 Chapter 10 - Please... Wake Up, Orfas Hero

    ¡°Hey, Exy-Kun! Can you help Orfa-Chan bring this Cream Soup to the Bard-San¡¯s House?¡±

    ¡°Why do you ask me?¡±

    ¡°Because you are the only one who already finish with your task, alright?¡±

    Eh? Really? Lilina-Oneechan ask Exy-kun to help Orfa? Please¡­ Say yes, Exy-kun!!!

    ¡°Okay lilina-Nee~, I¡¯ll help Orfa-Chan since her face right now looks like a child who will give a birth anytime soon, ahaha~¡±

    Yay! Exy-kun say yes¡­ but,

    ¡°Muuu~ Exy-Kun so mean!¡±

    ¡°But that¡¯s true you know, Orfa-Chan¡±

    ¡°Muuu~, why Exy-kun say something like that to Orfa? Exy-kun is so mean¡­ hump!¡±

    Before Orfa realize it, Orfa already puffed her cheek while she grumbling. Of course, it is because what Exy-kun¡¯s said. After all, Orfa is not fat you know!

    ¡°Okay Lilina-Nee, I¡¯ll go right now!¡±

    ¡°Lilina-Oneechan, Orfa too!¡±

    ¡°Be careful both of you!¡±

    After hear what Lilina-Oneechan¡¯s said, Orfa wave her hand to Lilina-Oneechan and after that chase after Exy-kun.

    Muuu~ Why Exy-kun leave Orfa behind? But, Orfa doesn¡¯t really care about that anymore¡­ more importantly Orfa can go to Bard-Jii¡¯s house with Exy-kun.

    ¡°*Giggle* ?he~ he~ hem~? *Giggle* ?he~ he~ hem~ ham~?¡±

    While Orfa walk beside Exy-kun, Orfa hummed a song that Exy-kun taught Orfa while Orfa still 4 years old. Before Orfa realize it, Orfa walk while sometimes do a bunny hop.

    Hmm? Why Exy-kun make an angry face? What if¡­ Exy-kun didn¡¯t like walk beside Orfa? What should Orfa do?

    ¡°Hmm? Why Exy-Kun looks so scared?¡±

    ¡°Ah! Haha~ don¡¯t worry about that, I suddenly have the urge to punch myself¡±

    ¡°Hee~ Exy-Kun weird *Giggle*¡±

    It seems it is not because of that. But, why Exy-kun suddenly wants to punch himself? Exy-kun is weird.

    ¡°So, Orfa-Chan¡­ what¡¯s with your magic practice with Lilina-Nee?¡±

    ¡°Hmm? Its really tough you know~ Orfa currently can only use dark attribute Magic until intermediate class but its still make Orfa¡¯s head dizzy, you know~¡±

    As Orfa said before, currently Orfa can use Dark attribute magic until intermediate class. Even though Orfa can use Dark attribute magic, but sometimes Exy-kun said that Orfa has affinity for water, thunder, spirit, and support type too. So, Exy-kun said that if Orfa has spare time, Orfa must trying to learn all of the 4 magic type too. Even Orfa doesn¡¯t know why Exy-kun can say such a thing but as what Exy-kun said, Orfa already learn all of that. Currently all of type magic, except support, already reach intermediate class too.

    Not just that, if Exy-kun has a time, Exy-kun will come to see Orfa when Orfa¡¯s trying to learn magic beside dark attribute and Exy-kun always give advice to Orfa like imagining something in mind is very important before use magic or when make a chant Orfa must lower her own voice so another person can¡¯t hear it and another useful advice.

    But why Exy-kun always failed to use intermediate class magic?

    That¡¯s what always Orfa think every times Orfa saw Exy-kun trying to learn intermediate magic. From what Orfa heard, Lilina-Oneechan say that Exy-kun is a genius because Exy-kun can already use two type attribute magic while Exy-kun first time learning magic because people can use two type magic in the same time normally after they turn 15 years old. But if that¡¯s right, then Orfa is a genius too, you know? But, Orfa believed that Exy-kun is more a genius and strong person because every time Orfa got in trouble, Exy-kun will always there to help Orfa.

    ¡°Ah! Exy-Kun, we already arrived at Bard-Jii¡¯s home¡±

    ¡°Then Lets give it to him and we can go back to the Orphanage as soon as possible¡±

    ¡°Um!¡±

    Exy-kun knocked Bard-Ossan¡¯s house several time before he opened it.

    ¡°Why are you so loud in the Morning?!¡±

    ¡°Ugh!¡±

    ¡°Uwawawa~¡±

    Suddenly, Exy-kun got hit in his head by Bard-Jii. Orfa doesn¡¯t know what the reason but Orfa thinks it is strange.

    Why Bard-Jii suddenly hit Exy-kun in his head? Is Exy-kun did something bad to Bard-Jii?

    While Orfa still thinking about that,

    ¡°I say I¡¯m sorry about yesterday Bard-Ossan! And you mustn¡¯t hit a child you know¡±

    ¡°What kind of child that steal your cloth even your pant after that sold it in the black Market to buy a new one piece cloth for Orfa-Chan!¡±

    Its mean The cloth that Orfa use right now is not belong to Orfa?

    ¡°Uwawa~ so-sorry Bard-Jii, Or-Orfa will take off this cloth immediatelly¡±

    ¡°Uwaa! Stop it Orfa-Chan! Don¡¯t heard what Bard-Ossan say just a moment ago!¡±

    ¡°Orfa-Chan, don¡¯t worry about that, just don¡¯t take off your cloth please, I beg you!¡±

    When Orfa trying to undress the onepiece cloth that Orfa use today, suddenly Bard-Jii and Exy-kun stopping Orfa from doing it.

    After that, Bard-Jii tell us to come in and give Orfa a candy after Exy-kun give the Cream soup to Bard-Jii.

    ¡°Tell Lilina-chan, thanks for the Cream Soup, Orfa-Chan¡±

    ¡°Okaay~¡±

    ¡°Good for you Orfa-Chan!¡±

    ¡°Um!¡±

    While smiling to Orfa, Exy-kun stroked Orfa¡¯s hair. Whenever Exy-kun do it, it make Orfa happy because it feels good.

    Ehehe~ Exy-kun¡¯s hand is really warm¡­ and this candy is sweet~

    ¡°*Giggle*¡±

    ¡°Then¡­ why you come in too, little bastard?¡±

    ¡°What with this different of treatment between me and Orfa-Chan?!¡±

    ¡°Orfa-Chan is cute after all~! So, there is no problem!¡±

    ¡°Hey, but I¡¯m in the same age as her, you know! Even I¡¯m agree that Orfa-Chan is very cute¡±

    Cute? Orfa¡­ is cute?

    ¡°Its different from a barbarian child like you! Orfa-Chan is more and more Cute compare to you¡±

    ¡°Then don¡¯t compare it to me! Indeed Orfa-Chan is cute but¡­ whatever, just teach me about the sword technique already, Ossan!¡±

    Exy-kun and Bard-Jii said it two times that Orfa cute¡­ Ehehe~

    When Orfa hearing it, suddenly Orfa feels so embarrassed. Orfa feel like Orfa¡¯s face is hot¡­ but Orfa not sick, you know. Orfa trying to use her hand to hide his face because its too embarrassing.

    Uuu~ Exy-kun and Bard-Jii¡­ so mean Uuu~

    ¡°Haaa~ that again. Then after you can do it, what will you do with that?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ll go to coliseum and start my Journey of course!¡±

    ¡°Then My answer is no!¡±

    When Exy-kun and Bard-Jii still arguing about sword technique as usual, Orfa remember that Lilina-Oneechan ask Orfa to buy something in the market district. So, Orfa told both of them about it and leave after that.

    Really¡­ why Exy-kun want to learn sword from Bard-Jii, that much?

    Even Orfa doesn¡¯t know the reason, Orfa always believe that Bard-Jii will say ¡°Yes¡± later in the future. After all, Orfa always watch whenever Exy-kun swinging his sword in the dawn until the sun raising. Maybe Exy-kun doesn¡¯t know about that.

    Shortly after Orfa walk while thinking about that, Orfa arrived at the Orphanage and searching for Lilina-Oneechan.

    ¡°Lilina-Oneechan, Orfa already gave the Cream soup to Bard-Jii¡­ and suddenly remember that Lilina-Oneechan ask Orfa to buy something in the market, right?¡±

    ¡°Suddenly? Are you perhaps¡­ forgot about that, Orfa-Chan?¡±

    ¡°So-sorry Lilina-Oneechan¡±

    ¡°Fufu¡­ because Orfa-Chan is cute and honest, Onee-chan will forgive you¡±

    While smiling to Orfa, Lilina-Oneechan patted Orfa¡¯s head and told Orfa to buy some Apuru, Kyarot, Gyarlik, and Gyandam.

    ¡°Lilina-Oneechan, can Orfa ask something?¡±

    ¡°What is it, Orfa-Chan?¡±

    ¡°Is it¡­ Lilina-Oneechan wants to make Apuru Bread for dinner?¡±

    ¡°Orfa-Chan is smart~¡±

    Yay! Its Orfa¡¯s favorite food, you know!

    Before Orfa realize it, Orfa already been hugged by Lilina-Oneechan.

    A short time later, Orfa do the errand to go to the market district.

    In the market district, you can buy anything from cloth, weapon, armor, magic book, potion, ingredients, etc. not only that in here there is a lot of people who will buy something before they go to start their journey or want to watch a coliseum match because the coliseum¡¯s location is near from here.

    There is a lot of race that live in this town and they live here without problem. From what Orfa hear, in this country there is only strong people so Lilina-Oneechan make us learning magic while we still 3 years old, so we can survive if something bad happen to us child who live in orphanage.

    ¡°?La~ Lam~ La~?¡­ Ah! It¡¯s the shop!¡±

    When Orfa walk while hummed, finally Orfa reach the shop that Lilina-Oneechan said. There is Lana-Obachan alone in the stall as usual.

    ¡°Oh ya! Orfa-Chan¡­ this day you didn¡¯t come here with Exy-kun?¡±

    ¡°Lana-Obachan, good morning! Exy-kun now as usual ask Bard-Jii to teach him about Bard-Jii¡¯s sword technique¡±

    ¡°Hahaha¡­ he surely did it again every time they met, so¡­ what Lilina-san ask you to buy, Orfa-chan?¡±

    ¡°Lilina-Oneechan told that Orfa must buy 5 Apuru, 10 Kyarot, 3 Gyarlik, and 2 grill Gyandam. And here is the money, Lana-Obachan¡±

    ¡°Wait here a moment, Orfa-Chan¡­ 5 Apuru is 100 copper, 10 Kyarot is 120 copper, 3 Gyarlik is 90 copper, and 2 Grill Gyandam is 200 copper¡­ so, all of them is 510 copper. Yup! Its exactly 510 copper, Orfa-Chan¡±

    After Lana-Obachan finish calculating the money, she is giving Orfa a big brown basket. Apuru is a red fruit that grow in the tree around the city, it have a sweet taste but the green one is bitter. Kyarot is an orange vegetable that grow inside the soil, it usually use in soup and a food for usaga. Usaga is an animal that hop to move like ¡°Pyon Pyon¡± that have a long ear and brown fur¡­ a very cute animal. Gyarlik is a white vegetable that can make you cry while trying to cut it while Gyandam is the main ingredient to make a bread dough.

    Uuu~ its really heavy¡­ if only Exy-kun here¡­.

    ¡°Be careful Orfa-Chan!¡±

    ¡°Thank¡­ you, Lana-Obachan¡±

    After that, Orfa leave Lana-Obachan¡¯s stall and trying to go back to the Orphanage but while Orfa want to turn right to the Orphanage direction, Orfa coincidentally looks a girl that crying when 3 big human person bring her to the alley while grabbing her hair.This story originates from a different website. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there.

    That girl¡­ is crying! But Exy-kun not here with Orfa? What should Orfa do¡­ but¡ª

    Before Orfa realize it, Orfa take the left turn and trying to see what happen to the girl that the 3 man bring to the alley. When Orfa arrived at the entrance way of the alley, Orfa doesn¡¯t see anything nor hear something.

    There is not anyone in here¡­.

    Trying to leaving that place, suddenly Orfa hear a sound. A crying sound. The sound is weak but, Orfa can still hear it from here.

    Carefully approaching the direction of the sound, Orfa walks slowly trying to not make any sound. Slowly and carefully.

    When Orfa arrived, Orfa can see the 3 man are punching the girl at the abdomen after that kick her several times before throw her to the cage after she lost consciousness.

    Wha-what should Orfa do? Exy-kun is not here, now¡­.

    Scared because the 3 man in front of her, Orfa can¡¯t move her leg.

    ¡°So, what did you do in here¡­ little girl?¡±

    ¡°!¡±

    Before Orfa realize it, there is another person behind her. Grabbed Orfa¡¯s shaking shoulder and ask that question. Because of that, the 3 man in front of Orfa realize her existence.

    Wha-what should Orfa do?

    ¡°W-what¡­ did Ojii-San to do to¡­ that girl?¡±

    ¡°What she said? Ahaha~¡±

    ¡°Its funny, huh?¡±

    ¡°From her looks, he is from a demon race, huh¡­.¡±

    ¡°But her face is pretty, can we just bring her too¡±

    ¡°Wait¡­ is she mumbling something?¡±

    ¡°Forget it¡­ maybe she will crying soon¡±

    ¡°Ahaha~ you¡¯re right¡±

    ¡°Then just knock her soon before she crying¡±

    ¡°!¡±

    B-bring Orfa? To where?

    When Orfa hear what the man talking about, unconsciously Orfa start a chant of her magic.

    Remember what Exy-kun¡¯s said¡­ chant it quietly¡­ so another person didn¡¯t realize it.

    ?O Power That Hides in the Darkness?

    ?Bring the Punishment to Those Who are Trying to Interfere with My Fate?

    [Shadow Thorn]

    After Orfa Finishing her chant, a very long shadow like whip come from the shadow of all the man around Orfa and trying to bind their body starting from the feet.

    It seems all of the men in front of Orfa still don¡¯t realize it that the shadow is circling their body from inside of their cloth before make the thorn appear.

    ¡°Argh!¡±

    ¡°What is this?¡±

    ¡°Shit! I can¡¯t move my body¡±

    ¡°Its¡­ Magic? Who chant it?¡±

    ¡°It¡­ works! As expected from Exy-Kun¡¯s advice!¡±

    ¡°Wait?! This girl¡­ when she starts chanting her magic?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t know I don¡¯t hear anything¡±

    Ignore what the man are talking about, Orfa rushed to the direction of the girl that lost her consciousness inside the cage that still open.

    ¡°Hey! Wake up!¡±

    ¡°¡­¡±

    After several times Orfa slapped the girl¡¯s cheek until their turn red, the girl still not open her eyes.

    Give up with that, Orfa drop her basket and carry the girl behind her.

    Heavy¡­ muu~

    Leaving all of the man behind, Orfa finally arrived at the entrance of the alley but, suddenly Orfa¡¯s vision turn black.

    ***

    ¡°Mmm¡­¡±

    Slowly Orfa open her eyes and found herself inside a cage.

    ¡°!¡±

    Whe-where is it?

    Confused, Orfa trying to move her leg and hand but¡­ Orfa can¡¯t move it. Really what happen to Orfa¡¯s body?

    When Orfa look down, Orfa can see that her foot is already tied up with rope. Trying to look around, Orfa found a girl that lost her consciousness from before.

    Several child crying around her. Orfa¡¯s eyes are starting to get wet but suddenly she remembers about Exy-kun. Whenever Orfa Play hide and seek, Exy-kun will always found her quickly. That¡¯s why, Orfa shouldn¡¯t crying right now.

    Exy-kun will come to help Orfa! Orfa believe Exy-kun will come!

    Even Orfa trying to use her magic, Orfa already know that it is useless for now. after all, there is too many people outside. So, even Orfa can get out now, they will catch up with no time. That¡¯s why it is useless right now.

    Orfa doesn¡¯t even know how long Orfa already in here. Maybe Lilina-Oneechan will worry about Orfa because Orfa still doesn¡¯t get back to the Orphanage.

    Maybe Lilina-Oneechan will angry to Orfa¡­ and what about Exy-kun? Even Exy-kun found Orfa¡­ can Exy-kun beat all the bad guy here alone? Maybe if Exy-kun bring Bard-Jii with him, Bard-Jii can successfully save us without any problem. After all Bard-Jii is the person who save Orfa and Exy-kun while Orfa still a baby.

    While thinking about that, suddenly Orfa Crying. Even though Orfa already hold it. In the end Orfa still scared. Please¡­ Exy-Kun, save Orfa. After all, Exy-kun is Orfa¡¯s Hero¡­you know!

    ¡°Boss, what should we do this time if there is a broken goods in here?¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t worry about it, even if they are broken goods, some of twisted noble will buy them to make full of their lust.¡±

    ¡°!¡±

    Broken Goods? Is he mean us?! But¡­ but Orfa is living things and not a goods, you know!

    After suddenly heard what the bad guy outside the cage talking about, Orfa¡¯s body shivered before aware about that. Really what will happen to Orfa? What if Exy-kun doesn¡¯t find Orfa in the end? Will Orfa not see Exy-kun again? Orfa doesn¡¯t want that!

    Silently, Orfa trying to chant her magic again but that time suddenly the cage that hold Orfa and the other child around are gone.

    What¡­ happen? The cage is¡­ gone? But, why the bad guy outside don¡¯t react with it? Aren¡¯t their realizing it?

    Doesn¡¯t know what to say, suddenly someone jump from the rooftop and slowly go to this direction.

    A boy with his cloth that already soaked in the sweat carefully approaching this direction. With his black horn in his left side of the head give a refreshing smile to Orfa¡¯s direction and suddenly the rope that bind Orfa is gone. Without fail¡­.

    Exy-Kun!

    Without a second time to think, Orfa suddenly jump to Exy-kun¡¯s direction. Crying while trying to hold back her voice.

    When Orfa realizing it, Exy-kun already patted her head. With this alone is enough to make Orfa feel calm. Orfa hugged Exy-kun shirt strongly to make sure that Exy-kun in front of her is real.

    Exy-kun¡¯s hand is warm. Its really Exy-kun!

    ¡°Don¡¯t worry, Orfa-Chan¡­ you¡¯re fine now.¡±

    ¡°*hic*¡­ *hic*¡±

    Not long after Exy-kun said that, Exy-kun tell Orfa 3 things.

    First, Orfa must lead all of the children here to leave this place as soon as possible while Exy-kun watch from the back. Second, after Orfa got outside Orfa must tell the children to not look around and keep running without looking back no matter what happen until Orfa find a save place. Last, Orfa must find Bard-Jii and tell him that Exy-kun is here too with Orfa.

    ¡°*nod* *nod*¡±

    After that, Orfa lead the children to run outside the building.

    ¡°Everyone, Hear me! We must run to the outside of the building now¡­ follow me!¡±

    Shortly after, Orfa started running away from this place and reaching the outside of the building after that tell the children to not looking around no matter what happen. But still some of the children trying to look around and started screaming but they still running and follow Orfa.

    ¡°!¡±

    Suddenly Orfa hear a door voice that slam so strongly. But because Exy-kun said that we must running forward no matter what happen, Orfa mustn¡¯t looking back either no matter what happen.

    After running far enough from that place, Orfa trying to look for Exy-kun but,

    ¡°Exy-Kun¡­ not here?!¡±

    ¡°¡­¡±

    ¡°Is anyone here saw the boy that came to save us before?¡±

    ¡°Onee-Chan¡­ that boy who save us got locked inside the building¡±

    ¡°!¡±

    When heard that, Orfa trying to get back to that building but suddenly remember what Exy-kun said, Orfa must find Bard-Jii no matter what happen. That¡¯s why Orfa stopped and starting to chant her magic.

    ?O Animals That Live in the Realm of Spirits?

    ?Answer My Call and Obey My Commands?

    [Spirit Summoning ¨C Wind Falcon]

    After finishing the chant, suddenly a gust of wind gather in front of Orfa and from that gust, a green bird with emerald eyes appear in front of Orfa.

    ¡°Please¡­ find Bard-Jii and bring him here!¡±

    ¡°*Kwa*¡­ *Flap*¡­¡±

    After transferring the image of Bard-Jii through the Spirit link, Wind Falcon fly very fast to the sky. This is an intermediate class magic from Summoning attribute.

    Exy-kun is right¡­ if Orfa didn¡¯t learn this magic before, then Orfa didn¡¯t know how to find Bard-Jii at this kind of situation. Exy-kun¡­ please wait, Orfa will bring Bard-Jii to save you, Exy-Kun!

    When Orfa trying to hope for that, suddenly Orfa here a loud sound from inside the building. Orfa doesn¡¯t really know what sound is that but Orfa really worried about Exy-kun¡¯s situation right now.

    While thinking about that, tears started flowing again from Orfa¡¯s eyes.

    ¡°Orfa-Chan!¡±

    ¡°Orfa-Chan! I¡¯m glad that you¡¯re safe¡­ but, where is Exy-kun?¡±

    Not long after that loud voice come from inside the building, Orfa hear a voice that Orfa remember clearly from behind Orfa¡¯s back. Its Bard-Jii¡¯s and Lilina-Oneechan¡¯s voice.

    ¡°Bard-Jii, Lilina-Oneechan! *hic*¡­ *hic*¡­¡±

    While Hugging Lilina-Oneechan, Orfa crying once again but,

    ¡°Where is that little bastard, Orfa-Chan?¡±

    ¡°!¡±

    When Bard-Jii ask about that, Orfa stopped crying and pointing her left index finger to the building.

    ¡°Please¡­ Bard-Jii! Save Exy-kun! ¡­after Exy-kun¡­ *hic*¡­ save Orfa and the other children in here¡­ *hic*¡­ Exy-kun¡­ *hic*¡­ *hic*¡­ got trapped alone in there!¡±

    ¡°What!¡±

    ¡°That little bastard! How reckless he can be?! He doesn¡¯t even know how to use a sword, correctly!¡±

    After hear what Orfa said, Bard-Jii suddenly rushing to the building. It is the first time that Orfa looks Bard-Jii move very fast like that.

    But, once again a very loud voice can be heard from the building direction. Loud enough to be hear very clearly from here. From what Orfa can see, The building surrounded by the dust. As if something exploded in there, the sound can be heard like *Dhuam*. It is a very loud sound. More loud than any of other sound Orfa heard before.

    After hearing it, Bard-Jii increase his speed even more. Lilina-Oneechan can only make a very worried face while open her eyes wide because of the sudden explosion.

    Exy-Kun! Exy-Kun! Exy-Kun!

    Without realizing it, Orfa run back to the direction of the building.

    ¡°Orfa-Chan! Stop! Don¡¯t go there!¡±

    ¡°Exy-Kun!¡±

    Ignoring Lilina-Oneechan¡¯s voice, Orfa run as fast as possible. Even Orfa¡¯s fall, Orfa standing and running again. Orfa¡¯s feet is hurt because of sudden fall but Orfa can still bear it.

    When Orfa arrived in front of the building, Orfa can see a lot of people that already turn into a lump of meet around this area. The body of human that got cut off very cleanly can be seen clearly from here. A very wide pool of blood is like the sauce on top of omelet make a very disgusting sight in this area. A head that still rolling around because of the sudden explosion inside the building approaching Orfa¡¯s direction. A lot of finger that lost its hand scatter around everywhere.

    ¡°*Hoek*¡­ Exy¡­ *Hoek*¡­ -Kun¡­¡±

    Orfa¡¯s Vomit several times until Orfa¡¯s body lost his strength. Orfa¡¯s head suddenly feel dizzy. Even Orfa¡¯s heart is keep beating very fastly.

    Exy-Kun!!!

    That¡¯s the only reason that Orfa can still move her body. But every time Orfa move her legs, Orfa fall again and again because Orfa already lost all of her strength neither to feel her body nor her legs anymore. But at that time, Lilina-Oneechan helped Orfa to stand up again and carry Orfa¡¯s body with Orfa¡¯s hand at Lilina-Oneechan¡¯s waist.

    ¡°Thankyou¡­ Lilina-Onee¡ª¡±

    ¡°¡­¡±

    While Orfa look at Lilina-Oneechan, her expression is so dark even her face is pale. Her eyes is like a dead fish. And around her mouth Orfa can see some of puked left.

    Even Lilina-Oneechan can¡¯t bear this kind of situation. But more importantly¡­ Exy-Kun!

    Step by step, we approach the building. From the entrance we can see Bard-Jii standing absentmindedly while his sword lay on the floor. From the building entrance, we can smell a roasted meat from every corner of the building.

    ¡°Bard-Jii¡­ w-what happen?¡±

    ¡°¡­¡±

    Bard-Jii doesn¡¯t answer Orfa¡¯s question. Seriously, what happen inside?

    ¡°Hi-Hiyaaaaa!!!¡±

    ¡°W-what¡­ kya¡­ happen¡­ Lilina-Oneechan!¡±

    Even Orfa asked that, Lilina-Oneechan keep screaming while Crying without telling Orfa anything after suddenly dropped Orfa¡¯s body without any concern. Even Orfa trying to look forward, because its full of dust its hard to see what happen in front of Orfa.

    Because of Lilina-Oneechan sudden turn of behavior, it makes Orfa feels anxiety. Tears once again pour down from Orfa¡¯s eyes without knowing the reason.

    Even Orfa move so stagger, Orfa trying her best to move forward.

    ¡°Kya!¡±

    Even Orfa fall once again, Orfa still trying to moving while crawling. When Orfa arrived beside Bard-Jii, Orfa can see that Bard-Jii clench his hand until Bleeding. Not stop at that, Bard-Jii¡¯s mouth is starting to bleeding too because he bite it himself. Even now he, still asserting his eyes from what he saw in front of him. Every time Orfa move her hand to crawling forward Orfa¡¯s dress got drenched by Bard-Jii¡¯s blood that alredy made a pool beside his foot. Even Orfa want to stand up, Orfa can¡¯t move her legs no matter what she try.

    W-what happen? Orfa¡­ can¡¯t see it anything from here¡­ Exy-kun is still alive, right? right?

    Screaming and crying voice from Lilina-Oneechan echoing through the building. Even Orfa doesn¡¯t want to admit it, Lilina-Oneechan Calling Exy-Kun¡¯s name several times.

    Really what happen to Exy-kun¡­.

    When Orfa arrived in front of a mass of rock, Orfa can see two figures like statue on top of it. This is looks like a portrait from a man who keep struggling to keep living but end up dying while smiling even their body broken all around. In front of that man, is a figure of a man that already burn until only the flesh left that already turn into dark brown trying to kill a human in front of him while his hand hold a sword that already piercing the human¡¯s left hand. Its like the brown man that standing in his dead is a symbol of evil itself.

    *****

    ¡°Exy¡­ -Kun?¡±

    ¡°¡­¡±

    There is no answer from the figure that keep smiling even his left hand got pierce until the end of the shoulder by the long green sword.

    Orfa-chan you¡¯re more talented in magic than me.

    The memory when Exy-kun praised Orfa for the first time after she can use intermediate class magic.

    Orfa-Chan¡­ keep trying to use it even if you fail.

    The memory when Exy-kun inspired Orfa to keep trying even she failed.

    Orfa-Chan that¡¯s the wrong way to fold the laundry you know

    The memory when Orfa can¡¯t even fold the laundry correctly and Exy-kun give her an example to do it.

    Orfa-Chan, because you¡¯re too cute, you¡¯ll be a very beautiful bride in the future.

    The memory when Exy-Kun smiling gently while teasing her about the future of her that Exy-Kun guessed.

    Orfa-Chan¡­ don¡¯t worry you¡¯ll be fine now.

    The memory when Exy-Kun patted her head after she was crying because she broke Lilina-Oneechan¡¯s flowerpot.

    Orfa-Chan don¡¯t be scared, because I am here to protect you

    The memory when Exy-kun saved her after being bullied in the town because of her race.

    Orfa-Chan, no matter what happen, I¡¯ll always keep my promise to you

    The memory when Exy-kun promised that he will always stand by Orfa¡¯s side no matter what happen.

    Orfa-Chan¡­

    Orfa-Chan¡­

    Orfa-Chan¡­

    Suddenly a lot of memories keep flowing inside Orfa¡¯s head. Orfa can remember the voice of Exy-Kun clearly. But why suddenly Orfa think about the past event with Exy-Kun. Why,

    ¡°W-why¡­ you don¡¯t answer Orfa¡¯s call?¡±

    ¡°¡­¡±

    ¡°Nee~ Exy-Kun! Answer me!¡±

    ¡°¡­¡±

    ¡°Why¡­ Exy-Kun ignore Orfa? Exy-Kun¡­ *hic*¡­ please¡­ answer Orfa¡¯s call¡­ just once¡­ *hic*¡­ just once more time is enough¡­ please¡­¡±

    ¡°¡­¡±

    But, no matter how many times Orfa called him, Exy-Kun just smiling while close his eyes.

    Orfa try to climbing while crawling to where Exy-Kun¡¯s place is.

    Just a while ago, Exy-kun still talked to Orfa, but¡­.

    ¡°WHY YOU SUDDENLY IGNORE ME, EXY-KUN! PLEASE¡­ please¡­¡±

    ¡°¡­¡±

    Even after Orfa was screaming like this, Exy-kun still doesn¡¯t response to what Orfa is saying.

    Exy-Kun¡­ why you keep smiling even Orfa crying in front of Exy-kun like this? Why?

    Even Orfa¡¯s feet is bleeding so badly, Exy-kun keep his mouth silent while smiling. Orfa¡¯s face already full of tears and snot. Even the cloth Exy-Kun gave to Orfa is already torn up in some place.

    Even Orfa knows the answer is, Orfa still can¡¯t admit it no matter what happen.

    ¡°Nee~ Exy-Kun¡­ please¡­ open your eyes!¡±

    After Orfa reached Exy-kun, Orfa can finally see Exy-kun¡¯s face clearly. Exy-kun is bleeding everywhere. Even a mass of rock already crushed both of his feet joint. His right hand already twisted to another direction. Even Orfa is trying to put Exy-Kun¡¯s right hand on top of Orfa¡¯s head, Exy-Kun¡¯s right hand just fall again and again no matter how many times Orfa tried it. Exy-kun¡¯s right hand that so warm a while ago¡­ now is already turn cold.

    Orfa is trying to shake Exy-Kun¡¯s body a lot of time but Exy-kun doesn¡¯t move neither open his eyes. A lot of Orfa¡¯s tears pour down on Exy-Kun¡¯s face but¡­ it is meaningless. Exy-Kun still closed his eyes.

    That¡¯s right¡­ if its [Heal]! Maybe it¡¯ll work!

    ?O Substance That Control Nature?

    ?Show Your Power and Bring Miracle to Me?

    [Heal]

    A blue indigo light appear in front of my hand and surround Exy-Kun¡¯s Body.

    But, still¡­ nothing happen.

    Orfa already casting it several times until Orfa¡¯s head feel dizzy, but Exy-Kun¡¯s wound still not healed yet nor Exy-Kun¡¯s open his eyes. Give up with [heal] Orfa put Exy-Kun¡¯s head on top of Orfa¡¯s head.

    Please¡­ Please¡­ wake up, Orfa¡¯s hero¡­ Exypno Agori¡­ Exy-Kun¡­ please¡­ once again¡­ open your eyes¡­

    That¡¯s the only wish that Orfa repeat herself every second Orfa¡¯s tears pour down into Exy-Kun¡¯s face until it is dry. That¡¯s the only wish¡­ Omorfa Charitomeno Koritsi has at that time.

    After that, Orfa is trying to tell a lot of memories that we had together. Even after Orfa¡¯s tear dry and Lilina-Oneechan screaming can¡¯t be heard anymore, Orfa still talking to Exy-Kun that continued smiling gently all the time no matter what happen.

    That day¡ª

    ¡°Orfa-Chan¡­ Exy-kun¡­¡±

    ¡°¡­¡±

    ¡°Lilina-Chan¡­ *swing his head left and right*¡±

    ¡ªExy-Kun died after saved Orfa¡¯s life from the bad guy.

 Chapter 11 - Evrys Ouranos

    ¡°This weather is very nice for taking afternoon nap, right¡­ Gi-Chan?¡±

    ¡°Why you always want to take an afternoon nap even you still not find the Ryn herb for the quest?¡±

    ¡°Gi-Chan if you always like that, there is not even a single boy will marry you, you know¡±

    ¡°Shut up! It is not your problem and help me find the herb too!¡±

    ¡°Nah Gi-Chan¡­¡±

    ¡°What¡ª Your face¡­ your face is too close!¡±

    ¡°About what I said before¡­¡±

    ¡°Before? About I can¡¯t marry anyone right? Are you perhaps making fun of me?¡±

    I draw my face close to Gi-Chan¡¯s ear and try to whisper my next word to her.

    ¡°If¡­ you can¡¯t marry to anyone¡­ I will take the responsibility, okay¡­ fu~¡±

    ¡°Hya¡ª!¡±

    When I say that while breathing, Gi-Chan¡¯s ear turning bright red and she startling herself. Trying to face me while looking shy, she ask me while fidgeting her finger.

    ¡°Are you¡­ sure?¡±

    ¡°Pfft! Ahaha¡­ that¡¯s reaction of yours sure is cute, you know!¡±

    ¡°Na¡ª!¡±

    ¡°Guha!¡±

    While I¡¯m laugh with the sudden change of Gi-Chan¡¯s reaction, suddenly she give me a very clean yet strong uppercut exactly at my chin.

    ¡°I¡¯ll Search the herb alone, make sure you find the other 10 for the quest, got it!¡±

    ¡°Ugh!¡±

    While I¡¯m still laying down after got uppercut by Gi-Chan, I¡¯m not trying to move from this place and just feel the breeze around here that slowly passed my body.

    It is already 10 years since I got reincarnated to this world. Currently I¡¯m living in the Orphanage that found me while I¡¯m still an infant in front of the Orphanage at Ippotis kingdom. As Mogu said, he granted my wish so I can still have the exact same appearance as I have before in my past life.

    If you say the reason why I¡¯m in the middle of the forest now, my answer is that I still doing a quest that I take from the guild. My quest that I must find 20 Ryn herb around the Botan Forest. Ryn Herb itself is a kind of herb that can be used to make a potion to restore Mana for magician. As I am now, I still an adventurer that have [Wood] tag at ¡°HI¡± Tier. Frankly¡­ a newbie.

    Still¡­ Since the first victim appeared 3 years ago, there is nothing happen in my daily life. Even in 5 years from now will be a blood battle between us the candidate, why it is so peaceful right now?

    That day¡­ when the dusk comes 3 years ago it seems not only me but all of the other candidate got a very important announcement through Mind link that Mogu send us. The content is,

    ¡°Yo! Long time no see¡­ even you can¡¯t see me but I can see all of you clearly, okay stop with the nonsense chat, I¡¯ll tell you a very important message right now~ so, listen to it carefully. Just a moment ago the first victim from you, Cheater candidate already appeared¡­ give the applause. *Clap¡­ Clap¡­ Clap¡­* what should I say¡­ it is a little bit disappointing that this person fell before the Great War start but like I care about something like that. Ah and the most interesting part is why he can got killed when there is a restriction I placed on you guys? Okay that¡¯s the only announcement I tell you guys and every the victims appear I¡¯ll announce it to you so¡­ prepare yourself if you don¡¯t want your name to be the one got announced. Ah! Once again before I forgot, so¡­ can you guess who is the culprit? See you again in another victim report~¡±

    Yes¡­ that¡¯s the content of announcement Mogu tell me that day. When I hear that the first victim appeared 3 years ago it really makes me uncertain about one thing, who can killed us a cheater in this world? The answer is¡­ nearly none. But suddenly at that time I remember what Mogu talking about before,

    ¡°As you can see, there will be a punishment if you kill another candidate before all of you turn adult. But, if you put them in worst state before they turn adult, feel free to do it! Maybe like¡­ cut both of their leg and hand¡­ something like that~¡±

    Every time I remember what Mogu said in that white room before we depart to our new life, I can¡¯t even doubt a single thing that time. But, if I¡¯m trying to thinking it a little now, all of the rules Mogu told us is full of flaw and from what his easy going trait can clearly make us take the wrong meaning of the rules itself. It looks like Mogu makes it like that on purpose. From he said ¡°¡­If you kill ¡­¡± and ¡°¡­Feel free to do it! ...¡±it means except us the candidate kill another one directly, we can do whatever we want to do if we win again another candidate in battle.The author''s tale has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon.

    Ha~ really who can kill another candidate and can clearly find the hole from Mogu¡¯s rule only after they turn 7 years old?

    That¡¯s why after I heard that announcement that time, in the next day I apply as an adventurer to gain experience in real combat. In there, 2 years after I join, I meet with Megali Gi, Gi-Chan, who is a still new adventurer at that time. Because she is from snow wolf tribe that is rare around this city, she can¡¯t get in to any party. After all, that time she is still 8 years old. Who can trust a kid as part of the party except they have another motive. That¡¯s why I ask her to join me because I¡¯m alone and the only I can do is support.

    What should I say, I can clearly see a Heart Emblem carved on top of my right hand after all. Of course who didn¡¯t know about it will say it is just a birthmark as Mogu said. And in the detail its¡­ ¡°4?¡± emblem. From what I remember, ¡°4¡± is my Cheat ability ranking where ¡°10¡± the weakest and ¡°Joker¡± the strongest and ¡°?¡± or heart is my ability¡­ Support type. It means I have an advantage if I face with ¡°?¡± or diamond user and have disadvantage when I face ¡±?¡± or clover user.

    This life really complicated¡­ ha~

    When I¡¯m trying to close my eyes to fulfill my wish to take my afternoon nap,

    ¡°Kyaa!¡±

    ¡°Hm?¡±

    I hear a scream voice from inside the forest. It is clearly not Gi-Chan¡¯s voice but I¡¯m sure it is a voice of a girl. I don¡¯t know who is she but¡­ it kind of dangerous if I just laying down in here without doing anything.

    It seems I must trying to work now¡­ carefully don¡¯t raise any flag that can be my graveyard later¡­

    After standing, I¡¯m running to where the direction of the voice came from. I¡¯m passing through several purple trees around the forest. I jump the stone one by one to cross over the lucent river. Really whenever I come to this forest, it is a very ideal image of a nature that I seek when I¡¯m still in middle school days.

    After I¡¯m arrived near the blue firefly lake. I can see a girl with red hood chased by the herd of giant wolves.

    Is it a ¡°Red Riding Hood¡± story that my grandma talking about when I¡¯m still a child looks like?

    Of course it is not.

    The girl wear a pink frilly dress while bring a basket full of Gurapu fruit in her hand. Gurapu is a fruit that has a purple color that usually used to make wine¡­ in simple way, it is a grape fruit. Her red hood hiding her pink short hair that sometimes peek out from the hood. I can¡¯t really see her face but from what I see, her hand is so small and very delicate.

    Really~ what kind of thing that she do to invite a literally lusting wolf to attack her?

    When the girl still distract the wolves attention, I¡¯m trying to search for some rock, but I couldn¡¯t even find a single once. Even I¡¯m a bit reluctant I draw my sword and trying to approach the wolves from behind silently. I use my skill to make a stepping foot on the air so the wolf can hear it.

    [Air Shield - Stairs]

    I cast it several times until it looks like a stair that will bring you to the sky. I really didn¡¯t want to kill the wolf if I can do it. But, if the condition force me¡­ I must kill some of them in the end.

    Walking slowly 100 meters from above the ground, I approach the girl after cast,

    [Air Shield - Vertical]

    With the size of 5x10 m, so the girl can¡¯t be attack before I reach there. Of course as the name implied, this ability make the shield from the air and the enemy except me can barely see it directly.

    It¡¯ll become troublesome if my cloth get drenched if I fall to the lake¡­ so, I think a safe choice will do.

    Make a very wide horizontal shield on top of the blue firefly lake, once again I make a stairs from there.

    ¡°Pardon my rudeness, Red Hood Princess¡­ Because of some miracle bring me here to save you, I came to see your wonderful figure. Shall you take my hand so I can carry you to the save place¡±

    Shit! Before I realize it¡­ my mouth already spoke nonsense again! If this goes on¡­.

    ¡°S-sure!¡±

    Look she already fidgeting shyly like a maiden in love! Even her face already turn bright red! Crap! If this my bad habits go on¡­ without fail, I¡¯ll die the same way as my past life!

    Before I realize it, the red hood girl look at me shyly. Really why I got this bad habit of mine.

    ¡°Try to jump to the lake and you¡¯ll see a very thin stair that make from the air. Follow it and come to my side¡±

    ¡°U-um! Understand!¡±

    Even I said something so nonsense to that girl, she still obey my instruction and do it the same way as I said. Around several minutes later, the girl arrived in front of my place.

    It seems she doesn¡¯t have any problem when jumping from one to another [Air Shield] that can barely be able to see.

    ¡°Then follow me¡±

    ¡°Ah! U-um!¡±

    Crap! Why¡­ Why I touch her hand without thinking! Really¡­ how many flag I raise in this girl heart now?!

    Habit is¡­ a very dangerous thing after all.

    While I¡¯m walking above the ground, I can see the wolf look at me and stare so intently to my direction. Of course I know the reason, it is because I suddenly appear and steal their food.

    Their chase after me for around 15 minutes before give up.

    But still¡­ walking on top of the forest in the afternoon is very hot and make my head dizzy.

    After I¡¯m arrived at my rest place before I chase this girl voice, I jump while give her princess carry before realizing it.

    Really¡­ if this goes on I¡¯ll die one day¡­

    After I make her be able to stand up in her place, I tell my name and ask for her name. really¡ª

    ¡°Thank you for helping me before¡­¡±

    ¡°No problem I just coincidentally hear your voice that asked for help before. By the way, Nice to meet you¡­ I¡¯m just a mere adventurer that live in Ippotis, Koto¡ªI mean Evrys Ouranos. And if you didn¡¯t bother about it, can you tell me your name?¡±

    ¡°Ah! Sure! My name is¡­ Rozy Prinkipissa Ippotis, the third princess of this country, nice to meet you too¡±

    ¡°Eh?¡±

    ¡ªWhy I, Kotobuki Sora¡­ currently Evrys Ouranos, suddenly raise a flag on the third princess in this kingdom.

 Interlude 1 - Crimson Crescent Night first half

    ¡°Hey, Jean! What happen in here? It is so weird to see this Adventurer Guild so crowded in the morning?¡±

    ¡°Oh, Bard-San¡­ Morning! From what I hear, it seems Dynami country make a request to adventurer Guild?¡±

    ¡°Request? Somewhat unusual, isn¡¯t it?¡±

    ¡°Maybe it is because of the rumor that going around in here recently¡±

    ¡°Rumor? What kind of rumor?¡±

    ¡°The content of the request is that the country requested us to made a raid group to exterminate some Monster around the Dark forest because recently the monster around there increased so fast. The content of the rumor itself is about the birth of the Demon Lord¡¯s son 3 month ago and the sudden appearance of some Monster general that have a strong tie with the sudden information about the new Monster Lord that appear around 7 months ago.¡±

    ¡°Is it just a baseless rumor, right?¡±

    ¡°As you said, I think the same as you too, Bard-San¡±

    Maybe the king want to make sure about the sudden fluctuation of monster itself so they won¡¯t harm any other people who live in here.

    But still, to make raid¡­ it is not an ordinary quest isn¡¯t it?

    After think about it for a while, finally I ask the woman with the black hair that extend until her shoulder who still sit calmly in front of me.

    ¡°So, would you give it a try?¡±

    ¡°If I see from the reward of the quest, it is a lie if I said I don¡¯t want to participate in this quest¡±

    ¡°Then, lets participate.¡±

    Shortly after I and Jean agree, I write my name in the participant column in front of the receptionist. From what I see, there is already 19 people including me and Jean. For the raid itself we need 24 people before we can depart from here. And not only that, there is 3 section participant column in there 2 is a must full column and 1 is an additional column. It means in this time raid, they need exactly around 48 people before they can start the departure.

    Making a promise with Jean to meet in here after the afternoon bell rang, I packed my belonging and went to the Orphanage.

    Why I went to the orphanage, you said? It is because I¡¯m raise in the Orphanage in this town. In there, I have an existence that I think as my little sister. Her name is Lilina Eidos. Usually I called her as Lilina-Chan. same as me she raise in here too. We have 4 years difference.

    After I¡¯m turn 8 years old, as the country tradition, I must leave the Orphanage and I choose to live in the slum. Sometimes I go to the Orphanage to see Lilina-Chan and play with her. But when I¡¯m turn 9 years old, I practiced to use sword and challenge the coliseum. But¡­ I got a very heavy wound that make both of my hand can¡¯t hold a sword more than 30 minutes everyday. After that, I rarely to play with Lilina-Chan and practiced sword the whole time. Before I realize it, Lilina-Chan already worked in the Orphanage itself and I¡¯m already got a nickname as an ¡°8 Sword Guardian¡± that specialized in Sword Magic style.Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more.

    ¡°Yo! Lilina-Chan¡±

    ¡°Ah! Bard-San¡­ why suddenly you stop in here?¡±

    ¡°Iya~ I don¡¯t know myself, I just suddenly want to see your face, that¡¯s all¡±

    ¡°Ufufu~ what is wrong with you, Bard-San?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t know but, I¡¯ll take a raid quest for now, I just want to inform you about that¡±

    ¡°Raid¡­ is it?¡±

    ¡°Um!¡±

    When I said that, I make a very awkward smile. But when I see Lilina-Chan¡¯s face, she is seems very concern about it, so I tell her that,

    ¡°You mustn¡¯t worry about it, After I¡¯m back, I¡¯ll directly inform you¡±

    ¡°Ara~ are you perhaps¡­ worry about me?¡±

    ¡°Wha¡ª!¡±

    ¡°Ufufu~ you looks so funny, wait here for a second¡±

    After teasing me, Lilina-Chan come inside and not long after that give me some bread as a lunch box. Of course it is a handmade Apuru bread from Lilina-Chan.

    ¡°Thank you for worrying about me, Bard-San¡­ Be careful!¡±

    ¡°Ah! Wait for me ok, I¡¯ll give present while I come back later¡±

    I wave my hand after see Lilina-Chan smile at me. Really why she still didn¡¯t think about married in her age? It is not like I already married too you know.

    After several minute I arrived at the guild, finally the afternoon bell rang and as expected from Jean, she always come punctually. Serious girl type is different huh.

    ¡°So what are you bring for the raid, Jean?¡±

    ¡°I just bring some potions with me and something to eat that¡¯s all.¡±

    ¡°As expected from the person who got a title as ¡®Silent Witch¡¯, you seem really confident, huh¡±

    ¡°Look at you, one of the ¡®8 Sword Guardian¡¯ who wield a title as Magiko Spathiou. From what I see, you only bring your magic sword, Magiko Kofti and some bread, I guess. What kind of Sword wielder are you who didn¡¯t even bring an armor every time you takes a subjugation mission.¡±

    ¡°Stop it and why do you know all of my belonging even I didn¡¯t tell you about it? Are you a stalker¡±

    ¡°What are you talking about the obvious think so suddenly¡±

    ¡°Eh?¡±

    When I¡¯m trying to ask Jean to verify if she is a real stalker or not, suddenly the girl who always in the receptionist desk make an announcement with support magic [Mega Voice] that the raided party consisted from around 63 people must gathered in the third floor to talked about the strategy battle.

    That¡¯s why, before I can verify it, we already move to the third floor.

    When we arrived in there, there is already a lot of people gathering. From what I can see, It seems the one who will be the leader is The lightning speed [Silver] tags ¡°SS¡± Tier, Tachytita Astrapis or usually known as Astra.

    ¡°Ok because most of you already gathered in here, I¡¯ll start to explain about current strategy¡±

    The strategy that he made is for the member to split into 7 groups where every group will consist around 9 people. It seems I got the same team as Jean and Astra. I don¡¯t really sure but, my team is like a team where only ¡°Ace¡± and ¡°SS¡± tier member only. But even so, the other adventurer in here is not weak. In fact, all of the leader who lead another groups is ¡°S¡± Tier so it is really a very strong raid group. The idea to split this raid group is because the area of the dark forest itself is very wide. That¡¯s why we split the group like this.

    ¡°So, Any question?¡±

    ¡°What if¡­ we found a Monster general or above? What should we do?¡±

    One of the adventurer raise his hand. This is an important question because if we make a wrong decision even once, the whole party will got annihilate. After all, we ¡°SS¡± Tier need around 3 people to defeat one of the monster general.

    ¡°If you meet with them, if the total only 3, just deal it by your group combination attack. But if more than 3 but less than 8, you can bring it to another party so you can join a hand to defeat them. If they are more than 8, just leave it before they figure your group existence and if they already figured your group existence, don¡¯t bring it to the another group no matter what happen. Got it?¡±

    ¡°U-understand!¡±

    ¡°Any other question?¡±

    After Astra answer all of the question from the other raid member, Finally¡ª

    ¡°So, Let¡¯s start our hunting games!¡±

    ¡°Ou!¡±

    ¡ªThe Raid that will be the starting sign of the Crimson Crecent Night Festival Begin.

 Chapter 12 - Garden of Paradise

    ¡°Then, What the third princess of this kingdom doing in this forest alone?¡±

    ¡°U-um¡­ to tell Evrys-San the truth¡­ it is a hobby?¡±

    ¡°Even I don¡¯t know, why Rozy-sama answer my question with another question? ¡­I hope you more cautious about your surrounding¡±

    ¡°Please, don¡¯t use ¡®-Sama¡¯ to call my name Evrys-San¡­ after all you¡¯re my savior¡±

    ¡°Then¡­ Rozy-San, is it alright?¡±

    ¡°Ufufu~ that¡¯s fine¡±

    When she smile, she is looks so elegance and cute¡­.

    After we take a rest for several minutes in here, I ask a question that already made me curious from the start. Why¡­ a third princess of this country can be here in this forest alone?

    ¡°Hobby? Is Rozy-san¡¯s gathered some fruit?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s just an additional reason, my first reason to come here is to strolling around in this forest.¡±

    ¡°Strolling around?¡±

    ¡°Yes, strolling around! What should I say¡­ maybe it is because I¡¯m curious about a normal citizen do in their daily life like hunting, fishing, or harvesting. So, sometimes I sneaked away from the castle to go outside and whenever I go, after all¡­ I really like this forest after I come here for the first time 2 years ago.¡±

    Seriously what the guard of the castle do?

    ¡°So, when you sneak away from the castle, what happen after you go back? Will some of your personal attendant or something like that got angry to you?¡±

    ¡°Of course, They are! Especially when Iki-Jii¡¯s angry¡­ its very scary you know¡±

    Then Don¡¯t sneaked away, if you that scared with the person you called Iki-Jii!

    When I see the expression of this princess talk happily while showing me a lot expression, I can guess enough that in the castle where she called it home, she didn¡¯t have a lot of friend. Really, just talk with her make me smile.

    ¡°But you know Rozy-San, you mustn¡¯t make the person you called Iki-Jii¡¯s worried too much you know. After all, he angry with you because he is care about you.¡±

    ¡°Uuu~¡±

    I caress her hair before I realize it. In fact, what I caress is her red hood that she used to hide his beautiful yet feminine pink hair that she has. She told me before that she didn¡¯t want anyone beside me know about her true identity. So she still hide her pink hair even now.

    Really¡­ she resembles my little sister.

    ¡°Rozy-San, every time you sneak away from the castle, when will you go back there again?¡±

    ¡°Usually¡­ it is before the dusk come¡±

    ¡°Then we still have a time!¡±

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    I take her hand without any concerns and bring her to the place that I found a few days ago. The place that I take her to is a very beautiful place where the area around it full of Blue flower that growth in there. Not just that, there is a very beautiful lake in the center of it so you can see a lot of animal in there. The breeze in the area is very gently and make my heart really calm. I don¡¯t know what another people will call it, if its me I will call it a Garden of Paradise.

    ¡°W-wait a minute¡­ my breath¡­¡±

    I guess that the real princess stamina to you,

    ¡°Then¡­¡±

    When I see that Rozy-San tired for just running for 5 minutes, I come with a new idea and once again give her a princess carry. Even I know her face is already turn bright red and without fail what I do right now will raise a few flag in the very corner of her heart, still I want her to see this place.

    ¡°We arrived!¡±

    ¡°A~ Beautiful~¡±

    When we finally arrived at the Garden of Paradise, the princess that I carry give a very surprise and open her eyes wide. She is covering her mouth with her right hand and starting to walk forward when I take her feet to the ground again. Smiling after looking at her pure expression, I lay down my body in the grass under the biggest purple tree around beside the lake.

    Every time the breeze passed her body, I can see her pinky hair sway and dance very smoothly in the air. Sometimes she is calling my name and I just waving my hand rather than give any response with my voice.

    If I look from her behavior right now, I can¡¯t tell if she is a princess or not. For me she looks like a 9 years old child that currently having fun after finding a new toy.

    While she is still playing around, I make two pair [Silver Shield - Cylinder] with the size of diameter is around 7cm and the length is around 50cm. after that I make two pair [Air Shield - Flexible] with the size of diameter around 0.5cm and the length around 200cm. Not just that, I make a pair of [Mimic Shield - Meat] with the size only 2cm. lastly, I combine all of it with my special ability [Combine Shield ¨C Fishing Rod] and its finish. Yes, I make a simple but strong fishing rod from my shield skill.

    Even know, sometimes I always think that why this skill can make anything except real food and something similar with that.

    Even I make a shield that looks like meat, in the end its still a shield and you can¡¯t really eat that. But if I use it for the bait I think it is not a problem because the texture itself is really like a real meat.

    ¡°Oi, Rozy-San! Do you want to try fishing?¡±

    ¡°!¡±

    When I call her, she immediately come to my direction with the sparkling eye. Really if I want to kidnapped her, I can do it anytime. But of course I won¡¯t do it¡­ Maybe.

    ¡°From where you got this fishing rod, Evrys-San? ¡­and this is a¡­ Silver! Where do you got this silver, Evrys-San?!¡±

    Shit! I¡¯m totally forgot that something like Silver, Gold, and black gold is very rare in this country!

    ¡°E-eh¡­ don¡¯t mind about it, Rozy-San said that you want to try fishing right?¡±

    ¡°Ah¡­ Yes!¡±

    ¡°Then I¡¯ll teach you how to do it.¡±

    I tell the basic of fishing that I know. The way to throw your bait and the way to pull it while something bit her bait. In fact, I don¡¯t really know how to fishing myself that¡¯s why I can only teaching the basic about throw and pull. I only do it two times when my girlfriend ask me to date with her in her dad¡¯s personal boat in my past life.

    While we sit side by side, I tell her that if she has any trouble in the castle, she can just come here but in the same time she must carefully inspect her surrounding even in this area the monster or dangerous animal won¡¯t attack her because of some reason I don¡¯t know but when she pass the boundary of the first tree to go to the forest, the animal and monster can already attack her again.

    Before we realize it, we stay in this Garden of Paradise too long. After we eat some grilled fish that I made, I walk her back with my [Air Shield] that I set on top of the Ippotis country. After I watch her successfully walk until she got into her room in the castle, I came back to the orphanage.

    I feel like I forget about something, but¡­ whatever, I don¡¯t really care about that. After all I¡¯m really tired now.

    I washed my body with a warm water and help Kala-San, a woman who like my mother in this world that raise me in this Orphanage, make a dinner for the other child at the Orphanage. While eating peacefully, I¡¯m just hearing some conversation between the other child that live in here. After I finish all of my duty, I came to my room and closed my eyes¡ª

    ¡°Like hell I will allow you to sleep after you leave me in the forest to finish our quest alone!¡±

    ¡°Gi¡­-Chan? Eh¡­ Wait¡­ wait¡­ Sto¡ªGuha!¡±

    ¡°Huh!¡±

    ¡ªbecause of a sudden German Suplex that I got.

 Interlude 2 - Crimson Crescent Night Second half

    ¡°Oi! Seriously! What happen in here, Astra?!¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s exactly what I want to know here, Bard-San! It is too fast so I don¡¯t even know what happen exactly!¡±

    ¡°Why there is more than 60 Monster general appear in the same time?!¡±

    As I asked to Astra about our condition, he didn¡¯t give the answer that all the members wanted. In fact, Astra not have a leeway to answer that kind of question. Because right now, he just barely hold the Monster General with the appearance of a pig and the size is about of 5m tall by himself. Not just that, around our party there are more than a hundreds of wolves, Minotaur, Orc, and even Ogre. Of course every kind of monster that appeared in here with their general as the leader.

    Why we got trapped in this worst situation?

    The answer lay in 1 hour ago¡­.

    ***

    After we arrived at the entrance to the dark forest, the raid group immediately split to our position as we discussed before. Of course because our group in here is the strongest member in the raid we got the center position. It means exactly in the middle of the dark forest where the very dangerous monster wait.

    In the dark forest, even a slime can become a very dangerous creatures because of the dark miasma that surrounding this forest. From what I heard, even the goblin in here can give a small dragon a hard fight. What a joke right? But for me, it is not a joke or even an exaggerate story. Because I am the one who saw it 10 years ago when a herd of goblin actually hunted a small dragon. Even we a [Silver] tag adventurer have a hard fight to actually hunt a small dragon, and here¡­ there is a herd of goblin the almost weakest existence of monster evolved to be a dragon hunter. Really I can¡¯t laugh of this matter.

    ¡°So, Astra¡­ it seems we already found a herd of wolves in front of us and from what I see, there is 4 general who lead them. So, what should we do?¡±

    ¡°Hmm¡­ I think we must split the 4 general so we can fight it one on one when the other member dealt with the normal one? What do you think?¡±

    After I give my report, Astra give his opinion and the other party nodded to his opinion and trying to split the member who can defeat the general alone.

    ¡°Then I, Bard-San, Jean-San, and Theo will fight one on one with the general and split them from the group while the other dealt with the normal one.¡±

    After that clear instruction, I kicked the wolves general¡¯s right eye which stay in the right side without looking around. Of course the big dark wolf with the red eyes see me as its enemy and chase after me. In this kind of situation we can lost our life anytime so we must focus only on our task. Of course I too¡­ still want to live even a bit longer.

    I think in here its fine.

    After I lured it far enough from the group finally I looked to the direction of the wolf general¡¯s behind me.

    Crap! He bring 3 follower with him!

    When I see there are 3 followers that chase after me make my cold sweat started to pour from my bodies.

    The normal wolves have brown fur and the size of its body is small different from the general whose fur is pure dark. Their eyes is different while the general has red eyes, their followers have green instead.

    The normal wolves starting circling around me while the general stay still in the back. I¡¯m started to draw my Magic Sword and release a wind element from it. Just for your information, my Magic Sword have 7 attribute include Fire, Light, Lightning, Wind, Water, Dark, and Earth. This sword I find it in the dungeon around here when I¡¯m still 23 years old.

    After my sword change color to the green and the shape already change to a 3 wind claws, I use a special spell [Target Lock] to literally locked my target¡­ the 3 followers that surround me before I swing my blade.

    When the wolves starting charge onto me, my blade that I already swing do the rest of the cleaning job. The every blade slice the wolves body silently and before the can even reach me, their body already split in pieces. Why I only lock 3 wolves you said? The answer is because of this special skill can only lock the target while the number is Nx3. It means 3, 6, 9, 12¡­.

    I think I swing the sword below 10 seconds, huh. Its still safe.

    Yes, another handicap that I have is that I can only wield my sword around 30 minutes or if you convert it, it is around 200 swing. Then,

    ¡°Why you just stay still in there?¡±

    ¡°Grr!¡±

    After the general see its follower died so powerlessly, the general finally charge onto me. This time I can¡¯t use that special skill so I can only face it with my pure skill.

    The general trying to bite me while its ramming its body toward me but I splendidly avoid while rotate my body to the right side and slice its exactly at its dark fur.If you discover this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation.

    I got its tail¡­ its not even worth for swing. Crap!

    With this I already swing my sword twice. When the general still feel pain and slowly lost its balance, I charge toward the general and slice him cleanly from the left side.

    ¡°Phew~ it took me 3 swing in this place¡±

    After I finished the general, I cut its left ear as a proof of the quest and go back to where my party before. When I arrived, there still a lot of normal wolves around.

    It seems Jean, Theo, and Astra already finished the general too huh¡­.

    After the generals were defeated, the wolves will lost their unity as a herd so their move will turn fragile and easy to understand. Not long after we finished all of the wolves around without left any single one of them, we gather again to give the opinion.

    ¡°It is too strange for the general from the same kind to move in the same time like this¡±

    ¡°You think so too, Jean?¡±

    ¡°I feel the same too, Bard-San, Jean-San¡±

    ¡°I think its as the king predict, there is something happen in this forest¡±

    When Jean, Me, Theo, and Astra give our opinion, suddenly we heard a very loud voice around us. The ground itself is shaking and when we realize it, we¡¯re already surrounded by more than hundreds monster around us.

    ***

    That¡¯s the condition before we got trapped in this worst situation. As Astra said, it is too fast so we didn¡¯t even know what happen in here exactly. After all, just a moment ago there is only a herd of wolves around here and now¡­ they are already turn into a lump of meat though.

    ¡°If this condition goes on, I think it is pretty bad though¡±

    ¡°Even if you don¡¯t say it out loud, I already know about that¡­ Bard-San¡±

    ¡°Then¡­ what if we split up? Isn¡¯t our chance of survival will increase?¡±

    When I give my opinion, Astra scolding me a little bit. But then suddenly Theo give his opinion. From my point of view, split up itself is not a bad idea and as Theo said our chance of survive will increase significantly because every one of us will lure them and the total of the monster who will chase us will also split into 9 group. But that means,

    ¡°There will someone who will die, right?¡±, of course even I don¡¯t state this opinion, we are in here already know about that. That¡¯s why¡­

    ¡°Ok, then I¡¯ll be give a sign when the time comes¡­ but can you buy a time for a bit? I¡¯ll give them a little bonus though¡±

    The other party member just nodded to my opinion. While they are trying to buy a time for me, I try to use my special magic once again.

    With this swing, it will left me around 10 until 15 swing left huh¡­ I think it enough for now¡­ but really if I use it in this large scale target¡­ there must be a cost I take, huh.

    Even then, I still use this skill of mine.

    [Target Lock]

    As I thought I can¡¯t lock all of them, but it is enough for us to run away from this place. I activate my flame sword form and swing this sword once but this once swing itself cost me equal 90 swing at the same time.

    Not short after I swing my sword, a lot of flame pillar with the height around 5 meter appear from the ground where the target already got locked. Even they realize it, they already can¡¯t do anything about that because this skill is already bind their shadow after all. A sure kill technique that I can¡¯t use several times because of the fatigue that I got is not that simple.

    ¡°Now!¡±

    When I say that, all of the party member as soon as possible left the place¡­ except me.

    ¡°Bard¡­ -San? What are you doing?¡±

    Asked Jean to me worried. Really the cost to use this kind of large scale special skill is too great after all.

    ¡°Sorry¡­ I think I can¡¯t move for several minutes. That¡¯s why don¡¯t worry about me! I¡¯ll chase later!¡±

    ¡°But¡ª¡±

    ¡°¡ªJust go! Don¡¯t worry I can still swing my sword around 50 times!¡±

    I scream to her so she won¡¯t come back to save me. Of course, about I can swing 50 more times is a lie.

    After all of them already left, in this place only me who can¡¯t move my leg and the monster that already surrounded me.

    Haha~ really, what kind of joke is this¡­.

    While I make a dry smile, I change my sword again to wind element because with this form, I feel more comfortable.

    Slash and slash again. Cut one enemies after another. The blood of the Wolves, Orc, Ogre, and Minotaurs splendidly dance in the night sky make a very beautiful yet disgusting crimson color which colored the crescent moon indirectly. Every time I swing my sword, my hand slowly but surely started to become numb. Even my breath started become rough.

    What kind of festival is this? Why all of the monster gather in here in the same time?

    If I can give a name to this event, I will gladly to say that this event is called as ¡°Crimson Crescent Night Festival¡± though.

    I can only swing my sword 3 times and there is around 40 monster general in front of me, really what should I do? ¡­Ah! It seems I can already move my leg a little bit though.

    When I want to swing my sword before I leave this place, suddenly a very dazzling light shining very beautifully in the middle of this dark forest.

    The location is near from here¡­ maybe that¡¯s the gathering signal but¡­ I assume it is another group huh, but I can¡¯t go there because the generals will chase me.

    That time I heard a sound that I mustn¡¯t hear in this forest. The sound that reverberate in the middle of the night. It is,

    A crying voice of a baby? Seriously?!

    Without a second thought, I use my swing to cut the ground so it will make a thick dust to cover my position. I dashed to the location of the sound and there I found a baby who has one horn that almost got crushed by a minotaurs and the other baby who crying in the ground.

    Whenever I see this kind of situation, it almost made me remember the time when I were still a kid that leave in the orphanage.

    Ha~ what a bad day!

    Before I realize it, I swing my sword once again to cut the hand of the minotaurs and run to save both of the babies while the other monster still confused. First I take the baby in the minotaurs hand and after that I take a baby who lay in the ground crying while kicked the wolves in the same time.

    I run as fast as possible. Even my hand already become numb I pinch my hand as strong as possible to make sure I got the feeling of my hand again to carry both of the babies. I run until I see the entrance to the dark forest. Even I don¡¯t look back, I can feel a lot of monster still chase after me. But like I have a time to wait for them. I just run before I lost my eyesight that already goes blur.

    When I arrived at the dynami country, I straightly go to the orphanage and kicked the door without any concerns. After the door opens¡ª

    ¡°Li¡­ lina-Chan¡­ this!¡±

    ¡°Bard-San¡­ W-what happen?!¡±

    ¡°This¡ª¡±

    ¡ªI lost my consciousness in Lilina-Chan¡¯s chess because of fatigue I got and from what i heard when i''m awoke, all of my party is save but in total there is 30 casualties and the raid itself is... failed.

 Chapter 13 - A Calm Dungeon Quest Before Storm

    ¡°Gi-Chan¡­ what kind of quest we will take today?¡±

    ¡°Just shut up and wait!¡±

    Currently, I and Gi-Chan stand still in front of the quest board for 40 minutes. We are Searching for the quest that we can take together this time.

    After that night German Suplex 3 weeks ago, Gi-Chan¡¯s personality turn into a frightening one. She always look at me like a mad maiden. I¡¯m too scared to talk to her nor even have a courage to state my opinion in front of her directly. Really, I¡¯m so pathetic.

    I think this time too, Rozy-San already playing around the Garden of Paradise, huh.

    Not just that, one week after that night tragedy, I meet again coincidentally with Rozy-San at the the Garden of Paradise. From what I heard from Rozy-San, she sneak away from the castle almost every week. Seriously what are the guards doing in there.

    ¡°Ok~ lets take this quest for now!¡±

    ¡°What¡¯s that? ¡®Dungeon Quest¡¯¡­ Oi! Are you serious?¡±

    ¡°Have a problem?!¡±

    ¡°Nope, lets take them!¡±

    After I got a pierce glare from her, I take the quest without the second thought.

    Scary! Seriously what happen to her? I know she mad at me but still¡­ too scary!

    The detail of the quest are,

    Quest :

    <ul>

    <li>Location : Green Cave Dungeon</li>

    <li>What to do : Hunt 10 Giant Bat</li>

    <li>Requirement : [Wood] tag ¡°I¡± tiers and above</li>

    </ul>

    Reward :

    <ul>

    <li>25 Bronze coin/ Bats (+10 Bronze for every additional target)</li>

    </ul>

    Hmm? From the description itself, it seems an easy quest¡­ not bad

    After we re-confirm our quest detail, I and Gi-Chan depart to the Green Cave Dungeon. This dungeon is a simple dungeon that suitable for the newbie like us. The deep of the Green Dungeon is around 5 floor under the ground and the nerd of the Giant Bat is in the third floor, actually a good yet easy mission.

    ¡°Then lets, go¡±

    After Gi-Chan said that so energetically, we finally leave the town to go to finish our mission as soon as possible. In the way to the Green Cave Dungeon, we found several monster and they trying to attack us. But, Gi-Chan defeated them without any problem. She uses a claw gauntlet in her hand as her weapon. As for me, I only watch her fight the monster while use my shield ability to protect her body. Just for your information, my cheat ability have a passive effect. That effect is to protect something that I recognize as a precious or important. Of course Gi-Chan is my friend so my passive ability active in her. Really I look like a mob character in here that didn¡¯t even do anything except support and watch her fighting.

    ¡°Evrys, We arrived!¡±

    ¡°yeah¡±

    After more than 2 hour walking by foot, finally we arrived in front of the Green Cave Dungeon. As expected from the name, this dungeon is surrounded by the green plant in every corner of its place. Even when we entered the cave, it is like a beautiful indoor forest.

    Even we not using any lantern, we can clearly see our surrounding thanks to the green crystal rock that radiate a luminous green light around us.If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. Please report it.

    In our way to go to the third floor, we find a rattle snake, big caterpillar, poison bug, even a madholer. All of them is a monster that frequently appear in this cave. For the monster itself, we can easily subjugate all of them except madholer. They are a little troublesome enemies because madholer can dig a hole in the ground and suddenly appear below us. Every time Gi-Chan trying to attack them, they quickly hide their presence under the ground. Because of that, I use my [Air shield] to cover the whole ground and leave them as they are.

    When we finally arrived at the third floor, finally I use my skill to create a weapon [Combine Log ¨C Fishing Rod]. Yes, what I make is a fishing rod. Even it is a fishing rod, it is not a normal fishing rod that you know. This is the fishing rod that I make 3 weeks ago while teaching Rozy-San how to fishing. Because it is still my shield skill, So the defense itself is high and of course I can just swing it like an iron bar for the thug fight to kill the giant bat if the times come.

    The giant bat currently are sleeping in the cave ceiling. Their wing is around 2 meter when they spread it open. Even if you got bite, you have a high chance of probability to get a paralyzed because of their saliva.

    I think I can¡¯t use this fishing rod for now. After all if they are still sleeping I can use that combo leisurely.

    ¡°Because they are still sleeping, I guess it is my combination attack to shine, huh¡­ Gi-Chan¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t call my name so easily!¡±

    Even I throw my gentle smile to her, she didn¡¯t weaver. Instead she is scolding me while throwing her disgusting look at me.

    Seriously! She is too scary!

    I approach the giant bat slowly with my [Air Shield ¨C Stair] and make [Air Shield - Box] to trap all of the giant bats in one place. Maybe because they feel my magic essence flowing from my body, the giant bat awake and trying to flee but it is already too late. They already got trapped in my sure kill combo shield in the end. After I make sure the Bat can¡¯t get out from there, I use my [Flame Shield - Bomb] to make a shield that can explode every time I want inside the box. This is one of the 10 attack shield that Mogu give me when I ask him for the attack type magic. The cost itself is to make my hand become numb for 3 hours. So it is not a big deal. When I¡¯m trying to figure this ability, it seems the penalty is just one times a day and after that I can use it for one full day as much as I want and it¡¯s attack ability is great after I combined it with another ability of mine.

    [Explode]

    After I say the trigger word, the shield explode and make a loud explosion, of course we are safe from the effect because we¡¯re outside the shield box.

    While the explosion lost its power, finally I can see a lot of roasted meat of the giant bat. They are splendidly turning into our lunch menu.

    Phew~ it seems I finish my task.

    I turn my body and walk to Gi-Chan¡¯s place and tell that our lunch¡­ I mean our quest is completed. After she confirm it, it seems we got around 25 giant bat in there. With this I can buy a delicious food for the other kid in the orphanage for dinner.

    ¡°Really, if you can use that original magic of yours like that, why you didn¡¯t help me from the beginning¡±

    ¡°Because it is troublesome to get my hand numb like this¡±

    As I said, my hand already took the penalty and became numb. Every time I got this numb feeling, it is make me uncomfortable because I can¡¯t move my hand for 3 hours.

    ¡°Then let go back¡­ after we take our lunch¡±

    ¡°Yeah¡±

    After we are finish eating the giant bat roasted meet, we cut the roasted wing and bring it as a proof that we really kill the giant bat for this quest. Just for your information, even the wing already roasted like this, the guild still accept it as a proof for the quest.

    But really, this giant bat meat has a taste similar like a chicken meat.

    We already take around 3 hours inside this cave. For this kind of quest, 3 hours is a very short time. Because normally, for this Green Cave Dungeon¡­ adventurer usually need around 4 until 5 hours to reach the third floor. After we get outside¡­ it is already afternoon.

    We walk back while chatting happily. We chat about what will we buy with this quest reward or what kind of quest will we take tomorrow. That kind of daily chat.

    Before we realize it, it is already dusk and I must use my [Air shield - stairs] so we can¡¯t meet any monster around here. The day and night monster is a very different. While monster which appear in the morning until afternoon is not a very powerful monster, but when the night come a lot of dangerous monster will appear around here.

    ¡°Ha~ I¡¯m really tired~¡±

    ¡°I want to go take a bath after that rest my body in the bed~¡±

    While we still chat leisurely, that time¡ª

    ¡°What is this¡­ rain?¡±

    ¡°Rain? But it smells like iron¡­ blood? Rain of¡­ blood?!¡±

    ¡°What? Blood?!¡±

    ¡ªI still didn¡¯t figure it. After we arrived in the capital there is one monster that already doing a massacre festival in there. A monster that can fight me in the same league.

 Interlude 3 - 8 Years Old

    ¡°Orfa-Chan, Are you ready?¡±

    ¡°W-wait a minute, Lilina-Oneechan¡±

    While Lilina-Oneechan called Orfa, that time Orfa still trying to wear Orfa¡¯s white Dress. The dress that looks so cute because they are a lot of frills in the edge of the dress.

    If only Exy-Kun in here too¡­.

    It is already one month passed since that day. The day when Orfa got kidnapped by a bunch of bad guy. The day when Exy-Kun¡¯s¡­ left Orfa¡¯s side forever.

    That day, Exy-Kun trying to save Orfa from the kidnapper but when Orfa run to the outside of the building as the instructions that Exy-Kun¡¯s gave, Exy-Kun got locked alone inside the building and fight with the bad guy. When the time Bard-Jii, Lilina-Oneechan, and Orfa got there, Exy-Kun already¡­.

    Ugh! Orfa¡­ Orfa shouldn¡¯t cry¡­ after¡­ after all¡­

    Before Orfa realize it, Tears already pour down from Orfa¡¯s cheek. Orfa doesn¡¯t know how many times Orfa suddenly cried like this whenever she remember about Exy-Kun.

    After that tragedy, Orfa locked herself in her room and didn¡¯t came outside for more than a week. Just sat in the Exy-Kun¡¯s bed and hug the dress that Exy-Kun¡¯s bought for Orfa.

    ¡°Don¡¯t Worry¡­ Its already Fine now¡­ Orfa-Chan¡±

    Every time Orfa remember what Exy-Kun said to her in the last time, Orfa always remember the smile that Exy-Kun¡¯s had that time. Exy-Kun Caressed Orfa¡¯s hair with his warm hand. Exy-Kun calmed Orfa down when Orfa scared so much about the condition. Yet¡­ even though Orfa knew Exy-Kun¡¯s is also Scared too that time, Exy-Kun still give his smiled to Orfa and protected Orfa from the bad guy. In the end, the one who must to blamed for Exy-Kun¡¯s death is Orfa, right? But in the contrary, Lilina-Oneechan and Bard-Jii didn¡¯t blamed Orfa and just Hugged Orfa tightly until Orfa stopped Crying. The next day, even Lilina-Oneechan made Orfa¡¯s favorite food, Apuru Soup.

    Even Lilina-Oneechan didn¡¯t realized it herself, Orfa always found that sometimes Lilina-Oneechan dazed and sighed. Last night too, when everyone already slept¡­ Lilina-Oneechan Cried alone after prepared Orfa¡¯s dress and called Exy-Kun¡¯s name several times. Sorry¡­ Sorry¡­ Exy-Kun¡­ I¡¯m so sorry¡­ said Lilina-Oneechan repeatedly along the night until dawn come.

    ¡°Orfa-Chan?¡±

    ¡°Ah! I¡¯m ready Lilina-Oneechan¡±

    After Lilina-Oneechan called Orfa¡¯s name several times, finally Orfa come back from her deep thought and answer Lilina-Oneechan called.

    This day is Orfa¡¯s Birthday and Exy-Kun¡¯s birthday. Both of us will turn 8 years old and become independent after leave the orphanage but¡­ now is only Orfa that will become independent.

    ¡°Orfa-Chan! Happy Birthday!¡±

    ¡°Orfa-Chan¡­ come to my place every time you want, I¡¯ll give you candy¡±

    ¡°Lilina-Oneechan¡­ Bard-Jii¡­ Thank you¡±

    After Lilina-Oneechan and Bard-Jii congratulate Orfa for her birthday, once again tears appear in Orfa¡¯s eyes. Maybe because Lilina-Oneechan saw it, Lilina-Oneechan hug Orfa tightly until Orfa can hear Lilina-Oneechan heartbeat. Bard-Jii too caressed Orfa¡¯s hair gently.Stolen from its rightful place, this narrative is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.

    Exy-Kun¡­ did you see Orfa from there? Please¡­ Orfa want too meet you again Exy-Kun¡­.

    After that, the party started from morning until afternoon. Of course Orfa as the star of the party got a lot of congratulation from Orfa¡¯s friend in the orphanage. Even so¡­ Orfa still feel sad because Exy-Kun isn¡¯t here to give his congratulation to Orfa.

    After Bard-Jii left the Orphanage, Orfa said that Orfa want Bard-Jii to bring Orfa to Exy-Kun¡¯s graveyard. After Bard-Jii give her confirmation, Orfa go with Bard-Jii to the country¡¯s cemetery, Haven Park.

    The graveyard itself is surrounded by a purple trees with the Purple rock that radiated purple light in the night time. Not just that, there is a purple fireflies that live in here and active when the night comes. In the way to the Exy-Kun¡¯s grave, the purple flowers dancing in the air after the breeze carried them. Really¡­ a very beautiful sight.

    ¡°I¡¯ll wait here, Orfa-Chan¡±

    ¡°Thank you, Bard-Jii¡±

    After Orfa arrived in front of Exy-Kun¡¯s grave, Orfa told Exy-Kun everything happen after Exy-Kun¡¯s death. About Orfa¡¯s sadness. About Lilina-Oneechan who sometimes crying the whole night. About Bard-Jii who feel guilty because he didn¡¯t have a chance to teach Exy-Kun¡¯s about his sword style. About Orfa and Exy-Kun¡¯s birthday. Everything. Orfa told all of its in front of Exy-Kun¡¯s grave.

    ¡°Please¡­ Exy-Kun¡­ Orfa want to meet Exy-Kun¡¯s again¡±

    ¡°¡­¡±

    Of course there is no answer from Exy-Kun.

    After Orfa finished told everything in front of Exy-Kun¡¯s graveyard, Orfa come back to the orphanage.

    After Orfa come-back, Lilina-Oneechan and the other child already finished their dinner.

    ¡°Lilina-Oneechan, Orfa is back¡±

    ¡°Welcome back¡­ Orfa-Chan, Are you alright?¡±

    ¡°Um! Don¡¯t worry Lilina-Oneechan¡­¡±

    While Orfa go to her room to prepare her belonging for tomorrow move on to the inn that Lilina-Oneechan already ranted in for Orfa stayed for one month, Lilina-Oneechan called Orfa¡¯s name and said that she want to talk to Orfa after another orphanage child go to sleep.

    When Orfa finished her preparation for tomorrow, Orfa go to the Lilina-Oneechan¡¯s room. After knocked several time, Lilina-Oneechan tell Orfa to come in.

    ¡°What happen Lilina-Oneechan?¡±

    ¡°Are you finished your preparation, Orfa-Chan?¡±

    ¡°Um! Just a moment ago¡­ what¡¯s wrong?¡±

    ¡°I want to give you something before you move on Orfa-Chan¡±

    After say that, Lilina-Oneechan pick a book from her drawer. There are 5 blue books in total. Wondering what is the content of the book, Orfa ask Lilina-Oneechan directly.

    ¡°What is that book, Lilina-oneechan?¡±

    ¡°It is Exy-Kun¡¯s diary, Orfa-Chan¡±

    ¡°Exy-Kun¡¯s!¡±

    After hear that, suddenly Orfa has a urge to take the book in Lilina-Oneechan¡¯s hand and open it by herself but,

    ¡°I don¡¯t even know what Exy-Kun¡¯s right in his diary¡±

    ¡°What¡­ Lilina-Oneechan¡¯s mean?¡±

    ¡°The word and the language itself is too different from the word that I teach you and Exy-Kun back then¡±

    Word? Language? Different?

    When Orfa wondering about that, Lilina-Oneechan offered a blue book with the title ¡°Exypno Agori¡¯s Diary - 3 years old¡±. Just from the title, Orfa already know the content of the book is about Exy-kun when he is still 3 years old. But as Lilina-Oneechan said, the content in the book is too different from what Lilina-Oneechan teach us. Only the first page that Orfa can understand because it looks like an alphabetic chart with the character after the symbol of ¡°=¡±.

    Maybe it is really an alphabetic chart? But from where Exy-Kun learn about that? Wait¡­ if Orfa think about Exy-Kun, Orfa already know that Exy-Kun is very smart¡­ maybe¡­

    Exy-Kun didn¡¯t want anyone to read his diary, that¡¯s Orfa conclusion. After all, Orfa didn¡¯t want another people including Exy-Kun to read her diary. But at this moment it is already too late. After all, Orfa already curious about what Exy-Kun¡¯s write in there. Even it is a not good attitude, but¡­ Orfa want to know the side of Exy-Kun that her didn¡¯t know. That¡¯s why¡ª

    ¡°Can Orfa take Exy-kun¡¯s diary, Lilina-Oneechan?¡±

    ¡°Are you sure, Orfa-Chan? I didn¡¯t even know what Exy-Kun¡¯s write in there you know¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t worry, Orfa will find what Exy-Kun¡¯s write in there¡±

    ¡°Then, Keep it with you Orfa-Chan, maybe Exy-Kun¡¯s hope for you to keep it with you¡±

    ¡°Thank you, Lilina-Oneechan¡±

    ¡ªNo matter what happen, Orfa really want to know the side of Exy-Kun that Orfa didn¡¯t know.

 Chapter 14 - Before The Bloody Rain

    ¡°Iki-Jii¡­ can you prepare for my morning tea?¡±

    ¡°Of course, Rozy-Ojousama¡­ This Ikirowson Thompson, will gladly fulfill your task¡±

    ¡°Thank you, Iki-Jii¡±

    After give me an elegant bow, Ikirowson Thompson or I always called as Iki-Jii, take his leave from my room while 3 of my personal maid stay and prepare for my dress. One of the maid brushed my hair gently, the other one took off my cloth, and the last one prepared my dress for I used today. This is my usual morning as a third princess of Ippotis kingdom, Rozy Prinkipissa Ippotis.

    After they are finish, I¡¯m standing in front of mirror to confirm what I use today. Today, I wear a cute pink dress that have a lot of frills in the edge of my cloth. The shoe that I use is my usual red shoes that made exclusively for princess sake and a pink flower, Piranov, brooch that already attached in my right chest.

    After I smiled and give my thanks, my 3 personal maids take their leave and leave me alone in my room.

    ¡°Today, maybe I will go to that place again¡­.¡±

    After that meet with Evrys-San 3 weeks ago, I always wait for a chance to sneak away from this castle to go to the Garden of Paradise. After I leave this castle, I use a magic stairs that Evrys-San stabilize 2 weeks ago after I met him again coincidentally in the Garden of Paradise. He made this Magic stairs for me so I can go to that place safely without being noticed by the monsters. From what he said, who can step in this stair is only a person that Evrys-San recognize as his friend. So, I mustn¡¯t worry if something suddenly happen like the monsters chase me while I¡¯m run away and go to this stairs, because no matter what they do they won¡¯t reach me because they didn¡¯t have a permission to step their foot in this magic stairs.

    I hope I can sneak away this day too

    While still thinking about that, I go to the garden inside this palace to take my morning tea that Iki-Jii already prepared. When I arrived at there, I can see my little sister and big brother already take their seat.

    In the palace garden, you can see a pond that place in the center of the garden and you can see a lot of fish swimming around inside the pond. Around the pond there are 7 colored flowers that the maid plant to make the palace garden more beautiful. This flower arranged as a rainbow color.

    ¡°Good Morning Ilna-Chan and Bruno-Oniisama¡±

    ¡°Good Morning, Rozy-Oneesama¡±

    ¡°Morning, Rozy¡±

    After give my greeting, Iki-Jii escort me to my seat and after he pull the seat I sit in there.

    ¡°This is a frena tea, Rozy-Sama. This tea can make your body warm for this full day and make your mind calm and this is one is Grenda cake. This cake is a new recipe from the royal chef who made the recipe yesterday.¡±

    ¡°Thank you very much, Iki-Jii¡±

    Delicious! This tea really makes my body feel warm.

    After I took a sip, Bruno-Oniisama talk to me while Ilna-Chan still eating her cake without a slightly care about our conversation.

    ¡°Rozy, I heard since three weeks ago, you become more cheerful than before, could you tell me what happen?¡±

    ¡°Is that so, Bruno-Oniisama? About that, maybe it is because I have a very wonderful dream every week¡±

    ¡°A very wonderful dream is it? What kind of dream?¡±

    ¡°It is a dream where I find myself in a place where there are a very clear lake with the monster and animals playing around there without attack each other. Not just that, there is one boy around my age that teach me a lot of new things that I want to know too Bruno-Oniisama¡±This story originates from a different website. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there.

    Of course I said it as a dream. After all I can¡¯t really say that I sneak away from the castle to go to that place every week, right?

    After we chat for a while, Bruno-Oniisama take his leave because he have some appointment to do for today.

    Become the next heir of the throne is hard, isn¡¯t it

    Even sometimes I think about that, I can¡¯t really say it in front of Bruno-Oniisama. Bruno-Oniisama is already 14 years old. So, next year he will become an adult and my father will give a very important announcement that time.

    When I still leisurely take my morning tea, Ilna-Chan say that she want to go back to her own room. After she said that, Iki-Jii escort Ilna-Chan to go to her room because Ilna-Chan still didn¡¯t have her own personal attendant until she turn 7 years old.

    This is my chance!

    After I look around to my surrounding, I find that there are no one in here. Look at this condition as my chance, I go to the back of the garden where there are bushes and go to the back of the bushes. In there, I can see a hole that I always use to sneak away from the castle. In fact, I put my red hood in here too so I can use it whenever I want to sneak away from the castle. Not just that, in this garden, the guard will stay in this place after the noon bell rang so morning is my only chance for sneak away especially for this day when a lot of attendant got busy because of Bruno-Onisama¡¯s guest come every week. That¡¯s why I always successfully sneak away in this day.

    Fu~ it seems today is success too¡­.

    When thinking about that, I use this magic stairs that Evrys-San stabilize and starting to walk to reach the Garden of Paradise. The place where I appear after passed the hole in the back of bushes is near the cliff but there is still a normal stairs that will lead you directly to the forest. I usually use this stairs before, but after Everys-San stabilize this magic stairs, I prefer to use it because it will take me directly to the Garden of Paradise. That¡¯s why there is no one who will spot me after I reach this place. After all, only a royal family who knows this secret passage.

    When I walk on top of this stairs, I can see this country from above. When the first time I use this stairs with Everys-San, in fact I¡¯m really scared because it is too high above the ground but Everys-San said to me it is not a problem because you won¡¯t fall from here. He told me that there is an invincible wall that I can¡¯t see. That¡¯s why no matter what I did, I won¡¯t fall from here.

    After several minutes I walk, finally I reached the Garden of Paradise. From above I can already see a lot of animals that take their rest in there. Not just that, some of them come here for drink the water.

    When I finally got down, I wear off my shoe and run to play in the lake. If Bruno-Oniisama looked me do this, without fail he will scold me because it is not an attitude of princess will do.

    When I feel tired after play in the lake, I came off and stroke some Usaga that I see. As Everys-San said, in here even it is a dangerous animal, they won¡¯t attack you no matter what happen. Maybe for them this place is like their sanctuary, in the end this is just my opinion about this weird habit.

    Before I realize it, I fell asleep for several hours. When I wake up, I can see that it is already past afternoon. That¡¯s why I running back to the castle using the magic stairs as fast as possible to the castle.

    What is that? Person? Why he standing alone on top of the time bell? In the first place, how can he get to that place?

    When I already reach half of my way to the castle, I can see a person standing alone on top of the Time Bell tower. That person wear a very weird cloth that I not recognize. He wear a red scarf, with 2 black strips as the motif, to cover his neck and black mask to cover his face. He has 2 long swords in his back and 2 short swords in the both side of his thighs.

    What is he doing in such a high place?

    Suddenly, that weird person spread both of his hand and said something I don¡¯t really understand. I don¡¯t know why, but it seems that person didn¡¯t realize my existence in here.

    Is it because anyone who Evrys-San didn¡¯t recognize can¡¯t see this magic stairs as well as the person who walk on there?

    That¡¯s my only answer in this condition. Because of my curiosity, I¡¯m trying to observe what this weird man to do. Not long after that, I can see that man make a very cunning smile for the reason I don¡¯t know. But one think that I can confirm is that the man said some word before smiling like that. That word is,

    [Steal - Blood]

    I don¡¯t know what really happen because literally there is nothing happen around him after saying that word. What make me wonder is why the man suddenly laughing so loud.

    But why he said something like stealing blood? Is he gone mad? Or is he want to suicide?

    That¡¯s the question that instantly appeared in my head after hearing it.

    Before I realize it, it is already night and when I want to confirm it by looking into the cloud above me¡ª

    What is that huge red magic circle? Why is it suddenly appeared above this country? And why it suddenly rain in here?

    ¡°Wait¡­ rain? No¡­ but the color is¡­ red?! What is this?! It¡¯s looks like¡­ blood?¡±

    ¡ªI can see the rain of blood already fall in this town from inside the huge red magic circle that surrounding the town¡­ and beside me that man still laughing so loud even his face is already covered by the blood that appear from nowhere in the sky.

 Interlude 4 - Exy-Kuns Diary I

    ¡°Finally¡­ Orfa can already remember all of the weird character in Exy-Kun¡¯s diary!¡±

    Its already 6 month since the first time Orfa got Exy-Kun¡¯s diary from Lilina-Oneechan. since that time, Orfa is trying her best to read the diary with this weird character. Frankly to say, just the character that make this diary hard to read but the meaning itself is the same as the language that Orfa knows.

    Um! Then lets try to read what Exy-Kun¡¯s write in his diary¡­.

    ***

    [04-03-0987]

    Today is my first time learning magic, I don¡¯t think using magic is that hard because I can already use 2 element in the same time. Different from me, Orfa-Chan can already use magic and what make it awesome is she can already use dark magic! It is so cool!

    [12-03-0987]

    This is my first time trying to use wooden sword, but still it is too hard because my hand can¡¯t grip the wooden sword properly.

    [20-03-0987]

    After I observe Orfa-Chan every time she is practicing her dark magic, I think she have affinity for the other element too. Lets try to inform her about this tomorrow .

    [22-03-0987]

    It seems my guess hit the bull¡¯s eye. After I tell Orfa-Chan about the possibility that she can use another element, she immediately learning water, thunder, spirit, and support. The result is¡­ she can use all of it without any problem. But if another person know about it, it will become troublesome later. I think I¡¯ll tell her to keep it secret tomorrow.

    [09-04-0987]

    I face a new trouble. It seems I can¡¯t use another class of magic except elementary class no matter what I¡¯m to do. My magic automatically cancelled every time I¡¯m trying to use it. What will happen to me in the future?

    [13-04-0987]

    As I thought, Orfa-Chan can already use dark magic until intermediate level. Really, she is a real genius. Not like me, a failure child.Unauthorized duplication: this narrative has been taken without consent. Report sightings.

    [15-04-0987]

    I think it really make me irritated every time I failed use intermediate magic. If this condition goes on, I¡¯ll prefer learning sword than magic when I turn 4 years old.

    [31-05-0987]

    When I¡¯m searching for Orfa-Chan, I coincidentally look Orfa-Chan trying her magic alone. Let¡¯s give my opinion later!

    [27-06-0987]

    I told Orfa-Chan to practicing the other 4 element so she can reach intermediate level with no time for all of the element that she has.

    [16-07-0987]

    Today is my first experience go to the market district, really there is a lot of people here.

    [02-08-0987]

    When I¡¯m searching for Bard-Jii, I found a very big library near the adventurer guild. I want to go there!

    [19-08-0987]

    Finally I can go to the library, there is a lot of book in there. I borrowed some of history book from there.

    [31-08-0987]

    After I return the history book, I¡¯m borrowed a magic book for elementary class. I think I can teach Orfa-Chan if I can remember some of the spell.

    [07-09-0987]

    Maybe it is too late, but why a 3 years old kid like me can borrow a precious book from the library, I wonder?

    [13-10-0987]

    When I want to return the book to the library, I found an amazing story book. The title is ¡°The Strongest Necromancy¡±. Really, why there is a story book about Necromancy in the library?

    [01-11-0987]

    The Necromancy book that I read is really interesting. I hope Orfa-Chan can use Necromancy in the future so she can have a skeleton bodyguard who can save her whenever I didn¡¯t there beside her.

    [15-12-0987]

    After thinking for a long time, finally I make a new gamble with that man. It is not something really important for me but I just thinking it is interesting that¡¯s all.

    [03-02-0987]

    I think I¡¯ll start my next plan from here. But for it to be realize, I need Orfa-Chan to learn all of the 4 element until advanced level and dark until cursed level. I wonder if she want to learn it, though¡­.

    ***

    ¡°Fu~ I can¡¯t really understand what Exy-Kun¡¯s think¡±

    After read Exy-Kun¡¯s diary when he is still 3 years old, Orfa can only sit in the chair and wondering about two things that she can¡¯t understand. What kind of plan that Exy-kun mean in there and the most thing that make Orfa curious is who is the man that Exy-kun¡¯s talking about.

    Orfa can¡¯t really understand Exy-Kun¡¯s way of thinking, but¡­ from what Orfa know, Exy-Kun need Orfa¡¯s help to do something that require Orfa to learn magic until that degree. Really, what is Exy-Kun thinking about?

    When Orfa trying to think about it,¡ª

    ¡°Orfa think, Orfa will trying to figure it tomorrow¡­ Fua~ but one thing that Orfa sure is that Orfa must learning magic until advanced class first to figure what Exy-Kun trying to say in his next diary¡±

    ¡ªBefore Orfa realize it, Orfa already fell sleep in her bed.

 Chapter 15 - Bloody Massacre I

    ¡°Gi-Chan, I think you must wait here for a while, it is too dangerous¡±

    ¡°If you go, I¡¯ll go with you¡±

    ¡°But¡ª!¡±

    ¡°Shut Up!¡±

    It is already around 45 minute since the rain of blood started. While we are still wondering what happen in the Ippotis, we rush as fast as possible. But when we found another adventurer collapsed in the ground we approach him without second thought.

    While we are looking closely, that adventurer is a girl around 15 years old. Her skin color is pale. Very pale. Her body is very thin and like she is doesn¡¯t eat and drink anything for more than one months. Frankly speaking, she is like a skeleton with a pale skin.

    Seriously¡­ what happen with her?

    ¡°Kya!¡±

    ¡°Gi-Chan! What ha¡ª!¡±

    Suddenly I heard Gi-Chan¡¯s scream. She scream so loud and her face suddenly turn pale. When I turn to look what happen to her, I saw Gi-Chan already fell to the ground. When I ask what happen, she only pointing her finger to the road in front of her. When I look at the direction that Gi-Chan pointing to me, I saw a very terrifying condition along the road. Along this road, every person already collapse with the same condition as the girl. Their complexion turn pale and their body shrink until they look like a skeleton or a corpse that got mummified.

    It looks like they died because of a sudden shock

    That¡¯s the only conclusion that I can reach. But it is too strange if this condition occur in the same time on every person who take this road. After all, Gi-Chan and I still healthy even we stay in here for more than 25 minutes.

    Trying to figure something, I observe our surrounding. From what I can see, it seems not only human but monster and animal too. They are got the same fate as the people who dead in this road with the same condition.

    It is clearly not a natural phenomenon

    While I¡¯m still staying vigilante about our surrounding, finally I¡¯m noticing something that I didn¡¯t noticed it before.

    Above us, there are a massive red magic circle appear and it seems that is the cause of this rain.

    That¡¯s why from there we arrived at this condition where I¡¯m arguing with Gi-Chan to make her wait in here because I find it too dangerous in Ippotis if she come along with me. Not only that, I have another reason that make me insist Gi-Chan to stay here.

    ¡°Okay! Fine if you want to come along too, but can you closed your eye for a while, Gi-Chan?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t want to close my eyes, if I do what you ask, you will just knocked me out, right?¡±

    ¡°Nope, I won¡¯t do that. I only want to cast a defense magic on you, I promise!¡±

    ¡°Are you sure? you won¡¯t make my consciousness out?¡±

    ¡°Yeah, I promise to you I won¡¯t make your consciousness out!¡±

    ¡°Then¡­¡±

    After Gi-Chan closed her eyes I make a shield to surrounding her body. As I promised I don¡¯t make her consciousness out.

    [Air Shield - Box]

    Instead I trapped her inside my shield box. As promise, I don¡¯t knocked her but I still make sure she won¡¯t follow me to the Ippotis.

    I¡¯ll go for a while, Gi-Chan

    After I said it in my mind, I left Gi-Chan in there. I don¡¯t know what she says but from what I look she is angry and screaming something. What make my heart pain is¡­ once again I make a girl cry because of my action. Really, I¡¯m the worst.

    Through the street, I can see a lot of corpse that have the same condition as the adventurer girl that I found earlier. It feels like they even didn¡¯t know what happen to them.

    What kind of monster that do this kind of thing?

    Just with that thought, I feel eerie. I want to vomit right now if I can, but if I do that¡­ I¡¯ll loss all of my composure. That¡¯s why I¡¯m trying my best to hold this urge to vomit. Even my head slightly feel dizzy and my body tremble because of fear, I shouldn¡¯t stop in here.

    All of the child in the Orphanage, I hope they are still alright!

    Before I entered the Gate, I resolve myself and continue to go straight to the orphanage. When the dusk bell rang with ¡°Bang¡­ Bang¡­ Bang¡­¡±, unconsciously I found myself were looking on to the tower bell. In there I see a man standing alone with both of his hand spread open to his side. Even I don¡¯t really sure, his clothes look like a ninja from my country.

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    I can hear that man laughter resounding through the town. It is like the town already left with him alone standing highly above the tower bell. His laughter alone made me terrifying enough to think it is nightmare.

    Who is he? What is he doing in there?

    It is only natural if I ask about that kind of thing. I can guarantee if it anyone who look that ninja in my stead will think the same as me.

    Wait! Isn¡¯t it¡­ Rozy-San in there? What is she doing looking that curiously on that ninja direction?

    When I see Rozy-San beside that man, I feel a little curious too about what that man doing in there. Maybe it is thanks to my conceal ability that I use for the magic stairs that I make using air shield, that ninja didn¡¯t notice about her presence that looking passionately in his direction.

    Let try to confirm it!

    I use my extra ability,

    [Shield Communication]

    To open a communication inside that magic stairs.

    ¡°Rozy-San, can you hear me?¡±

    ¡°Eh? Ah! Evrys¡­ -San?¡±

    From here, I can see that Rozy-San is startling because of my sudden voice and trying to search my exact location. It seems she can hear me clearly.

    ¡°Don¡¯t worry about my location right now Rozy-San, Can you tell me what happen in here?¡±

    ¡°Even Evrys-Kun says that, I didn¡¯t really know what happen in here. Just a moment ago I¡¯m still in the Garden of Paradise and when I¡¯m in my way to back to the castle, I see this weird man standing in the tower bell alone and suddenly grinning after muttered something.¡±

    Muttered something?

    ¡°Did you hear what that man said?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not really sure but it is something like¡­ ¡®Steal¡¯ and¡­ ¡®Blood¡¯¡­ something like that, Evrys-Kun¡±

    ¡°Steal and blood?¡±

    ¡°Ah! One more thing that I remember is¡­ after he said that, he spread open his arm and suddenly a massive red magic circle appear above this town and the rain fall until now.¡±

    ¡°Rain of¡­ blood?¡±

    I muttered that word before I aware about it. About the rain that still falling until this moment in this town. The rain of blood.

    Man Standing alone while laughing¡­ Steal and blood¡­ people died because of sudden shock¡­ all of their complexion turn pale¡­ rain of blood¡­ isn¡¯t all of it linked together?

    Even I didn¡¯t want to admit this fact but, I can only say that this massive scale of death because of sudden shock is the cause of his course of action.

    But what is his intention? ¡­and why is Rozy-San still safe even she is in here for a long time? Is the effect didn¡¯t affect my magic stairs that I make from my magic shield?

    A lot of question appears inside my head one after another but I can¡¯t figure anything except that conclusion I made a moment ago and there is still one more thing that bothered me from the first time after I have arrived in Ippotis from my dungeon quest. I have a gist about my last question but I still not sure about that.

    ¡°Even I don¡¯t really want to say it, but I think you shouldn¡¯t leave that magic stairs for a while, Rozy-San¡­ because it is too dangerous outside¡±

    ¡°But¡­ I¡¯m worried about the condition inside the castle¡±

    What should I do¡­ if this goes on, I can¡¯t do anything to protect her because of the distance we have now between me and Rozy-San. my shield range is around 500 meters and the maximum distance is around 1000 meters after I¡¯m using it.

    ¡°Then, wait for a moment, I¡¯ll try to cast my shield on you when I already reach the minimum distance.¡±

    ¡°Um! I¡¯ll wait for you¡­ please be careful, Evrys-San¡±

    ¡°Thank you Rozy-San¡±

    I stealthily approach the tower bell. To cast my shield without that ninja man finding me out I must reach the bottom of the tower to meet the minimum require distance to cast it.

    This itchy feeling again¡­ suddenly come from my right hand, seriously what is this?

    I feel my right hand slightly burn but it didn¡¯t hurt at all. I don¡¯t really know what happen but I¡¯m already feeling it for a while. Maybe because I hide it with my black gloves that I didn¡¯t figure what happen to my right hand. Trying my best to ignore that itchy feeling, I carefully approach the bottom of the tower bell.

    Around me there is no sound that I can heard except the laughing of the ninja man and the sound of the rain of blood. Even I already in here for several minutes, I still can¡¯t get accustomed to it.

    ¡°Are you perhaps¡­ a candidate?¡±

    ¡°Wha¡ª!¡±

    Suddenly I can hear a man¡¯s voice come from behind me. Without any sound, he suddenly appear behind me. The man thrust his sword in his hand to my back. Thanks for my passive skill [Auto Defense] that my cheat ability granted, I can successfully defend against that sure kill technique of him.

    As a result of his attack, I flung away to the house in front of me. This alone make me realize how strong he put his own strength to that one thrust to pierce my body.

    ¡°Ahaha~ I see, I see¡­ so you choose that kind of ability huh¡­ Ahaha~ it is interesting just by thinking that my attack will penetrated your barrier¡­ it is already enough to stimulate my son in here¡­ ahaha~¡±

    ¡°Ugh!¡±

    While I¡¯m trying to standing, I can hear what that man say clearly. What make me disgust about him is the fact that he grab his crotch with his right hand and lick his left finger that still hold a sword like a bitch that trying to seduce me. Seriously¡­ a crazy person appeared in front of me.

    Wait¡­ is he said ¡®Candidate¡¯? that means?!

    ¡°Are you¡­ a Cheater?¡±

    ¡°What are you saying? It is obvious just by looking at your emblem! ¡­Ah! From what you conduct, I see¡­ it seems this is the first time you face another candidate, huh? Ahahahaha~ if it like that¡­ I think it is my luck!¡±

    After heard what he say, without any hesitation I took off my glove that hide my right hand. There I can see that my emblem is radiating a dazzling white light.

    ¡°That White light are telling you that our condition is normal. It means we stand in equal footing. Not advantage nor disadvantage. Just a normal condition.¡±

    Is he figure my location because of this emblem?

    ¡°Are you telling me, you massacre all of the people in this country just to lure me out?¡±

    ¡°HUH? What are you talking about? Meet you in here is just an extra reward for me!¡±

    Is he mean¡­ there is another intention that make him do a massacre?

    While I¡¯m still thinking about that, I figure the location of his emblem. Even it look like he is fooling himself but the left side of his forehead is shining and I can barely see his emblem from here. He is¡ª

    ¡°Ahahaha~ It is cool right?! Even we still 10 years old, we can already massacre a country alone¡­ ah! It is make me remember about some stupid candidate that got killed 3 years ago. Because of him, I think some of the other candidate already figuring the loopholes in the rules that Mogu made and starting to move to carry some plan to hunt the other candidate before they turn 15 years old.¡±

    ¡°What¡­ are you¡ª¡±

    ¡°¡ªIsn¡¯t it right? After all if you want to blame someone, then blame the guy that kill the first candidate that make us figure the loopholes or maybe you can blame the very first guy that stupid enough to blurted his extreme plan all of sudden in that white room, right? Ahahaha~¡±

    This guy¡­ is crazy!

    ¡ªA Cheater candidate who wield ¡°5?¡± emblem and the culprit who start this Bloody massacre in this Ippotis kingdom.

 Chapter 16 - Bloody Massacre II

    "Shit!"

    "Aha ~? Are you okay?"

    15 minutes have passed since they first met. Blond-haired boy with wild cat-like eyes and a white T-shirt protected by light armor¡ªEvrys Ouranos is trying to fend off an attack after another attack by a boy in a ninja costume in front of him. Many times the ninja attacked him with a speed that was difficult to follow by the eye, but precisely held by the dozens of Shield that Evrys created. Nevertheless, every protector that Evrys creates is easily penetrated by the ninja¡ªFifth, every time he tried to thrust his long sword towards Evrys vital organ. But on the other hand, whenever Fifth swings his long sword, none of Evrys''s protectors destroyed by him. Realizing this, "If my guess is right", Evrys makes an assumption....

    Passive ability possessed by Fifth is to destroy any object pierced by his sword. But, although I myself am not so sure, that ability is not strong enough to penetrate my passive ability, [Auto Defense].

    Though Evrys was a little hesitant about his guess, he did not have time to relax, because every time Fifth launched an attack towards him, little by little he began to feel that he was cornered.

    Not only that, from what was seen by the only spectator who witnessed the great battle in front of her¡ªRozy Prinkipissa Ippotis could only open his eyes wide. Every time he saw Fifth stepping his foot anywhere, the area he stepped on created a wind pressure that could crush the surface of the ground and throw down the pool of blood created by the rain that had fallen since a while ago. Not only that, Rozy himself can only see splashes and shattered shields with Evrys standing as the center.

    Pausing his movement for a moment, Fifth whistled as though enjoying the scenery in front of him, "Ahaha ~, So...", he also asked Evrys while showing a happy-looking face....

    "What do you think of this beautiful scene?"

    "Ha? What do you mean?! Beautiful scenery?! Don¡¯t spout such a nonsense!"

    "Pft¡ª! Ahaha~, so boring~... this is why people who do not understand art is sucks. however, the scene I created is really artistic is not it? Let''s see what''s going on around you"Unauthorized reproduction: this story has been taken without approval. Report sightings.

    "What-!"

    Nodding his head with face full of pride, Fifth opened his arms wide as if he were offering something he was proud of.

    Seeing this, Evrys looked around. He saw the scene where the supposedly crowded place would be the house that stood around the Tower Bell area, has now turned into a clearing with debris coming from a ruined house. However, that was not what make Evrys surprised but rather, the pile of corpses that seemed to form a five-star magic circle that surrounded him. Every corpse he could see clearly, all of them had pale skin and their skin had become wrinkled.

    He frowned as he listened to what Fifth said, Evrys threw a very sharp glance like a dagger toward Fifth. Seeing this, "You think ...", Fifth again throws the question while licking a long sword that has been covered in blood....

    "What about this scene? Is not this great? "

    "..."

    "Aha? You''re so amazed that you''re out of words, are not you? "

    "!"

    Without answering a single question from Fifth, Evrys made dozens of a cube-shaped shield that covered Fifth''s entire body unnoticed by him. Shield made of air, [Air Shield - Box] managed to make Fifth trapped inside. The shield that Evrys made has more than a hundred layers. Realizing the circumstances, "Ahahahaha ~, I think, my guess was right ...", Fifth touched the shield with his left hand ....

    "The cheat ability that you picked is... an ability to make a shield, am I right?"

    "!"

    Hearing Fifth''s words, Evrys stopped for a moment. But before he realized it, he backed up a few steps back. Seeing this, Fifth just laughs, "Ahaha~", while he holds his crotch like a psychopath. Laughing nonstop, Fifth went on as he made a face that seemed to mock Evrys.

    "Did you ... ever kill someone?"

    "Shut up!"

    "Aha~. I see. I see. So you have not killed anyone yet, huh. ARE YOU CRAZY?!"

    "Shut up, Freak!"

    Seeing Evrys''s increasingly agitate attitude, Fifth raised his voice gradually.

    "With this ability, we can master almost anything and do whatever we want, YOU KNOW!"

    "Shut up, damn it!"

    Smiling, Fifth casually says that thing to Evrys. Enjoying Evrys expression that throws a hateful look towards him, Fifth just laughs out loud as both his hands hold his shoulders by crossing it in front of his chest. Lowering his tone, "Do you know...", Fifth continued his words.

    "The first person I killed when I mastered my cheat ability-"

    "I SAID SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH UP, FREAK!"

    "¡ªIs my own parents"