A man with full armor came riding next to the young woman and says with worry " My lady! you have to wait for us, there could be an ambush in this place and why did you stop? "
" Hmm… " The young woman turns to see him and smiles then she points at Hayato and says " I'm sorry, I was just looking at him "
" Alright my lady, but who is this kid? " The man gets down from his horse, and the others follow him from behind
" We are the knights of Lyrel, tell me what are you doing here?" All the Knights put their hands on their swords, taking precautions against Hayato
Hayato frowns and thinks ' Why are they here wasting their time with me, if the bandits were still here, the people of the village would have died, these guys are not here because they want to help the villagers, they are here for something else '
The woman turns to see them after looking at Hayato's face for a second and says " What are you doing? go find out what happened here! I will stay here to interrogate this young man " The knights begin to move until they leave them behind
The young woman bows her head after she gets down from her horse and she says " My name is Ellen Lionheart, I'm one of the princesses of the Lyrel kingdom, you know what happened here? "
Hayato makes a calm face and says " Some bandits attacked the village, but I took care of them "
" What?! you killed them all! " She makes a surprised face, then she sees left and right she saw various types of dead bodies from villagers to bandits
Hayato saw them too but he says to her in a calm voice " Yeah, it was easy, all the surviving villagers are located in the big house over there, there are some that will need help " Hayato turns to see her and noticed that she was looking at him again
" So, you save them heh... you must be really strong, fufufu " She covers his mouth with his left hand and laughs
' Hmm? ' Hayato watched her laugh, and he felt that her laugh wasn't good ' That laugh is the same as her ' Hayato was talking about a girl named Kaori, Hayato's former girlfriend she used to smile at him like that ' If you're smiling me like that there is no way that I will trust you, besides, why are you doing that? what do you gain? '
" Can I ask you why you help them? " She put on a charming smile
Hayato plays along and says with a kind smile " Well, you see, I did it because I hate bullies, and is something that I wished that someone did for me in the past " this time he paid more attention to her reaction
She smiles a little but he saw the disdain in her eyes " You are a good person, no? "
Hayato nods and says with a small smile " Now it's my turn to ask you a question, you searching for someone or something, right? "
" How do you know? " She said with a surprised smile
Hayato makes a happy smile as he closes his eyes to say " Well, the knights from before didn't seem to be in a hurry to help the villagers or it was my imagination? "
" Hehe, the truth is that we are searching for someone, the one who attracted a heavenly tribulation in the forest to be exact, but I think I already found him, no? that person is you, I'm wrong? " She makes a sly smile
' What a cunning woman, a completely dangerous person ' Hayato thought keeping his smiling face " Well, if you mean about the lightning, yes, it was me, but now, can I ask you for what reason you were searching for me? " Hayato was ready to attack her at any moment but the bad thing is that he didn't know how powerful she is or the knights ' It seems that neither of them had noticed the clones on the roofs if she is stronger than me, I will use them as a distraction to escape '
" Hehehe " She laughs charmingly to say " So it was you, you don't have to worry, we come here to invite you to join the Lyrel Kingdom as a knight, what do you say? " she reaches her hand towards Hayato wanting him to grab it as a knight will do
Hayato grabs her hand softly and says " Sure, why not, I don't have where I can stay so having a job will be a good start " The princess just smiles but she seems to be expecting something so Hayato thoughts with scorn ' You want me to kiss your hand? keep dreaming ' Then the knights returned from the house making the princess retract her hand softly but now she ignores Hayato and was watching the knights with a forced smile
The knights kneel in front of the princess and the one on the front says " My lady, it seems the village was attacked by bandits, but someone killed them, the majority of the villagers are safe in the village chief house, some are injured but nothing so serious "
" I know captain, the one who killed them was him " She points at Hayato and smiles
" Really! but my lady, he is younger than you " The knight in front spoke with surprise
" It's true captain, there's more, he is the one that we are searching for, now let's leave, he is going to join us " She ordered and the knights stand up then climb up on their horses
" If it's good with you, I like to say goodbye to the villagers " Hayato said with a humble smile
" It's fine, we will stay here waiting for you! " She smiled sweetly as she waves her hand telling him to go
The moment that Hayato turns around his face changed from a smiling one to a cold one then he began to walk to the big house after a couple of minutes he arrived at the house to then enter there is every survivor of the village
" Big brother! " The little girl named Merry comes to embrace Hayato
" Hello little girl, you know where is the village chief " Hayato rubs her hair and she points at the door where she ran early " She is in there "
" Thank you little girl " Hayato rubs his head again then she notices her mother and her sister looking at him with smiling faces, this time he saw them well, their hair was long and light brown just like the little girl, and both of them were quite beautiful and they had light brown eyes just like the little girl, the difference was that the mother watched Hayato with admiration just as most of the people there and the sister see him with a red and shy face like some other young ladies present, Hayato nods with a small smile at them making the sister turn even redder and the mother just laughs of her reaction " Go with them " Said Hayato to the little girl " Yes! " Said the little girl with a happy smile and she ran towards her mother and sister. Then he walks away and entered the room
Hayato opens the door without knocking and saw the beautiful woman with red hair carrying a box of fruits towards the door, the woman was surprised, then she smiled widely with happiness " Young Hero! " then she put the box on the floor and turns to see Hayato with a smile once again
" Sorry for disturbing you, but we need to talk about something " Hayato said with a serious face making the woman see him with surprise " What happened? " She said
Hayato closes the door behind him to then says softly " I need you to keep the villagers in your house for at least three more days, I think that something is going to happen if they leave "
The woman nods with a face of doubt " Ok, I know that you are leaving, but your companions are going to stay, right? "
" Companions? " Hayato watched her with doubt and thoughts with surprise ' She knows about my clones? but I make sure that no one sees us together '
The woman sees him with doubt too and says " You are a summoned Hero, right? where are the other Heroes? "
Hayato is surprised and shakes his head saying " No, I'm not, how do you make that conclusion? "
" Your looks are the same as the summoned Heroes and normally 3 or 4 heroes appeared with each summon " She says with a face of doubt
" I'm not a Hero, I will leave now " Hayato turns around and left but then the woman almost yelled loudly " Wait! " Hayato turns to see her with a calm expression then she says with an almost unnoticeable red face and slight smile " Can you at least tell me your name? "
" .... " Hayato watched her with a calm face for a couple of seconds to then say to her with a grin " My name is Hayato "
The woman almost immediately smiles widely with happiness and puts her right hand between her voluptuous breasts saying " Mi name is Anna, I'm the village chief "
Hayato nods and says " Nice to meet you, Anna, sorry but I had to go now " then he turns around and opens the door to then leave " Ok " whispered the woman " .... " she stayed a couple of seconds watching the door with a dazed expression and she finally grabs the box on the floor again
Hayato left Anna's house receiving thanks from everyone he saved, he just nods at them and left, as he was walking towards the princess group he thinks ' So that's why people called me Hero before, now I need to find out why they call me Demon too ' after a few minutes he arrived where the princess and the knights were
" You are ready? let's go then " Said the princess and a knight handed Hayato a horse, they start to ride for 5 minutes when Hayato undone 3 of the 5 clones, and then their memories come to his mind
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With the Sharingan, he can know every word they say
" My lady, are you sure that he is the person we were searching for? " Said the Captain with a face of doubt
" Yes, I scanned him with my Heavenly Eye and his energy was completely different from every person I have met before " Answer the princess with a very serious voice
The Captain made an incredulous face and says " If you said that my lady "
Then the princess turns to where Hayato left and says coldly " I need you to keep this a secret from my father if he asks something tell him that we couldn't find him. "
" But my lady we....." The Captain of the knights didn't finish speaking
" Just do it, or your families will pay the price! " The princess turned to see the knights with a murderous gaze
" Y-yes my lady "All of the knights responded in fear
" One more thing, eliminate the survivors of the village, I don't want witnesses " She said with a careless face
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Hayato frowns a little avoiding the gaze of the princess and the knights ' So she has some kind of scanning power, that's why she was seeing me a lot ' then he grins a little ' Well if she tries to do something against me, she will regret it '