*Whine Whine* A little puppy lay on the floor filled with wounds while a teenager continued stabbing its furry skin.
"Sir Stanley... I-I think you should really stop what you're... I'm afraid the puppy you bought might die if-" An old butler tried to intervene.
"Barsley! What did I say about disturbing me when I'm working?! Do you want to be put in the pens again?!" But sadly, the butler's concerns were thrown out the window.
"It's Bensley, sir... S-Sir Stanley?" The old butler trembled in fear of the young man in front of him.
[Yeah, Stanley Banks, that's what they used to call me didn' they?]
"Butler... How many times did I tell you not to disturb me while I'm thinking?! Huh?!"
"I-I'm sorry sir... please forgive my impudence!" The poor trembling butler beg on his knees.
"Come here you old faggot, off to the pens!"
"P-Please sir Stanley, not the pens again..."
The teenager dragged the poor old butler as he cried for forgiveness.
[Hmm, that was the last time I saw that butler if I recall correctly... I guess I shouldn't have starved him for five days... Well, what can a man do? Though that old man served my family his whole life, you can't honestly blame me for not remembering every single one of the servants, right?]
"Son! You've gone too far! Bensley has served our family faithfully all his life! His name was even the first thing you said as a baby! How can you let him starve to death in the pens like that?!"
"Yes father, I have regretted my actions every day! But after seeing him kill the innocent puppy I bought... I finally snapped! But I never meant to kill him! I swear! If only I was even slightly more attentive to Bernsly! How can you forgive me, father? Please don't disown me!"
[Didn't care really... At that time I was just genuinely afraid father would've really kicked me out...]
"It's alright son, I know you're hurting more than I am... He was like another father to you. I guess he was getting senile... But, as long as you study well and achieve great things in the academy, we will forget that this ever happened..."
"Father~! You don't mean to say?! I thought we didn't have enough money to send me to the academy?"
"F-Father here pulled some strings here and there, no need to worry..."
[Stupid buffoon! Pulled some strings?!
Pulled some strings?!
The idiot father embezzled money from his administrative job!
And to think his idiotic actions came to bite me in the ass later on!
Ahh well, I guess in the end it wasn't really that bad... At least I got inside the great Academy.
Hahaha, and those other dumb kids said destitute Baronates like me couldn't pay for the Academy. Well jokes on them, hahaha!
Ahh, Academy life was great... The innocent Nobles were easy to seduce, little wenches had a lot of pent up stress! And thanks to their high pride, they won't talk even if I forced myself onto them after a couple of drinks...
Plus, it was the Commoner Scholars who did most of my homework. Of course with a little bit of convincing...
Ha, there was this one idiot, Derk or Derek was it, who had a fellow Commoner as his lover. I told him if he didn't do my homework for me, I'll rape her.
And the idiot actually believed me! Hahaha! Though I still did her in the end.
The damned whore thought I was rich enough to pay for her sick brother's disease or something.
Idiots.
Though I didn't study much at the Academy, I still made sure to make a lot of good friends, especially the children of Marquis and Dukes.
Ahh sadly, no matter how righteous your path is, one can never escape misfortune...]
"M-My son, tell them, I didn't do it right?"
[My idiotic father came to me one evening after getting arrested for Embezzlement, right in front of my friends!
How embarrassed was I was when he showed his disgusting face in front of them!]
"I don't know you..."
[I said to the idiot as they dragged him out, the look on his face as if saying "I did it all for you"... The nerve...
Luckily he had enough conscience to not show his face again.
Sadly, I forgot he was the one paying for my tuition...]
"Hey... did you hear that?" A merchant asked the person next to him deep in the forest at night.
"Hello..."
"W-Who are you?! Wait, please, NO!"
[Hahaha, the look on their face before I stole from them...
After getting kicked out of the Academy, I was forced into a life of thievery, after the damned Empire confiscated all of my father's wealth...
At first, I thought it below me to steal like a filthy bandit.
But over time the thrill of taking, stealing, and raping became Ecstacy in on its self. And I was finally able to embrace my new lifestyle]
"Stank! Boss, we got another girl. Hehehe, and she's not looking too bad"
"Kekeke, share her with the others!"
[Over time I formed my own group of ragtag thieves...
We were like the Robinhood of our time, stealing from the rich and... well, I think we stole more from the poor though...
Oh well, heroes can't fight on an empty stomach, right?]
"Hey Boss, I heard some guy named Waxer was unifying the gangs... They're even stopping other gangs by stealing their prey..."
[But my time as the boss didn't last long, some big hunk began to take in all the other gangs...
At first, I was only forced to serve him due to my high pride, I might've no longer looked the part, nor spoke the part, but in the end, I was still a prideful Noble!
But that line of thinking didn't last long, the moment I laid eyes on him: Bear-like physique, bald shiny head, a scar on one eye, and the aura that could kill just by seeing it... I knew that man wasn't someone I could mess with...
Fear began to instill in me and I played the part of a loyal boot-licking henchman...]
"Aghhh!!! Please, stop! She's just a child!" A mother cried as her baby girl was being assaulted by Stank and his crew.
"Stop... Only steal what you need. Leave the prisoners, they'll only slow us down... The Knights are nearly here..."
[He said. Huh, Waxer was perfect in all accounts, he was strong, charismatic, and most of all tenaciously cold, the only thing I didn't like about him was that...
He wasn't cruel]
"I TOLD YOU TAKE ONLY WHAT YOU NEED!" Waxer's slap threw Stank to the other side of the large tent.
[Day after day, week after week, his and my beliefs clashed, normally nothing much happened after that but I was getting tired...
Especially when he liked to hinder the newfound hobby I had of burning the ransacked houses down...
No matter how many time me and the boys protested, burning things down was the one thing Waxer didn't budge against. Heck, he even approved of rape after we threatened to kill every child we met... But burning things and killing children were the two things he was adamant against.
The only time he broke this code of his was after we got surrounded by the Knights led by the gullible fatass Count, Waxer underestimated]
"Burn it down..." Waxer ordered in a cold and heavy voice...
"T-the warehouse?... I-I thought you said, Hahaha sure boss"
[Ofcourse I happily obliged~!
Who would've thought it took his life to be able to do the things he hated...
After that, I thought Waxer would become more free and liberated from his idiotic code of bullshit.
But instead, he became even more careless and stupid!
As if that day when he ordered me to burn down the children still weighed on him!
The big buffoon! What?! Does he think he's a saint now?!
In the end, that same fat Count captured us... oh the irony!
And even more ironic was that Waxer even surrendered himself to become a stupid farmer! Ha!
But in the end, in another twist of fate, it turned out it was all a ploy of the fat Count to see which of us he'd spare!
Did Waxer know all along?! Arghh if I only knew I would've also stayed to become a farmer!!! ARGHH!!!]
[And so, after many twists of fate, here I am right now facing that same fat Count I thought was a gullible fool...]
"So now... face your punishment" Duke said filled with conviction and anger.