Chapter 177 - Chapter 177 A Robbery On The Road

As they began to ride in the cart to the next town as Scarlett driven cart the others all stared intently at Thomas's grey eye. Thomas sat there confused as he asked "Why are you all staring at me?" Lily pointed to his eye and asked "Why isn't it back to normal yet?" Thomas covered his eye with his hand and said "Stop staring at it." Poppy stared at him annoyed and asked "Why are you more self-conscious about your eye then being seen naked." Thomas glanced at her with a red face and said "It's embarrassing enough to that it signifies my current condition, you don't have to make it known to everyone." Ocis grabbed his hand and lowered it from his eye as she said "You don't have to worry about the eye." Thomas stared at her for a moment and said "That's a little hard to do since right now it's telling me if I get knocked around a little to hard I could die." Peri stared at Thomas and asked "Are you worried because you won't be able to lie and tell us your fine when your eye is like that." Thomas flinched as she said this and mumbled "Well she's not entirely wrong." Poppy stared at Thomas and said "Originally I wasn't gonna bring this up but I feel like Mira should at least know." Thomas froze and nervously asked "What does she need to know?" Poppy stared at him and said "She needs to know that the reason you vanished earlier was to bury her father." Mira stared at Thomas and asked "Is it true that you buried him?" As Thomas stood up and walked away Lily said "Judging by how he's acting right now he did more then just bury a body." Poppy stared at her and said "Well he also fought two other werewolves." Mira stared at her surprised and asked "But how was he able to kill two, he barely managed to beat one." As Thomas sat on top of the cart he mumbled "I guess that secret didn't last to long." Rose stared at Thomas and asked "How are you feeling?" Thomas glanced at her and said "Still near death." Rose stared at Thomas and said "It must be difficult knowing you have to live carefully and that just one mistake can lead to your death." Thomas yawned and said "Being this close to death doesn't change anything." As the cart continued down the path Scarlett said "You shouldn't be so carefree in your current condition." Thomas shrugged and said "Carefree or not right now it doesn't make a difference." As an arrow was shot past Thomas's head he said "Guess I was wrong." Rose glanced at Thomas and said "It looks like there's two people ahead of us." Thomas leaned forward and began to squint as he said "Yeah, and they don't look to friendly." As they got close enough to speak the two people said "You've gotten your warning shot, now hand over your belonging." Scarlett stared at the two men and said "We will do no such thing." Thomas glanced at Rose and asked "Are they seriously trying to rob a giant?" Rose stared at the two and said "Unfortunately you won't be taking anything from us so get lost." The two men stared at her and said "If we have to we will use force." Scarlett stared at the two men and said "If you resort to violence you won't make it very far." Rose glanced at Thomas and asked "Aren't you going to do anything." Thomas stared at the two men and said "Sorry but ever since this eye has been grey I've been feeling a lot more tired then usual." Rose glanced at the two men and said "So you've been fighting the urge to sleep?" Thomas nodded and said "Yup and still am." The two men aimed bows at Thomas and said "Perhaps you would like to see an example of what will happen if you don't hand over your belongings." As Thomas seen the bows aimed at him he yawned and said "I can smell mana coming from you two." The men glanced at each other and shouted "Hand over your belongings or you'll get to see our magic first hand." Scarlett pushed the curtain behind her aside and said "We can use some help, there's two people trying to rob us." Thomas glanced at Scarlett and said "Only two?" Thomas glanced at some nearby trees and said "I'd say there are at least seven." The two men stared at Thomas and asked "What kind of detection magic are you using?" Thomas glanced back at the men and said "I'm not using any magic right now." As one of the men fired an arrow at Thomas he tilted his head out of the way and said "Besides I don't have a book or anyone to teach me detection magic." As Lily and Ocis stepped out of the cart one of the men said "Your speed is quite admirable, you were able to dodge an arrow at such close proximity." As Lily and Ocis walked out in front of the cart the men stared at them and said "There's more of you?" Lily nodded and said "There's even more of us in the cart so move along." Thomas stared at Lily and said "If your trying to intimidate him both Rose and Scarlett already failed." Lily glanced at him and said "I'm not intimidating them I'm warning them." As the other people dropped down from the trees the two men said "You think a child and harpy are enough to intimidate us?" Lily raised her hand and shouted "Bind!" As the chains wrapped around them one of the men shouted "You think this is enough to stop us!" As the two men in front of them broke out Thomas yawned and said "This is all pointless, the rest of you couldn't even break out." Rose glanced at Thomas and said "Sorry but at this rate I don't think you'll be able to sleep." Thomas raised his hand in front of him snapped his fingers. As the mana balls appeared behind him he said "I'd like to get to sleep pretty soon so I'll just speed this up." As Thomas pushed his hand towards the men all but the two men who broke out of the mana chains were beaten. Lily glanced at Thomas and angrily shouted "Did you just kill all those men?" Thomas shook his head and said "No I hit them with about half power so they should be fine." Rose glanced at the men and said "The five that he attacked seem to be left mostly intact." Thomas glanced at the other two men and said "That protection magic can be pretty annoying, so why don't you do me a favor and get rid of it." Rose raised her fists and slammed them down on top of the men as she said "I can take care of it." Thomas yawned and fell backwards on the roof of the cart and said "Thanks, I owe you one." Ocis flew up to Thomas and said "I'm surprised you didn't kill any of them." Thomas glanced at Ocis and said "Isn't it more surprising that Rose didn't kill anyone." Rose stared at Thomas and said "That's right, your the only one that doesn't know I've actually never killed anyone." Thomas sat up surprised and asked "But I thought the report said you killed them?" She shook her head and said "Actually I never killed any of them, those people were actually killed by some bandits that I put an end to." Thomas stared at her and said "Guess I really am the only murderer amongst you guys." Ocis glanced at Thomas and said "Murderer or not your my future husband." Thomas glanced at her and said "I still never agreed to that." Rose stared at Thomas and asked "What if it was one of the other girls?" Thomas stared at her and said "From what I hear back at my old village marriage is the end of anything good, so I'd rather hold off on that for a while." Ocis landed in front of Thomas and said "But marring me won't take anything away from you." Thomas stared at her and said "Maybe not right away but I'm sure that it would have some rather unfavorable results eventually." As Lily walked around to the door of the cart she stared at the top of the cart and said "Tell me truthfully, would you ever consider getting married to one of us?" Thomas sighed and said "Using this damn seal against me." Thomas paused for a moment and said "Wait, what did you just say?" Lily continued to stare at the top of the cart and said "I asked if you'd ever consider marrying Ocis." Thomas peeked over the top of the cart at her and said "No you definitely just changed what you just said." Lily stared at him and said "I didn't." Thomas shrugged and said "Well whatever then, guess it's not very important."