When we reached home the same way we came with no problems popping up, I open the door with force and yelled.
"I'M HOME"
Then Mother immediately came running and hugged me while sopping and saying something with a low voice I was barely able to hear.
"I was so scared that something would happen to you, and I would never be able to see you again," she said crying a little before Father came.
"Good job son, come and tell us what you encountered." my father said while leading us to the living room. Then I told everything I encountered, including my meeting with Akame and Kurome, but I didn't tell them about the advice I gave them.
---5 weeks later---
I'm now 8 years old, and I'm planning to get rid of Carolina as my bodyguard, so I can go wherever I want because I can't unlock skills with her around me. Of course, I'm not going to ask my mother, because she will straight up deny it, so I went and knocked on Father's study where he works.
*KNOCK* *KNOCK*
"Come in," my father said behind the door, and when I came in he was leisurely smoking a cigar, so I assumed he is slacking when Mother ain't around.
"Oh, son what is it?"
"I want you to release Caroline of her duties of being my bodyguard, and make her do something else." I requested to him straight up.
"Why?" Father asked puzzled, with sunken eyebrows while he stopped smoking his cigar.
"How am I supposed to have a normal conversation with people, when I can't even approach any with Caroline scaring them away, let alone I can't make any friends my age with her around, " I replied with a serious expression like its the end of the world.
"I understand" he nodded with an understanding look and pity in his eyes.
"But I can't do anything about it, as it's your mother's arrangement" he followed up with this and shook his head.
"Father, what would Mother do to you if she ever finds out you are slacking and smoking cigars while she's not around?" he shuddered just after I threatened him indirectly.
"You dare threatened your innocent father now huh, damn you are just like your mother," he told me, while I just shrugged my shoulders, not accepting nor denying his nonsense.
"Fine, but I have a condition." he gave in to my request but gave his own condition, and I just nodded indicating that I'm listening.
"You will be enlisted into the military a year later from now!" is his condition, and his reason enlisting me so soon must be because of the rumors of a Revolutionary Army forming, which I already expected popping up after just seeing a little of the city's current affairs going on.
"Deal" I agreed straightforwardly.
---
The next day I made plans going out of the city, of course alone and without Caroline. My mother is coming home today, so before she's home I'm going out and leaving her thrashing to Father.
'My goal today is unlocking my Kagune with the blood of bandits.' I thought while checking the requirements one last time.
-[Kagune Lvl 1 (awakens Zen bloodline, and can control 1 tail) ]
While walking around the city, I searched for rumors about bandits, so I don't have to search for them blindly. And what I found is that on the main route to Northern Tribes is often attacked by bandits, because a lot of merchants go from the North to the Capital and vice versa to trade.
Then I took the exit to the North of the Capital City, and follow the main route on foot because I must say, horseriding is not a thing I have learned in this life, or even by Granpa in the last.
I left in the early morning, and have been walking for about 4 hours, without meeting any bandits, though I walked by a lot of travelers and merchants.
Just before I decided to take a rest, I heard a scream, so I immediately took cover to check the situation from up ahead where the scream is coming from.
---From up ahead---
A girl about 12 years old with white skin and blue hair with a pretty mature body for her age, is seen walking gracefully and with confidence on her way to the Capital from the Northern Tribes, but she was stopped by some bandits.
"What do we have here, a little beauty, and just my type so let's have some fun. Don't worry guys you can have her when I'm done." the bandit told the first part to the girl, but turned around telling his underlings that they can have a turn too.
While all this is going on the girl never answered, so the leader took it as she is terrified and surrenders, so he went forward, and just before he could touch her chest, she kicked him in the stomach.
*BANG*
"UGGGHHHH" the bandit leader fell to his knees, gasping for air while holding his stomach in pain.
"You, a puny insect with no strength actually want to touch me with those dirty hands." the girl said with a sadistic smile, then she proceeded to punch him in the face until he is unrecognizable, and lying on the ground motionless but still alive.
"You are not dead yet are you?" the girl asked now with blood smeared on her face and knuckles, and sporting an even more sadistic smile that seemed scary, so scary that the bandit leader's underlings didn't dare move in to save their boss.
"Well let's find out if you are dead yet," she said while lifting her foot with boots with high heels, and then trampled downwards.
*SWUSH* the pressure around the boot sounded, because of the power of the kick.
"ARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGRRRUGH" he howled in pain by getting his family jewels obliterated to a puddle of blood, before foaming out of his mouth and fainting.
"Guess you weren't dead, but now you are in misery so let me put an end to it!" she said before pulling out a rapier and piercing his throat, killing him.
"Now it's your insects' turn, fufufufu" and she continued her slaughtering of bandits with a scary smile, but contradicting sweet laughter while torturing them, before finishing them off showing no mercy.