"What's going on back there? Quickly move the cages. Be careful!!! There's a beautiful slave inside." said a male goblin. "This human would make a really fine toy for me. kekeke." he continued while smiling maniacally. This was a typical sight in Darknessborn, where human females are bought from monsters as slaves. The goblins are currently transporting caged carriages through a forest. They sometimes stopped to rest or sometimes hunted animals for food.
"Boss, it's getting late. Should we camp for now?" said an underling to the goblin in charge. "No, we should keep going! We must reach the empire before tomorrow afternoon! If you disobeyed me, I wouldn't let you play with the girl." said The Boss.
The Boss of the goblin was relatively larger in size than the underling. He resembles an adult human with an obese body and a menacing face.
"But, rumours said that- 'he that doesn't have a name' lives here in the forest. We should stop and stay on guard, Boss." said another underling. "Those are just urban legends. There's no way a creature that purged a whole country full of monsters would stay in a forest. You low-rate goblins should just follow my lead-..d." While saying that, the Boss was looking in front of the direction of the empire.
He turns around, and he feels some kind of aura. That day, he saw an unforgettable sight. What is said to be a legend turns out to be a fact.
"How...? what...? are you?" said the boss goblin, trembling with fear.
In front of him, a dark figure was standing while carrying not one but 10 goblin heads. Which was almost the entire crew missing the Boss himself.
"Don't mind me. I am just hunting for breakfast." said the figure.
"YOU PIECE OF ORC POO, WHAT DID YOU DO!! YOU'RE GONNA GET IT--- now..." Haven't finished a sentence. The boss goblin was sent flying towards a tree.
"Aghhh... Huek... What did you do to me ?" said the boss goblin.
"If you want to know the details, I stabbed you with a poisoned dagger and kicked you to that tree. How's it feeling so far?" said the figure.
"Poison... NO, I WON'T DIE... I will live! YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE POWER OF A HIGH-RATE GOBLIN ADVENTURER!!!!" proclaim the boss goblin.
"That's what they all said. Will Not make any difference anyway." said the figure while walking towards the boss goblin.
"Please be quiet and die" that being said, the figure stabbed the boss goblin's eye.
But it did not stop there.
After that, he stabbed the other eye, which led the goblin to scream at the top of his lungs. Praying for a chance to repent. The figure, however, looks at him with discontent before smacking his head, fracturing his skull, and shutting him down from screaming. With his bare hands, he chopped the goblin's arms in one go. Causing blood to spurt out and lash out at him, covering his natural scent with a goblin scent. As it coated parts of his body, it finally decapitated the head using a dagger. He sent the goblin boss's head flying over 2 meters away from the body.
Showing no remorse for the massacre that he has done, the figure kneels and loots the corpse to find a silver key. Without a second thought, he walked and unlocked the cage that was transported by the goblins.
Inside he finds a starved and dehydrated young female. Her skin was fair, and her body was not covered in any clothes. Even though she was clearly a slave, there was no slave crest on her yet. Her neck was chained, but her hands were somehow free. As the figure enters, the woman sniffs and screams, "I would rather die than be your toy !".
The woman took out a knife and proceeded to charge and stab the figure while screaming. The figure then swiftly kicks at the woman's gut. Managing to knock and slams her to the edge of the cage with sheer raw power. The blow that she took then made her fall out of consciousness.
***
"HUA! Where am I?" Said the woman.
"You're in my house."
The women proceed to look to her right. A tall man was standing in front of her, wearing a black outfit with jet-black hair. His eyes were pitch black, and his sound and expression were very stoic.
" You haven't eaten yet. Eat this, or might as well die." Said the man.
"Thank you !" Said the woman.
While eating, the woman's face suddenly reddened as she remembered what had happened. She said, "Sorry to do this now. I am very sorry. I tried to stab you before, didn't I? I am sincerely sorry!"
"I get that a lot,"
"My name is Misa. Pleased to meet you, and thank you for the food." She then proceeds to eat the veggie soup the man gave her.
"No problem." Said the man with a monotonous voice.
They went a bit quiet until Misa started the conversation with a question.
"What's your story? Why did you rescue me from the goblins?" said Misa to the man.
The man sat on a chair and said, "I didn't rescue you."
"What?? Then who did?"
"I am not sure."
"Ummm…. Okay, let me rephrase the question. Why were you there? You were there, right? When I was inside the cage, the goblins were outside carrying my cage. It was you who opened the cage, right?"
"Yes."
"That means you saved me!"
"I did."
That said, Misa was frustrated with the conversation as the man beside him only answered in short sentences. Worse, not even a complete sentence sometimes but only with a single word.
"Thank you for saving me!" Misa said, snapping out her frustration with gratefulness toward the man.
"Sure."
"Hmmm…. But if you're not saving me? What were you doing?"
"I am collecting goblin heads."
"Heads? for what?" said Misa.
"I am on a mission to purge the goblin country. I need their heads for one of my plans".
"WHAT??" said Misa in a frightened voice. Misa put her hand on the man's shoulder and said, "I appreciate the enthusiasm. I hate them too. Very-very much. But how can you, a single man, hope to conquer that country?".
"The same way I massacred the skeleton's fort and the Sin county." Said the man.
Sin county, Skeleton fort? Why do those names sound familiar? Is he? No. It can't be true. I am just imagining things. Thought Misa.
"What about you?" Said the man.
"Geez. Can't you tell by my outfit?" Said Misa.
"You were butt naked," Said the man.
"I—WHAT???!!! Don't freaking say that!" Misa shouted.
The man, however, just stares silently, seemingly confused at her sudden rage.
Realizing how rude that was to the house host, Misa coughs and proceeds to answer him.
"I was captured and sold to as a slave at the empire. The goblin was transporting me. Lucky me, you came around just in time to save me. Thank you <3," said Misa in a flirtatious tone.
"No," said the man- still with a stoic face.
"No, what?"
"I refuse your thanks for that,"
"What in the... something's wrong with him!!"
With enough weirdness, Misa shrugs the thought of something wrong with the man and asks for something else to liquidate the conversation.
"Umm, so what's your name?" Asked Misa.
"I don't have a name, nor do I need one," Said the man.
"So you're nameless? That's funny. Black outfit, some talk about purging skeleton fo..r-t." Misa suddenly stops her voice. Staring back and forth as he frantically closes and opens her eyes.
"It can't be..... Black outfit, purge, no name..... It can't be." Misa suddenly trembles with absolute fear. She began to take steps from the man as if retreating from a monster.
The man looked at Misa and said, "You're right. I am Nameless."
He stands up and looks down at Misa. Like an apex predator staring at its prey and rivals.