"Would you be kind enough to not make a commotion here? tell you what, I'll do whatever you want as a favor okay?" I said whispering to her ear as she got flustered again, my whisper to her ear was plainly done, so after that, she nodded and Systy began chuckling sheepishly at her. I could see Pamela give a cursing glance to Systy and move on to the guild masters office.
While we waited, Systy said.
"Rekka, you could have brought your Grandparents here, you know? then you wouldn't have to get into so much hassle."
"Hmm why I like to spend time with you too, so it's fine. This is not a hassle. Going through life normally is fun in it's own way." of course if granny or gramps were here things would have been different but even so.
Systy looked really pleased after my answer. Me valuing her as an individual was normal wasn't it? These girls were now among my family too. also I groped her, she cannot be the same to be after something like that happening.
"You know Rekka, you have grown up in the wild without anyone guiding you but still you're much more civilized than anyone I have met before. I can tell that you are much more thoughtful than even the Master and Mistress; their arrogance is also fitting for them though."
Is she opening up to me? I feel like she is talking to me like a friend that stiffness is also fading. but arrogance heh... I think I am quite arrogant.
[well, you are arrogant in your weird way if I had to say.]
"I umm, I remember someone telling me that 'It's better to have humility than haughtiness.' I like to have humility but that doesn't mean I let go of people knocking for trouble!"
While I was having a good conversation with Systy, a man who looked full of himself and had a vulgar look tried to touch her. "This day just got interesting!"
As I started to feel a little anger forming inside me, in a very very long time, I prepared the 3rd degree treatment that would start very soon.
(In the future Rekka will be feared as the most feared Cursed sword Wielder and not because of the cursed sword or his overwhelming strength. No it will be because of his unorthodox torturing routines, Many of his enemies would even start to suicide just to avoid his legendary torture called the 3rd Degree treatment)=But that's another story to come in the future.
.....
I think he wanted to embrace Systy. She hadn't noticed yet because the man had good skills even for his smug face. Truly, he had the face of a good for nothing noble son who just wanted to throw his power around, but in his case, he really did have some power, so it turned much more worse. As he had sneaked behind Systy not even letting her feel his lustful gaze, I couldn't help but stop him.
"Hey dude can I help you?" He was approaching Systy from behind but in the middle I came in, my speed was at peak even by human standards so the man just blinked a little and his smug face turned sour as he snickered at me as if I was trash. Although I was still short and young, as I turned off my polite attitude, I looked at the man with a glare.
"You brat, you dare come before me? Do you know who I am?!" Typical rich brat slang. His face had already twisted to a grim and furious shade, he didn't even hide his intent to kill albeit it was puny, his intent clearly got some of the adventurers around here to back off.
"What? I thought you're a worthless pathetic pervert who needed to sneak behind women, but I see you have some perverted pride too? So what's your pathetic name? tell me and I might let you go!!" I turned his dialogue over to him. I hadn't acted this haughty in many years but it felt good to act violently. As the grandson of the hero's, I was sure that I was entitled to at least this much haughtiness.
"Hnhh! You brat! I'll kill you, you're gonna be tortured to Death!"
At this point Systy had already seen the man was sneaking behind her, she had frozen seeing him but then she looked for me, and found me, I was already in front of her. I know she wouldn't have let me take care of this, I already had a gauge how her mind works. She was much more powerful than this man, but fucks like these always have a way to over power their targets.
So I had already taken his attention to me, the problem diverted towards me. experiences like these were now trivial to me because of my 2nd life, boy there were so many trashes I had to take care of, having a harem was not easy I tell you. Of Course I don't remember those details but I did undergo those situations.. so I can unusually form the best way to get out of trouble. You may leave your life behind but life never leaves you I guess.
"Rekka its…"
"My Problem, Yeah I will take care of it. It is mandatory to keep your employees out of trouble. Not to mention you are my friend." I said as I began to go forward. First I saw that the trash's flies had arrived behind him and they were trying to circle around us, but I used invisible miasma whips to choke them unconscious. Without a sound, the work was done. Many of the people slumped down on the ground so silently that it felt as if their souls really were harvested.
"Now I don't have time to deal with brats like you!! hey! Take care of him!"
He he ah ha ha!! I already swatted out your flies Trash.
[Hmm hmm I see you are good at this]
Why thank you, let me show you my style today okay?
[Alright then, I shall observe.]
I had a small conversation with Amanori as she was evaluating me.
"What happened? hey, why isn't anyone coming?" The trash was now yelling loudly but the flies were already swatted, the guild had already become quiet, he must have been a bigshot. More than 20 people were unconscious all over the guild. Because of my miasma, I could sense which people had ill intentions toward me. I had choked them out, every last one of them. As much as I wanted to kill each one of them… I didn't want to ruin this fine day... of course I can later go out and find these guys and kill them then too.
"I..I..I know what you are doing Systy, let me tell you, this wouldn't be good remember I can…."
He had already figured out that I was a threat to him and he had resorted to the blackmail road. but before he could even finish it, I released some of my killing intent. This was a skill I had learned while being in the wild. It was an intimidation tactic, but Granny had told me that I should only release small amounts when around people. Many could even die from its pressure.
At this point, after looking around the city, I was already aware that I stood above many in terms of power… and overwhelmingly at that.
That was why I had to be careful about using it but I also had the system, I could control this like my hands and feet, so I can get the most use from the killing intent.
"Ha ha ha After I am done with you, I can tell you that you will be lucky to die rather than to live. Black mail?! Ha ha ha, if you knew what true torture is like then you would have quit being a bad guy entirely, thankfully you were a trash and todays your day to get cleaned up." I said it in a tone that defied my earlier cheery tone. It was like a massage that was delivered from the depths of hell. With that My aura was released and its focus was the trash.
I myself was rather very furious with this man. Since he was going to lay a hand on the girl I had brought with me. For some reason my sense of hesitation had vanished. I found myself trying to pour every ounce of hatred in him and tear him limb from limb.
What was this possessiveness? I had no idea, the only thing that I had an idea of was that I would have liked nothing more than to kill this man right here and now. did something change in me? it's not like I am in love with Systy or anything? well, she did look like a girl that you would feel strongly towards protecting... but even so?
The air inside the guild got heavy as though gravity had been multiplied by folds. It was just from the aura, the people all dropped to their knees and the trash pissed himself, maybe even shit himself. He had been scared to death... but still, he could hold his head and started to say something.
"You...y..y..y..you will see this won't be the end eeeeven iiif you kiiiilllled meee myyyy..!!!!!"
"Hey who said I was done? this is just the start." My gaze was icy, hearing me he shivered as if bucket of cold water was dumped over him. I loathed people like him… they were worse than the monsters in the wild.
I covered him in a ball of barrier, and then I opened my storage and threw a small ball from it. He looked at it and in time he got confused. Everyone had already started to recover from my aura and they were also looking at the ball to be curious about what's going to happen to the trash. I could see all of them resented him. They looked at the ball and anticipated something horrendous but soon they started talking because it seemed that nothing was happening.
"Wh what is this hmhh ack ahhhhh! This? what's thisssss smelll akhhhhhgfhgk!" IN 5 minutes he started vomiting. everything in his stomach was getting out like water fall, he started to hold his breath but he eventually needed to breathe, he started to breathe from his mouth but the brass odour was torturing him like salt in a new wound, he then again started to breathe by his nose but
The smell was just unbearable. it was a concoction I made. in the earlier days, I didn't have that much strength to even run away from monsters let alone defend myself, so I made smelly bait that would make it near impossible for monsters to even get close to, of course I had to endure that stench too, still, it was better than dying and ending up in monsters stomach, over the years, I had met many many monsters and got even more materials to work with, and as days went by, so did my concoctions improve, it got even more rancid. but it wasn't poisonous, so no matter what, you will only smell the disastrous stench and won't die from it, but it would be able to give you quite the trauma if nothing else.
"IIII beg you please ... I'll lllleave this …. Place iii ll never commmmme near….your girl aaaagaiin! I beg yyyou lllet mee huuugghghhghds….. Pleeeeaaaseeee!!!!"
He had finally shown his true worthless self, the people around us understood what was happening. The smell was blocked by the barrier but it was likely they had also thought how bad the smell was because the trash had started vomiting even while begging for mercy but..
Mercy isn't that easily obtained….. You will beg to be killed, didn't I say…..?
[Wow I never seen torture like this how did you even get this idea. I never thought you harvested these slimy ball from those monsters for a situation like this...]
Hmm really, but if I could use magic, I could've done better you know? This is just the 1st level, but I am happy that you saw that there are many things apart from killing. Do you know? I feel that killing is just giving mercy to them? I mean I can tell from his face, he has destroyed many people's lives.
[hmm this human was rotten to the bones, my miasma reacted to him too.] Miasma only reacts to things who are immersed with negative energy. The trash's worst enemy was someone like me who could turn his own power into my own. not only his magic was disabled thanks to Miasma manifestation, he was a mess in front of everyone.
Thud thud thud thud.....
He was already at his limit; he was bashing his head in the barrier. He had started to try breaking it but the barrier sucks out all your mana so you are useless unless you can repel miasma but on the contrary he reacted to my miasma which made him even more weak.
"1 minute people. in 1 minute he will break!" I said as I went toward the barrier. 10 minutes will pass in another minute, at this time, he had already started laughing and crying at the same time, he started saying many stupid things, he even started confessing many of his crimes and the people who had started to feel sympathy to him again got raged and began to say as to kill him like this in the public.
"One minute is up now, let's see…?" My voice and attitude had reverted back to the easygoing one and peoples grim expressions also were starting to leave them. I erased my barrier with the bad smell too. So not to make the guild smelly, that would ruin my reputation.
"H ehe he he eh ehehe. Mommy I am bad eh e ehe…" his eyes and face was glazed over, his face was a mess, my miasma had also cleared out his vomit, but his saliva was dripping from his mouth, he had lost it and broken. by the way his face and body were scratched and were bleeding, it was fairly certain that he had inflicted these wounds on himself.
I went toward him and said my piece.
"Remember my name, Rekka Wolford, whatever trash dump you came from, come in my way again and I will gladly clean you up. But next time there won't be anything to recycle after I am done." I smiled while I said this but my smile was all but warm.
As if his strings were cut, he crawled to the gate, some of his Flies had gained consciousness and they scurried away like the insects they were, holding the trash in their hands. For some reason even while I had tortured him, no feelings of mercy came to me. With all my heart, I wanted to end his life… but I didn't bother with it anymore… At this point, I was feeling that the cursed sword might have changed me a lot… since I was alone all those years, I had no idea how I had changed but now I got the feeling that the me in my first life was long gone. I doubt that I was even like this in my 2nd life… it seems that this new life is gonna be different… although I had no idea just how different it might be.
"Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" After he left, the whole guild cheered in a passion as if they had been cured from a curse. They had a reverence in their eyes, especially the boys. They were probably distressed even more than the girls but still some girls had even started crying in happiness.
Man, if he was this big of a problem, why didn't anyone deal with him sooner?
"Mr. Wolford, My apologies for your unsavory experience. I like to thank you on behalf of our guild. He was a problematic fellow to deal with.. Now, will you please follow me to the office? I was told you wanted to discuss something." a voice, for a moment hearing her made me fell as if I lost my senses towards anything else other than her...
A girl with long red hair addressed me very politely. She had elegance in her looks and that arrogant aura had made her even more alluring. Apart from her sensual figure that was locked in heavy robes, her straight silky hair flowed freely and reflected a reddish light as if making her even more alluring and she wore very expensive looking wizard equipment's. I don't know why, but I felt something else from her. It was like a drug that was getting me high…. Even ignoring her outfit and her looks, her mere presence made my head fuzzy and I couldn't make my words clear. Finally after taking a moment to calm down, I asked.
"Are you the guild master?" I asked just to be sure. A girl like this was a little unusual for me. I always thought that guild masters were tight ass old men.
"Yes, I am the Guild master of Brandel Adventurers guild, Leila Asadeli." She answered. At this point I figured out, I was charmed by her really. If I was near her age, I would have tried out my luck but she seemed to be in her late teens probably near Mai's age. I believe she would be hitched or better yet she had already been hitched by the time I get older…. even while I agreed with myself that I was falling for her, it hardly felt unpleasant, I didn't even feel it was weird.
Suppressing my inner thoughts, I followed her to the office. Systy was standing near me spaced out, so I took her and we headed towards the guild masters office.
"It is a pleasure to meet you. Even though you know my name, Let me introduce myself; My name is Rekka Wolford. Glad to join your guild. I hope you could walk off my earlier act of aggression. I can't stay still when some eye sores are around." I said this in my most mature accent I could.
I mean why not still try, it's never too late for anything you know. As a man who likes to be true to his desire, I will go for anything I want. Holding back is for suckers. I felt my eyes look at her eyes straight. Those ruby-like eyes were gems that probably made thousands of men shy away from looking straight but.. I had no reason to shy away, on the other hand, I felt that not looking at those eyes while in her presence was something horribly wrong to do. if she thought that I was too young, I will do anything to progress my age, it was a fantasy world after all, hell system was already starting it's research!
"My, I get surprise after surprise today, for my Great master Melinda's Grandson to be so humble it's just unbelievable." She said while smiling, so she was my grandma's apprentice too. But the way she said it made me discouraged… I can see that she is treating me like a kid. Although, I wonder if I get serious… even as a kid I can handle things like this or not.
"Well I hope I didn't betray your expectations too much." I answered. at this point, I think Systy realized that I was acting differently, but she still looked the same.
"Well I would like to say Mr. Wolford, you have betrayed them completely. I was expecting someone haughty and full of himself." She said, at that time tea came to our table, Pamela was the one to deliver the tea and she seemed to be really tense. She was sweating bullets. As she started to leave after giving tea, I interrupted her while she tried to leave.
"Guild master, you are much higher than me at the moment. It would be easier if you just called me Rekka. OOh Pamela stay a little please, I want you to be here." Hearing me, Pamela stiffly walked to a corner of the room. Her walking was like a rundown robot.
Why is she so tense, did I do something….?
"Ooh At the time you say? Well, I consider you to be in a much higher position than me even now since you are related to My master personally, but I will accept your kind offer Rekka… So then, what is it you wish to discuss?" She was reluctant, maybe because of my Granny. Granny was a little possessive of me but then Leila agreed and started our main topic. I needed to focus hard or Leila's existence itself made me feel some kind of odd feeling…. although if she wanted to be realted to granny, I could always propose to her.
[so it is her.... the girl that even took you down... I hate to say it, but even I feel like respecting this lady.]
Amanori could you stop saying like that!
I didn't know why I felt so sure that I want Leila , but as I realized that I was certainly kind of obsessed over Leila while we talked, I fixed my mind for the time being, let's think about these things when I get some time to think.