On the rooftop of a building, two people were monitoring a small hut in a dark Ally. A 12 years boy with black hair, tall and slim but muscular physic, and frail-looking bunny girl with shabby attire and messy hairs. It had already been more than 1 hour in this state. In this time Alex has spotted more than 15 people in the vicinity. Some have serious conversations, some looking here and there to keep track of the surroundings.
"Mister, I thi … think we should leave now, el … else we m… might be in problem." The bunny girl whispered. Alex sat down squatting on the ground looking towards the sky. After pondering for a few moments he grabbed the bunny girl by her hands and said with a grim expression, "You need to help me."
"I … I can't. They will kill me." The bunny girl panicked and was about to retreat when Alex grabbed her and said "Help me this once please. I promise you, you will be in no danger. I will even give you 50 copper coins. Nobody will know about your involvement. Trust me". For a poor girl like her, this was an offer that was very hard to refuse. In the end, she gave up and said, "70, no less."
"Deal!"
It was not like Alex was some righteous person. Rather he was interested to test himself against the circumstances in order to find how much his efforts in these months paid. A surge of warm excitement surged in his veins. As a game programmer and pro-gamer in their previous life, Alex had always dreamt of experiencing the life of a fantasy protagonist. Although he was not a protagonist with crazy skills and magic, he was in a fantasy world. It was at this moment when he decided that he will not die like an NPC. If he has to live in this world, his life has to be something to be remembered. His starting line might be far behind, but he had the opportunity of participating in the race.
Alex gave the bunny-girl 6 copper coins and asked her to bring three hooded capes. He also warned her that if she tries to do something funny or run away he will tell those guys about her showing him the location and making sure that she had a hard time. The scared bunny girl left with a dull face, both cursing and praising her luck. But one thing she was certain, if she survives this, she will never ever see that mister's face again.
After the bunny-girl returned, Alex discussed the plan he prepared. More likely, Alex was telling her a crazy fact, and she was so amused that she kept nodding.
The sun went down, and darkness shrouded the skies. Both Alex and the bunny girl kept silent and sat still. Patricia was not moved outside so they kept weighting. Alex's plan had many backups according to the situation. It was meaningless to jump like an idiot. They rather kept waiting for the right opportunity.
The sky became darker and darker but they didn't budge an inch. One by one many people had left. There were 4 people now. Alex thought of two possibilities, one - others went to arrange for smuggling her out, second, they wanted to lay low for some time before smuggling her out. The second option would be more feasible since the city guards will be on high alert now. Thus Alex concluded that the others probably left to take rest, keeping these four in in-charged.
Finally, it was dead night. The whole city was silent. After a few hours, it will be dawn. Alex moved from his position. He jumped over 4 building tops as silently as he could and reached just above the guy standing at the lane entrance. Alex always carried his dagger with him. In this world, the law was for the rich and noble. No one cares if a lowlife commoner lives or dies. Thus killing people in dispute was not very uncommon. He slowly climbed down putting his whole body weight on his both hands. Finally, he was standing just above the guy. Alex took a deep breath and unsheathed his dagger in one hand. Making sure that his hood was covering his face, Alex Waited patiently and kept looking for an opportunity. The timing needed to be perfect.
A few moments later. As soon as that person turned towards the backside of the ally, Alex jumped down stabbing and slashing one of his hands, and started running towards the main road.
"Bustard" the guy screamed, and to alert others he followed the hooded shadow shouting, "We have a rat". The bunny girl was standing at the turning. As soon as Alex crossed her, she started running and Alex started climbing the house again. His physical training for these few days really paid off as he claimed on top, with no time, just like a nimble cat.
In the meantime, one of the other guys had started walking to investigate what was happening, leaving the other two people on guard. Alex knew he had no more time and picking up a fist-size stone, he threw it towards the walking guy's head. In the dark, it was really impossible for a non-awakened person to notice the trajectory of the stone. As soon as the guy shouted, one of the other two guys ran towards him, leaving the only guy with the key to guard. Alex ran over the rooftops and straightly jumped towards the only guy with his dagger in his hand. Unfortunately, that guy was already expecting an ambush, with a sword in hand. With no time he swung the sword towards the falling shadow, however, his sword slashed the empty cape with straw in it. And with that Alex landed hitting that guy with his knee straight to face. The thug fell towards his back cushioning Alex's fall, while in the air Alex stabbed the guy on his shoulder and tore his muscle with the dagger, followed by jumping back and slashing his knee joint and a kick to the crotch. Both of the other guys in the meantime had already started running back towards Alex hearing the tragic cry.
All of this had happened within a second. Alex stabbed the other leg of that guy, receiving a kick in return and a few towards a wall Thanks to his trained reflex he managed to jump off the wall although receiving some minor pain. Cursing the super-human strength that the people of this wall had, Alex turned back and ducked to avoid the knife one of the running thugs threw just in time. His heart was at this moment beating like crazy. Alex ran towards the hut dodging two more knives when one of the other two guys charged towards Alex, Alex rolled the side causing the bulky guy to slam on the wall and crawl back. New Once again Alex was cornered.
"Brat, it ends here." The muscular guy shouted towards Alex as both of them prepared to kill the pest. Both the guys had triumph grins on their faces as they moved forward to finish the lad. Just then, Alex took a pouch from his back and threw it towards the bulky guy with the sword. Not expecting the projectile the bulky guy slashed the pouch with his sword. A small dust cloud of red chili powder engulfed them, as well as Alex cut Another pouch that he had, with his knife and dusted towards them.
At this blind range, the chili powder blinded both of them in pain along with burning their nose and eyes in which gave Alex just enough Advantage to slip to their back and slash the other thin guy from the back along with a horizontal cut with his full force on both of his legs and a kick.
Rubbing his eyes the bulky guy swung his blade but due to not seeing properly and Alex's timely kick injured the thin guy, slashing off his arm. Alex rolled down once again snatching a fallen dagger from the other guy and stabbing the bulky guy tearing his shoes, and snapping both of his Achilles' tendons with two hands, followed by a leg sweep. As soon as the bulky guy fell down, Alex picked up a medium size box from the side of the hut and broke it on his head, along with stabbing both the dagger on his Shoulder.
All this took less than a minute and for the next minute, Alex made sure by the best of his abilities to incapacitate the thugs who took the kid lightly. Alex snatched the keys from the nut-cracked kidnapper's belt and opened the door. Due to the loud shouts, Patricia was shivering at one of the corners of the hut. Alex went in and cut his ties and removed the mouth-gag. Then wasting no time he lifted her on his Shoulder like a potato sack and spoke, "don't worry I am here to rescue you. Please stay calm and do as I say". Soon Alex climbed up the houses while Patricia piggybacked him. Then both Alex and Patricia fled from the spot via the rooftops.
"Tch, stupid bloody rascal.", A few moments later then the fourth guy returned, his face became pale looking at the site and the opened door. He rushed into the hut only to find out that everything was over, all he could do now was to inform his gang and just get beaten up.