CHAPTER 10
"This whip is called Kusari fitting for your deaths, but it seems you don't talk too much, well then now that I'm finished your deaths have come." Ryu swings Kusari and in a smooth motion he cuts two knights in half the two at the back.
One of the knight's charges at Lucy but Ryu sees this and before the blade can reach Lucy his arm is seen flying Ryu used Kusari to sever the arm of the knight that wanted to attack Lucy, the knight does not make a sound he just stared at his arm on the ground.
"Strange does these knights not seem to feel pain, even after killing two of them by cutting them in half and I also separated two limbs from different knights, and yet they did not seem to be bothered or make a sound I feel that something is not right with these knight's." Ryu thinks to himself he kills the two knights whose arms he has cut off.
Kusari's range depends on Ryu it can seemingly extend to the length he desires it is also full black and appears to be made out of dragon's scales.
Only the leader and one other knight remain, out of nowhere Lucy stabs the one knight behind the leader through his heart with her blade but before he dies he stabs her in her thigh she lets out a scream as she lets go of her blade, she and the knight fall to the ground.
"Well well it seems it's just the two of us now mister knight and now your death is imminent." Ryu uses Kusari to restrain the knight before he can move in an X shape restraining his arms and shoulders the knight simply looks at Ryu and he pulls Kusari slicing the last knight into pieces.
"Now that, that's done may we go home Lucy seems to have passed out from the pain." Ryu uses a new teleportation technique to transport them all to the castle. Once there Mizuki tends to Veranda and Lucy.
"I did not expect this from a simple shopping trip what happened over there I sensed trouble but nothing to this extent and well not to be the bearer of bad news but you kind of forgot the groceries." Mizuki says in a sarcastic yet playful tone.
"Oh I'm sorry I forgot the shopping by trying to get your students back alive for you Mizuki, I'll get the groceries tomorrow I have a nap to catch up to and hopefully some jerk off knights won't ruin it this round." Ryu states sarcastically.
Lying under the tree in the shade Ryu wonders to himself about the knights he had just faced and it bothered him, "Let it go Ryu it doesn't bother me, ok it bothers me it bothers me a lot guess I'll fetch a sample of the knight and the groceries too while I'm at it."
He opens a portal to where he fought them and surely they are still there nobody has disposed of the corpses and just a few feet away the grocery bags are there as well he stops a woman walking buy she looks to be in her mid 30's she is wearing a beige dress typical of house wives and a dark brown apron.
"Hey you there woman." Ryu speaks to the woman through the portal she is frightened as she has never had such an experience before.
"Y-yes hello" she replies hesitantly.
"Would you be a dear and fetch me those grocery bags over there and hand them to me?"
She looks at the bags and is confused at the stranger's bold request for her to fetch groceries lying on the ground abandoned.
"Yes those bags over there you're looking at be dear now I'm really not in the mood to get through this portal and fetch them."
The woman does not say a word and walks over, she picks up the bags and hands them to Ryu through the portal as she does this thinking she is done and has seen enough strangeness for one day as she begins to leave Ryu makes another request.
"Oh and one more thing, you see that head with a bit of torso left lying on the ground that too hand it to me and then you can be on your way."
"Ewww no groceries are one thing but a head is another thing I can't just give it to you." She replies quickly.
"Don't make me repeat myself or even better yet don't make me get up and come through this portal lady there will be Hell to pay if I get to that side now fetch me the head." Ryu says in a cold and serious tone it sends chills down the woman's spine she is frozen with fear for a moment then she walks over picking up the head and handing it to him.
"a thousand thanks you beautiful woman I'll remember you when I visit again in your lovely town." The portal closes and the woman walks away leaving behind that place and heading home, elsewhere at the castle Ryu hand the groceries to Mizuki.
"Happy now Mizuki here are your groceries, I take it those two are still sleeping their butts off don't blame them they did put up quite a fight."
"Oh yes they are still resting, and that was fast fetching the groceries so unlike you on a lazy day like today, and hat ever are you doing with a head Ryu I swear you get stranger by the day." Mizuki states with a hint of sarcasm in her tone.
"We all need hobbies even Suker needs a hobby don't judge him or me for that matter Mizuki." Ryu says as he heads towards Sukers room.
Once he reaches there he hands the head to Suker handing him the head.
"You know Ryu normal people give normal presents and not severed heads."
"Well yes but I need you to study this knight they were all acting strange they did not seem to feel pain and was a bit too strong for a knight of their ranking I suspect they have delved into dark magic to be stronger but only you can tell me the truth Suker, take your time with it I doubt they were the last but best to know the truth so we may eliminate them properly it would not be the first time they have sunken so low to turn their own into monsters." Ryu says in a calm relaxed tone, shortly after he leaves so Suker can begin his experiment on the head to see what they can learn from it.
The next morning Veranda and Lucy are on their feet again Lucy walks with a limp her leg still sore from being stabbed they approach Mizuki and kneels down in front of her they speak in almost near perfect synchronization. "We are incredibly sorry to have disgraced you by being defeated and not completing the task you set out for us we will be better."
"Oh is that so no more slacking off now the real training begins I bet you're getting tired of your asses being saved by Ryu constantly a few more saves and those asses will not be yours anymore." Mizuki says with a grin on her face as she prepares to train them like never before.
End of Chapter 10