[11 years later]
(Kevin Dylers)
~glug~
"Aaahhh, that hit the spot."
'Nothing's better than a drink after a glorious victory.'
"Hahahaha, Kevin, drink more, drink more! It's on the house this time!"
"Yeah Kevin! Nice win back there! You really showed them who's boss!"
"Hahaaha, thank you thank you! I ~burp~ couldn't have done it without you guys!"
'Haah! These fools, they were nothing but my cheering squad. I'm the only one that actually did something!
"Yeah! Hey everyone, clap for Kevin Dylers, winner of our local magic warrior tournament!"
~clap~ ~clap~ ~clap~
I could hear everyone in the bar clapping for me, the champion! 'I do deserve such popularity, after all I'm the strongest person in our town. I will be famous now that I proved my strength to everyone!'
"Hmm?" In the corner of my eye, I spotted someone that wasn't clapping for me. He was even blatantly ignoring me! I should teach this impudent brat some manners.
"Hey you! Yeah I mean you!"
Slowly walking to the boy seated at the corner of the bar, I decided to let him off with just a small beating because I was in a good mood.
"Hey you brat! Why aren't you clapping for lord Kevin! He just won an important tournament. Have some respect for the strong!"
The boy slowly started looking up, so now I could finally see the person I'm going to beat up. With his pitch-black hair, golden eyes and milk-like skin, he looked just like a supermodel you would see on the front page of a popular magazine.
'Tsk! Of course the bastard looks good! Why is it always the disrespectful bunch that are blessed with a good face? Now I'm going to make sure to beat up his face.'
"Hmm? Oh, sorry about that."
~clap~
After the boy clapped once, he stopped and continued looking down at his table.
"..."
"Hey boy! Are you making fun of me! I'm gonna make you wish you were never born!"
~click~
Suddenly a loud clicking sound reverberated through the whole bar.
The weird boy opened his mouth again and spoke with dark eyes:
"Finally, it took them long enough."
"Hey, what do you mean with that! What are you doing to us!"
Stepping forward, I threw a punch at his face, but surprisingly he didn't move a centimeter from his position. My hand actually started hurting!
I shouted with a hint of panic in my voice:
"What the hell is going on! Tell us brat!"
The boy stared at me with a dangerous glint in his eyes.
"Sorry, I don't talk to dead men."
"Huh, what do yo-"
~BOOM~
Cutting off my voice was an extremely loud explosion, and it was followed by a blinding light. That was the last thing that I saw before I lost consciousness...forever.
****
(Bryan Gale)
Calmly walking out of the crater, I looked around me.
"The hole looks a bit bigger than last time. Maybe around 1 kilometer in radius?"
I turned around to look at all the destruction that the explosion made.
"Hey, I know you guys are here. Is it really worth it to nuke a village just for a small chance to harm me?"
Appearing before me were two people, clad in black clothes and a mask covering half their face.
"So they only sent henchman nr. 11 and henchman nr. 104 this time? Is king Richard finally running low on resources?"
The henchmen frowned when they heard my words.
"You're the reason his majesty isn't in the right state of mind! After you murdered the late king, he's been deadset on getting revenge on you!"
"You can only blame yourself for being forced into these situations! Who would kill their own king for selfish reasons!"
"...He attacked me first though? It was rightful self defense. I just wanted him to stop sending people to me while I eat. After all, I needed my nutrients to grow back then."
One of the henchmen furiously screamed at me while sprinting towards me.
"Those are selfish reasons! A mere commoner should be grateful to have the king's attention!"
The henchman arrived before me in a blink of an eye, and threw a punch at my face.
"Haaaa! Die yo-"
~Splargh~
The henchman before me exploded in one million bits, covering me completely in his blood.
"Ah, I probably should have blocked his blood. This is quite gross, don't you agree henchman nr. 11?"
Henchman nr. 11 fearfully said:
"You monster! What did you do to him?!"
"I punched him... like usual? Do you have to be so scared everytime you see me do an act of self defense? This isn't the first time you've seen something like this while hunting me, right?"
"Anyways, I'll wash myself now. See you next time, nr. 11."
I then sprinted with immense speed to the nearest lake I could find and washed myself.
****
(Richard Levion)
"Your majesty! The product's finally done! We actually managed to finish it!"
"What! Show it to me immediately! Let's go to the testing room!"
[5 minutes later]
"This... is amazing. With this, I can finally remove that scum off the face of this planet! Finally, after all these years!"
Crying tears of joy, king Richard, who was previously the prince that bumped into Bryan, happily shouted at his researchers.
"Hey! Henchmen, bring that guy over here! Do whatever it takes, even if it costs your life! With this product, we can finally rid our world from that bastard!"
Suddenly appearing before the king, thirty henchmen kneeled on the ground.
"As you wish, your majesty." They all said in unison.
****
(Bryan Gale)
"Hmm, this should be enough food for a while."
Bryan calmly said, standing before a herd of dead deers.
'Well, let's start cooking dinner now.'
~Thud~ ~Thud~
A rather large group of people suddenly appeared before Bryan. They all had masks on, but Bryan could tell they all had their guard on around him.
One of the henchmen, who seemed to be the leader, spoke in a watchful tone:
"Bryan Gale, his majesty wants to see you. We ask that you come with us to the royal palace."
"The king wants to see me? May this lowly commoner know why he gets to be in the presence of his majesty?"
"...We are not sure either, but I can assure you it's a better idea to go with us. We don't want to cause any unnecessary violence."
"Alright, I'll go with you. But we should eat dinner first, I already have enough meat for everyone here as well. It would be a huge waste to not eat it right now."
"Hey! How dare you keep his maj-" A henchman shouted angrily, but got cut off by the henchman who spoke earlier. "Shut your mouth! We will eat here, anyone who dares to disagree will immediately be punished by me personally!"
"Thanks for your support henchman nr. 5. I knew it was a good decision to keep you alive."
Because no one wanted to argue against their own leader, they all reluctantly started a fire and cooked their own deer meat.
Although the entire dinner had an awkward atmosphere, Bryan didn't mind since no one was getting in the way of his food.
Since the henchmen all wanted to go immediately, they all ate their food as fast as possible, but since Bryan wasn't in any hurry to go, everyone needed to wait for several minutes before they could finally return to the palace.
Since the henchmen were in constant stress while being near their supposedly hostile and dangerous target, one of the henchmen finally lost their cool while waiting for Bryan to finish eating.
"How long are you going to keep us waiting!" The henchman screamed while leaping towards Bryan, trying to either punch him or the food in his hand.
"Hey, wait! Stop right no- ~splargh~" The leader shouted, but before he could finish speaking, a loud and gross exploding sound could be heard from where the attacking henchman was, but now all that remained was the blood red grass on the ground and Bryan standing before it, still eating his deer meat.
"Luckily I remembered to dodge the blood this time. The deer meat would have gotten a weird bloody taste, had I not dodged his blood."
'!!!'
All the henchmen instantly took fighting positions, but not a single one dared to attack. No one except Bryan was able to see what happened, and all the henchmen knew that if this person desired to kill them all, no one would be able to stop him.
"Eh, I'm not really in the mood to eat anymore. Let's just go meet the king and hopefully end these assassination attempts, if you could even call them that."
"...Ahem, let's go everyone. Our task was to bring him to his majesty, so we should do it as soon as possible." The leader said to everyone.
"Yup, lead the way to the royal palace please."
And so they sprinted to the royal palace, where the king was waiting for them.