The king of the mercenaries surely lives up to his name.
Father just with a swing of his hand ripped apart the cloak without throwing me far away.
"What happened to you?", Natalia's eye widened and Rishta looked to be in shock but not too much.
Mom's jaw are left so wide open that they may fall apart any moment.
Father, he looks dead from inside.
Damn, a serious topic was just about to begin.
"Big brother painted his hair."
It was a good opportunity to start a conversation.
"Big brother is too weird sounding, call me Illyum."
I gave my brightest smile possible but, still I am not good at conversations.
"Okay, Illyum."
He smiled back, probably I am good enough.
Just then, Natalia came forward and sent Kishen out.
Then, she stood just beside us with a serious expression, gesturing me to continue while her eyes says, 'I am with you no matter what happens'.
"Father, as I said before, I found the secret of immortality, well I exaggerated it quite a bit but I still didn't lie. It should have given me some regeneration power. I injected myself with a kraken's bloodline and replaced it... "
I slowly got into the whole process while his expressions kept changing with every event recorded.
Damned shit, looks like he wants to kill me but is barely able to control himself.
I better be quiet before his pressure snaps.
"So, you are saying that you didn't even bother lift a sword when I was offering you to teach all of my weaponry arts even when you would have been able to master it all with your monstrous talent but you abandoned everything to your studies and then you conducted an experiment on yourself that may turn you into a monster if it doesn't kills you."
"Father, the church of the goddess of prosperity and fertility teaches us that the education and learning comes before fighting and arming."
He calmly moved two steps back and seat down on the couch. Mom nervously stood up and moved away, Rishta and Natalia too followed her suit as they stood beside her.
Father calmly stared back at me as he gestured for me to sit down.
I obliged since the punches and verbal abuse could start raining any moments.
"Illyum, do you think mercenaries follow some gods or deities during wars?"
What kind of question is this?
"Maybe, I don't know, I am not any mercenary and I haven't even participated in any wars."
It is true.
In the era of the supremacy, it is difficult for any war to not happen but there really hasn't been one ever since my birth.
At least not around here or involving our country.
"Not even one thing as a member of the green family..."
"Mercenaries enjoy war. They are already getting enough money so why would they ask for more?"
We pray to god to ask for more, not to thank him. At least, not mercenaries do that.
"Green family has a thousand year history of being the leaders of the mercenaries... I almost thought that this tradition will end with you and I would how select someone from different family this time. Just when I was starting to think about this."
He smirked and raised his hand.
"Illyum, show me what you have gained from your miracle."
His palm clutched into a fist and came down like a meteor.
Not having enough time to think, I just moved aside.
The fist fell on couch and the wooden splinters shattered and splattered flying all across the room.
"Ooh, you were able to dodge that... It indeed is true but not sure by how much."
His face; it was crazed, demonic, evil incarnate. There seemed to be some kind of blackish green aura around him, the mana reacted to to his voice and the space distorted around everytime he moved.
His hands moved quicker than I expected this time and grabbed onto my neck.
"Wait?!"
He really seems to be intent on killing me, he is crushing my throat with all his effort.
"Let us the this fight outside the house, shall we since we all want to avoid unnecessary damage?"
His demonic smile curved up even more as he dragged me out and threw me in the garden.
I tried to struggle out by wrapping my hair around him and flapping my limbs but he straight broke all bindings and hurled me like a ball to the garden.
Somehow, I forcefully speeded up the growth of my hair to wrap around me and cushion my fall.
Although, it still hurts, it has helped me after all, if I look at the ditch formed in the ground.
I tried to untangle out of the hair using the control but they got entangled together prompting me to shed them this time.
"See, if you were a martial artists then you would how been able to not only break off the grip but also use my force to launch a suitable counter attack."
"Old man, have you suddenly gone senile? If I returned back alive then will you kill me?" I whispered under my breath since I won't be able to say thing on his face.
Yeah, I don't dare to since I already know that he is just playing around.