The Harvest festival was a two day festival that the city celebrated in regards for the fresh harvest. The city will be drowning in food and music for two days with various performances that increase the excitement. It would be held two days from now.
In the city square people could be seen setting up various stalls for foods, clothes and other things and a huge bonfire was being built in the center.
"Hoh, the scale of this festival is large. Worth checking out", Sam who was present in the city square commented. He came back to the inn only to be greeted by Mia and Rose who also came back after finishing their assignment.
"You are back", Mia hugged Sam and Sam responded back. Rose also greeted Sam.
"The travel took longer than planned", Sam told them about his journey. "And you. I heard some good things at the guild".
Mia smiled with a proud expression, "I have been taking jobs along with Rose and now I have become this much powerful", she extended both her arms to show Sam her growth.
Sam and Rose smiled at Mia's action and Mia continued telling about her quests.
{ Mia is really hard working, even I am surprised at her growth }, Rose added. For Sam it meant good news as he had to do less babysit work and could focus on his growth.
"By the way have you heard of the harvest festival?", Sam asked Mia and Rose.
"Yes, it is going to be so much fun", Mia was excited for the festival and Rose also nodded in yes.
---Two days later, Harvest Festival Day
The city was bustling with people and music could be heard on the streets. Sam, Mia and Rose left the inn to go to the city square. Mia and Rose were dressed in beautiful clothes with their hair tied neatly and small makeup made them look like total beauties. Sam on the other hand also wore his best clothes but he was pale in comparison to the two.
Sam was totally lost when seeing the two beauties and Mia and Rose only giggled seeing him. Mia came forward and swiped her hands in front of Sam.
"Hellooo, ", Sam came back to reality and awkwardly smiled. "You both look amazing", he tried to correct the situation and Mia and Rose burst into laughter. "Let's go", Sam dashed in front to avoid the embarrassment.
Wherever Mia and Rose went, people would turn their attention to them, such was their beauty shining. "Looks like we are the star of the show", Mia commented noticing peoples gazes. Rose also nodded with Mia.
They are like a walking bomb, I have to protect them, thought Sam.
In the square, the bonfire was lit and a band was playing music making people dance to the rhythm. Sam found the atmosphere lively and immediately went near the bonfire. The size of the bonfire was quite big, like the one he had seen in the comics and he got excited.
A lady came to him and asked him for a dance. Sam accepted the lady's invitation and danced with her for five minutes. On the other hand Mia and Rose were enjoying the food on the food stalls.
The evening was progressing smoothly and Sam had danced once with both Mia and Rose.
Sam was taking a break from all the dancing when he was approached by the blonde woman that stayed in the same inn as him.
"Hi, I never introduced myself. I am Riana", she said while extending her hand to invite Sam for a dance. Sam was dead tired but still took her hand as to not offend her and they started dancing.
"My name is Sam".
"You dance very well", Rianna complimented Sam's move. Of course Sam knew how to dance as in his previous life he was in dance club. "Thanks".
Like that they danced and talked for a short time unknown to Sam that Rianna had seperated themselves from the crowd. "You are a great host Sam, and a good bounty", saying this someone hit Sam from behind and took him hostage.
They brought Sam to an empty house and tied him to a chair. One of the twin slapped Sam on the cheek to wake him up. Sam opened his eyes while groaning in pain and saw three figures standing in front of him.
"Guess you must be from the organization", Sam had remembered what the White Ghost had said while dying.
"You know about us, then this makes our work easier", said the blonde woman.
'Oh man these people are a pain in the ass', Sam cursed them inside.
"Okay, tell me what you want. There must be a way that we can avoid bloodshed", Sam asked with a teary eyes. Sam tried to act weak and scary when he knew from inside that he can easily take them down.
"Look at you getting all teary eyed", the blonde woman touched Sam's face and pinched his cheeks, "Cute".
'Are they all perverts?', Sam thought. But before everything else he has to get out of bounds. Everytime he is kidnapped he finds himself bind to something. Sam tried to get out of the binds but they were tightly wrapped and didn't budged.
'Ugh these ropes are killing me'.
Twin one came carrying a burning iron rod and started scaring Sam to cough up everything Sam knew. "Tell me what did you do with the monster", she brought the hot iron close to Sam's chest and he could feel it's heat.
"What monster are you talking about?", Sam asked. "So you are going to play dumb", seeing the rod coming ever so closer, "Okay, I will tell you".
She backed away from Sam and he told them that it was dead and made a story of how it died.
"You are telling us to believe that it fought floor master and was killed", said the blonde woman.
"Aaagh", the burning rod was pressed against Sam's chest making him cry in pain. The blonde woman forced Sam to talk but Sam didn't speak. "I don't know what you are talking about", Sam continued to say this.
While Sam was acting to be in pain and squirming he took out the small blade he had hid in his underwear and slowly started cutting the ropes.
"Tough bastard", Rianna slapped Sam hard on the cheek and yanked him by his hair. Sam beared the pain and vowed to kill everyone present there.
"Tell us where you hid the monster", one of the twin, who was frustrated over Sam's behaviour decided to end it and took out a knife to kill Sam.
By now Sam had freed himself from the ropes and he kicked the ground so that the chair turns over. He escaped the attack and immediately rolled away from them.
"You had been enjoying for quite some time. Now its my turn", crackling his knuckles Sam touched his pendant and summoned the sword out.
Pointing his sword towards the three, "I will torture you so bad that you all will be begging for death". Rianna took out a whip and immediately attacked Sam.
Sam dodged her whip attack and increased his distance from her. Sam immediately accelerated towards her by using aura burst under his foot and slashed Rianna's arm.
"Aaah, my arm", Rianna saw her arm fell on the ground and immediately burst into black flame. By now Sam had already closed the distance and beheaded her.
The twins immediately felt fear ran down their spine when Rianna was beheaded. "Don't get cocky, brat", one twin jumped at Sam with a sword in her hands and attacked. Sam parried the attacks while keeping a close eye on the other twin who was busy chanting a spell.
[Ice hail huh. Get destroyed], Sei read the magic circle and destroyed it with just a command. When the magic circle got destroyed before her spell was complete, the twin went into despair because of the side effect. Seeing her twin convulsing on the ground the twin attacking Sam immediately rushed to her sister.
She took her sister in her lap and screamed, "Sister, open your eyes. What happened". Even Sam was baffled upon seeing the magic circle being destroyed on Sei's command.
'What did you do', Sam asked Sei.
[fufu, nothing. I just destroyed the magic flow for the spell and its side effect got her], Sei explained.
'But since when were you capable of this', Sam hadn't seen Sei ever use this ability before.
[As you level up, so do I. I wanted to surprise you so didn't tell you], Sei replied with a smirk.
Sam thought Sei's new ability was cool and that it would come handy in the future.