"For a near commoner, you have some nerve to be in the private library. I should have your head on a stick, hanging outside the castle gates to show all the other commoners what happens when you mess with the prince."
Prince Richard fixes his shirt collar as he looks down at Austin with a smug look on his face.
("This guy is really feeling himself. I now see where he gets that cocky attitude from.")
{Hey now, remember. He is the Prince, so we could kill him, but that will make you an enemy of this kingdom.}
("Yeah, yeah, I know that much. Geez you sound like my grandma.")
{Why thank you for the compliment.}
(It wasn't a compliment.)
One of the other knights looked closer at Austin before turning and looking at Prince Richard.
"If I may speak, my Prince."
"What is it?"
"I believe the man is one of the three heroes that was summoned this morning by Father Joe. He looks completely different from anyone else that forms this kingdom."
"That is true."
"That only means he is a spy then."
Another knight draws his sword and steps behind Austin as he places the blade of the sword on Austin's shoulder.
Austin glances at the blade before looking back at Prince Richard.
("Ragnarok.")
{"Already taken care of. The nice time that blade touches anything solid, it will shatter on impact."}
("Call me supposed. That was quicker than I thought.")
{"Why thank you again."}
"Now lower your blade."
Prince Richard waves his hand up as the knight removes his blade from Austin's shoulder and back into its shelf.
"Tell me, are you a spy or a summoned hero?"
"What does it look like to you? I mean it's not like I know much about this word, and it is not like I had no clue this was a forbidden library."
{"I don't believe being a smartass will help you here."}
("I don't see you coming up with any ideas.")
{"I don't remember you asking for my help."}
As Austin is talking to Ragnarok in his mind, a guard quickly grabs Austin the shirt caller and lifts him up just inches from the ground.
"How dare you. I should rip your tongue out and feed it to the dogs."
"That is enough, lower the man back to his feet."
"But my Prince."
"I will not repeat myself."
"You should do what your Prince says, before you regret it."
The knight looked at Austin with anger in his eyes, as his muscles in his hands and face started to tents up as his veins started to show all over his face and arms.
"How dare you threaten a knight of the royal family. I should have you killed were you stand or better yet, I should torture you until you cry than slowly kill you. Yes, that will do then I will..."
As the knight continues to talk, a swish of a blade cuts off the hands of the knight.
As the knight's hands fall to the ground, blood gushes out all over Austin's face and clothes, the knight takes a couple of steps back as he is in deep pain. The knight looks over at the knight standing next to Prince Richard with a bloody sword in his hand.
"What the hell were you thinking? You cut off my hands."
"The Prince told you enough but you continued, so I had to use you as an example."
"Example? Example for what?"
"What happens when you don't follow the orders given by the Prince or the King."
"What does that mean?"
"It means you must do what I say and when I say. Do you understand me?"
Prince Richard looks over at Austin.
"I do apologize for the misunderstanding. But I will ask one more time. Are you a summoned hero or a spy from another kingdom, and if you're a spy what kingdom are you from?"
"You will answer the Prince's question or I will do the same with you, but I will start with your feet."
Austin stands there quietly as the 3 knights and Prince Richard look at him waiting for him to reply.
"It is only proper to answer the Prince's question."
Austin still doesn't reply.
As the knight ask again and again for Austin to reply, Austin instead stands there talking to Ragnarok in his mind.
{"Are you not going to reply? Standing here will not do anything for you. I mean I can protect you, but we are running out of time. The Kingdom will be destroyed by Johnny in a couple of minutes if you don't act."}
("Hey Ragnarok. Do you remember when I say I do kill without a good reason.")
{"Yeah of course I do. Did you change your mind on that?"}
("No. I still will not kill without a good reason to, but at the same time I do believe that some things can change here and there depending on the situation. ")
{"Are you saying because of the situation that you are in, that you are willing to kill over trying to talk your way out.?"}
("If you put it that way then sure. But what I was referring to, that I don't like to waste time if I don't have time to spare. And on top of that…")
Austin wipes the blood off of his face, as he gives the knight a death steer.
("They got blood all over my good clothes. Then when I first got here all I got was shit, the only ones that gave me any respect was the servant girl and the Pope, everyone else just wanted me to be executed.")
{"Well, that was not your fault entirely."}
("Yeah, it was mostly Johnny's fault, but still. I should not be dragged into all the things he done so far.")
{"You are one interesting human."}
("If you say so.")
Austin glances at the knight holding the sword at him.
{"So, what will your next move be?"}
("Is it not obvious yet. If anything, I would like to teleport away but that would leave them to recheck the library, and I don't want my clones to be found just yet. But at the same time, I would hate to start a battle in the middle of the castle, it would lead more knights to come. At the same time, I can't let them leave, the last thing I need is for the King to know I am also in the castle with Johnny, that could lead to bigger issues.")
{"Sounds like you in bind."}
("I could use your help coming up with solutions you know.")
{"If that is what you want me to do. Then I can."}
("I will make you a to do list when we get out of this stupid situation.")
As Austin talks to Ragnarok in his mind all the knights around him and Prince Richard become fat as a cow and have nipples come out of their armor.
Both Prince Richard and Austin look shocked to see what has happened to the knights around then.
Prince Richard points his finger at Austin.
"How dare you do this to my knights. Do you not have any honor? And I almost believe that you could be one of the heroes that was summoned. But now I know what you are. You're a spy, aren't you?"
Austin quickly turns towards Prince Richard.
"I can promise you I did nothing to your knights. This all has to be a misunderstanding." ("Ragnarok, what the hell happened just now? What is going on with the knights?")
{"It was Johnny's Imagination. I can only guess he used it to turn the knights into human cows."}
("God dammit. Every time I try to do anything, he has to fuck it up. Is this a game to him or something.")
{"I believe that at the moment he thinks he is untouchable at the moment."}
("Oh, we will see about that untouchable. You just wait Johnny, when I get my hands on you I will…")
"There is no misunderstanding. I know the truth, and what I say goes. And I say you're a spy that needs to be executed for the crime you just committed."
Austin puts his hand over his eyes before shaking his head, as he removes the remaining blood that was carrying his eyes as he looked at Prince Richard with an annoyed look on his face.
"You know what, I don't care anymore. I don't care what crimes you say I did or think I did. I was summoned to this fucking world without any warning at all and you expect me to do this and this like it is indented into my brain like a fucking robot or something. And don't get me started with all the noble's that I saw earlier. Because all of you have money in your fucking pockets doesn't mean you know what is right and wrong, doesn't mean you're on top of the world and that you're completely untouchable. Because I can promise you, you are fucking touchable, piss me off and I will show you that your touchable and still a fucking mortal. Then to make things even better, all of you here in this kingdom are dumber than monkeys with their brains up their ass's. I mean come on, how can you blame someone for doing something if you know they didn't do it. How? Wait, don't answer that. You're just going to give me a stupid answer that will push me still much closer to killing you, and I can promise you that I actually don't want to kill you. You just piss me off so much that it is hard not to want to kill your dumb ass."
{"Nice, is this how you talk things out with everyone?"}
("No, just the stupid ones.")
"How…You…I…"
"What is wrong Prince, got something down your throat?"
Prince Richard clears his throat before raising his head, trying to look down at Austin.
"That is not the way to speak to Nobility, you peasant."
Austin gives Prince Richard a raised eyebrow.
"Really? Because last I checked, according to one of the books in the forbidden library, there is a law that states. All heroes from Nobility will be granted a new noble rank higher than their previous one outside of Duke."
"Yes, but only for the ones that are already Nobility you foul."
"You didn't let me finish."
Prince Richard clicks his tongue before crossing his arms.
"But for the heroes that are not Nobility will be given a Noble Rank depending on how they became a hero. And if I am not mistaken all summoned heroes are given the Rank of Earl. But you can see for yourself, my Prince."
Austin summoned the book into his hand and held it out for Prince Richard to grab it.
"Take it, if you don't believe me."
Prince Richard quickly grabs the book and opens it up.
"I don't see anything on here that says that heroes get a Noble Rank."
Prince Richard goes to look at Austin but to his eyes Austin has disappeared.
"What. Where did you go? I demand you to show yourself at once."
Prince Richard points towards the ground as Austin was teleported on a hill outside the Kingdom.
"What the hell?"
Austin turns around as sees the Kingdom with big walls blocking any outsiders from entering.
"Why am I outside the castle? No better yet, why did you teleport me in the first place, Ranperuji?"
{"A thank you would be nice."}
"A thank you? You just teleported me outside the Kingdom. The Kingdom that I was trying to get information from."
{"That Kingdom is no longer a Kingdom."}
"What do you mean?"
{"Take a good look and see for yourself."}
As Ragnarok said that the castle became covered in flames, and in near seconds the castle was fully burned down. As the flames started to spread to all the buildings nearby, burning them all down in seconds.
"What the actual fuck. Please of the love of God, don't tell me that Johnny did this too."
{"He didn't do this."}
"Thank God. So, who did?"
{"Well Johnny did."}
"What the fuck. You just told me that he didn't do it."
{"You told me to tell you that he did not do it. So, I did."}
"Ragnarok, do you not know what sarcasm is?"
{"I do."}
"Yes, I can see that clearly now."
Austin stands there watching as the Kingdom slowly burns down into ashes, before sitting down on a rock.
{"What is your next plan?"}
"That is a great question. What is my next plan."