Tak* Tak* Tak*
"Okay stop now, this much is enough for today"
As sensei said, we stopped swordfighting.
"If you hadn't stopped us, we would have defeated her"
"Yeah"
"Liar" I said
"You three are sparring with her at the same time and are still complaining"
Both of them gone silent.
All three were looking at me with rage, but I was not scared of their anger at all, on the contrary, I enjoyed it.
"Alna, where did you learn these swordfighting skills?" Sensei asked.
"My father teaches me swordfighting everyday. Apart from this, I also keep training myself"
"Very good alna"
"Hehehe"
My village was very small, so small that there were only 50 people in my village. All the elders in the village loved me a lot. On the other hand, all the children were jealous of me.
If I want, I can make a lot of friends but that will be just a waste of time.
Whenever someone asks me what I want to do after growing up, I have only one answer.
"I want to marry Shield Hero and help him in his journey."
After hearing this everyone has only one answer- it is impossible. They said that there are several thousands of people waiting for Shield Hero so that they could join his party. But I always unheard it.
Only my mother and father had trust in me and that was enough for me.
I was cute, talented, smart and stronger. I simply can't see shield hero not choosing me.
I believed I was living the best life. Until one day.
We heard that a purple kasaka has infiltrated the village, we went to the scene. When we reached there, we saw that many people were trying to fend it off.
Some people were injured, but thankfully no one has died.
The kasaka was a snake-like monster, its length was about 10 to 12 metres. It was fast, but the main problem was that it could throw both fire and acid from its mouth.
I had never seen anything like this.
The kasaka spat acid towards a person, he barely dodged it but mistakenly stepped on the place where the kasaka had spat previously.
His feets started melting, he was unable to move. The kasaka used fire breath on him but my father came and stopped it using a shield.
He told everyone that there is an orb behind Kasaka's head and breaking it would kill Kasaka.The kasaka started coming towards him.
"Get away from there, stupid father!" I shouted.
He could've easily got away from there, but he didn't because If he moved, the person behind him will become the prey.
The Kasaka attacked him, but my mother came between them and the kasaka swallowed her.
After that, father lost his mind. He started attacking the kasaka recklessly. Somehow he got behind the viper.
He went to break the orb, but the kasaka turned and swallowed him too.
At this moment, I lost everything. I thought of commiting suicide.
What? The viper acting weirdly, it slowed down too. The most probable answer was that father is hurting it from inside.
The kasaka only swallowed them, means they're still alive. I took a nearby sword which was half melted by the acid.
I ran towards the kasaka while it was facing the opposite direction. Almost reached, just a little more.
Just when I readied the sword to break the gem, it turned in an instant. A smile creeped on my face.
Sorry but, an experienced loner can't fall for the same trick twice!
I attacked its eyes and jumped back. Just barely dodged it. Everyone can see that I am fighting with the kasaka alone, but they didn't bothered to help me.
It let out a battle cry. By seeing it, I can tell that it got heavily injured from the inside. It fell on the ground
I can't bother to find out whether its acting or not.
I reached the orb and attacked at it, but it didn't break. I kept attacking it, it took 17 consecutive hits to break it.
Several Level up notifications popped up one by one, but I didn't care.
I quickly went to cut the cross section of the snake where I thought they were, but many peoples held me tightly.
"Don't make such a mistake girl, this Kasaka's stomach might be filled with acid. If you pierce its stomach, all the acid will come out."
"You are letting two people die just because of a possibility, you motherfu*kers"
I tried very hard to unheld, but I couldn't. If I could've cut its belly, my parents could have been saved.
They kept me away from the kasaka.
After that, I went straight to my house.
It took a while to adapt to the changes.
My family, is dead. Now I had two options, I can either commit suicide at this moment and get out of this hell or I can keep living and workhard to realise my lifelong dream.
I ain't a coward, which is why I decided to live in this world, for my shield hero.
After that, one of my neighbours took me in.
Because my levels have increased a lot, my growth was happening very fastly. To increase my level even more, I used to go to the forest and do hunting every day.
I admired Gerard san very much, he was 15 years old. I considered him my elder brother.
He always supported me and motivated me when I was sad.
I was just 9 years old, but my body was as mature as 20 years old girls. I was getting more beautiful as I grew up. I liked it but I was also concerned. I started keeping a knife with me
One day when I was half asleep, Gerard san came in my room. He thought I was asleep and he touched my lips. if only he weren't him, i would've done something really bad to him. Before he could do further
"Gerard san, why are you in my room this late?"
"Well, it thought we could talk for a while."
"Oh, what did you wanted to talk about?"
"You know when you were little and were all by yourself, we took you in. Now you've grown so much."
After some more talking, he started revealing his real intentions. Oh Gerard san, you didn't have to do what you did for me after I got here.
Not only this, even if you all had not accepted me, I still had a lot of options, so do not make the mistake of thinking that I am dependent of you. He tried forcing himself on me.
So I cut his hands off.
When everyone else found out, they threw me out of the house, no one even asked why I did this.
Come to think of it, they could not have done anything other than throwing me out of the house, I was just too strong for them.