53 – Betrayal

“That way!”

Bound by the wind and rain, I ran to the boy’s direction.

“This way this time!”

When the boy said that his younger siblings were in danger, I suddenly thought of Gilburton.

I never wanted anyone related to me to die again.

So I went to the place the boy said with all my might.

“That way….”

But for some reason the boy’s voice got smaller and smaller,

“Maybe…. It seems to be over there.”

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My self-confidence also started to drop little by little.

I didn’t look in the direction the boy was pointing, but looked around.

Strangely enough, I seem to have passed this spot a while ago.

He hesitated. In the end, feeling a sense of distance, I stopped for a while even though I was in an urgent situation.

“… Why did you suddenly stop?”

“Why does it keep turning in the same direction?”

“Oh no! … Looks like I got confused for a moment!”

The boy’s body trembled.

His body, which did not tremble despite the unprecedented speed, trembled like an aspen tree.

Of course, in the crisis of the younger siblings, you may temporarily lose your memory or shake your body violently.

But his eyes, moving back and forth, looked like he was rolling his eyes to recall a lie.

“If you tell a lie next time, I will return to the mansion immediately.”

“Yes, yes!”

The boy nodded violently, and I used light magic on my body again.

The boy no longer pointed to the same place, and entered a shady place where no one could feel the presence.

“This is it! This is where the brothers are imprisoned!”

After running for a long time, I finally arrived at the hut the boy had mentioned. There are no other buildings in the vicinity.

All that catches my eye is a lot of grass and trees. The only thing nearby was a cabin in front of me.

I put down the boy I was holding in my arms and whispered quietly.

“Is it dangerous? Stay behind me.”

The boy nodded his head and stuck behind me with a nervous face.

I opened the door without hesitation, intending to quickly save my younger siblings and return home.

I can’t see anything.

Evening hadn’t arrived yet, but the dark clouds that made it rain prevented the room from being seen.

It was the time when I was quietly groping around the room to turn on the switch.

Fishing-! A crossbow shot could be heard in the darkness. The right shoulder is exactly where the arrow comes from.

Even in the blinding darkness, I sensed in advance that they were there because of the magic I felt inside the mansion.

I raised my mana and thanks to the transparent barrier right in front of me, the arrow didn’t happen to pierce my arm.

Took. I picked up the arrow that fell and was blocked by the barrier with my hand.

The tip of the arrow was covered with a liquid with a strong smell that pierced the nose.

It’s poison.

It’s fine if you don’t get stabbed, but if you touch it once, you’ll get a big penalty on your body.

So I closed my eyes and made a bigger barrier than before.

And once again, with the sound of the strings being pulled, two arrows are fired towards the head and heart.

Kaang-! But their arrows didn’t reach me, and I fell to the floor in vain.

After confirming that the attack failed once again, the guys immediately loaded the next arrow.

And I opened my closed eyes.

Only then, the sight that has adapted to the darkness begins to see clearly.

The number of enemies in front of you is four.

As expected, two of them were carrying crossbows and loading arrows, while the other two, larger in size, were holding long swords on alert.

Flinch. One of the people whose eyes met mine trembled.

Anyway, it seems that they also recognize me accurately in this darkness.

I rushed at them before they fired another arrow.

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My body, which has become as light as a feather with light magic, reaches in front of them at the same speed as a bullet.

Then he quickly cut the hand of the man who was loading the crossbow with his dagger.

Suddenly! The man’s arm fell to the floor with an eerie cutting sound.

“Quaaa!”

The man who dropped the crossbow on the floor fell to the floor with a loud scream. But I didn’t stop moving here.

As with countless goblins, the fight isn’t over until all enemies are dealt with.

I quickly bent my back and slashed the big man’s chest with the dagger I held in reverse.

Chack-! Hot blood gushed out of the man’s chest. His strength was controlled, so he wouldn’t die from an attack like this, but the man who had severely cut his chest collapsed on the floor without a scream as if he had passed out.

I turned my head and looked at the next enemy.

“Hey!”

Another guy holding a crossbow makes eye contact with me, then lets out a moan and holds the crossbow at my head.

Taang-! The crossbow was shot right in front of me, but the arrow was pierced into the wall of the Ammon by deflecting the crossbow in the opposite direction with the Psychokinesis magic.

Suddenly! Dodging the attack, I lowered my stance and cut off the man’s leg.

Three at once.

Originally, I wouldn’t risk jumping into the crowd.

But since my mana increased and I was able to use magic more freely, I was able to grasp the skill of the person in front of me.

Because I was confident that I could win even if I faced four people in front of me at the same time, I was able to boldly run towards them.

I turned my head and looked at the last remaining man.

An earthquake occurred in the pupils of the man whose eyes met mine.

In a way, it’s only natural that he gets scared when all his comrades are killed in an instant.

It was that moment when I saw the man trembling, and once again raised my mana to quickly finish work and return home.

“Wait a minute!”

The man suddenly shouted and tore off the cloth covering the box behind him.

“If you come a little closer, I will kill these kids.”

When the cloth was removed, there were trembling children hugging their knees.

And those children were the younger brothers of the boy standing behind me.

The man pointed a knife at the child, and the child cried frightenedly.

“You are cowardly….”

I was impressed by the disgusting behavior of the man.

Since I came to the cabin to save the boy’s younger siblings, I had no choice but to stop and look at the man.

But even after I stopped attacking, the man didn’t seem to like it as he aimed his knife deeper at the child.

“Put down the dagger in your hand.”

Clink! I put my dagger on the floor and raised both hands.

Only then did the man smile with satisfaction.

As soon as he put down the dagger he promised, the man pulled out the knife he was aiming at the child with satisfaction.

I said to him, frowning.

“Why did you call me here?”

Actually, I thought I knew roughly why he brought me here.

It is obvious that you are trying to demand a large amount of money from me, who gives gold coins even to beggars.

But I had a reason to have this conversation.

“For the money, of course.”

“It seems that you are not afraid of the aftermath of the marquis family.”

As expected, the man did this for money.

I checked the man’s distance and the child’s distance.

Which would be faster: the speed at which a man swings a knife at a child, or the speed at which I subdue a man by making bullets?

And having made bullets over a hundred times so far, I was confident.

The one who can fire bullets at a guy faster than a man’s sword can pierce a child.

I quietly raised my mana without being noticed by the man.

Then the bullet was created quickly, and the magic power that rose from his hand permeated the bullet.

“This bastard!”

The man’s face is distorted by the blue bullet rising in the air.

Then he quickly draws a knife and tries to swing it at the child.

But it’s slow.

There was no way my bullet would be slower than his sword.

Until a poisoned knife stabbed me in the back.

“Keuk!”

At the moment when all I had to do was fire a bullet aimed at the man’s shoulder, I collapsed on the floor helplessly with the pain I felt from the back.

“Ha ha, ha ha.”

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My body is shaking.

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My head starts spinning.

There is no strength in the body.

And I feel something hot rising from inside.

“Oops… ! Cool!”

I tried to hold it in as much as I could, but a clot of dark red blood gushed out of my mouth.

It was so much that it was hard to believe that one person spewed it out.

I could barely move my head to see what had happened.

“Uh, why… ….”

“… Sorry. Rail master. I had no choice but to save my younger siblings…….”

The one who stabbed the poisoned arrow in my back was none other than the boy who brought me here.

I don’t know why the boy betrayed me.

And although he was stabbed by a poisoned arrow, there was no way that a clot of blood would come out of his mouth right away.

I looked at the boy and the man who were talking with grimacing frowns on their greasy hair.

“As promised, we waited until the poison spread, so release the younger brothers!”

“Why should I do that? Three of my comrades died because you didn’t take the time. Do you think you should compensate for that with your younger siblings?”

Did you wait for the poison to spread?

When the hell did you poison me?

“I heard that you ate more poisonous meat than usual! It wouldn’t be strange if it already collapsed outside.”

“That’s not my alpha, is it? I will get enough money just by earning time as he ordered, but because of you, my colleagues will have to live crippled for the rest of their lives, but that’s why I can’t share my money?”

“You traitor!”

The boy jumped with a poisoned arrow at the man who hadn’t kept his promise.

f*ck-!

However, the difference in weight between men and boys is almost double. There was no way a boy who had never fought with others could defeat a man.

The man’s fist knocks the boy to the ground. Then he starts to tremble as he sees a man approaching him with a greatsword.

It seemed that he was trembling not from the fear of death, but from a sense of guilt for not saving his younger siblings.

As I had already fallen to the floor, I was out of sight of the two of them.

Thinking that now was my chance, I pulled out the potion in my arms using even the strength I had been suckling.

It was a recovery potion that Fenia left along with her letter before leaving.

As I struggled to pour the potion into my mouth, my senses began to return, and I felt my body recover.

Though I was almost recovered, fortunately the two still did not notice that I had recovered.

It was at that moment when he was about to fire a bullet at the man who had raised his mana and subdued the boy.

“The proud marquis is going to die anyway, but even if at least one beggar like this dies, it won’t show.”

The man raised his greatsword and swung it at the boy who had fallen to the floor. And then the boy closed his eyes as he saw the sword flying towards his throat.

Taang-! A man’s eardrum-shattering scream echoed through the cabin, accompanied by the sound of air bursting.

“Quaaa!”

The greatsword he was holding fell to the floor when the bullet hit his shoulder.

The guy screams in agony and rolls on the floor.

I approached him and pressed my foot against the bullet-ridden shoulder.

“Oh, how!”

The guy who made eye contact with me looks at me with disbelief eyes.

But I wasn’t in a position to tell him that.

“My father is dying soon? What do you mean by that?”

“… ….”

Only then did the man realize that he had said something he shouldn’t have said, and he shut his mouth in surprise.

But I also did not think that he would open his mouth so easily.

So he grabbed the dagger that had fallen on the floor and cut off one of the arm of the still-moving guy.

“Quaaa_!!!!”

He screams even louder as his arm is cut off.

I asked again, looking at his face wet with anguish.

“What the hell are you up to?”

“… Say, can’t…….”

But the man didn’t spit out any information even though his arm was cut off.

So he once again raised the dagger and cut through what was left of his left arm.

Chack-! Losing both of his arms in an instant, he screamed as if the cabin would collapse.

The voice was so loud that people were already approaching, but no one came to this cabin nestled deep in the forest.

“Ask again. What are you up to?”

“f*ck me… ….”

The man was teary-eyed and glared at me like a curse.

The eyes that widened at the nobles bothered me.

So he once again raised his dagger and lowered it into his right pupil.

Push-!

The man screams so much that the cabin reverberates as if it is more painful than the pain he has felt so far.

Pulling out the dagger stuck in his eye, I aimed at his last left pupil.

No, I’ll tell you! Therefore! As much as your eyes please…… !!”

Then the man hurriedly opened his mouth and spewed out all the information he knew, perhaps because he wanted to protect the last remaining pupil.

“… Kyle said he was going to kill the Marquis and blame it all on you! And I’ve been ordered to kill time with that orphan so I don’t interfere with you killing the Marquis!”

“… ….”

I looked blankly at the man’s words, which I couldn’t believe.

“Since I said everything you said, drop that knife quickly… …. Ahhhhh

Then he slashed the knife into the man’s left eye.

And without looking back, I ran towards the mansion as fast as I could.

Shuaaa-

It starts to rain more heavily.

I can’t go as fast as I want because the water is getting into my feet. And the poison spread through his body has not fully recovered yet, so his breathing is rough.

But I couldn’t slow it down.

Thanks to not stopping my speed, I arrived at the market before I knew it and found a woman with black hair sitting alone on the floor in the rain.

I was in a situation where I had to go get Euler right away, but I couldn’t overlook her because she was also part of my family.

“Calm down! Lila!”

At the sound of my voice, Lila slowly raised her head.

She speaks with unfocused eyes, as if passed out.

“Oh, brother…. Father… …. Rayman….”

Was everything he said true? .

Lila continues to say the same thing, holding the pendant I gave her in her hand.

“Say no more than that.”

I took off her raincoat and put it on Lila.

And then I got up and ran towards the mansion at a faster speed than before.

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