Chapter 42 - Guarding a stupid baron 2

Carlos was so afraid that he nearly pissed himself when he saw his bodyguard being killed slowly but surely. Even though he had a noble rank, he only managed to get it because of his father who had a rather good business mind. But Carlos and his father couldn't use magic at all, making them looked down upon by other royals. That made them show their superiority over the common people who also couldn't use magic. Royals being compared to normal folks is a great shame in most eyes so they threw their status left and right to get a 'better' image.

"What's happening? How can simple bandits be so strong? Nobody told me that or I would have refused fathers order, " thought the terrified Carlos while his knees shook and were very close to each other. Then suddenly a hand was placed on his shoulder and squeezed a little. Not being able to control his bladder, he pissed himself- nearly making a number 2. His expensive royal pants began dripping with piss.

*Pfft* "Did you just piss yourself? Hahaha… How big of a coward can you be?" Marc just wanted to scare him a little laughed while backing away from the sorry state of a noble.

Carlos didn't know what to do. If Marc had laughed after a few seconds more, he would for sure have released his dumb too. Feeling the cold wind blowing on his wet pants, he decided to run away and leave his bodyguards behind without a thread of hesitation.

"They should feel honored to die after saving me," thought Carlos while running away. But before he could get far, a cleaver came flying with something light purple attached to it, cutting his leg off from the knee and down.

"Aaaaaarggggggg!!" Screaming in pain and agony, Carlos fell face-first on the ground. His leg was just beside his head. Funnily, he wasn't bleeding too much as he should have.

Out of the darkness by some trees a man's voice sounded "…We can't have our prey escaping now, can we? Be a good prey and stay here. If you do I will do you a favor and lessen your pain in your leg...By removing the other limbs too." The approaching figure said before sniggering creepily. Marc was close by and could have saved Carlos from losing his leg, but why should he? They aren't friends and he's not innocent either. While Carlos shrieked out of fear, Marc watched the show. A hero would have said Marc was evil by just watching and a villain would have said Marc was a terrible villain by thinking he wasn't innocent.

While Marc watched the gore scene with interest and curiosity, Rofta yelled something he forgot about.

"Marc, you damn idiot. If you don't save him, we don't get any reward from the quest!" As the realization hit him, Marc went in between the man that just left the dark. "Can't do or get anything without money," he thought.

He had sleek green hair that met at the back of his head, two marks under his eyes, a teardrop, and a star. He wears a pink outfit with purple rings around his neck and arms."Ora, the spectator decided to play hero and save the prey?"

Marc said "Dude, a man needs to eat and drink," before he somewhat began whispering "though I don't mind if you kill him after I get the money."

…

Back to Rofta who had a terrible time keeping up with the speed of his opponent. He was a fairly tall, dark-skinned man with a slightly bulbous nose, black eyes that usually look bored, and shaggy, white hair which covers his left eye. He wears a high-collared, sleeveless top with loose-fitting pants, bandages on his wrists. The sword was a big cleaver with a samurai sword handle. His name is Marui who uses Lightning Magic with his cleaver sword.

"Hooh, you have a bit of potential brother. " Marui said with a bored expression while slashing his sword with a terrifying speed at Rofta openings.

Rofta didn't hear anything as he was terribly busy paring and dodging for life. Using *Reversal Direction* to change the direction of his opponent's sword did next to nothing as he could almost instantly change the trajectory of it. The minuscule of a second was just enough for Rofta to dodge a few fatal attacks in a little span of time.

Marui appears and disappeared with his arm, feet, and sword coated with lighting.

Exchanging a few attacks, Marui let Rofta back off and get some distance. Taking a few deep breaths, Rofta was taken with his guard down as Marui's lighting on his feet intensified in a split second and appeared behind Rofta with his sword slashing diagonally at his neck. Finding no way to dodge or parry in time, death loomed over him.

"Quick, focus" Rofta told himself internally before he used a lifesaving spell he has managed to make.

In Marui's eyes, Rofta was dead. But his assumption was proved wrong when the boy in front of him disappeared just before his head would be removed and a branch was left in his place.

A few meters away a branch disappeared and Rofta appeared with sweat pouring out of his skin. Almost losing one's head isn't a nice feeling, or maybe Marc would have liked the thrill.

"Hooh, so you had a way to survive that brother?" The lazy-looking Marui said with his usual bored expression.

"I'm not his match!" Thought Rofta and wondered out loud "Brother?"

Seeing that the seedling wasn't getting him, Marui explained "We are both true swordsmen, making us brothers of the sword."

Thinking that he could use this as an opportunity, Rofta asked "So brother, can we stop fighting? You are obviously way above my pay grade to deal with?"

"Sorry, you will have to meet my other brothers in the afterlife."

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Gina didn't have such a hard time as Rofta as her opponent was more or less the same power level as her.

After their first clash ended in a draw, Emma's purple hair's appearance change to a spiky style before firing multiple needles of hair at Gina.

To parry them, she moved her dark-green scorpion-like tail over her head and planted it in the ground to use it as a shield. As it's not wide enough to protect her whole body from the front, she turned sideways so it would properly protect her.

The hair needles bounced off easily because of the hardness of Gina's weapon she's controlling.

Suddenly the barrage of hair needles stopped. It was because her opponent had canceled her spell and stealthy used another. Like a rope, the hair wrapped around her feet and threw her against a tree. While in the air she used the scorpion tale to slow the fall a little by using it like a spring. Still, the attack hurt like hell.

"Just stop this meaningless struggle and join me in bed! I will even let you meet my harem" Said Emma like a true lesbian thug.

Few drops of sweat flowed down Gina's chin when she heard her opponent's words. She even shuddered as she couldn't help imagining Emma and herself in a bed full of women doing shameless stuff. Then her eyes sharpened and she said "I refuse!"

"Uwaa, I like breaking stubborn women the most. It's just a pity I couldn't get that aggressive and short-tempered woman I ran into a few months ago."

Not knowing who she talked about, Gina took the initiative and dragged the scorpion tail with a wide motion on the ground, making it hard to see for Emma as dust hid her. Knowing that Gina was attacking, she used her Hair Magic to form a spiky cocoon around her as a hedgehog would.

A metallic cling sounded when Gina's scorpion tail hit the bundle of hair. It managed to penetrate the cocoon a little but it was eventually stopped before it could reach Emma inside.

"Dammit!" She cursed. If it wasn't because she couldn't reveal her Devil Slayer Magic, then she might have been able to rib the cocoon of hair open or use multiple long-range attacks.

Then the cocoon opened and she was flung backward much to her disarray.

Seeing that she won't have an advantage in this fairly open area, Gina ran into the woods. Emma followed as their job was to kill everyone accompanying the young baron, Carlos.

"If I mess up, he will surely kill my current harem again," thought Emma, deciding she will end this matter as quickly as possible before she manages to piss 'him' off. Nobody knows how terrifying the child-friendly joker could be when somebody interferes with his hunt.

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(A/N: Damn, I just got a cool idea for Gina's next puppet/tool. I'm wondering if I can call them Magic Tool?)

(A/:N: References are Hiskoka(HxH) and Darui(Naruto))

(A/N: Oh, and *Shambles* if you know what I mean...)

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