Unexpected

I can hear groans in the background.

Meat-head muscle man was terrified for a second but he steeled his nerves and charged at me.

In animes, people with nerves of steel wins but that's not the case they have a nerve of steel but weak.

I threw a kunai at his leg but the kunai bounced off his leg as if the leg was made of metal.

("Now I know why the kunai didn't leave a scratch at him.

Let's see if his metal can explode.")

When he was near me, I kicked his chin up and he flew up in the air. I then threw 2 pieces of paper at him. Those papers are embedded with explosion runes which I learned a few years ago.

The rines glowed up and meat-head muscle-man tried to scratch it off but the paper didn't peel off.

Both papers blew up with a big bang.

I can hear his scream. Then he fell down the sky while still smoking.

("It seems like the explosion runes did damage to him. If a normal human were to get hit by that, there would be limbs flying down the sky with blood raining everywhere... Ugh... Disgusting."), I said that while wearing a visible disgusted face.

The good thing is, he's still in one piece. He must be pretty tuff.

Time for another experiment. Better use this opportunity to test out some new Original Spells.

Let's see if metal can damage his metal. Ah! I'll one of Sasori's Jutsus.)

Once again, I searched for more black iron dust underground apart from the black iron dust from the kunais that I made.

I found one big chunk of black iron ore underground. So I turned it to dust and brought it above ground.

Once again, billions of Black Iron Dusts are combined into one gigantic black iron prism.

I attempted to crush him with the black iron prism but he resisted.

He tried to lift it with both hands.

But in the end, he lost his strength and got crushed flat.

Well... not completely flat. His limbs and torso are still intact but he is completely exhausted and can't move.

I separated some black iron dust and made four black iron pointed spikes.

I impaled all his limbs and I heard his scream.

(Ugh.... I've impaled so many limbs now but it still looks so gory and disgusting.

"Oh, I just remembered, they should've dealt with those guys a long time ago.

Come with me let's visit them."

"Guh..."

"Oh yeah... you can't walk?" I asked.

"Am I supposed to walk with these injuries?" he complained.

"Ok, if that's the case, then I'll just drag you."

Then I grabbed his vest and dragged him up to the girls' location.

When we arrived there, I saw 3 guys lying on the ground and the three of them were waiting for me.

What took you so long?! Baka! Baka! Baka! Baka!", She shouted while hitting my elbows.

Sky ran and hugged me. She dug her face into my stomach.

On the other hand, Lynn was just crossing her hands while smiling in the distance.

"You have good girls around you... Don't expose them to danger too often..."

"Don't worry, I trained them...

Personally."

Two memories of two guys overlap in one moment.

"Kenzo...?". said Meat-head Muscle-man.

*Meat-head Muscle-man's POV*

The moment he said "Don't worry, I trained them personally", I suddenly saw a memory of Kenzo. An old friend of mine. I knew him since I was an adventurer. We made a party named "Black Wyvern". We named the party Black Wyvern because our captain, Kenzo, defeated one independently. We had 9 members at our party. 3 men and 6 women. Each of those girls liked Kenzo. But Kenzo is a pretty dense guy so I don't know if he married any of those girls yet.

I was a tank at that party. I protected them but I can only protect one person at a time...

I can't work alone because I'm a moron. I failed to protect one of the girls at our party...

If Kenzo didn't take the hit, she would've died...

I quit the party because of guilt and joined a bandit gang because I was drowning in debt.

Thinking about what I was doing in the past, I think the kid was right. I am a moron.

*Yuuki's POV*

"Kenzo? Who's that?" I asked.

("Kenzo? No, it has to be a coincidence. ")

"Ah... Forget about what I said, it's nothing important". he said.

"Ok. So anyway, it's this guy who planned all of this mess"

"It was not me who planned all of this. It was the boss's plan."

"Tell me who your boss is."

"It's a noble from the Capital named James Thorn."

We said "Eh-?" altogether.

"What are you so surprised about? I'm captured so I'm supposed to spit out information to you guys, right?"

"Yeah... But I thought I was going to torture you to spit out information. That would've been fun..."

Then the girls look at me with a slightly surprised face.

"A-... Sorry, I was kidding. Continue."

"I was mistreated the whole time I was there so I'm not that loyal to them anyway.

But let me join you."

"Join me in what?"

"Let me join you in defeating that noble bastard.

If I betray them, they would hurt the ones important to me.

I'll still be killed if I go back there and lastly, I know you'll kill me if I betray you or something so it's better for me to join instead.

And if I fail, I'll die protecting someone once again...". he explained.

I put my hand in front of his head and black iron dust started to gather in front of my hand forming a very thin but razor-sharp needle. He didn't flinch one bit and closed his eyes as the black iron dust needle increase in size.

"Open your eyes. I won't kill you. Don't think of dying yet. We haven't even started the Obliteration Festival."

"I like the way you think but don't be too confident. It will bring you danger and might as well your end.", he said.

"Yeah, I know that. We'll do a tactical retreat once we're in trouble.", I replied.

"That should be good."

"Where is it?", I asked.

Central. I'll show you the way once we're near.", he said.

"Got it.", I replied.

I took off my hoodie and threw it into my inventory.

I started to walk and said...

"Now... Shall we start "The Festival"?"

Then before I knew it, I was wearing a smile hidden beneath the mask.