Even though Mildred and Izayoi are not willing to hurt me, I still have to be careful, I have to show them that I have the strength to be at the level of Yami's experts while showing them that I don't want to hurt them either.
I rushed over to Izayoi, she raised her sheathed sword and performed a vertical strike aimed at my left shoulder.
I received the blow by relaxing my shoulder muscles and leaned to the right allowing the blow to slide down my shoulder.
When Izayoi was within my attack range an arrow hit my knee making me lose my balance which Izayoi took advantage of to use the handle of her sword to hit my abdomen in the area of the pit of my stomach.
I hunched my back allowing my elbows to meet on my abdomen avoiding Izayoi's blow, she took advantage of that little moment to jump back to get away from my attack range.
"Luis, don't make me do this" - Mildred spoke in a voice full of anxiety.
The arrow that hit me just now was blunt, Mildred had removed the sharp tips from the arrows, but the impact was enough to damage my joint as an arrow at close range from Mildred is similar to a shotgun blast even if she doesn't use her custom bow.
Normally I would have to shake my leg while circling Ki through my blood vessels to avoid inflammation, but thanks to the black blood even if my knee broke I could rebuild it in a minute.
I didn't respond to Mildred and rushed in her direction to attack her.
She reacted immediately and shot two arrows at the same time, I was able to avoid both arrows, but behind me, the arrows hit the wall of a warehouse, bounced, and collided with each other heading for my calves.
Even with my enhanced senses, I couldn't predict Mildred's attacks so both arrows hit my legs causing me to stumble.
When I was stumbling, I concentrated Ki in the palm of my hands to form a Ki platform and hit the air with my palms.
I did a somersault in the air approaching Mildred and as I fell I gave an ax kick towards her.
Mildred raised her bow to block my kick. Instead of using her force to stop the impact, she deflected the force of my kick as she took a step back, preventing the recoil from hurting her arms.
Mildred kicked at my leg pushing me a meter away, then she took out an arrow and before I could touch the ground she fired precisely hitting my right shoulder joint dislocating my arm.
As soon as I touched the ground, Izayoi arrived and using a lunging strike attacked my right side that was unprotected because my arm was dislocated.
When Izayoi's sword struck my side I used the force of the blow to rotate my body and deflect the force of the blow.
Izayoi came face to face with me, she has always been careless with her own safety so she left her face defenseless.
I raised my arm, focused Ki on my elbow, and lowered my arm at high speed pointing between her eyebrows.
"..." - We were both silent as I stopped my elbow half an inch from her face, we just looked into her eyes, she with a puzzled look and I with an expression of bitterness.
"After all, I can't do it ..." - I murmured in a low voice allowing her to hear me, then I raised my right leg, put it on Izayoi's abdomen, and pushed her several meters away without hurting her.
With my left hand, I took my right arm and repositioned my joint, then I looked at Mildred who was pointing an arrow at me.
"Wasn't it enough to alter my memories of the Ryozanpaku? Why did you also make me fall in love with you?! Did they want to control me so much?!" - My voice was similar to a sob of pain, I disgust myself.
Mildred looked at me for a long time without answering, the bow-master finally returned and handed the custom bow to Mildred along with her quiver of arrows.
Mildred held her bow, but she didn't lift it, she just looked at me and then sighed. - "Please listen to me"
I didn't respond and just stood still waiting for her to speak.
The bow-master's 3 female disciples and Mildred's female disciple Olivia finally arrived, they were all armed, but none of them pointed at me.
"Ogata brought you Yami after seeing your potential, but since you were not willing to join us, Jenazad proposed to brainwash you so that you would not remember your fiends of Ryozanpaku, although not everyone agreed, no one stopped him since your potential is impressive and it would be a waste not to have you in Yami"- Mildred started to speak, her words made Izayoi frown.
"Only the leaders of Yami knew about this, you are not supposed to be able to recover your memories, but the shot seems to have returned your memory" - Mildred looked at me with an expression of regret.
"I know you must hate me right now, but I want you to understand that my feelings are real, in the time we have spent together I really fell in love with you despite the age difference ... It may seem that I just want to cheat on you, but I beg you to believe me" - Mildred had to take off her special glasses as she had started to shed some tears.
"..." - I looked at Mildred in silence, my gaze softened a bit but I still showed traces of mistrust. - "Mildred, I'm sorry, I can't trust you"
Mildred resisted the urge to cry and in a shaky voice, she asked me. - "What should I do to make you trust me?"
"I can't think of anything" - I was direct. - "But it doesn't matter since this is the end"
"End?" - Mildred sounded confused, but she seemed to understand what I said, she just didn't want to admit it.
"From this moment I am not part of Yami, now we are enemies" - Although my voice was full of pain, my expression was one of determination.
"I can't allow that" - The bow-master pointed an arrow at me. - "Miss Mildred, we have to eliminate any possible threat"
She did not care about the dramatic scene, she only knows how to follow orders, but it's okay, that makes things easier for me.
Mildred was shocked by my words and she couldn't say anything, only Izayoi drew her sword and approached me.
I stared at Izayoi, she just kept an expressionless face, raised her sword and stood in front of me pointing at Yami's women with her sword.
"What are you doing? Are you betraying Yami? " - The bow-master frowned.
"I can betray Yami, but I won't betray my feelings" - Izayoi said a phrase that almost made me spit because of how dramatic it sounded.
Why the hell am I a drama magnet? Is it because my paternal grandparents are Latino?
"Izayoi ..." - I spoke with a moved voice, she did not answer me, but she began to emit a thirst for blood directed towards the bow-master and Mildred, what an adorable woman.
"I don't want to fight with you Mildred, despite everything I still have feelings for you and I don't think I'll be able to hurt you" - My words made Mildred tremble, then I looked at the bow-master. - "As for you ..."
Using my Intimidation skill coupled with the pressure of my Ki I threatened the bow-master. - "I can live with the pain of killing a beautiful woman"
The bow-master remained expressionless as she pointed at me, but there were beads of sweat dripping from her forehead.
Although I have no killing intent because every time I murder a person I do not see them as living beings but as piles of raw meat, my skill set is sufficient to be considered a mental attack.
Mildred looked at me seriously. - "Will you really be Yami's enemy?"
"..." - I nodded silently.
"I see" - Mildred nodded as she tightened her grip on her bow.
Izayoi readied himself to fight as she felt Mildred begin to release the Ki ready to fight.
If a fight occurs, Izayoi and I would have the advantage in close combat since it is our specialty, but as soon as they start shooting they will be able to overwhelm us with their arrows, however, I did not worry in the least since I could read the emotions of Mildred through her body language.
Without the bow-master being able to react, Mildred used the hard part of her bow to hit the bow-master on the temple causing her to lose her balance.
Before the bow-master could recover, Mildred kneed her in the abdomen followed by a blow to the back of her head knocking her unconscious.
Mildred sighed deeply. - "If I stay by your side, do you think you can forgive me?"
"I'm not sure ..." - I looked at the unconscious bow-master, that was a good blow. - "But even if I still feel upset, I can't deny that I still love you ..."
"That seems enough to me" - Mildred showed a small smile, then looked at the 3 disciples of the bow-master who were looking at us with fear. - "What do we do with them?"
"I've already killed too many people who didn't deserve it ..." - I sighed with a regretful voice which made Mildred look at me sadly. - "Let's just leave them, although it was only for a while, we were partners and it feels bad to hurt such beautiful girls"
The 3 girls looked a bit embarrassed, but they were still scared so they didn't say anything. Even though they are similar in age to Mikoto, they lack mental strength.
"Contact Yami, give them a message from me" - I spoke to the 3 girls, they just nodded.
Even though my expression was not intimidating and my voice was not threatening, the three girls turned pale upon hearing me. - "Jenazad, I'm going to kill you"
After that, I left the place. Izayoi sheathed her sword and followed me as did Mildred and her disciple Olivia.
Izayoi is an airhead who gets carried away by her emotions so there is no problem in telling her about trips to other worlds if I use the same story that I discovered my ability to travel to other worlds when I fell into a coma.
Mildred might have some doubts, but the guilt of having used me as a tool clouded her judgment so she wouldn't question me.
Olivia is quite submissive, as long as Mildred doesn't ask questions then she too will accept it without hesitation.
When we left the warehouse area Mildred came up to me. - "What will we do now?"
"First let me ask you something" - I stopped and looked Mildred in the eyes, her double pupils always seemed interesting to me. - "Are you really willing to go against Yami for me?"
Mildred just smiled at me. - "I will show you that you can trust me"
At that moment I heard Tsubaki's voice in my mind. - "Although she has killed several people, her soul is not really evil, you must treat her well"
Thank you for acting as my conscience, I wish she would stop.
In the end, I sighed and nodded to both Tsubaki and Mildred. - "It's fine"
Izayoi asked curiously. - "So what will we do now?"
"Although it was from Jenazad's mind control, my hands are stained with the blood of innocent people, people outside the world of martial arts unable to defend themselves, even those who follow the fist of death do not murder civilians, but I did. … "- My expression turned gloomy.
"I'm sorry ..." - Mildred lowered her head sadly.
I walked over to her and put my hand on her head to caress her. - "It's okay, I'm still upset, but living with hatred and guilt is not healthy, regretting will not solve anything so it is better to correct mistakes"
I smiled a little. - "That is why I intend to make amends for my mistakes"
Mildred looked up in confusion. - "What are you going to do? Seclude you in isolation?"
I heard that years ago Ogata accidentally murdered an innocent person and to atone for his sins he secluded himself in the mountains for years, I'm not going to do that shit.
"That is only a self-imposed punishment that will not help the victims of my actions, it is only for personal satisfaction" - I shook my head. - "I will make up for my actions by saving more lives than I took"
Izayoi tilted her head in confusion. - "Are you going to stop Yami to save lives?"
"Not exactly" - I shook my head. - "Yami is using the wrong method but their goal is the correct one, a unified world"
Yami wants control of the world to end conflicts where only the strong have complete control of the world.
Objectively it is the way to achieve world peace, the problem is that using force will only create more enemies than allies, so to fulfill Yami's objective you have to unify the main forces of the world under the same banner.
In other words, act like the hero who wants to save the world while secretly took control of the world.
"Wars, hunger, poverty, humanity is always consumed by the evils that it creates, even if I stop Yami the wars will not end, the innocent will continue to die and nothing will change" - I sighed dramatically. - "But an absolute government based on force and intimidation will only make innocent people suffer"
"Then what do you want to do?" - Mildred asked.
"I don't know yet, for the moment I want to prevent Yami from controlling the world and kill the bastard Jenazad" - I spoke angrily.
I already have a plan in mind, but for that, I will need the Ryozanpaku masters, plus I have to contact Rimi and Rachel as soon as possible so that when they find out about my defection from Yami they won't panic.
Ah shit, again I have a lot of work.
"For now let's look for food, clothes, and shelter, I have a lot to tell you" - I held my tired sigh.