—Knock! —Knock!
Someone knocked on the door of Haruto's room. He was lying on his but he was not asleep. No, he just woke up a few minutes ago.
When he heard the knock, he went off the bed and reached the door.
—Click!
He opened the door; there were two adventurers outside, he had seen them in the adventurers guild building many times so he opened the door fully.
"Yes?" he asked.
"Ah, Haruto…some people are asking for you in the adventurers guild," said one of the adventurers who was there; he was a man in his early thirties and had a midsized beard.
"Asking for me? Who are they?" asked Haruto, he was keeping a low-key profile by now showing off his powers all the time he was in this village. He didn't have a clue who those people could be.
"We also don't know exactly, but they look like they are here from the capital city. They can be royalty," said the man.
Haruto got a bad taste in his mouth after hearing the word 'royalty', after what happened between him and Zen, he started hating the royalty of this kingdom.
If Zen had trusted him and gone along with the assassination plan, he didn't have had to stop the war by using his powers
"Where are they?" asked Haruto, he didn't want them to trouble the people of this village because of him so decided to go see them after all.
"They are waiting in the adventurers guild building," said the man.
"Okay, I'll go," replied Haruto.
***
Haruto entered the guilds building, the building was built with oak wood.
He was wearing his usual black cloak which was also hiding his face from the sides and back.
They were more people in the building compared on normal days, all because of those mysterious people. As Haruto entered, everyone's attention shifted to him and they started staring at him.
Inside, he was an old man who was dressed in red and was wearing a hat. There were also two guards with him.
He turned toward Haruto when he saw that he was coming toward him. "Are you Haruto?" he said with a smirk on his face.
"Yes, that's me. What do you want?"
The old man gave him a suspicious look because he was hiding his face, the task he was given was important and he can't afford to bring in the wrong person.
Haruto understood what he meant by looking at his face. A sigh escaped his mouth when he thought that he had to show his face, he was avoiding this because even if by mistake he revealed his powers, he can get away without anyone knowing his identity.
He wanted to not show his powers because he wanted to avoid useless power conflict.
"Good grief," said Haruto with a sigh as he put his hands on his cloak to remove it over his head and show his face.
His cloak was covering his head and face like the cap of a hoodie; he removed the cap like thing and showed his face.
He had dark cyan-coloured hair and aqua blue eyes, he had a perfect face cutting and fair skin.
Many of the girls who were there started blushing when they saw his face, there were rumors among the girls that he was handsome but now they had seen his face and those rumors seem to be true.
Many harems will get destroyed after this, Haruto knew this and he was a little happy because he hated harems.
The old man remembered the face he was shown a sketch and Haruto's face was the same.
"Come with me," said the man and walked out of the building.
Haruto followed him and went out, there was a carriage waiting at a distance from the guild building.
The old man walked to the carriage and stopped just before it.
"He's waiting inside," said the man as she signaled Haruto to go inside the carriage and meet 'him'.
At this point Haruto has a pretty good understanding of who this person could be, he didn't want to meet him but he went in the carriage for the sake of the village.
He entered the carriage and sat on the seat which was on the backside. In front of him sat a boy who was his age, his clothes were clean and new, he had short blonde hair and a pair of leaf green eyes.
He was the king of the Ronze kingdom; Zen Ronze.
"I'm glad that I got to—"
"What do you want," Haruto interrupted before he could finish.
Zen let out a sigh as he remembered the mistake he did. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
"I want you to help me," said Zen as he opened his eyes. Haruto didn't say anything, directing that he was willing to listen to him.
"Recently a group of bandits and criminals have been formed and they are looting villages and kidnapping people. They are selling underage girls in the slave market and they are being used for sexual purposes," Zen said and stopped waiting for Haruto to reply.
"If you can't handle some bandits and criminals by yourself then you have no right to be a king," said Haruto.
"I would have resigned from my position if that were the case, but bandits and criminals are not the only things. The problem is their leader; we had sent a team of 500 people to capture him. Not a single one of them came back," he explained.
"Some people who have seen him said that he a foe who cannot be deafened, he uses weapons which we have never heard less seen them. He is the thing I want your help with," Zen finished and waited for Haruto to reply.
"I refuse, it's not my problem," said Haruto.
"But if we let them loose they can even attack this village," Zen objected.
"You also know very well that no one can harm this village if I don't want them to," said Haruto as he narrowed his eyes.