Chapter 41

I should have known that It wasn't over just because I avoided him in Marquis Sergio's territory!

Goddamnit! I knew the second I heard those people talking about it, that I'd end up fighting these pricks!

"Huh?" Perquis asked.

"And what kind of a fucking name is PERQUIS?! Your name sounds like it's french for parking! It sounds like something you'd call a seagull who doesn't know how to migrate! Like ah, don't worry about that one, it's got perquis, so it's just gonna die up north when it snows. My guy, your name sounds like a type of fucked up penguin! And penguins are already birds who don't even know how to fly! Birds are made to fly! How can you get any worse than that?!" I started yelling in my annoyed state.

"I don't even know what any of that means, but it didn't sound like begging for your life to end painlessly." He said as he started walking towards me with a wide smile.

Of course this fucking degenerate wouldn't understand it.

"Haaaa, whatever, just tell me who this boss of yours is who told you to kill low ranking nobles. What are you trying to weaken the idiotic first prince's faction or something?"

"What? How do you know about that?" He asked in shock.

"Your subordinates have loose lips." I answered simply.

He narrowed his eyes and pursed his lips.

"... Why should I tell you?"

I facepalmed.

"For fucks sake, I just wanna know who you and Count Beckman are working for. If you don't tell me I'll just beat it out of you."

"You even know about Beckman? Those fucking idiots! ... I'll just have to kill you to keep you silent."

He immediately charged at me with a body and sword clad in a blue-white transparent light. He was a true sword master.

I leaned backwards to dodge his diagonal strike and saw the forest behind me get decimated. For at least 30 meters all trees his slash made contact with were cleanly sliced in two.

I stood back up properly.

"What's up with the deforestation buddy? Didn't you know we need to save the trees!" I said as I jumped over his next horizontal slice and watched as it split another couple hundred trees in half.

He then used his momentum to slash vertically downward with his full strength.

"RAHHH!!" He screamed.

I dodged sideways and watched as his strike carved a massive crevasse in the ground that was at least 3 meters deep and 1 meter wide. It was around 50 meters long.

"Hmm, well at least you killed a lot less trees with that one." I said with a sagely nod while stroking my nonexistent beard.

I slightly unwrapped the bandages on my arms, just enough so about 2 feet worth of bandage was loose, stemming from my mid wrist.

I didn't even look at his next strike as I ducked under it and allowed it to pass harmlessly over my head. Once his sword had swung past me, I whipped out my wrist and strengthened the bandages in it with aura. It snapped out like a wet towel and wrapped around his sword.

I yanked my arm back and let his sword land on the ground behind me as I charged at the bandit. I used my other bandage to wrap halfway around his neck and caught the other end of it with my other hand. I landed behind him with my aura strengthened bandage still caught on his neck to drag him and threw him over my shoulder.

He landed at my feet and the dry dirt cracked.

"Keuk!!" He spit out a mixture of blood and saliva as he rebounded off the hard floor.

I stepped on his stomach and conjured a glowing, blue-white sword in my hand.

"Y-you can use aura?! And even an aura blade?! That's one of the most advanced techniques a sword master can use! Some grandmasters can't even do that!" He yelled out in fear.

I pressed the blade to his neck and drew a line of blood.

"Big surprise, the guy who beat you was stronger than you. Hey, did you also know that people die if they are killed? My buddy Shirou Emiya told me that one." I replied as I sat on his chest to pin him to the ground.

"Ha-haha-ha! G-good one! H-hey, you don't need to k-kill me right? I heard the adventurers guild pays extra for bandits who are alive!" He desperately pleaded for his life.

You realize they do that so they can use the criminals for things like human experimentation in the magic tower, right? They don't just send them to prison…

Well, whatever, this guy doesn't need to know that, plus he's about to piss his pants.

So, I decided to play around a little.

"What about, Whippy? Didn't you say that girl was your wife or something? Now that I think about it, she was kinda cute…" I allowed my voice to trail off, you know, for the implication…

"Y-yes! S-she's yours! I don't care about that whore at all, please take her, just leave me alive!" He immediately sold out his precious woman, what a piece of shit.

"Hmm, alright, just tell me about your boss." I inquired.

"R-right, he is the man working with count Beckman, he is actually working with other people as well. He plans to crush the lower ranked nobles… uhh, I forgot why, something about a prince. B-but I know his name! His name is Re- URHHG AHH GRAHHH!!!"

Just when he was about to give up his boss he started violently shaking and coughing blood. After a few seconds his body went limp.

"Magic to keep his lips sealed, huh." I absentmindedly spoke to myself when I saw my enemy practically implode.

Oh well, what do you do?