Chapter 20 : kill them
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Before I registered her response, I had already accepted the extra purchase.
A bright light illuminated the dark forest clearing I had chosen as the place for our little rendezvous. Once the light faded, I took stock of our new addition.
It wasn't a pretty sight.
"MOM!" Ruby shot out of her chair and made her way to the slumped form of her mother as she lay against one of the nearby trees.
Her Hair, the same colour as her daughter's, was covered in dirt and dry blood. The dirty rags she was wearing barely hid her malnourished state.
They neither hid the fact that whoever had been holding her captive had also removed her left arm and both of her legs.
The clean cuts, made at the elbow and both knees, make it obvious that the damage was done after she was captured.
The multitude of scars that littered her body spoke of the long and methodical torture she must have endured over the years.
And the most telling fact about the ones behind her imprisonment was that both her eyes had been removed.
Her deep breaths let him know that she was alive but sleeping for the moment.
Ruby was nearly rendered catatonic as she held her wounded mother in her arms kneeling by the tree as he made his way to their side.
"Ruby…"I said.
"How did this?" she cut me off there was a barely restrained anger under her dead voice.
I realised that it wasn't just despairing at the sight of her mother that made her shoulders tremble but the rage that she was feeling at the situation as well.
"Considering her silver eyes are missing it was most likely Salem and her minions," I answered honestly.
"I'm gonna kill them. I don't care who they are or how powerful, I am going to kill each and every one of them."
Hearing Ruby Rose of all people say something like that was disconcerting but not surprising considering her mother's state.
Once more my hand found its way to her shoulder as I gave Ruby a half hug trying to comfort her.
"Okay I was gonna go after them sooner or later for the credits but if it would make it better we can do that and just kill them after the capture instead of selling them or maybe once you have time to calm down we can do something different," I said.
"But we will make them pay for this, I give you my word on that," I promise her.
I'm a devil of my word and the extra motivation her vendetta will give Ruby would help her grow even stronger.
Even if I have to let her kill them instead of selling them for extra credits it was a good trade in my book.
"Okay." Was her quiet response.
"Now we need to get back to the City," I said after a moment, Checking the device for how much time I had left and ignoring the notification asking me if I wanted to activate the one-time full heal from Body Tune-Up on Summer now or at a later date. That will have to wait for now.
I Had only 10 minutes left before Episode One was supposed to start.
One teleportation circle later I materialized back at the alleyway I had used to chat with Ruby before I dragged her away into the forest.
It took 3 minutes at my new top speed to make it back to the city, the combination of my devil wing's magical flight speed and the maximum output of my ki-based flight technique swiftly breaking the sound barrier.
Afterwards, we spent the remainder of the time acquiring a cheap hotel room to serve as a temporary safe house, me hypnotizing the staff to not pay attention to us and finally trying to explain the situation to a newly awakened Summer before I had to leave.
I could trust Ruby to take care of Summer for the moment as I had other things to deal with and was running against the clock at this point.
Also, I was feeling guilty about not immediately healing Summer but that would complicate things further.
Exiting the alleyway, I was greeted with the sight of a white-jacketed hat-wearing gentleman thief followed by 5 suit-wearing thugs making their way inside the Dust shop I had found Ruby nearly an hour ago.
I took one minute to slowly make my way to the store.
Opening the door without a care I saw three of the black-dressed gangsters on the left wall, filling metal containers with dust, while the other two made their way around the right side of the store looking at the shelves.
Roman Torchwick, Vale's most notorious thief, turned around from where he was threatening the owner of the establishment at the sound of the bell over the door.
He watched me with an incredulous look in his eyes for a second.
"Seriously? Did none of you second-rate thugs close the door after we entered the place?"
Roman complained with a sigh before he turned to see me properly, his hands both taking hold of the cane he was leaning his weight on.
"Sorry Kid but the store is closed you will have to come back tomorrow." He attempted with a friendly smile, I could tell he didn't expect me to believe him.
I raised my hand with an apologetic smile as I showed him my newly bought Psychic Papers.
"I have other things to do right now but I'm kind of legally required to intervene. Roman Torchwick, You are under arrest." I said back knowing that to him I was showing my freelance huntsman licence.
"Brother's damm it, how could we run into a fucking freelancer not even 10 seconds after we start the robbery?" Roman said with a groan.
While the man was complaining about his luck his associates pulled out their red-edged matchets as they approached me with less-than-kind intentions.
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