Chapter 19
“Just when I thought I heard something…you little s?h?i?t?…did you kill that guy?”
Finding the corpse of his comrade in the darkness, the man glared at me with his sword drawn as I held my knife at the ready.
Did he hear the noise I made when I killed that guy? Either way, it seemed impossible to catch him off guard by pretending that I was just a kid, so I also pointed my black knife at the man.
If I didn’t count that time with Viro, this would be my first real battle.
Still, having experienced Feld’s and Viro’s killing intent, I felt tense but not fearful to the point of shrivelling up at the killing intent that was being released by the man.
Hard leather armour and a one-handed longsword. The equipment itself looked old, but it was the typical “warrior” equipment.
He appeared to be in his early thirties. There was only one bandit whose combat strength was 90, higher than the others around him, but if it was this man, he was probably not a bandit or a villager, but a deserter or a failed adventurer.
I’ve heard that even during the large monster outbreak that killed my parents, some of the soldiers who had only ever dealt with humans ran away from fighting the monsters.
“…”
If he was a deserter, Dad might not have died if this man hadn’t escaped. I knew it was just a hindsight-based opinion, but when I couldn’t help but stare at him coldly, the man grimaced without hiding it.
“…What an eerie brat. So you did him in after all.”
Even I would find it eerie for a child to appear in the depths of the forest like this and not be frightened when I pointed my sword at them.