Chapter 352: The White End (3)
I tilted my head. “A madman?”
Resident F: Y-yes, that’s right. If you keep going that way, you’ll reach a very dangerous man. Don’t go near him! Of course, with you mumbling to yourself in the middle of the busy street and talking to thin air, you look nothing short of a madman yourself.
This little stick figure...
Resident F: Still, the man living there is a lot crazier than you and very dangerous. He’ll slay anyone who comes near him!
“Oh.”
Resident F: We call him the Mad Swordsman. After he settled there, no one has gone past that point, and we’ve heard nothing from beyond ever since...
Got it. This world spread in only two directions, left and right. If a crazy person appeared and blocked the path, traffic was cut off from that day on.
“Is there no way to bypass him?” I asked.
Resident F: No. It’s been years, perhaps over a century since the madman came. During those years, the madman destroyed all the bypasses. Even if we try to make a new one, he destroys it as soon as he sees it, so there’s nothing we can do.
He sounded like a real lunatic. The residents could go around his domain by digging tunnels or building sky bridges, but the Mad Swordsman obliterated those paths, too.
“Is this Mad Swordsman really that strong?”
Resident F: Didn’t I tell you? Even after so many years, we haven’t been able to beat him. Many who fought him died. Now, no one dares to challenge him anymore. Because of him, the trade between the eastern and the western regions has fully stopped! ╯︿╰