Chapter 8 (2/2)

“Paro…ma?”

“What, did you wake up?”

Seeing that the girl that had just woken up, Abares stroked her cheek with a smile.

“That´s right. It is my birthplace.”

After he said that, his face became dark.

“But yeah… My birthplace. For me to keep up as a bandit there… I would rather go to Oubo and become a mercenary there or something, I guess.”

Arbas was someone that already had a price for his head, but that was at most only in the Ruuin kingdom and in the mercenary a.s.sociations of its allied countries. If it was him, a machiini pilot, he would be able to earn money for the food expenses as much as he wanted. He still could start over. No matter how much he had done.

“When that time comes, will you come together with me?”

“I wi…ll.”

Arbas smiled with Yunan´s words. The way he had raided villages, killed defenseless people and raped girls out of their volition agonized him. While he would be all for it at the time of excitement, when it was over, he would be filled with guilt. While he got used by now, there were those lingering regrets remaining somewhere in his heart.

He used to be an elite machiini pilot even among other pilots in his knight group and used to be a man that walked the path of righteousness. He would always be having the desire to start over.

“”This kind of lowly life style isn´t for me.””

Abares thought as he stroked Yunan´s head.

“”For me, I want a more peaceful…””

“Leader, its bad.”

His mind that he had momentarily abandoned to his delusions was immediately turned over by the sound of the door that had suddenly opened and the voice of his subordinate.

“What is it at a time like this!?”

Right now, the sun had just started to rise outside.

“It´s an attack. A group composed of a machiini and a machiini carrying a giant s.h.i.+eld that is probably a gnome are attacking us.”

“What did you say? How many? Which knight group?”

“Two… Uh… They aren´t a knight group.”

“”Well, since they are using a element, I guess so.””

Knight groups wouldn´t let the spiritual races join them. While there was the racial problem, there was also the problem how the spiritual races couldn´t use pilot machiinis. Thus, if there was a element pilot, it definitely shouldn´t be a knight group.

“But even so, there are only to, is it? It seems we are being underestimated.”

Including Abares himself, Abares´ bandit group had five machiini pilots. They also had a Salamas pilot of the dragonyutte race.

One time, they had driven away a knight group they had clashed against. But even so, the report he got from his subordinate made Abares throw away his composure.

“Gukuru´s Salamas and Ron-aniki´s machiini had already been destroyed. Makk and the others are waiting for leader to come.”

Abares was able to guess from those words that those people weren´t the average guys.

”Tch, alright. I will also go there soon. Prepare the chains and arrange everything else. Quickly.”

“Yes. Please, come fast.”

While looking at his subordinate leaving his room, Abares wore the first s.h.i.+rt he could find and jumped off from the bed.

“Well then, I will go now.”

“Ye…s”

And then, after stroking the head of the girl who was making an anxious face, he left the room. Once the door closed, Yunan had the feeling that she saw an old woman she had never seen before.

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