Chapter 7 (1/2)

The Hero is both a Stalker and a shi+nigami Part 1

「Hah… Hah… Hah… Hah…」

Thelike there was no tos

As he was passing through narrow passages betalls, trunks and twigs scratched at hirazed

Nevertheless, he couldn’t afford to care for such trivialities

The small wounds on his body were dee tio

His instincts told him that if he didn’t want to be

(shi+t… This is bad, THIS IS BAD, shi+EEEET!!)

Running out of breath, though his body was begging for rest, his brain conore it and hurry

The reason why he was running ca his now chaotic thoughts

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The ular duties, just as always, as if it’s just a normal day on the job

People who cannot afford to be seen in the light of day anymore come everyday to these slums

Notorious criminals who are in the run, orphans who lost their parents, nobles who lost their standing because of family disputes, merchants who failed in enterprises, adventurers who couldn’t pay their debts, normal people who are just poor, these are some of the kinds of people who appear here in the slums

These slu here because of their dark secrets, and would change the people completely

However, there is order in the sluuys will flood over to the city, disrupting the public order

One tihts tried to destroy a slum and annihilated it, took over it, and succeeded However, contrary to their belief that commerce would flourish thanks to the disappearance of the slums, the public order worsened instead, and the merchants didn’t want to approach the city any went downhill

That’s why there is an unspoken rule a the cities not to interfere with the sluet lost inside the slums, you can have a better life in a secure environment inside a city that has a slum than one that didn’t

Nevertheless, the slum’s activities are overlooked, as decided, to soh the slums are considered a necessary evil, if the people in the sluht side, the city and the country has no other choice than to intervene

Also, the sludoe the lives of the slum

They adjust the population, and maintain the status quo within the slums

Also, they try to keep disturbances froe of accepting probleree inside the slu

A place that is accepted as extraterritorial, that is what the slu use of his abilities he learnt as a former spy, surveyed the entrances located all around the royal capital’s slum, as ordered by the ht sight of a dangerous rasp all his main characteristics and inform the boss

If he were to find nobles, riches, or any son of an influential figure that could endanger the slu that, he prevented the slue upon the ies If the slum were to disappear at some point, it would mean that he would lose his place to live

That’s hen he sensed the rand avenue, as always, he et and started his surveillance

The age of the boy seemed to be just past 15 years old He had black hair, a slih his clothes’ quality were good, there weren’t clothes of that type a those of the capital

At least he didn’t look like someone influential, but from his appearance you could tell that he wasn’t someone as broke, or a criminal

He could be a noble or a merchant from another town, but he couldn’t tell his influence or power However, he knew that boy wasn’t an ordinary person

「That et so to himself, on the main avenue, he saw that there were several hoodlums that appeared and surrounded the intruder Then, the boy would get assaulted, be injured and saved by the man, as usual

Those hoodlureement In other words, it was athee that the intruder should be left alive, the hoodluht with the spy and at so the intruder to owe the spy a favor

By doing that, the man would ask the intruder to leave the slums, while the victim doesn’t have complete animosity over the slums

“Just when they are about to break 2 or 3 of his bones, it should be the right tio into the fight Waiting for the best opportunity to intervene the hoodlu scene

「Huh? GAAAAAAGH!?」

A scream echoed over The man, for a moment, couldn’t understand the scene as it played out before hi to assault the boy collapsed and bent down on the ground Even the emissary, with the eyes he had trained all his life, couldn’t corasp the whole incident

Nonchalantly, he created this scene with ease; and the one responsible for this catastrophe looked like he wasn’t particularly interested in this Before who kno long, in his hand, there was an edged tool that could as well used as a throwing knife; and using that blade, he pinned the hoodlu And finally, as the boy decapitated him, the man started to run

There was no need for an explanation

He sensed that he was unable to deal with the boy

A strength that could be considered insurpassable by that of the kingdoh spiritual mind that can take lives without a hint of hesitation, to the point of being inhuman, an outsider of the slums

That silhouette looked like that of a God of death that reaps the souls of those it chooses