31 Confrontation (1/2)
Bam!
By the time he was done Ranga's face was swollen but to the middle aged man's surprise the boy just kept on laughing whilst spitting venomous words out of his mouth. ”Haha… my mother punches better than you shitty old geezer. You can go ahead and kill this King whilst you still have the chance, because once I escape I will hunt down your family and **** your wife and daughters!”
The middle aged man's expression stiffened when he heard Ranga's words. He could only tremble at these words as he turned around and left the tent. He was given strict orders not to kill the three or cripple them until they got the information that they wanted. So he could only swallow his anger as he left the tent.
The middle aged man left the tent with the captives and walked straight to the next tent.
Their campsite was not big since they were just a scouting group. The group at the beginning consisted of ten people, but after fighting with the three they had lost four of their comrades.
If they had gone with everyone when they wanted to collect the tohwe fruits, then they would not have lost so many people. The middle-aged man entered the tent and saw the rest of his teammates.
”Haha… see even Bruce failed! That Fat bastard talks too much. Why can't we just cripple one to scare the other two? ” another middle-aged man asked.
Bruce, the man who had just come from the trio had a solemn expression when he entered. ”I completely agree with Glenn. Why should we be this nice to a bunch of enemies? I say, let's just kill one and we will see if they talk or not.”
”You two are just brutes…”A sweet voice sounded out. ”If we kill or cripple one of them then the others could potentially commit suicide. If that happens then we are the ones who will get into trouble. We were told to return with those fruits at all costs.”
Hearing this Glenn snorted and asked. ”What is so special about those fruits anyway?”
”Well…” another melodious voice sounded out. ”The tohwe fruits are rumoured to be able to strengthen the skin. We are facing the Gutu and we need to have powerful bodies in order to do that. Even though we don't know whether they will work for us or not, we can still stop the Gutu from getting any. And we are also going to use this batch in order to determine whether we can use them or not.”
The rest could only sigh after hearing this. The Gutu were feared for their physical strength. And some of the people in the tent had experienced that first hand. The fact that the tohwe fruits could temper the skin was alluring to anyone who fights the Gutu. Even though it might not make them as powerful as the Gutu it would at least raise their defensive.
”Anyway…” Glenn started as he stared at one of his teammates who had blue hair, whilst grabbing his sword. ”You and I should go out scouting now.”
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About a mile away from the camp, the two teenagers were still following the footprints. The two were surprisingly calm despite their lack of experience. Even though they were a bit excited at first by the prospect of fighting, they had quickly calmed down.
They had been following the set of footprints for half a day now and they were surprised to find that at some point the number of different prints had risen. It seemed as if the party had met some of their comrades on their way back and this cause the two youths to raise their vigilance.
They walked for another half hour before they began seeing the outline of tents. Just as they were about to move forward another step Taku grabbed Tino and hid behind a tree. He had noticed that two silhouettes had exited from one of the tents. The two hid behind the tree and peeked at the two figures.
”Judging from how they are acting I think the two are about to go out scouting.” Tino spoke.
The figures that they were watching went their separate way and at this moment Taku's eyes lit up. ”It is best if we take these two out, even though they are a level above us, they should not be an issue because of our body strength. I'll take the guy with the sword and you go get the blue haired guy.”
Tino nodded and just as they were about to go their separate ways, Tino grabbed Taku and handed him a pair of gauntlets. ”It would be hard for you to face a sword. So I believe that these will help somewhat.”
Taku nodded and wore the gauntlets, then proceeded to follow the man who had gone east.
He followed from a safe distance whilst waiting for the man to lower his guard. But after following for an hour he noticed that the man never dropped his awareness, not even once. This made him impatient. At some point he almost just rushed out and attacked, but he managed to calm himself on time.
On the other side Glenn felt as though he was being watched. He was feeling a faint sense of danger, yet when he looked around he saw no one. He kept his guard up as he began walking towards a cliff that was some distance away. On his way he looked at every tree and bush but still could not figure out why he felt like he was being watched.
He stopped when he was a couple of meters away from the cliff, and here he shouted. ”It is not very honourable to sneak up on someone! Please show yourself!”
Taku could only sigh as he climbed down from the tree and faced off with Glenn.
Glenn threw off his dark cloak and revealed a man clothed in a black tunic and long tight fitting tan pants, bound together with a rope at his waste. His face was scrunched up in anger. He slowly drew a long sword from his belt, the blade made a hissing whisper as it was removed from its sheathe. All the while, Glenn was holding Taku firmly in his gaze.
”Don't hold back or I am going to break you.” Glenn snarled at Taku.
Taku shrugged his shoulders, smiled, and slowly brought one foot behind his back. He put his weight on it and brought an open palm up, ”Wait.” he said and put his hand up to say ”stop”.