Chapter 83 - Trouble (1/2)
The scene they stumbled on was terrible; a woman was getting dragged out of her shop right in front of her husband and kids. She was getting beaten up, and the soldiers seemed to change their plans half way when the woman's mask fell off.
”Look how pretty she is.”
”Seems like we can have fun,” but all those comments fell on deaf ears when Kazuya beat them up. Despite them being quite a distance away, Kazuya got over there and helped in just a matter of seconds. Even though he was up against at least five soldiers, Kazuya did not bat an eyelash.
”T—thank you for saving my wife,” a man stepped out.
”Mommy!” the children immediately gathered around the unconscious woman that lay on the ground.
Kazuya smiled, ”Yeah, take better care next time,” because what else could Kazuya tell them?
”Sir warrior, or traveler. Did you just arrive here?”
”That's right.”
”Then, I advise you to leave very quickly,” the man said, ”This place is too dangerous for us villagers, let alone anybody who came from the outside.”
”What do you mean by that?” Lyn asked as she stepped forward.
”Let's speak inside the shop.”
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The 'shop' was utterly destroyed; what would have looked like a lovely tea shop did not resemble one at all with its broken shelves and chairs. The man who leads them inside was a former soldier from another town. Kazuya could tell that he wasn't a normal man since he tried to stop them from taking his wife. Usually, most people can only stand by and watch as their loved ones get taken from them.
”My wife Sera and I came here several years ago, and we held a grand wedding. We only planned to hold the wedding here and not stay. But no sooner had we finished up, laws and regulations regarding this place changed, and we could not leave,” Callum explained, ”But, even with that we managed to live a happy life for a while, and my wife got pregnant too.”
”But?”
”Just as things were proceeding well, the new lord finally appeared in town,” trembled at the mention, ”The new Lord, is not a simple man. While he may have acted like a naive young ruler at the start since he appeared loads of rumors regarding the brutal killing of women appeared.”
Not even kidnapping, brutal killing? Lyn's gaze darkened, ”What's the name of the Lord?”
”Lord Ereland.”
Lord Ereland, ”Ah, I've met him,” Lyn muttered. He was present at the banquet when she was fourteen years old, ”He didn't appear like a ruthless guy, but he must have been hiding his true colors,” even though he didn't appear like it. Lyn always got a bad feeling from him. Somebody who is always smiling always has something to hide, whether it's good or bad. Though now that she thought about it carefully, Kazuya is always smiling and yet she knew he doesn't have any bad intentions. In Kazuya's case, he's hiding his loneliness.