Chapter 144 - 132: Sabotaging Sirzechss Businesses (1/2)
It was night when he heard many people shouting their names, awakening him.
”Artorias! Ruth!” They yelled out.
Artorias quickly went up the ladder he made to peek on what's happening on the surface, and saw many of his previous fellow villagers holding torches to light up their way. As fast as he could without making any noise, he covered their entrance with some dried up leaves to cover it and then blew out the candle inside their base so that no one would be able to find them.
(Artorias POV)
How did they know that we ran to this mountain!? That's impossible, unless… my mother told them. Yes, that's a possibility. But even then, while she knows that we have a secret base in the mountain, she doesn't know the exact location. If we just keep quiet until they leave the mountain, then we will be fine. I promised to protect Ruth, I'm not backing down now. Damn those beasts of the church! I'll slaughter them with the new strength I receive from the creator when I have the chance!
I immediately woke up Ruth. She looked still sleepy but I covered her mouth and said, ”People from the village are searching for us, we need to stay quiet for now. We'll leave the moment they leave the foot of the mountain. We'll go to Leiron Village, which is 5 mountains from our village. I heard they have an Adventurer's Guild there, I could join the guild and earn money for the both of us while, at the same time, train myself. They are also protected by the Kingdom of Sorcery since the son of the Village Chief is a Tier-4 Sorcerer, so the church won't be able to reach us there. What do you say?”
Ruth nodded with a smile and said, ”I'm fine wherever we go, as long as I'm with you, Artorias.”
I hugged her, and with a smile that resembles hers, I said, ”Thank you, Ruth. Just those words are enough to back me up.”
I let go of her and stared at her for a moment, before I immediately got to packing our stuff. We worked together to pack our stuff in the leather bags that we made ourselves some time ago after hunting a deer for its skin. But even then, these leather bags are not that big and we could only carry so much. So, the only thing we packed were the food and a sharp knife for Ruth, in case some situation pops up.
The food we had could only last us in less than 3 days, and travelling to Leiron Village would take about a month or so. I will have to hunt some animals to cook and eat while we're travelling. Then there are monsters in the mountains that could kill us, but we only have to worry little about that because we'll be going around the mountains so that we could avoid the deeper parts of the mountains, which houses hundreds of different species of monsters. Some of those species have the bloodline of the legendary dragons, and every creature that has the tiniest drop of a dragon's blood can become legends among legends. That is how powerful those legendary creatures are.
The moment the sun rose, the people from the village retreated back to their respective homes due to tiredness from searching for the children all night long.
Ruth and I each took 4 hours of sleep so that we won't be tired from today's journey. The instant we noticed that there were no villagers searching for us anymore, we immediately went to the surface and then took the way towards the Leiron Village.
We knew that this would be a long and difficult journey, but we believe that we can survive this. If we couldn't, we would never be able to survive the rest.
As we tread around the mountain, we knew that we would never be able to return into our village. This is our first step into our freedom, into our peace. For Ruth, I will burn down the church and reclaim our peaceful life.
No matter who stands in my way, I will cut them apart.
(End POV)
(Scene Change)
”Meh, too boring.” Hikaru said while lazily lying sideways with the remote in his hand, pointing at the TV in front of him.
”Too dark and gritty for my taste, I want something more mature and have some s.e.x vibes, like those American movies where they show tits. Maybe I should make this world an only female's world? That would be s.e.xy, and then I'll make all of the women as beautiful as my dearest wives! Nah, too much work and they would self-destruct on their own because there won't be a man. I'll just endure watching anime shows.”
As he said that, he suddenly had an enlightenment, ”What if I fund the most famous anime studio to make good anime shows for me? I can certainly do that! Then, they'll be able to release episodes faster than before! Good idea, Hikaru!” He patted himself on the back for having this ”brilliant” idea.
He stood up and cleared up the place with a single snap of his fingers, before leaving the dimension he created, thus leaving the little planet completely alone. But he forgot to do one thing, and that is fixing the time in the small solar system he created.
You see, to watch Artorias's life, he had to turn off the [525,600 in 1 Minute] thing. Basically, he forgot to turn on the [1 Minute is 1 Year] thing on that world, thus the little planet will rotate around its sun the same time Earth does. Which means, if Hikaru returns to inspect the little planet again in a few days, only a few days would have passed in the little planet also.
Since Hikaru has a short temper right now due to the darkness he absorbed from Chaortos a year back, he will be pissed when he realizes what he just forgot to do.
(Scene Change)
The moment he got back to Japan, he called upon the 5 Council to fund the most popular anime studio with 5 billion dollars to pump a lot of anime shows for him. The 05 Council had no choice but to do that, and after half-an-hour of discussing the deal with the current president of the said studio, who introduced himself as President Ryohei Takahashi. They returned to him and said that the president of the studio must know his tastes for anime, so that they could make it for him.
He said, ”I want an anime with lots of depths, good animation, a bit edgy kind, characters that have proper developments throughout the series, oh, oh, and use a lot of gore when somebody dies. Don't, and never, censor it, or I'll be bankrupting their entire studio with lots of sue allegations that the people will definitely believe. And also, have lots of nudes in the anime. I don't care if it becomes hentai, just make sure to broadcast it everywhere, so that others can watch it too. And tell him to not worry about some officials going crazy over this, I'll silence them all. Got it?”
”Yes, sir. I'll tell him what you said right now with extreme accuracy.” A child's voice could be heard from the phone. This is the child prodigy who secretly found a way to create the elixir of immortality back in medieval times. When he was born, he could already talk and think for himself. He found out that the people around him were weird, at least to him, so he never talked to any of them and became known as mute. Neglected by his parents, he burned down his entire village with corrosive oil that burned wider than any oil. He made that oil when he was five.
His name is Deimon Answerus, and he has been alive for more than hundreds of years and still looked like a child. While the elixir immortality was worth it, at the age of 13, he killed hundreds of millions of people just to claim their souls for his own selfish desires. That's right, he was the one who made the rats spread the bubonic plague, which was named ”The Black Death''. He did that to create the ”elixir of immortality”, which just absorbed the life force of every soul he sacrificed to it. One soul gave him two years' worth of life force, and imagine that he claimed millions of souls for this sick and twisted desire of his.
Anyway, he's immortal, incredibly smart, and joined the 05 Council many years ago. He is currently Hikaru's slave.
After explaining the things Hikaru said to President Takahashi, the president immediately agreed, since Deimon showed him what he could do to his studio with a little bit of magic trick, using nothing but a small phone. He hacked the entire studio, that's what he did.
Soon, the president could only nod at the orders of Hikaru. While some of the things he asked were difficult to do, they would be able to do it for the sake of that money. Just a percent of that amount could make any of them live the rest of their lives in some luxury house.
But the president knew that double crossing this ”Hikaru” person would kill his business, and by extension, him.
After that, Hikaru went to some nearby hotel called ”Kyoto Sirzechs Hotel”. Just the name was a clue of who owns this hotel. Anyway, he didn't really care and just went inside to check in one of the VIP Rooms in the hotel, only to find out they were full.
He asked the hotel clerk why, and she just said, ”The owner of the hotel went to have a vacation along with his family and friends in the VIP Rooms. We are terribly sorry for the inconvenience.”
Holding the urge to wipe this country off the map, Hikaru forced a smile and took out a case full of cash, around 1,000,000 dollars, then whispered to her, ”Convince your boss to open a VIP Room and I'll give you this money.”
But the clerk only held a stoic face in front of such a large sum, and said, ”I'm sorry, but money doesn't matter to us. If you would like, we would offer you a hotel room close to the luxurious designs of the VIP Rooms.”
Hikaru was surprised for a moment when she refused his offer, when he realized that he was talking to a devil. He saw that all of the staff here are devils, which means human money doesn't matter to them. They are already getting paid much more by the devils they work for.
But he has a backup plan for this kind of situation. If you can't bribe them with money, then you can bribe them with something else.
Behind his back was his left hand, and in his hand grew a blue fruit excluding an aura of mana. It was concealed to everyone, except for the female clerk.
He handed the fruit in front of the table, and he said, ”I know you devils like this fruit because I have studied your genes with magic and whatnot to make this fruit that will instantly make you hunger for it. This will boost the mana inside you and make your magic stronger.”
The female clerk was the only one able to see the fruit, and no one other than her could see it. When she laid her eyes on that fruit, she knew she had to have it as soon as possible. Something inside her was screaming for her to grab it and eat it as fast as possible, but due to the effects of her training, she was able to control herself.
She still held a stoic face while she said out loud for everyone to hear, ”Sir, please get out of our establishment. You are not allowed to bribe employees here, and this is our first and last warning; leave.”