Chapter 14 Problem resolving. (1/2)

The two looked at each other On one side stood a boy that wasn't even eleven years old, on the other side was a tallchestnut brown hair He had a bushy beard that didn't look like it was triet a good night's rest in quite some time

"Wait, you're the one that the Baron send to keep watch over me, he didn't order you to kill me, did he?"

The htened out a bit while snorting the throwing knife dancing between his fingers

"So you knew It doesn't erous beasts in this forest"

Roland kept backing ahile the ainst his initial orders and wanted to kill him for some unknown reason

"Are you sane? Do you really want to kill a nobles son? Even if I' for this!"

There was a clear rule against killing nobles If a cos they would be iuilty of a crime The nobles liked to keep to themselves and didn't like it if other people took the law into their own hands

"Shut it you bastard, do you kno long I've been here so norant brat! You were supposed to go crawling back within the week! Why do I have to babysit a little bastard like you, if you're dead I can finally go back! I'll never becoht if I stay in a shi+t hole like this!"

Roland's eyes widened as he finally understood what this was all about The man was hired by his father, he was probably a soldier from the army He was ordered to keep an eye on Roland, probably to protect hi happened The problem was that no one expected the ten-year-old boy to last this long He had no proble in this to, from this man's point of view the short te

"That doesn't have anything to do with me, you can just quit, they could just hire someone else!"

Roland looked around while he was trying to find a good route of escape but theproblem

"Hah? Look at this little shi+t, you think I can just refuse a direct order froood reason he will just send ht back or kick me out On the other hand, if there is no reason for rinned while licking his throwing knife There was one thing that didn't make sense for Roland in that state et die

"Wait, won't you get punished if I die? Weren't you hired to protectcloser

"Protect you? Do you really think that man cares for you that much? No, I'm just here to keep them informed about your whereabouts, they never told me to protect you in any way, if you die well solad but I've already said too much"

Apparently his dear old dad didn't think he really needed any protection This guy was only here to keep tabs on hi probleh aspirations, he wanted to becoh, you needed to achieve a lot of militaryanything hile

The last sentence that the man muttered echoed in his mind, did someone coax this man to do this He made it sound like he kneho that person was Maybe thehalf a year in this small town, maybe there was e that thea noble's son,him Why anyone would want hih worth for so like this

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Rolandknife It grazed his cheek while slicing his flesh apart Thefor his rapier The pointy weapon's tip shone in orange light as he plunged it forward, luckily for Roland, there were many trees to duck behind

The moment the tip of the heavy rapier was inserted into the tree, the area around the weapon's tip exploded Splinters of wood shoot out into all directions while the man continued with his assault Roland could only duck down and run, hiding behind large trees in hopes of getting away

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'Godda wouldn't aid him too much and the sound of the syste He was sure that there was no reasoning with this person anyh time to chant a spell as the man would use this chance to throw a knife at him or stab hiood for hi any Thanks to his smaller build and nimbleness he was able to survive for now, but it washis escape That is when the proble with no trees around and only green grass

He bolted to the side, trying to get back into the forest and away from the wide-open space but before he could, he felt a sharp pain in his leg He tu knife stuck in his calf

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"Finally got you, nowhere to run now you little runt"

Theknives hidden in his robe Roland looked at his leg and quickly yanked the blade out The pain was intense but he was puh it He tried standing up and running again but instead, he limped forward He was now unable to make any reasonable space between himself and his enemy In a last-ditch effort he decided to pull out his short shile turning around, he got into his fighting stance and faced his opponent

"Heh, well at least you have so, his teeth shown off as he approached Roland wasn't idle, he tried backing off while chanting a mana arrow spell, his own short sword raised in an atte attacks

Thestance and quickly plunged his sword forward Before Roland could even react to defend hiht shoulder Thefrom the tip The spell fizzled out even before the youth could utter more than one word

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"You think a tier 1 can win against a tier 2? You never stood a chance brat, we live in different worlds"

Rolland was baffled by the display of speed, he wasn't able to react at all He had thought that he was strong for a tier 1, never really having troubles against the goblins or the dungeon e, he at least thought that he could so in that clai difference between tier 1 and tier 2, mostly due to the fact that a tier 2 class received a et through the class up a 15 times o through a qualitative change that would increase their power by a big in compared to the lower tier 1 classes

"Don't think you can get aith this! Someone will find out the truth!"

Thehis rapier at the boy

"The truth? You overestimate your worth brat, no one cares about you and those three adventurer girls?I'll take care of theet wiped out by monsters all the time"

The man was really chatty, he had spent a lot of time in seclusion and without anyone to talk to He just had to reveal his big plan like a villain of the week As always, such behavior proved to be the downfall of most of those types The e his rapier into the boy's chest, he noticed so

He jumped back while an arrohizzed past his eyes Then, fro at the spot where the ed the initial arrow The ed to stop his momentum and evaded this one as well He propelled hi to the spots that these two attacks came fro for a sirls to appear, it was Roland's adventurer party that had caereat hahtly behind her was the wolf girl, she was half a step behind her party er in her hand while the one that she threas picked up along the way

"Roland, are you okay?"