Chapter 114 Leaving the empire 4 (1/2)
Mars stared down the knight leader with a wide smile on his face and a hand on the hilt of his sword for some time before he asked
”what's wrong scared?”
”humph, you two get him!”
””yes captain””
the leader commanded two of his underlings that then got off their houses and approached Mars with their spears raised, one of them gave a glance at Varvei before he gave a vulgar laugh and yelled
”look it's protecting its mate!”
the other followed up with more mocking
”truly laughable that's why non-humans are---”
”annoying”
Mars suddenly appeared behind the two of them sword drawn and suddenly two red lines formed on the knights necks before their heads slid off and their bodies fell over, this of cause displeased the knight leader that yelled with a completely red face
”attack! kill them both!”
the leader yelled but none of his subordinates responded as Mars reappeared again this time blood covered his sword arm, he gave a sigh and mumbled as he wiped off the blood
”....still not prices enough with my strength”
the 48 knights fell to the ground at the same time, all of them having revived a single cut to their necks
”you... what are you Mars?”
Varvei stared at Mars, fear in her eyes but Mars just gave a casual smile and said
”just a passing living god”
Varvei terrified of Mars tired to get up, but her body failed her so she begun crawling away from him
”oi is that how you treat your savior?”
”I never asked to be saved!”
Varvei kept crawling this caused Mars to give a sigh and scratch the back of his head in frustration as he slowly walked after Varvei and asked
”you done yet?”
”you killed them all, you monster!”
”guess not...”
Mars picked up his bag and slowly followed after Varvei that was still crawling trying to get away from him
”ha... ha... get... away... from... me..!”
”nope, why don't you calm down a bit”
Varvei turned around so she lay on her back and glared at Mars, Mars sensing she had something to say stopped and waited for her to catch her breath which she did a few minutes later
”...why did you even save me in the first place?”
”well because it was interest---”
”don't give me that crap!”
Mars shut his mouth and looked into Varvei's eyes for some time until he gave a sigh and sat down on the ground
”well I suppose I should take this conversation seriously... I saved you because I could and wanted to”
Varvei narrowed her eyes
”then what about all the other prisoners, why don't you save them too!?”
”because I don't want too, sure I could rescue all the prisoners, take over the fort then overthrow the empire and rule the continent within 50 years, but that sounds like a pain”
”...that doesn't answer my question”
Mars narrowed his eyes and glared at Varvei
”then what I have to answer you question?”
”...yes or else I will bite off my tongue”
Mars gave another sigh and buried his face in his hands and groaned loudly before he mumbled
”...why did I save you... was it really my own will..?”
Varvei got a little confused seeing Mars act like this but still maintained her glare and suddenly Mars raised his face again
”that's right! it wasn't my own will, it was the will of my vessel!”
”....your vessel?”
”my body, you see I got reincarnated into this body less than a year ago so I still don't entirely control it sometimes instincts will lash out beyond my control”
Varvei looked even more confused
”so what you saved me because your instincts made you?”
”basically”
”...that makes no sense”
”nope it doesn't”
Varvei and Mars both stared at each other for sometime until Varvei gave a sigh and broke eye contact while a light blush spared on her face
”...in that case I suppose I can allow myself to be rescued”
”great”
”but tone it down with the killing please, I don't want anymore people to die for my sake”
”...fine”
Mars walked over and picked up Varvei and suddenly gave a grin
”by the way your crawling was really good”
”...shut up”
”oh, are you sulking now?”
”...”
the grin disappeared from Mars's face
”I really thought it was good it means it won't be long before you can walk by yourself”