12 CHILD AT HEART 4 (1/2)

As Lirzod stood and stared like a lunatic, the three women showed their biting might on Yizzy, and half-a-dozen hickeys surfaced on different parts of his body.

The next moment, all the visuals were skipped, startling him. ”H-Hey, wait!”

Now, a couple of hours had passed in the past. The three girls just dressed up and left the minister's room.

Lirzod still had a frown on his face. That old fart, he skipped at the right time!

The doors of the room closed, and the minister also dressed up and began to read some documents.

Everything was silent in the estate, like an ordinary night, until a tiny noise broke out and the next second, a needle pierced the neck of the minister. Like a mosquito sting, the pain grabbed his attention, but when he raised his hand to place it on the bitten spot, it began to shake, which brought him incredible pain. By instinct, he stopped moving. He wanted to speak out, but even moving his jaw muscles made him cry.

At that moment, as the minister was struggling, a person popped out from under the bed, holding a tiny bamboo-esque object. The minister's eyes enlarged upon seeing Rick.

”Are you surprised that I'm alive, Sir Yizzy?” Rick walked a couple of steps and stopped in front of the bed, and looked straight into the minister's eyes. ”In all the months I worked here, there's only a single dog in this estate that I didn't tame. You. It took me this long to heal, so I came to see how you were doing. And you are doing your best, aren't you?

”I'm not a specialist in understanding people, but there's one thing I'm good at. Reading people's eyes. Regardless of what the mouth may say, the eyes never lie. You... You just tell people what they want to hear. You said you were gonna recommend my nieces into what's that...? Holy Brothel, was it? To how many women did you say those exact same words in the past?

”My nieces... They are good people by heart. Unlike the other women, they gave their best in the life they were pushed into. I waited all this while hoping they would change their minds, but at this rate, they're just gonna lose their limbs one day. And I can't let that happen.

He used the bamboo-esque object and pierced a couple of needles on his chest and shoulders before he removed the one on Yizzy's neck. ”If you speak out loud, the breath you take will stretch your chest muscles and you will die from a stroke. So, let's have a proper conversation, shall we?”

The minister who was about to shout, shut his mouth and fumed at Rick.

”Zhana is a talented girl, not only at learning but also at teaching. Thanks to her, teaching me about how the human body worked, I managed to learn this art in a short time. It's marvelous isn't it?” Rick looked at the bamboo wood in his hand, which was the bamboo-esque object. ”Like the blood that flows in our veins and carries all the necessary energy to all over our body, my breath carries the dart through this bamboo into the air, until it lodges itself into the target. This is serious stuff. It can kill people from a distance.”

The minister was shocked by Rick's words. Though he was unimaginably angry, his gaze was fixed onto the bamboo-esque object. ”You can't make an ordinary bamboo work like that. It was as effective as a bow. How did you achieve that?”

Rick smiled. ”You want to help your king with this weapon? But this isn't suited for large-scale battles, Sir Yizzy.”

”Hmph, as expected... A Mud Squeezer's[1] brain doesn't know the capacity of it. Just imagine, if you've coated the needle's tip with a poison... You can assassinate all the kings of this world, one by one. And no one would know the exact cause, because they haven't seen this weapon yet. A needle leaves far less of a trace than a poison ingestion through food. We will be able to conquer the world, thanks to such a simple weapon.”

Rick froze in his steps. He had never thought that his creation would be capable of doing such a thing.

”What do you say? Join hands with me, and I'll change your fate. We no longer have to limit ourselves to this farce of a kingdom.”

Rick didn't reply.

”What's taking you so long?” Yizzy said and paused a moment. ”Oh, is it because I hurt you and your family? C'mon, that was just business.”

”... Then what about the one that you're proposing to me, now?”

Yizzy was surprised.

”Is it business as well?”

”Well, that's... More like a goal.”

”Ha-wu-how?”

”What?”

”How did playing with women till now become a business, but your plan of playing with the world became a goal?”

”Women and world are nowhere near the same,” He frowned as anger welled up inside his heart. ”World will be peace without women.”

”Why do you have such hatred towards women? Do you not love your mother?”

”Hmph, mother? I don't even know how that b*tch looks. If I did, I would have stabbed her a dozen times for what she did.”

”What did she do? Abandon you?”

”Abandoned? No, I would have been happy if she had at least done that, but I was offered as a sacrifice to some fucking guild she wanted to join. Soon after she joined, she stole the guild's treasure and escaped. Because I was her son, I was kept alive, and someone else was sacrificed in my stead. And the guild itself raised me, to be what I am now, a woman hater...” He stared into Rick's eyes. ”I know, you feel like laughing at my childhood. Everyone does because it stinks... Like every woman.”

”I won't laugh at you for what happened to you, but don't expect any pity from me,” Rick said. ”There are countless people in this world whose entire lives stink from birth to death. But the belief that every woman stinks...” Rick paused a moment. ”Women give life for those they love, and take lives of those they hate.”

Yizzy smirked. ”Then why did your relationship with your sisters which was so healthy, worsened after their marriage?”

Rick startled.

”Huh, tell me. Do you mean to say your sisters never liked you? That's just bullshit. Women are emotional beings, just like dogs. Show them what they want, and they'll listen to you... like dogs would.”

”Stop.” Rick looked away.