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Talking in the ambience of everything around me, I say, “How peaceful this is.”
Suddenly I feel something soft crash into me, then moments later I hear, “You three are cuddling up without me!”
“There she is to ruin the day!”
“Sorry Atalanta me and Orb were just taking a moment to rest.”
Hugging Suzuka, Atalanta says, “I know you wouldn’t leave me out due to mal intent, but I am sure Orb would.”
“Your right, that sounds exactly like something I would do.”
Draping her body over Cyrus, she says, “See how much of a bully Orb is, save me, Cyrus!”
Suzuka says, “And he is a manwhore!”
They both start to chant, “Bully, manwhore, bully, manwhore, bully, manwhore, bully, manwhore!”
“Hey, stop slandering my name you two!!”
Puffing her cheeks and turning her face away, Atalanta says, “Cyrus tell the doggy I won’t be talking to him for the foreseeable future.”
“That sounds perfectly fine to me.”
Crying she says, “I hate you!!!!”
Staring at her, I say, “You are acting a little looser than usual, and your face is bright red.”
Burping, she says, “No I’m not!”
Smelling the burp, I say, “Wait!” Then I grab and smell her body.
Giggling, she says, “That tickles.”
“Just put up with it.” Not only my hearing but my sense of smell is also impeded, but after getting a good sniff I can say without the shadow of a doubt that she is intoxicated. “You're drunk.”
Woozy, she says, “Congrats that’s the right answer!!!”
“Where the hell did you even get alcohol from?”
Flicker in and out of consciousness she says, “Orb your hair is fluffy.”
Throwing her towards Cyrus, I say, “She will be of no help in that state.”
Suzuka tapping me on my shoulder says, “Orb look!”
Taking a second to look at the people in front of me, I notice they all look just as drunk as Atalanta. “I thought they were just being their usual rowdy selves but their all dead drunk, who did this?”
Pointing again, Suzuka directs me to a man from Gaia’s sky handing out wine to everyone partying.
Running over to him with Suzuka close behind, I say, “I will be back soon Cyrus keep her close till then.”
He nods his head in approval as I rush off.
Seeing the man handing out more wine, I build up rotational energy then drop kick him in the stomach. When he lands on the ground, I pick him up then say, “Was freezing off your arm not enough to smack some sense into you dumb bandits.”
“What do you mean?”
“I am talking about the alcohol; these guys can’t handle it.”
“But they said they have had alcohol before.”
“The alcohol they made was just from berries they found around. In terms of overall alcohol content, it is nothing compared to processed wine.”
Suzuka asks, “How do you even know such things?”
Turning my head back, I say, “Capti was a rampant alcoholic in his younger days, so he spread his knowledge of wines in his books to me. Now, man, why did you guys do this?”
“We simply thought it would be fine since Sparrow told us it would be ok?”
Dropping him, I grab my head, and say, “I forgot about him! Do you know where he is?”
“He is over there talking to the people where her majesty Pine is.”
“Thank you,” I say as I pick him up.
Running towards where he points, Suzuka asks me, “Is Pine a queen?”
“No, it is what they call old lady Pine.”
“Why?”
“Because after my punishment, their souls were broken into pieces and Pine put them back together.”
“She sounds nice!!!”
“That’s one of many terms I could use to describe her.”
After seeing Sparrow, I run over to him and say, “What the hell did you do?” Whilst preparing to bunch him.
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But I am stopped by a member of Aplos, who says, “Orb don’t hit him.”
“He hasn’t done anything wrong.”
“He is our friend.”
Confused by everyone's words, I say, “What do you guys mean?”
With a bright smile, Sparrow says, “Oh Orb I haven’t seen you yet, it is nice to see you are doing well.”
Seeing his face, a feeling of disgust and discomfort wash over my body, “What are you doing!?”
Getting up and walking over to me, he says, “My change in demeanour is because I have truly awakened and joined the side of righteousness like my other friends in Gaia’s sky.”
“Bullshit!”
His right-hand man Kac says, “I can guarantee that the former boss is a much better person now. Isn’t that right guys!”
The members of Gaia’s sky around us start to speak.
“I can promise you he is good now.”
“He has tried his best to help.”
“His is almost unrecognizable.”
People from Aplos also start to speak up.
“He taught us how to use spirit arts.”
“He’s been going out to buy supplies for us.”
“Do you really think someone with such nice hair could be a bad person?”
Speaking up, I say, “Bullshit!!!"
“No, we are being honest.”
“Why would I believe that!?”
“Why did you believe the others have gotten better?”
“Because I ripped their dicks off! So, until I do the same to him I won’t believe shit.”
Walking up close, Sparrow says, “Don’t try and convince him guys, if the time we spent together wasn’t enough to convince him I don’t know what can, but thank you all.” When he finished speaking, he flashed a smile to the members of Aplos.
This causes me to take note of the fact that the people who are defending him, are mostly old people.
Feeling a pat behind me, I turn around and see Pine who says, “Orb he has changed. He isn’t as bad as you think and is rather charming!”
My face turned to one of shock; that bastard has seduced all of the old people including Pine. Giving him a look of furry, I make a promise in my heart; I will never forgive you.
Pine says, “And if you hear how he became the way he did you will feel sorry for him, it truly is a tragic tale.”
Suddenly all the people around me, start to tear up. “What tragic story? I am pretty sure that anything coming out of his mouth would be utter nonsense.”
Someone says, “Orb why would you say that?”
“Because I have negative 100 reasons to trust him!”
Walking forward, Sparrow says, “It is alright guys, it is perfectly normal for Orb not to forgive me, but I don’t care as long as my actions help you guys.”
As everyone swoons, I rub my head and then say in anger, “SUZUKA, I need you to read this guy's mind!!” Looking around I don’t see her anywhere, so I say, “SHE VANISHED AGAIN!!!”
Running away I say, “I will be back soon!”
Φ As Orb runs off a smirk that I try to hide appears right on my face; finally, finally, I got the upper hand against that little shit.
Ever since he traded me for Atalanta, I have been putting my plan in motion, the first thing I did was put on my best act the entire time he was gone, I used my smarts and devilish smile to help everyone around here.
It seems that Kac and all the rest of my people turning into their little obedient slaves made them a lot more open to my sudden change.
The next step was to revive my men, they had been neutered and domesticated. I needed to awaken their souls, their manhood.
4 months ago
“Kac what are you doing?”
“I am just picking flowers for little Sapy’s birthday.”
Hitting the flowers out of his hand, I say, “You aren’t a dad, you’re a scum of the earth bandit who steals from little girls then sells them into slavery, and goes out to a brothel with the profits only to create another little girl who you will abandon in a heartbeat.”
With a deluded smile, Kac says, “Oh I have given up on such a life, her majesty Pine has saved and redeemed my soul in her ever-present bosom.”
Smacking him, I say, “Can you really move on that quickly!? Can you really get over what that boy Orb did to you!? HE RIPPED OFF YOUR DICK FOR GODS SAKE!!!”
Seeing him get shaken, he says, “I don’t ne-e-e-ed it.”
Smacking him, I say, “Remember my brother, remember ass, remember boobs, remember sex, remember the prostitutes, remember the faces of all the crying whores you left single mothers, remember all the things that your penis allowed you to do.”
Holding his head, he says, “No, no, no, no!!!”
Shaking him, I say, “Come back my brother, I need you!!!”
Screaming he falls to the ground then gets up saying, “Sparrow I am back, and we are going to make that brat Orb pay for his sins.”
“You god damn right!!”
4 months later
Since then, I have turned all my fellow bandits back into their normal selves, which allowed me to increase the scope of my plan. I got them all addicted to alcohol during the wedding, I knew first-hand that people like them would be crushed by the content of refined alcohol.
I trained my body to be able to control even the tiniest of movements so I could counter Orb’s hearing. Then I used the time we were out gathering supplies to spread more rumours about the fact that people lived in Fimbulwinter to rouse the market for more slaves from Aplos.
Next, I went to look for more men and support, and after finding a fair few patrons thanks to the rumours, I was able to get some men ready to raid this place. I was planning to do it during the funeral when everyone had their guards down and was drunk but it didn’t turn out that way.
I hadn’t anticipated that Orb would return but God damn am I happy; that face of frustration he put on was the greatest thing I had ever since.
But that wasn’t enough it was nowhere enough; next I am going to turn all his friends against him. Then I will slowly work my way into his heart, and then at the height of all our friendship I will betray him!
I will sell each and every one of these assholes into slavery, then I will torture Orb each and every day. I will take a giant sword and sodomise him and when he cries, I will tell him it is for reform.
Then when he is hungry, I will starve that bastard. Also, whenever he tries to escape I will cleverly intercept and impede his plans, and after that give him a look like he is a pathetic creature for not accepting my reform.
I will make him constantly get sick then when I should be gently nursing him back to health, I will abandon him instead. Then finally when he voices his opinions to be helpful, instead of validating those opinions I will make fun of him instead and tell him to shut up until he cries!!!!!
Sparrow has gone ever so slightly insane.
One of the woman of Aplos say, “Sparrow would you be able to tell us the story again?”
With a face full of shame and despair, I say, “Are you sure you want to hear it, I don’t want to destroy the mood?”
“Of course we do and it would be a great way of informing the people around how you became the way you did.”
Sitting down, I say, “Then gather around all who want to hear.”
Thanks to all those childhood books I read of modern heroes like Warwick and ancient heroes such as Charles I was able to create a heart-wrenching story that these isolated people of Aplos wouldn’t know about.
“Now the day it happened the sky was both heavy and light, the air was hot and cool, and my skin was damn yet dry.”
Suddenly one of the people around me interrupts, with an “Excuse me?”
Looking towards who spoke up, I see a young girl dressed in lady-like clothes and on her lap is a girl who looks like she is terrified; are they some of the people Orb brought back with her?
With a kind smile, I ask, “Is there a problem miss?”
“Oh, you see this little one in my arms isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed so could you be very exact and on the point?”
“I will. Now where did I leave off, it wa-.”
“Also, could you please raise your voice, it is a struggle to hear you like that.”
Slightly annoyed, I ask, “Do you have any other request, miss no name?”
“I am vacant of any other requests at the moment, and I do have a name it is Elia and I hope we have a pleasant time together,” She says with a smile similar to Orb.