“What a stupid name. I don’t know what the boss is thinking, but he was never wrong before and we all believe in him and his plans. Isn’t that right guys?”(Leader)

After a loud cheering, I could only have feel pity for them. It was a stupid thing to trust their “boss” that much. If he was really that nice, why would he send some small fries to deal with an SS level danger? It was like sending them to their deaths. What a nice boss he was.

Moreover, if they would have just stayed quiet, perhaps I would have let them go. But well, after they showed some nerves and made me angry, I knew I couldn’t just let them walk away. Their boss knowing Kylie was also a strange matter and I had the urge to meet him. The first thing I’d do, would probably be punching him in his face, but afterwards I could think about working together with him.

“It would be really nice if I could meet your boss.”(Me)

“You are still here? I think I need to translate what I said so you can understand too. I said scram kid!”(Leader)

His underlings laughed and felt really strong. I was totally unfazed by them and with a monotone and bored voice I asked.

“Eh? But I still have unanswered question, you know?”(Me)

“I somehow have this feeling that you want to die today. I will not answer your question.”(Leader)

“That so?”(Me)

I summoned a sword out of my [space inventory] and with 1 single movement, I covered the distance of 5 metres, moved in front of him and pierced his heart with my sword. Everything happened in mere seconds, and due to him being a normal human, he had absolutely no time to react. It was an instant death and blood was spilling out of where I pierced him.

His underlings hadn’t realized what just happened and before their leader’s dead body could fall to the floor I turned to face the next person and asked again.

“I still have some question will you answer them for me?”(Me)

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I had already anticipated that they would go crazy after seeing such a performance. In order to skip them running all over the place, I pierced the person I asked the question and moved to the next.

“Will you provide me with an answer, or will you try to run too?”(Me)

He was much too scared to answer, so I killed him too. I hadn’t even shed sweat yet, but 3 people of their group already died so easily.

“Eh, guys let’s do this a little bit faster, I don’t want to waste any more time. I’ll kill everyone, except 1. Whoever answers me first will stay alive and lead me to your boss. Don’t bother trying to escape, as I am also able to use magic, you will not be successful.”(Me)

Their reaction varied. Some gave up on hope and just sat down on the ground, some still tried to run away, while only 3 of them accepted my offer and waited for my question. 1st I shot some fireballs after the guys who tried to escape. They burnt to death and after some time, nothing of their corpse remained. 1 of them tried to continue running even when his whole body went up in flames.

“Sigh.”(Me)

The 3 people, who hadn’t given up hope yet, nor tried to escape, silently watched their comrades die and patiently waited for my question. They stood in a small row in front of me.

“How does your boss know of the name Kylie?”(Me)

“I don’t know! You would have to ask him.”

It was the first answer, which came from the guy on the left. He probably took my “whoever answers me first will survive” too serious. As it was not what I wanted, I sliced him in 2 halves. Both halves of his body fell backwards and the other 2 just watched, without saying anything. It was a frightening scene, but they were the ones who caused it so they should take responsibility.

“Anyone else with such a stupid answer?”(Me)

The remaining 2 shook their heads. While doing so, I noticed 1 of them averting his look a little to the side and with my next movement, his 2 halves also landed on the ground. He probably wanted to use the following situation to flee, so I killed him before he could do so.

After that, I turned around and fired another 5 fireballs into the direction he looked and at everyone else. I didn’t even need to see that some of them were desperately trying to flee, as it was quite obvious that they would do so as soon as I would look away and because I would have finished them off anyway.

“Congratulations, you are the lucky winner.”(Me)

I said and acted like he won some price.

“Let’s go, lead the way.”(Me)

I was lucky that he wasn’t a loyal dog. Because if he would have refrained from guiding me and I had to kill him, I would have had to search for their boss myself. To my surprise, the survivor, didn’t lead me outside of the forest, but even further in.

Their hideout was located underground and the only way to get there, was through 1 of their 5 entrances. The thing was, all those entrances were hidden and I would have never found them if I didn’t have a guide.

“Can I go now?”(Survivor)

The remaining man asked when we reached the entrance.

“Eh? No way. I said I’d let you live, I never said I’d let you go. You still need to play my hostage.”(Me)

If he hadn’t given up on hope before, he had at that moment. He decided to rather die by my hands than him becoming an official traitor and facing his other comrades.

“Brave choice for a coward like yourself.”(Me)

I admitted before I cut his throat.

“Let’s see the abilities of their trustworthy BOSS.”(Me)

I said and entered their hideout.