Their bodies were dangling from above his head, all he saw was the shadow of a man strangling the two officers while using his legs to support himself up the tight alleyway, the officers whose blood was running from their noses, mouths, and ears, absolutely paralyzed from the fear he tried moving his body to run away and get back up, but only did he realize...he was already staring at the floor....

hmm.... they didn't have much pocket money on them...what a pity, I should go before things get complicated.... Mallory left what looked like a crime scene, however, beyond the spectacle, no one had died in that place. Mallory continued traversing to the suburbs walking towards the poor side of town, it was common for towns that were further away from the capital of humans "pricchy" to have more divided populations, smaller communities, and economic inequality, this town was no different, in one side it was filled with poor and desperate humans who gained coins by working as farmers, merchants, municipal cleaners, owning small busyness like Tabern keepers, smiths, and if you had talent for fighting, you might be appointed as guard or even be dependent enough to become a hunter, however, the less fortuned were ostracized, experimented on by the higher class, or used for human trafficking, he had seen this scenery countless times, be it a big and wealthy city or a forgotten tribe, the monsters known as humans would always find way to create inequality, weather they wanted to or not, "it is in their nature....." said Mallory after sighting, the teacher was right.... he thought to himself

after carefully walking for about 20 minutes, he was almost at the southern exit of town, he could see the stone gate in which the merchants and scarce travelers went through, he could see the poor people begging to any passerby, the mothers tending to their malnourished children while sleeping out in the streets with nothing more than trash and dirty blankets, it was a bizarre sight, just later that day he was in a place where trash wasn't seen often, people dressed with mostly clean clothes and no mother had to beg for their kids food, he kept walking towards the stone gate thinking of simply walking away without causing trouble, but then he saw something that made his blood boil. "Tch...." just right near the gate hidden behind piles of trash, he could see an old merchant trying to haggle for a mother's child... "Ah come on.... 'm giving you a great opportunity to get rid of the sick thing! if she wasn't at least pretty I wouldn't have even come this way for just a sick child!" "AAArgh come one! She is obedient, she can't speak or yell, and she's a virgin! I'm going to need at least 3 gold coins!!!" the woman yelled with a trashy voice "3 gold coins!!??, whatever, I'll find another product" the man scoffed while turning away "ALRIGHT all right god dammit!!! you scamming piece of SHIT! I'll take one gold....hmp!" the woman took her malnourished child out of a cage and tossed her toward the old merchant's feet ".......fine...." the man scoffed while taking a gold coin out of his pocket and tossing it towards the woman "pick it up before someone else takes it..." then he forcefully grabbed he child's ash colored hair and started dragging her while walking away, and for a split second, the child looked at the man standing just a few steps away from her.

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......lily...? No....but why does she look like her....... "EEHH, what u looking at?? I ain't letting you try her for free you bum" Without noticing, he had already walked right in front of the merchant "How much for the girl ".... yeah, like you bum could afford this.... but you know what? if you give me 50 silver, I'll let fuck her for 5 minutes" "..............." "Tch! get the fuck out my way if you don't get money!"

the merchant tried turning around before being stopped by a hand on his shoulder "Here, 50 silver " Mallory held the money in his hand, two silver coins each coin's value being 25 "Aaaahhh, so you aint that much of a poor piece of shit" the man grinned while reaching towards the coins in the man's hand, until.... BAMM! Mallory clenched his fist and slammed I against the merchant's face, making him tumble down the road fucking scum....... he grabbed the child and held her in his arms, then proceeded to walk towards the gate ".... did you see that......?" "He sent that merchant flying..." "Shouldn't someone go detain him...? "I heard most officers went to the middle town because a thief..." Many people stared at him while murmuring, however, Mallory didn't pay attention, he just kept on walking out of the town, not even the two guards 'protecting' the gate dared approach him, not every normal human could knock someone out in a single swift punch and send them flying for a few seconds, Mallory just held the child in his arms and walked away towards the forest.

after about 3 hours of walking through the forest, the sky had already turned black, Mallory had been walking at a fast pace wanting to get out of the thick part of the forest before anything troublesome would show up "Grrrrr...." "ARF...." sudden beastly cries resembling wolves emerged from the darkness of the forest, Mallory kept walking at the same peace, pretending not to hear the beast approach, yet, the howls kept creeping closer and closer, what were once one or two growls became more than 6 simultaneously, Mallory kept walking while holding the child, however, he knew that at this rate, he wouldn't be enabled to keep walking through the forest without a fight. tch......so the monsters have finally decided to approach men...I guess I can't keep pretending not to notice them now that they seem eager to attack, well then. Mallory gently placed the sleeping child on the floor right between his legs, then he reached towards his lower waist and pulled out his weapon, a sword nearly as black as the night that covered the entirety of the forest, a lengthy one-handed sword that seemed to have been charred in flames, a sword that had been chipped away by the years of constant battle. then suddenly, a wolf jumped from out of the bushes and showed itself to the human before him, bearing his fangs and growling in his direction, then another wolf jumped out, then two, then three, and in just an instant, he was completely surrounded by giant gray wolves the size of him........ then, Mallory exhaled

"Seems like I won't get much sleep tonight...."