The captain turned around and saw a young man with a bright smile on his face, the captain was surprised, his troops thought this young man as a threat and they were already on top of him, the captain laughed at the young man's bravery.

"Great! You can leave the young man go."

The captain's troops let Kolsten go. The captain got off of his ship and walked to the dock, one of his troops brought a chair, the captain sat on his chair and looked at Kolsten like he was examining him, the young man was still smiling and then he spoke.

"That's a good right hand. Tell me which hand is your dominant one?"

"I can actually use both of them."

"Good, how much do you need."

"Ten gold coins and a favor from you."

"A favor from me? What do you need?"

"I would like you to kill some bandits."

Normally Kolsten hated getting people hurt but bandits were bad people in his eyes, they were the scum of the great human race and Aleriant's village's debt was going to be removed, this was a good deal for everyone and the captain smiled.

"Fine, I will deal with them. Now find me a doctor and a healer. I don't want this young man dying."

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The captain's troops went to look for doctors and healers and a couple of them set up an operating table made of crates, everyone started to gather around the docks and after ten minutes the captain's troops found a doctor and a healer, the doctor marked Kolsten's right hand they didn't want to cut more than they needed and the healer prepared his spells to stop Kolsten's bleeding, the captain stood up and got a sword from one of his troops, he was going to cut Kolsten's hand but then Kolsten spoke.

"Oh, I forgot about my friend."

"Your friend? I am sure my troops can bring him here. how does he look like?"

"He is an old man named Aleriant. He looks like a homeless person and he is probably still holding my basket."

"You heard the young man."

His troops started to look for Aleriant and after five minutes, they found him but they had to force him to come here, Aleriant was being held, he was trying to shake the troops off.

"Let me go!"

After Aleriant yelled, he noticed Kolsten tied up to a crate, there was a captain right next to Kolsten, he was holding a sword and Kolsten weirdly enough was smiling at Aleriant.

"What are you doing here Kolsten!"

"I am selling my right hand to that captain over there."

"What! Why?"

"To pay your debts. The rope is hurting my right hand, can we get over this?"

"Sure."

The captain raised his sword and slashed his right hand, Kolsten's right hand was grabbed by the doctor, he put his right hand in a jar and started to bandage his hand while the healer cast spells to stop his pain and bleeding, Aleriant immediately ran to Kolsten, he put his basket on the ground and crouched to help Kolsten but Aleriant was outraged.

"Are you fucking mad?"

"No, I am Kolsten and I am hungry."

Kolsten used his left hand to get a tuna sandwich from the basket and he started to eat it with a big satisfied smile on his face, Aleriant was surprised, not only Aleriant everyone in the crowd was surprised. Kolsten was still smiling like his hand didn't mean anything to him, and after hearing Kolsten's weird answer. Aleriant knew something was really wrong with this young man called Kolsten.