Episode-7:

This world isn’t something that you can fight alone. Even if you are a mighty saint you might be eaten by the pack of the strong hungry wolf. So that’s why even most loner guy has at least five companions. That’s what I learn from Hasan Ali’s memory.

I could run away from this continent alone, but then what?if Hasan Ali was not an evil bastard, I can live this continent easily with the help of his memory, but even he didn’t have an excessive amount of knowledge about other continents. So, going alone other continents mean going to the middle of the pack of wolves alone.

That’s why I decided to take them along with me.

Hearing my declaration they look at each other but didn’t voice out.

“Usman, what do you think?”

I asked Usman what he was thinking. Even if he disagrees, I won’t change my decision anyway.

“Considering current situation of ours I think it’s a wise decision. I would do the same.”

He agreed with me easily.

“Any objection?”

Of course, no one will voice their opinion.

“Then that’s that. We will start to depart in a month. Injure one need to recover, but I will wait for only this time limit, after that we will leave.”

“Yes, sir.” (All members.)

Hearing their reply, I stand up with Raby-chan and went in front of Usman,

“I still need to recover, so don’t disturb us.”

“Y-yes.”

This perverted old man was looking at me and Raby-chan. Didn’t I clear before she is my long lost little sister? Well whatever, Hasan Ali suspicious pervert in begins with. I leave him in their imagination without correcting it because it will be a drag.

After leaving that room, I heaved a sigh of relief while wiping cold sweat from my forehead. My leg started to tremble; it was really pressured moment for me. Even though I know I am stronger than them I couldn’t help but shudder. I hope I acted well.

Seeing me like that Raby-chan was looking at me with weird eyes. Damn! I almost exposed my true nature; I grab my belly and said,

“That wound you gave me as a gift, it becomes really useful that I can faint any moment. You need to heal that first.”

“And why will I do that?”

She has to ask like that everytime even though she comply my will.

“Because you are the reason I got that wound plus I don’t want to make those guys suspicious of you.”

“Tsk, okay. Let’s go.”

Seeing her attitude I couldn’t help but laugh, and drag her to the where I woke up today. Of course not for doing some perverted deed.

After seating on the stone bed, I undo my bind magic from my belly.

Of course blood is started to stream out, bind magic is awesome magic that can absolutely bind anything as long as the user is strong enough. So it even bound the blood when I use bind magic on the wound.

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When I saw blood is streaming from the wound, my head almost rolled and I was about to lost consciousness. But I somehow gain my ground. And use [Codex 323: Bind] on that again.

Despite everything, I didn’t feel pain but tickling sensation. And that’s the [13th Gate of Soul: Aries]’s ability. It can reduce pain 25% wound in a body with 100% effect, which means I won’t feel any pain if 25% of my body wounded, well that doesn’t mean it isn’t harmful to my body because wound still is present.

[Aries] has three abilities; pain reduction which I explained, the second one is self-regeneration which heal my wound 10% per hour and the last one is healing, I can heal other person wounds by using it, but Hasan Ali never use it before because he was a simply bandit leader.

By the way, for running this ability I must keep active the [Aries] but the problem is, it has a time limit and cooldown. It can be activated for 2 hours and 22 hours cooldown but that doesn’t mean if I use it once I have to wait 22 hours, it depends on how much time I use it, so if I use it 30 minutes I will have more 1 hour and 30 min left to use. And if I don’t use it for double time (For 30 min it’s 1 hour) it will be reset to 2 hours. But if I use 2 hours before reset or use at once I have to 22 hours for next reset. And same goes for other gates, but their time limit is shorter than the 13th gate.

Like this 12th and the 11th gate has three abilities each, but the 10th gate has six abilities. Well I will explain those later, more importantly because I am 4th class that doesn’t the four gate open in each class, surprisingly Hasan Ali could use 13th gate when he came to know about the meaning of [Soul of Eternity] and could use 12th gate and 11th gate when he was only a 1st class expert. And after a long time passed and he became 4th class expert all of a sudden the 10th gate opened. Well, I think it is not connected to leveling up classes.

“What are you thinking?”

Suddenly a voice wakes me up from deep thought.

“You opened your wound out of nowhere. Do you want to die? Of course, it will be helpful for me if you die on your own then I will not affect by the poison, so please die.”

Hmm, I opened the wound to see because one hour has passed and to see 10% effect of self-regeneration. But 10% means 10% it didn’t heal that much. I replied to her,

“You see, I am a masochist. The feeling wound from my pain gives me great pleasure.”

I just throw a joke of course.

“Wh-what a pervert!?”

Her disgust reaction was something good to see.

“Well, please heal me now.”

She let out a sigh and said,

“I will heal you only this time, next time I won’t do that as long as you don’t hand me treasure as compensation.”

“What? Could it be my manhood treasure?”

I say that while guarding my crouch with both hands.

“Shut up!!!”

She retorted on my dirty joke with a red face. That face is something you want to see no matter what.

After that several days passed, White Cross healing my scar, of course, wound on my abdomen healed completely because of my [13th Gate of Soul: Aries] self-regenerating ability and White Cross’s healing effort.

And these days I am not just lazing around, I was deeply researching memory of Hasan Ali back and forth to clearly familiarize with this world. And of course, I decide to leave this continent that’s not mean I can leave to easily even if Hasan Ali was a holy and innocent man.

We have to show the reason, of course, I am not planning anything to strategic, I have to make just normal preparation like any other person do in the continent to leave this country for short term or long term. For that, I have to make a trip to this countries one of the major towns where I can make a license.

Currently, I am looking in the mirror as hard as I can. The scars on my faces starting to fade out just some black lines on my face are visible. Even though I am vigilant toward her, White Cross doing her job without making any trouble for me.

To tell you the truth she is still a fanatic if I look at her gaze, and she still plotting to kill me because time to time she curses me, of course not in tsundere way, it was from her heart. But this woman is honest and hardworking, she takes every task seriously even if it is not her liking. I like this kind of woman, well she is doing it her lolified form it makes me hug her every time I see her hardworking face.

Looking at my face in mirror I muttered,

“This face of mine wasn’t that bad.”

Hasan Ali’s face was good. In his teen, if he took care of this face, he might have become three-quarter handsome like my past face.

“No matter how I see it your narcissistic nature are just leveling up.”

White Cross commented on me.

“Oh come on everyone in this world is narcissistic, some just bold like me and some in their bathroom.”

I said with righteous voice.

“At least later ones are better than you”

Of course, great me don’t care about that kind of provocation.

“Well, it is your personal preference. I don’t give a damn.”

Saying that I started to check my new appearance again. Then I remember something,

“I am going Reel Town. And you will accompany me.”

Hearing me her art like beautiful thin eyebrows frowned.

“Leaving aside me accompany you, why are you willing to go to that place? You know your head is everywhere posted, especially, a big town like that.”

“Well, my rotten face was posted there. I will go there with my fully healed face. And act like a young noble youth there.”

“I am not commenting on that. But why just two of us going?”

“Do you think those old perverts can act as the human on that town? And their face even scary than me seeing them even a kid will understand they are no good. And why you are accompanying me, first reason guiding me because I never went big town like that except the town of my home country, of course, you know why. The second reason is to warn me as long as you notice people from church and lastly, you will act as my fangirl.”

If I was bandit mood I would have said you will act as my b*tch. But well, her face still become cold after hearing me.

“Even if I die I will not act like that. And especially not for a person like you.”

“Oh, then you will act like that for the person you like?”

“So what if I do?”

I tease her. Come to think of it, it will be not weird if she has someone in her mind. Well, I am not jealous. Because I also have someone that I like, or should I say I had. After all, I am dead and left that world. As feelings of romantically my focus were entirely on her, so I never look at other women. I wonder my focus will change after knowing that my love is unrequired, well if I think about it my life as a man is surprisingly come out failure. After leaving a sign of depression I replied to her,

“Oh, okay. I was just joking. Just act like a cute little sister you are doing until now.”

Really her acting skill is good; she was acting like a frail kid who is trying her best to pleasing her brother. If I didn’t know her real deal I also might have believed in her. That’s really some scaring skill. I should have guard my back with more cautions even if we are bound by a devilish pact.

“O-okay. That’s a really easy thing to do.”

Awkwardly replying that she left the room, maybe she noticed my sudden change of mood moments ago, and give me some rooms.

Whatever, I started to check out my face and planning how to look more handsome. Thinking about that my mood becomes again brighter like before.