An hour of silence passed.

Alex couldn't enter meditation.

His body was tense and shaking in anger from time to time.

'I've done what I needed to do,' Alex kept repeating to himself in his mind.

He had already gotten used to the smell of blood, but Alex subconsciously breathed through his mouth to avoid smelling it.

A painful headache formed over the course of the hour.

Alex felt like his stomach was churning.

'I've done what I needed to do.'

Alex slowly opened his eyes and gazed at the body pieces surrounding his sled wagon.

He had done this a couple of times in the last hour.

It was like he was trying to confirm if all of this had really happened.

'This could have been me,' Alex thought as he looked at one of the corpses.

However, no matter how often Alex told himself these things, it was like something inside of him wasn't accepting his thoughts.

'I did the right thing.'

'If I had let them escape, they would have called stronger bandits.'

However, as Alex had that thought, he realized something.

'But then, why did I only kill the ones that carried Ice Wood?'

Alex's insides shuddered.

'I let the others escape.'

'Stronger bandits will come either way.'

'But then, why did I kill the others?'

'They were already all retreating.'

'Would some pieces of Ice Wood ruin my plan?'

Silence.

Alex looked at the pieces of Ice Wood that some corpses still held in their hands.

Alex knew the answer.

'Without killing at least one or two of them, the others wouldn't have retreated.'

in my entire sled

Silence.

looked at

the first two, the other deaths

deaths don't change

Silence.

of

them, these deaths wouldn't have

the very lesson I have learned

the way or

belongings and

these two things. I've killed

should have killed

Silence.

arrived at that train of thought,

However, his headache worsened.

make that

Silence.

as he

BANG!

sled wagon shook as Alex shot into the

"Wait-"

SHING!

body fell to

looked at the corpse with

leather,

a bandit, but a stronger one. I felt a tinge of resistance from

his surroundings warily, but he didn't hear, see, or

'A scout.'

Alex narrowed his eyes.

can't commit

and his arm behind his cloak. After that, he

had stayed in the wild for a long time, and he had become excellent at moving

wide circle, never leaving his sled wagon

didn't find a second bandit, even after searching for

his sled wagon and sat down

hoped that the night would be

time passed in silence for

keeping Alex

a middle-aged man with an

dead. So what?" the man asked with

glared at the man. "He

he returned yet?" the man with the eyepatch asked with

know!" the young man shouted. "However, I'm sure that he's still alive!

hasn't returned, he either left

the man with the eyepatch said with a

in rage. "Then, we have to

at the young man. "Revenge? Are you sure you're a real

only here to earn money for

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