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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