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.'

ended in my

Silence.

looked at

two,

don't

Silence.

have killed all of them,'

of them, these deaths wouldn't have

I have

the

have both things. I wanted to keep my belongings and remain safe,

up with me getting neither of these two

killed all

Silence.

arrived at that train of

However, his headache worsened.

can't make that

Silence.

a cold glint as he heard a very silent sound in the

BANG!

shook as Alex shot into the distance with

"Wait-"

SHING!

of a body

at the

clothing made of leather, daggers, a

a stronger one. I felt

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

'A scout.'

Alex narrowed his eyes.

commit

behind his cloak. After that, he silently but swiftly

the wild for a long

in a wide circle, never leaving his sled wagon for too long. He had to keep an

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

sled wagon and

night

in silence

things keeping Alex company were his

with an eyepatch was glaring at a young man with

what?" the man asked with

as he glared at the

hasn't he returned yet?" the man with the eyepatch asked with a solemn

I'm sure that he's still alive! That's

things go. If he hasn't returned, he either left our group, or he's dead. Bandits don't get captured,

dead. Get it through your head," the man with the eyepatch said with

in rage. "Then, we have

with the eyepatch sneered at the young man. "Revenge? Are you sure you're a real bandit? Since

only here to earn money for one reason or another. We're not a group of friends. We're not

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