“Erfia, how are you feeling?”

“I, I don’t know, dad. I, I just can’t stop shaking.”

It’s been a day since she used the ice magic to kill all of the desert bandit, but apparently the shock of taking lives of human is still intact. It may look cruel, but I need to make her learn how it feels to kill. To take lives.

Right now we’re in An Saia, the south most city in the Ma Continent and the closest city to Land of No Man. By the border, you can already see the Land of No Man. We’re lodging in some inn in this city.

“Haha, what a great father, to make his own child kill at least sixty people in one night.” Reis talks to me in her usual sarcastic tone.

If I remember correctly, she never shuts up since I took her as my slave. Apparently, it is not uncommon to hear her sarcastic tone.

“I think the stable is still available. Tell me, do you prefer a gryphon or snake horse?” I talk back at her with a serious tone.

Reis changes her attitude in an instant and bows her head. “I beg of you, please forgive me, oh my graceful master.”

Of course it will freak her out. Everyone knows gryphon and snake horse is fast and reliable ride but they’re a thirsty animal. What I mean by thirsty is they mate with every other living being. Whether it’s another animal, elf, half beast, human, undead, anything. People with those ride usually bring a pack of animal to satisfy their thirst. I won’t say lust because it’s just in their instinct. If I throw her in a stable full of them, it’s certain that not only one, but all of them in the stable will mate with her.

It is not the time to mess with her, I’ve got Erfia to handle. “Erfia, I want you to remember this feeling. This is the feeling of taking one’s life. It is important that you remember this feeling so that you won’t kill anybody any more.”

“Ac, actually, dad, it is not the killing that makes me shaking. It is the drawback of the magic that I used.” She’s stutter as she responds to me.

“Wait, what? Are you serious?” Reis responds to her right before I got my chance.

Erfia just nods slowly.

Wait, what? Okay, that’s not normal. I’ve been lying so many times in my lives starting from a little lie up to the political lie. I can hear she’s stuttering, but I can see no lie in her words. It is the truth.

“My parents were killed about three years ago. I can still remember when I attacked the killer with a piece of glass. That’s when I killed for the first time. But his friend was still there, and since then I’ve became their slave. I don’t know how many times I’ve been changed to a different master as my master being killed is a normal thing. Even when dad killed the big woman at that inn, I felt nothing as seeing one’s life being taken is a normal thing to me.”

I never checked this but I’ve got to make sure. I activate a spell by silent incantation.

~O the almighty watcher, I wish you to grant this selfish wish of mine and let me borrow those touches of yours, the hand of the creator.~

This spell is another small mana spell. It increases my skin sensitivity by adding extra small electricity through my nerve. It might need a small mana to activate, but it took most of my mind to control. To be able to use this spell, the person needs the knowledge of human nerve system, the power of imagination, and a very great concentration. Without those three requirements, I can’t fully control which nerve to electrify and I may put it in the wrong nerve. It will give me a sorrowful pain or even worse, I may get disabled.

I hug Erfia in worry.

“Um, dad?”

By hugging her, I can feel every inch of Erfia’s body. I can feel her heartbeat like a drum being hit toward my body. By the heartbeat, I can feel the blood that circulate through her whole body and I can feel anything wrong with her body. I can feel few disorganized blood flow in her blood that was caused by being beaten in the past. I can also feel her right middle finger that’s not normal anymore. It seems her middle finger had been broken once but she didn’t get any treatment.

I can also feel her mana flow, which circulates along the blood and nerve system, being disarrayed and moving at a fast pace. Mana point is a little bit similar to acupuncture. It seems some of her mana points is disrupted. It gives a great amount of drawback from a spell that should be only give a drawback as big as being bitten by an ant.

But after my check, I don’t feel anything wrong in her lower body. Thank god it seems she’s still pure.

I add some electricity toward her nerve system to slow down the blood and mana flow in her body. Other than add electricity on my body, I can also add some electricity toward another person’s nerve system if I touch them.

“Are you feeling better?”

“Uh, uh yeah, I guess.”

~The Almighty Watcher is being too kind~

I dispel the magic and return to my normal body. I let go of Erfia and sit beside her in the bed.

“It seems some of your mana points are being disrupted because of the beating you took in the past. I slow it down and make your body normal again. But if it’s not treated, you won’t be able to cast a magic by that scale any more or even bigger because it might kill you. Maybe that’s the reason why the mana stored in my ring feel a little bit unstable too.”

I got a silent treatment from my daughter and my slave. Did I just do something wrong?

“You can say all that from just one hug? How much of a pervert are you?” Reis throws a disgust look at me. She’s even trying to cover her body with her hand.

“Dad, what magic did you use to know all about my body?” Unlike Reis which looks at me with disgust in her eye, Erfia looks at me with sparkling eyes like she’s looking at magic for the first time.

I happily answer to Erfia’s question, “It is a magic that lets me increase my sensitivity toward anything that touches me. By that magic, I can feel the blood circulation in your body and by my knowledge, I know if there’s anything wrong with it.”

“Wow,” Her eyes is sparkling even more. “Are all of your previous magic is similar? Can I use it?”

“I guess it will be hard to master as it needs a very good understanding of human body and some of those spells also needs a very good understanding of both human body and alchemy. I think it will be easier for you to cast a normal or large scale magic as you have enormous access to mana of nature.”

“But, daddy, you said that I can’t cast any big scale spell like last night.”

Now she’s sulking. Oww, looking at her sulking face makes me worry but she’s also looks so cute.

“It’s okay, I’ll take you to one of my friends. She’s a master of body recovery. She’ll cure you in no time.”

“Ah, really? Yeay!”

She jumps out of her bed. But right after she jumps out of bed, her body suddenly fall. I manage to catch her before she’s hitting the floor.

“Okay, okay, you might be better for now but you still need some rest. Sleep for now and tomorrow we’ll continue our journey.”

Not so long after that, Erfia fall asleep in my lap. I slowly change my lap with a pillow and cover her with a blanket. I go to the other bed to take a sleep too and then I take my shirt off and throw it to Reis.

“Wha, what’s the meaning of this?” Reis is pissed and throws my shirt somewhere in the room.

“Nothing, I just feel like it.”

She replies with nothing. A long and dreadful silent comes into the room.

“Hey, why did you kill all of my friends? Is it really necessary to kill them all?”

So, she decides to take the initiative huh.

“Actually I planned to kill all of you. But it seemed luck was on your side. So, I decided to take you as my slave. I took you as my slave so that I got someone to do all of my order. That’s all.”

“Is that all? So, you kill all of them for no reason?”

I can feel her voice is trembling. It seems she’s still can’t accept that all of her friends died in just one night.

“If, I didn’t kill all of you, would you let us go like nothing ever happened?” I raise my voice a little bit but I make it sure it won’t wake Erfia from her sleep.

“Tha, that’s,” no more words are coming of her mouth.

“If that’s all, get to sleep. We’ll be leaving tomorrow by the gate of world.” I put my back on the bed and the pillow on the back of my head.

She’s silently lie in the floor and try to close her eyes. I realize that I don’t even use the blanket on my bed. Well, I never like to use a blanket when I sleep. I guess I’m being graceful tonight.

I throw my blanket at Reis. She just catches it without a word.

“I don’t like using a blanket while I sleep. You can have it.”

Still no reply. I guess she just goes to sleep by the blanket in her body. I’ve got to get some sleep too. Good night world.

~~~

It's afternoon and we’re lining up at the gate of the world. Gate of the world is a name for a device that’s being used in this world to teleport to another gate. It can’t teleport you to any gate as one gate can only connect to a certain amount of gate. A gate at a small city like this place usually can only connect to three gates at most. But the gate at the capital can connect to ten gates. The gate in this city only connects to two gates, at Avareel, a city in north of Ul Thadur, and Us’a, a city in east coast of Alia Continent, the Continent of Elf. Our destination is Avareel as the person I will meet is living in the mountain range that separates the human and beast man capital.

I hold Erfia's hand so we won’t be separated and let Reis stands beside me. Hoping they will think of us as a family. But, I’m just fooling myself as Erfia is a half elf and half beastmen.

“I’m sorry sir, but I can’t let you pass.”

Suddenly, a word from the guard stops me. There are two guards with halberd that stop us to reach the gate. I look around and see few guards near the gate is talking to each other. What’s happening? Could it be they know who I am? No way, it should be only my name that’s famous, not my face. But then I remembered when Reis knew my name just by looking at me two days ago. Could it be that my face really has been well known?

“And why is that?” I try to gather some information.

“It’s because of her.” One of the guards point at Reis. “She’s Reis Waltz the six desert master.”

Oh, so that’s the real reason. It seems my identity as Mada the Raider still unknown to them.

“That’s One of The Six Desert Master, not Six Desert Master.” Reis corrects them in a pissed tone.

Seriously? That’s what you’re worrying about?

“She’s a fugitive, so we have to arrest her.”

“What? You’re worrying about me being a fugitive? Don’t you know the man standing in front of you is Mada the Rai-“

Okay, that’s it. I won’t let you reveal my identity right here and right now. I don’t want to cross the Land of No Man by hover motorcycle or walking. So, I quickly grab her vest collar and put all of my might on it. On that moment, I tear her front side of the vest and showing her body to everybody at that place.

“Kyaahhh.”

She drops on her knees and tries to cover her body by using both of her hand. I pull her hair and put her arm lows to show her chest to the guard.

“You see, she’s my slave. By the law of slavery, no matter who or what the slave is, they fully belong to the master.” I speak to the guard like some arrogant bastard. “She’s no longer Six Desert Master. She’s just a lowly slave by now.”

I drop Reis back on the ground and she tries to cover her body. I look into her and I can see a tear is coming out of her eyes. Maybe I’m going too far. But, it’s your own fault.

I pay attention to the other guards. They’re still talking to each other. But, it’s not a normal talk like before, more like, they’re arguing now. Then, one of the guards near the gate comes closer and whispers something to the guard in front of us. The guard in front of us looks shocked.

“I’m sorry sir, I don’t know that she’s your slave now. Have a safe trip, Sir Mada Jeian of the Vorks.” The guard steps away and lets us pass through.

It seems they discovered my other identity. One identity I always keep to make things go smoothly.

I grab Erfia hand and we walk toward the gate. But unfortunately, Reis is unwilling to cooperate. I grab her arm and drag her along with us to the gate.

Damn, could it be that taking her as a slave is a big mistake?