Y/n was currently outside looking over a few things in his HUD screen before he headed out.

"Not really anything to go by with this type of murder. No clues, nothing" he spoke to himself. "Masao did say that his beloved ones were killed from being frozen solid in the inside. That means, the caster if it had to be in this area somewhere close. And that only leaves it for the caster to had been invisible or cast it from the trees."

Sistine and Toothless walked up to Y/n while he talked to himself.

"You ready Y/n?" Sistine asked him. He looked over at the two and his reply shocked her and Toothless.

"Actually, I'll be going alone for this one."

"Wait why? What happens if you were to get hurt?" She replied worriedly.

"I'll be fine. Besides, I need you and Toothless to stay here and protect this village while I'm gone. Hopefully it won't take me too long" Y/n put a hand on her shoulder.

"But, we're a team! We always do things together? What is so different now?" She retorted. She was really worried right now and didnt want Y/n to do anything stupid.

"Well, I dont know what I'm getting into to be quite honest and having both you and Toothless could scare off the culprit, so me going alone is the only option. I need you to stay here and protect these people if there is anything else was to happen to them." Y/n replied while moving his hand from her shoulder to her head to rub it.

Chief Masao soon walked over to thank Y/n for his help once more. Even though theres really nothing to go by, he is still grateful that a hero is helping his village out.

"Thank you once more Y/n, I dont know what I would do without your help."

"No need to thank me just yet. Like I said, haven't even found the culprit. However, are there anymore living areas nearby? We came from the east and didn't pass any, more of individual homesteads here and there. Maybe people around us know more about this mystery person" Y/n asked Masao, he needed everything he could possibly find.

"Well" Masao started, he then pointed south, "If you take the nearby river downstream, you'll have a two day travel on foot to the next inhabited area. Village isn't really a good term for those people, quite the group." He then pointed North, "If you go upstream, it'll be a four day travel to the next village. We have frequent contact with them for trades and information regarding to the nearest country"

Y/n couldn't help, but blink at what was just told to him. 'So, he just explained that the area downstream is quite the bunch. And he didn't send Jay and Gen there? Something must be up if he knew that'

"Alright, thank you for that, I will definitely head downstream first." Y/n nodded his head after replying, he then saw Masao bow in gratitude walk away.

Y/n then turned back to Sistine and gave her a confused look.

"You hear how that was explained the first place? Something seems up about that place. That's where I'm heading now"

Y/n turned to Toothless and gave him a rub on his head, "you be good now, protect these people with Sistine. I'm counting on you two" Y/n then turned back to his trusted mage.

"You do whatever possible as well. Shouldn't take me long, but you never know about this world." He rubbed her head to mess up her hair, she yelled and smacked his arm away.

"Dont do that! I hate when you do that" she blushed slightly while yelling. She then saw Y/n turn around to leave. To much of all three of them, Sistine ran up and gave Y/n a hug from behind. She buried her face into his back.

"Be safe, please. You have to come back, at all costs."

Y/n gave a small grin, that was not seen because of his mask and the direction he was facing. He rubbed Sistine's right arm to give her reassurance.

"I'll be back, I promise. Gonna take a lot to bring this cowboy down" Y/n replied to Sistine. He took both of her arms off of him and began walking out of the village. He didn't make it too far before Jay and Gen had stopped him.

"Here, something for the road" Gen gave Y/n a sack that contained some food. Jay gave him a flask to go with the food.

"Theres no need for this" Y/n replied looking at the items.

"It's the least we can do for the help you are providing us" Jay bowed in respect.

"Look fellers, there could be a chance I can die, or I will not find this person or whatever. However, I will do whatever I can boah, that's for damn sure"

"And that's all we can ask for, so thank you Y/n, for everything." Gen bowed in respect as well.

Y/n didn't have anything to reply with. So, with that, he tipped his hat to the two villagers and made his way to find this killer and put an end to these people's suffering, even if it meant to go to the extreme.

"Something tells me that this is going to be one hell of a ride" Y/n spoke to himself walking out of the village and heading to the nearby river to follow it downstream.

The next two days of traveling were one of the longest days Y/n had ever experienced. In his home world and in this world. The food Gen and Jay gave him was pretty good, but it didn't last as long as Y/n hoped for.

Y/n continued to follow the river downstream for quite some time, but something caught his attention.

He heard people yelling and screaming, then saw a lot of dust stir up into the sky. So he decided to go see what all the commotion was about.

When he got near the area that the noise was coming from, he saw another homestead area. Masao saying that a village wasn't the correct term, was true. There were small huts and such, but most of them were destroyed.

"What the hell happened here?" Y/n questioned to himself entering the area. He heard a large crowd near the center of town, so he decided to make his way over there.

Getting closer, Y/n started to hear all kinds of cheering and booing.

"Yeah, beat his ass!" A few people yelled.

"Come on! Put some spit on it and get up!" Another person yelled.

Y/n continued to make his way over to the crowd, he came to see there was a very, very large group of people. He happened to notice that this was happening in front of what looked like a stone temple. Y/n's eyes followed the staircase in front all the way to the top, to only see someone sitting on a throne. This individual was dressed in blue and had two large men at his sides, ones that a regular person would not dare to mess with in any way, shape, or form.

Y/n continued to make his way to the crowd, trying to find any opening to get to the front.

A few people noticed him, some may think they recognize him, others in curiosity to know what he was doing here. Y/n slowly made his way to the front trying to see the action.

"Hey watch it!" One person yelled while Y/n bumped into him. Y/n turned around and gave this person a deathly stare. The individual looked away in regret while Y/n made his way to the front.

After managing through some people, he finally got to the front to see.

He looked around to see everyone to make a horseshoe circle that connected to the staircase and in the middle were two people fighting and it looked like fighting to the death.

A swift kick to the side and one combatant was down, breathing hard. Another kick into the stomach and he fell onto the ground, clearly not able to continue.

There was a small silence and then majority of the circle was cheering. The man on the movable throne got up and clapped his hands together, congratulating the participant.

"Well fought, I am impressed." He spoke while walking down the staircase. The two bodyguards followed in suit.

The participant that won fell to his bottom and was breathing heavily.

"T-thank you sir" he managed to get out.

"As for the other one" the man finally came to the bottom of the stairs. He put his hand out and a small magic circle was beginning to form. It was an ice blue color and Y/n took notice. However, he heard the other contestant scream and looked over in that direction. The contestant was being brought up from the ground into a kneeling positioned. Y/n saw that his body was turning purple.

'I think I've found my suspect' Y/n thought, but he needed to act quickly, an innocent person looked like he was about to be killed.

The "leader", Y/n assumes, started to use ice magic again to form an ice axe. As he got closer to the victim, the victim started to freak out that he was about to be slaughtered, he closed his eyes and prepared for the action.

Right before the leader could kill, a loud bang entered into everyone's ears. Some having to cover theirs and look away.

Luckily for the person, the death penalty didn't come, but instead he felt the ice in his body disappear and saw this leader look in confusion at his hand.

"What the?" He looked around and spotted Y/n with unknown weapons to him in his hand. "Did you do this?" He pointed to Y/n. The contestant took this opportunity and got away, relived that he wasn't going to get killed, or he hopes not.

"You're killing an innocent person" Y/n replied with a steady grip on his guns.

"That's the point, he lost the fight, he must suffer the consequence of death." He pointed to the individual, but then pointed back to Y/n. "And just who do you think you are doing this?"

"I could ask you the same" Y/n replied staring down his suspect.

"You're not a regular when it comes this. I don't even recognize you, who are you anyway?" The leader started to walk over to Y/n.

"That's not really any of your concern, but maybe you can help me out" Y/n replied while putting his thumbs on the hammer of the guns.

"Me? Help you out? How so?"

"Looking for someone actually, and you seem to fit the glass slipper"

This man stopped and cocked an eyebrow, "How is that so when you don't know who I am?"

People started to get very curious between the interaction of Y/n and this person.

"Well," Y/n twirled his pistols, "I've been tasked to find a killer. The village that goes upstream that's about a two day walk from have experienced a few murders. Four to be exact" Y/n started. He was looking really close to this stranger's actions to see how he responded with his body language.

"And what would that have to do with me?" The man replied casually, too casual honestly.

"All four were killed by an ice mage" Y/n narrowed his eyes.

For a second the mysterious person did not say a thing, and Y/n could've sworn he saw some muscle tense up. However, this person seemed to play this off like it's another thing.

"Matter of fact, didn't we see Gaku head out of town and upstream the other day?" One person in the crowd stated. The caused everyone to look at him,

"Maybe we didn't....." he cowered down and started to back away.

Y/n turned back around and gave a questioning look to the new person named Gaku, which he visibly seemed a tad bit uncomfortable now.

"So," Y/n started, but this caused Gaku to become visibly upset.

"And what if I did? What are you going to do about it? I'll kill you on the spot right now!" He yelled and formed an ice spear to throw at Y/n, but that was blown into bits before he was even able to throw.

There was smoke coming off of Y/n's weapon. People looked at this unknown man in complete shock.

"Gun is the best defense" Y/n replied twirling the weapon really quickly, making a few look in awe.

"Why you" Gaku replied getting very frustrated. He then commanded both of his guards to attack Y/n, but they were dropped to the ground quickly with Y/n shooting their kneecaps.

Y/n didnt pay attention to Gaku running at him full speed and Gaku was able to land a sucker punch to Y/n's left jaw.

The force made Y/n fall to the ground and his HUD screen went blurry, but it cleared up in time to see Gaku have an ice lance made to stab Y/n. Y/n grabbed his pistol and shot Gaku in the shin, with him dropping the lance. Y/n took this opportunity to get up and get a powerful uppercut that sent Gaku in the air. Out of instinct, Y/n continued his attack by getting up and running and punching Gaku while he was in still in the air. Each punch kept the criminal in the air and finally Y/n came to a realization of what was happening and he stopped, allowing Gaku to fall and groan in pain.

"What the hell?" Y/n asked himself looking at his hands, "that was just like Mortal Kombat, when you can keep the opponent in the air with combos"

They crowd was silent until Y/n and Gaku both were standing up. After the silent moments, they all burst into massive cheers and began to place bets on Y/n and Gaku

Gaku groaned in pain and slowly got up, his mouth was bleeding from the initial uppercut. "J-just what the hell was that" he asked while trying to get into a fighting stance once more.

Y/n wouldn't reply, so Gaku used ice magic to freeze his legs in place. Unfortunately for Gaku, he didnt freeze the guns at Y/n's hips. Y/n grabbed one and shot Gaku to stop him in place and used a fire shot to explode the ice holding him in place. Y/n used this opportunity to run at Gaku.

Y/n started this next combo by slightly crouching to throw a few body shots at Gaku. Then the body shots turned to a quick jab to the face and then a right hook that made Gaku spin, but instead of falling on the ground, Y/n grabbed him and spun him to face him, then punched Gaku in the stomach and chest before grabbing his rifle and swinging it like a baseball bat that connected with Gaku's face, sending him flying a few feet back.

"Yoooooo! We haven't seen Gaku get pushed around like this! Whoever this is, hell yeah!" Someone yelled in the crowd. A lot of yelled in agreement.

Gaku wasn't moving, so Y/n decided to see if it was over. Unfortunately for Y/n, he wasn't quick enough to dodge the spear that Gaku made instantly and shoved into Y/n's stomach. The spear broke after a few seconds, but this made Y/n stumble back and clench his stomach.

"Damn, nobody has whipped my ass like this before" Gaku replied while getting up, he was physically exhausted and Y/n was now hurt, so it evened the score.

Y/n saw his health meter drop little by little, he needed to end this quick.

Gaku started to run at Y/n, but was stopped when Y/n pulled out a bunch of caltrops that made Gaku scream in pain when his feet were on top of them. Y/n quickly went after Gaku and kicked him in the shin, then in his stomach. Y/n grabbed his rifle once more and swung it up to connect with Gaku that sent him in the air. Y/n went after him again while running and punching to keep him in the air.

Finally, Y/n speared him into the ground and he quickly sat up and pulled out his pistols and unloaded both revolvers.

Everyone watched the ending of this battle in complete horror, after Y/n had stopped shooting he came to realize what just had happened. He quickly got off of Gaku and looked away.

There were a few people that had to turn around before puking at what Y/n did to Gaku. Y/n couldn't look at him right now, he was currently ripping his clothes to cover up the wound Gaku had made and putting pressure on it.

After a few minutes, Y/n's health bar had stopped draining and stayed at one spot, it was roughly around sixty percent, give or take.

The people couldn't comprehend the scene that just unfolded before them. They didn't know to cheer or what. Some looked at Y/n in complete fear, while others just had the mouths opened in shock.

Y/n decided to look at the new lifeless body of Gaku, and when he saw his head, he damn near about puked himself. In the heat of the moment, Y/n wasn't paying attention to what he was doing to Gaku, he was acting out of instincts.

Gaku's body was fine compared to his head, a few bullet wounds in his body, but his skin on his head was burnt off by the heat of the bullets Y/n had unloaded into the criminal's head. There were many bullet holes in his skull, but you could also see the muscle on his head.

Y/n found the staircase and decided to scoot over to prop himself up to let his mana build back up. He saw his health wasn't going back up, so that was something he needed to be worried about when he headed back.

A few people had the courage to take a closer look at the once "leader". Some were amazed how much the weapons Y/n had affected him.

A few other people slowly made their way to Y/n, kinda scared to even speak to him.

Y/n saw the group that wanted to talk to him and decided to speak. "I was hired to kill him, well actually I agreed to help. Gaku killed the village chiefs wife and children and also an innocent woman. And with what he was about to do with that one person, I couldn't help it"

"Gaku was known for killing, this wasn't his first time" someone spoke up.

Y/n was about to reply, but seen that both of Gaku's guards started to get up, both looked very pissed off.

Y/n was still recovering from the fight with Gaku, so he had little to no energy left to fight at the moment. However, to everyone's surprise, there was a large creature that flew down and knocked the two large men out. Y/n looked up to see his dragon and a familiar white haired girl that looked at him and smiled.

"I should've known she wouldn't listen" Y/n replied while laying his head on the stair case. He began to laugh at her stubbornness, but that hurt a bit too much. "But I am sure as hell glad she is here now"

Sistine used some healing magic to get Y/n back to health. He then explained what happened and everything. Sistine couldn't look at the lifeless body of Gaku, but Toothless had no problem going up to it to sniff it and poke it to make sure it was dead.

"Toothless!" Y/n yelled while changing into his 'Outlaw' form. "Get away from that" he continued to his dragon. Y/n pulled out his sword and started to walk towards the corpse with everyone knowing what he was about to do.

"He had it coming" Y/n kept telling himself. In the minutes resting from his fight with Gaku, he came to realize that whatever is to happen he needs to survive in this world, so if it meant killing others, then so be it.

With one swift motion, Y/n cut of Gaku's head and stuffed it into a hay sack that a individual went and got for him. Unfortunately for Y/n, the blood traveled up the blade and some got on his face and some got on his hat, staining it. He got the blood off of his face with his shirt.

"Well, shit. My hat is stained now" Y/n took it off and looked at it. He shrug his shoulders and put it back on.

"Come on, it's best if we returned to tell and show Masao" Sistine got to the courage to get near him after his action.

"Okay, but both of us can't fit on Toothless" Y/n stopped.

"Uh, take a look again. Toothless grew again while you were gone" Sistine replied pointing at him.

Y/n looked and sure enough, Toothless had grew a bit more. He looked pretty much full sized now.

"Think you can handle us both buddy? I know Sistine is big and all" Y/n spoke to his dragon. Toothless started to laugh, while Sistine punched him in the arm.

"Hey!" She yelled, but that turned into a shriek when Toothless picked both Y/n and Sistine up and sat them on his back.