It has been one and a half month since our departure. Everyone is in state of exhaustion but we never stop, until Sir Jerome received a letter from a messenger that some reinforcements already arrived towards our destination.

Sir Jerome gathered us all and announced that we will camp for two days and two nights to recover our strengths and we will restock our supply on the next town.

During our travel I never slept, I always enter a meditation state during our night rest. It’s more effective to recover from fatigue than sleeping and it gives me some kind of awareness if some kind of danger is near us and lastly it’s also a form of training my ‘Ki’ so it’s giving me three benefits in one action.

On the first night of our two days two nights rest I sensed some abnormalities in the nearby forest so I sneak out of the camp which Sir Jerome noticed. He followed me when I entered the forest knowing that I did not notice him.

I hid on a tree and surprised him appearing behind.

“Is there something wrong sir?” I asked

“Isn't that the thing I should be asking you” he said while turning around to face me

“Am I in suspicion of something?”

He draw his sword and said “as of earlier you do not but sneaking out of the camp to enter this forest seems suspicious enough for me”

Sigh* “can’t I have some peace to release some pain on my stomach. Or do I have to do it in front of everyone?”

“You can’t lie to me kid, lots of people your age have secrets to hide than a woman in her late working on a bakery or in an inn”

‘Hmm did he experience something awful against young ones?’

“Are you talking about the issue of the kingdom were going to aid?”

“So you knew about it. Looks like my intuition is correct there really is a spy under me” he then forms a stance ready to strike.

“I think you are mistaken about something sir” I said calmly

“Heh denying even though you were already caught”

I took an envelope out of my pocket covered with a special kind of cloth so it won’t get wet even if it were submerge underwater. I showed it to him and when he saw the seal on the letter he draw back his sword.

“What is the meaning of this? Explain”

“As you can see I’m on an official business and should not disclose my purpose to anyone”

“That’s not what I’m asking. What I want to know is how the hell you got that letter with the seal of the highest council member.”

“Like I said I’m on a mission apart from yours. I am entrusted on a suicide mission to learn the truth about the king of that kingdom”

“But to send a kid of all people”

“Well they said I’m the most suited in this one. Since high-ranking people will not escape their watchful eyes and if I got caught it’s easy to dispose me” well it’s not really a lie but I have the highest rate of success in this.

“I see but that doesn't give you enough to prove yourself why are you roaming around this forest”

“Like I said I’m taking a dump. Or do you have to watch me doing so?”

“Nice try kid, nice try, but like I said that won’t work on me”

I scratch my head and decided to give up.

“Fine I’ll tell you I might even bring you along since it might be dangerous if I came alone”

“What do you mean?”

“aaaargh just follow me and I will tell you along the way”

We walk deeper in the forest and I explained him that I notice some king of abnormality inside the forest. It took some time but as we move closer Sir Jerome also felt that abnormality.

“This presence, its feels like it wants to tear me apart”

“I know, it’s getting stronger and I can smell some blood in the air”

Sir Jerome looks at me ‘by the gods how this brat did sensed something like this from that distance’

“We need to hurry”

We arrived, but the scene before us makes us both stunned. It’s near the river with the full moon aiding our vision we saw two black dogs about twice the size of a full grown man. One of them is feeding on some kind of human figured corpse, the other one walking towards a frightened maiden.

“An elf?” Sir Jerome said

“Are you sure? No elf should be around this territory”

“I’m sure I’ve seen one before in some of my missions me as an envoy towards an elven village. So I’m sure that is an elf, but yeah there shouldn’t some here. Though my concern is those black dogs they are not normal”

“I think they are demons”

“Demons? Wait does that mean they manage to break through the front lines”

“We won’t know if we just sit here, better rescue some damsel in distress”

I knew at this point using the sword I have on my waist will be useless. I can feel some evil aura surrounding them and I saw the broken sword the female elf holding in her hands. So I put down my sword.

“Wait” Sir Jerome tried to stop me but I already jumped out and charge towards the dog and the female elf.

I jump and do some somersaults increasing my momentum and performed an ax kick on the dog’s forehead. Dust clouds formed, the dog collapsed, his head buried on the ground but that did not kill it and attracted the other dog’s attention instead.

“Damn they are tougher than they look”

The female elf were looking at me unable to move nor speak and wondering what just happened

The dog I hit recovered, stand up I charged my hand with some neutral ‘Ki’ and charge towards the dog performing an uppercut on its chin while dodging his claws.

The first dog shot upwards about five meters and I rushed towards the other dog that’s ready to take some chunk of meat out of me. I pour more energy on my hand and stab the dog on its chest reaching its heart to kill it.

“The heck this guy don’t have a heart. How in the world did these mutts even alive?”

I remove my hand and fall backwards. The first dog fell on the river, stand up and look at me baring his fangs. The second dog’s wound starts to heal and faced me with an angry look.

“Shit if that dint kill it then I have no other choice” I covered my whole body with neutral energy and dash towards the dogs. Since I cannot reveal my black weapons, just need to increase my energy and create an invisible aura for defence.

I also pour more energy on my hand forming a sword aura as a weapon. If you’re thinking why not use my other sword, well it’s simple that one is a trash it will break into pieces if I put as much energy as I have on my hand now. In my opinion it only serves as a decoration for me to look like a warrior.

That damned pervert, at least give me something I can use.

This method not only consumes more energy but also weaker than channeling it to a good sword that will break after being used once but since beggars can’t be picky I need a sword (for decoration purposes) so I have to do it this way for now.

With that, those dogs charge at me opening their jaws as I jump and slice off their heads.

“Let’s see if that dint killed you bastards”

The dog’s head dropped on the ground along with their bodies and after a few seconds they turned into smoke.

As if there is nothing there at all both bodies of the demons vanish in the cold night air.

With the fight ended I release my aura and walked towards the elf.

“Hey” a voice came from behind. I look at the source and saw Jerome.

‘ah so he hid all the time while I was waging my life with death, what a great commander’ I thought

“We need to treat her wounds first” I said

He gave me a nod and proceeds towards the elf which is still stunned processing what just happened.

Frankly speaking she is a mess. Clothes are shredded her sword is in half with a lot of bruise and cuts. Though I must admit she is still a killer.

‘So the stories about the elves are true they are really beautiful’ I muttered

I reach on her deepest wound which is located on her inner thigh, while wondering how she got that wound. But inches before I touched it a hand tried to hit me.

“WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU PERVERT!” the elf shouts at me

I dodge her strike and looked at Jerome “hold her down so I can heal her” without any doubt and maybe because his brain is still on the cloud he hold her down without thinking.

“HEY LET ME GO BASTARDS”

I touched her wound on her inner thigh and started to pour some water affinity energy to heal her wounds. Her wound on her body began to heal leaving no scars behind

“aaaahnn”

some weird sound she made while I’m healing her wounds.

“aaahnn stop please aaaaaaaaaahnnnnn stop!”

she continue to make weird sounds until I finished healing her.

*huff* *huff* *huff* she’s out of breath; well she seemed exhausted so it’s easy to understand her circumstances.

I remove my hand and stand up.

“There, all done, Huh? Do you have a fever your face is all red? And you too Sir Jerome why do you also have a fever?” I asked noticing they are both beet red up to the ears.

The elf stands up still beet red and tried to slap me, of course I dodge and she continue to hit me.

“You perverted bastard don’t dodge let me hit you you damn pervert! I mean take responsibility on what you have done”

“What? I saved your life and healed your wounds you should be grateful to me instead of trying to hit me” I said

“Take some responsibility you damn pervert” still trying to hit me

“EHEM, please excuse me but the lovers quarrel may continue later, for now there are some questions we need you to answer. By the way my name is Jerome commander of the army just outside this forest we are task to aid against the siege going on to a nearby kingdom. I have been informed that the enemy are those demons you have just encountered though I might be the only one who knew the truth of the mission”

He stopped the elf

“Hey what lovers quarrel and why would you pair me up with an old woman”

“WHAT DID YOU SAY IM ONLY 104 YEARS OLD AND STILL TOO YOUNG TO MARRY”

“Yep too old MS. Granny” she became furious and angry at me

“ENOUGH we need to confirm some things and time is not something we have”

The elf calmed down and glared at me.

“I’m sorry I know, my name is Ecleair moonlight and as you've already know an elf”

“For now what is an elf doing here on a territory which is said that no elf can be found?” Jerome asked

“That’s because it’s the village is well hidden since some humans considered us fine goods at a high price on some underground market”

“I see so it still exist despite being illegal, ah before I forgot the kid with me is Frau one of my soldiers but it seems I need to fish out some information on him based on what I saw”

“I do not care about that pervert nor I want to know about him anymore but to slay two demons barehanded is really unheard of” glaring at me

“And trying to hit his savior is also unheard of” I said while my arms crossed

Sigh* “so what are you doing here?”

“It’s a patrol since there are some strange things going on lately and our priestess sensed something ominous nearby, to think the cause are demons *sigh*” she move towards the corpse of the other elf and take that elf’s necklace

“He and I are not really close but he still tried to defend me and it cost his own life” with a sad face and tears forming in her eyes she faced us again

“Please at least help me bury his remains”

Both of us agreed and bury the male elf’s body.

After that we created a camp fire and the interrogation towards me started.

“A kid going on a suicide mission and eliminate any one who resist on the arrest if proven guilty. Killing two demonic beast barehanded and manage to completely heal an elven folk. Just who the hell are you kid?” he said while I told the whole story about my mission

“Just a normal kid going on a trip” I said

“Yeah right, ten years ago I might believe that but what I can see right now is something out of the story books I’ve read when I was a child so spit it out kid”

I scratch my head and Ecleair gave me a curious look waiting for an answer

“Alright it’s a special training I have done for ten years, wishing to become strong enough so I can save a beauty in danger and be rewarded with a kiss”

When I finish my word I gave Ecleair a wink which made her blush a bit.

“But I’m expecting a young one not a granny” I continued

“HEY!” she said while glaring at me

“Ok enough, I don’t know what kind of hellish training you did for ten years to achieve such strength but your mission is really dangerous, I can give you some aid but if things get ugly I might not be able to help you”

“Don’t worry I’m prepared besides if you gave me some help we might get detected and all will fail”

“I see you have a point” he paused and think about something “I guess you are on your own on this one but I will be ready if ever you need me”

“Thank you for your concerns Sir”

“Now that its settled, Ecleair what are your plans?” Jerome asked her

“For now I must return to my village and inform them on what happened here, we must prepare ourselves for the worst things to come”

“so this is where we part, I’m sorry if we cannot escort you back since we need to hurry back before anyone notice my absence and turn into panic”

“It’s ok I also don’t want any outsiders to know the location of my village, so Good bye and good night”

All of us stand up and prepare to depart; I covered the campfire with dirt and Jerome started to walk towards the army camp saying it won’t do us good if they saw us together.

Suddenly the elf grabbed my head and gave me a kiss while saying “good bye I hope we meet again” then she disappeared into the night.

Dumbstruck and did not know what happened I walk back to the camp thinking ‘damn that was my first kiss, really what’s up with that woman earlier she want to kill me then after a few hours kissed me, wished to meet again. Does she want to have some kind of revenge?’

‘Sigh. Anyway I did get some nice and cute reactions from her, If the old pervert is here I’m sure he will lose control and grab the opportunity…….’ After a long pause deciding to just forget about it, I sneak back to the camp, luckily no one noticed that I left and Jerome got back with the excuse of releasing a huge dump to his sub commanders.

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------- Jerome’s POV ----------

Everybody is exhausted I know but I don’t want to repeat what happened ten years ago because we took too much time to arrive.

This is my second campaign since ten years ago and because of the failure I was demoted. Finally after ten years they gave me a second chance.

One and a half month later an envoy came to us notifying that some reinforcements have arrived to our destination.

The news gave me some relief as if a huge burden came off; I decided to rest for two days and two nights to recover our energy.

At night I noticed the kid from ten years ago sneaking out of the camp, I followed him, after I entered the forest he disappeared from my sight and appeared behind me, it almost killed me from shock.

I draw my sword and ramble some words to hide my reaction.

Then he showed me a letter with the seal of the top council member saying he is on a special mission.

I shove away the idea after a few exchanges of words but still I can’t believe that such important mission is given to a kid not even me know of it.

He pointed out about some abnormality towards the forest and I tag along with him thinking that it’s just some rubbish day dream of a kid.

But as we draw near I felt some monstrosity I’ve only felt on a near death situation. ‘By the gods how this brat did sensed something like this from that distance’ but instead of saying something stupid I still need to act firm since I’m older and he is my subordinate.

“We must hurry” I said

When we arrived, I was stunned, two huge I mean freaking huge black dogs were present one is feeding on something and one is moving towards an elf. ‘Wait an elf?’

Feeling that the kid did not know what is that human like figure he is seeing, “it’s an elf” I said

He’s reaction is quite understandable since it’s really should not be possible for an elf to be here.

But we are in a dangerous situation we are no match to those dogs the kid called them demons.

Before I called a retreat he put his sword down and rush towards the elf.

“This freaking idiot fighting those is insane but fighting without a weapon is asking for death” I said.

But my opinion all changed when he made that huge dog collapse on the ground. Even though it did not kill it, I know there is something about this kid that will give us a miracle to survive this night.

I did not dare to interfere with the fight, I don’t consider it being a coward but being mindful I might disrupt the kid’s concentration and get him killed.

The fight ended and the body of the dogs vanished like a smoke. While arranging my thoughts on what had just happened the kid ordered me to hold down the elf and so I did without thinking.

It amazed me he healed the elf with just touching her but the elf made some erotic sounds which made me aroused.

After he healed the elf he even dared to ask some stupid question, damn I hate these innocent types.

We talk about what happened and all of us shared some information. It seems that the kid trained for ten long years to become strong. But hell how the heck did he have to go through to become that strong just in ten years, I mean I’ve been training all my life which did not even amount to a quarter of what he showed earlier.

We gave our farewell to each other and I ask the kid to stay behind to remove our tracks so we won’t arrive at the same time to raise some suspicions

When I arrived my subordinates questioned my disappearance which caused them to panic. Well I did not prepare for an excuse so I said “Can’t a man take his time to release some dump quietly?” I ask them. Hahaha and they believed it or they must.

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----------------Ecleair’s POV--------------

It’s hopeless I’m about to die, facing this monsters is a bad decision we came up with. Being so over confident with our skill’s gave us a passage to the afterlife.

With the mission to patrol the surroundings of our village we manage to find a beast eating some wild boar. We sensed the darkness around it, so we decided to kill it which is a wrong decision. Arrows don’t work and our swords break but worst of all we did not notice the other one.

Lost all hope and accepted my death all of a sudden a figure jumped towards the beast and hit its forehead. The beast on the ground, which seemed unaffected, caused the other beast’s attention. He sent the first one flying in the air and tried to kill the other one.

Screaming about the beast don’t have a heart and the other one fall on the river both ready to tear him into pieces. I felt some kind of strange energy around the one who saved me. Its peaceful yet strong, calm but wild. It’s a sensation I want to feel as if I’m on a grassy field taking a nap.

The next thing happened both heads of the beast fall as if a very sharp object cut them off perfectly.it amazed me, just who is he? So strong.

He walk towards me and tried to touch my thighs. I slapped him or at least I tried to which he dodge perfectly. I shout at him insulting him for trying to touch me but the other guy appeared and hold me down.

I struggled fearing something bad will happen but when he touched me it felt great. I moaned and tried to stop him but the other man is still holding me down. My wounds healed as if I was never hurt in the first place.

He finished healing me and asked a stupid question. Anger filled my head thinking ‘How could he humiliate me and walked away un harmed’ but words I did not expect came out of my mouth asking him to take responsibility on what he has done to me, I felt more embarrassed and lash out on to him.

The other guy stopped us. After a few conversations I calmed down, I stare at the guy who saved me which I learned his name is Frau. He is quite built and very manly ‘wait did I say manly’ I hid my face and blushed again.

When we finished our conversation and decided to part ways I felt some kind of pain in my heart hoping for him to stay by my side.

I built up the courage and kissed him, I gave up my very own first kiss to a guy I just met and said that I hope we should meet again.

I walked away and realized what I have done. My face is burning from embarrassment and sped towards the village. With the proof of my partner dead on my hand which will serve as an evidence. This necklace is blessed by the spirits which tell the priestess what really happened to the one wearing it.

Shaking my head ‘I must hurry and warn the village of the danger’.

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Hi HalfSpicy here

ooooooooooooooooooookay that's a little bit perverted chapter and i know you guys did some of your own imagination hehehehe

comments and violent reactions will gladly be read and suggestions?

i don't know i'm quite stubborn in writing how i want it to be but i might ask some scenario's where i cant decide what to do that's if i thought of different path to take in writing the story.

well hope you guys like this chapter till next one buh bye