-You are bleeding !

Scar immediately cried out whatever it was she wanted to say first,it all went down hill the moment she realized the trace of blood flowing down my right hand,she immediately wanted to get close and hold my hand,but as she was about to do so I instinctively backed away making scar look at me with surprise.

To be honest I also was a bit surprised by my sudden push,it wasn't that I didn't want scar touching me or anything,it was just that I felt that there wasn't anything to be worried about,the knife that the fat thug threw at me hadn't pierced my hand in reality at the last moment I had actually caught the knife between my index and middle finger,even though I caught it like that without using my time powers I still slightly miscalculated and let the sharp edge of the knife cut me a bit between my two fingers.

It hurt,but it wasn't life threatening and judging from the current state that the fat thug was in,he had already gotten what he deserved making this little cut even more trivial then it actually was.

-I am fine,its just a small cut rather scar we should leave the commotion we made here is going to reach a lot of people don't you think ?

I asked,trying to quickly change the subject while also gripping my hand tight simultaneously activating my powers and watching as the line of blood that flowed down my hand quickly started to flow back into my hand...this was nothing.

Hearing my words and also seeing that I was alright,scar calmed down and finally started glanced around some more,she understood what I meant by "reaching a lot of people" even though the windows were shut and the lights were out it didn't mean that the citizens were still asleep their curious eyes in fact were still watching through the gaps of their windows peeking at us in this night watching what had occurred in this very night.

I had killed someone.

Most of the thugs who were here were all just knocked unconscious or disabled by scar this alone probably wasn't anything that would get us into trouble since they were simple lowlifes that no one seemed to care about and seeing that these were the medieval times where laws for physical harm wasn't quite strict when it came to commoners then I am quite sure that even if someone snitched on us the guards would simply put a deaf ear to it since it wasn't anyone of high class or of importance.

Murder on the other hand was something I wasn't quite sure of,I know a lot of things about history and with the current things I had observed so far I would say that the current time of this civilization was quite medieval a bit more advanced then medieval per say because of the amounts of practical magic that can be found,laws must be fairly advanced too with the general rule being that no,one should hurt each other or do anything that could harm the other which is why the guards are stationed in the city in the first place to break up a major fight or crime if it happens "in front of them".

Note how I did a exclamation to the end of my sentence.

Yes,"In front of them" with the current way I see it the likeliness of us getting in some kind of trouble just because of this was very low,guards aren't like the modern police if it is a simple fight of two people exchanging knuckles or argue with another then they are simply going to overlook it and walk away minding their own duties instead since conflict was unavoidable in these times settling every kind of fight that goes on inside these walls would make the guards hugely loaded with work which is why they only interfere with major crimes or events that happen right now,to cut their own losses brutality in the end was common in these kinds of places the whole part of this city is its mentality the mentality of the citizens that speak of the you and yourself world they live with no,one to help you other then yourself with civilization advancing I would say that most of the obvious problems had been taken out,but still the core never changes,you can hide it,shove it and disguise it,but even then you always know what to expect from the world no matter what when you take your foot into it.

I sighed...

I am not really expecting anyone to follow us or make trouble just because we killed a bandit of these parts of the streets maybe the bandits themselves after waking up will seek revenge for their fallen friend,but that was also very unlikely since they had that kind of selfish attitude to them that wasn't prone to revenge on a comrades behalf,there isn't going to be any investigations for that either since who knows how many people die in these streets the citizens that quickly ran back to their safe little homes surely showed that they knew very well of the horrors of the night in these streets,but staying would also just give us problems if anyone wanted something from us which couldn't be good in my head.

I stood up,still staring at scar I gave her a hand to pull,she temporarily looked at that hand in a nostalgic manner and took it without hesitation with a slightly glad look on her face that was both soft and a bit irritated that I had left her without a second word...I could tell that we would have a word on this after walking away from this place,but for now what needed was...

-Do you know some kind of inn we could stay ? I am pretty hungry ?

(Growl)

I asked,showing her a wryly smile on my face,my stomach lightly rumbling with small amounts of hunger,scar seeing me act like this was lost for words for a few moments as she didn't know what to say right now,she took a second to look around her to see the knocked out thugs and finally the dead corpse of the fat thug that she had landed on,she probably didn't ever mean to kill anyone to begin with,but just give them a hard beating and she honestly didn't in end.

It was only me who killed him after all.

The way scar looked at the corpse was pretty regretful,she clearly didn't sympathize with him nor did she feel sorry for his demise because she obviously knew that if I didn't do this she could have been the one who was laying on the ground with a knife lodged into her skull,but even then her heart wavered,she was still not very prone to actual killing her hands visibly shook seeing the dead corpse as she seemed to have remembered the woman inside the forest that she stabbed to death in one hit,I wasn't really sure how she was coping with it so far,I considered to give her my ear to talk about the issue,but for some reason her aura and over all attitude immediately told me to back off the issue...

To be fair,I probably shouldn't try to console her,its not like I would understand how she feels,killing is disgusting and bad even I knew that for a fact,but even then I never in my life thought that killing was immoral or unfair in any way,I am not a philosopher nor am I good when it comes to human relations,but I do understand that I am different sometimes cold and mechanically rational with my decisions which made me look very inhumane,but even then I also try to always avoid doing actual murder because I didn't like it personally or saw any enjoyment out of it.

And Of course I could have avoided this,killing him I mean,but even if I could have avoided it with my time abilities for some reason my mentality told me that I would have killed this bastard regardless at any time after the stunt he tried to pull off on scar.

The knife he threw could have killed scar in one hit if I didn't do anything and so could the knives of the other thugs laying on this ground,but I wasn't going to kill them for some reason...this and that seemed just too different in my mind for some reason that made me argue like this even though logically speaking they honestly weren't,It was just that the action that the fat thug tried to do was something quite unforgivable to me maybe if scar had faced him equally without a surprise attack like the other thugs and lost like them then I wouldn't feel like this,but either way what happened,happened,I am not going to lose sleep because of him if it was anyone else who was dear to me that was about to get pierced like this,I doubt that it would have been any different really.

-Scar lets leave...

I started,scar herself seemed a bit detached at the moment her hands were gripped tightly at the moment,the expression on her face never changing,but still gripping hard,I still felt like I shouldn't touch scar anymore,but I ignored that feeling and simply gripped her hand with my own transmitting some of my warmth towards her.

-Wahh ?

My touch had her immediately snap out,seeing my hold her hand like this and also show a serious look on my face while facing her made her temporarily shy as her face started to turn crimson,the change was incredibly and fast most of which funny to look at as she started to get a bit more like herself,I also didn't stop at this point and started smiling instead,finally pulling her to myself we started to run through the streets of this city with light steps under our feet.

Getting pulled by me scar seemed to have momentarily forgotten about the thugs and started smiling instead as she felt the wind hitting her face while running and my tight grip around hand she herself gripping only stronger as we finally back into the main district.

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