10 minutes later-- 2 blocks away
Robin watched the guards as they were negotiating with some people who were all wearing kitchen aprons and were stained with blood all over
they didn't look like trained soldiers, yet their aura was extremely dark and suffocating...
The negotiations continued for about another 5 minutes until the fattest and oldest chef among them ordered one of his boys to bring black notes from inside...
The deal to sell the girls was already done!
Robin reached out his hand and took out two fireball talismans, the strongest one of these bunch was one of the chefs and his strength was about that of a low-level saint, one Fireball would take care of him, and the other would kill the rest of the guards or at least scare them away
After that he would take Laurie with him and order the rest of the girls to run in different directions, everything should be fine by then, at least he would be able to save Laurie and a few of the girls...
But after he took a step forward, Robin suddenly stopped.. he felt a tightness in his chest, no matter how hard he tried he couldn't take another step as if his feet were refusing to carry out his orders
"This feeling...." As if he had grasped something, Robin stretched his senses to as far as possible... and his eyes went wide as soon as he did.
The chief of the city guards and with him a few individuals wearing black cloaks covering their heads and faces were hiding on the roofs of buildings and in the adjacent alleys around him, the whole place was surrounded!!
"Dammit..!!" Robin clutched the two talismans
The number of hiding people is large and some of them are at medium or high saint level, even excluding the saints, he would have big problems trying to escape from these knights if they knew where he is right now.
Then what would happen if he take Laurie with him as well? If he showed himself now, he would be dead.
"No, please, no!! let's work as your servants, we can do anything for you!" While Robin was trying to come up with a plan, he heard a voice that made his heart beat go wild as one of the girls fall to the ground and starts wailing
The owner of the restaurant bent down and grabbed that girl by the neck and lifted her up until her feet were no longer on the ground, and then started talking to her, ignoring that she was choking, "Servants? ? I don't need this... Do you know when was the last time I was able to get human girls of your age to be added to the menu? The number of idiots among our race in not small, they think you are their pets or something, they say it is not right to eat you."
"Khh.. kkkgggghh" The girl's eyes went up, she almost died of suffocation
But that didn't stop the owner of the restaurant from continuing, "When will people realize that you are just another lowly race, what is the difference between you and any other livestock? ..Servants? No, no, my dear, I don't want that, I'll make dishes out of your arms first, then your feet and breasts, I will cut you piece by piece while you are still alive, and then finally slaughter you for your guts, and then--"
"BOSS, if she dies of suffocation, the blood will be trapped in her body and it will not taste that delicious anymore.." One of the chefs pokes the owner of the restaurant in the shoulder, causing him to lose his train of thought.
"Tch.. you are right," said the head of the restaurant in anger, then threw the girl into the restaurant
Robin's features turned dark when he heard that terrifying speech
He can't leave Laurie and the rest of the girls here, or they will face a fate much worse than death.
The strange thing is that... Not one of the girls spoke a single word that Robin is behind all this!!
Speaking now would make the guards lead them to the prison as witnesses, he would completely understand if one of the talked, in fact he started hoping that one of them!
but they still kept their mouths shut... why were they doing this for him?
Those little girls... what kind of determination do they have?!
He finally made up his mind and looked at Laurie who was still crying out loud and sent her through the Thought conveying Technique, "I'm sorry, I swear that I will not allow your sacrifice to go to waste."
Laurie stopped crying upon hearing the message and looked up at the sky and muttered in a low voice as two lines of tears were still flowing, "Ancestors... I will see you soon, I hope you all are... proud of Laurie."
At this moment, she felt a piece of beast hide settle on her chest and...
*BOOOOOOM*
"AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!"
"What was this?! Where did the explosion come from? spread quickly and get who did this!!"
A massive explosion suddenly occurred among the human girls, turning them all into scattered pieces of flesh and blood
And because the chefs and soldiers were all standing next to them for the sake of negotiations, the explosion affected them too, and most of them were killed, except for the head of the restaurant, whose front half had been charred and his stomach was slashed with his guts gushing out, but he remained alive, muttering, "No... my ingredients.. my ingredients is ruined... AAHHH.."
Robin ignored him, ignoring the individuals who started moving to shut off the entire area to catch him
And kept his eyes on a separated head that was slowly being devoured by the fire, it was Laurie's.
His features were still plain as if he was looking at something that does not concern him...
But only he and the heavens know that the flames on Laurie's head were nothing compared to the anger that started eating up his heart.
After about 20 seconds he took a step back and silently merged with the darkness in the alley...
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After a few hours -- a hundred miles away from the city
"Dammit.. we had to stay inside the city until they caught that guy!!" One of the three remaining giants spoke as he was guiding the carriage that have the remaining prisoners.
"Shhh!! Just follow the orders, you want the Special Forces envoys to kill us instead?! Don't worry, we are safe under their protection and-- WHOAAAA!!" The giant's words suddenly stopped in his throat and screamed
"khhhgggghh....." Only two feet away from the giant, a hanged body fell from the tree and started swinging
It was the body old woman covered with leaves and tree branches, with a cut-off leg
Her thigh bone and flesh were showing terribly, and her face and body showed signs of severe burns and torture
But she wasn't dead yet... she was dying right now in front of them.
She is the prisoner who was released after she reported Laurie!!
"Who is here?! Who is there?! Go away! Leave us, or you will die!!" One of the three giants shouted, and the other two came down and stood by him trying to protect each other, but their joints were visibly trembling.
*crack*
The sound of a broken branch on their left attracted the attention of the three, and they found a person covered in blood and injuries slowly emerging from behind a tree, holding in his hand a pointy, covered in blood leg bone...
Finally, Robin looked up with his eyelashes dripping with blood, and said in a rough voice, "Where are you going..? Did you forget about me? tsk tsk~ that is not a good way to treat your employees..."