Blood sprayed everywhere as the heads of the two thugs closest to him flew into the air.
The sight of two people dying caused people to scream in fear and panic. They even wanted to scatter and run for their lives.
But he shouted at them, "Nobody move. Nobody should move a single step."
His shout caused everyone to shut up and freeze. They looked at him in fear, but he didn't bother with them. He just rushed after the other thugs.
He only managed to kill two more because the rest were running away. He didn't chase after them because he had something he wanted to do first.
Blood had drenched his clothes after killing four of the thugs. But he didn't care about how he looked. He returned to the carriage and continued distributing bread.
However, he had something else to say as he was distributing the bread.
He said to everyone, "If you want to interfere in my business, ask yourself this: is your life worth some bread? Be sure to know the answer to that question because I will come after your life if you mess with me."
This was shouted so that everyone could hear him. But he also said something quietly to those he gave bread to personally.
"This is the kind of strength those who train at my dojo can have. So tell everyone I killed four thugs very skillfully. If they train hard in my dojo, they too can gain the power to resist their fate. Remember, training is between 8 am and 10 am, and it is free."
His bloody and ferocious appearance was the best advertisement for his dojo that he could have. After all, he is red and bloody, which matches the name Red Dojo.
He was the picture of a stone-cold killer. It made people afraid.
They were not afraid that he killed someone. No, death and murder are commonplace. The members of the Black Band gang kill people occasionally, so they deserve it.
What made people afraid of him is his willingness to kill people. so that he can give people bread.
He is not even killing people to get bread. That will be weird enough on its own. Even the thugs of the Black Band gang were only beating people up and telling them never to return for bread or be punished severely.
What they did was normal. His reaction to what the thugs did was strange because it looked as if he cared about people. It was weird because rich people rarely care for the poor.
Actually, everyone, including the beneficiaries of his charity, finds his act of giving food away to be strange. They just didn't care because they were hungry.
But now that he has killed people who are interfering with his actions of giving away food, the strangeness of the whole thing has increased exponentially.
They just thought about it, though. It didn't stop them from queuing for bread. If anything, it made them more grateful for what he is doing and made those queuing stop fighting immediately.
The line became straight, and there was no more fighting after his outburst. People thanked him profusely for his generosity and chivalry. Their sincerity was greater than yesterday's.
Arthur thought to himself after distributing the bread, "Maybe I should have called the dojo Bloody Dojo. Or Blood Dojo because a lot of blood will flow this morning."
The four thugs that died earlier won't be the only source of free-flowing blood this morning because he isn't done killing.
He would like to believe that he has offended the Black Band gang. If that is true, then they will want to retaliate and have their offense. He isn't going to foolishly wait for them to gather their strength and attack him.
Actually, there is a possibility that this entire thing will blow over after he has shown that he is strong and not easy to mess with. It is also highly possible that the Black Band gang will apologize to him and even give him gifts to appease him.
He has seen such a thing happen before when enemies realized that the person they are dealing with is a member of the Dyson family. But he is not going to count on that because it is highly possible that the Black Band gang will find someone in the family to support them.
It is even possible that someone in the family is already supporting them. That won't surprise him since the Dyson family is the overlord of the area.
So he is going to perform a series of preemptive strikes with the goal of eliminating the Black Band gang completely or at least dealing a devastating blow to them. That way, they won't be able to gather their strength to retaliate against him.
It is a good idea to be proactive when enmity has been formed. But there is also a very important reason why he wants to kill more members of the Black Band gang and why he told the beneficiaries of his charity to tell everyone about what he did.
This reason is that he received a lot of karma when he killed those thugs.
He received 2 karma from the first woman he saved, and then he received 1 karma from everyone in the vicinity. That was 1700 worth of karma for the act of killing a thug.
He killed four thugs and received a wave of karma each time. So the lives of those men were worth at least 6,800 karma.
That is at least 6,800 karma because he is still receiving notifications of karma as more and more people heard of his actions. Apparently, a lot of people are grateful to him for eliminating those men.
He thought to himself in anticipation, "1,700 karma is worth at least 1,700 bronze coins. So the life of one man is worth 17 silver coins. That is about right since slaves are usually worth 10 silver coins."
His eyes twinkled as he said, "Actually, killing them is more lucrative than selling slaves."