Loyalty

Hayato with the princess and her knights were riding the horses towards the Lyrel Kingdom at rater fast speed, the princess was leading the group with Hayato at her left and the Captain at her right then when the village almost disappears from their sight she stops making all the rest of the horses stop, it seems that the horses are trained to follow every move that her horse does, the princess turns to see the Captain and says " Captain, I think that we should leave the villagers we left behind unprotected, why don't you go back with a few men to protect them just in case that more bandits come to attack them again " She said making a worried face and voice

Hayato sees her with an expressionless face but inside he was disgusted by how good she is at laying ' This woman, she could even wait until we arrived she wants them dead already, well, the only ones who are going to die are the knights that you will send there anyway '

The Captain bows his head and says " As you wish, my lady " then turns around his horse and he points at 3 knights saying " You three come with me " then he returns with the knights behind him leaving Hayato with the princess and 8 more knights

Hayato sees the back of the Captain and the knights that left with him with a serious face thinking ' If I'm not wrong, all the knights and the Captain must be at least at the same level as the bandit leader, so even if is 2 vs 4, my clones can kill them ' A small grin appears on Hayato's face but that grin that doesn't pass unnoticed

The princess makes a beautiful smile and says with doubt seeing Hayato's smiling face " Why are you smiling? "

Hayato turns to see the princess making a delighted smile then he says to her " I'm happy, you sent them to protect the village, you deserve to be a princess "

She blushes and turns her head to another side ' How does she do that? this isn't the first time acting like this that's for sure ' Then they continue their trip to the Lyrel kingdom

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After a few minutes, the Captain and the knights finally arrived at Matne Village again

" Captain, the villagers are still in the village chief's house " One of the knights said with a calm voice

The Captain nods making a gloomy face that he hides from the knights " Good, that is going to make things a little bit easier "

They get down from their horses and began to walk to the village chief's house when one young man jumps from a roof and then before landing...

" Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu! ( Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu ) '' A massive fire sphere burns one of the last two knights

" AAAAHHH! AAAAHHH! AAAAHHH! " The knight begins to scream, then he starts to roll on the ground trying to turn off the fire from his body

" What the hell!!?? " The Captain turns around and he yells with surprise, the other knights take some distance from him until the fire dissipates revealing a carbonized corpse with a melted armor

" It's... it's you, but.. but how?! hmm?! what's with that appearance?! " The Captain put an incredulous and angry face

The young man has red eyes with black-purple dots and a strange black mark on his forehead

" Humph " The young man grins coldly and he points his index finger to one of the knights, they look at the young man in doubt and then

" Chidori! " Another young man with the same face and body jumps from the roof and at great speed he hit a knight in the head with her hand covered in lightning, the knight's head exploded at the contact with the lightning then his body falls headless to the ground.

The Captain and the last knight were frozen by the confusion about the death of his partner and the second handsome young man that killed him, but before they can move the first young man attacks them again " Chidori Senbon! " Hundreds of lightning needles pierced the knight that was side by side with the Captain until his entire body was covered with tiny bloody holes and finally he falls backward, all his blood covering the entire ground around him, both young men turn their heads in the Captain's direction

" ...!!!! " The Captain was terrified and he tried to run away as fastest and farther as he can " Great Speed Boost!!! " He yelled and his speed doubled, he reaches the entrance of the village but he suddenly heard the sound of something cutting the air and *PUCHI* Two swords pierced his shoulder and right leg making him fall forward. Still alive he crawls trying to reach his horse

When one pair of feet appear in front of him blocking his path, he couldn't help to curse the princess, if it wasn't for her, he wouldn't have come to the village again, he began to cry and start to remember the face of his wife and young child waiting for him in the Lyrel Kingdom

" You want to live? " Say the young man in front of him after that the Captain began to regain some hope and in a weak voice he says " Y..ye..yes " The young man grins a little and says " You have to become work for me if you want to live "

" W..wh..what? " He said with a weak and doubtful face, the young man from behind says " I know what your princess ordered you, but I still don't know what she is planning " The other young man continues

" That's the only thing that matters to me right now, so what do you say? " He began to walk next to the other young man while speaking

" I..I..will.. never.. betray… my... kingdom " The Captain said with a weak angered face

" Hahaha " One of the young men laugh and the other only grins a little, the young man who laughed began to speak again " I don't ask you to betray your kingdom, I ask you to betray your princess "

"...." He was speechless and the young man continue " Tell me, you want to serve someone like her who ordered you to kill innocent villagers without a reason? " The young man said in a serious voice

" Y..yo..you… a..are t..the..s..same a..as h..her YOU ARE A DEMON!!! " He yelled at the ground spitting some blood

The young man grins closing his eyes and shaking his head slightly then the other one speaks " I'm not a Demon, why do people keep saying that? I only killed the ones who deserved to die, no? those knights wanted to kill innocent people, just like you, am I wrong? " The young man says with a cold face making the captain shock

"...." The Captain buries his face on the ground and stays silent for a few seconds when he says " I...I will do it "

Both identical young men smiled and take out the swords from his body, one of them closes his fist and then kneels near the Captain's head saying as he opens his hand " Eat this " He handed him a small green bean that he eats reluctantly, then something happened that took him by surprise, his body began to heal up and he regains all of his energy

He sees both young men in curiosity, surprise, fear, and respect, then he kneels in front of them and says " I Conrad Dreadful, captain of the knights of Lyrel, swear loyalty to you, if not I'm going to suffer the Tribulation Of Treason "