Chapter 10 Into the Arena

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Now then, how is our famously stoic man going to react to this mess.

"Well! Are you going to explain why they came here! Oh Jaggedmouth the Glutton!"

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Hmm? was that a title or something. That's new. He actually has a title, but that should of been easily foreseen with all the respect he got from the slavers and the crowd at the auction.

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Jaggedmouth confronts the man and finally speaks, " It seems I have been quiet for too long for you to barge into my home."

"You? Speak properly you ingrate! My Name is-"

"Leonidas, son of Mercer the formidable. A man I spared once upon a time, only for him to find my mercy unforgivable. If you'd like I can redact the mercy I once showed your father and show you my wrath." interrupted Jaggedmouth.

This immediately shut the man, Leonidas up, and made him turn red in rage and embarrassment. "You speak of matters way in the past! Nobody even remembers your deeds in the arena so why must I be afraid of a decrepit old man."

"Boy, don't force my hand." said Jaggedmouth with lingering pressure. But it seems the little(grown) boy wanted to express his superiority, "A fossil is trying to deny the Chief's son from following the law? These two killed their new masters and ran to YOU. Even if you had a good reason to justify their reason for being here, they still have to come with me and you WILL get punish. Personally." uttered the spoiled brat, actually spitting facts. I guess he isn't as stupid as he looked.

Leonidas glances around the pit after seeing Jaggedmouth keeping his mouth shut. Quickly finding the girls, he walks over to them.

As I'm still standing more or less in front of the crowd of kids, he comes to me with blatant ill intent. Crap. Now what? I can dodge whatever comes, take it, or hit back...all those options but taking it would make him look bad and result in his embarrassment. It will ultimately be what happened with boy David standing nearby. But screw his mother if he thinks I will take a hit I can actually dodge and counterattack lying down.

Wait, David is nearby? hehehe.

I glance over at David, relatively close to me. I shuffle my feet quickly but swiftly to stand by him and try to make it look like I'm giving this guy a way past. Of course, he also changes direction slightly to us. David is now visibly getting nervous at the obvious ill intent this guy is coming at us with. I reach and grab the hem of David's clothes, outside it looks like we are friends or something probably. As he reaches us, he makes sure to take his back hand to swipe at the taller boy first.

*Smack

Then turn over to his left, he try's to kick me in the chest, only for me to pull David out of his shock to get kicked.

"Gwoh!" David lets out falling to the ground in front of me. I try to feign a scared face as David lays there and Leonidas looks at me in amusement. Stepping over David and ignoring me, I continues on his path to the girls.

Making sure to hit every kid in his way on to the ground. He reaches them only for a small stature to stand in front of him with a wooden sword. Thorvald.

"And what might this be? Surely this is a case of slaves defending other slaves in a strange sense of comradery, but that can't be because those girls were brought today."

"Unless, you already knew them and were accomplices?" Leonidas accuses. Shocked at the revelation, the kids quickly start to murmur amongst themselves, or at least the ones not on the ground groaning. Thorvald maintains a hard face in defense, ready to strike at any moment.

"I won't let you take away my family." said Thorvald with renewed vigor.

"That's a shame boy. You're upholding the law, and as an enforcer I have the right to kill you even if you're the property of someone else." Leonidas says.

However at these words, a heavy pressure descends on to him, causing his face to pale and turn back. "I know you aren't planning to kill my slaves in front of me. Boy." Unknowingly Jaggedmouth was already behind him. starring him from only a few inches away. The suddenness of it make Leonidas jump and land on his butt. Hastily drawing his sword that looks like decoration, he stutters, "J-Jaggedmouth, I am an enforcer! Upholding the law is my job, disabling me from doing it will get you punished even more!" As he talks, his words give him strength to stand but still quivers in Jaggedmouth's presence.

"I was going to figure out how to handle you, but I guess my old age has made me too cautious, and perhaps people have forgotten why I am called Jaggedmouth"

"I suppose a thank you is in order." says Jaggedmouth, and for the first time since I met him, he smiled.

His teeth were sharp. Very sharp. Resembling shark teeth almost. His smile paralyzes all who see it with fear and the men who came with Leonidas, quickly incircle Jaggedmouth with apparent fear on their faces.

"I knew we shouldn't of come here"

"Damn leader, taking us to our deaths!"

"There's not point if you're dead!"

The guards let out hushed complaints to themselves for making stupid choices.

"Now children, pay attention. This is your first lesson. When people disrespect you, you mercilessly kill them until they don't do it anymore." He says with that smile lingering on his face.

The men's low moral takes another noise dive and they quickly drop their weapons and leave running while leaving their head enforcer down on the ground. Looks like he likes to stumble backwards a lot for him to fall again.

Jaggedmouth stares at Leonidas and says, "Now this is lesson number 2. When you show mercy and they still aren't grateful, you don't show mercy. "