enraging déjà vu

As I pushed open the door of the inn, I frowned at the noises coming from inside. With the uncomfortable feeling of not having slept all night on me, my patience for such things was wearing thin.

When I opened the door and wanted to sternly reprimand the noisy alcoholics at this time of the morning, I was greeted by a scene that maximised my anger levels

Shizune, who was supposed to be in her room waiting for the breakfast I was going to bring, went downstairs alone. Moreover, a half-drunk man with a sword hanging from his waist was bothering Shizune.

Considering that the guests staying at this inn were all such idiots, I realised something as I took a few steps forward: The guy who's bothering Shizune now is the same guy I mutilated last night to get back at the girl in my room.

Probably with the money I gave them, they found a priest and fixed his legs. The main reason why I didn't hesitate before crippling this man last night was because as a user of holy magic, I knew how powerful holy spells are.

Even my intermediate level holy spell could restore such a simple injury in a few minutes.

I turned my eyes to the other members of the red wolf mercenary unit in the hall as I thought about how unpractical he was for someone who had been in the face of death only hours before.

The same mercenary troop as yesterday was yawning from lack of sleep while organising their weapons and gear. They should probably be on their way soon, although they probably didn't know that they would have to leave so early, considering that they had stayed up drinking late last night.

Hardly anyone cared that their mates were molesting a little girl. They were probably used to it.

It only took me a second to decide that the existence of a paedophile that no one cared about was so unnecessary that I heard Shizune shouting

"Get your filthy hands off me, you lowly peasant!"

Although Shizune's way of speaking was somehow disturbing even to me, now was not the time to think about it .

When I turned my head and looked where the voice came from, I saw the man holding Shizune by the arm and pressing her the wall .

The last thing I saw before I used my teleport and sword drawing technique at the same time to cut the man into two pieces that fell to the ground was the man about to lick Shizune's face with a dirty grin.

Shizune was about to be harassed by a disgusting man when she saw the man being cut into two pieces and screamed in shock. Fortunately, when the corpse fell to the ground, Shizune saw Yuto standing behind the corpse and realised that it was Yuto who saved her.

Shizune's scream and the sound of the dismembered corpse hitting the wooden floor were enough to attract the attention of the still sleepy group

People had a brief moment of déjà vu when they saw the body of their fallen friend and the boy standing over the body.

The time between Yuto revealing his killing intent and killing the drunken man was only a few seconds, but those few seconds were enough for the leader of the mercenary group to react. Unfortunately, Yuto was deadly serious about killing this time and used his teleportation ability, so even though the leader saw what happened, he couldn't stop Yuto.

The leader's back was already sweating as he looked at Yuto, who had told Shizune to wait upstairs for a while. He didn't trust himself to resist the attack that Yuto had just shown, because he knew very well that Yuto was also a skilled mage. For this reason, he froze for a while.

Yuto was clearly a sorcerer, but he could also effortlessly cut a person in half with a sword. For a while, the leader couldn't understand what kind of monster this little boy was.

The people in the mercenary group were about to take up their swords after overcoming the initial shock when they received an unexpected order from their leader

"If even one person unsheathes his sword or activates his mana, or even opens his mouth and says a word, he will be expelled from the Red Wolf Mercenary Corps"

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Shizune felt a little scared because of the abnormally calm look in Yuto's eyes, so she followed Yuto's words without hesitation and went upstairs

Shizune realised what kind of situation Yuto was in immediately after climbing the stairs. After nervously thinking about going down and fighting with Yuto for a while, she managed to calm herself down.

As annoying as Shizune found it, she was fully aware of how strong Yuto was. In some of the training sessions between Yuto and her father, all she could do was try to focus on the sword movements as much as possible, but she couldn't see anything.

Shizune thought that her butler would not lose to a group of villagers below. After a brief hesitation, the tension within Shizune became even more evident, and Shizune immediately ran to her aunt for help, putting her logic aside and acting on her emotions.

As Shizune was about to knock on the wooden door, she looked at her hand trembling in the air in astonishment. Shizune still had the pride of a true nobleman inside her, and that pride refused to let go of Shizune until the very end.

If Shizune were to ask her aunt for help now, it would undoubtedly be a sign of weakness, and if Yuto didn't need help, it would undermine the trust she had spent three years building with Yuto.

Just then the door was opened by Natalia. This was a great opportunity for Shizune; if she avoided the question of why she was standing in front of the door, she could tell her aunt everything and protect her pride, as if what happened downstairs was just an element of gossip.

It was perhaps the first time Shizune had felt so clearly how heavy the word nobility could be...