Mobs.

"Hey, what did you got from that child?" A man asked another.

"I got this cool knife! The kid was dumb enough to try to attack me. So I twisted his neck. Kekekekeke." The other man disgustingly laughed.

"Nice. I would do the same."

While I crawled in the garbage with Vergo following me, I heard this unsettling conversation. In both our hands, there were sharp glass shards.

'Hmm, there are 5 men. Apparently, they send groups of 5 each time. Our objective is to ambush them. While doing this, me and Vergo will use the element of surprise to kill 2. Then we will steal the dead's weapons and use it to fight the other 3.

This will be a important experience to Vergo. It will be his first kill. All humans deal differently with their first kill. Some of them don't manage to take the experience of killing someone else out of their minds.

While others, like it too much and become obcessed with it. I want Vergo to be none of those two. I want him to have the mindset of having to kill for the family. After all, anyone who goes against the family, dies.' I thought while crawling.

(You could have stolen the weapons of the villagers you killed before.) Nyalathotep said.

'Yes, I know. However, I didn't do it because I thought that I wasn't going to need them. I made a mistake... Whatever, we are going to get weapons either way.' I suddenly stopped because the steps were coming closer and I did not wanted them to hear our crawling sounds.

I had to wait for a few minutes because they had the same pace a snail has. But after I heard them pass us, we both got up at almost the same time. Vergo was at the other side of the road. Since we are small kids, we managed to hide pretty well in the middle of the garbage.

Using the advantage that the width of the road was small, I looked at Vergo and nodded, then I jumped at the back of one of the reaguard mobs of the convoy. After I did it, I stabbed his neck many times before he dropped on the ground, dead.

From his neck, many gushes of blood were coming out before it a stopped and his eyes lost life. Looking at Vergo, I saw that he failed in his jump attack, however, using the element of surprise, he managed to attack his left leg, making the mob fall.

Then he used the sharp glass to slit the throat of the man. Crouching, I grabbed the sword of the dead mob and walked in front. Vergo, after killing his target, did the same thing I did.

"Vergo, I will deal with 2, you will have to deal with the last one." I said.

He only nodded but before he said anything, I dashed to one of the mobs. When I got near, I swinged the sword with all my strength. The mob tried to defend but was pushed back when our swords clashed. It seems that he was not expecting such strength from a kid.

Taking this chance, I thrusted the sword and pierced his gut.

"F-fucker." The mob said before he fell on the ground.

Smiling, I took my sword out of his belly before turning to the other mob. When I did, I saw deep fear inside his eyes. But before he managed to regain his courage, thinking that he can beat me since I am a kid, I entered in a stance with my sword in both of my hands and prepared myself for his attack

Then the man ran at me with clumsy steps and made a full power swing. I just stepped back and let the swing pass right in front of me, leaving him completely open.

I then pierced one of his legs with my sword. The mobster fell on the ground and tried to crawl away from me with his leg still pierced with my sword.

"Aaaaahhhhh! Devil! Get away from me! Noo!" The man screamed.

"Devil... Interesting. I like how that sounds." I smiled before getting near him and removing my sword from his leg.

The mob screamed in pain as blood gushed out of the wound. Swinging the sword, I sliced his neck. Killing him.

The man's body fall on the ground, with blood squirting out of his neck. Moving my hand, I thrusted the sword on his head.

'Well, I need to make sure he's dead. I won't take any risks.' I thought.

(Hum, hum. Of course.) She said.

Ignoring her, I looked at Vergo's fight. His enemy had a cut on his leg while Vergo had a couple of bruises around his body. His hand is the most injured since he doesn't have the same strength that an adult has, everytime their swords meet, he is pushed back.

However, he is faster and nimbler than the mob, so when the man attacked, he dodged and sliced the man's hand off. He screamed in pain.

'This should be a chance for Vergo to end the man's pitiful life.' I thought.

Vergo, doing what I thought he would, stabbed the man's chest. This made me clap.

"*Clap*. *Clap*. *Clap*. *Clap*. Bravo. You did a good job." I said.

When he looked at me, he saw that I was sitting on top of one of the corpses, clapping.

"You have many things to learn but already made a great job. However, next time, aim for the head and garantee the enemy's death." I advised him.

"What should we do with the other one?" Vergo asked while pointing at a direction.

Looking at where he was pointing, I saw that guy I stabbed in the stomach was barely alive. He was holding his bleeding belly.

"See. If you don't garantee your enemy's death, he will be like that. Half alive. Depending fo the circunstance, he will still be capable of fighting." I said before turning to the almost dead man. "What should we do? Should we forgive him? Help? Or my favorite, should we kill him?" I made a question to Vergo.

"He should die." Vergo answered.

"Nice choice. I will give you the honors of finishing him off." I said while pointing at the target.

Vergo walked closer to the man, when he saw what was going to happen, his eyes opened widely, but before he could say something, Vergo stabbed his head with the sword.

"Ooh. Right through the eyeball all the way through his skull. Fufufufufufu." I laughed, amused by his immediate choice of following my advice.

"Done." Vergo said while taking his sword out of the man's head.

"For now we should rest. Then we will hunt the other groups." I said.

"Why don't we go now?" He asked.

"Come here. Show me your hand." I said and he did as I said.

His hands were extremely red and bruised.

"This was your first time fighting someone with a sword and your enemy was physically stronger than you. Each time your swords clashed, you hands suffered. However, the fact that you were using your arms to absorb the blows and never complained about, shows that you have potential.

I need you to be 100% well, I will not allow one of the members of my family to die because of stupidity. Rest. We will depart in 1 hour." I began to heal him.

One hour later.

"It is time." I said to him before getting up.

Then I began to run with Vergo running beside me. We continued like that until we reached another road.

"If we follow this road, we should be able to find the other group, however there is no use in revealing ourselves now. Like I said, we are the hunters not the prey. We will wait for their return." I told Vergo.

"Why? Shouldn't we kill this group quickly so that we can deal with the other one?" He was confused.

Shaking my head, I said. "No. I want the last group to be alive."

"But why would you want such thing?" He asked.

"If one group arrives unharmed at the base and the other groups died, the gangs will think that this surviving group killed their members.

I highly doubt that these gangs are the type that will sit in a table and discuss. They will fight each other." I explained to him.

"But wouldn't these two gangs that lost their members unite and destroy the other gang?" He looked at the road before turning to me.

"I doubt this will happen. Even if it happens, it just means more preys for us. Either way, they will fight each other and lose men. Our job is to kill as much possible while they are distracted. But for now we should wait for night to come." I looked around.

"Night?"

"Yes. It will give us the perfect cover." I smiled.

Three hours later.

The moon was high in the dark sky.

'Why are those morons taking so long? They sure are slow.' I yawned before I heard footsteps.

Turning at where they came, I couldn't see much things since it was really dark. Touching Vergo's shoulder, I whispered.

"Its time." I crawled until I had a better vision of them.

The mobsters were walking in a loose formation. It was perfect for a hunt. Increasing our speed, I heard one of the talking.

"Fuck. I can't see shit in this dark." A man complained.

Getting near the farthest one of them, which was the one on the rear, I jumped on his back and stabbed his neck while my hand clenched his mouth, stopping him from making any sound.

Looking at Vergo, he did the same thing I did. After both of them died. We carried their corpses and placed them at the side of the road. If it was day, anyone would be able to see what we had done. However, since it was night, no one could.

'The best thing is that one of these mobs is using a lantern on his hand to see the road, turning them into a walking beacon. There's no way we wouldn't be able to see them.' I smiled before continuing.

"Huh? Anyone heard that?" One of them suddenly asked.

"Shut the fuck up, you deaf bitch. What are you hearing now? Yer mom's hot moans? Hahahahaha!" The other mocked him.

"Son of a bitch!" The mocked guy then punched his face.

"Motherfucker!" They began to fight between each other.

The guy at the front stopped and turned to them. Then he began to watch their fight. Suddenly, Vergo jumped on his back and stabbed his neck. This alarmed the other guys.

When they stopped fighting and turned to Vergo, one of them ran at him while the other was grabbing his sword. Approaching the one that stood still, I jumped into his back and sliced his throat. Hearing his gargling, the one that dashed at Vergo turned to me and exclaimed.

"You damn kids!" He changed his target to me and attacked me.

I lifted my sword and blocked his attack. Vergo appeared behind him and cut his leg. This made him scream and lose the grip os his sword. Taking this chance, I kicked him, making him fall on the ground together with his sword.

After this, he tried to run but could not since I stepped in his injured leg.

"Aaaarrrggg. I'm part of the Green Tiger Gang. Do you think that you will be able to get away with this?!" He screamed at us.

'Did this suddenly turned into a Chinese Novel?' While I asked this to myself, I looked at Vergo and saw that he was deeply amused by this.

"Hahahahahaha! That was funny. However, your gang name can't save you. The question now is how are we going to kill you. Maybe cutting your head? Or cutting your limbs or just leave you to bleed to death." I wondered.

"Nooooo!" He screamed like he saw the Devil himself. "I-I know where my Boss keeps his treasure! Its yours if you let me go." He pleaded.

'So this is why they took the long the long road. Normaly, they should be here at least one hour earlier.' I thought before stepping strongly on his leg.

"Speak." I said.

"I-I will only tell you if you garantee my safety." He was trembling.

"Huff. Fine. If you tell me where the treasure is, I promise that I will let you go." I promissed.

'After all, a bit of money is always nice to have. I wonder how much money does he has stored up.' I thought.

(Mitsu-kun is so greedy. You should kill him a get it done with.) Nyarlathotep said.

'I can't. I need him alive. The money will be useful for me in the future.' While I thought of that, the man told me where the treasure was located.

"Vergo, stay here. If he try anything you can kill him. I If he tries anything you can kill him. I will go and see." I looked at Vergo.

Turning to the man, I asked.

"I don't need to tell you what happens if you lie to me, right?" To which he shaked his head.

Turning around, I dashed to where the treasure was.