Approaching danger

After the meal, Momoa and I started to talk. "So you are leaving tonight?" I asked Momoa. Even though I didn't want to admit it, I felt a little lonely as Momoa was the 1st friend I made since I came to this world, and now he is leaving.

"Yeah, I only came to this village to relax after completing my mission. I didn't expect myself to stay here so long as well." Momoa replied.

"So where are you going?" I asked while looking at the stars. On earth, stars are extremely rare sight as the air is filled with pollution. Thus one of the things I enjoy the most here is looking at the night starry sky.

"Tiny dog city, that is the place I grew up and reside in. It has already been 3 years since I last went back." Momoa said with a sense of longing in his eyes.

"Tiny dog city... what a coincidence, I'm also going to head over there to settle down." I said with a smile and looked at Momoa's eyes.

"Ohh, such coincidence indeed, looks like I won't have to travel back here just for your food." Momoa said as he gave a hearty laughter. "But unfortunately I'm not able to travel back with you.. I've already delayed my return for quite a while. I doubt you will be able to keep up with me." He added on.

"Haa, even Usian Bolt won't be able to keep up with you." I muttered as I look back at the sky.

Deep in the woods, a man was running while carrying his kid. "Where do you think you are heading??" a bandit jump out of a bush and slashed the man with his dagger.

"Argg!" The man shouted as he hug his kid tighter and rolled down a slope. "Run, quickly escape to the nearest village." He shouted at his kid while putting him down. The kid look at him with hesitation. "RUN!" the man yelled and the kid turned around and ran as tears started rolling down his cheeks.

"Big jaw bandits... I can't believe that you guys are so daring..cough cough.... to completely eliminate my village." The man said as he look at the bandit that slashed him. "I hope that I can buy enough time for my son to escape." the man thought to himself.

"Looks like this is the end for me. Sorry my wife that I couldn't do anything when the bandits assaulted you. All I could do is to grab our son and run away. At least our son is able to escape. Wife... I'm joining you soon." The man thought as he look at the bandit slowly approaching him and he closed his eyes.

"Mmmmh mmhh! Let me go!" the man heard and he opened his eyes and look at the source where the sound is coming from. The bandit smiled slyly and whispered to the man "do you really thing that us big jaw bandits will allow a little boy to escape from us?? How do you think we managed to dominate the 5th continent if we were so kind?"

"Let my son go! He is still young, he won't tell anybody. I promise!" the man started to beg with a little hope that they would let his son go.

The bandit sigh and made a cross with his hands. The man took at as a sign that he is letting his son go and he turned around to look at his son. "Splash..." "Fa...ther...." the son collapse on the ground as he bandit's partner who managed to catch the boy slashed his throat.

"Bastardsssss!!" the man shouted as the tried to punch the bandit's face. The bandit however took a small side step, easily dodging the man's punch and him a kick on his back. Sending him towards his son.

The man dropped on the ground and he started crawling towards his son. The two bandits stood there as there smile viciously. The man finally reached his kid and he hug his son's body which is going cold. His son look at him in his eyes and said " I'm cold... i...m.... scared....."

"Don't be scared... you will be seeing mommy soon and I'll be joining in a while as well." The man said softly. As he hug his son's head closer to his chest, his son's body went limp and his arms dropped on the ground.

"Son.... daddy is powerless... I'm so useless... " the man muttered as he look up at the two bandits who are still enjoying the scene. "Big jaw bandits! All of you will definitely receive retribution! Are you not afraid of the tiny dog city finding out about you guys and destroying you guys?" The man shouted with agitation.

"Hmmpt retribution, what complete bullshit. If you want tiny dog city to find out who is behind all the village massacre, there will need to be at least one person who lived behind to tell the tales." one of the bandits said coldly before the other bandit slashed the throat of the man.

"Big brother, we have killed the remaining survivors who managed to escape." both of the bandits from before are standing in front of this man and one of them said.

"2nd brother, little brother,the two of you definitely played with that father and son's feeling before killing them. How jealous. If only I wasn't busy doing other things I could have watch the show as well." the big brother said with jealousy.

"Heh heh, too bad for you. Today's show was brilliant, 2nd brother's acting is perfect. Even I almost cried." the little brother said while smiling. The three of them are nicknamed the Cold Cut Trio because of how sadistic they are. When they kill someone, they always like to give the person a slight hope before completely destroying them.

"Alright stop showing off, which is the nearest village? it's been awhile since we had a good meal while we kill the villagers." the big brother said.

"Big brother, the nearest village is called porcini village. It will take a day to reach there if we bring out entire troops along." the 2nd brother replied.

"Porcini village... hehe." the cold cut trio smiled together as they walk around a village where corpse with missing limps are laying around.