Fake Origin Path

Once Shiba left with the two swords, the man sighed in relief and proceeded to pack everything and close the shop until the next day.

It was already quite late, and he was in a bad mood due to losing two swords that easily, but even that wasn't enough to buy that guy's silence, he needed to make an oath. Anyway, it wasn't like an oath of someone as weak as he was had any value besides his own reputation, and he used a loophole anyway.

The swords were originally a bribe to buy Shiba's silence, but Shiba took them as an apology gift for trying to scam him, so he accepted them. He wouldn't accept a bribe, but it was different if it were just accepting an apology gift.

The man walked to his home, carrying the things of his handcart. Small shops like his were on the street, so they couldn't store unsold items there.

He was already lucky to have a small house due to all his scamming, so he had a lot of his goods there.

When the man was about to reach his home, a voice stopped him.

"You are finally here. I was tired of waiting."

That voice was the same that told Shiba the correct price of the swords.

The man was surprised to hear a voice, but he couldn't see the person speaking.

"Who are you?"

He felt some fear at that moment. By the tone of voice, he was able to tell that the other party didn't have good intentions, but the worst of it was that he couldn't even see where the other party was despite having heard the voice clearly.

"Someone you scammed."

When he heard those words, the face of the man changed. He scammed too many people to remember the voices of them all, but he always targeted those looking weak.

He didn't know that Shiba was a beast hunter, he just believed that was an official citizen because his parents gave him money for it.

Although he seemed from a poor family, it wasn't that strange to have families saving money for years to let the children become citizens and gave them some money to buy a weapon.

A teenager with money that didn't know anything about trading was a good target for his scams.

"I don't scam others. This should be a misunderstanding."

He felt that since the other party ambushed him instead of reporting him, there wasn't any proof of the scam.

"No. I investigated it. I know from who you buy, and you perfectly know the value of what you sell. Goodbye."

Immediately after that last word, a kick hit the man's chest, sending him flying to the wall.

The man was barely conscious after that. A lot of his bones were broken, and without proper healing, he would die.

It was only at that moment that he saw a young girl standing in front of him.

"Scamming me is a death penalty. My sister taught me that people like you are better dead than alive."

The girl retrieved some keys from the man's body.

"I will be keeping your house and your belongings. I will make good use of them, no need to thank me."

The girl went to the handcart and made it disappear.

"Spatial artifact..."

The man muttered those words realizing that anyone with a spatial artifact wasn't ordinary.

The girl had been hiding using a skill, but once she revealed herself, the man was able to remember her. It wasn't too difficult. That girl was pretty, so it was easy to remember her given the looks of most people in the town.

She was pretty and wore cute clothes, so she seemed to be the daughter of a wealthy family. She also looked weak, so he scammed her. It was also the biggest scam he did in two years.

However, he didn't expect that the girl was so strong that she could wound him like that with a single kick.

Moreover, a spatial artifact meant far more than just being wealthy. After all, as far as he knew, only the Lord of the town had one.

"That is right. I have to tell you that you have the guts to try to scam two wielders of the Fake Origin Path. Even I am surprised that there is another one on this planet, let alone this town, and yet you targeted both of us. Any of our backgrounds can destroy this planet with ease, and yet you disregarded us. You deserve this."

As someone who practiced the Fake Origin Path, she had the means to notice when someone else was using it, although they only worked when the other party was weaker than her.

She didn't know who Shiba was or his background, but since she had a Fake Origin Path, she felt that he should have a similar background as her.

Previously, she had helped him because she felt that if both of them were to be scammed by the same guy, and their families noticed it, it wouldn't be impossible for them to be too ashamed and destroy the whole planet. She knew very well that factions like her own could only see those planets as playgrounds for their children, and they wouldn't mind destroying them if their honor was affected.

Scamming just her was one thing, but the act of scamming two wielders of the Fake Origin Path was just seeking death for everyone. Although they didn't belong to the same family, the most powerful factions knew each other.

"What are you saying?"

That man didn't know what she meant by Fake Origin Path, but he could guess that he had messed with someone he shouldn't. After all, speaking of destroying the planet as if it were a normal thing was just too scary.

"No need to know. Just burn to ashes."

The girl waved her hand, and a ball of fire hit the man, who quickly was reduced to ashes.

"Good that I killed him before my sister noticed. I bet she would have at least destroyed the whole town otherwise. There are innocent people here."

She liked her sister a lot, but she knew that her sister was on the job of protecting her from the shadows, and she was a bit overprotective. It wouldn't be exaggerated for her to freeze the whole town to death if she discovered.

While thinking about her sister, she felt a bit lonely. Although she was conscious that her father had sent her sister to protect her from the shadows, they couldn't interact directly because their difference in power would make it harmful for her.

"I better look at my new house. I am sure it is better than the inn. As for that guy, I helped before. We just met by coincidence. If there is any fate between us, we will meet again."

She ignored the fact that she had just killed someone and walked to the house with a smile on her face.

When she left, someone fell to the floor in a nearby house.

"Murder. That girl murdered someone and left with a smile. Too scary. I need to report this to the authorities. Someone like her needs to be executed soon, or she will bring a calamity to us."

He was looking through the window, and he managed to see everything. He didn't know anything about the conservation, but it was clear that a murder happened.

"I guess you need to die."

At the moment he heard that voice, his body froze, and he died. He didn't even have time to react.

"This little sister of mine is too careless. What if the town turned against you for this matter?"

It wasn't difficult for her to know everything about the conversation her sister had with that man.

"Eini, you thought too much. I won't destroy the town for a single guy being a scammer, but I need to admit that if they sent the guards against you, it is possible that I did it."

She knew that Eini couldn't hear her words, but she spoke anyway.

The less she interfered with Eini, the better, and killing the guy that was about to report her was already at the limit of her interference.

Of course, if her life were in danger, she would just kill everyone else in the town without hesitation.

"Now, I am also interested in that guy with the Fake Origin Path. It is a perfect one like mine and Eini's, which means that he is somehow related to an Origin God having an Origin Path like my father. It seems that I need to investigate his background to avoid future problems. As long as he doesn't have ill intentions towards Eini, it is better if I don't interfere with him."

Since that guy had the Fake Origin Path, that woman felt that he should also have a protector on the shadows. She didn't think of the possibility of having obtained it as a legacy because that was too abnormal. Unless one had an Origin Path as a substitute, no one would gift the Fake Origin Path before reincarnation.

She felt that it would be better if she could coordinate with that protector to avoid interfering with each other. Anyway, she knew that even if she were to kill everyone else in that town, it was better to not touch that guy.

"I can't sense anyone else hiding, so the other party should be at least an Essence God. I am one of the five strongest Law Gods, so I can't believe that a Law God can hide from me."

That woman was someone like Master Liye, one of the five strongest Law Gods. However, that was a title given by others to them, so she had never meet Master Liye before to recognize Shiba's Fake Origin Path as the same Master Liye had.