4 Enough waiting

The next Time Einhard gained consciousness, he was being transported with a carriage to the place he didn't know of.

How much time he spent like that, travelling with iron cuffs placed on him, Einhard didn't know.

By the looks of it, Einhard has been enslaved.

In this world slavery is legal, but exactly because of this there is a law regarding slave trading, forcefully turning regular citizen into a slave is most certainly illegal, well what else can you expect from bandits attacking a town in a broad daylight.

Regardless, that is not important right now, for now, Einhard will be transported from place to place to slowly cover the marks of illegal business.

All this time Einhard fruitlessly waited to be rescued, but that hope has already died down by now

'Just sitting and doing nothing is useless'

In this world filled with fantasy, where human life can go out like a candle in the rain, no one will care if a no-name orphan disappears

'No one will save me, no one to rely on...'

In the first place, he shouldn't even have that kind of hopes, to begin with, Einhard was alone from the start, his only kin in this world could be anywhere, but that doesn't matter, for Einhard is by his lonesome right now.

'Enough waiting! I will get out of this by myself'

Einhard resolved, the plan is already forming in his head, he just has to wait for an opportune time, that surely is soon to come.

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Some days after that, when his captors were readying the camp, Einhard put his plan in motion.

The first order of business is to get rid of shackles, by overloading them with mana it is possible to simply shatter them, but metal is a tough material, it will take a lot to break it easily.

Even so, Einhard is prepared, he spent a lot of time analyzing the shackles, every bit of weakness has been noted.

And indeed, soon enough a loud sound of metal breaking resounded in the dead of night, his captors, of course, noticed it, but

'Good, come here, I'll tear you apart one by one!'

Today is the day Einhard will spill blood, it took a lot to resolve himself, but there is no mercy for those who take the freedom of others.

He could hear one of them approaching, now is the moment of truth.

Einhard was poised to attack any moment and when the captor was deep enough in the carriage he shot out like a bullet hitting the enemy's solar plexus, feats like this are but trivial with reinforcement.

The sudden hit caused the captor to bend over, not wasting time Einhard positioned himself on his opponents back, grabbed his head and twisted it beyond its limit, it takes no expert to know that a neck can only turn that much, with a disgusting crack the body fell like a puppet with its strings cut off.

'That's one'

Two more to go, onto the next part of the plan.

Einhard took the knife his opponent had no chance of using, dragged the dead body at the back of the carriage, covered himself with it and waited patiently.

Luckily he didn't have to wait long

"Hey bastard, what's taking so long?"

The second captor was standing right outside the carriage, judging by his voice he was very annoyed, but that annoyance quickly disappeared when he saw his comrade hunched over something unmoving.

Slowly he got close and grabbed his comrade's shoulder, the body fell over and from beneath it, Einhard leapt up with a knife in hand, straight to captors throat.

The enemy couldn't even scream in pain, all he could do was thrash on the floor, but soon even that stopped.

'So far so good'

Thought Einhard, but now comes the hardest part, there were three people in charge of the carriage, no matter how illegal their business is, no idiot would go on a journey without a somewhat strong guard, the two people that he just killed were weaklings, that means the last one will be more trouble.

'No matter, nothing has changed, my goal is the same'

Einhard strapped the knife to his waistband and covered it with his shirt, he took the sword the second guy had on him

'Range is important, I think'

He reckoned.

Once again, Einhard waited, but for some reason, nobody came in, this got him impatient, so he cautiously went out, fully expecting someone to be there, but

"...Eh?"

No one was there, quiet reigned that place, the only sound being the crackling of the fire.

Still, Einhard didn't let his guard down and he was right to do so.

The hair on his back stood straight, trusting his instincts Einhard turned and barely blocked the incoming attack, in exchange he was blown away

"Well well well, what do we have here?"

An unfamiliar voice was heard

"I go take a leak and when I come back those two idiots somehow got themselves killed"

It was a man with brown hair and a lean build

"Could you have done that, I wonder? no no no, even if they were idiots, a child couldn't have done that"

Judging by his voice, the man was not wary of Einhard, either he couldn't take a child seriously of he was just that confident, most likely both, even Einhard wouldn't believe if someone told him that a four-year-old killed two grown men.

"Put the sword down boy, or I'll have to make you"

Even if he didn't take Einhard as much of a threat, a child, that was supposed to be chained, standing in front of him with a sword in hand and a bit of blood splattered on his face would raise a red flag in anyone.

In response to his words, Einhard readied the sword, he is not a martial artist nor is he a swordsman, so that was all he could do now.

"Felling rebellious aren't we?"

The man said in exasperation, then he moved to strike, every time the swords clashed Einhard would feel pain in his hands, Even if he's using reinforcement, the child's body doesn't have much to reinforce, to begin with, Einhard may hold his own against average adult, but this man was different, he was no average guy, most people aren't casting reinforcement themselves, there are plenty of magic items for that, this man was using one.

It was no fight, Einhard was completely toyed with

"Gah!"

At last, he lost, the sword fell from his hands

"You didn't have to make this so troublesome"

The man said as he lifted up Einhard by the throat

"You'll tell me who killed those idiots, but for now just sleep, 'kay?"

Einhard struggled, lack of oxygen making his vision hazy

'This isn't the end...!'

The sudden look of determination confused the man, but he didn't have much time for that, because there was a knife striking through his neck.

Even disarmed, Einhard still had the knife on him from earlier.

Despite being the strongest of all present, the last captor died without realizing what got him, just like the rest.

"Haah... aah... hah...!"

Einhard greedily breathed in the air

"... I did it..."

He said slowly

"I killed them..."

Einhard is free now, but he paid the price, his hand are dirtied with blood now.

"This is my life now"

Einhard said solemnly.