12 Nerf Gun

[It's a freaking Nerf gun]

I held in my hands a gun with which I had a lot of fun in middle school. No wonder I wanted to continue shooting.

"What is it? Some stone?" Picked up the foam bullet and examined it, "It's soft, but it hurt." He whined.

"No matter, these are useless" He lifted his knife and charged towards me again. The distance between us grew slower, and so did the time tick slower.

[It isn't a delusion or anything, his movements are slower than earlier. Is it again a power?]

Everything around me is moving slower than usual, but I am at my same usual speed; I dropped the gun. The moment I released it from my hands, even its velocity of falling on the ground decreased.

A kitchen knife appeared in my hand, I waited for him to get within range. He held the short sword with his left hand, and his arms parallel to the ground. Getting on my knee, I sliced his left side of the waist, while the guy rolled his eyeball towards me; the feeling is like that of when I sliced the millipede. The speed of time turned normal, and the guy sped a few more steps behind me and stopped.

Blood sprayed out from his waist, as I stood back on my legs.

*Thud* He fell to the ground. This time for sure he is dead. Everyone looked at me in astonishment. Their mouths are wide open enough to pop an egg in their mouth.

[Oh No! I just murdered someone in broad daylight, it's no time to be proud of myself.]

"Wait, It isn't what it looks like. It was just self-defense. Nothing of it was in purpose." No one's reaction changed.

[Will I be arrested, What shall I do?]

"You bastard, how did you kill him? Is it magic? You weren't holding any knife a moment ago." He is angry because I have a knife, not because I killed one of his men? "Kill Him"

A dozen of these red bandana guys charged towards me. I want to use the lighting spell, but the last thing I want now is to get struck by my own magic and losing consciousness in the middle of these guys. So I left it for the worst case. Lifting the Nerf Gun, I shot towards everyone.

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Third-Person Pov

Even though the bandits knew that the gun's bullets aren't life-threatening, Since it is their first time encountering one of these, they didn't risk it and tried their best to evade the bullets (Of course because Nerf bullets have projectiles and are slower). Those who got hurt fell on the ground, making the other scared. So for a minute, they maintained their distance away from Louis.

As soon as the fallen stood up again, it ensured them they can face the bullets face on.

Louis seemed to be in a pinch. He concentrated his energy on his right hand and threw the gun. Sensing the direction of the throw, the bandits already took a dodge position. But a sorry bandit who ran behind the others couldn't see Louis throwing his gun, and as the bandits in front of him bent aside, the gun struck his face.

None of the bandits looked behind until they heard a splash. The gun which Louis threw killed a bandit in an instant. Again everyone looked at the corpse in disbelief.

"Good one holding them, Now I will take care of them" Esdeath stepped out from the forest into the scene.

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Louis Pov--

[What is Esdeath doing here?]

"You bandits are dead" Esdeath looked serious. "Icicle storm". A few dozen icicles formed in the open sky and zoomed towards the bandits. Many of them dodged them while some became prey to them and died as they got staked with icicles.

"Retreat, the devil General is here, Instant retreat" The guy in yellow bandana repeated.

"Like I will let you"

"FleeScreen" Smokescreen spread the entire area.

Esdeath used her sword to cut the smoke, but they were long gone.

[It's time to get out from here.]

"Hi, Troy" Her attention is on me.

"Hi, Miss Esdeath"

"You fought bravely against those bandits, and because of you, this part of town is saved from those bandits"

[So they really were bandits.]

"Thank you for your appreciation, but it really was an accident," I replied gaily. "Now I will take my leave."

"Wait, come with me to the..."

"No, No, I can't I have some important business to deal with"

"I want to reward you for your gallantry."

"Like I said, I don't require it, it was an accident" I already started to walk towards the town away from Esdeath.

"So, you won't listen to me." She stood behind me with her hand raised.

[No problem, I can easily dodge it by slowing the time... Now 'time goes slow'. ]

The time didn't slow down, and Esdeath successfully gave me a clean neck chop in an instant.

[Oh shit, why didn't anything happen? My consciousness is fading.]

Everything went blank as I lost my balance.