4 A sigh could kill
Of course, only in front of Un Sane did the Demon Lord, ruler of the Demon Race looked cute.
After the world had known about the Sage Realm and the three stages before it after the Heavenly Stage, they had suspected that the Demon Lord is somewhere in the Path Stage while the Four Demon Generals are in the Gate Stage, making everything sense when even a hundred knights with a Heavenly Stage Cultivation were unable to confront them.
Walking on the soil road for hours, Un Sane started to get tired of the green scenery around him that started to absorb the orange hue from the sunset, their shadows slowly stretch and fade.
From there, he could still clearly see the Sky Peak Mountain that made him sigh, "Maybe I should go a little faster?"
A shadow was left as he disappeared from where he stood. Yet, there is no change in the ripples of the wind or the ground as if he was not even there in the first place.
Un Sane moved at a speed where the background only became streaks of light. With his abnormal reaction, he stopped when he saw a bustling town in a few hundred meters away.
The moon and starlight faintly substituted the sun when the dusk filled the sky but the town was already so bright.
Un Sane smiled and shook his head for a reason when he faintly heard a cry of a girl. Anyone will know she was crying for help if you hear enough. He tilted his head to where the sound came from, which was Un Sane's right, even if it was barely audible. He already knew that there were people in there when he got there but he couldn't care less.
The cries of the woman got louder when she noticed him. She tried to get Un Sane's attention.
When Un Sane looked to his right, he already saw five men surrounding a chick that was tied up not far away. Actually noticeable from the road. Just from the scene, the chick has clothing of a noble and seemed an important girl. Her clothes were fine and were surprisingly not ravished by these five men who looked like they would any girl they would find.
Un Sane frowned when he saw this foolishness.
The girl and the burly man in front of her smiled too when they saw that Un Sane noticed them. The girl smiled because she saw hope and the burly man smiled because the bait worked and lured a young man's attention.
Un Sane stepped into the woods. There was no other one on the road beside him so he bothered to help and tell them what he wanted to say.
The girl's eyes widened and warned Un Sane, "No! Just run! Call for help! You can't take them on!", she and the five men already knew that the young man was only at the Middle Mortal Stage that it made them think that this man was stupid for coming when the four men were all Middle Mortal Stage too and the burly man was a Mortal Grade 7, an Upper Mortal Stage Cultivator.
Un Sane ignored the girl's shout as he walked forward.
The other four men surrounded him with all smiles as if they have trapped a little mouse
The girl's complexion turned into worry and already gave up on thinking about getting out of there.
"What a heroic but stupid lad are you?", one of the four men with a messy beard snorted.
"This is so funny! Kaka! Somebody actually came towards here even with no hope of fighting back!"
"You think if you went alone, you could get this girl's heart? Hiya hiya hiya!!"
"You're just here to get beaten? You're young and you're already at our level. Too bad you're stupid."
The girl's eyes tightly closed, 'I'm sorry! If only I hadn't shout earlier!', she deeply regretted as she clenched her fist on her back. She was terrified at what would happen to her in the hands of these vulgar men but she would rather be dirtied rather than pull somebody into this mess.
Towards this mockery, Un Sane's brows twitch. He narrowed his eyes, "Guys, you're too obvious from the road and why have you let her shout like that? Have you not think of tying her mouth too? Or maybe, you could've just went farther into the woods. You don't want to be interrupted while doing it, right?", he lifted his shoulders said something as if it was obvious.
"???", all them had a face of dumbfoundedness. Even the girl had her mouth slightly open.
But then, before anyone could completely react, Un Sane closed his eyes and calmly said, "Was what I wanted to say but now that you had treated me like an idiot, you all should die.", he didn't feel bad saying this or with any hesitation. These men are already criminals when they had forced the girl even if they had just used her as bait or had yet to do anything. On top of that, they called him stupid. As the Sage of Mind, that was his nerve spot. Even if they were not aware, Un Sane couldn't really care.
The men wanted to say something to him and question this youth's mentality but when they heard the word "die", their aggression towards him suddenly change. Without any hesitation, the man in front of Un Sane, grabbed his collar and was planning to make this youth learn a lesson on respecting someone older than him.
When the man lifted his fist and clenched it, Un Sane sighed and the fist released its grip. The man who grabbed Un Sane's collar along with the other three men suddenly had their eyes lost its soul and their body's strength vanished as they plopped onto the ground.
The burly man's face twitched. He was just smiling at the scene where his subordinate grabbed this youth's collar but unable to react when they fell just like that, unresponsive.
Just like that, their life was cut. They left this world and will never come back again. Without knowing what killed them or even knowing that they were killed. They just knew that their sight went black and then, that was it.
"Hey!", the burly man smiled and kicked the man in front of Un Sane, "What are you four doing? The boy just sighed!", but then shivered when he saw the man's dead eyes that made him stepped back. Even the girl inhaled a cold breath.
Un Sane shook his head, "You know what the others say, sighs could kill...", he paused and looked at the burly man with a puzzled look, "Or is it stare could kill and sigh let out happiness?"
The burly man breathed heavily in front of this young man who has an innocent look while his four subordinates lying on the ground, surrounding the youth. Tears came out of him as his complexion turned ugly and his fist clenched tightly while it shivered, these people were his partners in crime. Even with an evil heart, he formed a bond with these men over time. How ironic.
The image of this youth in front of him became of a death reaper, worst than a demon. The burly mand knew that this was this youth's fault but he couldn't do anything than to tremble in fear. The fear of death and unknown stilled in his heart. How could a young innocent-looking boy who was a Mortal Grade 5 do such a spine-chilling thing? It made his view on the world changed.
When Un Sane stepped forward, the burly man stepped backward and heavily nodded, "Y-y-yes..... yo... haaa. right...", because of his disordered breathing and palpitating heart, it made him unable to speak properly. He wanted to agree on the youth's correction.
"No, at least my sigh could kill.", Un Sane smiled at the burly man and inhaled deeply, preparing to sighed.
The burly man trembled more and stepped back as his jaw shakingly dropped. While the girl that was tied on the tree, unable to do anything, tightly shut her eye again when she just opened it and saw what happened, her body hair all stood up in immense fear, 'Am I going to die too?', she thought. She no longer saw the youth as a human anymore so killing an innocent victim that seemed inhumane wasn't difficult for the girl to imagine for this devil youth to do.
"Haaa..."
"No!!!-", the burly man shrieked and wanted to run away but as he turned around, his sight darkened and he tripped over nothing, he was dead.
The girl's long and white legs trembled and twitched when the burly man fell on the ground. She opened her eyes and unconsciously looked at the youth who was smiling but faded right after as he looked at her, her eyes widened, "N-no..."
"I am trying not to stand out so it would be problematic if you tell others what you saw tonight. You wouldn't tell others, right?", Un Sane went beside the trembling girl, while she crazily nodded, and crouched beside her, now that he directed his attention to her, he noticed that the girl was blonde, "But I don't trust you at all so I have to kill you."
Un Sane inhaled deeply.
The blonde girl's shaky nod became horizontal, "Pl-please..."
'So I am going to die. But I guess, it's better than getting dirtied and then killed.', she thought to comfort herself but deep inside, she was reluctant to die without doing anything in life. Her memories flashed through her. Her proud dad, loving mom, and her beloved fiancee. She already lived a good life, living as a noble's only daughter.
Un Sane inhaled, "Just kidding.", he smiled, "You're a victim here, I'm not that terrible, you know. Hahaha.", he laughed heartily.
"....", the girl's head fell. Her frail body stopped trembling.
"Ah", Un Sane stopped his laughter and looked at the tied girl with a bothered look, "...She fainted."
His expression became troubled, "How am I going to deal with this? This is my fault..."
