12 People Who Crawl

"H-hey!, what do you think you're doing?" The stranger drew his katana and pointed it's sharp tip towards the older brother, he didn't know to much about weapons but he could tell that the blade which had just been unsheathed had plenty of experiences with killing." My name is Daiki and you're my practice today" The stranger before them had completely transformed on such a short notice, a few seconds ago, a scared man had stood before them but now, that facade had been completely swallowed up by the beast hiding behind it.

"Listen, we're not looking to fight" it was the brother who had the tip of the blade pointing towards him, "we simply wish to get back what was stolen from us" A amused smile appeared on the strangers face, "So in order to get back what was stolen from you, it was necessary to break the kids arm?" The brother made a quick glance towards the boy and then, once again met the strangers eyes. "Okay, that might have been unnecessary, but the kid refuses to tell us where the goods are hidden, we could buy seven fully grown horses for that money! You said you're name was Daiki, right? So let's negotiate then, Daiki"

The stranger who was calling himself Daiki was sure to save him, this was his chance to get away from this gang of thieves. All their goods were from the people who they had stolen from. Then, after a couple of days had passed, he would take the money for himself. "Just hurry up and kill them!", the kid thought.

"Wait!, you seemed to have misunderstood, I couldn't care less for the kid", it was Daiki who had spoken. The kids expression froze, what did he just say? the pain in his arm was starting to fade, it wasn't really broken, just twisted. "So you didn't stop by here for the kids sake?" the stranger nodded. "As I said, I just wanna practice" the three brothers were shocked, but then that irritation replaced their shock. "If I'm getting this straight, you just stopped by her to kill us, in order to practice and not for the kids sake?!" Daiki nodded once again. "How does that make this situation any better!" It was the brother who had dragged the kid to this place speaking.  "I appreciate how quick you are on the pick up"

While the brothers were in a dazzled state of mind, the kid took his chance started running. It was to bad that he didn't have any energy left in him so as soon as he started running he felt how his whole body was fighting against him. He was able to run up to the stranger before falling right on his head in front of Daiki. The brothers were able to wake up from their confused state thanks to the kid and started coming towards him. With his last ounce of strength, he crawled towards the stranger and grabbed onto his left leg then, with his dry throat, uttered the words, "Help... Me..."

Daiki stood still, seemingly unfazed by the boys plead for help, he didn't even lower his gaze to look at the kid. "You stupid child, begging people you don't even know for help, pathetic..." As the oldest brother reached down to grab the boy, a sense of pain came to his forehead, something wet started flowing down to his eyes. Blood. He looked up to see the stranger standing there, with his blade unsheathed and the tip of it was digging in to his forehead. He was totally paralyzed, "don't touch him" it was Daiki who had begun speaking. "B-brother!, you bastard!" the other two started walking towards him. "Stay back!, or your dear brothers dead" Daiki locked his eyes onto the older brother who was at the mercy of his katana.

"Listen, what I said before was the absolute truth, I didn't care about this child when I stopped by you" everyone we're completely still, not a muscle moved and if you focused, you would be able to her every single breath. The he one who was in charge of deciding how long that silence would last was the stranger who had appeared harmless not to long ago, Daiki was in charge. "The one I care about is none other than you, the apparent leader of this group. This boy, who's laying by my feet and asked for my help, I still couldn't care less about him. But you... You have earned my absolute attention, and you will soon learn what that means. I don't feel any empathy towards this kid, he hasn't earned any sympathy from me, instead he's earned my respect, I have to admit that people who crawl in the mud to get what they want, their my favorite kind of people"

With that, a huge smile appeared on Daiki's lips, it was an unnaturally big smile, but in this moment, it fit perfectly.