Crushing Defeat

Sometime later, within the vast wilderness.

"Hey man, don't you think you went a bit too far there?" Removing the black fabric covering their faces as they simultaneously let out a sigh of relief, the shorter man among the two could not help but glare at the man in front of him. "You're Rank 4 for crying out loud! Can't you stop yourself from being inclined to kill everything you fight against?"

"On top of that, you had me stall that other guy for longer than what we initially agreed upon!" the shorter man continued to berate him. In response, the tall man listened to the short man's words in silence. "I better get at least a quarter of the pay you're getting from this!"

"Fine." Surprisingly, rather than complain that he was being chewed out by the shorter man, the tall man decided to acquiesce to his words, causing the shorter man to do a double take, wondering if he had heard correctly.