Chapter 23

According to the Map, the distance between my location and the points was several kilometers, therefore without much thought I began to fly directly to the location where the girls were, due to the speed I was carrying while I was flying, it only took me a few seconds to get where they were all there, I stayed flying in the air for a moment and after seeing how they put a slave collar on the three girls and that some guys were with intentions of raping the two semi-human girls I decided to go down, I deactivated Flight and simply I let my body be pulled by gravity to the ground.

Making a great fuss I fell next to the three girls who were completely scared, absolutely all the people turned to look at me, I quickly looked at the state of everyone present and to the bad luck of the guys all had already committed crimes, very cruel crimes.

Who are you? -Slave trader.

The slave trader stood in front of the group of men and asked something very obvious, I did not answer and simply looked at all the men in front of him, after having seen all the men I looked at the three girls who were in on the ground, when I looked at the girls faces, I couldn't help but get angry, although I had already seen similar things, I couldn't get used to it.

Hey, are you deaf? The boss is asking you something-Man.

One of the men who seemed to be the leader of all the bandits stood next to the slave trader.

It is not necessary to introduce myself ...- Kasumi.

Hearing my words the man made an annoyed face and gave the slave trader a look and he shook his head in affirmation, the man upon receiving the confirmation slowly approached me smiling.

Before a corpse-Kasumi.

Before the man could react, I shot him right in the forehead, instantly taking his life, the man's corpse fell to the ground like a stone, at the moment that all the bandits watched the man die, they drew their weapons and prepared for the fight.

Damn, kill this bastard! -Slave trader.

I stood in front of the girls and prepared to take out all the men in front of me, all the men quickly got into formation, the archers got behind, and the swordsmen and squires took the front.

Without paying much attention to all the men I created several mana swords around me, the group of men had a total of 22 people which none stood out at all.

(This will be quick).

Quickly three guys with shields began to advance towards my direction followed by the swordsmen, the archers just stared and started preparing their bows, the three girls looking at how everything was developing were about to run away, but before they did. they did stop them.

Don't move-Kasumi.

I created a Barrier around the three girls to avoid any accident towards them, obviously the girls looking at the barrier tried to get out of it without any result.

With the three girls out of danger I focused on all the guys in front of me, quickly guide the swords directly towards the men, the squires looking at the swords put their tower shields in front of them to receive the impact, but to their bad luck The swords easily cut the shields together with the people who carried them, followed by the shields the swords continued to advance and began to kill every swordsman that crossed their path, the screams could be heard all over the place and the smell of fresh blood it was very strong, what a few seconds ago was fresh grass was now a pile of corpses and organs scattered everywhere in a pool of blood.

After only a couple of seconds the number of people had been reduced to only five people which were four archers and the slave trader, the archers with a lot of terror on their faces shot arrows as fast as they could, but each of the dates I grabbed them with my hands or simply let them pass by my sides impacting against the barrier where the three girls were.

After receiving some arrows I decided that it was time to finish the job, quickly ten swords surrounded the five men and in a blink of the eye eight swords pierced the chest of the archers letting them live for only an instant while vomiting blood, the slave trader being the only one alive, he knelt on the ground while crying and bent down to touch the ground with his forehead.

PLEASE FORGIVE ME MY LIFE! -Slave merchant.

I spun the ten swords around the body of the slave trader slowly, the slave trader looking at all the swords buried his face in the grass while crying and shouting that he will spare his life, I slowly walked up to him and stopped until just a few steps.

Tell me, what would happen to those three girls if I had not interrupted? -Kasumi.

The merchant was silent while he only limited himself to trembling and sucking his snot, I waited for his answer for a few seconds, but he did not want to say a word, after continuing to wait I made a sword stick in the right palm, the slave merchant he screamed in agony trying to draw the sword with his other hand, but it was completely impossible for him to even move it.

Answer! -Kasumi.

I yelled something loud to the merchant while making the sword turn in his palm.

I WOULD HAVE SOLD THEM, THAT'S WHAT I ALWAYS DO! -Slave merchant.

And just when I stopped them, what were they going to do to them? -Kasumi.

Again I turned the sword so that it would speak again.

WE WERE GOING TO RAP THEM! -Slave merchant.

I looked at the girls faces and as I expected they looked even more scared, I took the sword out of his palm and stopped all the swords.

Even after saying that, do you think I'll spare your life? -Kasumi.

The slave trader just fell silent as he grabbed his hand.

Yes, I thought so-Kasumi.

I started walking towards the three girls and after a few steps I stuck the ten swords into the body of the slave trader, the trader stayed alive for a few seconds before he died, I removed the barrier that was over the girls and I was only a few footsteps from them, the three girls were totally scared by my presence and I didn't blame them.

I looked at the status of each girl and for some reason I could read the word "slave" in it, it had arrived too late, the three girls the slave trader had already turned them into slaves using the contract and when their owner was dead they were marked as runaway slaves, which was worse than being a normal slave since being a runaway slave they were going to be practically hunted by slave traders.

I stared at the girls for a few seconds and when I noticed that they were about to run away, I decided to talk to them.

Do not fear, I will not harm you-Kasumi.

They obviously didn't believe me at all and started running into the forest.

(I don't want to get involved in anything annoying, but they are running right into a monster.)

I saved the corpses and quickly took flight, I followed the three girls over the trees and it was only a matter of a minute for the three girls to find a kind of lizard a few meters long, the monster was known as a poisonous lizard, It was practically a comfortable dragon but a few meters taller and longer.

The girls were only several meters away from the monster that was staring at them.

I'll distract him, you guys run away!-Human girl.

We won't leave you behind! -Wolf girl.

I told them to go away! Tell mother I won't be here tonight-Human girl.

Arisa ...- Cat girl.

The monster after analyzing its prey ran quickly towards the three girls, the human girl ran towards the lizard with the idea of sacrificing herself for her two friends, when the lizard was only a few meters from the girl this stopped and launched a greenish liquid, the girl known as Arisa stopped the moment she looked at what the lizard threw at her and put her hands in front of her face to protect herself from the liquid, but just when the liquid was about to fall on the girl she surrounded her with a barrier, the three girls looking at the barrier began to look in all directions.

I slowly descended in front of the girl and the lizard, although I wasn't looking at the three girls if I could feel the gaze from her.

And that's why I tried to stop them, this forest is full of monsters, for people like you, it's suicide-Kasumi.

I walked slowly towards the lizard while I unsheathed my sword, the lizard threw me several spits but I got sideways avoiding them easily, the lizard continued spitting but no matter how hard I tried none of them could give me, when I was only a few steps away from the lizard this tried to back away but before he did I grabbed his neck with my left hand and inserted my sword into the lizard's head, it was only a matter of seconds for the lizard to freeze, I turned to see the girls and the two demi-humans were trying to get closer to the human who was inside the barrier, at the moment I broke the barrier the two girls stood up on the other, I let the girls calm down a bit to talk to them.

Let's start by introducing ourselves, my name is Kasumi Beller and I am an adventurer who luckily crossed over here-Kasumi.

M-my name is Arisa, they are Shiro and Yui-Arisa.

Well, Arisa, Yui, Shiro, nice to meet you-Kasumi.

I told the girls while I extended my hand to them in greeting, but they did not want to reciprocate, I withdrew the greeting and simply took my sword from the lizard and saved it in the Inventory, as I expected the girls looked at me strangely when doing it.

Where are you headed? -Kasumi.

The girls looked a bit dubious at my question, therefore I decided to talk to them more.

I am heading to the Rao people, if you like I can escort you to your destination-Kasumi.

The girls looked at each other and exchanged words in low voices which I heard all due to my keen senses.

We also headed to the Rao village-Arisa.

Excellent, we can go together then, I think the town is about two days walking, therefore, we must start right now-Kasumi.

I began to walk relaxed while with the Map I began to search if the bandits had a carriage or lair, but after searching for several kilometers around I did not find anything, when I did not find anything I assumed that someone had left them in the place and would probably pick them up after a few days or something like that.

After only a few minutes we returned to the road and started our journey towards Rao village.

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To all that girls, how did you end up in the middle of all that ruckus from a while ago? -Kasumi.

We came from the Uirsh village and while we were looking for some transport a merchant said that he would take us for a good price, but when we came from that part the merchant stopped the carriage and those guys appeared, we tried to run, but they always ended up catching us-Arisa.

So there was another merchant involved, if luckily you look at that merchant tell me, I will reward him for his good work -Kasumi.

Sure-Arisa.

Although it was little, that had been the largest number of words said in a conversation since a couple of hours ago, so I had realized the three girls were very reserved, mainly the two semi-human since they had not said anything to me a word since we had met.

Currently what I knew about the three girls were their names, that they lived in the Rao town and the occasional little ordinary thing, although I could see their information in their States, I did not want to do it since when we got to the town we would separate.

I have another question, are those necklaces in the way? -Kasumi.

Clearly the three of them looked a bit uncomfortable wearing slave collars, the girls upon hearing my question only touched them with their hands and looked down.

To be honest, I'm getting used to it-Arisa.

If you want I can try to break-Kasumi.

No, if a slave collar is forcibly broken execute the slave who wears it-Arisa.

Are you sure about that? -Kasumi.

That's what people always say-Arisa.

(That I did not know, I must study the slave collars too).

We continued walking towards the Rao town without any difficulty on the way, after walking for a couple of hours I noticed how clouds began to appear constantly in the sky hinting that it would start to rain, I did not pay much attention to the approaching rain and I continued, after about an hour the rain began to be present.

Hmm, it's time to take refuge, follow me-Kasumi.

I started walking towards the forest to make a shelter to pass the storm and since it was getting late it was also going to work for us to sleep; I only took a few steps and noticed that the three girls weren't following me at all, but stood looking at me with a bit of doubt.

If you don't want to spend the rain getting wet follow me, I'll give you shelter and food-Kasumi.

Still with doubt they began to follow me with a few steps away, after walking for a few minutes I stopped when I found a clear area.

It's perfect-Kasumi.

I quickly leveled all the ground and raised four stone walls, provided a roof also made of stone and made a door and some windows, I created a wooden door and put it like the windows made of glass.

Now the interior is missing-Kasumi.

I stood at the entrance of the room and created a stone floor which I polished to look like ceramic, on the ceiling and walls I put several luminous crystals that I had in my Inventory, I placed a table with four chairs in one part of the room and put two beds in the back of the room, I created a few walls in one corner of the back of the room and put a bathroom with a drain down.

Ready, you can come in now-Kasumi.

I opened the door for the girls and went into the makeshift room, I approached the table and put different dishes that I had stored in the Inventory and also some wine, water and some natural juices made by me.

I sat in the chair that was further down the table and began to eat and drink some juice, the three girls had not yet entered the room and they stayed at the door just looking.

H-how d-did you do t-that? -Arisa.

It's my magic, but it's not the time to talk about it, now it's time to eat and rest-Kasumi.

The three girls entered the room looking around, slowly walked to the table and slowly began to eat, seeing that they had already started eating I stopped paying attention and began to think of some way to remove the necklaces from slave without having to use brute force.

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So they were looking for a medicinal herb for your mother-Kasumi.

Yes, we looked for the different stores that the Uirsh town had but we did not find anything, we spent a few days looking for it but when we did not find it better, we returned as quickly as possible-Arisa.

And are you sure that herb would cure her? -Kasumi.

A village doctor said that if her illness did not progress much she could be cured-Yui.

But now that we haven't found anything, she might just ... what-Shiro.

After we finished eating the rain began to become very strong and without being able to do more we stayed in the beds talking a little, mysteriously the three girls after having eaten began to talk more with me, although the two demi-humans took a while, they ended up talking to me.

Do not worry! we'll try something else-Arisa.

Arisa ...- Shiro.

According to what I understood, Arisa's mother was ill and the three of them had gone to look for the medicine that unfortunately they did not find and were turned into slaves and were almost raped by bandits on the way back, I honestly felt quite sorry for the three girls and their mother.

(If what her mother has is serious, I can give her a high quality position).

It's late, we have to sleep, tomorrow we have to get to Rao-Kasumi.

I kept several crystals that were on the ceiling until the room was almost dark, we were all silent and only the sound of the rain was present.

Hey .... Kasumi, and what about you? all you have told us is your name, do you have a family? why did you leave your home? where are you going? how did you do this and how? did you kill those men? I have many questions to ask you-Arisa.

The truth is that I also wanted to ask you those things-Shiro.

Likewise-Yui.

If I have a family, I am looking for a resource for a posion, the elven kingdom, it is my magic that I personally created-Kasumi.

After having answered the girls they were silent again, with the girls almost asleep I raised a Barrier around the entire room and began to think about creating a new skill to be able to remove the slave collars that the girls were wearing.

The first thing that occurred to me was incineration, but I discarded the idea for obvious reasons, as I had absolutely no information about slave collars, I didn't want to try to break them with force, after thinking about different options I decided on disintegration, I had already seen in movies or series how some people could turn things into simple dust which in scientific terms was impossible by a certain law.

(Will the law of conservation of matter apply in this world?).

According to this law, matter is neither created nor destroyed, it only transforms; Slowly I looked at the girls and they were sound asleep, I teleported into a sub-space room and began to work on the skill, applying a little science, magic and some fiction I managed to create an ability capable of turning matter into simple dust, after thinking of a name for the skill I decided on Disintegrate because that's what the skill did.

I tested the skill on several things and it worked perfectly, after testing it on various materials I created a Shiro mannequin and put a wooden necklace on it, applied Disintegrate on the necklace and as I thought the necklace disappeared next to the mannequin, definitely a failure.

Again I continued working on the ability so that I could disintegrate only a specific object, not that everything it touched will continue to disintegrate, after having worked for a long time I managed to make the ability disintegrate a specific thing; With the skill already finished I teleported out of the room to avoid a problem, I looked at the location of the girls on the Map and knowing that they were still in the same position I teleported to the room and lay down on my bed.

(Tomorrow take those things off them .... although ... I couldn't change the size of the necklace with Materia? .... since).