Past Grudge

"Ooh! Look at that confidence," Elior said. The spear was still in his arm. He recalled in the previous time in the trial, these two bastards had similarly made this type of demand. 

"We're not joking. Give us the Tokens when we're being nice if not. . ." This time the one with the bow said out loud. 

Elior smiled. "If not, what?" he asked. They didn't even succeed in the previous time what's he have to fear this time? Though in the previous time they were a lot more than just an annoyance.

"Take one step further and an arrow would pierce your body," the one with the bow said again. His expression and body language showed that he was not joking around. He would really shoot at Elior.

"Shoot then, what you're waiting for?" Elior didn't even flinch at the threat. On the other hand, he was infusing mana into the spear.

"Kid, you have a death wish?" The one with the sword shouted as he advanced at Elior, brandishing the sword.

The one with the bow didn't shoot, just wait for his brother to finish the conflict. They were not that cruel to finish a human for a few tokens. It was just that the trial needed them to be a bit cruel.

Elior didn't flinch at the incoming sword, barely met it with the mana-infused spear. And in the next moment, the sword broke into two-part. That was the difference between a weapon with mana infused and a weapon with only brute strength. 

"How?" the swordsman's eyes widened in shock.

Elior didn't give time to his opponent for recollection, pointed the spearhead at his neck' threateningly.

"Don't move," Elior said. He looked back at the other one of the twins and said. "Drop the bow?"

"How do you become adept in mana in only a couple of hours?" The one at his spear tip asked. While the one with the bow followed without any question, dropped the bow a few metres away. 

"It's a secret," Elior laughed out. "So, what are you demanding again? Oh, trial tokens. So how many you guys have?"

"You're making a big mistake," said the one who was pinned down by the spear.

"We've 32 tokens. If you leave us alone, we'll give you half of those," said the one standing. He was more docile than his brother.

"Only half of 32? Nah, I don't need your tokens; you can keep your tokens to yourself," Elior said. "So what were you two called again?"

The colour of the one standing turned for better after hearing that Elior was not interested in their tokens. "I'm called Sarvat," he said, then pointed at the one Elior was pinning. "And he's Sarrat. We're from the Turgeon Kingdom."

"Sarvat and Sarrat." Elior nodded. "And that's every day?"

The two of them seemed to not understand what he was saying, so Elior elaborated further.

"I mean, don't you two interchange names to do fishy things? Like doing something immoral and then giving the blame to the other one. I guess you would not tell me even if you do, right?"

The facial expression of the twins' twitched, hearing that.

"Hey, can you rest the spear away from my neck?" Sarrat said. "It is really making me uncomfortable."

"You should have thought thoroughly about it before attacking me," Elior said as he contemplated over what's to do with these two brothers. "Last question, do any of you two have a girlfriend?"

"What type of question is that?" asked Sarvat.

"The most important type," said Elior. "I guess I already got my answer. You two don't have a girlfriend." Then he muttered to himself. "I guess there's nobody to mind, what I'm going to do."

"How can you say that? No; never mind," Sarvat said again. "Haven't you said you would let us go?"

"Of course, I'll let you two go. I have no interest in the two of you." Elior pondered for a moment. "But before that, I need to have a little revenge on the two of you for wasting my precious time." 'And chasing after me all day in my first time. Guess you didn't even know this could happen to you. Heck, I didn't even know that.' Elior mused inside, laughing out in glee. 'My name is Elior mother-loving Vishwas, and I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next. . . '

After a couple of minutes, Elior left the two behind with a satisfied grin on his lips. The cursing sound of the two fellows behind seemed to satisfy him even more.

"Damn you, bastard. It will not end here," yelled Sarvat who was naked and tied to his brother into a tree. Elior didn't have a rope with him so he used their own clothes to tie the twin brothers naked. Moreover, they were facing each other in an embracing posture.

"I, Sarrat promise to the mother of god. I will end you myself," cursed Sarrat. "If you know better, untie us immediately. It will not end well for you after I got myself free from here."

"Brother, he's leaving," Sarvat—who could see Elior moving away from them, said. "It seems threat does not work well with him. We should ask him nicely."

"You try," yelled Sarat. He had no mind to calm down, moreover to beg that bastard. "Before that move your hand from my butt."

"Where should I put it then?"

"Put it anywhere you like but not in my butt."

"Oh no; he left." Sarvat cried out. "Bastard."

"I told you to move your palm away from my butt," Sarrat gritted his teeth and yelled out. "Why are you even squeezing it, saying 'bastard?'''

. . . 

Elior moved, whistling down the path. No animal or human had attacked after the three wolves and the twin duo. Now he needed a better place to roast the two rabbits. His stomach was already protesting. But the scene where he left the twins tied improved his mood. 

He hadn't tied them properly. If those two spent their brain a bit better they could untie themselves. Their clothes? That was another matter. But in return, Elior left them three corpses of the forest wolves. 

"I'm sure they can make something out of it," he mused. "They better. It's going to get chilly after the evening."

Elior continued on his whistling as he moved. Then he smelt something burning a few dozen blocks away. He quickened his pace to see what's going on. Elior didn't forget to be silent on his track either. 

After covering a bit further, he could see what was going on here. A boy of his age was hanging upside down from a branch while a female—tall and gorgeous in orange dress, trying to make a fire below. But the problem was Elior recognised the fellow hanging upside-down from the branch. 

"Isn't that Shin?"

The one hanging upside-down was a fair-skinned boy of sixteen. He was as tall as Elior, with a rather distinctive, handsome appearance. His hair was dyed blonde and pink, with a few piercings at the brows and ears. It would not be wrong to say that this lad looked just like the classic 'fucboi' from the 20s. 

And that was Shin. One of the dearest friends, brother of Elior in his previous regressions. Shin might look like a 'fucboi', but apparently, he was not. Well, he tried his best to be one, and he had his reasons for that, though it was rather stupid.

While below was a graceful figure of a girl, and she was only a few inches smaller than him. The girl was dressed in a tight, bright orange full-sleeved clothing. Her exterior was gorgeous as the orange dress hugged her body with all the curves at display. It appeared she was having quite the problem, making the fire ablaze.  

Elior contemplated over what he was seeing again. Now h was sure Shin definitely did something to the girl.

 His mind moved fast to find a way to save shin—who was tied to a silk string in an upside-down posture over a branch. 

Though the one that caused the problem may be Shin, yet Elior had to help him. Shin was a dear brother to him in his previous regression. He had his faults, mostly when against gorgeous women, but Elior could not leave him in this situation. Moreover, there might be a juicy story here. One that he didn't know even in his previous time. 

Elior was about to come up with something when Shin noticed him and yelled pathetically.

"Hey big brother, save me from this inhuman Elf. She's going to eat me alive."

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