Ren's eyes opened wide seeing the translucent window that appeared before him. It says that a quest has been acquired and needs to be cleared within twenty-four hours, and what worried him the most was the term of failure; it was an imminent death.
His body hair stood to no end while shivering. Dread occupied his thoughts.The quest demanded one vile soul of a person to be sent to a Void. So he must kill one person who is deemed as vile to complete the quest that is bestowed upon him by the system.However, the thought of reaping on other lives gave the tingling in his spine and his stomach to churn, but it subsided almost instantly, as the intense memories that occupied the young man named Ren in this world replaced all of the disgust and the hesitation in his thought. He closed his eyes and the memories that he tried to avoid repeating themselves. His blood boiled upon seeing it then as he tried to imagine killing a person with the blade in his hand.Ren shook his mind as he began to peek outside to see the outcome of the battle that unfolded for the three parties, he met.“..Don’t move or else this girl will die”.The new bald man has a bulky appearance but with a little chubby stomach and a rough face. He stood 6.5 feet tall. From the faraway Ren could see the person was covered in dirt showing his lack of hygiene and his teeth were even painted yellow. He can’t imagine how smelly that is. Even the young girl who is being captured in his arms contorted her face, probably holding her breath.Ren knows the man's identity. He was the boss around here and the thugs that kidnap the girls earlier in the day. His name was Jiha. He concentrated his eyes and could see the three parties that tried to save their own kin but failed miserably when the kidnapper used the victim as a hostage. It seems the girl was by no means a small person.The three parties stand still upon the dead body of the lackey from the man. Gritting their teeth didn't know that the man would come with something like this.The silver-haired woman in the hood lowered her weapon as she began to open her mouth.“All right, in exchange for my sister. What do you want?”.Jiha's mouth lifted as he began to grip the girl in his arm tightly.“Kya!”.“Liv!”.“..Hehe, what do I want? Haha, lads hurry up and take some rope to bind everyone here”.“YOU!”.The man began to point his knife at the neck of the girl on his arm. The girl shrieked in terror as a cold steel was placed on her neck. However, despite the horrifying situation, the girl still has a strong will in her eyes. She shot a glare at the woman before her and shouted.“Big sis, leave this place.. Uhk”.“Suuuu, hold on little miss. Don’t be like that. You will ruin my plan”.Jiha covered the girl's mouth. With knitted brows, he tightly closed the girl's mouth shut.The young woman and her two attendant bodies tensed because of the treatment Jiha had done to their important person.especially the woman in front who had bloodshot eyes looking at the figure who held her dear sister roughly. She gritted her teeth and her hands were trembling for she was holding the boiling volcanic rage that accumulated in the pit of her stomach.She came to this place with full preparation. She brought a lot of ransom in case the kidnapper demanded some of it in exchange for her sister's freedom. In her mind, she wanted to finish this matter peacefully, but things didn’t go her way.instead, the table was flipped to her side. The first time they met the kidnaper, and his lackey began to attack head-on. So there is nothing they can do besides to retaliate. But the boss used his head because he knew that the term was in no their favor, then he used the little girl as a hostage and made the three of them immobilized.Several people came from the narrow alley holding a rope in their hands, and they began to approach the place. Jiha who saw that lifted the corner of his mouth and began to instruct them to tie the three people.“You lads come and tie them up”.With a demanding tone, the three people holding the rope began to approach the three parties. As the distance became close the two knights behind the young woman began to react but Jiha saw that and showed them who was in charge.“Oops, my hand slipped”.A trickle of blood could be seen running across the little girl's fair skin. The three who saw that intensified their anger but could only remain stood still as they saw the girl bleeding on her cheek.“Hurry up lads, tie them up!”.The people who holding the ropes nodded as a nasty smile began to form on their faces. First, they took the three party weapons such as a sword and their belongings. They meet a bit of resistance at first but eventually, the three parties give up seeing the girl still having a hard time in Jiha's embrace.With gritted teeth they release the grip upon the hilt and a clicking sound reverberates in the quiet place. Feeling helpless their hand began to tie one another before the robe that covered them opened up and revealed three phenomenal figures that stunned the onlookers.“Well, well, well, look what we have here. I feel honored by the appearance of the Ice Blade Princess”.The woman in question squinted her eyes as she glared at Jiha before him with the eyes that wanted to kill.She turned her eyes to her sister whose eyes were glittering with tears seeing her sister was being captured. But the big sister nodded her head as she opened her mouth.“Don’t worry, everything will be okay”.The little girl tries to wriggle upon the man's arm, shaking her head to the side frustrated.“Shut down, will you!”.The grip on the girl's chest intensified as she began to go limp devoid of any strength. A single streak of tears began to travel down her cheek sobbing.In those fleeting moments of desperation, the girl muttered in her heart. “Please everyone, anyone save my sister please. I beg you”. Despite everything that happened in the event today the girl keeps showing her bravado by wishing upon the star to help her sister, not herself.With the situation that turned into something dangerous. Ren who saw that began to ponder what choice he should make. Remembering the events that unfolded.He hid in the shadow once more and he made his way toward a small path then found himself face to face with an empty narrow road that stretched forward.Unconsciously, the grip on his blade intensified as he began to remember what caused this mess in the first place.“Fuu, Right I am the one who caused this mess. I must help them. Beside..”.Ren exhaled the nervous feeling that accumulated after watching the event unfold and thinking about the thing he would do after this. Even after receiving those horrific memories from Ren who lives in this world. Killing a person is another complete matter.His feet began to tremble like a newborn toddler and his fingertips began to lose blood, feeling cold. Gripping the blade in his hands tightly, Ren began taking his first step, toward killing.“Let’s do this”.As his resolve hardened. Ren began his move; he moved away from his hiding place using a small gap between the decaying house and found himself in another narrow lane that led him to a church in a roundabout way. The feeling of the hard object in his right hand tensed his body as he knew that he was going to do something horrible in his thoughts. The act of killing itself doesn't concern the mind of the young man named Ren that lives in this world but it was a different story if the mind that had control over the body now was Ren that lived in the modern world.He knows that the emotion or something that Ren experienced in this world greatly influenced his thoughts, but there is still a tiny little fear that crept out from the corner of his mind. Because this choice he made was something that cannot be retracted and will follow him until the day he dies.However, Ren grips the hilt tightly and grits his teeth while shaking his head to the side, dispersing the thought that keeps plagu
“Talentless?”.The woman perked her ear and opened her eyes wide hearing Jiha mention the boy who was holding the black blade before her eyes. She knows that term very well. As a person who lives in a high society a noble daughter possesses a huge amount of information and wealth. She squinted her eyes because of the rude remark from Jiha toward the boy. The word Talentless is considered taboo in this world because it is a sign that the person who unfortunately received it, is labeled as a person who was abandoned by God.Worried about the mental state of the boy before her. She turns her attention toward him only to find he keeps glancing at the empty air as if looking at something. “What is he doing?”. She muttered in her heart. Then she heard the boy click his tongue and spit some curses.“..Tch, looks like I have no choice then”.The boy in sight raised his fighting spirit and prepared his middle stance while gripping the black blade using his hands straight to his navel.The wo
Ren lunged forward, and as Jiha entered the range of his blade, he began his first strike with a diagonal slash from the bottom right, Jiha shifted his foot as he dodged the strike with minimal movement.However, Ren still didn't finish his attack. He kept swinging the blade trying to connect every swing he made toward another and made a fluid movement that looked like he was dancing with his blade. Jiha with his superior strength and speed kept dodging the onslaught with minimal movement, the corner of his mouth lifted as the embers in his heart began to burn more bright than ever.Then there is a gap in Ren's swing that Jiha senses. A vertical strike trying to cut open his skull began to descend at Jiha's head. The world turned gray before Jiha’s eyes and the trajectory of the blade slowed down before it was inches away from his skull. With a minimal movement he bent his upper body to the right side and using the backhand of his left fist smacked the side body of the blade, with i
The comfortable darkness that engulfed his mind began to fade. In his hazy consciousness, a melodious voice entered his ear giving solace to his entire being, slowly but surely Ren opened his eyes as the humming voice that entered his ear began to fade out and the first thing he saw upon awakening was.“Where is this?”.The unfamiliar high ceiling, a soft and comfortable bed embracing him. The warmth of sunlight light that passed through the opened window beside him roused his body up, as he heard a stunned voice beside him.“..You awake?”.Ren turned his attention and saw the little girl he knew open her eyes and lowered jaw. Then she snapped back and dashed away leaving him behind. “She was?”.He remembered that girl. She was the girl who got kidnapped by Jiha at that time. He is wondering where the hell this place is.The room feels a bit wide for a single person. The interior of the room was filled with a luxury item, the comfortable bed with a pure sheet. A four one-seater sofa
“Gratitude”.Ren turns his attention to the sack that probably contains a lot of coins by the looks of it. Without hesitation, he extended his right hand before taking the sack in his hand. The sack was pretty much light with the content inside, he wondered how much money was inside.“I am sorry. I know it was pretty rude of me to do this despite the thing you have done. But this is the only thing that appeared on my mind, so... would you accept it? “.He opened the sack and saw the glittering of big silver coins inside. He began to count the number of coins inside and there were ten of them. Ten silver coins.“Ah, It's okay. I will gratefully accept it. Thank you”.The other three look weirdly at Ren's behavior. Even after receiving his reward he still didn’t show much expression. He just closed the sack back and put it beside him unperturbed at the content inside. They wondered why the young man before them could control his emotions to such an extent.They could feel a trace of dis
A night had passed since the day he received the second quest. Ren was shocked at first but when he read again the content he at least had a sigh of relief, because of the non-existence of a time limit and failure terms.Then after confirming the quest that he didn't know where to start he began to spend his day reading a book that had been lent by the maid in the palace.At first, he is struggling because it's been a long time since he read a book again after living in the slums. His mouth felt awkward at first but it gradually became better as he finished his first book about the History of the world. Ren was capable of reading because his parents were teaching him when he was little and when his father was still around. Not just reading, he also teaches about simple arithmetics. Then, he still kept reading and doing basic reading and counting until he lost his mother and lived in the slums.The content of the storybook was nothing but a myth that told him about the creation of the
The receptionist woman has a beautiful figure to please the eyes of everyone who enters the place. She was wearing a uniform which consisted of a black vest and white trousers inside with short sleeves. For the lower part, she was wearing a black skirt that matched with the vest, then a pair of heels. Ren was wondering how fashion in the world had leaped by bounds when civilization was still like in the medieval era. But, he soon dismissed the thought. He didn't want to think too deeply about it so he began to open his mouth stating his business coming here.“I want to register as an Adventurer”.The receptionist looked at Ren's figure probing. Clean appearance with a plain white shirt and black long pants holding nothing, just bringing himself to the guild, and from the appearance of his face the woman thought that he was probably in his late teens. Ren didn’t know that he was being probed but he felt that the gaze from the receptionist felt uncomfortable. But, he
Like any other organization he knows of. The Adventure guild also has a bunch of rules the members need to strictly follow.First, the adventurer could take a quest that the guild had prepared, on the board at the left side of the building from the entrance. The adventurer could pick a request that one rank higher from their current rank, and if they failed the quest, the merit point and their achievement will get a minus point that will bring some difficulty for them to rank up later. Second, every quest that has been cleared. They will be rewarded by the exact amount that has been written on the parchment that the adventurer took. Because the guild has extracted some of its original amount of money for taxes, fees, etc.Third, The carcass of any material from the monster that has been slayed during the quest time could be purchased by the guild and at a proper price. The guild also will provide some dissection material for those who still couldn't dismantle the raw material of the