And then, slowly, a human figure emerged from the shadows, their body wrapped entirely in black clothing, leaving only their eyes visible. There was something eerie about the way they moved, something dangerous lurking in their stance.
Renan narrowed his eyes. "Hmm… a human," he muttered, staring at the figure before him.
But the human didn’t move or say anything to Renan. He stood rooted to his place like a tree, his black eyes locked on Renan, not moving away from him.
’Hmm, why is he not replying to me,’ Renan thought as he held his chin with his hand and got into a thinking position.
’Meh, it really doesn’t matter, but I’m sure he is some kind of spy from humans to take note of dragon’s any kind of movement and report them back,’ he guessed.
’But what should I do with him? Should I capture him and bring him back to the castle for Grandpa to deal with it or to get information from him about humans?’ he thought, ’but do I really need to? After all, if they really had any important information on them, Grandma Belinda would have already captured them herself and gotten it, but she didn’t. It means they are useless and weak,’ Renan thought as he used his mana senses to gauge the man’s strength, and what he found just disappointed him.
’Only a four-star warrior,’ Renan thought inwardly.
’Well, it really doesn’t matter. I guess I should just tell him to fu#k off,’ Renan thought, not even considering the option of killing him. After all, he hadn’t done anything to him, and he’s not a psychopath who would kill for fun, so after a bit of thought, he thought letting him go was the best option.
"Well, it looks like you don’t want to talk, so how about this? I will let you go without any consequences, so you can go now. Goodbye," Renan said, waving his hand at him dismissively.
But the man still didn’t move or speak. He just quietly continued to stare at him, making Renan confused.
’Huh? Why is he not going? Does he not want to go?’ Renan thought and started walking toward the man. The man, in response, still didn’t move or even flinch, making him think he had died standing, but the only thing proving he hadn’t was his chest, which was going up and down with breaths, proving he was alive.
After reaching the man, Renan stood right in front of him and tilted his head slightly to look up at him, as the man was six feet or more, and asked once again, "Can you speak?" Then Renan went on to ask multiple questions, and in return, all he got was silence—no answer to any questions.
While Renan was asking multiple questions to get the man to speak, the man himself was speaking inwardly, ’Danger, danger, danger, danger, danger,’ he repeated the sentence in an emotionless voice as he looked Renan up and down.
Renan, who didn’t know what the man was thinking, had enough and spoke, "Hmm, if you don’t want to speak, then don’t. I’m going," Renan said as he turned around and started forming a door in front of him again to teleport back into the city.
The man still didn’t move. He stood in his place looking at Renan’s back, who was forming a door in front of himself. The man still didn’t move his eyes from Renan to look at the door—his entire focus was on Renan.
Renan, who had finally formed the door, was about to enter it, and then the man moved in one fluid motion with a dagger in his hand, which appeared out of nowhere, aiming at Renan’s head straight up to kill him.
Renan, who had amazing instincts before training with Namari, now, after training with Namari, had instincts that almost felt like future sight. That allowed him to see into the future and dodge the attack easily, as the man was also way weaker than him.
He dodged it easily by slightly tilting his head, grabbing the man’s hand with his left hand, and slowly turning around to look at the man with eyes that no longer had a playful glint in them and were dead serious.
"Why," Renan asked the man, his eyes shining in the darkness, and he still didn’t reply to Renan but spoke to himself inwardly.
"Sneak attack failed," the man said inwardly and tried to free his hand from Renan’s grip, but after one try, he felt the difference in strength and made a split-second decision right there. He swung his right hand on his own left, which was in Renan’s grip, and sliced it off.
He then Jumped back to make some distance between himself and Renan. The man didn’t even scream or grunt after cutting his own hand. He still carefully looked at Renan in silence.
*SPLURT*
The blood started coming out of his cut hand, and just as it started, it also stopped, and he heard Renan speaking again.
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"Why did you do that? Didn’t I say you could go? So why did you try to kill me?" Renan asked, still standing in his place, the door behind him disappearing, with his eerily red eyes shining in the darkness as the moon also shone above them, illuminating the forest.
Renan stood there with the man’s left hand in his own left hand, looking straight-up terrifying.
The man still didn’t reply and brought the dagger in front of him in a battle position.
Renan, this time, didn’t get angry; instead, he disappeared from his place and appeared right in front of the man, looking at him while slightly tilting his head and asking, "I asked you something. Are you deaf?" He asked with no emotion on his face or in his voice.
The man ignored Renan’s words completely and swung his right hand at Renan’s head with the dagger. Renan dodged it by slightly tilting his head again. The man, seeing he dodged it, jumped a few steps back to create some distance between Renan and him.
"Why don’t I truly make it so you can’t speak, and that too forever," Renan said and disappeared from his place, but this time not with the space element but with raw strength and speed, leaving a deep crack in the place he stood.
Just as the man had jumped back to create distance between him and Renan, he suddenly saw a hand covering his vision, and in the next moment, he felt the world around him moving so fast that it felt like teleportation.
And when it stopped. He saw a hand covering his face, and from between the fingers, he saw his body headless, without his head standing a bit away from where he was. And then he looked to his right. There he saw Renan looking at him, ’The dragon kid was too strong,’ he thought emotionlessly as he closed his eyes and died.
Just as he closed his eyes, the blood spurted out of the headless body, and then it fell down.
*SPLURT*
*SPLURT*
*THUD*
Renan didn’t say anything and stood silently there in place, within one hand a head and in the other a hand.