Whether the shock led to hatred or fear was unknown.
“I said kill him!”
She bellowed.
She had ordered her subordinates to kill Riley who was standing in front of them.
Although she was banished from the mansion, she was still the daughter of their master, and so they quickly moved to follow her orders.
Their first course of action was throwing their daggers.
“Wait, sto!”
Tes who remembered the Mental Message incident before the attack tried to shout, but it was already too late.
Ten or so knives were thrown, and the fight had begun.
‘Ah…’
The thoughts of his past came as he watched the daggers fly toward him.
Riley bit his lip silently as he was reminiscent of his previous life.
They weren’t the most pleasant memories.
‘It’s bringing me back.’
In his past life, he had once lost his loved ones to assassins.
It was because of the belief that a hero saving the world should avoid taking lives.
Thinking of them as people with families rather than criminals, he had shown mercy and let the assassins he had captured himself go free.
And then…tragedy struck.
What came after was a betrayal of his trust, and the lifeless bodies of those dear to him.
‘This situation…’
In the darkness…
The knives which had been thrown all around him by the hooded men, and the situation he was in now…
It reminded him of all the incidents that occurred because he was too soft back then.
‘Well, I can’t repeat the same mistake.’
Riley slowly moved forward.
He quickly spun his eyes around, counting the number of knives and analysing the angles at which they were flying in, then twisted his torso by moving his shoulder in a diagonal angle.
“What is he up to?”
Everyone’s eyes were focused on him as, instead of reflecting the knives back with his wooden blade, he held it pointed down onto the ground.
“Huh?”
It seemed as though Riley, who was standing so defenselessly, would quickly turn into a pincushion with countless daggers in him.
But…
Not a single knife managed to pierce him.
All of the daggers had unfathomably managed to miss by a hair’s breadth.
‘What?’
Because so many daggers were thrown at once, it appeared as if some had indeed succeeded in scratching the clothes he was wearing…but the important fact was that not a single dagger managed to hit him.
“You guys remember now, that it was self defense.”
Riley spoke.
It was them who attacked first.
Although he never had the intention to let any of them live from the beginning, but…he wanted to have an excuse for possible feelings of guilt that may come afterwards.
“Don’t go around spreading rumours in hell.”
With his strength focused on his toes, he kicked off the ground he was standing on.
Riley disappeared and a small hole was made upon where he previously stood.
“…?!”
Then Riley, who had vanished, appeared in an instant in front of the hooded man that was closest to him.
The hooded man made eye contact with the black-haired boy, felt chills going up his spine.
‘Huh?’
…And when he was about to shudder…
‘Why…is my sight…?’
Within the cold night…
The hooded man who wanted to tremble perhaps from the killing intent realised that he could not move his body.