I moved near them and I wanted to fight with them again. But this time I would use my new gained power. I couldn’t really call the rest of the battle a fight. I would have rather called it a one sided massacre because everything happened extremely fast.

I thought of the basic spell [swing of darkness] It activated on its own without me noticing it The spell flew towards the 2 beastmen in the blink of an eye [Swing of darkness] decapitated the both of them I wanted to start chanting I noticed they were dead

I just looked dumbfounded at how the situation turned out. I wasn’t the only one who didn’t believe what just happened. The cat girl had the same look as me on her face. It was over in an instant who would believe that if he saw me struggle against them just a few seconds ago.

I really wanted to test this mana out but I heard some villagers shouting and coming back from afar.

“We don’t have time to waste. Fast we need to escape before the villagers come back.”(Me)

The girl didn’t understand that I actually tried to save her and only looked at me with fright. I needed to first calm her (and me) down.

“Don’t worry I won’t kill you just come with me for now. Ah, by the way what’s your name?”(Me)

“A…My. My. My name is Kylie Bricksl, sir.”(Kylie)

“You don’t have to be polite to me if you don’t want to. I think we are the same age.”(Me)

“A...O...Ok Darkness?”(Kylie)

“That’s better. For now let’s head into the forest and talk about the matters at hand.”(Me)

“A…As you wish.”(Kylie)

I didn’t want to tell her my real name. First of all I didn’t want to tell anybody of it. And second I thought the nickname I came up with sounded really cool. Just imagine someone would call you darkness. It makes me happy at least.

“What should I do with the dead bodies?”(Me)

I spoke to myself and stressed my brain again to think of a solution.

“Ah, can’t you just use a spell to store them? I think best would be to try something with the element of darkness if you ask me.”(Kylie)

“I don’t know I have to try but nice idea.”(Me)

She adapted rather quick to the situation. I also had to admit that her idea was really good so I went with it. Was I stupid or Kylie just a genius? She was definitely a genius because I am not stupid.

And so, same as before.

I thought about storing them with a combination of darkness and space A dark hole appeared It absorbed the bodies and stored them in the white space I had been before with my mind

“Ah it worked, somehow.”(Me)

Embarrassed I smiled at the girl. She couldn’t bring out any words so we didn’t talk and just went into the forest. When we arrived at a safe place, far away from the village, Kylie stopped turned around, pointed at me first, than at the sky and faced me.

“Could you please stop your aura from leaking so much? It is giving our position away to enemies and makes me feel uncomfortable.”(Kylie)

“S…Sure. Sorry about that.”(Me)

The sudden change of attitude made me baffled. Where did the person from a few seconds go? I had to take the lead again or she will start using and asking me questions. I won’t let that happen. Not after going through so much hardships.

I stopped my mana from leaking and I could feel that it went back to the little black sphere. Or now to the big black sphere.

“So what do you want from me? I can’t really refuse your requests because first of all you saved me and second I wouldn’t even be able to do anything against you. I am curious and just want to know.”(Kylie)

“Nothing much, all I want from you is to teach me all the things you know and answer my questions if you can.”(Me)

She looked at me as if she didn’t expect that answer.

“That’s all? Nothing more? You know you could ask me to become your slave or something like that.”(Kylie)

“From the way you are talking about it, I assume it would be something bad for you, so I will refrain from doing so.”(Me)

“No it’s just I want to somehow repay you for saving me and I don’t think that simply giving you information is enough.”(Kylie)

I was relieved because she didn’t want to run away or try anything funny but that she would willingly want to do more than I asked her to I didn’t want to let her down.

“Let’s do it this way than. First you will travel with me for one year and you are not allowed to betray me. Second you will answer me everything I want to know and you what you can answer. And third you will do things I ask you to do as long as you are not against it because it will risk your life.”(Me)

“Just to be sure what things will you tell me to do?”(Kylie)

“I don’t know. Ahm, buying stuff for me or fight with me. Why do you ask? Was I that unclear?”(Me)

She looked at me and shook her head. I don’t know what she expected but I’ll leave that for later. So to come back to the important part.

“I will ask you my first question if it is okay now, so please answer it honestly.”(Me)

“W...W…What do you. Ah... What is it?”(Kylie)

What was with that reaction? She suddenly got excited and her cheeks went from normal to red. Did I do something wrong? As I thought about it and nothing came to my mind what could have went wrong, I just ignored it and asked my question.

“You said something about slaves, what is that?”(Me)

She looked at me with a dumb expression.

“Why did I… You. You? So your question was about that?!”(Kylie)

“Yes is something wrong with it?”(Me)

Her head and excitement cooled down and now she looked rather sad. With a depressed voice she formed some words.

“So, so you wanted to know about that?”(Kylie)

She asked again and I nod. I was interested in everything I don’t know. It’s like my second nature. What can I do? If she reacts like this, are slaves something really bad? Why would she have thought that I wanted to make her one than? I am not that bad of a person, I think.

Seriously what is wrong with all those people I meet?