Hiro here. A man must live for his family, care for his children bring food to the table, that's what I thought when I said, I will let them go home.

Thuggish person looked at me as if I was retarded and said

"That's just stupid they will get caught by some other bandits and enslaved either way".

Was that a tongue slip or did he called me a bandit? thought of been labeled as a bandit made me angry, to the point of spitting out next line:

"Who are you calling a bandit?"

To what thuggish speaker from the castle wall said:

"Don't worry man if a bandit has a gang strong enough, he can take a small castle and become a lord just like I did"

This is when I started sweating, I recalled that they said that I killed king's brother or something like that, now I see why this small castle was attacked with this kind of army, it was a punitive force dispatched to clear out the bandits, that took this fort and the nearby settlement under their control, my line of thought was interrupted by bandits kings next words:

"I saw almost all of the battle, and I have never seen anything like that, will you join my army we have drinks and women, if we hold this castle we can be as rich as lords"

I am sure this dirty and smelly men don't treat their slaves as humans and never ask ladies for consent, just to check I asked:

"Do you know the meaning of the word Humanitarian?"

He looked at me as if I said some made up word and asked:

"What does that weird foreign word have to do with you becoming my general and me getting that slaves?"

Just as I thought this bandits oppressing villagers and raping women while behind that castle walls, so to clear the misunderstanding I say:

"What will happen to this men if they become slaves?"

"They will be sold to next passing slave merchant or used in coal mines probably" said bandit as if they were already slaves.

To what I asked him:

"What will happen of me if I reject your offer and take this men back to their home?"