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Chapter nineteen: Kill, Kill, Kill
"And what you are going to do about it?" Beth sneered. "Kill me?" "Yeah." Benji answered pulling the trigger. "You forgot or ignored the fact that I know how to bypass the safety."
Beth howled in pain as the bullet pierces her hand, then her back until exits through her chest. Gasping in pain and chocking in blood the falls forward. "But that doesn't mean that I will give you a painless and swift death." Benji added leveling the pistol to her other hand and firing once making the blacksmith scream once more.
Beth bites her lower lip and tries to hold her screams. "You are just like me." She said with pain in her voice. "Wrong." Benji replied shooting her in the left side of her hip. "I don't like killing." Benji shoots her in the right side of her hip punctuating his words. "I don't force people to follow me or my ideas through fear and abusing my strength, I don't abuse of my powers." Benji now shoots her in the back of her knees.
Each time Beth shouted in pain, Benji knew that he was going to be found by the others but he was okay with that, he could escape from them. "I don't support and fuel a system that allows the abuse and rape of others." Benji said shooting her other knee. "You are torturing me." Beth gasped in pain. "I am delivering righteous punishment on you." Benji replied. "If you don't remember you had this coming." "What about you?" Beth asked feeling the metal pressing on her right shoulder. "Eventually someone will end doing the same to me." Benji answered casually while shooting her again. "I killed far too many people on this world, many deserved but others were just stupid or herded, you lured them, their loved ones won't see their flaws and will think of me as a devil." "And you aren't?" Beth asked semi-conscious. "I am a demon and I don't deny it." Benji answered. "After all I am an assassin."
"That isn't fair Benji." Mana said from behind him. "Why you are killing her? You can't do that." Mana light places her hands over his. "It isn't right." "She deserves to die." Benji replied. "After everything why you are stopping me?"
"Because if anyone is going to be killing her is has to be us." Shina said walking next to them. "We suffered under her rule for far too long." Benji couldn't help on smiling, they weren't trying to prevent him from murdering Beth, they wanted to do it. Benji wouldn't deny them that, after all they did suffered under her rule longer than he did, and it was their right to kill her.
"You two will join them?" Benji asked to Hitomi and Sia who also climbed on the roof. "I don't think that the four of us can kill her at the same time." Sia answered. "Use this." Benji said handing to them a rope. "Two on each side with a loop around her neck, simple isn't it?"
"Strangling sounds good for me." Mana commented pulling her dagger from Beth's back. "It isn't all that easy." Benji pointed out. "It takes at least five minutes to someone die is you suffocated them. It varies between people." "We don't mind." Hitomi said siding with Sia in one of the ends of the rope.
Beth didn't want to believe that her subordinates were doing that to her, that they would kill her in any given chance. "You shouldn't have done to us what you did." Sia said to the choking woman. "Treating us as nothing more as pieces of a game that you played, abusing of our loyalty and our lives."
"You know how much it hurts?" Hitomi said pulling harder on the rope. "My fiancée waited for me, he got badly ill while waiting for me in the entry of the house that we bought together, he died of pneumonia last month, I couldn't be there for him, I couldn't see him, tend him back to health or even see him a last time, or let him see me a last time."
"I lost my sister's knighting." Shina said angrily. "I didn't saw her becoming a knight, I wasn't there to see her changing, I wasn't there to congratulate her, I lost her first WoE, I couldn't even give to her advices and hints in how to fight." Benji could tell that Beth wasn't listening, she was struggling to breathe, chocking and gasping, her members flailing in her death throes, but the girls continue to tell to Beth all the times that she wronged them.
"This is too hard." Sia complained. "You girls are almost there." Benji said casually. "Hang in there that she is almost gone." It was true after all, Beth had lost control of her muscles, first she flailed around and she just had pissed on herself as the muscles relax due the lack of oxygen.
Mana laughed but kept the firm grip on the rope, from Beth's body a sound erupted as the wind rushes out from her bowels filling the air with an unbearable stench. "Is she shitting herself?" Shina asked surprised, holding back her laughter. "Her muscles are relaxing because there isn't oxygen on her system, she is losing the last remnants of muscle control that she has." Benji explained, he had read that people who were hanged that soiled themselves, it was a proven fact that it happened.
Beth's face is a contorted mask of pain, the white of her eyes are exposed with no sign of her irises appearing, she was drooling and the spasms that were racking her body are gone, she was in the brink of death. After few more minutes the girls keep the pressure on the rope.
"What happens to you now?" Benji asked to Mana and Shina. "In normal situations there might be trouble when killing someone, but we can testify that she wasn't sane." Mana answered. "Besides in certain special circumstances guild members can remove a leader from the command without punishment. Fiasse had fulfilled several of them until now."
"And why just now?" Benji asked, if they had ways to get rid of her why not doing so? "Because we wanted to see if she could change." Shina answered. "But seeing how she attacked you and chased you all over the place." "Some of us were attacked by her more than once." Hitomi added. "If she saw something that she thought that was wrong or a mistake she would lash out."
"It seems that the others figured out or got brave enough to climb in here." Benji commented hearing the voices of other girls running in the hall under them. "I guess that I have to escape now. It won't look good for me to stay here." "We will get in touch with you soon." Mana said to him. "The girls will understand what we did and why, just give us one day or two to select a new guild master." Benji nodded and walk to the edge of the roof.
"Don't!" Shina exclaimed as Benji step away from the roof. They run to the edge just to see the empty space bellow and ahead them. "He has more tricks than when we last saw him." Mana commented with a chuckle. "I wonder if that was a teleport."
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Benji lands lightly on his feet in the middle of the yard of Sakura Keikoku. "Taisho!" most of the girls cried when seeing him, none of them understood what happened, they only got orders to leave the castle and return to theirs. "Everyone is okay?" Benji asked looking around.
"No one is hurt." Atsuko said walking towards him. "What took you so long?" "I was wrapping up few things." Benji answered. "Where is Layla?" Atsuko sighed. "She is on her room with Erika." Atsuko replied. "She forgot that she has to act as an underling and that you have to act as commander instead of a lover. I had to speak some sense to her."
"And she didn't take it well." Benji commented. "Yes." Atsuko answered. "I think that Layla had also noticed that she went overboard on this and that is why she locked herself in her room. She must be embarrassed and ashamed." "I will talk to her later." Benji said. "Everyone is fine and that is a good thing." "What happened?" Atsuko asked seriously. "Kind of a long story." Benji answered. "I tell you later."
It takes few minutes to calm the girls and make them take care of their items, slowly they return to their rooms and routines. "Maria and Raki are here?" Benji asked seriously. "Yes." Atsuko answered. "Tsugumi and Ruri were here so they are playing with them; both girls are a bit surprised and shocked about our transcendency process."
"Atsuko from what I remember it is only natural." Benji said recalling the last moments before he couldn't remember anything until clearly much later, the gap on the memory was considerable. "I know, but I had no idea that it would be like that." Atsuko replied. "Otherwise I wouldn't let you take them; I always thought that was something else."
Benji sighed knowing that Atsuko wasn't lying, but the whole thing was too shocking to two girls that young.
Benji stops walking suddenly, Atsuko looks at him, the sudden halt cut her current sentence. Benji looked tense as he scans around with his eyes. Far from there a woman with short black hair cut in a boyish style looks at the castle using a pair of binoculars. "He knows that we are here." She said casually, she can see very clearly that Benji is looking straightly at them. "His senses are much sharper; he could feel your killing intent all the way from there."
A younger woman with long purple hair wearing swordswoman clothes is next to her. "As if I care." She replied in an emotionless tone. "Yuffie unless you start to learn to suppress your killing intent you won't ever defeat him." The brunette said casually. "I agreed in assisting and teaching you as long you complied to my orders and learned what I have to teach you."
"Yes Junko." Yuffie demurely replied she knew her place as student; she had to work on her flaws to take him down. "Now let's leave this place before he starts to really feel suspicious and decides to track us down here." Junko said seriously. "Remember of everything that you saw today Yuffie, if you want to defeat him you need to know how he fights."
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"Layla you can't stay like this." Erika said to her friend. "Sure Atsuko was right and you didn't want to admit it, but let's be honest here, you deep down also knew that. Why continue to act like this? Benji is back he came back just few minutes after us."
"How I can be a recipient of his trust when I act like that when he orders me?" Layla replied sited on her bed hugging her knees against her chest. "I was so jealous of those two that I forgot my place." "You are his lover." Erika said. "Benji can understand that you can get jealous and that sometimes you are a bit stubborn, you were worried about him and I know that he knows that."
"And if one day I act like that when really matters, I an emergency or during a battle?" Layla asked. "How can I be trusted as his second in command when at any moment I can just disobey him on jealousy or petty anger?"
Erika sighed, sure Layla had a point in her doubts, but Erika knows that her friend can keep herself mostly professional when needed and would be able to separate her love life from her position in the guild. "Layla I know that you had an intense day before coming to aid Ami's sister's guild." Erika said. "Then you saw the two women that are Benji's adventurer godmothers being very affectionate towards them, I know that under that mask of jealously you hide the fact that you are unsure of yourself."
"How can I be sure of myself as a woman when I was raped for months?" Layla exclaimed. "I am damaged! Broken beyond repair!" "I don't think so." Benji's voice came from the other side of the locked door. "We are being that loud?" Erika asked. "Not until Layla's last sentence." Benji answered. "So I can come in or is private?" Erika turns to Layla, if her friend protested she would tell to Benji that was better not to enter.
"Goshujin-sama you know that I won't ever deny you any wish." Layla said turning to the door. "If you want to come in who am I to deny you?" "Layla stop with the subservience." Benji said seriously. "Yes I want to enter and talk to you, but do you want to talk to me?
Erika can see that Layla is torn, the subservience was how Layla expressed her affection, she was giving herself entirely to Benji, she allowed him to make all the important decisions regarding her, but Layla was also a strong woman, the act was also a part escape from reality.
Erika stands up and moves to the door. "I will leave now Layla, you need to decide on your own." Erika said to her friend and lover. Exiting the room Erika looks at Benji. "She is quite shaken by actually nothing." Erika said seriously. "She is thinking in things that haven't happened and that might not have happened. She is doubts her ability to lead after you because her feelings for you."
Benji nodded understanding and sees Erika walking away, he doesn't try entering on the room when Erika leaves. "I won't leave until you give me an answer Layla." Benji said to the closed door. Layla remained in silence, with doubts on her mind.
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Layla looks at the door of her room, still shut, her room still empty. She doesn't exactly knows for how long she was there looking at the door thinking, but she knows that she haven't given Benji an answer. But she needed to go to the bathroom, she is sure that by now Benji had left the hall, why he would stay there until then when she wasn't saying anything, the silence on the other side of the door was enough for Layla to be sure that he wasn't there.
She was wrong, when she opens the door she sees Benji sited next to her door, his back pressed against the wall, he was wearing casual clothes instead of his assassin clothes. "Made up your mind?" Benji asked looking up at the lady knight. "You were here all this time?" Layla asked in the verge of tears. "Why you haven't said anything?"
Benji almost told her that it passed less than fifteen minutes since he last spoke to her, but he knew that it would be wrong instead he says. "I told you that I wouldn't leave until you answered me."
Layla doesn't know if she smiles or cry, smile at his actions and cry at her stupidity. Benji stands up and looks at his lover. "You feel ready to talk now?" Benji asked. Layla nodded, but feeling the pressure on her bladder she asks him to wait on her room.
A handful of minutes later Layla returns and finds Benji sited on her bed waiting for her, she had noticed earlier that he was wearing casual clothes and now his assassin clothes; it was a pleasant change for her. "I am sorry." Layla said sitting next to him. "I only give you trouble."
"That isn't true." Benji replied. "While I can't deny that you as everyone else that shares my bed is a bit of high maintenance I wouldn't change anything about you." Layla blushed at his words. "But I keep going out of my place." Layla exclaimed embarrassed.
"Layla you downgrade yourself too much." Benji said gently holding her face with his hands making her look at his eyes. "You are my lover, you can be jealous, as long isn't an unhealthy amount of it I don't mind." "But how can I lead the guild after you when I let my emotions cloud my judgment?" Layla protested with her cheeks red.
"If I didn't trusted in you with the guild I would tell you." Benji said seriously. "I know that when it matters you will do the right thing, and we can work a bit in your emotion management. You think too much about needless things, and that only make you stressed and tense." Layla remains in silence because just before she could say anything Benji kisses her denying her any chance of verbally protesting.
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"Benji we have finished with the final arrangements." Makie said entering on Benji's office. "We are ready to go." Benji nodded understanding, with one week remaining to the second WoE of their guild added with the pressure of transcending the guild needed a break, because that Benji located a deserted island that they could use to go on a small vacation.
"You are sure that you will be all right by yourself here?" Makie asked seriously. "We are locking the whole place why you still want to stay and guard it?" "Someone needs to look over the house." Benji answered. "Since I don't really do anything useful in the WoE you galls go out and have fun, the beach is all yours."
Makie sighed many of the girls won't relax as much as they would with Benji there, while others would, many of them still have issues about males seeing their bodies. "I will be giving the final instructions to the girls, I will also tell to Layla and the others to drop by." Makie added.
"Okay." Benji answered while writing something down. "Bring me a coconut or something." "Kay." Makie replied before leaving. Benji sees the door being locked and stretches on his chair, he was looking forward to that vacation as much as the girls, for five nights and six days the whole castle would be his, he would have some privacy for a change.
Sure the downside is that he won't be seeing Atsuko, Layla, Erika and Haruka in swimsuits but since he knows every inch of their bodies he could live with seeing that in a later time.
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After a teary but nice farewell Benji finds himself alone in the castle, the silence that fills the air is almost unbearable, without the girls the castle felt dead and cold, but was all his. Taking out his shirt and tucking it on his belt Benji walks to the kitchen, he had stashed a bottle of cherry wine there just for that moment.
With a smile Benji takes the bottle from his stash behind the white rice, taking a large swing of the contents Benji leaves the kitchen humming, he had more plans to enjoy his week of privacy, independence and quietness. In his office Benji scans through the books.
"Seventeen easy lessons on forging for amateurs, read that…alchemy for beginners…been there…" Benji murmured reading the titles for something specific. "How to become a gunsmith…Mecha piloting for dummies and wimps, if Shinji Ikari did you can… I will save that one for later…" "Finally." Benji exclaimed finding the book that he wanted. "I so need to get a librarian here, anyway time to finish reading Pretty Face. I so love the library chest."
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"Layla just relax we are in a private tropical island, if you stay like that the others will think that you aren't having fun." Makie said to the silver haired knight. "I am not having fun." Layla replied flatly. "Just because you can't expose that sexy body of yours in a swimsuit to Benji doesn't mean that the vacation is over." Makie commented seriously. "Get a tan, go back home after this week with a nice tan lines and he will love it."
Layla blushed. "Why I should be here when he is all alone in the castle?" Layla complained. "Because you are the second in command." Makie said seriously. "Some of you girls aren't recovered enough to wander in swimsuit in front of him, and it is always good to let someone watching the house. Even Atsuko is coming here after she expends a couple of days with her friends on her old guild."
"Atsuko is Atsuko." Layla replied. "I know that, but try having some fun Layla." Makie said. "Benji got us this island and want for us to have fun, as much as we can get as both a reward for the last WoE and battle, and to relax from the stress of the next WoE. You also need to relax, put on you bikini, ask Erika to rub some sun oil on your back, get a tan, swim and have fun, he did told you to enjoy your time here."
Layla sighed not really in the mood to play and having fun, sure Haruka started a game of beach volley with some of the girls, Maria and Raki are making a sandcastle together with Mutsumi and Saeki, Erika is sunbathing nude, example followed by more than few of the other girls, other were swimming.
Layla lies down under an empty sun guard, Makie leaves the silver haired woman alone, at least she is staying in the sand and not in the cabin. 'He goes out of his way to get a private island for us and Layla is so attached to him that she can't have fun without him around.' Makie sighed inwardly. 'I knew that she was frail but not that much. But I think that she might be starting to get used to the thought of having fun without Benji around. I wonder what Benji is doing now; I know that he won't just housesit for the whole week.'
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Makie is right, Benji left the castle after attending to a call of the nature, now he is on a quest, after tracking down Pasana in the Sphinx killing it and getting a honey pot Benji is now tracking something else, something bigger, but oddly enough less dangerous. Benji grinned when he locates his target, a Bigfoot, it is an easy kill and nothing in Amatsu fields poses as threat towards him, even if all the monsters in the field mobbed against him Benji would kill them all in less than one minute.
Less that eight months earlier Benji took half an hour to wipe the entire monster life of the field when rescuing Haruka, but since then Benji changed a lot, and in that moment he was savoring a different kind of game, not the open walking and killing everything on his path, he was hunting as a predator or a regular hunter, tracking, locating, keeping himself hidden to track his prey.
Benji can hear cries and screams from someone not so far from there, actually the screams are getting closer, Benji sighs and jumps at the distracted bear before it moved. With a Gladius on his right hand, Benji impacts on the bear's back and stabs him several times while holding on the larger body with his left hand.
Two adventurers, a swordsman and an archer are running from a group of six kappas, they are shocked with Benji killing the bear, Benji sighed while removing the large heart of bear. "You people never heard about fly wings?" Benji asked while moving at their direction.
Before the two could even understand the words Benji finished the mob. "This place isn't the kind of place for first jobs wander around freely." Benji said seriously to them. "Only with base over fifty you can deal with the karakasas, you can't even dream beating the kappas."
"We came here by mistake." The archer said on their defense. "A priest that we are acquainted with warped us here." "Either by mistake or as a joke." The swordsman added. "I will take the two of you to the city." Benji said. "This isn't a place to wander aimlessly."
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In his castle once again alone Benji walks to his room carelessly taking out his blood soaked clothes, it was one of his old and tattered assassin clothes, staining it even more wouldn't do any difference. In the bathroom Benji showers quickly and changed to a pair of denim trousers, a white t-shirt, a leather jacket and a pair of soft leather boots.
With his unusual loot of the day Benji moves to a not very used area of the castle, with a key Benji opens a reinforced door and walks down a long set of stairs only to meet another door even stronger than the first. "It has been a long while." Benji commented while locking the door again after passing through it.
The area around him appears to be a mockery of a samurai garden fused with a forest, the sound of nightlife can be faintly heard in the distance, Benji walks casually to his destination in the guild's dungeon, an area so dangerous that Benji kept it locked shut even from his underlings.
A peasant looking monster similar to the ones that attack him when Maria appeared but demon like and with brownish red skin attacks Benji with a cleaver, Benji simply dodges the attack and grabs the male peasant head with his right hand and with a sudden move Benji snaps his neck as if it was a dry twig.
Dropping the lifeless corpse Benji continues his march. Humming softly and killing whatever ancient Japanese peasant styled monster that dared to attack him or came on his path Benji moves killing without a second thought or even trouble.
"If this spot wasn't so good the walk would be annoying." Benji smiled seeing the crystal clear lake surface, some beams of light coming from the roof of the large cave shine down the lake and the area, cutting the darkness and filling the place with a not so dim light.
Benji sits on the grassy margin of the lake and pulls a kappa's fishing rod, he stole it from a kappa that he killed when aiding the swordsman and the archer. The honey pot became his bait carrier, the bait was the heart of the Bigfoot chopped in small pieces; Benji places a piece of the heart in a fishing hook in the line before throwing the line in the clear water.
He knew that there was fish in those waters, lots and lots of fish there, in his first time in the dungeon Benji dived in the lake because he was being chased by a horde of Japanese onis, he saw that the lake was filled with fish. With a pleased sigh Benji leans against a large rock behind his and relax waiting for a bite, the pole nailed in the ground between his legs with a bell on the tip. Pulling a book from his backpack Benji opens it and enjoys the solitude and quietness.
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"The target is armed and dangerous." A paladin says to a group of crusaders, monks, priests, wizards and snipers. "This is the best time to strike, his entire effective is in a journey and won't return in the next six days, however we can't forget that he single handed killed over seventy people before making his guild, and is a know fact that his strength increased greatly since then."
The paladin can easily see the tension on the faces of his underlings, they had every right to be tense and nervous, they are about to attack one of the newest legends of Rune-Midgard, know nationwide for his ability to kill entire guilds by himself, standing his ground against a lord knight of a level twice bigger than his after an entire day of combat, stealing one castle in the war of Emperium by himself while taking an absurd amount of damage.
"From the intelligence that we gathered he is an expert against armored targets, mastered the art of killing with one single strike not mattering how thick is the armor of his target, soft targets are even more defenseless." The paladin continued. "He is fast and strikes hard where it hurts, the best way of subduing him is with the extensive use of instant cast sorcery and high agility attackers with high defense and vitality, from the study of the former fort of the Wasted Years guild he is at least expert in close quarters combat, for us it will be a hindrance since we have to worry about hitting our companions, we might trouble the other in closed quarters, a tactical advantage that he is know to explore. Each and every one of you do a final check on your gear, check your inventory for potions and replacement weapons, he is also good in breaking or disarming the enemy."
The group acknowledges the order and they start to do a final checking on their equipment. The paladin look at them without showing any emotion, as much he wants to see them emerging victorious he is realist, the group was composed of professionals, high level adventurers loyal to the Crown, but their levels weren't as high as the paladin would like in such dangerous enterprise, they all are in level 99 but the paladin would prefer transcendent warriors with the level above 110, but he couldn't gather a group of that level because it would call too much attention.
They would later meet a separate group of mercenaries also loyal to the Crown, assassin cross, gunslingers, Tae Kwon Do class fighters, and a rogue, the total number of the two groups when joined in one would be of fifty, the paladin hoped that the number and quality would be enough to overpower the target, but even his hopes weren't high.
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Haruka stretched before reaching to her cold pineapple and mint juice, drinking it from a straw, she notices that Layla is tense. "For heaven's sake Layla relax." Haruka said to the silver haired knight. "We are in a desert beach hundreds of kilometers away from the nearest human other than our guild mates."
"I am not tense because I am wearing this……this…." Layla looks at the bikini that Haruka gave to her before they packed their bags. "That bikini." Haruka said with a smile. "Too bad that Benji isn't here to see how well you fill it." Indeed Layla is filling the bikini very, very well. "Then why you are tense?" Haruka asked.
"I am with this odd feeling." Layla answered vaguely. Atsuko who was near tanning in her own bikini overhears the conversation while lying on her bath towel. "That something is wrong, I just can't put my finger on it." Atsuko could see the knight with her left hand on her left side, on her waist height where the hilt of her sword would be, Atsuko could tell that the lack of the familiar comforting hardness of the sword hilt in her hand was making Layla even more nervous.
'Not even Layla herself noticed yet.' Atsuko said to herself. 'Benji did but he watches Layla very attentively, Layla is very sensitive about things, she can tell when things are wrong.' Atsuko smiled carelessly tracing circles in the sand with her forefinger. 'She sensed about me and was worried about Benji. But what would be making her like that? Sure she is so sensitive that even when is something unimportant she worries when far from Benji.'
"Maybe you are just making excuses to try get back to the castle to be with Benji." Haruka teased the silver haired knight, Haruka knew that from the originally guild members that became Benji's lovers Layla was his favorite, she couldn't help in getting jealous of her.
"I am not making excuses!" Layla exclaimed. "If I wanted to go I would go and no one would stop me!" And it was true, since the transcendency of Benji, Layla and Atsuko other members transcended with the Valkyrie's aid, Haruka was one of them but even with the other transcendent members on her side it would be hard to stop Layla from leaving, just Atsuko could match Layla in sheer offensive power, that leaving out Benji, but with Benji there Layla would obey him in whatever he said no matter what.
Atsuko wonders in what to do, while Layla's instincts were accurate they weren't right one hundred percent of the times, and there are other reasons that could make Layla tense and uneasy before she realized that it was something else, and with the frequency that the four of them share Benji's bed it wasn't so far of the reality.
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"Oji-san I brought you some fish for tonight's sashimi." Benji said entering in one of Amatsu's restaurants, it was one of the oldest and was rather small even thought was always filled with regulars. "That is the pink horned salmon!" The old man exclaimed seeing the large amount of fish tied in a string that Benji was carrying. "They are very rare and are a delicacy!"
"Then tonight's dinner will be good." Benji commented with a smile. "Make for me a large dinner and you can keep everything else." "You got a deal as always Himura-sama." The old man said. "If you keep bringing such rare fish to my restaurant in such steady rate I will have to ask you to be a regular supplier."
Benji laughed. "Sorry oji-san but this is just until next Saturday." Benji replied. "I am just fishing for hobby since the girls are away. When they get back I won't have time for fishing since I will be back to work." "It is a shame." The old man commented taking the fish. "Such sized fish would be well paid for, especially pink horned salmons and tiger sweet water tunas. They are very hard to find, they only swim in lakes in very dangerous places."
Benji nodded agreeing, the guild's dungeon is indeed a very dangerous place, he could only fish there because his flee was so high that nothing could hit him and if they did he soaked up the damage easily while killing the source quickly, it wasn't a quiet fishing spot as the ones back in his home world, but then it was calm, fresh, discreet and peaceful on its own way.
"I will wait on the usual place." Benji said pointing to an empty table. "It won't take long." The old man replied with a nod. Benji moves to the table and sits down pulling a book from his jacket, it was already routine, it started on his loner days before meeting Alexis and Isis, and later forming the guild, he used to eat there everyday.
End of the chapter nineteen:
Author explanation corner:
Strangling: Suffocation isn't a pretty death, as mentioned on the story the muscles relax because the lack of oxygen, and it takes more than two minutes to kill someone. It isn't as fast or pretty as seen in movies.
Changing guild leaders: Equivalent to an impeachment, there are certain circumstances to be met before having grounds to remove the leader of the position, I will list some of them later:
Vacation: Let's admit after everything that happened everyone deserved a vacation.
Fishing: Just plain and normal fishing, Benji went out of his way for a good spot and getting the gear. The fishes were changed to fit the world, after all if a world have jelly made monsters it would have odd fishes too.
