Hi this is Benji Himura I am starting a new fanfic. I don't own Ragnarok online I also don't own the characters of that story or the plot; taking out the changes that I will make and the characters that I will create. I own Benji Himura and others characters that will show up in the story. It might be violence and sex in the story so if you are underage of seventeen are warned the content might be too improper to your age. Read by your own will and risk. In anyway enjoy the story.
Signed: Benji Himura
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Chapter twenty: Ambushed
Benji was virtually unarmed. Comparing to his usual gear Benji was naked; he was wearing only a pair of comfortable soft leather boots, denim trousers, a t-shirt and a leather jacket. He was after all in a vacation, all of his gears are in his room together with his pets, both Tsugumi and Ruri couldn't go to the beach with the others, Tsugumi and sun aren't a good combination and it was the same with Ruri, the two demon girls who lived their entire lives hidden from the sun suffer from direct exposure to strong sunlight.
Benji was carrying the dinner for his two cute pets, Tsugumi didn't want to leave and Ruri decided to make her company, Benji didn't minded, he was actually happy that his pets are keeping themselves busy and distracted. Tsugumi still acted as if she was a prideful princess but she was more easygoing and her act wasn't as stiff as it once was.
Ruri didn't really changed since her 'capture' she is still cheerful, active and peppy, but she was a little more mature, not much of a change but enough to be noticed, after all you notices when a irresponsible girl becomes a little responsible, even thought she still eats rotten and spoilt food, Benji couldn't complain about waste food since Ruri feasted with gusto in whatever happened to spoil in the fridge.
Idly walking on the path to the castle Benji ignores the stray monsters that move around the area, they aren't a threat for him. But Benji could feel an uneasiness in the air, a tension that normally isn't there, he could tell that something isn't right, it wasn't an unfamiliar feeling, he was used to feel those vibes rather often.
It was sakki, killing intent coming from humans, he couldn't say for sure how many people were hiding on the cherry forest, but he knew by the intensity that were more than fifteen. 'So much for wanting to bring dinner for Tsugumi and Ruri.' Benji thought while stashing the bento on his inventory.
"So you people are coming or not?" Benji asked looking to what he feels to be the higher spot of killing intent on the woods. "Just get over with this, I want to get back home and watch my soap opera."
"What the hell is he talking about?" A hunter asked to a priest. The priest shrugged also confused, but the fact that Benji knows that they are there and isn't showing signs of fear or of moving away scares them.
One crusader unable to fight back his temper rushes towards Benji, it was just what Benji was waiting for. A venom knife cuts the air and nails itself on the small gap between the crusader's Iron Cain and the end of the chest plate, adding to the strike Benji lands a flying kick on the pommel of the knife burying even deeper on the neck of the man.
He was dead before hitting the ground and becomes a source of a sharp blade to Benji take. The attackers enraged with the dead of the crusader charge at Benji disregarding the paladin's orders. It was all that Benji wanted, he knew that the ones closer to that crusader would attack in sheer rage and others would follow to back them up.
Benji doesn't have trouble in dodging the arrows fired by the archers, in the other hand the attackers were hit by them, Benji almost laughed at the stupidity of making two lines of attackers around him, it was easy to anyone to foresee that arrows would hit the opposite line when not hitting the target, but he wasn't going to complain about that, it is less work for him.
Benji brings down the sword against a knight, the sword cleave helm landing on his neck, it wasn't deep but it severed an major artery, Benji spins his body and slams down the blade against the head of a crusader, the result is the breakdown of the helmet and the head being split in the half as a log.
Benji leaps to his left, a backstab misses him and hits the dead crusader in the chest, Benji doesn't waste time and swings the sword horizontally hitting the rogue's left side with the edge, before an attacker could hit him Benji already left the spot and was in another hitting someone else.
"Dammit that is why I told them to not rush against him recklessly." The paladin cursed seeing his underlings being killed or maimed one after the other. "No wonder he did what he did." The assassin cross commented casually. "Just look at him; worse armed, outnumbered and unarmored he is killing them with ease. It is a shame that his loyalties doesn't lie to the order."
The second group joins the battle, Benji feels the increase in the pressure of the attackers, the scent of gun smoke reaches his nose, the bullets might be slightly troublesome but it also means more enemies being hit by mistake, he decides to add to that number.
Throwing the dented sword on the face of a blacksmith Benji draws two pistols from his inventory and start shooting, he knows that he can hit, even with low dexterity it would be easy to hit anything in the mob. Moving with short steps Benji fires left and right, turning and moving, avoiding swords, arrows, sorcery and bullets, while his bullets hit their targets.
Benji knew that he wasn't avoiding everything, around ten percent of the hits are connecting, but he still minimizes the damage by twisting, turning and moving around. The mass around him makes hard for the attackers to move, an advantage that Benji uses on his favor.
In few minutes Benji had caused so much damage that the remaining attackers back away from him, few hunters, a couple wizards, one paladin, two knights, seven gunslingers, one assassin cross and two star gladiators stand over their feet, everyone else was dead or dying at Benji's feet.
Benji calmly feeds his pistols with fresh magazines. "So what now?" Benji asked casually. "You will call it a night and leave the damage as it is? Some of the fallen can still make it if treated in the next minutes. Or you want to keep fighting, knowing that sixty of you couldn't take me down and the seventeen of you for sure can't do it."
"It isn't like you are in your best shape." The assassin cross replied. "You got ten arrows on your back and at least twenty bullets on you, add to that a dozen or so slashes." "I soaked up worse than that." Benji answered casually, it was truth anyway. "And killed a lord of death backed only by a monk with worse wounds than this, that before I was an assassin cross."
Now transcend class they feel even more scared of him, lord of death was a famous hard to kill MVP. "Now you have two choices, tell me who ordered this and leave this place walking on your feet." Benji said pointing to them with his right hand pistol. "Or not tell me anything which will make me attack you, kill all the second jobs and keep the other two alive to use as information source after I torture the living hell out of you. What is going to be?"
The gunslingers and start gladiators look at the assassin cross. "I don't know who ordered." She said. "Neither does my men, we are just hired arms. The paladin must know something; he is the one who contracted me." "Sonia!" the paladin exclaimed enraged.
"Sorry about that Frank but I took far too much damage." Sonia replied. "You didn't paid us enough for this. Look around and wake up, we can't defeat him; we couldn't when we started and we can't know. He knows where I am even when cloaked, his flee is higher than mine, his hit much higher than the hunters and they are equipped with triple ancient bows, and they can't hit him more than a couple of times. And it isn't like we managed to hit him very often."
"True but he is still long enough to fall on the trap." The paladin commented, before Benji could react he is surrounded by a blue light; it wasn't an offensive spell but a warp portal.
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Haruka looks at the fire in silence, she was feeling uneasy about something, and she could tell that Layla wasn't all that relaxed either. Makie watches the roasting fishes while the others chat, drink and have fun. It was the third day of the vacation and they decided to barbecue fish and vegetables for the dinner.
But Makie noticed that Layla, Atsuko and Haruka were lightly tense, even Maria looked worried about something, but didn't said anything at all. Without anyone noticing Atsuko is sending a message to Helen, for the last hours she started to feel that something was wrong and the feeling got stronger, instead of just leaving and worrying the others she decided to ask to someone trustworthy to check on things.
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Benji licks his lips, moistening them lightly and tasting the salty sweat that he worked with his previous killing, with guns on his hands Benji looks around just to confirm; he is surrounded by a sizable amount of female knights and lord knights, and he was heavily outnumbered and under armed, again.
The paladin that led the first assault is far from Benji's location, they are separated by a wall of armored and armed women, the assassin cross and nearly all of the others are gone. Benji knew that he was neck deep in trouble. Of the four thousand rounds that he was carrying with his two pistols he had expend over three thousand of them, he also had one hundred venom knives stashed, and he used seventy of those, not enough to kill his way out of there.
Benji fishes a handful of magazines from his inventory and throws it on the air; firing at them Benji turns the magazines into fragmentation bombs with enough smoke and shrapnel to cover a tactical retreat to the nearest door that he could find. The horde of women charge after him when recovering from the surprise of the sudden explosion, it wasn't enough to kill any of them.
Benji got a sizable lead over the horde of female knights, but unlike them he doesn't know the terrain and that is a major disadvantage, trusting in his luck and instinct Benji moves around cloaked, it would give him enough cover and leverage to move around, find an empty room and plan an attack plan.
It doesn't take long to Benji find a reasonable shelter, actually the kitchen of the castle. Smiling Benji looks around for something to block the door with, settling for a chair, three knives and a couple of pots Benji starts to assemble some kitchen ware and food that can be used as improvised weapons.
"Well for sure the kitchen here isn't as supplied as mine but there is flour here." Benji commented picking a sack of flour. "No gas, no electricity, no aluminium foil, but has been a while since I saw a firewood oven." Using the flour and some paper Benji makes small balls of flour knowing very well what happens when airborne flour is ignited.
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Helen sighed annoyed, the Silver Moon castle is locked shut, no lights are on, at least she can't see any, she can faintly hear the sounds of the guardians moving inside the castle, but no signals of anyone being inside the castle. She is aware that over ninety percent of the guild is in a desert island in a vacation, but Benji was supposed to be there with his two cute pet demons.
Using her Grand Cross Helen knocks in the massive gates once again, but as in the other seven times there wasn't a reply. With a sigh she leaves the gate, the castle was shut and Atsuko had warned her that Benji left several traps armed, not the usual hunter traps but his own versions by far more lethal.
She moves to the city, asking about him there would lead to some clues of his whereabouts, how a man taller than the average can't be noticed? Well other than using his cloaking skills.
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Benji curses the rain, it was thick and heavy drops of cold water, it soaked the remaining flour bombs making them useless for flashovers of fire, but then he recalled a school competition, a simple game of ring catching using the mouth first in a bowl of water and then in a bowl of flour, and how annoying it was having the wet flour on his face.
Benji isn't all that pleased with the effect of the wet flour on the face of his newer target but it was satisfactory since the knight is struggling to remove it from her face leaving her defenseless. It was just a drop in the bucket when comparing to the large amount of still able to attack knights, especially since Benji doesn't want to kill them, he felt that they were as surprised as he was with the sudden appearance there, but mob control is hard so Benji fled first before trying to talk, it was safer that way.
Juliet was enraged, that one invader was putting a fight that was making her knights look like a bunch of untrained little girls, but she couldn't get rid of the feeling that something was very wrong in that scene; he wasn't seriously hurting anyone while they are trying to kill him if they can't capture him, the most aggressive action that he took was the attack that preceded his retreat, and that attack hardly hurt anyone.
"STOP!" She shouted over the sound of the battle. Benji saw all the knights stopping their attacks and he halted his, perhaps it was the chance that he was waiting for. "Clear the path." She said to her subordinates. "I will speak with him." Benji can tell that the knights are a bit uneasy but they obey their leader.
"Why you invaded us?" Juliet asked to Benji. "I was warped here against my will." Benji answered. "Some paladin guy ambushed me in Amatsu and then I was warped here. Last time that I saw him he was near one of the walls. If I was an enemy and was going to attack you why I would come without good equips and items?"
Juliet nodded agreeing, she concluded the very same thing, he wasn't there to attack them, and she looks around and finds the mentioned paladin over one of the walls. "Lacey." Juliet hissed recognizing the paladin. "I thought that his name was Frank." Benji commented.
"It is." Juliet replied. "But he is backed by a noble named Lacey. So you are on his bad side too, that makes us friends then." "I guess that it does but I don't recall killing, hitting, beating or humiliating anyone with that name." Benji commented. "Anyway I hitted, beated, killed and humiliated so many people that I can't really keep track of everyone. What you did?"
"Refused to join his mercenary army, god knows what he has planned, but me and my comrades are a free order." Juliet answered. "What about we get Frankie over there, take the tin can of armor that he is wearing and torture the fucker until he tells us everything that he knows?" Benji asked casually. "Sounds like a plan for me." Juliet answered. "You need some steel?"
"I wouldn't mind, you have some extra on you?" Benji replied. "Always." Juliet answered handing to Benji a sword. "I like variety." Benji smiled taking the sword, he had to admit but he was taking a liking of her already. "Hey I don't know this one." Benji commented looking at the jagged two handed sword, it was broad and long.
"It is a new sword." Juliet explained. "It is called Muscle Cutter, you like it?" "Yeah." Benji answered with a grin, that sword was evil and he liked, his right arm practically cheered when gripping on the hilt. Frank knew that he was in serious trouble, the last remnants of his troops wouldn't be able to defeat the entire order when backed by Benji and Juliet, and so he used his last resort a bloody branch to summon a powerful monster to do the job for him.
"I don't know that either!" Benji exclaimed seeing a huge dragon appearing in the middle of the courtyard. "Neither do I but we have to kill it." Juliet replied. "Any bright ideas?" "You have Kafra access?" Benji asked. "Yes, she is inside the castle, why?" Juliet answered, Benji smiled. "Well keep that thing busy." Benji answered running to the castle. "It is time to bring in the big guns."
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Saya finds Atsuko sited in the veranda of large beach house looking at the starry sky. "I wanted to ask this have a while, why you were tense during the dinner?" Saya asked to the more experienced and slightly older champion. "Not only you but Layla, Haruka and Maria. They won't answer my questions and I don't buy the theory that is because Mana and Shina being here."
"We are worried about Benji." Atsuko answered. "Benji can be quite reckless when left alone. And we are with bad feelings, not the bad of 'oh my god it is an emergency' kind of bad feeling, it is less bad than that." "And since he told us to stay here and have fun, you, Layla and Erika being high ranked within the guild as well role models for the younger and less experienced ones none of you can go out and check if isn't anything." Saya said casually.
"Mostly that." Atsuko replied. "Layla, Haruka, me and in a lesser way Erika, none of us wanted to be here without Benji, Erika also loves Layla so for her Benji is more like a bonus, but for the others Benji is everything." "So Benji is your everything too?" Saya asked, she never heard Atsuko telling her feelings in public for any of the girls, maybe to Layla in secret.
"Yes." Atsuko answered, it wasn't a lie, Benji was her everything and much more. "Sure I wasn't rescued as Layla and some of you, but I do love him deeply." Saya remained in silence for a while. "What you will do about the bad feeling of yours?" Saya finally asked. "I asked to a beloved friend to check on him for me." Atsuko answered. "But as I guessed Benji isn't in the castle, but outside enjoying some time for himself."
"Well considering the lack of private time and privacy that he normally has I am not surprised." Saya commented. "Neither am I." Atsuko replied. "Benji love us but I do know that is too much affection and closure between the four of us focused solely on him, trust me he is juggling well his time to fit us in. But I know Benji better than any of you, I traveled alone with him for months, I saw some sides of him that none of you did, perhaps only Layla saw some. Either way I know that Benji doesn't really share his pain with others."
Saya nodded agreeing she noticed that too, before starting his relationship with Layla and the others Benji was pretty much closed and kept things for himself, she remembered in spotting him in desert areas of the castle nursing a bottle of sake or cherry wine while gazing at the distance and recalled how he looked on those times.
In another part of the house Layla is looking over her sleeping sister and Maria, the two girls are the ones having most of the fun in the vacation, followed by Mutsumi and Saeki; it was their first time having that kind of experience.
"You sound like you fear that he might run to do something stupid." Saya commented. "He isn't like that." "Who was the man that chased an entire guild all by himself to rescue a total stranger from a harm that he didn't knew what it was?" Atsuko asked in a plain tone. Saya opens her mouth to protest but then when considering everything some people might see his actions as stupidity, reckless charging all by himself against an unknown number of enemies within their own home, a place where they have total and absolute advantage and terrain knowledge, so she doesn't say anything and shuts her open mouth.
"I admit that it was how he helps others without asking anything back that first got me interested on him." Atsuko added. "But after hearing and seeing what I saw I think that Benji doesn't really see the line between courage and recklessness, or maybe he just doesn't care about it."
Saya had to admit that Atsuko had another strong point there. "I think that Benji does know the limit between them." Atsuko continued. "But sometimes, depending on certain circumstances he doesn't seem to care about it. Just remember what he did when Tsugumi were attacked."
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"He is not coming back!" Valka one of Juliet's lieutenants shouted to her leader as they try fighting the huge monster. "Give him some more time!" Juliet shouted back. "He isn't coming back, why he would ask about a Kafra if not to warp out of here?" Valka replied.
"Every woman clear the way and get cover now!" Benji shouted running dragging a spiked metal ball of the size of soccer ball with a chain on it. "What good that flail will do?!" Valka asked in disbelief. "This is a hammer!" Benji answered stopping and rapping his knuckles on the ball before holding tightly on the chain with both hands and spinning his entire body and the heavy metal ball.
Benji inwardly counts to five and aiming the ball at the chest of the dragon, the ball flies straight at the creature with the chain flailing behind it. The ball impacts against the scaled chest, the spikes piercing the scales and the tissue below nailing the ball on the dragon. "Everyone get cover now!" Benji shouted running to a nearby pillar. The army of knights is confused and hesitated, that hesitation cost them greatly.
The ball explodes sending shrapnel around the yard, many of the knights closer to the dragon scream as the shrapnel impacts on their armor clad bodies. "What in name of heavens what that?!" Juliet asked to Benji who is lying next to her, her voice barely is heard with the howls of pain of the dragon. "Spike bomb, think about it as a metal marine sphere." Benji answered. "But more dangerous."
Forty kilos of gunpowder and steel ball bearings tightly packed inside a ten kilos lead sphere with steel spikes, one of Benji's specials that he hardly used or carried around. Benji grinned seeing the gaping hole on the dragon's chest, the design worked just as he expected to, the dented spikes held the heavy bomb in place on the target, of course cooking it off before tossing also aided to the effect since the dragon couldn't remove it in time, a matter of fact is that the dragon lost both of his 'hands' to the blast when trying to remove it.
"So you have another of those?" Juliet asked looking at Benji. "Nope." Benji answered. "That one was a prototype, but I have few others." Standing up Benji fishes from a shoulder bag a bomb similar to the one that he used when killing the rogue and the alchemist of the now late Wasted Years guild. "These are weaker but easier to carry when compared to their younger brother."
Snapping his fingers Benji lithe the fuse and throws it on the dragon aiming to the open hole on the chest, since it was already open the damage would be greater when exploding on his insides. Benji get cover again before the explosion. "You know I am curious where you got those things?" Juliet asked after the second explosion.
"I make them." Benji answered. "But I don't use them very often, just in emergencies." "Well that dragon for sure is an emergency." Juliet commented. "What about other equips?" Benji sighed, he was still wearing his casual clothes. "Someone shut the access of your Kafra to the storage just after I got this bag." Benji answered. "I couldn't get my own equipment from there."
Juliet peeks at the dragon. "Well I guess that it won't be needed, the thing is nearly dead, we should finish it off." She commented before shouting orders to her subordinates. Benji scans the walls and find Frank stunned on the ground, caught in the first blast by shrapnel, not enough to pierce his armor at that distance but enough to stun him.
While Juliet moves to the dragon Benji move to the paladin pulling a crowbar from the bag. "Man I would never guess that I would actually use this." Benji chuckled feeling the weight of the seven kilos heavy steel rod. "Don't worry tin man, mister Benji has a nice can opener here, I will take you from that uncomfortable and heavy armor." Benji said with a grin while patting with the hook on his left hand. "When I am done peeling that hard shell the softies will be exposed for use, you know what they say, harder the shell tastier the treat. Let's see what kind of tasty information that you will be giving us."
End of the chapter twenty:
Author explanation corner:
Flour bombs: When throwing normal flour, any kind wheat flour in the air and lighting it you see a small explosion as the thin air born grains ignite in a flash. It can be very, very dangerous and in large amount the flour explosion can cause severe damage, I am not sure of how serious in objects, but it is quite bad in people. Hair burning, skin burns and maybe clothes igniting, not pretty.
The bombs used on the chapter are nothing more than a fistful of flour inside a piece of paper and then ignited. Don't try this at home, and if you do don't blain me, I told to not do so.
School competition: Well I am not sure in other countries but in Brazil in rare events the schools does events like that for a holiday, it is composed of simple games and depending of the holiday are games to be played with a partner (on father's or mother's day).
The ring finding game is as described, you have to catch a ring inside a bowl or tray of water without using your hands and then do the same with a bowl or tray of flour, the result is a face full of wet flour and a mouthful of flour, not a pleasant thing, it is a pain to wash out your mouth after the game.
Anyway the sticky capabilities of wet flour are easy to reproduce, wet your hand and then stick it on flour, with more water it gets sticker, of course too much and it is washed away or becomes too thin.
Muscle cutter: It is a new sword from a new patch. Really nice piece of work with two slots that auto cast by chance decrease agility and has a chance of causing external bleeding.
Juliet: A lord knight with her own 'order' more details on her and the order in the next chapters.
Dragon: A big wingless dragon that doesn't breathes fire; after all in a wide world we didn't see all the monsters in the game.
Spike bomb: As described in the store, two halves of the outer shell are screwed together with the package of explosive and shrapnel inside, a ten seconds fuse is fitted in a hole in one of the halves, the chain is imbedded on the lead so are the dented spikes, it is an overgrown hammer like those show in cartoons and used in the Olympic games.
It is part of Benji's emergency bag number 32 for quick use, with a healthy imagination, tons of unknown enemies Benji created and stocked several item bags (I don't know the name of the style of bags that sailors used to use to carry their clothes and personal belongings but it is that style) with several things that he thinks that he might need in particular scenarios.
More items of the bag will be show in the next chapter, confirmed items of this chapter: spark ringed gloves x1, spike bomb x1, anti-personal hand grenade x1, and crowbar x1.