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Interlude 1 - A certain lady's journey

“Tch… Finally, bit the dust, huh…”

A man that was hunched over a woman clicked his tongue, despite that introduction let it be known that there was no intimacy at that moment, simply an act of horrible violence as the man stood up after finishing choking the life out of the poor woman, he showed no regret for his actions, only a self-satisfied look on his face as he was about to molest the corpse, just the way he liked it, a person knocked on the door to his room, pissed off at being interrupted he yelled in a fit of rage

“WHAT!?”

The door opened slightly before another man spoke

“Boss, we spotted a lone noble woman on the road”

The bandit boss’ rage only increased, but just as he was about to yell at his underling he spoke again

“It’s not an ambush, she’s completely alone”

The bandit boss looked towards the corpse on the floor of his room before he thought for a moment and sighed

“Fine… Let’s go get this noble”

The bandit boss stepped out of the room, the bandit camp which was made in an abandoned mansion along the road to Kel was a den of sin, the bandits had lived well over the past half year they had settled there, they had raided all from lesser noble’s carriages to rich merchants caravans and had amassed a large amount of valuable loot, this was all thanks to their boss, which was a little too smart for being a bandit, originally he had been a knight, though that time had long since passed, now the only visage left of his past employment was a set of surprisingly well maintained armor and a sharp steel sword, Henry ruled over the 38 bandits, though he wasn’t satisfied with this, he would, when they had gathered enough loot, poison them all before making off with all the coin he could carry and head to the neighboring empire of Trei and buy a noble title along with a hefty amount of land, there he would spend the last of his days in debauchery and sin, but first came the next raid, if one really could call it that

“Where was this noble lady spotted?”

“Heading towards Kel on foot, she’s at the south section of the road”

Henry nodded, he didn’t like how this seemed to smell exceptionally of an ambush, but the outlook of getting to play with a noble lady clouded his judgment as he showed a lewd smile having already decided what exactly to do to this noble lady, he grabbed his sword and swung it over his shoulder before he spoke to his subordinates

“Let’s go!”

After trekking through light forest for about 20 minutes, the bandits linked up with the scout that pointed towards the road, Henry kneeled down and narrowed his eyes as he gazed out on the road and sure enough, a noble lady was walking along the road, she was dressed in a sky blue summer dress and had long platinum blonde hair and carried a summer parasol that covered her from the strong sunlight as well as obscured her face from the bandits, Henry nodded and clapped the scout on the shoulder before he spoke

“You’ll get to play with her after I am done”

“Thank you boss!”

“Good, now let’s go capture ourselves a lady”

The well-disciplined bandits fanned out and quickly narrowed a net around the noble lady that still walked on the road, as Henry neared he realized that she was singing a song, just imaging that voice pleading for him to stop sent shivers down his spine and clouded his judgment further, a few moments later he stepped out on the road and stood about 5 meters in front of the noble lady as he brought his sword down and stabbed it into the ground before he spoke

“Hello there, lady”

The singing stopped before the umbrella twirled around and revealed a face that lit a fire in the bandit, she had fair pale skin, baby blue eyes and thin blood-red lips, she showed a smile when she saw Henry standing in front of her as she didn’t ask who he was, nor did she show any signs of panic she simply said with great disappointment

“You’re not Matt…”

Seemingly judging the conversation to be over, the noble lady twirled her summer parasol around again and kept walking, as she walked past the stunned Henry he finally realized what was going on and instantly become enraged as he reached out and attempted to grab her arm, this was the last mistake Henry made in his life as he grabbed Michelle’s arm he realized that it was cold to the touch, too cold to be living, as he realized this Henry almost instantly attempted to take some distance from Michele, though not that he would ever be able to outpace an enraged Banshee that instantly disappeared from view and reappeared in front of the retreating Henry before she grabbed his throat and lifted him up as she spoke

“You’re not Matt, so how dare you touch me?”

Henry tried to struggle as he swung his sword towards Michelle’s side, though if he had served his own arm and fled there his end would have been slightly more pleasant, Michelle’s hand instantly grew long nails and turned into a blur as a loud clang sounded out before Henry’s sword was sent flying with amazing speed to god knows where, instantly Michelle’s face twisted in rage as she let out a scream that traveled outwards with a visible soundwave, Henry that was the closest felt intense agony as his eardrums raptured instantly, next his eyes exploded his flesh was tron to pieces and blown clean off his skeleton, much like a child blowing a dandelion his skeleton instantly cleaned off, in just a few moments, the rest of the bandits that were further away had their eardrums ruptured, and their eyes blinded, though they, much to their suffering, failed to die instantly as they suffered numerous internal bleedings as most of their organs had suffered from the unholy scream, Michelle casually threw the clean skeleton aside before her nails turned back to normal, then she twirled the summer parasol as she muttered

“I’ll be there soon, Matt… Just wait a bit more…”