Great Strike Exia - The Brave Legend

Great Strike Exia - chapter 19

Chapter <ⅩⅨ>

10 years, and 21 days before

A wall was built, by the rough sweating hands of strong men, a wall up twice their heights and lined over the grassy valley, around their humble village, their home.

There as the working men parted, letting their respectable leader, a man of confidence, of hardship, a grin that lifts the weight of the world from his comrades' shoulders, a tall chad robed not of luxury but of the same wrinkled dingy garments the commoners wear, sweating also of the same labor he endured with his fellow brothers in arms, this man, of young prospering age and confidence, placed the last brick into the remaining nitch, completing the week-long endeavor of bringing a town of peace and benevolence from dirt to the ground up.

The commoners stared in awe at the humble wall erected, before cheering with utmost joy.

The leader of the good hearty men laughed with.

" Ready the goats and bring out the wine, brothers !!" The head man called out to all

" Let this day be remembered by our children, the birth of their home proud Mecralis !!"

The hearty crew applauded and went to prepare the feast.

" But Tenmei sir, are you not going to rest with us ?" asked a crew member loyally to this head man who chuckled with much leisure, sitting down under a great birch tree on a small hill by the wall.

" I want to have a good look at this wall, that's all." this respectable man, our hero Tenmei Tarou smiled in answer as his loyal comrade smiled back and let him rest and enjoy the afternoon breeze, beholding the brick wall made by hand and dreams of a better world, a guarding embrace of thy new home Mecralis.

Tenmei Tarou smiled, and closed his eyes to nap,

but before his eyelids veiled his sight, a glisten above among the shadows within the many crooked crisscrossing branches and ample leaves, that came falling to him,

to his forehead,

a glistening of a knife.

Our hero shot up his well-trained arm in an instance, catching not the blade that comes after his head, but a thin hand that gripped said knife of murder, still pushing down with much frenzy did a small shadowy entity, thin like a skeleton with dark dirt stained dry skin draped upon that malnutritioned frame of a boy, dirty silver hair covering those wide wrathful eyes, unlike a human child but more a beast devoid of thought and humanity, without a least of hesitation in that unearthly ruthless stare at our hero man's head the child tried to puncture and sever.

Amazed by such an unexpected encounter, Tenmei Tarou our hero looked at the boy up and down with awe and respect

" Nice moves !" Tenmei Tarou admired, before slamming the thin boy down onto the grass, twisting the knife-holding arm backward against its anatomic bend, and with a cry of agony the frenzied child dropped the weapon which Tenmei Tarou quickly kicked away far off reach.

And with a hand chop on the untamed boy's head, did Tenmei Tarou smack the boy to instant slumber, knocking the assassin out cold.

" Tenmei sir ?!" cried some loyal men who heard the rustling commotion from the tree

" What is it? Assassin ?!"

" No, no !!" Tenmei Tarou chuckled, holding the knocked-out boy up with his muscular arms