The Beast and the Sword Book 3: A Koi's Journey

Page 19: The Bandit King

WARNING:

This chapter is going to contain intense and violent scenes. Proceed with extreme caution.

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(Second Opening: Arifureta S2 OP-Daylight Performed By MindaRyn)

As Asta came through, He gave his eyes a blink until he found himself coughing as a gag was seen in his mouth to his shock and horror.

"WHAT THWE--" He exclaimed, muffled by the gag. He moved his hands to the back to see if he could get it off. To his shock and horror, he felt a lock had been keeping him from taking it out of his mouth. That hadn't been the only thing that was amiss.

As he went to get his grimoire to use his swords to cut the gag, he had realized it had been missing.

"My grimoire---!? Where did it go?! Did someone take it?!"

"Wasta! Wasta!"

He noticed a familiar voice calling out to him; when he looked in the direction, he saw Saorise, who had been gagged as well, was waving him down. Asta quickly ran over to her as they hugged one another thankful that they were safe and unharmed.

Saorise soon noticed the gag on his mouth, as her ears flapped slightly. She went to tug it off, to which Asta shook his head as if to tell her it had been useless.

"What the whell is thwis?" They heard someone say.

They looked over and noticed a man---Possibly a traveler going toward a certain direction. Curious, the two of them had decided to follow, keeping close to one another, going far as to take each others hands. It was then they realized, they weren't even outside.

Upon surveying the area, they noticed they had been inside a dome, surrounded by a forest.

"We're in a dome?" Asta thought, "But we were just in a cave before! How did we end up here?!"

They soon came to a clearing, where much to their own horror, they had been other people. From a distance, they could see Alex, Jack and Yuno in the distance from each other, in the same condition as them. Macsen and Row as well, though they could see Row looked as terrified as a child.

The man---The Traveler stepped towards the box, pondering on what it could be. He noticed a pry bar on the ground and picked it up before placing it on the box.

"Wait, wait, wait!" Macsen said stopping the man, "Twap!"

"What?" The Traveler, not quite understanding him.

"I waid twap!" Macsen said.

The Traveler merely shrugged before he went to get the box open.

Macsen shrieked despite the muffle before he took Row's hand and went to hide. Wasting no time, Asta took Saorise's hand and went to cover. Alex quickly did the same as she ushered Yuno to hide with Jack. The others they had spotted on the field had gone to hide as well.

The Traveler loosened the box, before he got the lid off. He prepared himself as he wasn't sure what was going to come out of the box. But---

BARK! BARK!

A little puppy bloodhound came out of the box, happily barking without a care in the world as they couldn't help but look in confusion.

"What thwe what?" Alex said.

"Huh--Ah pahppe." Macsen said. "Thwat's naht so bhad"

The Traveler soon noticed something inside. Tossing away the lid he pulled as he reached inside. Much to their own surprise, they could see the Traveler had taken out weapons. Including a machete, a sickle, ax, a bow and arrow and even a crossbow.