My Bandit

Li Bing

Xiao and Tau went for another three rounds before they cleaned me up and left me to leave when I was ready to do so. I rested for something like two hours in the room before I got off the bed and put my clothes on then left, saying my goodbyes to the owner as I walked out the door. I know that Feng will be at the usual inn, it's a little run down but it's alright and it's cheap, plus it always has at least one room available. As I walked through the streets it was almost midday so the streets were bustling. As I was walking at a leisurely pace, someone ran past me, almost bumping into me. I stuck my foot out at the last moment tripping the figure, a few people who saw this snickered while others said something like "nightshade strikes again" or "serves 'im right for running around like that" I offered a hand to the person i'd tripped over. Now I could see it was a boy around fifteen years old. He glared at my outstretched hand like it was most evil thing in the world. The boy swatted my hand to the side before standing up on his own, then shouted angrily "how dare you touch me! I, Li Bing, am the brother of the-mhf" when I realised what he was about to say I quickly covered his mouth to shut him up, in this place where bad people lurked everywhere. Revealing your identity would more than likely get you killed. I looked at this naive young boy, with a sigh I gave him some life saving advice "you must be stupid if you want to reveal your identity here. If this was any other village it would be fine, you might even gain some benefits, but here, the only reward will be death or if your lucky a beating" the boy looked as if he couldn't quite understand what happened so I prepared to take him to the inn with me, still in a shocked state he didn't resist as I grabbed his arm tightly and started walking. Murmurs of agreement came from the people who heard what I said. This is was a treacherous place. You shouldn't trust anyone else here completely. Halfway to the inn Li Bing seemed to wake up from his daze, as I expected he tried to escape my grip, but it was futile I had years of training on my side. He started to whine as my hold on his arm tightened significantly "let go of me! Where are you taking me?! Who even are you?!" I remained silent. Li Bing struggled more fervently as he became frustrated with my lack of speech. His struggling was beginning to irritate me, so before my patience ran out and I started to strangle the boy I decided to quietly say "somewhere without as many ears" He quieted down until we came up to the inn Feng was staying at. His eyes widened and he jerked violently, "what is it?" I hissed slowing my pace so he could explain his reaction. Although he seemed scared shitless he mustered up enough courage to speak "this place" he paused and looked around, making sure no one was around "it's the new group's base" my eyes grew large for a second before a small smirk came across my face. Li Bing looked at me as if I was crazy "no way, you can't be thinking of going in there" I raised my eyebrow at him "of course I am my friend is probably still in there. Are you worried about me? That's cute" I smiled down at him and ruffled his hair "i'm not worried over some random person who dragged me around but big brother doesn't like strangers in his bases" I rolled my eyes "well that's...wait just a minute did you say big brother?" he nodded "so you're telling me that the new boss of the village is your older brother?" Li Bing nodded again "yes, his name is Li Jing" 'damn, why do I feel like this either going to end with great fortune or great disaster?'