Glimmering of Sword and Shield (Rising of the shield hero X Sword art online)

CHAPTER 6 : CAPTURED

A sound of clashing metal filled the dark of the night inside Ymir's forest, a varied kind of magic echoed throughout the woods signify a fierce battle between Naofumi alongside with Kirito against a group of thugs that ambushed them. Naofumi certainly withstand against every assault launched by the criminals, the power of the shield hero has already surpassed the level of every thugs that he is facing of, especially with the helps of Kirito, the guy who gained excaliber sword when he still playing Alfheim online a few months back, together they don't have any intention of killing them, only to knock them unconscious .

The remaining thugs trying to plunge their sword into Naofumi's body, but he is easily block it with  soul eater shield, a special effect of soul eater shield is countering attack the attacker by launch it monster's head and bit the one who attack it, by doing that Naofumi gained all of the attackers stamina.

" KIRITO! " Naofumi called out to Kirito that signaling him to strike.

Kirito in a flash wounded a couple of guys that plunge their sword into Naofumi. with his attack, Kirito manage once again to downed their opponents, only one person remaining stood trembling witnessing Naofumi and Kirito's strategy downing every last of his companions.

" Impossible....DAMN YOU, YOU PIECE OF CRAP ! " cursed the trembling thugs pointing his sword at Naofumi and Kirito, a desperate look could be shown in the criminal's eyes as he start flawlessly slashing his sword into Kirito, but once again Naofumi blocked it and this time he is using chimera shield which its special effect is plunging the shield snake's head into the thug and bite his arm with a poison, strong enough to kill a person within 5 minutes if he is not consuming an antidote.

" AAKKHH " the thugs scream of pained as he got bitten

" There's a strong poison in that bite, if you value your life you'll be answering my question " Naofumi said as he showing the antidote to the pained criminal.

" J-just make it quick!, i'll give you whatever you wanna know, just please hurry " a pained thug begging Naofumi to spare his life, as if he still wanna live to see another day.

" Where's the girl that got here yesterday?! " Naofumi snapping at him.

Pained thug : " Girl? i don't know any girl...." 

Naofumi :" Still a persistent huh?, a girl with a racoon ear-alike, where is she?, I know she come this way " 

  " I know!, I know who you meant! we taken her to our camp yesterday when she entering this forest by her companion, so please give it to me already! " the poison seems already kick in on his body, this could be shown in his wounds that already got blackened

What a prick!. Hearing his answer supposedly made Naofumi feels heated " take me to your camp! "

" Y-Yeah bu-" before even the thug even able to finish his sentence, Naofumi intercept it with a snap

Naofumi : "NOW! " 

While Kirito helping with his party back there, step by step have been taken by Naofumi as he headed deep inside the forest, being leaded by the criminal that taken Raphtalia to their camp, what exactly a bunch of criminals intended to do with Raphtalia, no one knows the answer, only witnessing with his eyes Naofumi can make a conclusion about what they motives kidnapping Raphtalia.

* Bandit camp ; Ymir's forest depth *

A settlement could be sighted by Naofumi as he reach the suburb of it, he seeing a bunch of bandits roaming around that place while oppressing other people that seems to be their hostage. A slavery camp huh? it make me sick just by seeing of it, same things happen to demi-humans in melromarc before then.