The World Behind The Arch

Chapter 8

Griffith woke up early in the morning, the employees were upset as they ran from one place to another moving things and removing others; Upon seeing this, Griffith approached the manager and asked what was happening.

"Duke Eisland will be visiting and staying at our inn, we are trying to arrange everything to suit him."

"Invest yesterday's earnings for whatever you need, I'm going out."

"Yes sir!" The girl screamed before resuming his work.

Griffith went out into the street, everything was full of puddles and the smell of humidity invaded the place.

"Damn it must have been a good one," the boy thought, looking at the ground and his surroundings.

A man was yelling at a woman in the street, the crowd watched but did nothing to prevent it; The boy approached to see what was happening, the man was yelling at the woman because the dishes had fallen on the floor; The discussion had started in the kitchen and when the man started yelling at him the woman tried to leave but her husband stopped her at the entrance.

"I have to do something," the boy thought.

"What's going on here?"

The crowd parted, it was Ziz and Garudo; Ziz had the shovel resting on her shoulder and Garudo struck her hand threateningly.

The boys approached intimidating the man, Garudo took the shovel and Ziz, with his hands free, gave the man a punch.

"What are you doing!?" The frightened woman asked.

"Garudo," Ziz said after stopping.

Garudo hit the woman with the back of the shovel, leaving her unconscious or dead, no one went to check.

"Okay, there's nothing to see here! Out, out!" Ziz yelled as Garudo knocked the man unconscious with the shovel.

The crowd fled in fear leaving Griffith as the only spectator.

"Look, it's Griffith!" Garudo exclaimed when he saw it.

"What the hell are you doing?" The boy asked.

"Stop a couple argument," Ziz replied, entering the couple's home with Garudo.

Griffith followed they, Ziz and Garudo already sitting at the table eating spaghetti.

"What are you doing now?" He asked again.

"The food was going to get cold and we're hungry," Garudo replied.

"Although with this meal we will be hungry again in an hour, pass me the tomato sauce," Ziz explained without stopping the intake.

"That's stealing," Griffith snapped.

"Well, Garudo is a thief, but if you say so because I'm an assassin I go there and kill them in a moment."

"Why you can kill them?" Garudo asked.

"Because I'm hungry," the boy replied, eating his food fiercely.

"Well, if you're hungry, find a job, what you're doing is a crime," Griffith said, trying to hold them back again.

"Did you listen? Crime says," Ziz exclaimed, looking at Garudo with a smile. "Griffith, we have been here less than a day and we have already raided two houses, beaten each other and others, left a nun half dead, made a mistake in determining her death and tried to get rid of her in a cursed forest, beat her nonstop thinking it was a zombie, hitting her with more violence when discovering that she was alive, stolen and killed a man, and they have not arrested or executed us for it, I do not think that crimes are something very punishable around here."

"Besides, what will you know? Since you arrived you have been living the good life at your inn, we have had whores," Garudo added.

"I see it," the boy exclaimed thoughtfully.

"Do you need anything else?" Garudo asked.

Griffith's cell phone began to ring. Griffith pulled it out to see what it was.

[New Mission: Stop Garudo and Ziz]

Before Griffith could react, Garudo slapped him on the legs causing him to fall to the ground.

"What the ..."

Garudo hit Griffith a second time interrupting what he was about to say and knocking him out at the same time; When Griffith woke up he heard the voices of Ziz and Garudo; the boy was tied up tightly and lying on the ground.

"We buried him and nothing happened here," Garudo said.

"Of course, when it's my fault you complain, but if you're the cause of burying someone, everything's fine."

"Everyone is fine with their own thing," the boy exclaimed.

Garudo started digging while Ziz sat leaning against a tree.

"Hey, Ziz," Griffith called, whispering.

Ziz sneaked up so Garudo wouldn't notice.

"What do you want?" The boy whispered.

"Let me go, Garudo has gone mad, we have to do something."

"I don't know why you put me in the same possition as you, you are the one who is going to be buried.

"Yes, today it's me, but surely tomorrow it will be you."

"But you could also tell Garudo that about me," he replied before punching him and knocking him unconscious again.

Ziz walked away from Griffith and went back to Garudo to see how the boy was doing. The hole was still very small and Garudo was already tired.

"What a shitty hole you made," the boy exclaimed.

"Shut up, this is difficult."

"You didn't say that when I was digging."

"I've already told you, everyone is fine with ...

"Are you fucking insane!?," a boy interrupted.

The boys looked at who he was, and they recognized him immediately, it was his partner Carlos.

"Hey Carlos, you relax, we're just burying a living person," Ziz replied.

"But are you listening to what are you saying? You're burying Griffith!"

"The bastard was going to stop us, he deserves it as a traitor," Garudo reported.

"Is that reason to bury him?"

Before Ziz and Garudo could reply, a blond man with a goatee and a mustache burst in before them.

"A witness! What do we do!?" Garudo asked.

"It's two against two, they both have swords and we just have a shovel, run and don't look back even if you hear me scream."

The boys ran away leaving the shovel there to escape with more speed. Carlos and the man approached Griffith to untie him.

"They are there!" Said a man.

Four soldiers approached and grabbed the man and Carlos.

"What are you doing? Let go of me!" The man yelled angrily.

"We have been informed that two men were gagging another."

"This is absurd," Carlos said. "The men you are looking for have run out there."

"Here you are and the gagged man."

"Let go of me, I'm the Duke Eisland!" The man yelled.

"Sure, sure, tell it to the general."

Three soldiers left leaving one of them untying Griffith.