The Regressed Demon Lord is Kind

eople scurried to the side. 

Zich stared at them.
‘Did something happen?’

Perhaps, there was a bandit ambush.
Zich quietly stepped out of the line and activated the invisibility artifact that Lyla had made for him.
Thankfully, since people’s attention was focused on the troops that had just rushed past them, they didn’t notice Zich’s disappearance.

The troops went straight across the road and took a sharp right turn in front of a split path.
Zich followed the soldiers and also ran towards the right path.
He ran for a while until he saw people with frozen expressions.
Some people’s faces were even pale with fear.
Something was definitely up.

After a while, the soldiers reached their destination, and Zich hid near their surroundings.
The place they reached was a path that cut through a small forest near Bambis.
It seemed as if the city continuously took care of this path since it was quite wide.
However, the path that had always acted as a wonderful guide to peacefully lead people to their next destination had changed into a horrific scene of carnage. 

Even though most of the remains had seeped into the soil, people could see the horrors of the slaughter from the blackened road.
There were bodies on the ground, but they had been mutilated to such an extent that it was difficult to identify them.
The soldiers came down from their horses and began controlling the situation.
The people walking on the road began to move to one side of the road or slowly moved along.
The onlookers gazing at the horrifying scene also began to scatter.

Zich maintained a safe distance away from the commotion and climbed on top of a tree to secure a clear view.
The gruesome scene on the road came into view. 

‘Monsters didn’t do this.’

Even though the corpses were destroyed to the extent where one could barely tell they were human, Zich was sure of this.
There were sharp knife marks on the corpses; it was definitely the work of humans.
Moreover, the corpses were naked; no matter how poor someone was, nobody went around naked, so it was safe to assume that they had their clothes taken away from them.

‘It seems like the bandits did this.’

In reality, the soldiers looking at the scene also said that as well.
It was impossible to identify the victims.
Needless to say, they couldn’t determine the corpses’ statuses since they had been mutilated to unrecognizable shapes.
People glanced at the terrifying scene as they walked by; their faces were filled with horror.
However, Zich was indifferent.
He had seen way too much blood in his life for this kind of event to stir his heart.

On the other hand, he even thought, ‘If I fix an extremely serious event like this, it would probably be very helpful to Joachim.’

Zich quietly moved away.
There was nothing more he could learn from this place.
He secretly removed the invisibility spell so that no one around the forest could notice him.
Then, he blended in with the people walking on the road.
After a while, he was able to enter Bambis.

*     *    *

Zich first found lodging to stay in and wandered around the city.
As expected of the hub of Campbell estate’s trade and commerce, the streets in Bambis overflowed with people.
Rare items were displayed in front of houses where people lived.
People’s faces were vibrant and full of life, but there also seemed to be traces of nervousness in them. 

‘It must be because of the bandits.’

Zich wandered around the city for a while, and then the sun began to set.
He began to grow hungry.
Zich decided to eat dinner and return back to his lodging for today.
Rather than a fancy meal, Zich looked for places to eat a simple meal and have a glass of alcohol.
Zich made a small smile because his situation was very different from a few days ago when he and his companions energetically moved around to find a place to eat.

‘Was I such a sentimental guy?’ Zich didn’t know if he should get angry that his heart had softened, or if he should be surprised that he had this kind of sentimentality.

‘Well, it doesn’t matter.
If I like it, I should just live like that.’ Zich was about to go to a restaurant in front of him when he slightly moved to the side.

Crash!

The door of the restaurant roughly opened, and one person came flying out.
The person rolled on the ground several times and stopped moving; it seemed as if they had lost consciousness.
Passersby began murmuring to themselves at the sudden commotion.
Zich went inside the store and saw a mess.

The tables and chairs were flipped over, and some of the chairs were also broken.
Food and spilled drinks littered the floor and sullied the whole place.
Among this mess, Zich also saw people collapsed on the floor.
On one side of the store, there was a crowd of people that looked like customers; they looked angry, afraid, and horrified. 

After Zich finished scanning his surroundings, he looked back to the center of the store.
He saw three people surrounding one person.
It looked like a group of people bullying one person, but surprisingly, the group of people looked scared instead. 

“You bastard!” One person in the group began attacking the person in the middle.
There was a small dagger in his hand.
A few people let out screams when they saw the dagger.
However, there was no sound of a sharp knife slicing through skin and muscle.
Instead, the hard sound of bones breaking rang out in the store.

“Acck!” The person holding the dagger let out a painful scream and fell to the ground.
The arm he was using to hold the dagger dropped and dangled to the side.

“Damn it!”

“Kill him!” 

The remaining two people rushed towards the man in the middle, but the man did not even blink.
Instead, he broke the bones of his two opponents at the speed of light.
In an instant, the fight was over.
Zich stared at the victor.

The man had long, unruly hair.
He had a refreshing, handsome face, but his fierce expression made people reluctant to approach him.
His aura was like that of a wild beast.

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