Simple man with his Chapter 15: Cry of a demented mother

Chapter 15: Cry of a dented mother

After the interview, Lud and Weiss started walking towards the training grounds of Xu’s Fingers. While walking there, Weiss says to Lud "How long has it been since Bai was sent to Vortias?" To which Lud answers "It’s been about... seven days I think. Why do you ask?"

Then Weiss says "No it’s nothing. Just wondering when I get to train with her again." Lud responds by saying "I’m sure the mission in Vortias will soon subside. According to Loren, things are starting to quiet down thanks to Bai."

Then Weiss asks "And what did Xu say?" To which Lud answers "According to him, she is dying of boredom."

Then Weiss wonders out loud "But why would Rucksta decide to ally themselves with Restias? I didn’t know Jeremaja’s full opinion of the matter, but he did refrain on taking sides in the demon conflict. And now that they allied themselves with Restias, Rucksta had to divide their forces not only to the east, but to the west as well. Wasn’t one war enough?" Lud gives his opinion "I think that the current ruler of Rucksta is being pressured by different factions in Rucksta. Wasn’t his na Soramaja? Anyways, for what I know, things are quite heated in Rucksta. There is even word going on that there’ll be a civil war."

Weiss looks down and says "To what low has the once mighty kingdom now fallen. Is the sha that Jeremaja is put through so damaging to the people of Rucksta? No, in the whole middle realm." Lud puts his hand on Weiss’ shoulder for a brief mont to console her as he says "Public shaming brings out all kinds of emotions to people. And since Jeremaja is still technically the king of the country, those emotions will run even more rampant. I’m sure this would have happened to any country whose ruler was put into a similar situation"

Then Weiss says "Thanks, but I feel no respect towards Jeremaja anymore. That respect died when he invited

to his bed chambers once. Unfortunately, he still is the king of my forr country I once called ho." Lud then wonders out loud "Did you accept that invitation?" Without noticing that he says it out loud.

Weiss responds by saying "If I had refused, then my position would have been compromised." Lud noticed that he said it out loud, so he said "I’m sorry. I didn’t an to say it out loud. I didn’t an to ask such an invasive question from you. If you want sothing as an apology, then I try to fulfill it to the best of my ability. Just as long as it isn’t anything too absurd."

Weiss chuckles a little and says "There is no need to apologize, Faust. You have already done so much for . But if I have one wish that I want to be fulfilled, then..." Then Weiss wraps her arm around Lud’s neck and says "I think you should learn to have an air like a king. The way you are now is like watching a commoner who’s put in the position of power."

Lud says "Well that is kind of what I am. But while we are at it, why are you treating

like this?" To which Weiss says "You just..." Then she takes her arm off of Lud and says "You remind

of my little brother."

Lud then says "Little brother? I didn’t know you had one. Where is he now?" To this, Weiss remained silent for a mont and the air beca a little depressing. Weiss is about to say sothing, but Lud notices the atmosphere and says "I see. Well I had a brother once too. He wasn’t expected to live to 20, so our dad ended up leaving because of it. Leaving only our mom."

Weiss stayed silent for a while longer, but then she took a deep breath and said "My brother would slap

in the back of my head right about now if he’d see . So let’s not worry about the past too much. So what do you plan on doing the rest of the day? I hear that you are free until 16:00." Lud says "I... haven’t planned anything so I think I’m going to take a stroll around the city. You?"

Weiss says "Then I’ll accompany you." Lud asks "You sure? Don’t you have training to do?" And Weiss says "Can’t let the king of my new ho go by themselves without protection."

Lud asks "You think that there would be anyone who would attack ?" To which Weiss says "You never know if so assassin from another country has infiltrated the city. And you aren’t exactly soone who I’d make a bet on in an arena."

Then Lud says "I think you are underestimating our security." To which Weiss says "I’ll still tag along just in case. Or are you going to order

not to, king Faust?" To which Lud says "I’m not going to do that. Fine, do as you wish."

Then while walking, Weiss puts out a comnt "You weren’t planning on going in any places where deviants would go, right?" To which Lud comnted nonchalantly "No way I’d have the guts to go to those kinds of places." Weiss comnted "Well, now you’d have a bodyguard who’d make sure you won’t get in trouble. I also promise to not tell anybody." To which Lud says "You really are underestimating the security of Elysium."

anwhile, Bai is manipulating her swords and quite frankly, beating her enemies’ asses. She has few aids around her and an army behind her, but they are there just for the sake of appearances. After all "You can’t just have one girl face off an army by herself" and the likes.

Then again, the army that is standing by is feeling quite guilty of not being of any help. Any attempts of trying to bring up Bai’s mood has been t with scoffs and fake thank you’s.

And when Bai was done dealing with this round of attacks from the enemy, she went to her designated tent and waited for soone to co and call her when she was needed or that they were moving.

The enemy’s morale wasn’t the highest either. Just watching your soldiers be defeated by a bunch of flying swords was really mood killing for those who survived the ass beating.

One of the enemy soldiers whined to another "Damn that brat! When I saw her face in the distance, I saw how uninterested she was! Can you believe that?!" To which another soldier said "What kind of monster do you have to be to be able to face off an entire army?! There were supposed to be over 1000 of us, but she just wiped the floor with us! I heard that so people have bailed after so many defeats!"

Another soldier says "Shhh! Don’t say that out loud! If soone high enough hears you, you’ll be fucked! Then another soldier complains "Gods what I’d do to have a couple of beers right about now." To which multiple soldiers said in unison "Agreed."

Then in the commanding tent of the enemy, the one in charge slams his fist to the makeshift table and shouts "God damn it! Why can WE have a badass chick on our rank?! Why do WE have to be the punching bags of soone who works with humans?!" Then another commanding officer says "Don’t say that. While I agree that it is quite unfair how things currently are, we cannot lower ourselves to the level that Vortias has fallen." Then the highest in charge whines while two demons from Restias are present "Those demon bastards! Of course they would do such a low thing as to ask help from a human led nation!"

One of the non-demon commanding officers clears his throat as to say to the highest rank that that wasn’t an appropriate comnt. But the highest rank still whines "Shit! To be stuck with these morons! When will we receive reinforcents from the motherland?!" To which one of the officers says "About that sir... they have deed that there is no way that we can’t defeat the people from Vortias with this many troops... sir."

Then the highest rank shouts as he breaks the table in anger "GOD DAMN IT!!! I know that the humiliation that our king is going through is an unforgivable sin for those human scum to do, but we need to finish this part quickly if we ever are to be respected by the other countries! Why can’t that brat see that?!"

One of the officers is trying to leave the tent, but the highest rank throws a wooden blank at the officer’s direction as he shouts "And where the hell do you think you are going?! We have to figure out what to do before our dignity is irreparable!"

The other people at the tent are silent for a while as the highest rank shouts "What?! Does no one have any ideas on how to beat that bitch?! You fucking insufferable grunts know NOTHING useful when MATTERS!"

anwhile, Bai is listening to them talk from the comfort of her tent. She mutters to herself "Why can’t I go beat them up right now? "It would be disrespectful" or what not they would babble. This is war people, we don’t care about respecting our enemies. *sigh* And then there is my homie’s wish to avoid as much bloodshed as possible. I’m starting to reconsider if I want to call him my homie after what he is putting

through."

A while passes, but eventually the enemy begins to move. Bai responds by "Finally. At least I can do sothing." Then Bai leaves the tent and one of the people who were to attend her asks "Where are you going, miss?" To which Bai responded "The enemy is moving. They appear to be splitting their army into five different groups presumably because they think they can go out of my range or make it harder for

to focus."

Then one of Bai’s attendants motions another attendant to go inform the others in the army and then saying "Will there be any issues, miss?" To which Bai says "You kidding right? I have the processing power to fully control all my 100 swords’ movents from across the world as if I was there in person. Honestly, I could have done this from the comfort of my tent, but it seems you guys want so sort of respect to be shown, I’ll humor you."

As expected, Bai’s swords quickly deal with the enemy’s movents and the enemy is forced to retreat.

Bai goes back to her tent, ready to hear how the enemy is losing their shit over nothing working.

As expected, the highest rank of the enemy army shouts again in his tent "Fuck! Fuck that bitch! Fuck everything she stands for! And fuck her bratty ass!" The highest rank looks around the tent where all the commanding officers would gather, but sees that more than half are absent. So he shouts at the remaining officers "Where are the other guy’s at?! And if any of you say that they have abandoned their post then I’m going to make sure you will go running to hunt them down as deserters!"

None of the remaining officers dared to open their mouths for a mont, but then one of them dared to say "Um, I heard that the unit led by officer Oscar Tomson was wiped out." To this, the highest rank shouts "No shit you dumbass! We were all wiped out by that bitch!" To which the sa officer corrects the highest rank by saying "No sir. What I ant by that is that most of them were killed, including officer Oscar Tomson. The only remaining people from that unit were shouting so nonsense about a ghost or sothing."

Then the highest rank shouts "That still must be the work of that bitch! She simply got bored or sothing and decided to ss with our heads!" To which the sa officer tries to say sothing, until they hear screaming from the outside. The highest ranking officer shouts "It must be an enemy attack! Go and deal with it!" To which the officers go and investigate.

Soon after the officers leave the tent, two halves of one officer co flying to the tent. The highest rank is startled by this and shouts "Sweet mother of gods!" Then he goes to investigate and he sees a ghost-like woman that is about 2,4 ters tall, has her neck twisted and bent in unnatural ways. The ghost has long and sharp claws that co out of twisted hands, is wearing tattered black dress, has one of the eyes gouged out and one has small barbed tal around the other. The noises she made were unnatural cries of a tornted soul that had lost itself in the fog a long ti ago.

Then the gaze of that ghost sees the highest rank who is pissing his pants by the second. The ghost looms closer to the highest rank. The ghost says in a horrid voice "The scent of my sons... the scent of my sons... closer... closer... just like papa dearest promised."

The highest rank starts to flee as he shouts in terror "St-stay away from ! Soone, you must rescue ! If sobody is to survive, it has to be ! You hear ! Throw yourself at it to buy

ti! You must..." And then the highest rank’s face was cut from the right side of his head to the left side of his cheek.

The ghost murmurs "Yes... yes... this..." as she glances at the direction of Bai’s sword. Then she says "You... you will lead

to my sons... YES!"

anwhile Bai is wondering what it was that killed those people. She couldn’t see anything but a fog that cut the highest ranking officer’s face in half. She had a bad feeling and went outside her tent and said to her attendants "Evacuate imdiately."

The attendant questions "why