Chương 3: Interruption

The young lad was breathing hard after taking many blows from Simon who was in frenzy after realizing the young boy was still standing strong, he seemed tired but still had the will to fight.

"I landed one hit on that "stuck in mud boy" and he inflicted dozens of hits without missing a single one. Dammit, I can barely stand without shaking, is he some kind of monster we've been fighting for almost an hour now and he didn't break a sweat."

Simon and the young lad exchanged several blows as more sounds were heard indicating that the people of the town are starting their day.

"What is it...' whatever you go with'...are you tired?"

"Not yet not...yet my son, I can still go."

"And the name is Francis."

"Then let's finish this up, Francisco."

The fight between Simon and Francis kept on going, none wanted to be the first to fall, then something unexpected happened.

Both the ground and the ceiling started vigorously shaking as a massive crack ran under Simon and Francis's cold feet. They fell down unable to keep their balance on the trembling earth and the rift grew bigger by the seconds.

Simon balanced himself on all of his limbs and rolled to the other side of the road but when he turned around to check why Francis wasn't getting to safety, he only found a lying unconscious figure. "It's not time to sleep idiot there's an earthquake..or did I hit you too hard before the earthquake or maybe you fell too hard on the ground or...Hey did you really faint? Well, I guess he did."

"..." Francis was not responding to any of Simon's questions.

Simon noticed some red liquid coming from Francis's red hair, and the smell of iron filling the air. "Blood? I haven't used my death shards I guess he hit his head hard." Simon was indifferent regarding the situation, he have seen this type of scene several times so it wasn't anything shocking to him.

(Death shards: The name of the twin daggers he owns.)

The quaking soon stopped and a boy with dirty blonde hair and bright golden circles on his fingertips appeared from behind a rundown building.

"Oh, I haven't noticed that I captured two bugs in my trap well I guess this is killing two bugs with one flick hehe." He chuckled and approached Simon.

"Hey, you over there...you with the long hair...You!!"

"Hmm? What is it Blondie?" Simon dusted off the dirt on his clothes and looked at the Blondie.

"What did you call me, do you know who I'm!?"

"Seems like that redhead has done some trouble with the stupid nobles well it doesn't matter to me I just have to bring him to his senses so we resume our fight." Right, when Simon was heading towards Francis a large crack split up between his feet.

"You! Who do you think you are to disrespect me like this, I called you several times and you answer casually and walk away?"

"Whatever..." Simon answered with not a care to the world although one thing did fascinate him the light golden circles with unidentifiable characters inside the many different sized loops shining on the brat's fingertips.

"You're gonna regret saying that you rogue. Leo, Neo get him heh..."

The moment Simon got distracted by the magical bright yellow light forming a ring around him two men wearing black from top to bottom appeared in the same ring behind Simon the second the circle fully formed. They grabbed him from his shoulders and forced a kneel to the rich brat who was chaining Francis to a nearby pole.

"What is this force? Dang, I let my guard down and now I can't stand. When was the last I ever felt like this?...being stomped down." A cold sweat rolled down Simon's chin.

The young boy adopted a position where his knees were bent and his upper body was brought forward and down to Simon's level.

"I'm gonna ask you some question every time you delay, don't answer or give me a wrong answer Leo and Neo are gonna break one of your fingers from the two hands at the same time."

"First question, do you know that son of a devil?"

"No."

"Sure?"

"100%"

"Are you lying to me right now?"

"Why would I?"

POP, POP

Simon swallowed his scream when two of his finger bones snapped.

"You think I'm stupid? Why will you go his direction if you didn't know him and why did you look so worried after he started bleeding ha!??"

"The hell? Did I look even one bit worried about that redhead? Also, I was heading his way to snap him to his senses since we were in the middle of a fight. Do I still look like I'm lying young Missy?"

"So you don't know him huh? Then why were you fighting him hmm?"

"Is that also a part of your question?"

SLAP!

"I'm the enquirer got it?" The young boy slowly was getting annoyed by Simon's attitude.

"I'm not repeating why were you fighting with him, sissy?"

"Just so."

"What?"

"Just because I wanted to test my skills on that windbag to get him to shut up." Simon was at the edge of getting angry a little push will be enough.

"Okay moving on where are you from? I know you're not from the bowan town."

"Lydan town from the northern underground," Simon informed under his breath.

"What did he say, Leo? Which town from the northern something underground?"

Leo stiffly replied. "Lydan, young master."

"Really? I heard people over there act like savages. Anyways what's your name Lydan boy?"

Simon refused to answer him because he already said too much to that conceited idiot.

CRACK, BREAK

Simon grunted. "Dammit."

"You're name? Didn't quite hear that." Foolishly smiled the young boy.

The light yellow circles started slowly fading, then an idea popped in Simon's head.

"I will let them break all my fingers without responding till then these demon works will lose their effect and disappear but they will probably reconstruct it but the moment it starts flickering I will get up, none are paying much attention at the moment so it might work if I focus enough on the demon circles." Simon glued his eyes on the fading magical circles without making it noticeable.

SNAP, CRACK

"Curse you!"

"Six fingers down. Still, you don't wanna answer? Come on it's not so hard, don't worry about me I can do this all day it's just that by the end of it all your bones will be broken if you chose not to talk although I doubt that."

The magical rings started flickering but only for a fraction of a second making it impossible for Simon to take action. Leo and Neo were about to break Simon's seventh and eighth fingers but their young master stopped them.

"Break all of them, four at a time. Let's see if you can contain your scream and hide your pain this time Lydan boy."

All four fingers popped out of their sockets and Simon screeched in pain.

At the moment the young noble smiled widely after seeing Simon's pained expression was the same when the light magical rings flickered often and faded almost to nothing still slightly visible but had no effect, Simon instantly got up loosening Leo and Neo's grip and uttered with an outraged dark face. "Genuflect."

Unable to resist the three fell to their knees shocked by what just happened.

Simon ordered in a cold dreadful tone."Dare to talk and I will cut off your tongues." He added. "Dare to move and I will rip off your limbs."

"Also the name is Simon." His eyes flickered into a different color for a second scaring the brat.

The three immediately started trembling after hearing that name especially the rich brat, after all, they realized that Simon was none other than Simon the beast who rose to power in the northern underground and sat on the throne of "Shadow Thorn".

"Now what should I do with you?" Simon slightly tilted his head shooting daggers at them with his sharp-looking light eyes.