章節 17: I wonder

The boy took a step forward, leaned under an errant swipe from the beasts, plunged the knife into its eye with surgical precision, then did a roll to get behind the beast. The beast howled in pain. Onlookers stared at the scene in stupefaction. Not one, not a single one, thought that Lukas would survive, let alone hurt the beast.

"Good job, little man!" One of them yelled, attracting Lukas' attention. He turned towards the voice, grinning.

"Thanks!" Only to frown as he witnessed their expressions quickly change. Frowning in concentration, he tries to figure out why. Meanwhile, the beast has put a stop to its howling and turned towards the voices with dark intentions. How dare these insignificant prey gouge its eyes out? How embarrassing! Growly slowly, it swiped a claw towards the back of the child. Just when it was about to hit the child, the beast felt a sharp pain in its leg. Its leg had seemingly impacted with something, sending it flying backwards and cutting off its paw in one smooth motion.

Lukas looked up to see Steve standing about him, sword out in a cutting position. Scratching his head, he looked up at the man who had seemingly come out of nowhere, awestruck.

Panting, Steve looked down at the child with wonder in his eyes.

"Lukas… You have to be more careful" Steve tells the boy with a sigh, slinging the sword over his shoulder. Lukas gives him a nod filled with determination.

"Right! I just forgot about it!"

Steve gives him a deadpan expression. Like, really? How did you forget about an insanely large beast standing just behind you. You'd just blinded it a moment ago, as well. How carefree can you be? A smile twitched at his lips. One thing that can be said for sure, is that Lukas has definitely faced his fears.

"You ready for round two, then?" Steve says, looking at the crippled beast. For, really, what else could you call it. The beast had lost both of its eyes, a paw and was riddled with arrows. A cripple is all it is at this point.

"Hey hey hey! Don't you guys go hogging all the fun for yourself! I want a swipe at this ** who killed Gustav as well" Ambrose yells while moving closer. Meanwhile, another arrow hit the best, making it yelp in surprise. "Don't count me out either, this beast has been a pain in my ass for too long" Grace loudly states, making quite a few men chuckle. She ignored them. Steve gives them a smile each, then readies his sword. Seemingly thinking of something, a bit of drool drips from his lips.

"I wonder how you'll taste" He says the thing which none of them had considered before out loud. The people exchange a few glances, then look back at the beast, smiling viciously.

"Kill it!" They yell while charging.