Yaku falls to one knee and looks at the bandit leader with blurry vision, "Darn i only have less than 50 seconds on this damn sword" yaku thinks to himself, He grits his teeth and lunges at the bandit leader and they clash swords, It's apparent that the leader is on a class of his own, he parries Yaku's attacks and even sweeps his legs for a second but yaku recovers immediately, with deep breaths and blurry vision yaku keeps on fighting
20 seconds are left until his mana fully runs out and as time goes on the bandit leader becomes more and more aggressive, Yaku manages to parry a couple of attacks and lands a kick to the bandits stomach but as the bandit is pushed back, yaku falls on one knee again, his mana has fully run out and his sword is back to a cheap scrap sword
The bandit leader notices, He starts to stroke his long beard laughing, showing his missing teeth, then he licks his lips and looks at Yaku with blood lusted eyes, "it seems this is the end for you, i can always get new men to pillage and kill, you've done nothing but waste your life" the bandit says while standing right over yaku, Yaku with one knee on the ground leaning on his sword so he doesn't fully fall forward looks at the sword being swong in his direction, smiles and closes his eyes "well, this is the end mother, in the end i truly was nothing but a poor vermin from the south" he thinks to himself
sound of stabbing
"AHHH YOU FUCKING FILTHY BROAD" the bandit screams as it appears the woman that Yaku had saved earlier came back after hiding her child, she picked up a dagger from a dead bandits corpse and stabbed the leader in the back before he could kill yaku
The leader turns to her and grabs her by the neck "i guess you will die before him then" he screams at her as his spit gets all over her face
sound of stabbing
The leader starts to cough up blood as it appears that Yaku had stabbed him in the back, he falls to his knees and before he could utter any words, he falls dead, the woman falls on her butt and sits on the ground in shock, she smiles with tears in her eyes "Thank you... truly thank you" she says to yaku
All Yaku hears are mumbling as his ears start ringing and he loses consciousness, "HEY oh my lord, HELP ME the man who saved us is nearly dead" she screams with all her might
Yaku opens his eyes slowly, he hears the sound of birds singing, he sits up and puts his hand on his forehead "w..what happened" he says, "YOU'RE AWAKE" the lady who saved him shouts, she falls to her knees and starts crying "thank you thank you, you saved me and my child and saved so many of the villagers, we are truly in your debt" she says with a shaky voice
Yaku starts itching his head "hahaha no worries, my legs just moved on their own, i had no choice but to fight" he says while laughing, she smiles at him and stands up "you've been sleeping for 24 hours, the men have made temporary tents until we fix up all the burned houses, come on lets go eat" she says
Yaku stand up with drool running out of his mouth "I don't have any money for food" he says to her, "hahaha don't worry it's all free, saviour of our village " she answers, "by the way my name is Lydia, what is your name" she asks, he answers "my name is Yaku, please take me to the food hahahaha"
Yaku fills his stomach with meat and rice burps "ahhh i haven't eaten like this my whole life, im so lucky to be alive", the villagers thank him and pat him on the back whenever they see him, the blacksmith of the village comes to the food table "hey warrior, i saw that your sword was no good, swing by to my shop, lets get you something better for the road" he says to yaku
"Old man, i don't have a single copper coin to pay you" yaku responds, "well that's good because it's on the house" the blacksmith responds
Yaku's eyes shine with hope and he accepts immediately, after eating he goes to visit the blacksmith and he offers him a sword worth 2 sliver coins for free, "it's sharp, steardy and not too heavy, perfect for you kid" the blacksmith says, Yaku thanks the blacksmith and refuses a free shield as it's not really his fighting style, He stays in the village for 3 days to recover and then he bids lydia and the other villagers goodbye as he heads to his first major city.