"Well, it's probably fine…"
"Fine?!" shrieked Shani. "I'm a medic Mikael! My job is to heal! Not to kill!"
"Well, technically, I was the one who killed him…"
Then, the man then moved, his head looked towards them, his hands trying to reach, as if begging.
"Mikael, he's still alive!" said Shani as she went to medic mode. "Help me here!"
"Shani, he's dead." sighed Mikael. "I cut his stomach open…"
"I- you're right…" she murmured, sitting beside the now dead man covering her head, massaging it. "Fuck…"
"You alright?"
"Not expecting the day to go like this…" chuckled Shani awkwardly.
Mikael smiled. "Well, you should stand up, the venom will enter your body if you're not careful…"
"Y-Yeah…" she then stood up, and cleaned her hands up using the cloth she used before. "We need to call someone to the sewers… retrieve the corpses… to give them proper burials…"
"I mean, most of the corpses come from lonely and stupid women…" shrugged Mikael, as he inspected the man. "Not worth it to be honest…"
Shani then looked around, ignoring Mikael's words. He looked above, where she dropped down. "How do we get out?"
"Jump?"
"You can jump that high?" she scoffed. "Are you sure you're human?"
"Well…"
Before they could continue their conversation, they could hear sounds of loud footsteps from the sewer they came in, and then, they saw a group of men, brown skinned, with clothing that definitely did not come from Oxenfurt.
"Ofieri?" murmured Shani.
"You know about them?"
"I took an elective about nations of the continent." shrugged Shani.
"I thought you studied medicine? Why study history?"
"Because it's interesting." she rolled her eyes. "Why else?"
"Right…"
The Ofieri people then shouted something towards them, profanities it seems. A man holding a staff, looked at the corpse beside them, and frowned, the men rushed towards the corpse, and checked the condition.
As soon as they saw that the man was dead, the man with the staff turned around, and looked at the two of them.
"W-We didn't mean it." said Shani nervously. "We thought he was a beast, we swear!" she continued, elbowing Mikael beside her, asking for support.
"Y-Yeah…" said Mikael casually.
The man with the staff frowned even more, and shouted towards his men. "Saar vass'ayah malliq!"
"Whoa, okay." said Mikael as he saw the men unsheathed their swords. Mikael readied himself, and pushed Shani to the back of him.
The man with the staff then raised his staff. The water below Mikael and Shani suddenly bubbled a bit, and it wanted to explode.
"Shit!" cursed Mikael as he ran towards Shani. He tackled her, avoiding the water explosion. They rolled around the dirty water, and once they stopped, Mikael checked on Shani.
"You alright?" he questioned.
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"Yeah– watch out!" shouted Shani as she saw a magic bolt coming towards them.
Mikael then pushed Shani away, and dodged the bolt itself.
"Never fought a mage before." sighed Mikael.
The soldiers of the mage stood in front of him, raising their shields, and pointing their swords at thim.
"Well, you just made it much easier…" murmured Mikael.
Mikael ran towards them, making the soldiers alert, but then, he jumped. As he was in the air, he raised his sword above his head, crossing his only arm, hiding his face. Then, he launched at the soldiers.
Shani saw what he did, he swung his sword gracefully, making arcs around his body. Even before he landed, he's already swinging his sword.
When you look at it, it feels like he's dancing with his sword, Shani felt like she couldn't see him land, as Mikael kept spinning around, slashing majestically.
He then stopped, but then, he dashed again, doing the same thing all over again. Dome of slashes formed around him, the soldiers didn't even know what's going on, and when Mikael stopped, he stood in front of the mage, and finally, Shani could see the soldiers all cut to pieces, like a butcher cutting beef or pork into smaller portions, and she could see his sword, broken as he stopped dancing.
There was no scream, no groan, no shriek, nothing, only death. The smell of blood quickly spread throughout the room, even overlapping with the smell of excrement. It was a gruesome sight, even Shani, who was a licensed medic, couldn't help to get dizzy.
Mikael then raised his broken sword, pointing it at the mage in front of him. "Sorry mate, you attacked us first."
While it was broken, Mikael was able to pierce the mage's heart, who froze with fear as he saw what Mikael did.
The sword was stabbed deeply to the mage's heart, the mage's mouth gurgled as blood blocked the air's path towards the lungs.
Then, the mage dropped dead, in the nasty sewers, filled with venom of an unknown toad and excrement.
Mikael then looked at the corpses around him, and saw the swords that the soldiers used. He then took it one by one, before putting it in his bag.
"What are you doing?" questioned Shani.
"Looting, what else?" Mikael answered. "They attacked us first, so I'll take their swords."
"Do you need many swords?"
"Look at this." said Mikael, pointing at the broken sword that stabbed the mage's heart.
"Right…"
As he finished his looting, he looked at the sewers above him. "Right, let's get out of here."
"How?" Shani questioned, still a bit shocked at Mikael's ability.
Mikael hummed, thinking, he then gave Shani his bag. "Would you mind?"
Shani just grabbed his bag nonchalantly, and then, Mikael turned his back towards Shani.
"Hop on." he said.
"What?" stammered Shani.
"Hop to my back." he continued. "I'll get you out of here."
Shani just calmly hopped towards Mikael's back, hugging him tightly from the back.
"Right, hold on tight." Mikael then jumped towards the sewer's entrance. He did it in one jump, Shani closed her eyes as it was a bit frightening.
"Mikael… What are you?" questioned Shani curiously.
Mikael just smiled, and he dropped Shani off from his back, before the two of them exited the sewers together.