Nothing eventful happened to the man while walking on the road with a beat-up apothecary on his back. The apothecary seemed to be more relaxed than expected, even though she got hit real hard in the face. She is still able to nibble the man and list out random names while unconscious.
As time passed and the sun already set, they finally reached a village. Throughout the last hours of walking, there was only one road and the apothecary came from that direction, this might be the village she mentioned.
The entrance of the village is lit up by a few torches with some guards with swords out front.
All of them draw their sword and point it at the man, like they are about to interrogate him.
Guard: Who are you traveller and why do you have our apothecary?!
Man:...
Guard: Answer! Don't force us to use violence on you!
Man:...
Guard:...
Apothecary's weak voice: don't hurt him... please stop.
Guard: My apothecary, what did he do to you?
Apothecary: h-he saved me from th-that person
Guard: He is here already! We must fortify the defense.
Apothecary: that won't be a-a problem for a-a while. My sav-vior managed to injure him qui-i-ite a bit before he ran away.
Guard: That's a relie-
Apothecary: can we...talk...later? I...need treatment... he needs rest. You, escort us to... my apprentice's house then escort him to an inn.
Guard: I'm sorry, let's us go now. All of you be on high alert!
The guard took them to the apprentice's house with the direction help from the apothecary.
Apothecary: here we are... place me down, please.
The man carefully placed her down.
Apothecary: thank you, you two can leave now.
Guard: Do you still need any help?
Apothecary: I'm good *walking up to the door*. *bang her head on the door* I need treatment.
The door then immediately swung open and a girl came out, carefully escorted the apothecary in, and shut the door.
Guard: She has always been an odd one.
Man:...*nod*
The guard took the man to the inn and left.
The man orders some food from the inn for dinner and then gets a room to rest for the night. He got a good night's sleep as nothing happened to interrupt him, except in the morning.
Next morning, when he was leaving the inn, the owner gave him a piece of paper and told him that the apothecary wanted to meet him.
After getting out of the inn, he takes a look at what is written on the paper.
Paper: Thank you for saving me yesterday, you must have gotten hurt after fighting with that person. I wasn't able to treat you but now I'm better, visit my apprentice's house and I'll take care of those wounds for you.
"How shameful of me to stay at my apprentice's house, but she is the only person that is good enough to take care of me."
Man:...
Putting the paper inside of his outfit and decided to not visit the apothecary. Instead, he takes a walk around the village and gets some food at the market.
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The Art of Sword
ActionSunz was born with an unknown ability given only a sword from birth but had no idea of what to do, until one faithful day his ability got reawakened and it's his choice to live his old life or explore his new one with the help of his friend Jihu. At...
