I'll become a villain in my next life

Chapter 88: Bandit Army

[Decimated Town]

By the next day as the sun rises, Kaido breath outs in relief as he sat down on the pile of rubble from the aftermath of that mysterious attack from an unknown enemy

As he sat down on the pile of rubble, he looked below as he observed the other's trying to figure out what just happened last night and why did it solely focus on attacking Kaido ignoring anything else in it's way

As he observed this he sigh again in his place as he muttered

"It's about time Jack arrives"

Hearing this Melfina who was beside him ask in confusion

"Did you ask anything from him?" She asks

"Yeah why?" Asks back Kaido

"Nothing really Kaido-sama... It's just that I find him quite creepy when he enjoys fighting" commented Melfina

At that Kaido blinked for a moment in thought as he speak up again

"There are different people so having different taste and likeness is also feasible" stated Kaido

After that silence permitted the place and because of it Kaido asked Melfina about something

"Tell me... Do you like fighting?" Asks Kaido

"Fighting?... I hate it.... But we need it in order to survive in this kind of world" answered Melfina

"I can't deny that" agreed Kaido as he remembered the situation from his old world

At that Kaido held tightly at the clothed cursed sword and by seeing this Melfina begun to probed about it

"Kaido-sama!"

Hearing that Kaido turned his attention to Melfina

"Isn't that sword dangerous because of its curse?... Then why are you holding tight to it?" Asks Melfina as he observed the sword

"This?... I don't know... But somehow my instincts tells me to keep it in check in order for it to not lure others from using it... And in order to do just that i have to keep it close to me always... In return I myself shouldn't fall for using this directly without this cloth or else I would fall to madness too..." Explained Kaido

"But don't worry... Someday I'll find a way to get rid of the curse somehow" added Kaido as he saw Melfina's worried expression

As they silently observed again, Kaido suddenly sensed something which made him turn his gaze at the forest near the town

As he squinted his eyes Jack however arrived and called out to him and the others

When they approached him Jack explained to them how he scouted for the bandits making the Hero's party accept his reasoning for his disappearance

"They're too many for a bandit group, at most they're numbers could level this whole town easily by a hundreds... At such it really surprised me by the series of explosion coming from here... I thought that the bandits would here it but they really did... Now they're coming in here and surely we would be really outnumbered by 1 to a hundred when we engaged them into a fight" warned Jack

After hearing this Kaido observed Jack carefully while Anna apologizes for the series of explosion causing the bandit army to be alerted

"If that is the case then we should really just fight them strategically" pointed out Alda

"I am a sword saint so we could overpower them at most" he added

"That is true... But that huge group would really need to keep they're morale going so I presume that they will go after the girls" stated Luke