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THE CRAZY SWORDMAN

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Chapter 1 - THE ORPHAN

A figured opened a shady house in the mountains that was seen as an abandoned, it was very dirty and collected a great deal of cobwebs and dust.

"Hope they don't come and chase me away from here also", he muttered. He smiled as to him this shady looking house was better for him than living in the dangerous streets of the kingdom.

As he pushed the door a cracking sound was heard from it as the house looked very old but a little sturdy.

He took a cloth in his bag and covered his nose and mouth with it as he went inside, there was so much dust in the house as it looked like no one lived there for a great number of years if not decades.

He looked around he saw other things that were left by the original owner of the place, he started taking the things he could move out of the house.

He moved what he could and dusted them, he also dusted the house after a long journey and work on cleaning the house, he sat outside the house took his leather bag and started eating his piece of bread from it, he drank water from his wooden jug, after he finished his meal, he sighed softly and slowly laid his body on the porch of the house.

"Woah, hope I find something to eat before I finish these rations" he said as he looked at the sky with his watery eyes from yawning.

The sun was now nearly setting out, he took his time returning everything he took out inside the house, after he went beside the top of the mountain and saw a pond of water he took a sip and saw it was clean and tasty so he took off his cloth and took a bath there.

After a great bath he went back to the house, he slept for the night with the cold winds sweeping on the mountains so he had no way but to bear with it.

When the morning reached he went to the foot of the mountain there was no marked ways to move with so he decided to mark his way down the mountain as he came to the house just by chance as he was running from city on that day.

As he went down the mountain he could hear a splashing so he quickened his steps to where the sound came from he reached and saw a water fall and a river flowing from the mountain onwards

"So this is where the river starts from huh" he said.

He went down and saw some fish there; he planned to use them as food someday. So, he followed the side of the river, he was very careful as it was slippery at some edges as he asked himself "with those scary men whom chased after him yesterday".

"What did they want this time chasing me like that, I did nothing to attract there furry this time they seem pretty adamant to catch me yesterday" he was thinking while walking down the hill.

"I can tell they are after something, not just me the city has been silent since the last two weeks what's happening, i better be careful in this godforsaken kingdom no righteous man ever came out of these filthy streets", he talked to himself while going down the river.

 On his way down he met several interesting spots along the river, there was an are where several deer were drinking water, a few low waterfalls, it was beautiful site to see than just the bustling city below where he is heading.

 "Today i must find something to do or i may die of hunger soon, i can not live on wild foods only or i might be malnourished as time goes, also i have not trained for along time that they almost got me yesterday i must eradicate the laziness in me before it kills me one day".

 "Or maybe i will create a place to training along the mountain side to keep myself in shape from time to time, i don't want to be reckless and end up on the hands of those guys, that i know won't end well on my side".

 As he kept moving conversing with himself, he heard a small sound coming just three to four metres away, his keen senses did not disappoint him this time as he hid on a bush closer to the disturbance he could not believe what he was seeing a pure white bunny was digging a hole just under a tree, and as he thought there was just one, another bunny came carrying twigs and grasses and entered the hole.

 "What is it digging for while it has already dug the first hole", he stood there thinking but after a time the bunny stopped digging and covered the first hole that the bunny entered with the twigs and grasses.

 He stood there dumbfounded but what was happening in front of his eyes because an idea stared appearing inside his head.

 "Are they camouflaging their home or what is happening", as he looked the first bunny coming out of the new hole a little dirty as it looked like it was digging from the inside out of the hole.

 "Yeah, that's definitely camouflage", he answered himself.

 "Now i know what to expect when i hunt them down someday, I gained a little knowledge out of no where today that might be helpful someday". As he approached the last hill down to the city, he could see the city briming of life as the smell of delicacies wafted on his nose.

 "Enthe", as he clicked his tongue.

"The time that you don't have any pocket change, it's the time when hunger hits the most. The smell was wafted by the wind, he could discern the smell of baked bread and some strong soup, he started salivating but he gulped the saliva back and went down to town.

 "Where should I start?", he asked himself as he hid just outside the alley knowing being found by those guys from yesterday might be the worst thing that could happen to him today so he must be careful not to cross path with those two morons.