After returning to the tavern and entering his room, he found Akeno smiling waiting for him sitting on the floor on his knees wearing only a towel (A / N: like seiza position) and as soon as he saw her she exclaimed: "Ara! My master I was waiting you, while he was away I cleaned the room and made sure no one saw me and filled the tub with water if he wanted a bathroom, or would he want me? " concluded seductively.

Ichiro began to undress distractedly and as he did so he replied to Akeno: "As much as I can not wait to enjoy your magnificent body, now we must concentrate then just wash and pay a lot of attention ... I have in mind a plan and if everything it will be good we will leave this village and we will head towards the first real city of this disgusting world"

Akeno nodded happily and as soon as his master immersed himself in the tub, she began to wash it with impeccable care using her own body to wash it, pressing her breasts and hips all over his body; he continued to 'wash' him until he got up, dried himself and dressed again, after which they began to organize themselves.

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The next day, just after dawn, Spineal and his group 'the drop of jade', a party of adventurers recently promoted to rank D, walked towards the forest in search of the cave where a severely injured Direwolf had taken refuge ; this creature was comparable to a wolf but unlike normal wolves it was almost one meter eighty and two and a half meters long, normally they moved in schools a little over a dozen and tended to struggle with an incredible ferocity thanks to their claws and their jaws.

When they were in a group they were considered a C-level threat, but in their current conditions even a D-level party would have a chance of winning; This was the goal of Spineal, they had prepared for days and now they were in front of that cave to complete the final preparations: Joffre was positioning traps, Spineal was giving the last instructions to Rufus and Rey, the other two members of the group Rufus had a heavy shield of reinforced wood and an ax, Rey had light clothes and wielded a bastard sword and it was he and Joffre who were the team's attack force while Rufus and Spineal would hold the beast and attract his attention.

Spineal gave everyone the signal and the clash began: Joffre threw a smoke bomb to flush out the Direwolf and as soon as it came out, Rufus and Spineal, the first with his heavy heavy shield parried the attacks and the second prevented him from escaping; Joffre and Rey used every opportunity to attack but the beast still had a fair agility that had prevented it from being subjected to lethal blows but its stamina was falling fast. After what seemed an incalculable time, both sides were very tired but it was the wolf who fell first; Spineal and his party breathed a sigh of relief and sat down exhausted from the hard fight.

Rufus, still panting, muttered: ohi Spineal ... how about using your healing magic? that beast left a bad cut on my arm and even punched my shield "

"don't worry with the reward money we will all buy new equipment; give me a minute and I'll take care of it, I also had a bad time"

At the moment when Spineal approached Rufus to heal him, he felt that something was wrong, he didn't perceive mana being consumed to activate his skill; he tried to concentrate with more determination but no matter how much he tried, he couldn't use his healing magic.

He was furious and frightened and the others also realized that something was wrong, when they tried to understand what was happening ... a lightning strike hit them all, killing Spineal, Joffre and Rufus and leaving Rey, who had suffered less wounds of all in the clash, seriously injured and paralyzed; two figures came out of the bushes: a skinny boy wearing leather armor and a beautiful woman with long black hair, a strange outfit and an excited look.

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After Akeno hit the group of adventurers with her demonic magic, they came out of their hiding place and approached the only survivor of the group, a man in his late twenties with green hair but now burned like most of his body; Ichiro turned to Akeno with a reproachful look "are you sure you held back? I thought I told you to stun them without killing them"

Akeno took a pleading look "please forgive me master! I wanted to prove my usefulness, please don't abandon me"; I will say, he sighed "it doesn't matter, at least what I wanted is still alive; don't worry, I wouldn't abandon you Akeno for a mistake, you'll want to say that you'll make it up to somehow"

"Anything master ... any ... you only must give me the order" Akeno pleaded again.

Ichiro nodded and focused on the nearly dead boy and activated his power:

- Name: Rey Astilf

- Skill: swordmanship (lvl 4), earth magic (lvl 2), dash (lvl 2)

- Avaible attempts to steal abilities: 3

Ichiro decided to take all his techniques, even if he already had the skill swordmanship he wanted to try something; once again, to his satisfaction, his theory proved to be correct because a second notification appeared before him: swordmanship lvl 2 (owned) merged with lvl 4 swordmanship, swormanship (owned) rose to lvl 5.

After taking the skills that interested him, he killed the only survivor with a clean slash; the moment Ichiro hit him he was surprised by how his body had already assimilated the knowledge and techniques of that skill but after all, he told himself, what should he expect from a fantasy world?

He and Akeno returned to the village shortly after, decided to go and get the last tools needed for his first victim: he bought some ropes, got a powerful mix of soporific herbs from an old florist with the excuse that he had problems with insomnia, he took some bottles of wine and finally went to the inn to rest and wait for the darkness to be able to act.