After walking deeper into the forest for a few minutes, he stopped and sighed. "Why don't you guys e out already?"

  "Hehehe... you're a really sharp one." A man walked out from behind the tree followed by six more men who quickly surrounded him.

  The seven of them seemed to be in a group.

  The masked man reized two of them very easily as they were present ihe guild during the transa.

  "Now hand over all the money on you and I'll spare your life or else..." The one who seemed to be the leader said with a greedy smile as he put his hand on the sword's hilt on his waist.

  The masked man sighed and said, "Birds die for food and humans die for wealth... Just e at me!"

  "Guys kill him!" The leader shouted. With his and, everyone rushed toward the masked man.

  The masked man grabbed his sword and murmured. "Accelerate!"

  Whoosh~

  His body disappeared as he moved at a speed faster than the eyes could see. The sword fshed around and cut the group of men, sending them to the afterlife.

  "W... What the... What did you do?" The leader was shocked and asked in a shaking tone. When he heard his men's report, he thought it was an easy job but the situation had turned pletely.

  He stumbled and fell.

  "Don't... please don't kill me! I will gi-" He begged for mercy but before he could finish his sentence, his head rolled on the ground.

  The masked man sighed again and took off his mask after firming that there was no other tail following him.

  It was her than Alex!

  Alex took all the materials present on the bodies of those seven fellows before burning their corpses.

  After making sure that there was no evidence, he took out a book from his coat and smiled.

  'It is time to finally meet you, Liebe.'

  ~~Time Skip 4 years~~

  Hage Vilge

  "H-Hey, look over there." Two old guys were cultivating the field when one of them noticed something.

  "Where?" The other one asked.

  The guy pointed in a certain dire. "There! Isn't he look like..."

  "Asta?!" The uy excimed with disbelief.

  "Yeah, Asta. Wait!... It's Asta! He's finally back?!"

  Asta heard their voices and looked at them before waving his hand iing.

  He came aany familiar faces along his way before he finally reached his destination.

  The pce he could call his home, The Church!

  He saw Sister Lily and Yuno doing chores while Nash and others pyed around in the front yard.

  Asta smiled and covered the distan a few seds with huge steps before hugging Sister Lily from behind.

  Sister Lily utting the washed clothes over the rope to dry them when someone grabbed her from behind, startling her, and causio drop the cloth in her hand.

  She panicked and was about to t a spell when a very familiar voice sounded from behind.

  "You've bee even more beautiful and charming in these four years, my dear Lily~."

  It caused a current to pass through her body and tears welled up in her eyes.

  Alex smiled and released her, lettiurn around before she hugged him tightly, afraid that he was just an illusion.

  He rubbed her back slowly and raised her head to wipe the tears. "Don't cry. It'll only let you age faster."

  Sister Lily blushed slightly hearing his teasing voice. It brought a sense of warmth inside her. He was the only thing on her mind for the past four years rendering her uo even focus on anything else.

  Because of that, she purposely busied herself with all the chores to distract her mind but it's pletely iive.

  She had hought that one day, she would someone who would bee so close to her that she couldn't help but miss every single day.

  Alex smiled happily but before he could enjoy it, he heard an angry voice.

  "Water Creation Magic: Holy Fist of Love!"

  *Boom*

  A huge fist of water hit him, pstering him on the ground.

  "Ugh!... Do you really have to..."

  "Hmph! You still remember me now. Water Creation Magic: Holy Fist of Love!" Lily showed an angry smile and shouted.

  *Boom*

  Another fist smmed onto his body which he didn't dodge on purpose.

  Finally, after three times, Lily had enough as she couldn't bring herself to hit him again because of her soft personality.

  Alex seized this d jumped up, spping her soft butt. "Do you want to kill your husband? It seems I have to teach you a lesson ter."

  His voice wasn't loud, enough to only hear by both of them.

  "You!..." Lily's face flushed hard, as she rained down soft punches.

  "ASTA!!"

  The duo was having a sweet moment when it was interrupted by aed scream and a young man with bck hair jumped at him.

  A huge tornado rose near Alex, kig up a storm as it threateo knock him out, sending him flying.

  Alex smirked and shielded Lily behind him, taking out his sword and swinging it down.

  A bck fsh shot forth and cut the ining tornado in half, shattering it pletely.

  Alex smirked. "Is that it?"

  "It's just the beginning." A voice echoed from behind and the sound of wind cutting could be heard from behind.

  Alex ducked down and avoided a fist that was aimed at his face before he twisted his body and aimed a kick at the attacker's legs.

  But the attacker jumped a step back before trying to do an axe kick which Alex dodged by rolling to the side.

  The attacker ersistent, barraging Alex with multiple attacks which Alex tered all...

  "Alright, alright, stop it. You're sg everyone else."

  At this moment, Father Orsi walked out, a big smile pstered on his old face.

  Alex and the attacker finally stopped, standing face-to-face with each other.

  "Hmph, it seems you haven't fotten about our promise."

  "How I, brother?" Alex smiled at Yuno who just weled him with his yle...

  A few years earlier just after the thug i, Asta was training Yuno whetle guy asked him out of nowhere.

  "Why are y so hard despite not having magic power?"

  Asta paused Yuno's training and said with a sigh. "Yuno, this is a very cruel world where the strong prey on the weak. Only the strong have the final say here. So what if I don't have magic power?! I'll still bee the stro magiight."

  "But why do you want to be a magiight?"

  "Because I want to be the rule-maker. This pce is my home. With our current state now, we 't protect them if danger arises. This vilge is too small and far away from the capital, do you think someone will e to save us? The answer is a Big No! I want to be the one who will protect them, My Family!"

  Yuno looked at the sky for a few minutes before speaking. "Then I'll bee the Wizard King!"

  Alex smirked at his decration and said, "For that, you have to beat me first."

  "Then I'll beat you iure."

  From that day onwards, Yuno became very serious about training.

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