In mere moments, aside from the two people Mousse had specifically ordered Xuanhuang to spare, no one from the crowd remained standing!
Naturally, one of those two was the remarkable person Mousse had sensed earlier with his Observation Haki. He appeared to be a gaunt middle-aged man of around thirty or forty, with nothing unusual about his appearance.
The other was a child even younger than Mousse, tied to an upright wooden stake with a pile of firewood beneath him, his body covered in wounds!
The remarkable man rushed to the stake as soon as everyone fell, laboriously untied the rope, and lowered the child. Only then did he notice Mousse descending from above. He immediately realized that this seemingly young child had most likely been responsible for what had just happened, and his heart jolted.
Still, Mousse's intervention had indeed saved the child, and the fact that he alone had spared the two of them showed it had been intentional. The middle-aged man stepped forward to greet him and cupped his hands in thanks. "Thank you for saving him, young master. Otherwise, this child might not have survived."
Mousse shook his head, indicating that he had not thought that far at the time. "Don't say that. If those people hadn't shot arrows at me, I would've at least looked into what was going on first."
Hearing that Mousse's tone was fairly gentle, the middle-aged man secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Then, gritting his teeth, he made a request that sounded surprising at first. "Um... they are merely ignorant commoners. Could you be magnanimous and spare them?"
Mousse immediately burst out laughing. "Hey, hey, they were trying to shoot me to death just now! If I had died, could you make them give me my life back? And what