If You Can't Beat Him, Just Die
As soon as Guts arrived in town, he committed a major crime: in full view of countless people, he brazenly attacked a gang of vicious thieves and bandits in a tavern full of rough characters, killing at least a dozen of them!
As if killing them weren't enough, he even cut off one man's nose with a dagger and let him go, telling him to pass on a message: their leader, a monster who had entrenched himself in Kakha City, should come here and meet his death.
Naturally, before the terrifying monster leader supposedly holed up in Kakha City could arrive, the local lord's soldiers showed up first.
Then, relying on the power of the Holy Light within him, and knowing ordinary attacks couldn't hurt him and that even his injuries healed quickly, Guts once again brazenly fought the lord's troops, who had come to capture him.
But this time, he didn't go straight for the kill, nor did he use his terrifying lump of iron, the Dragon Slayer, which weighed at least four or five hundred pounds. Instead, trusting in the Holy Light protecting him—making him impervious to blades and spears, and difficult to wound with arrows—he simply used his fists to beat the hundred or so soldiers who had come to arrest him into fleeing in disarray, crying for their mothers. And after the fight, he didn't hurry to leave. He just stayed in the tavern, where both the customers and the owner had been scared away, and calmly drank his ale.
"Mm..."
Chomp!
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Annie, of course, didn't hold back either. She rummaged through the tavern counter, and soon found a basket of cookies. After trying one and deciding it was pretty tasty, she hopped up onto the counter and