Sigil Online: I became the duke's third son
Chapter 30

Chapter 30: Chapter 30

Wiping his dagger clean with a napkin, Kian leisurely walked toward the southern gate to see if Luan and Luciano had finished off all the bandits.

When he arrived there, he saw Luan covered in blood, seated atop a bandit corpse, staring into the sky; Kian sighed and, without delay, stopped next to Luan.

Without disturbing his lord, he just stood there waiting patiently until Luan would order him to do something.

The two stood there not moving a muscle for who knows how long. Kian was still trying to remember where he had seen the boss but gave up after a while.

Luan, on the other hand, sighed after a while and looked around, seeing Kian standing next to him with perfect posture and not a single drop of blood on his uniform, left him speechless. ’He really isn’t an ordinary person. I did good in recruiting him,’ he mused, patting himself on the chest.

Then, clapping his hands, he let the swords that were stuck in the ground dissipate. "Let’s dump all these corpses in the chest and don’t leave a single stone unturned; we need every gold coin and material we can get." saying that he turned around and walked toward the carriage.

Kian and Luciano looked at each other, nodding in understanding, and walked back into the camp, collecting everything that looked like it had any value at all and throwing it next to the sea of corpses at the southern gate.

Kafele, after seeing them starting to rummage through all the houses and collecting every weapon, seemed to understand something and stopped guarding the northern gate, grabbing all the corpses and bringing them to the southern gate as well.

"Wow," he said, seeing the sea of corpses. ’He really is peculiar, sending me to the easier gate and taking the harder one for himself.’ Shrugging it off, he was quite satisfied with Luan as his lord.

Even though he didn’t agree with everything Luan did or was going to do, he treated his own people very well, and most importantly, serving him was a blast. There hasn’t been a single boring moment since becoming Luan’s butler.

Turning to the approaching Kian, who was holding some weapons and jewelry, Kafele cleared his throat. "What do you think about the young lord Kian?" he asked.

Without looking at Kafele or stopping, Kian said. "Well, he is a very peculiar young lord. Doing all this just to live a lavish life." Chuckling, Kian threw all the things he was holding atop the others they had collected already.

"I do need to warn you, he might seem laid-back and fairly loose right now. But do make sure to always stay in your lane. Do not ever make the mistake of becoming too comfortable around him." Kian cautioned Kafele and Luciano, who had arrived at some point in time and were also listening.

"Make sure to always respect him as your lord and don’t start treating him as a friend." With that, Kian turned around to gather more loot.

Kafele and Luciano glanced at one another. Standing there in silence for a while, then they turned around and also started gathering things again, keeping Kian’s warning in the back of their minds.

***

Luan arriving near the carriage dispelled the barrier and the spiritual guardians and entered the carriage.

Falling headfirst into the sofa, he sighed, letting his whole body relax completely.

"Ahhh, this feels great," he mumbled.

At the dining table not far from where Luan was lying, Lily and Samantha were working on a prototype they had been developing, but right now they were staring at Luan with wide eyes.

Their faces looked like they had just seen a ghost; first, they wanted to greet Luan after he entered the carriage, but when they saw him, their bodies froze.

His once golden hair is now blood red, and his clothes are the same. And he smelled horrendous, the sickly sweet rot of spilled guts and the acrid stench of sweat mixed into a nauseating cocktail, seeping into his clothes and skin.

It was the scent of slaughter, fresh, raw, and suffocating.

Lily and Samantha were both gagging; they ran into the bathroom, trying not to show Luan such a shameful display.

Luan, hearing the two run out of the room, looked at the closed door with a confused look.

"Why? What’s going on?" He muttered, taking a look at his blood-red sleeve; everything seemed to click.

"Ah, they’re just servants, so of course they wouldn’t be used to it." Saying that, he promptly left the carriage and, with Torg’s help, formed a large batch.

After that he filled it with water and, without undressing, jumped straight in; as his whole body submerged in the bath, he felt liberated.

Most of the blood just came right off his arms, legs, and hair; as for his clothes, he undressed himself in the bath.

As he lay submerged in the bath, watching the water turn red, a strange thought settled in his mind.

He had killed. Not monsters, but humans. Dozens, maybe hundreds. And he felt nothing.

No guilt. No regret. Just the thrill of it. A lock he never knew existed had been undone.

On Earth, he had been restrained, chained by laws, expectations, and morality that felt like a cage. But here?

He was free.

As he lay there in the bath contemplating who he was, he saw Samantha and Lily exit the carriage and look at him with funny faces.

"What?" he asked.

Startled, they both almost tripped over air and bowed deeply, mumbling something Luan couldn’t hear.

"Speak louder. I can’t hear you." Luan said, dumping all the water that was almost colored blood red and refilling it with clean water.

Samantha stepped forward and glanced briefly at Lily, who gave her a thumbs up. And bracing herself, she started. "We apologize for our shameful display just now. So we have brought you a towel and some clean clothes."

After saying that, she put down a towel and a change of clothes next to the bath. Looking around awkwardly, she didn’t know what to do next; she hadn’t thought that far ahead.

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