Ken revealed all about the village except for one, the traitor who is amongst them.

  The knight was shocked to hear this mystery surrounding the village. Ken saw the furious faces of the villagers as he spoke with the knight.

  “Who are you? I have never seen you in this village before,” the knight said.

  “I am Hiyose Ken. My friend Harkey is from this village. I came to know about this village, and that’s why I thought revealing it to you might be the right option,” Ken replied.

  “Thanks for letting me know, I would definitely solve this,” the knight promised.

  “Should we speak?” a villager had doubts.

  “If we speak, we would be in trouble,” another villager thought.

  “Did he not know about the traitor? How could he be this brave for a village that he didn’t even know for a long time?” The villagers’ minds when Ken speaks to the knight.

  “This might solve this problem,” Harkey muttered, happy.

  After a few minutes,

  The knight left the village, promising yet again to solve the mystery. After the knight left, the villagers began quarrelling with Ken.

  The weather suddenly turned cloudy.

  “What do you think you are doing?” one villager asked.

  “Did we ask for this? Do you know what will happen if we speak about this?” another villager asked Ken, angrily.

  “I don’t care about this traitor, I am just doing it because I thought this was the right decision,” Ken answered, not bothered.

  “You don’t want to care, we know about ourselves, because of this, more people are going to be targeted, have you not realised this mistake?” A man came forward and punched Ken right in the face, telling him this.

  Andrew punched back the man without a single second of thinking. “He is taking risks for you, but you don’t even realise it, and hitting him,” he told the villagers.

  Villagers were still furious and came forward to attack Andrew. Ken stood up from the ground.

  He closed his eyes and started focusing on his Core Ignis.

  SPARK!

  Andrew was holding a man’s hand, but another came attacking from behind.

  “You guys speak whatever you want; we are the ones facing consequences,” he said while raising his arms to hit him from behind.

  BLOCK!!

  Ken blocked the fist, “You won’t face consequences, I am the one who would face it,” he said.

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  “We won’t believe you,” another came to attack Ken.

  BLOCK!!

  “Don’t you know how to listen? Listen when he is speaking,” Galen crushing that guy’s hands.

  “How many people did you have? I think you are the one who—” a villager started saying.

  “Shut up!!!” Harkey screamed.

  “He is the one who saved me. I am from this village. Can you at least believe me?” Harkey revealed.

  Raindrops began to fall as more clouds seemed to occupy the area.

  Everyone turned towards Harkey and listened.

  “I don’t believe you, in fact, you are the reason he came here,” A man with a dragon tattoo ran towards Harkey, taking out his knife.

  Ken pushed the man he blocked and ran to stop him.

  “This village would be set free because of your sacrifice by coming here,” the dragon tattoo man came closer to strike him.

  SPARK!!

  KICK!!!

  The man with a tattoo was kicked to the ground. Knife left his hands and went away when he fell.

  Blood started running from his nose. It took several seconds for him to regain consciousness. It is all due to the power of the kick.

  Every person present there was shocked and froze for a minute as the sound of the kick was as if they had received it.

  All could feel the heat even when the rain started pouring heavily.

  “That was quick,” Ken thought as he couldn’t reach near Harkey.

  “You can’t free someone by killing one,” Andrew followed his kick by shouting to wake everyone.

  “Fighting among us doesn’t solve a single issue; we would find the one behind all this and eradicate him from this world,” he told all people.

  The villagers listened to his words and remained quiet.

  They understood Andrew and his friends' intention and realised that it was their mistake that started this fight.

  Both Harkey’s grandparents were in that crowd watching the events unfold; they were also shocked to see the character shown by Ken and his friends.

  But they felt happy as they could sense that the mystery surrounding the village would be gone.

  “Hey, traitor present here, I know you would tell this to your leader, mention my name, Ken, as the man waiting for his head,” Ken shouted.

  “Why not kill me first before the others in this village, if he had any guts, then ask him to meet me,” Ken added.

  “These guys seemed to be brave; maybe they can save this village,” a woman thought in the crowd.

  “People here, I am sorry if I caused some issues, but I promise that I will save this village,” Ken promised.

  “We believe you, we feel sorry for attacking you,” an old man apologised.

  Then everyone slowly apologised to Ken.

  “Thank god, everyone seems to be fine now,” Harkey thought.

  After a few minutes,

  “We should leave soon, I promised my parents that I would be back by noon, it’s already late,” Ken said to his friends.

  They spoke to Harkey’s grandparents before leaving and eventually went to the car at 3:00 pm.

  “I am tired already, let’s go home and take a rest,” Ken muttered after entering the car.

  “He made me walk a long distance. I am also tired,” Andrew replied.

  “These guys are amazing, they didn’t even bother about other things, they do things that seem right for them,” Harkey thought after hearing them speak.

  Galen started the car as the journey to Lyricos began.

  All 4 of them had a conversation for a while until Ken fell asleep halfway.

  Or is he?

  He recalled his plan that occurred between the fights.

  Ken counted all the people who were present during the fight; there were 73 people in total, excluding his friends.

  All 73 people thought about him for 5 minutes continuously, starting from his block to the moment when Andrew kicked.

  He began reading the minds of the people to find the traitor, as he had now learned a way to read people's minds for 1 minute and stop it.

  Unfortunately, he couldn’t finish reading about all the people due to the tattoo person’s intervention.

  But thinking all this, he eventually fell asleep.

  “How are we going to find the one behind all this?” Harkey asked the other 2.

  “It’s simple, the traitor would tell all this to him, and because of Ken, they would definitely place Ken as their next target, so we would eventually meet the one behind this,” Andrew gave his thought.

  “That’s right, but I don’t think the leader would directly attack Ken, but we would definitely learn more,” Galen shared his thoughts.

  “Ken is the one who is key to finding the one pulling the strings,” Andrew told them.

  Ken finally woke up.