Calamity Upon This World

'Holy sh*t, I'm going to die' Billy thought as he saw his father passing out and the masked man materialising.

Sure, he wanted his father to die, but that didn't mean he was expecting a ghost-like man to manifest and kill his father for him.

If anything, he wanted to be the one to kill his father, but those thoughts were secondary right now; the important thing was his own life, which looked to be in danger in the presence of the masked man.

As he realised this, Billy started panting for air, having trouble not passing out from fear for his life.

But before he could piss his pants, the lights turned back on, as the masked man said.

"Calm down, kid."

**

Once William had reached his second location, he breathed a sigh of relief to find that at least they were still present inside.

However, what greeted him inside was a haggard, middle-aged man beating up a kid.

If it was just a slap, William would've been willing to give the father the benefit of the doubt, but once he saw the beatdown getting a bit too intense, he decided to interfere and lightly knocked out the father, which was easy since he didn't have mana.

However, what he didn't anticipate was that he would end up scaring the boy to such an extent.

So he dispersed his shadow mana, which was responsible for making the insides of the house dark, and asked the kid to calm down.

Now that he took a closer look, the boy seemed to be in terrible condition and was bleeding.

Thankfully, William had multiple health and mana potions stocked inside his shadow, so while he could use his life bombs that could heal, they were only for him and not for others.

"Here, take this," William said, offering the vial of green liquid to the boy, who seemed hesitant, probably because it was coming from a stranger.

While yes,  you shouldn't take things from a stranger, now was not the time.

"If you don't drink it, you'll die from blood loss," he urged once again.

Hearing about his condition from the man, and due to fear for his own life, the boy stopped resisting and took the potion, drinking it all in one gulp.

~Cough~Cough~

Billy coughed a little after drinking, not anticipating the bitter taste.

But he quickly forgot about it as he witnessed the miraculous effects of the potions and felt his body regenerating at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Wow," he muttered in an almost inaudible tone, still shocked by the miraculous effects.

William smiled behind his mask, seeing the boy's reaction.

Once Billy was fully healed, William used earth magic to erect two seats from the ground.

~Thur~

Once the chairs had manifested, William took his seat and urged the boy to do the same.

'So this is what magic looks like,' Billy thought as he observed the chairs, still amazed at them appearing out of seemingly nowhere.

This was the first time he had witnessed the greatness of magic, excluding the dark tentacle from earlier, but that didn't count.

As Billy took a seat and saw that the chair didn't crumble from his weight, he realised that the man in front of him was a awakened, and that too a really strong one.

"Now, boy, wanna tell me about what exactly was going on here?" William asked.

"I uh-"

The boy tried to speak, but it seemed he was hesitating.

"Don't worry, no one will hurt you; just tell me everything," William reassured him.

Hearing the masked man's words, Billy finally started narrating everything.

**

Disgust

That was the feeling that overwhelmed William as he heard the boy named Billy describe everything that he had been going through because of his father.

Even in his past, he had seen many disgusting parents reminding him of a pretty popular phase from his previous world.

'Every child deserves a parent, but not every parent deserves a child.

In his previous life, whenever he encountered someone who disgusted him to such an extent, he just killed them and sent the child to an orphanage or adopted him or her.

And he truly wanted to kill the man named Dilly Moroks.

But sadly, unlike in his previous world, he wasn't some boss of the underworld.

Heck, maybe even if he wasn't hiding his identity, he could've gotten away with murder, but no, he was just some no-named adventurer right now.

Unnecessarily killing someone on his first mission would kill his career before it even began.

So all he could do was leave a shadow hound inside his shadow and restrict his movement with a hand cough artifact meant to restrict awakened people.

He didn't have enough range in his magic to use something like shadow binding or ice magic to restrict him; all he could do for now was leave him here and make a mental note to hand him over to the URF once he had saved the girl he was meant to save.

Speaking of the girl, from what he understood, the girl seemed to be in deep trouble, and unless he moved quickly, it would be too late.

Sadly, the only person who knew where she was being held was the little kid in front of him.

He felt bad for the boy and wanted to hand him over to someone who could help him overcome his trauma.

But that would have to wait for now.

"Billy, that's your name, right?" he asked.

Hearing him, Billy nodded.

"Good, I just want you to know that you did well holding out for so long, and now that I'm here, your evil father will be punished for his actions, but before that, how about you lead me to where Maya is being held?" William asked.

Billy found it weird to be complimented; this was a first for him, but strangely, he didn't hate it; in fact, he loved the feeling.

But when he heard the kind-masked man talk about leading him to the bandits, who, according to what he had been told, were really strong and dangerous,.

With hesitation in his tone, he asked.

"Are you sure? From what I've heard, the bandits are supposed to be really strong and dangerous."

"Haha, don't worry, I'm strong, and I promise to keep both myself and you safe." William reassured him, feeling confident in dealing with a few bandits.

That's right, it was time to finally conclude his first ever mission.