"I have no issues with it."
Those were the words Areis had said in response to Lord Thales' proposal. They weren't spoken because he truly meant them; rather, he had simply said something absurd without even thinking it through.
At that moment, his mind had been completely occupied by what the system had told him.
It was telling him that his life was at stake. Not that it hadn't already been since he arrived in this strange new world, but this time the system had made it painfully clear that he would also have to pick up a sword and willingly kill someone.
The grave thought of deliberately taking another person's life refused to settle easily in Areis' mind. The days that followed passed slowly, each one filled with him turning the system's message over and over in his head, searching desperately for some possible solution.
And the worst part of it all was that the system had said there were multiple enemies.
