I can't believe she's using me as her fucking maid now. Also, my freaking arm is still unusable! When will the humiliation stop? Hideki dragged what was left of the body to the street and dumped it a block or so away. Afterward he got a bucket of hot water and a rag and commenced with the scrubbing. He wished that he could tell her to fuck off and clean her own damned room; it was amazing the amount of control she had over him. How can a vague order like the one she gave me make my body do all this? He grumbled. After what felt like ages of scrubbing, the floor was clean and the only blood splatter remaining was on a few of Megumi's stuffed animals and her blankets.

His body was compelled to complete the task as she had asked, so he gathered everything that had blood on it in a bundle. Thankfully both arms were working again. Megumi had finally finished her shower and stepped out wearing nothing but a towel that only reached mid-thigh. "Go wash those in the tub, Poro-tan!" She passed by him and into the bedroom. 

He stared at her as she went past, and then his body went into autopilot again. He was washing off the blankets in the bathtub and had found a washboard next to the toilet so he was able to scrub them out. Villainy must pay a lot better than what I get paid. She has all the new magical stuff in here. A shower, an indoor toilet and sinks. When we walked by the kitchen I even saw one of those new ice boxes and a stove! There's no way an adventurer like me could have afforded a nice place like this!

After ages and ages of monotonous work, his body took him to the living room where Megumi was trying to fall asleep on the couch, and he literally stood in place by the door and was forced to stare at her. This is going to be a long fucking night. What the hell am I supposed to do? This is the most boring shit ever!

Luckily, he had been given the ability to talk still, so he voiced his frustration, even though he knew what would probably happen. "Megumi, am I seriously going to stand here all fucking night and stare at you like a creepy stalker? This is torture. It's boring!"

She stared at him with those piercing purple eyes of hers for a few seconds before answering. "Very well, you can clean the rest of the house and then Megu doesn't care if you eat something or read. You can do as you wish, but you cannot leave the house. Don't think you can do anything to harm Megu, either. The magic won't let you." She rolled over and ignored him again.

Great! Just fucking wonderful! He sighed and got to work cleaning the house. Luckily, it wasn't really dirty. She seemed to keep her house in pretty good shape. Once he finished, he grabbed some food from her ice box, which was filled nearly to the brim with tubs of ice cream and cakes. How is she not like 500 pounds? Evil person's metabolism I guess?

He had gained two levels recently and had two TP to distribute, unfortunately he no longer had control over where they were spent. Idly he wondered why she hadn't done it yet. Maybe she'd remember in the morning. If he had more skills he might have not been stabbed so easily by that fucking demon. He looked through the books on her small bookshelf. Most of them were informational texts like local bestiaries, maps, and even an anatomy book. The only book that didn't fit in with the rest was 'Daddy, there's a Were-Hare under my bed!,' which was an illustrated children's book.

Odd thing for an evil bitch like her to keep around. He opened it up thinking to find something sinister hidden within, but it was just a simple, worn book. The binding was cracking and when he flipped through the pages he found a small portrait tucked inside. There was a girl, who looked to be Megumi, and three others. A little girl, maybe 4 or 5 years old, and a kind looking man and woman. 

What do you know, she didn't just come out pre-packaged for evil, she actually had what looked like a nice family. What the hell happened to her to turn her into this sadistic monster that she is now? Hideki snapped the book closed and grabbed a bestiary to flip through. Hours passed and when morning light filtered through the large window in the living room, Megumi woke up. "Time to go, Poro-tan. Make Megu some breakfast. I've got to do some packing."

She didn't specify what to make, and he was a shitty cook, so he decided to keep it simple as to avoid any hard work. He grabbed some eggs and fried them up, placing them next to some sliced bread. Meanwhile she had been wandering around stuffing things into her bag. He noted that the only book she took was the children's book and after a short time she came back, ate, and they left the house.

Not wasting any time, the two of them walked towards the outskirts of town and headed down the road towards Bridgeport. There were stronger monsters along the roads in this area and Megumi forced him to train against them. Over the next several hours he had sliced and diced his way through a dozen or so wolves and even a bear. His new sword was fantastic and it took down monsters with ease, causing them to have the same type of curse damage that had afflicted his arm the night before. Hideki couldn't have ever dreamed of owning a sword like this when he was a broke adventurer just barely making enough money to eat and live day to day.

A farmer with a horse and carriage was headed their way down the rough dirt road. "Megu's tired of walking. Let's catch a ride." 

"He's going the wrong way." 

"So?" 

She waved the man down who stopped and looked them over. "Everything okay, little lady?" 

"It is now! Thanks for stopping." she quickly pulled her staff out of her bag and before the old man could react, she blasted him with one of those green fireballs. Seriously? A nice old man stops to help you and that's what you do? Who pissed in your porridge when you were little to make you turn into this monster? The man was blown clear off the carriage, landing in a smoldering heap and the horse reared up.

"Grab the reigns, Poro-tan." She directed him to turn the carriage around and then they were on their way again, at a much faster pace.

Megu got into the back of the carriage and told him to wake her up at Bridgeport or if anything important happened. An hour or so later, something did happen, a patrol of 8 soldiers came galloping up next to him. One of them said something about the gore that covered part of the seat of the wagon.

"Stop the wagon," the gruff man who must've been the leader said as he kept pace with the wagon.

"Megumi. Wake up." He stopped the wagon. 

"We found the remains of Erik Brendensin on the side of the road back there. This is his wagon. You're under arrest for murder and theft, drop your weapon and come peacefully, or we'll have to dispense justice here and now."

He didn't have any orders to fight, so he didn't. Hideki hopped down from the wagon and was about to remove his sword belt when a green fireball came from the side of the wagon and slammed into the head of one of the guards. It exploded and sent bits of gray matter and bone all over the place.

Shit! I gotta move! He dove to the ground and took cover, knowing what was coming next. The guards had looked around bewildered for a moment and then it happened; the corpse of the decapitated guard exploded before it even hit the ground and killed four more guards who had been next to the body.

The crazy bitch never cared if he got caught in the explosions and he was sick and tired of pulling pieces of bone out of his ass already. The remaining three guards jumped away from the corpses seeing what had just happened. They were now squarely between Hideki and Megumi, who was doing that crazy laugh of hers. "Now that's what I call a head shot, Poro-tan!"

"Royan, Jiren, go get that girl! I'll take care of this guy." he drew his sword.

Hideki got up and ran towards the two who were after Megumi, drawing his new cursed blade, but he was blocked by the other man who had moved quickly to intercept him. The man was good with a sword and parried Hideki's Tiger Style of fighting. In truth, this man was a far better swordsman than he was. I'm not going to be able to beat him.

Hideki spun to the side just barely avoiding being impaled by the man's sword. Then he realized how stupid he was being, he was a fucking undead. The next time the man stabbed at his chest, Hideki stepped into the thrust and let it impale him. He grinned at the man and blood spurted out of his mouth. "I win, asshole." he brought his sword up at the man who stared at him with wild eyes and he stabbed his blade into him while simultaneously shoving himself off the enemy's blade. 

The magically enhanced sword slid right through the man's low quality armor like a hot knife through butter and the man's skin turned black and pock marks formed all over his body as he died. The chest wound had taken a decent chunk of his HP, but it wasn't something that would end his existence. He heard a *Ding* that signaled a level up, but he ignored it and looked for Megumi.

She was running around firing green balls of energy left and right at the two men who were trying to close the distance to her. As powerful as she was, she was less than useful in a melee, as most casters were. Hideki's body moved of its own volition and charged towards the remaining foes. One of them saw him coming and turned to face him. 

Once more he engaged in combat, but this man was much less good with the sword than the first one had been. Hideki's superior weapon landed a glancing blow on the man's arm and it had the same effect as it had on everything else he had killed with it. Blackened skin and pock marks covered the arm which quickly became unusable.

The man desperately swung for him, but Hideki parried the blow and then kicked the man in the abdomen, sending him sprawling backward over a small rock. The prone enemy tried to get up, but was too slow and Hideki's blade found its way to the man's throat.

The last man, who had been chasing Megumi when he started fighting, had disappeared. "Where'd he go?" he shouted.

"There!" Megumi pointed as she shot another blast towards the man who was fleeing back towards the carriage. Unfortunately, she missed her shot and the soldier managed to get atop his horse and sped away at full speed towards Northpost. 

Fuck my life. Now I'm going to be wanted everywhere in the kingdom!

Megumi didn't appear to be worried at all and the two of them opted to take two of the horses that had belonged to the guards, leaving the carriage behind in the middle of the road. "Come on, Poro-tan. We need to get to Bridgeport by evening. It'll take him half the day to get to Northpost, and even then it will take time for word to get to Bridgeport about what we just did."

She was right of course, and the two of them were soon once again galloping towards their next destination.