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worried about losing you. I know that I am one of those guilty of such a sin.”
    Seeing Tolarea’s bothered face, Ash couldn’t help but give her a warm smile. “I don’t mind being held back a bit. It is also slightly refreshing to have so many women worried about me, but it just seems like too much. You even make me ride in the middle of the forces when we march. I can see it for when we are in an area that could be easily ambushed, but even when we are in a wide open area it is too much.”
    “I understand my lord,” Tolarea said returning to her soldier form, though she had a small hint of a smile on her face. “For now on, I will try my best to hold some of my more overprotective urges in check and will see that the others do as well.”
    “Thank you,” Ash said as he felt a warmth spread through his chest as some of the weight lifted from his heart. Grabbing Tolarea’s hand, he pulled her down to sit beside him. As soon as she was seated, Ash laid his head against her arm. It didn’t take long before he drifted off to sleep.
    After the large battle with the unexpected force that the King had sent, little more had happened over the next eight days. Lath had been more vigilant and reported to Ash twice a day about the advancement of the other forces.
    Over the past few days, they had only came across three places that were large enough to raid. Ash saw no profit to attack a village of less than a hundred as the burden on the people would far outweigh the small gain so it was better to bypass them. Of the ones they did attack, only one really fought. It was a settlement of around seven thousand people with almost two thousand able bodied men. After the battle, Ash had only lost around twenty soldiers, but he still felt saddened seeing the massive carnage. He could understand the human’s desire to fight, but it felt like such a loss. After the battle finished and they had cleaned out the storehouses, Ash felt the burning eyes of the remaining people on his neck for the next few days.
    Ash lay back on his bed and looked at Eun whose head was quietly resting on his arm. When he was living in his previous world, Ash never thought that he would take a human life. He had watched the news and seen the devastation of war, though it always seemed like something that had little to nothing to do with him. Now he had taken many lives. At first the lives he had taken were few and seemed evil. Even now he tried his best to kill those with the reapers mark, knowing that those people had earned death by evil deeds. The problem was many of the people he had killed were not even soldiers and a few of them were simple farmers.
    Since the battle at the farm, Ash had trouble sleeping. Every time he closed his eyes he could see the people he had killed and it was not limited to just the farmers. The young earl’s son whose name Ash couldn’t even recall even appeared in his dreams. It was the first life that he had taken with his own hands. Due to the dreams, Ash had not gotten much sleep lately and his mood had become dark. The only real time Ash felt peaceful was times like this. Sighing, Ash took one more look at his wife before closing his eyes knowing that once again the specters of his past would assault him.
    Shortly after Ash’s eyes closed, he found himself standing in an open field covered with death. Laying all around him were the bodies of humans and demons alike. Part of Ash knew that it was a dream, but it was hard for him to hold that knowledge in mind.
    Taking a step forward, Ash’s foot stepped on something hard making him look down. What awaited his eyes was Emelia’s pale face with thin red lines of blood seeping from the corner of her mouth. All strength left his body as his knees crashed into the ground beside the lifeless body of his wife. Tears streamed down his face as he lifted the body into his arms and grasped it tightly.
    “It seems that your heart is having trouble,” A soft voice said. Looking