"Well I think that settles it."
Alex wasn’t indirect in his approach anymore.
"Puah!"
"Hurrr!"
A single punch per bandit was all it took for Alex to completely incapacitate them.
It wasn’t hard for him to identify them either.
He had eyes and a brain, so it was obvious that those who were dressed in leather armour with swords or other weapons on them were the bandits.
And the five wearing the farmer’s clothing were clearly not.
But the strikes Alex delivered to the bandits weren’t just to incapacitate them.
He wanted to make sure they would never wake up again...
What good was it taking out these bandits if he wasn’t going to kill them?
If he let them live, they’d just come right back to robbing poor, innocent people on the roads again the next day.
They’d just be more wary of who they rob, and how they do it.
The best way to root out the problem was to solve it at its core.
Just get rid of it entirely!
Though, Alex had no doubt in his mind that another bandit gang would move into this area soon enough after realising this current one had been taken care of.
There wasn’t much he could do about that, since he and Mira weren’t planning on sticking around this place, but removing 12 bandits permanently from the system was better than doing nothing.
Very quickly, as in only a few seconds quick, nearly all of the bandits were dealt with by a single, lethal blow to the back of the head.
The only one left standing... *cough*... alive, was Boss Kang.
And that was only because Mira held him down instead of killing him right away.
If it were Alex in her position, he would have just killed the guy, but Mira had something different in mind.
When Alex walked over to her, ready to deal with the last bandit, she started talking.
"Are there any more of you? Don’t lie. I can tell easily if you’re lying."
Mira lied.
She couldn’t do such a thing.
The best she could do was listen to his heartbeat, but any awakened worth their weight could do the same.
She was just bluffing to get the guy to talk.
Alex and Mira brought it all crumbling down the moment they made their entrance onto this scene.
"Hmm. I believe you."
Boss Kang let out a heavy sigh of relief the moment he heard those words slip out of Mira’s mouth.
"Thank you!"
He attempted to get up and make his exit, but Mira’s hand was still tightly holding his body down on the ground.
He struggled, while looking at her in confusion.
"I gave you what you wanted, now you should let me go! You promised!"
He anxiously argued for her to release him, bringing up the promise she made to let him live.
But Mira just kept up her demeaning smile, while Alex kept the same deadpan stare at him the whole time.
"I lied."
Mira laid it out plain and simple.
With her hand still firmly pressed up against his chest, she didn’t lift it off.
Instead, she applied even more pressure.
"Arggghh!"
Enough pressure to crack Boss Kang’s ribs.
"Huff... Please... Don’t..."
He tried his utmost to give out a final plea, but if his previous countless attempts to beg for his life didn’t work, why would this one?
It obviously made no difference in Mira’s pressure.
She pushed even harder.
Until finally.
Crunch!
Squelch!
Boss Kang met his breaking point.
Literally...
Mira’s hand had applied enough pressure to completely break his ribs off from the rib cage, with many of them splintering off into his internal organs.
With the main ones being his heart and lungs.
He was a dead man already by this point.
She didn’t keep her hand on him any longer, letting the internal bleeding finish him off.