Chapter 11: Helping Hand
"Haa, haa, haa!"
Run, run, run.
I can't even breathe properly anymore.
I'm too scared to stop.
It's coming after me from behind.
"Stop! Want to get killed!"
Of course, they're going to kill me if I stop.
That's why I keep running.
"It can't be helped, hey!"
Suddenly, my right leg stops moving.
"......Aahhh!"
I fell down with an arrow in my right knee.
"Damn it. You're gonna get yourself hurt."
"What are you going to do?"
"It's no good to sell her now, looking like this. Let's use her here."
"Hehehe, you might tear her apart, you know?"
The men take out their stinky, dirty things and come at me.
I don't want to be defiled by these guys.
So I'll just have to......
"Ah... ahh, ah."
With my last ounce of strength.
I fell off the cliff.
I don't want to be a comforter for these people.
I'd rather be food for the beasts and insects of the forest.
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I wake up in excruciating pain.
"Higuu!"
My legs and hands were bent in weird directions.
A large tree branch was stuck in my stomach.
"S-someone......"
I jumped off a cliff, determined to die, but...
".........Help......"
I reached out to someone in front of me.
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When I woke up, I was standing in the forest.
It wasn't like the dream world.
It's a more realistic greenish forest.
What is different from before was.
I was wearing leather armor
I had a longsword and a custom-made greatsword.
And no bracelet, no stone on the back of my hands.
Had I really come to a different world?
"For now, I'll just have to find a town and find a place to stay.""
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-Someone-
I was wandering in the forest when I thought I heard voices.
-Help-
I headed in the direction of the voice.
And I saw something grotesque.
It was a human being... covered in blood... with limbs pointing in strange directions.
To the untrained eye, it was clearly too late.
No, it's a harsh way of saying it.
I'm going to let this one be my experiment.
"Faith 80 might work."
I used the highest level of healing magic.
In a blink of an eye, the limbs return to their correct positions.
At this point, I realize my failure.
"Gah... aahhh!"
"Ah, not good!"
The body heals, but the wood in the abdomen remains stuck.
Healing → Rip → Healing → Rip.
"S-Sorry! Please be patient!"
Without any time to hesitate, I pull it out.
"Igyii!"
She fainted at the end of that voice.
"I fucked up. I'm sorry."
Although the wounds all over the body have closed.
I probably made her suffer needlessly.
I think that was the worst thing I could have done for my first healing magic.
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Crackle*.
I hear the sound of something burning.
I finally realized I was awakened by that sound.
"Ha!"
I jumped up.
No, I realized I could jump.
I had been in such a bad state... but there was no injury anywhere.
"Are you awake?"
A young man was sitting right in front of me.
"......Who?"
"Me? The one who treated your injuries."
He makes it sound so simple.
I knew, even in my little consciousness.
It was too late.
There was no way an average healer can fix it.
“First of all, thank you. I'm Wince, and if it weren't for you, I'd probably be food for wild dogs."
"I'm... ah~~~... Shiro. I'm Shiro."
"Shiro, is it? Thank you very much. Shiro-san."
"To change the subject, how did you get into such a mess?"
"Embarrassingly, I was tricked by a thug."
"Thug..."
"I'm a scout for hire."
"At your age?"
Ah, does this person think I'm human?
"I'm sorry. I'm a dwarf, not a human. I'll be 17 this year."
"A-ahh, I'm sorry about various things."
Dwarfs are often mistaken for human children.
So there is no need to be so formal.
Maybe he's a good-natured guy at heart.
Very different from those thugs.
No, I shouldn't even compare them.
These days, there are a lot of dwarfs who are kidnapped and sold to the nobility.
Because they can engage in pseudo-child sexual acts.
That's why.
It wasn't so long ago that beastmen were so popular.
Human sexuality can change very quickly.
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Dwarf.
That's awesome.
What is she, like, 120cm? And 17 years old!
Also, she said she was a scout for hire.
"Scout."
"Yes?"
"What exactly does it do?"
"Exactly what it is. Scouting, reconnaissance."
"Have you been doing this for very long?"
“For various reasons, I've been a scout since I was 12...... so about 5 years.”
"Hire."
"Eh?"
"No, I don't know anything about this area. I was at a loss."
"You're hiring me?"
"I'm sorry, but I don't have any money right now. Can I pay later?"
“Ah, yes, even if it’s free for a while. I'd rather thank you for the treatment."
"Okay, nice to meet you"
The dwarf became my friend! I did it!
Tftc.
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