Eternal Adventurer (WN): Chapter 14

 

Chapter 14: The Lost Lives

"Wince!"

Wince is blown away while fighting a bandit.

"Wince! Run away!"

She can't seem to stand up.

"Shit! You're in the way!"

There is a limit to how far I can blow them away.

"Wince! Run away!"

She was hit again.

"Shit!"

She's spitting something out of her mouth.

Shit, shit, shit!

I can't get to her because these small fries are in the way.

Being held upside down by the leg while being beaten up.

He's gonna kill him with a knife.

Stop.

Stop!

"! Lightning......"

I never meant to use this.

Much less on a human being, even a bandit.

"......Bunker!"

Lightning Bunker.

Magic that strikes the ground with a wedge of lightning generated from the left hand

Electrocuting those around me.

And.

The power of the magic is amplified by the power of one's own reason stats.

"Youu! Get your hands off her!"

Saving Wince comes first.

Nothing else matters.

So, without hesitation.

With the great sword.

I cut off the waist of the bandit who was holding Wince.

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".........ince."

“Shiro…… san?”

It seems I have lost consciousness.

"Wince, thank God."

"I'm sorry, did I mess up?"

There was no injury to my body.

Maybe Shiro-san cured it.

"Ah! The bandits! The caravan!"

"Most of the bandits died."

A middle-aged man answered

"Thank you for your help"

"No, I wasn't much help."

The caravan's men suffered a few serious injuries.

But I guess Shiro-san took care of that too.

"Thank you very much for everything."

"...No, I'm glad you survived."

Shiro-san looked somewhat sad.

"It's getting dark. We will camp here...... sorry. If possible, would you stay with us? We will provide you both with food and a place to sleep."

"We too?"

"Yes, everyone will be more relieved if you guys were with us."

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After eating, we enter one of the spaces surrounded by cloth on all four sides.

This is where Shiro-san and I would sleep.

"Shiro-san?"

Shiro-san is always looking down.

When I looked closer, I saw that he was shaking.

"Are you feeling sick?"

I'm worried.

He's always so cheerful, but now he looks so frightened.

"15 people......"

"Eh?"

"I used magic... just once, on a human."

"......"

"That alone... fifteen people... died instantly..."

"......"

"I didn't mean to kill them. I didn't want to kill them!"

"Shiro-san..."

"After that... I did my best to help Wince, and I seriously swung my sword."

"Shiro-san."

"His guts flew out. I never thought it would happen."

"Shiro-san!!"

I grabbed him by the head and stared at Shiro-san.

"I was saved because you were there. I was saved. You saved me."

".........I......"

"You did the right thing. You saved everyone here, including me."

I hugged him.

"It's okay. No one will blame you."

As it is.

We hugged each other and fell asleep.