Chapter 94 – Ep.5 – Realization Too Late
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The darkness, pushed by the moonlight, spreads thickly on the ground, making it difficult to even take a step.
The ghosts of dead trees scream as if they are passing by in the wind.
“Hey, is this right!? Do you really have an answer in this place?”
Kaede trembled like a mutt with her tail drooping. She cries and demands an explanation from Helen.
“How can people live in a place like this… ! Just go somewhere else… “
“Be patient! Do people called adventurers shudder over things like this?”
“I, I hate ghosts! Hurry up and listen to the captain! I need to turn around and get out of here, quickly… !”
Despite Chichi’s harsh criticism, Kaede trembles, abandoning her pride.
As much as I understand her.
The darkness is tugging like it’s pulling around your ankles, and all you see around you are ominous omens.
Rather, those people who are not afraid of this are even more strange… !
“Sigh… “
It’s really fucking scary… !
Even though he walks with Kaede and her arms crossed, his trembling body refuses to stop. My body is stained with anxiety to the extent that I wonder if I will urinate.
“Ka-Kaede-san is scared, so I’m scared too…” !”
I have been living in trembling since before, when it comes to ghosts and ghosts. If there was even a gloomy energy, she would immediately start crying and leave the place.
But now I can’t help it. You have to keep walking forward. In order for the journey to return to work properly, we must pass through this place… !
“Wow, that’s scary. Keeing… At this rate, even a ghost will come out… I’m really coming… “
“Hey, heh… “
Doesn’t he have any thoughts of caring for the two of us who are frightened? The women just annoyedly shake off the soggy mud spears and walk faster.
“Would you like to walk quickly?”
Among them, Philmarck in particular trembles and pushes us hard. That person giggles and even laughs at what makes him so happy.
“Hey, it’s okay, so stick here. What are you afraid of?”
She immediately snatched me away from Kaede and hugged me tight. Even death in the fishy swamp seemed to lose power near the fierce thief.
“Oh, no! West! Don’t leave me! Philmarck! Listen to the captain!”
“What is the captain? Sick.”
Philmarck shot at Kaede with a rather cold voice and lifted me up as if hugging a princess.
“Hey, you don’t have to do this! Just drop it… !”
My masculinity, which I still had a little bit of, screamed at the situation of being hugged by a princess.
“Nope.”
There was no way to resist in her arms, who snorted at her and took her resistance lightly.
“No eh eh! West! Everyone! Please don’t just go! Jebaaal!”
Kaede’s earnest call from behind her bothered her, but Chichi let out a deep sigh and turned her steps to support Kaede.
“Please, do it in moderation!”
“Rain, please burn the broom. I beg of you… “
“I already told you 13 times that you can’t ride a broom here!!”
Yes.
Following Helen’s lead, this place is a cursed swamp, a place of death that everyone is reluctant to enter…
“It’s a place where you shouldn’t use mana carelessly. Get up quickly and walk on your own two feet.”
“Chi-chi, you’d rather carry me… My legs are so weak that I can’t even walk… ”
“Ah, really!!!”
The quarrel between the two continued without knowing that it would end. As I watched their quarrel in Philmarck’s arms, I let out a sigh.
How could Kaede-san, who was so foolish, become so strong all of a sudden? Nonsense.
If I had to guess, it might be because of the soul bond I’ve seen before.
No matter how much I asked Kaede, she would just wag her tail and shrug her shoulders as if she had no idea.
‘Why did you have to ask Kaede-san… ‘
It may be something very important.
The power of a colleague who has accumulated goodwill is strengthened, or it may include even more abilities.
However, no message came up on my side, and the other person said they didn’t [Accept] The bond of the soul.
Kaede must have seen something. Otherwise it makes no sense
I need to know what the heck I saw and what was written on it…
No.
First of all, it would be too much to show the phrase about the bond of souls and all to Kaede only. Fuck.
Of course you have to show me too! Where is this… !
… Even when I think about it, I give up again. It’s been a long time since I’ve already adapted to the irrationality. It must be like a hidden hidden ability. If it’s like a special ability that’s made up of likeability, it’s sure to be of great help in going on an adventure.
Rikona, Nevana, and Chichi are all already at the stage of following Road, so they will soon reach the stage of soul binding like Kaede. When that time comes, you can ask indirectly, so let’s not be too impatient.
I don’t know why Kaede-san was the first to experience such an event…
“Hey, how much further do we have to go? You’ve already walked another hour.”
Rico asks Helen. I also stop thinking for a moment and return to the current situation. I want to thank her from the bottom of my heart for asking her instead of what I wanted to ask.
“That’s right. You can’t just keep walking like this! I want to leave soon… !”
This place is full of unpleasant sensations, and even breathing is unpleasant, so complaints burst out little by little. She can’t stand even Neva, who was walking silently with Eva on her back, and opens her mouth.
“We are probably the only sane humans who can cross Parhem Swamp.”
However, Helen doesn’t care and walks away in silence. The way she walks with her hands together makes you think that she is really a saint. Except there’s a cigar stuck between them.
“Hey! Are you listening!”
Rico’s voice shows her nervousness. Her patience is running out.
“I am listening. But it’s a question that doesn’t need to be answered, so I just shut her up.”
Rico shook his head in disgust at Helen’s calm reply.
“We are the idiots who heard that crazy bitch. Let’s just get ready to run around together. No, Delrin, you just need to die, right?”
It’s a joke from her, and Rico’s grin looks pretty, but she’s already killed me a few times, so it’s creepy when she jokes like that.
“My, drop me down!”
“Puff! Just kidding, kidding! To be frightened… “
Is it fun to joke with someone else’s lifeline… ?
I got goosebumps at her humor code that I couldn’t understand at all. Even though she lived a rough life rolling around, the words that came out of her mouth were only swearing, sexual harassment, and low-quality jokes. What if her face is pretty?
“But remember. I’ll kill you less painfully. Just in case, if a dangerous situation arises later, come to me. Okay?”
… When such a dangerous situation comes, I wonder if I can just load it.
In the meantime, there have been many forced situations where even Rod couldn’t shout properly, so it doesn’t seem like a problem to easily pass.
“… All right.”
“Okay. And… “
Rico’s voice becomes very low. Riko asks with a voice that only the person holding her can hear.
“(What did you do to that mutt?)”
She doubts me Well, if it’s her existence that can change her, then I’m the only one.
“(I don’t know…! But, I think… Maybe my ability has awakened something. I guess I have other abilities that I don’t even know about.)”
Rico stared blankly at me for a moment and then nodded her head several times. Then she smiled again and whispered in her ear.
“(Well, you’re an idiot who can’t even use your abilities properly.)”
It was meant to be a joke, but there was no reason to refute it.
Because it’s true that she wasn’t using her abilities properly. Even though the situation was so twisted that it gave me a headache, and I couldn’t even afford to use it properly because I was playing around with various girls…
… It was long, but when you think about it, why did she not use her powers like that? No, is something strange?
What? Come to think of it, I think I decided to find out about her liking… ?
“What, look at your face? Upset? That’s why I’m telling you to stick by your sister’s side. Don’t pout.”
The light came back to her head, which had been suddenly dazed. No, all of a sudden, her head starts spinning.
A myriad of things she’s been through so far run through her head. The flashback even goes back to the first scene, making me remember even the time I woke up naked in the forest.
There I get a realization. The realization that the ability is activated only when exhaled through the mouth.
But, the first time I shouted at her status window was definitely…
“… Status window?”
She kept her mouth shut and cried out inwardly… ?
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[Status window]
Name – ___ (Delrin)
Gender – male
Age – 20
Special Effects – Conjuration (x37), Fatigue, Forgotten God’s Protection
Save Point – Outskirts of Dikenen Forest, near the campfire (6 hours 37 minutes ago)
[Quest] [Colleagues] [Skill]
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