330 – [5] I don’t think there is one
#330
Someone forgotten.
If I were to say that there was someone worthy of being in this position… ….
“Ines?”
“You went out long before us. Marie, did Ines come to your house by any chance?”
“You didn’t come? “I came here only because you didn’t come home.”
“So, Ines didn’t even report it to the police.”
“Uh.”
What?
I didn’t go home and didn’t report it.
Even though time was distorted, he escaped on the second day of being imprisoned.
Unlike us who were down there for over ten days.
Considering that time is distorted, much earlier than us.
That too should have escaped the day before…….
“?”
Wait a minute, the day before?
Now that I think about it, I sent a memo saying there was an enemy above.
Could it be that the explosion caused knights to flock?
So you ran away and got caught by mistake?
A possibility that seems persuasive.
If that were the case, we wouldn’t be here having a conversation right now.
“Mr…. It’s Marie. Have you ever seen any traces of Ines?”
“I’ve never seen it. “But wasn’t Ines in the basement with you all?”
“We were together. But on the second day of being locked up, an opportunity arose and he headed out alone.”
She sent out a request for rescue.
But there was no rescue request, and the rescue request itself was useless.
Cheonma-ri tilted her head.
“…… “Then where on earth did you go?”
“That’s right. “Seeing as he sent a memo immediately after escaping saying there were enemies on the ground, it seems a bit predictable.”
“Are you saying you were captured by a knight or a monster?”
“I guess so.”
First of all, I had to find where I was headed.
We searched for traces of her in something that was a building.
“There’s blood here!”
“It’s connected to the mountain behind there…… Even the footprints on the floor are like that.”
Two types of footprints.
They looked different.
One feels like just hiking boots.
The other one feels a bit sharp.
I’m not sure if Inez wears one of those shoes that leave footprints.
But it was clear that the drivers did not wear shoes that would leave hiking marks.
They wear shoes with medieval armor prints.
So, it means that there are footprints with a particularly sharp front, along with the marks of hiking boots.
“Let’s follow the footprints first.”
“Yes.”
Of course, just in case, some of the Nartica temples were sent back.
In the future, when a person named Ines comes to ask for help, he will be informed of the situation.
The rest went on an unplanned hike.
Of course, the experience was truly surprising because it was an unprepared hike immediately after escaping.
“Amy. “Why are schools always next to mountains?”
“That way, there will be content to include in the school song.”
“What the fuck.”
I walked and walked, complaining and complaining.
I continued to follow traces of blood, footprints, or something else someone had passed by.
“Blood stains keep coming out. Seriously, at this rate, he could have died from excessive bleeding.”
“Maybe he really didn’t die.”
I don’t know who actually died.
We continued to look around, seeing more and more blood stains.
And at some point, I came face to face with a corpse.
A dead knight with a round hole in his chest.
“Are you a squire?”
“It seems like that when you look at the large steam engine.”
But the footprints were still the same.
The pointed footprints and hiking boot footprints were all the same.
“Isn’t it true that only two people went up?”
“Looking at the number of footprints, I think four or five people went together.”
I felt anxious.
If the owner of these hiking boot footprints is Ines, and the owners of the pointed footprints are knights…….
“Everyone speeds up a little more.”
Me, Shannon, and a thousand birds can survive a one-on-many situation.
But Ines was so uncertain.
It was not yet at a level that could be considered strong.
Right now, the Academy rankings were only in the middle of the rankings.
For this reason, if the owner of this blood is Ines, it will lead to terrible results.
I prayed fervently that it would not be the only ending where I ended up running away and dying.
“The knight’s corpse again… ….”
“This time my head got pierced by something.”
“If you look at the shape of this, it looks like it was pierced by a spear or something.”
“…… “Let’s go a little further.”
The same scene was repeated.
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The only thing that changed was the number of footprints and the corpses of the knights that often appeared.
I didn’t know how much it had gone up.
The amount of blood scattered increased at some point.
“This guy… ….”
“His whole body is half-baked…” ….”
And along with the steam engine, a knight appeared whose armor seemed to have been burned.
Of course, he was dead, and there seemed to be many reasons for his death.
“I felt like I was caught in an explosion…… There are also traces of being stabbed several times with a spear…… There are also traces of blood vomited under the helmet…….”
“Could it be that he was the one who was running ahead of the guy who tore up the explosion scroll on the stairs?”
“Exploding scroll on the stairs?”
“I caught several knights while chasing them to prevent them from escaping. “I think he was one of the two people I couldn’t catch back then.”
The guy who used the explosion scroll probably died instantly.
Then there was no other knight who would be in this state other than the one who was a little ahead of him.
I feel like anxiety is creeping in.
My lips felt dry at the reality that the main character might die.
When Shannon saw me like that, she squirmed.
She then put her tail on my shoulder and gave me a look in her eyes that showed she was genuinely worried.
“Are you very worried?”
“Because an acquaintance could have died.”
“It will be okay. Anyway, Mr. Ines, you won’t know in the first semester. Thanks to the gym, you’re pretty strong now, right? “I’m sure you survived.”
“That would be good…” ….”
A patting tail.
He even strangely wrapped his hands around my waist and hugged me, so my negative feelings seemed to subside a little.
Of course, the hand on my waist went towards my butt and pushed me away.
Shannon made an expression that said, ‘Oh, wasn’t this a bit bad?’
“Ah…… That…… “I’m sorry if you were offended.”
“…… Next time, don’t do that in public.”
“Yes… ….”
Although she couldn’t express it out loud, her tail was lowered as she became sullen.
Wow, Shannon isn’t the kind of person who would act like this in a situation like this, so why does she keep doing this?
The strange expression on her face, the obscene blushing on her face, and the way she clings to her after escaping.
Even though I understood it before escaping, it was so strange that it continued like this even after escaping.
Just as I was about to say something.
Cheonmaly turned her head as if she had heard this conversation.
“Hmmmm…… By the way. “Do you feel like you two are getting closer?”
“Huh? “Do you feel like you’re getting closer?”
“Uh. It didn’t usually feel this close. “Did something happen underground?”
“Write…… Aside from being trapped, nothing much happened…… “Maybe it’s because we were together in the same space for 10 days.”
They say that since we’ve been in the same space for a long time, how can we not become friends?
Cheonma-ri thought about it carefully and then gave him a more suspicious look.
“I spent every day with you too. But I don’t think even I got that close in a short period of time.”
“What nonsense. “Is it because you thought about me betraying you for ten days?”
“No, that’s not it. “I just found it a bit surprising.”
I don’t think so.
Looking at the expression, it seems strangely like that.
I left Shannon’s side.
Shannon’s expression wavered or not, but she increased her walking speed and headed towards Cheonma-ri.
“What’s so amazing? “You’re such a friendless idiot.”
Beans!
“Evil!”
I got hit on the head.
You should be punished for saying nonsense in a serious situation.
“Why are you hitting me?”
“He said he wanted to get closer to me. So you brought your fist closer.”
“Close doesn’t mean close! And you didn’t even say you wanted to get closer!”
“Then what is it?”
“I wonder how we got so close and how Shannon got so close to you. “It was just a comparison from a mental perspective~”
I see.
For something like that, his eyes were sharp.
It feels like a strange check.
It was the attitude of a child who was afraid of his friend leaving.
“Comparison…… “Are you the same as him in the first place?”
“No?”
How can all acquaintances be treated the same in the first place?
If the other person is like a bomb or is too close, there is bound to be a subtle sense of ‘physical distance’.
That was exactly the case with Thousand Horses.
I could approach him as much as I wanted since we were close, but I didn’t want to get into a relationship with him.
That was something that couldn’t happen between childhood friends.
In fact, it is a disgusting act on the same level as incest.
“Of course not. And the person who got into fights with my childhood friend and beat him up all through elementary school, and the person I became friends with just because we had a relationship. “How can we become friends at the same speed?”
“So after elementary school, I didn’t say anything even when you hit me. What I mean is, even considering that, it’s fast.”
“What? If you don’t do it, don’t do anything. “Did this run a cleaner on my head?”
“Eck.”
You’re saying things that don’t make sense.
After mentioning the atrocities of the thousand horses a few times, she started to get angry.
As expected, you should not bring a platinum-haired animal into your home.
I held her head and hit her on the back several times.
“Eck! Ugh! Kieeeeek!”
“Stop talking nonsense and find Ines quickly.”
“Shannon~! Please save me~!!! Gehehe—”
But Shannon was puzzled by her and shook her head.
Unusually, her tail was slightly raised.
It was a very strange attitude.
Of course, this meant Shannon, the insignificant lizard, not the thousands with which everything was strange.
“Save the half-elf!”
“Ugh. “It’s my daughter.”
Anyway, we continued hiking.
The climbing stopped when a large and common cave appeared around the academy.
“The footprints stopped here. “The blood trail continues into the cave.”
“Then let’s follow the blood trail to the cave.”
Of course, I headed slowly because I didn’t know what would be there.
I was very nervous as the blood stains gradually increased, and I scattered around the cave while making as little noise as possible.
It was when I walked like that for about a minute.
When the air became slightly thicker, two women were lying down in the distance.
“One of them seems to be an expert knight…… “What about the other one?”
“Wait a minute, is that really possible?”
“Hey, Mr. Ines?!”
I ran quickly.
I shined the flashlight I brought from the basement.
“Blood, blood…” … !”
Two women, Ines and a knight.
Everyone was bleeding profusely.
Luckily, unlike the knight who had a spear stuck in his stomach, there was nothing stuck in Ines’ stomach.
Of course, there was a hole in his jacket as if he had been hit with a knife, but at first glance, there were no injuries.
Nartica employees hastily took out bandages and other medicines without even confirming whether they were alive or dead.
I then looked around Ines’ body.
Blood spilled on the floor.
Find the wound where this oozed out.
“…… What?”
“This hurts…” … “I don’t think there is one.”
But the conclusion was strange.
Even when the female employees scattered around, it was the same.
“I’m sorry, but…” … “There doesn’t seem to be any trace of anything.”
“Are you saying there are no wounds?”
“There is not even a trace of being touched other than a wound. “I’m just fine.”
I roughly understood what you meant.
But the dead knight next to us is a woman, so does it make sense to check that?
“How can you shed so much blood and still not have any major injuries?”
Anyway, I approached her and saw her with her eyes closed.
When I put my finger under her nose, I felt light breath and lukewarm temperature.
“…… “What is it really?”
She looks listless and looks perfectly fine except that her eyes are closed.
It was a discovery itself while still breathing.