A Chronicle of Life in a Different World
Episode 51: Despair
It was a moment for Eliza.
"... Lew... Ruth?
All Eliza could do was spit out those words.
I'm here to pick you up, monster.
Eliza was stunned to see a man laughing at Nitanita beat Reurus to death.
Reurus blood and shattered stone pieces dance in the sky. Is the blood coming out of the abdomen stabbed with a dagger or from a blow to the head? All Eliza could understand was that Reurus was beaten up like a doll.
It will take less than five seconds for a man to stab and punch Reurus. The sight of a man stabbing a dagger into a realus with such ease as to greet him too naturally was unrealistic for Eliza.
Until just now, I was talking to Reurus about the future. Although he was officially recognized as an adventurer, he remembered Reurus laughing that he would leave Dominic's restaurant and rent it at home.
“From now on” will be a little happier.
Even if you can't forget about your parents and grandmother, you can still make new memories.
That's what I was expecting - the event at the end of the arrow.
"Somebody!?
Still, speaking out aggressively for help would be a gift of the days spent as an adventurer, albeit for a short period of time.
Eliza's voice was cut off by the man who noticed it instantly closing his distance and knocking his hardened fist into the dove's tail.
The air is forced out of your mouth, and with intense nausea, your eyes are dyed white. You can feel your consciousness fading away and even the senses of your hands and feet disappearing.
"... Lew... Ruth..."
No one responded to the whining left before his consciousness vanished.
Eliza woke up because she was forced to wake up with a severe shock and pain throughout her body.
Suddenly connected consciousness. Eliza didn't know what was happening to her and tried to see what was going on around her while she was baffled.
"Ngh!? U, bu, guu...."
However, the body complains of severe pain and nausea before checking the surroundings. My whole body hurts because of what happened. Among them, the abdominal pain was particularly strong, and the stomach was about to exhale with intense discomfort.
(Nh... but...)
Eliza tries to understand what is going on in her painful and uncoordinated thoughts.
A sight seeped with tears that floated on its own, even if it was stopped. Whether the sun has already fallen or the surroundings are dark, the fire installed a little further away ensures a faint view.
The place was in the woods, and Eliza was rolled to the ground. The hands and feet are not particularly tied, but they cannot move properly due to the severe pain that is transmitted to the whole body whether they were thrown when rolling onto the ground.
"--Are you awake?
Eliza's confused ears echoed with an inaudible voice. Eliza shook herself with a voice that licked her whole body with fear, turning her gaze toward someone who heard a fearful voice.
"Gh, no... oh, my lord..."
Even if I spin a little words, my body hurts and it seems like I'm going to spit out the contents of my stomach. Still, Eliza raised her doubts and saw the man standing beside the fire.
Height will be slightly higher than Reurus and body thickness will be better than Reurus. Brown hair is stretched out in a mess, and there are no major features on the face. It was a plain face that could not be remembered even if crossed in a town or street.
The man is looking down at what's funny, laughing and watching Eliza crawl on the ground.
"Hey, nice to meet you, monster. No, no, no. Do you remember me?
…………
Enduring nausea, Eliza stares at the man's face. Even in a silly memory, I remembered the man's face - but Eliza had something to prioritize over “that.”
"Reurgh! Where's Reurus!?
Eliza screams in pain and bites. I don't care about the man in front of me or the pain in my body now. Rather, I was more concerned about the safety of Reurus, who was stabbed with a dagger and hit in the head with a stone.
"Reurus!?
Eliza was looking for Reurus, but the man disappeared to see what she thought of her behavior. And the next moment Eliza noticed, a man was stepping in front of her, and his foolishly shaken legs kicked Eliza's body.
The body that was supposed to have been rolling on the ground floats in space and hits the trunk of a tree that was growing behind it. Eliza's body was pulled by gravity and fell to the ground when she heard bones crushing inside her body.
Eliza is not wearing any protective equipment because she was asked to escort a farmer in Laval Waste City. I only wear personal clothing that emphasizes the ease of movement that Reurus purchased. The man's kick accurately captured the abdomen without leather armor, and Eliza vomited with the shock and pain that fell on the ground.
"Uhh!? Hah... gu, ahhhhhh!
Spray the contents of your stomach and scratch the ground with your nails to relieve any pain. Your body repeatedly spasms on its own, and the tears that were seeping increase in volume.
As usual, the man walked by Eliza with a smile on his face, kicking her shoulders and forcing her to lie on her back. Then shake her right leg down on Eliza's chest and sew Eliza to the ground.
"Hey hey hey, didn't your parents learn to listen to people? I want you to answer people's questions properly."
"Ghih! Stop, gu, ahhhh!
The man puts his weight on his feet with a smile. As a result, Eliza cried and begged her to stop.
"Hmm? I can't hear you!
If you think you've retreated, kick again. Eliza, moaning in pain, could not avoid or prevent it, and was kicked again and rolled over the ground.
"~ ~ ~ ~!"
I didn't even hear the earliest complaint of pain. Eliza circles her body to escape the agony and fear in front of her, shaking her body.
"Hey, what's up, monster? How about that? Come on, don't get round, come on."
The man approached Eliza as she turned round, not to say that it was easier to kick her. Eliza was deeply frightened that her voice and attitude seemed to be pleasant.
"... what, you can't heal that kind of injury?"
The man watched Eliza trembling for a while, but unexpectedly turned off his laugh from his voice. Then he grabbed Eliza's neck and lifted it, grabbing her chin and forcing her to raise her face.
"Don't be white... what the hell is that mess?"
"Hyiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!?
Not only the voice, but the man was real. Until then, her narrow eyes were slightly open, and Eliza, looking at the man's eyes from the front, took a breath of fear.
The man in front of me doesn't think anything about himself. It seems to observe calmly, and I am not as interested as the pebble that fell on the side of the road. So Eliza figured it out.
"Ahh, this doesn't make sense to sneak the eyes of a nasty“ rabid dog "... if it's a monster, make it look like a monster."
Eliza doesn't understand what the man is trying to say. Continuing intense pain and nausea do not allow calm thinking.
"Lew, Ruth...."
Hmm?
"With me... the man I was with..."
But still, Eliza wanted to see if Reurus was safe. I wanted to make sure that the man I met, who had arrived near the abandoned city of Laval, was the man I had been with for a short time.
"Ahhh, the guy you were with... hihi"
The man's eyes narrowed again as Eliza asked. What came to my face was a brutal smile.
Your expression gives you an unpleasant feeling. No wonder Eliza's chest tightened so intensely that she forgot the intense pain that ran all over her body.
He's dead.
――――
Eliza couldn't understand the man's words. I didn't understand what you were saying - I didn't want to.
Apart from pain and nausea, you're rapidly losing blood. Your vision is whitening like when you were hit by a pigeon tail and fainted. Still, Eliza screams desperately as she stops.
"Uhhhh... bye! It was such a stupid thing! Isn't he a strong Reurus!? I was gonna die!
"Strong... I didn't react badly. With that state, my liver was still in place when I pulled out my dagger... but I'm dead."
In response to Eliza shouting for denial, the man waved with a smile on his face. Eliza was afraid of something, but when she realized it, her dagger was in the man's hand.
"Remember when I stabbed you in the stomach? That dagger was poisoned with Rachel's poison. It's a monster in the ocean, but its poison sucks. It's not going to work with the half-blooded wizard's" antidote. "
Eliza doesn't know a monster named Rachel. Still, in this situation, there is no need for a man to lie, and as he understands the story, his complexion turns pale.
"It's a fatal wound even if I just plucked it a little... I've seen many of those guys die of poison, but this guy always bubbles out of his mouth and cramps his body. If this isn't a masterpiece, I'll let everything out from top to bottom out and die whilst I'm beating around... hihi, what a sight to see!?
The man approached Eliza with a pleasant smile. Eliza, who was rolling on the ground, could not escape, and the man lowered his hips and laughed at Eliza from close range.
"When the poison spreads, my body swells up like Rachel. The smell of saliva and faeces dripping away. What's good about that poison? I'm about to give you pain until you die without dying right away. If someone knew about the poison, they'd be stabbing me."
"No way... then... no way..."
Eliza murmured as if she still didn't recognize reality. The man who heard it looks at the surrounding darkness.
"Something, bring me some monsters around here. If you leave, there must be something going on."
"--Yes, priest."
Until now, Eliza had not noticed, but it seems that there were others. The fact increases Eliza's fear, but the man turns away from Eliza and exchanges words with darkness.
"So, how's the town going?
"I was anxious to kill you. An armed man tried to chase the priest....."
"Hih, I can't. I can't do anything with all those rattlesnakes. I've been observing it for a while, but there was only a few people who could use it. Even with a kid on his own, he can run away... and a rabid dog?
The tone of voice drops slightly. Eliza, trembling with fear, could not read the change, but the man seems to be alert to something.
"Looks like he's headed for the vigilante."
"Let's see... hihi, you're doing great."
Hearing the report from the darkness, the man laughs in a good mood. Whether the person who gave the instructions earlier returned while doing so, the creature's voice approached.
"Priest."
"Ah, hold on..."
Gah!?
And the LORD of the voice did not see him, until the light of the fire had come near. A man throws a dagger in his hand at such an opponent, and the monster screams.
"Go ahead."
Yes, thank you very much.
Elizabeth was a familiar horny rabbit. However, there is a dagger stuck in his torso and he is violently trying to escape from the hand of the man holding the corner of his forehead.
Ghhhhhh!? Giggle!?
But soon change came. The horn rabbit that was trying to escape the man's hand began to convulse and suffer for another reason than the pain of the dagger. White cloudy bubbles overflow from the horny rabbit's mouth, and the body gradually swells.
"But I only poisoned myself a little... that revulsion? I see. I've poisoned the dagger I stabbed him with plenty of poison... he'll be rotten and dead by now."
That's how the man threw a horny rabbit and fell by Eliza with a wet sound. As the man explained, the horny rabbit drowned in saliva manure while convulsing his whole body, inflating his body - still not dead.
"Giggle... giggle... giggle..."
Square rabbits scratch the ground with their forelegs and squeal. Are you enduring pain and suffering, or are you asking Eliza to stop stabbing you?
"Well, that's why the revulsion is already dead. There are spiritual teachers in that town, but you can't even use" detoxification "in a good place to run away. There's no cure."
The man sat down next to Eliza with a smile on his face. Then he pulled the dagger stuck in the horny rabbit's belly and took Eliza's hand to hold the handle.
"... what..."
"Come on, you're in pain, kill him properly"
That way, the man covers Eliza's hand with his own and grips her so that she doesn't let go. Then he lifted Eliza's hand and caused it to swing down to the neck of the horny rabbit that was beating around.
The blade tip of the dagger pierces the fur, pierces the flesh, and cuts the bone. The feeling was vivid, and Eliza distorted her face with fear and fear as she forced herself to taste the feeling of killing a horny rabbit.
"Hey monster, why are you so scared?
The man leaned strangely at the look on Eliza's face. However, I distorted my face uncomfortably as to what convinced me immediately.
"... I can't really use it yet."
The man murmured with a muffled tone that didn't just say that his heart had fallen apart. The words were accompanied by unfamiliar fears, and Eliza trembled.
The man snorted his nose at Eliza's face and stood up, kicking the horn rabbit out of breath before shrugging his shoulders up.
"Ahhh, take care of me. You can leave it to another priest like this. Why do I have to wipe the ass that the other guys ran first?"
"Priest."
"Yeah, I know, I know, I know. I'll do my job properly."
To the voice heard from the darkness, the man answered with a thoughtful answer. Still, when she lowered her hips next to Eliza as if she had changed her mind, she smiled at Eliza while she was squatting.
How many blood did you smoke in that town? Did you smoke about a dozen?
And I've been asking questions that are hard for Eliza to understand. Ask as if you forgot the conversation before, without any context.
"Don't do that..."
I am a blood-sucking species, but I have never thought about sucking people's blood. I never smoked human blood in Laval Waste City. The man sighed deeply at what he thought of Eliza's response.
"Haahhhh... hey, can I go home now? It doesn't make sense to raise a man who doesn't want his family killed and avenged."
--That word caught me strangely.
"Grow up...?
Oh, my God. Eliza can't understand a man's words. Still, Eliza murmured desperately in the thought that pain and nausea accounted for the majority.
"I can't believe it... I..."
"Yeah? Uh, yeah. It was bad for the environment."
The man ignored Eliza's whining and held hands together as if he had thought of something. I didn't hear Eliza's words as early as possible, and I took off my hands and put my right hand on my forehead.
"I don't know what to do... I didn't think you liked picking up monsters like this! I don't think I'm going to pick it up this time... hmm..."
The man turned his gaze to Eliza, who rolled to the ground. There was a glimpse of indifference in the gaze, but at the same time there was a color of madness.
"Hey, monster. How did you get so close to Reurus? He looks like a kid and he's lost, but did he get close, or did he use his poor body? Hihi, if you're using your body, I like that guy a lot too."
The man looks at Eliza from head to toe and tells her to scream.
"Hmm! Reurus is such a...!?
Yes, it's loud.
Until then, Eliza raised her face as if she had forgotten the pain in her body, but her fist, which had been released to pay for the insects, punched Eliza in the side. The shock and pain caused Eliza to roll over the ground again, but the man scratched his head without looking worried.
"It's just goodwill, isn't it? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa."
The man removed his gaze from Eliza, moaning in pain, and twisted his neck to the right and left.
"But then, I guess I failed... at least I should have killed him after I signed the contract. No, I should have brought him with me... if I rose in front of my eyes, I might have woken up this monster... woohoo, what a waste."
"Eh...."
Eliza can't understand a man's words - and she doesn't want to.
The pain and tears seeped into the vision of the man who was still smiling and smiling. Eliza was pathetic and resentful of herself for not being able to resist such an opponent.
"If we let him escape again, we'll find someone like him... but the second time... no, the third time he'll learn even monsters - OK, I've made up my mind"
The atmosphere of a man changes. As she approached Eliza, she kicked her shoulders up, rolled her back, and shook her legs down to her neck.
"Huh!?
"When you look at me like that, my ass starts again. I'll make you look like a monster, so thank you. Ears... no, eyes. Can I have both? And then I cut my cheeks, too."
Eliza opens her eyes to the words of a man who weighs so much that she can't break her neck. The man smiled nicely as if he had read Eliza's mood.
"Just make it look like a monster. Drop one eye and one ear at a time, and even a big wound won't get close to a pervert who's craving monster kids like you, Reurus. Hihi, thank you so much, huh?
That's how a man holds a dagger. The word has no lies, and the man in front of it will do it without hesitation.
The dagger blade, dull reflecting by the light of fire, was terrifying - but Eliza was angry, not afraid.
"... let me... let me..."
"Ahhh?
"Take it... and turn it off! Reurus is not such a man! You protected me from a stranger and made me gentle!
Despite her tight neck, Eliza screamed. Don't make a fool of Reurus to deny the man's words.
…………
Hearing such a cry from Eliza, the man was somehow calm. Her eyes rounded so much that she couldn't understand Eliza's words that she didn't know what it meant.
"Hee-hee-hee, hahahahaha!
But after a few seconds, a loud laugh leaked out of the man's mouth. The reaction was unexpected as Eliza, staring at her as if she had forgotten her suffering.
"What's... insane!
"Hahaha... ahh, what's wrong with you?"
The man's expression tightens as if the laughter up until then had been a lie.
"Did you protect me? Have you been kind to me? Really? Well, he was such a rare head flower garden in this time of year...."
The man approached Eliza. And when he lifted the edge of his mouth, he smiled like a tear.
I was using him as a “trick," and now you can tell me.