The next day, we were on our way to the village that we were nearby to share the food.
A little behind me Mr. Alk pulled his horse and walked, and before that, Burlin and Amako, and the same journey continues today in the form of me, that's what I thought...... today was a little different.
"... eh"
"Lord Amako?"
"What's wrong?"
Amako suddenly hands on her ears.
Did the ears of beasts who draw a line with humans capture something? I'm curious, too. I concentrate my consciousness with my hands in my ears trying to hear the distant voices.
"- Shh!!"
Woman... No, a girl's voice?
Stop your feet and clear your ears even more. Then a voice resembling a scream with the twitching of the trees -.
"Somebody help me!!"
"Usato!"
"I know!!"
I hear a girl screaming for help and running out.
I don't know what the situation is, but I'm pretty sure it's an emergency. If we were all traveling, it would be too late for me to go ahead and help. Amako and the others can come later.
At full speed up a gentle slope surrounded by trees, several figures lie ahead. Looking far away and staring firmly, I saw a girl of my age surrounded by a group of people wearing worn out clothes.
"There he is!!"
It looks like no harm has been done yet, but as far as the people around the girl are concerned, I don't think they're decent. Either way, the group has blue-white skin in their eyes that doesn't make them feel alive.
If I don't help you as soon as possible, I don't know what I'm gonna do.
"Get down!!"
He notices me running over and tells the girl to ask for help, throwing the magic bullet he generated as far as he can.
The straight-flying magic bullet directly hits the man surrounding the girl and involves about two people and blows them away.
Having reached the group in that gap, I take the girl and step back at once to see if she's safe or not.
"It's okay!? Are you hurt?!?"
"Huh!?... Um... now what..."
Eyes on, girl looking up at this one.
Beautiful amber eyes in slightly brownish hair stretched to about shoulder. Because I was frightened, my moist eyes stare at me, and I accidentally breathe.
"... eh"
What do you mean, I fell in love.
It's not like you're about to be distracted by the girl you met or something at first sight. I am. Are you losing your tolerance for normal kids because you've been too involved with women with weird personalities?
Bring the girl down to the ground, shaking off her evil thoughts.
"Stay back. My people will be here soon... these guys are mine."
"Yes..."
The problem is the population in front of you.
I'm not a bandit because of me, and I'm not like a monster.
Clothes worn out like a vagabond and sloppy arms. And a slightly raucous eye staring at this one from the gap in his forehead.
Completion, pervert...... You're in every world, the one called pervert.
"Why did you try to attack this child..."
Ignore even when trying to interact.
Earlier, the guys who collapsed with healing magic bullets were up as if nothing had happened. I'm asking this one.
... Threaten?
"Those guys... eh"
"I don't know what purpose you tried to assault this child... but if you get any closer, I'll clap your arms first. If you don't like it, tell me why you tried to assault this girl, and if there's someone who planned it - be prepared, you scumbags."
……
"... hmm? Something now."
"Hey, you know what? It's nothing."
Girl turning around, bluishing her face and shaking her neck.
Apparently, he threatened the girl behind him, not the group in front of him.
The group in front of me, on the other hand, was frightened by my words, but instead approached me.
"Ha..."
Sighing, but lowering the awkward girl back, quietly wrapping the healing magic around her fist.
"Ugh!!"
"I can't help it...... don't feel bad!! You stay back!!"
"Hi...... haha!"
Grabbing his arm at one of the perverts who attacked him with a creepy roar, he simultaneously draws thoughtlessly and punches his fist into his stomach, wrapped in healing magic.
Shake your fist off gently as it is and beat it to about five meters away. Slowly rebuild his protruding fist when he sees a pervert slamming his body on the ground and rolling around and quieting down.
What do you think...? It's a small blow. It should be powerful enough to stun you.
"Duh, what do you mean..."
There's a slightly werewolf girl in the back, but you must be surprised by the power of my fist anyway.
I see a man who got a little sad but beat me up for getting used to that reaction.
... It was snug and slightly stiff, did you hide the iron plate or something? It's a bad way of saying it, but it wasn't the feeling you hit people.
Feeling uncomfortable with his fist, he tries to turn his eyes to the rest of them...... but is stunned to see the man who beat him up get up in a slender move.
"Wake up..., you're sturdy!?"
Your abdomen is sinking!?
Why? You didn't cage that much power. Besides, my healing magic can't be working.
No wait, what can you stand in the first place!?
"" "Ugh!!" "
"Knock..."
All the suspicious people who were creeping around are attacking us in numbers.
This guy is always unusually stiff and brittle, even as he responds to his fist wrapped in healing magic while remaining confused. It's like he's hitting a tree trunk.
These guys don't work magic? That kind of creature, not a human being?
Either way -,
"The healing punch doesn't work..."
"Ugh!?"
I'm shocked as I punch one of them jumping at me with a healing punch.
I didn't know my moves could be sealed in this way...
The healing magic doesn't work, enemies who can't either stun it or stun it.
"I..."
"Ugh!?"
With a spinning kick, he wraps two bodies together and kicks them away, grabbing the one arm he tries to grab from the side and beating them straight to the swinging ground.
"What can I do..."
"Ahhh!?"
Release the arm you grabbed and at the same time hit the other face about to hit the magic bullet you generated in your palm from behind. New moves, healing eyeballs, - vision is crushed by eye-friendly eyeballs using healing magic bullets, fists roll out where you peek, and collide with nearby trees.
"... I see no healing magic effect, or..."
I sigh a second time today watching everyone get up when they sloppy uniformly.
Healing Punch...... No, I didn't expect an attack with healing magic to break this fast. What the hell are these guys? Is that the kind of race? Either way, it's no stranger to creepy things.
"You should just hit me normally!! Usat is stupid!?"
"No, I am..."
"Ugh."
I give that back to Amako, who disturbed my breath and shouted at me as I slapped the jumping suspicious man down to the ground with my knife.
It's not like I'm bound by a healing punch, so there's as much to do. The healing punch is only a story if I "punch them safely with some force," so if you care about them, don't suppress them, just slap them off.
"You did it flashy again... Lord Usato"
"Yeah. Huh."
I heard Mr. Alk's troubled voice when I saw the sight in front of him, exhaling to relieve him.
Fight it. Okay, but these guys are strong in arms, but other than that, they're slow.
Not like demons and humans. You moan, you rumble, you just seem like a beast trying to devour the prey in front of you.
"Who are these people?"
"... Lord Usat's healing magic doesn't work, his worn body,... I'll try it for the first time, too, but perhaps they 're-"
He who hurts but does not bleed, and who must rise again and again.
Looking to them, Mr. Alk said a word, a name that would apply to it.
"Zombies."
The name was, in a way, the name of a famous monster in my former world.
"Zombie, is it..."
"Dead and still moving corpse. It's a 'demon' that keeps moving no matter what wound you suffer and has a slow but transcendent arm power."
Demons, not humans, huh?
I only know a little bit about the zombies in this world. Only literal knowledge, but a zombie as a monster is the existence of a dead human being evoked by a particular monster and manipulated as a puppet.
There is no such thing as infection there, and of course you will not become a zombie if you get caught or bit.
"So, if this guy's a zombie... you mean there's a manipulative presence somewhere?"
"Probably."
Either way, the healing magic made sense. Because zombies are mediated by dead humans, it's only natural that the healing magic that acts on living organisms doesn't work.
Solve the healing magic that wrapped you around your limbs.
I don't need any more healing magic. After that, we'll have to sink in a pure fleshshell battle.
"The effective means of attack against them is Kazuki's light magical attack of the abode of holy power, and -"
Mr. Alk, who came out in front of me, pulls out his sword.
Then, from the blade, a flaming sword line struck directly at the zombie who was there before the run, and the momentum burned up.
Flaming phylogenetic magic. Did you light a flame of magic on the tip of your sword and release it at the same time as the razor... Cool, I guess I'd say stylish knife pulling somehow.
As he secretly admired Mr. Alk's moves, the individual the flame hit directly with and the zombies around him began to groan, turning from faceless to frightened.
"Geez, ahhh...... ahhh!!"
"They are vulnerable to fire. Leave the rest to me."
"... please"
The zombies distort their expressions in terror at Mr. Alk's set fire and run away to scatter the spider child.
Are you vulnerable to fire because you're a zombie, well it sure felt like a dead tree, so you can't help but burn easily......?
"Anyway... Amako, is she okay?"
"Yeah... I don't think he's hurt"
"Guar."
Turn around and see if the girl is cheap or not to Amako and Burlin, who were protecting her.
Amako, I knew you were hiding your face in a hood from people other than us. Is that better in order not to create unnecessary noise in the current situation?
"Please help me where I'm in danger... Oh, my name is Nair! Uh, the...... thanks!!"
"Ooh..."
Did the zombies disappear and the fear fade, a girl with a dazzling smile and a sticky head down, Mr. Nair?
Her dazzling smile set me off my gaze.
"Are you a child living in a nearby village?"
"Yes."
The girl who was about to be attacked by a bunch of zombies, Mr. Nair.
She was a resident of a nearby village, and the zombies ran into each other on the way out of the village to find herbs, and that's when we were lucky enough to help her and get away with it.
Currently, he wants to thank us for helping him, so now he's giving us guidance to the village.
What was surprising was that this kid wasn't too scared of Brulin. Even though the Lukvis students were so freaked out that the more they saw Brulin this way pulled, Mr. Nair didn't show a frightening bare gesture, rather he even had a laugh.
... the audacity to go outside the village alone and the liver may be stuck unexpectedly.
"Mr. Usato has great magic."
"Yeah? Awesome magic...?"
"I've never seen anyone fly a zombie lightly or make a magic bullet fly faster than that. Is it the magic of the physical strengthening system? Or is it speeding up in the wind system? No, is it the rare magic of the gravitational system?"
Can we just assume they're telling us we're human apart at a distance, this is...
"Pup......"
Amako, did you just laugh?
Covering his face with a hood worn on his head, he glances at Amako, trembling on his shoulders once, returning a grin unmistakable to Mr. Nair, who turns his sparkling eyes.
The grin that reminds me of its innocence dazzles me too much that my heart is dirty......
"Yes, no... you know, I'm a healing wizard"
"... what? healing, wizard... but healing wizard is not the magic of healing people..."
"So, the... I didn't use much magic because the only thing I normally solved earlier was fighting"
When you say that, Mr. Nair, he rounds his eyes. I guess I never thought the magic I was using was healing magic that was said to be incompetent other than healing.
"One, I mean... earlier..."
"It's all a flesh-bomb battle without magic...... I can't be surprised. Because Usat is a healing wizard for brain muscles."
Patience, I'm in front of Mr. Nair... and I'm going to treat Maco later.
"Ha ha, he is the one who uses the unorthodox magic, as Lord Amako put it, but it is true that many lives have been saved thanks to him"
Nair, who returned to me for his exquisite follow-up to Alk, turns to Ba and this one because he thinks he has been rude to me.
"No! I'm just surprised. It's not like I turned Mr. Usato down or anything like that!!"
"Ugh, yeah. Because I don't care."
I reply, upset by Mr. Nair, who comes stuck with a desperate face. I've been doing this for a while now, but for some reason, I can't keep an eye on this girl.
I'm not curious that you just want me to be like Senior Dog, nor is it bright that I can feel the pleasure of Mr. Uluru. Strongly speaking, I have the impression it reminds me of a dumped puppy.
Makes me crave asylum, to put it well. To put it badly, bruise.
"Hey, close"
"Eh! I'm sorry..."
Noticing that she was close enough to breathe, Nair steps back about three steps while turning her face bright red. I feel the heat on my face along with it.
Whoa, no way. What is this... here -.
"Humph!"
"Ugh!? Amako, what are you doing all of a sudden!!"
"... Usat will be fooled by women in the future. Absolutely"
"Huh!?"
What's that line!? I think you'd be jealous if someone else told you, but if you told me, I'd only be anxious!? Suddenly, I can't hide my battle in Amako's words, who's been kicking a foot knife in my tibia.
"Too deluded. I'm not gonna look at it."
"Ugh. I don't know if it's any more predictable that I'll be deceived."
……
Why so much there!?
Seeing how Amako and I interacted, Nair smiled a little too much.
"I haven't seen anyone but the village in a long time, so I might be a little excited."
"It's been a long time, does that mean that not many people visited the village?"
There is a shadow on Nair's expression in Mr. Alk's words.
After a brief silence, Mr. Nair opened his mouth sadly.
"Right...... Zombies are coming out... and that's why we're annoying ourselves."
Surely you don't want to stop by a village with those creepy guys wandering around nearby. But that won't even bring the merchant over, so I guess life can be painful.
On second thought, such a normal girl should have looked into it at the point where she came to pick herbs by herself.
That she went to get herbs knowing she was reckless...
"Do you know why zombies came out and why?"
"... no, we don't know anything about it either"
Don't you know why?
The chief who generated the zombie is likely to have as many hitters as he wants.
"... here we are"
Return to me to the words of Nair, who turned forward.
I also looked forward and saw the entrance to a small village lined with slightly old houses. It's bigger than I expected, even if it's small, and it feels like a rural area in the world where I was born.
"That's where I was born and raised. Iava Village."
Because I was finally able to return to the village, or Mr. Nair with a relieved look.
If you look closely around the village, the outer walls, unlike the kingdom of Ringle and Lukvis, are only separated inside and out by a simple wooden fence, and the buildings are not made to look sturdy, they are like a little old wooden architecture.
"Nair!!"
An elderly woman ran over here with a voice calling Mr. Nair from the village. When I turned my gaze to her, thinking that maybe she was Mr. Nair's associate, she ran off the spot as well as the woman.
"Mr. Tetra."
"Good...... I was so worried because you would go outside the village and shut up..."
An old woman gently hugs Mr. Nair.
"I'm sorry, but... I don't have enough herbs..."
"I'm fine with medication...... I almost sent a young man from the village to look for him. Anyway, I'm glad you came home safe. So, the people behind you...?"
"They are the people who helped me where I was about to be attacked by zombies. Gentlemen, this is Mr. Tetra. It's like my parents."
Unembracing a woman, Nair turns to us and introduces us.
Tetra looked at us suspiciously for a moment, but when she heard that she had helped Nair, she immediately returned to her gracious face and thanked her.
"Thank you so much for helping this girl. This girl is already really too brave for that...... it would have been tough. How can I thank you..."
"Hey, hey Tetra!! It's in front of a guest, stop talking about me!"
She tries to stop by turning her cheeks bright red to Tetra, who talks about Nair as she mourns.
I was a little concerned about the phrase "being like a parent" earlier, but I didn't think it was a matter of looking at the interaction between the two of them.
"No, we did what we deserved!"
Oh, the line now feels amazing.
Instead, I was surprised at myself for being able to naturally say the lines I wanted to say in plain reality.
"And let's just get into the village. Talk about it!"
"So is that. The three of you... the horse and the Blue Grizzly kid? You should move them to the village stables."
Enter the village with Mr. Tetra and Mr. Nair.
There were plenty of villagers in the village but two, each cultivating fields and caring for horses and cattle.
As Nair said, is it rare for people to visit here? Villagers pay attention to us when we enter the village.
"We are travelers. It would be nice if you could share the food..."
"Don't hesitate. You look tired on a long journey. Why don't you stay a day or so?"
"No, it's a quick journey, so just feel good. And I can't bother you."
Mr. Tetra shakes his head slowly at Mr. Alk's words.
Our job is to deliver letters to countries. No matter how much you thank me, you can't be in trouble all day. Mr. Alk is right, just feelings are enough.
"You should rest when you can. Some kids are young. It's better to get a good rest and embark on a journey in full condition than to fall and get stuck at the heart of it."
"But..."
"Besides, you should accept the generosity of the old, short Baba"
Mr. Alk grins like he gave up on Tetra, who laughs cuckoo and joyfully.
Mr. Nair next door is also smiling bitterly.
No matter where you go to the world, your years are strong.
"Little child... little child... me, even though I'm fourteen..."
Amako is secretly in shock.
Well, from the side, I don't look like a fourteen. Because it's small for the position.
……
"Cook......"
"... Usat, did you just laugh?"
"No, I'm not laughing at all."
……
Pleased by Amako, who beats his back with a poke in silence.
I'll never forget the humiliation I've been subjected to... almost! And I give it back when I can... just to the person I can give it back to!!
Mr. Alk spoke as he grinned and mocked inside.
"Lord Usato, I do think she's getting tired of traveling, so let's just get you in trouble for one day"
"... my healing magic can cure physical fatigue, but it can't cure spiritual things."
Even though I'm used to sleeping on the ground, it's not like it's stressful.
I feel a little sorry for you, but let me sweeten you to the generosity of Mr. Tetra and Mr. Nair. When I show my satisfaction to Tetra, I nod satisfactorily.
"All right, all right. Shall I show you where the horses and blue grizzlies sleep first?"
I've heard that good deeds can be that good, but it may not be a mistake. That's what I thought when I saw Tetra with a grin and a gentle grin.
After taking Burlin and his horse to the stables, he was invited to the house where Mr. Nair and Mr. Tetra lived.
When they showed me the room, thinking it was a little big on two floors of wood, just a little big, I was surprised how much room we could afford to have the three of us assigned to separate rooms.
"It's a little too big for both of us to live here."
I was reluctantly impressed by the slightly lonely look on Nair's face who said so with a bitter smile.
I took a short break in the private room I was guided to for a while and was told that Nair, who visited the room when the sky was dark, was ready for dinner.
Going downstairs with Mr. Alk and Amako, there was a line of warm dishes that Nair and Tetra would have made for us at a table where about six people could sit.
Mr. Alk, I, when I sat in Amako's order, saw Amako as Tetra sitting in front tilted her neck. I still got her hooded up to hide her ears...
"Oh, why is your daughter wearing a hood all the time...?"
……
"... ah, ya... that's..."
I totally forgot that Amako was the Beast Man because we've been together forever. Nair and Tetra lean their necks suspiciously at me and Mr. Alk for stiffness in front of the table.
But Amako takes it off to the hood silently.
"Hey, Amako, you!?"
Amako, with her glossy blonde hair and fox ears exposed, looks at this one that stuns her and shakes her neck sideways just so she doesn't have to worry.
"These people are fine. Because I saw it."
Did you see that?
When she rushed to move her gaze to Tetra and Nair, Tetra opened her eyes slightly and Nair held her mouth down with both hands and her eyes were even bigger and stunned than Tetra's.
All of a sudden, when a beast ear girl comes out in front of you, everyone will be surprised! And you...
"Ha-ha-ha... this is surprising. I don't think such a cute little girl is hiding."
"Oh, yeah..."
I make an unexpected sneer noise at Tetra, who laughed happily.
"Humans and beasts alike, it's just the difference between having a tail or not. I'm not going to be so narrow-minded as to say it anyway, and more importantly, I'm not so ungrateful as to disturb Nair's benefactor."
'But you better not show your face to the other ones. Everyone is not as bigoted as I am,' he snorts at the words of Tetra, who said.
Something about this guy, he's bold in a lot of ways. Does this mean I'm floating around people like this? Either way, it looks like Amako can stay here with no extra care.
"No way, I'm really surprised Mr. Amako is the Beast Man"
Yeah, and Nair sees Amako with an exclamation. There is no evil sentiment there, I can see you looking at it with pure interest.
"When I came here, I thought Usato and Amako were very close. Now that I see it, it's a strange relationship. I don't hear a lot about humans and beasts acting together."
"Well, I'm aware it's rare."
I was told in Lukvis that things had changed.
But it's rarer for you guys to react from here. I haven't seen anyone near me who hates subhumans yet, so I don't know how much I hate them, but I do know that their friendly reactions are different.
"Let's talk later, let's have dinner first. The warm dishes I made around the corner get cold."
"So is that. Enjoy!"
The two of us recommend me to extend my hand to the meal.
I only ate about this cold dried meat and fruit, so the warm soup was delicious. Tetra told me it was the soup Nair made for me, but Cheng Cheng, don't be a good daughter-in-law in the future, this is...
... I'm a jerk!!
"Welcome. It was delicious."
"Oh, yeah, it's a big deal."
When I finished my meal and told Nair, who cooked me dinner, that I was not used to being praised. Nair dyed her cheeks down to Zhu.
... Somehow, you're not used to it. Everything reacts differently than the woman I've ever met.
Was it because they were all strong mentally and powerfully? Rose, seniors and Kirikha...... is Carla there too? They were all people with some strong parts.
"I'm talking about that zombie... since when did it come out of this neighborhood?"
"They..."
While Tetra was cleaning up the dishes, Alc asked Nair about it.
Was there anything that bothered you about zombies?
"Zombies are not naturally occurring monsters. It is a monster made by some hand, whose actions are also defined by the Creator"
"Mr. Alc?"
……
Mr. Alk talks to Mr. Nair, who has been silent as he can think of, in an inquisitive manner. I have no idea what Mr. Alk is trying to say, but he's not the kind of person who hits a girl hard.
Let him take care of this place and keep it static.
"You know the truth, don't you? Perhaps everyone in this village knows the existence that created the zombies"
"... eh"
"Mr. Nair, I know you don't want to get us involved, but could you please let me know?"
To upset her, I understood what Mr. Alc was trying to find out.
At first, when I asked her about the zombie, she said, "I don't know." But it's been a lie since she cared about us, and she really knew where the zombies were and probably where they were.
"... sprinkle..."
If you notice, Mr. Nair, who leaned over, was spinning his words in an interrupted manner.
Maybe if Me and Mr. Alk find out the truth, we'll try to defeat the Soyts who created the zombies.... No, I would probably try to knock him out even though I was bumping into him.
Because I don't want you to, Mr. Nair...
"Help us... the village"
Her crying for help overlapped with Amako's next door appearance.