... live free!

Then Yua looked up for a while.

"Thank you, Lena. I think we're good now."

"Really?"

"Yeah. The..."

And so Yua looks under me, so I look at it too...

"Oh. Well, you don't have to worry about it because it gets dirty anyway. If you want to go more than that, shall we?

That's what I heard with a troubled look when I offered Yua my hand.

"Uh... Are you sure?"

When I nod, Youre, hold my hand and stand up.

"Ko, can I keep going?

"If you want to do that, okay? But when the demon comes, let go of my hand, okay?

"Yeah!"

So we walked out to get back to where we were earlier.

And I'm going back to the scene earlier, but Yua's complexion isn't very good.

"Are you okay?"

"... ugh, yeah"

Yua feels like she is responding somehow, but it seems a lot better compared to what happened earlier. But taking too long is going to be Yua's burden too, so we need to find it and leave this place soon...

I was looking for something that looked like a guild card with that in mind.

I was looking, and I thought, "I don't see anything that looks like their bodies." If it's a fine fragment, it's falling all over it, but why? I thought. Could there be any other footprints besides this place? I discovered a bush with a lot of blood attached when I was looking for those things because I thought so. Maybe that's what I think. Speak up to Youre.

"Yua, why don't you go to that bush over there?

Yua, who said so and looked at me pointing at my finger, nodded, looking like he understood what I was trying to say, so I approached that bush and scratched it. There was a footprint there that seemed to be running away with a drop of blood. There's only one footprint.

"? Maybe only one escaped? Or did you two die in that place?

Yua grabbed my clothes later when I was wondering about that.

"What's going on?

When I turned back to hear that, there was a trembling, leaning Youre figure.

"... oh, an oak, people, eating,?

I see you heard what Yua said. I thought so. With all that blood and all that scattering, I don't think we can all escape. Even if it were the two of us who got hurt badly, I thought it might be possible that blood would be so scattered if it was hard to think but the oak ate it and it did.

"... I don't know if orcs eat people, but I don't think it's possible given that tragedy."

"Really..."

Yua had blued her complexion when she said that it was also possible as one of their end roads.

"It's okay. Even if you encounter an oak, you should be fine if you handle it properly!... maybe."

"Maybe."

Yua was laughing bitterly as she said so. Hey, did you calm down? I tried to comfort you, but it's a mystery if you were comforted successfully...

"Time to move on?

"... yeah"

"Now let's move on with more vigilance. Maybe he'll come out, so be careful, okay?

"Okay."

So we walked out again, following in its footsteps.