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98. Footsteps

Then I walked around vigilantly and discovered something a little further from my footprint.

"That..."

I thought so and looked closer and my left arm was falling off. It is cut from the middle of both arms and around the incision, the blood is spread and solidified in red and black color. I tried to touch it lightly but it was pretty cold. Later Yua saw the sight and heard the sound of "gokuri" and spitting.

I think it belongs to a woman, but I'll ask Yua.

"Do you know whose left arm it is?

"... I think it's Mendez's"

From the incision, does it feel like he was cut with something and cut off here? It's cut nicely for you... With that said, Orc asked Youre, thinking he hadn't asked what kind of weapon he had.

"What kind of weapon did you have when Youre encountered Orc?

You didn't have a weapon?

"Huh?"

Oak didn't have a weapon? But from this cut, it feels like it was cut with a blade. So you're saying you got a weapon after Youre fell off a cliff?... does that have the weapons of anyone of those three?

"... Could Orc have a weapon?

"Maybe."

"You didn't have to have anything to be strong, but even a weapon..."

and Youre was a little trembling about even imagining an oak with a weapon. I decided to hurry ahead while gently stroking Yua's back like that.

"... let's just move on?

"... yeah"

Then I followed in the footsteps and there were traces of him sitting in a tree, urrowing down a similar spot, as if he ran out of the woods from the area where his arm had fallen. There, like a porch and two empty bottles were rolling.

"Yua, did they have potions?

"For once, I think he had every single one except me..."

"Yes...... But there are two of them."

That's what I said. I looked inside the porch and it had my guild card in it.

"Ah, guild card"

That's what I said, took it, and I checked to see who it was.

Name Onoma

Age 14

stunt sword

Adventurer Rank E

"Is Onoma fourteen?

"That's right. Everyone but me is 14."

"Really? What about Youre?"

"Me? I'm 11."

I was a little surprised to hear Youre was eleven. I was wondering if you were ten because you're shorter than me. Well, Yua, the cute thing is, it doesn't change...

"And Mendez had Onoma's porch?

"Probably will"

"You mean you took out Onoma's porch when you ran away? Enough to take it out, could you afford it?

"What do you think?

"... Well, I don't think you can tell by thinking, shall we follow in the footsteps that continue?

"Yeah."

I gave Onoma's guild card to Youre before walking out but walking for a while interrupted its footprint.

And beyond that was a cliff that was dozens of meters high.