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99. Find Mendez

"Yua, what is this..."

"Yeah......"

Mendez will have jumped off this cliff. Just in case, I checked to see if there were any footprints elsewhere, but it's still broken off on this cliff. And a peek under the rough cliff was probably where someone thought to be a woman had fallen.

"Looks like you fell out of here..."

That said, Youre also peered under the cliff.

"... yeah. But why did you jump?

"I don't know, but to see from the footprints, you say there's no stray..."

You couldn't get away from the orc, and you gave up on yourself? But if so, can you jump towards the cliff without hesitation? I thought so and remembered Mendez, but I tried to imagine her jumping with personal subjectivity included, but I didn't think I could. Jump! I think you're the type to cry when I say it.

"Is he dead..."

Yua was asking what was going on down there, saying so. What you can tell from here is that the clothes are bright red and the feet are curved in weird directions. And he probably was bleeding because he doesn't have one arm and the ground is dirty with blood.

"I don't know if it's alive from here, but I don't think it's surprising if it's dead..."

"... can I go to Mendes?

"I don't mind, but you don't know if he's alive, do you?

"Yeah."

So we started walking along the cliff to get to Mendez.

On the road, being vigilant, Mendez wondered why he had done that. He's running around and jumping... Footprints that were running too strange to give up running away... I realized I was thinking about that.

"(It was definitely after noon that Youre came down from the sky...)"

"? Lena, what's wrong?

I think I figured out how she jumped out of there when she came to me asking me what was wrong with Yua, apparently speaking a little.

"It's about Mendez, but I might have figured out how he jumped out of there."

"Huh? What do you mean?

So Yua looked back.

"I was thinking about when Yur came down from the top earlier, but it was already about noon then, so they ran away and fought, and I think it could have been night when Mendez was running away alone, but so I couldn't see ahead and fell off? I thought so, but what do you think?

"... I don't think that's possible."

and looked a little subtle.

"After all, was it a little impossible?

"That's not true. Which seems most likely..."

"!? Youre"

Something came this way while we were talking about that. Maybe that's what I think. Speak up to Youa. After a while, Youa seems to have noticed something, too. Get in a combat position. And coming out of the bush was a human-shaped organism that was less than two meters old.

"Oak!?

Such a scream of Youre echoed in the woods.