"Let go of me!

At the same time as Ashton's cry, an arrow is released from Stacia's bow. Stacia instantly puts the second arrow on the bow and releases it continuously.

(Norfest is a handsome beast. highly unlikely to hit the first arrow)

Ashton's predictions were short-lived and centered, somewhat bounced off by Norfest's hook claws. But the two arrows released to penetrate the gap succeed in piercing Norfest's right knee.

Seeing an arrow stabbed in his own knee, Norfest raised a spooky scream.

"Let's cross the river now!

"Oh yeah!

It was Ashton, who ran at all costs as he forced his flesh to scream out of consciousness, followed Stacia into the river...

"Ha... ha..."

The flow is not so fast, but if you are not moving forward intermediately due to body pain,

"Don't bring it!

He seems to be a master swimmer as well as a bow, and Stacia crosses the river grabbing Ashton's collar. Reaching the bank of the river in an instant, Norfest is roaring low as he walks his left and right rows.

With Stacia's help, Ashton managed to cross the river.

"Ha-ha-ha... you managed to cut through"

"Ha-ha-ha... Yep. If Mr. Stacia hadn't shot through Norfest's knees, I'm sure he'd have been caught up before he jumped into the river. Thanks for your help."

"If it wasn't for your operation, I would definitely be dead. - Well, thank you."

Stacia comes thanking me so hard to say as I look down. Soon Ashton squeezed his face tight, even as his cheeks loosened to words he had never thought of.

"Unfortunately, we can't stay alert yet"

"What do you mean?

"It's..."

Warcraft Norfest is a beast that originally acts in connection. It's unnatural to show up alone in the first place. Assuming Norfest, who attacked Ashton in the woods, is one crack, it is definitely being mowed by Olivia's hand.

If the Norfest in front of you is looking for a single crack, it's not unlikely that he showed up smelling a slight smell of one crack left in his body, Ashton explained.

"I don't think you've ever been attacked by Norfest again."

"Really. I'm pretty sure I'm the one who's after him. If you leave me, Mr. Stacia will escape."

"... you're not going to give me the money?

Stacia turns a frigid eye.

"That's not what I meant to say..."

To confused Ashton, Stacia stood up and said.

"Then we'll just go. It gets pretty far from here, but if you go out on the street, you shouldn't be following me just fine"

"... you won't know if you regret it"

Stacia starts walking with her nose ringing and her bow in her arms. Ashton followed Stacia in silence.

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walking even in the woods to escape Norfest,

"A little early, but suppose to rest there today."

That's what Stacia pointed at, covered in grass and hard to understand, but I can see a part of the cave when I stare. With Ashton on his ass, who is impressed with how much he has found, Stacia proceeds cautiously toward the cave.

"I hope I don't have any customers..."

No wonder there are beasts living in this cave. To Ashton speaking out in the sense of urging vigilance, Stacia opens her mouth as she looks at the cave.

"Of course I'll confirm."

Upon arrival at the cave, Stacia, who kept Ashton waiting at the entrance, carefully enters the cave. Ashton waits awhile alerting his surroundings and Stacia returns with a relief look on her face.

The day leaned greatly west, dyeing the woods to a peach.

"There doesn't seem to be a problem for now. I'll get food before sundown, so you collect firewood and start a fire."

"I don't mind that...... are you okay?

Ashton deserves to get here, and Stacia should be draining quite a bit of strength too. That's what I thought and called out, but what came back was a word that could be taken both as a scorn and a mockery.

"Don't be with a little guy like you. Either way, I need rice to restore my health. Better prepare for the fire than that."

"Ok...... take care"

Stacia, who staggered Ashton and his eyes for only a moment, separates the bow into the woods again with one hand. As Stacia told me, Ashton worked to pick up firewood.

The moment of the night when the sun sets completely and the earth is covered in darkness...

Inside the cave there were different sights of men and women in underwear surrounding the burning fire.

"But we were fortunate that the ash rays were caught early. There's a big difference between eating and not eating and recovering health."

Stacia mouths a reasonably cooked meat as she says it. Returning from the hunt, Stacia suddenly began to take off her clothes. Ashton screamed for me to forget about the pain in his body and stop, but as it was, he was hit with the honest argument that he would catch a cold. Anyway, I was forced to convince myself that there was no problem if I didn't look straight at it, and reluctantly accepted.

Ashton, in underwear as well as Stacia for similar reasons, asked about the prospects for the future over the bonfire.

"You've earned a lot of distance. You should be able to get out into the streets by noon tomorrow. ─ ─ Unless Norfest finds us."

"Right......"

Ashton hammers with his eyes on the cave entrance. The beastless flowers that have recently become popular among hunters - scattered with saffron in the snow. Stacia said she hates the smell of saffron in the snow as much as the vicious beast, but she's not sure as to the actual effect.

I'm sorry for Stacia for the preparation, but Ashton only thought that Rika wouldn't do anything.

Flattening the ash rays openly, Stacia stares seriously at Ashton. Ashton retreated to hide his body.

"What, what is it?

"Nah. I always thought you weren't a soldier at all from the start."

"Well, that's a lot to say. I didn't want to be a soldier in the first place."

"Hmm. And yet why did you become a soldier?

He was conscripted.

"Conscript or... if it wasn't conscript, I wouldn't be a soldier like you"

Stacia has continued to ask more questions after laughing at Kaka.

"I was wondering, too, what country are you a soldier in? It's obvious that he's not a soldier of the Imperial Mekia, but he's also not the uniform of the Serranis kingdom."

"I am a soldier of the kingdom of Farnest."

"Oh. A soldier from that country."

Stacia gave a peek at such expressions as convincing. Apparently, Ashton grinned heartily that the current situation in the Farnest kingdom was known to the average person as well.

"Why did Mr. Stacia become a hunter?

"Ah? ─ Well, my father's a hunter. When you realize it, it feels like you've inherited nature."

Stacia glanced away for a moment but noticed that the flames of the burning fire were weakening and threw away the twigs nearby. The twig explodes with a patchy, flaming momentum returns.

The conversation broke off and the hoe and the birdy voice slipped into the cave.

"─ Mr. Stacia, go to sleep first. I'll keep an eye on you."

Stacia stood up slowly as she put her hand on her knees. Her whole body is revealed, and Ashton rushes away.

"... will you let me do that? Exactly. I'm tired of having a lot going on today."

Stacia, finally dressed dry, lays down to hold her knees and nod. Less than five minutes later, I heard a little sleep from Stacia's mouth. Ashton, who also appears to be dry and sleeves through again, sits in front of the burning fire again, desperately raising his lid, which is about to fall.

Dawn still needed a while...