Book 17 Chapter 7
Chapter 105
“Kies!”
The hero’s party joined Kies long after all the situations had ended.
Although they were a group of masters, there was no one with tracking abilities like Kies, so the pursuit was bound to face difficulties.
Until then, Kies had been digging holes with a shovel and burying the arrow-pierced bodies.
“What happened? You ran all the way here with a pale face… Was there an engagement with an enemy?”
“…”
“It was you, so you must have dealt with it, right? What kind of bastard was it? The bodies? Let me see that son of a bitch’s face.”
“…”
“Why? Why are you suddenly looking at me with those eyes? Did I perhaps say something wrong just now?”
Rista placed a hand on Kies’s shoulder.
“Kies, you should rest a bit. You look tired. It’s natural, having seen such a tragedy… Leave it to Rin. Friede will offer funeral prayers too.”
Even in such circumstances, at such a moment, one couldn’t help but be impressed by the hero’s perspective, always striving to lead the world towards brightness.
“Why me again? You do it.”
Friede, having suppressed his presence, subtly placed a hand on Rin’s shoulder and spoke in an eerie voice.
“Ho, ho, ho, otherwise… vengeful spirits full of resentment will covet your young body and appear in droves at night. Will that be okay?”
“Kkyuooooooiiiiiit!”
Sval shrieked, and Rin, startled, began frantically spreading magic circles on his palm!
The earth cracks open!
The bodies Kies had carefully collected float up with telekinesis and settle neatly in various places on the cracked earth!
“Don’t appear, don’t appear, just try to appear. I’m doing this right now.”
As Rin mumbled as if praying, Kies felt unable to tear his gaze away from the rosary spinning around Rin’s left arm.
- Kill the kid in your party, take the rosary tied to their arm, and bring it to me.
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“Is this the last body?”
Friede placed a hand on an old man’s forehead and offered a prayer to the heavens to soothe the last grudge. Rista, who was assisting Friede, closed the eyes of the deceased that hadn’t been shut.
“As expected, Rin is amazing because he’s the [Strongest Mage]. To finish all this in less than an hour. Thanks to that, Friede’s work also finished quickly.”
Rista praised Rin more than usual, but Rin merely grumbled, gripping his golden staff tightly and constantly looking around, saying, “Just try to appear…”
“Rista, what do you think?”
“Huh?”
“What do you think happened in this village?”
“Well… just looking at this situation.”
“No, I mean about Kies. That guy, no matter how I look at it, his condition was a little strange. I even felt killer intent (殺氣) from him a moment ago, you know? I’ve picked on him and beaten him up for all sorts of reasons, but he’s never harbored killer intent before.”
Then Rin narrowed his eyes.
“Wow, what a real jerk.”
“Rin, shh! You shouldn’t speak so frankly, no matter how true it is.”
“I can hear everything, you bastards!”
“Friede, you don’t have to worry too much. I trust Kies. When he’s ready, he’ll tell us what happened. If it’s important, that is.”
“Of course, it’s not that I don’t trust Kies… How should I put it? It’s just that… I have a bad feeling.”