Chapter 24 (1/2)

Chapter 24: The Reward for Saving the Princess

When I thought about it.

「Coco〜, are you there, Coco?」

I looked behind, and shouted towards the outside of the cave.

*BataBata* I heard footsteps. Coco who I left behind outside entered.

「Yes〜, Coco is here〜」

「That, I’ll leave it to you」

I pointed at Ruby.

Coco is also a girl. It would be better to leave it to Coco to do something with the princess with her messed up look.

After thinking for a second, she nodded with a troubled face.

「I understand〜」

She said that, and went where Ruby was.

I faced my back from that, and tried to not look.

After a while *Za*, *Za* I heard the sound of that.

What sound is that?

I took a glance through my shoulder, I saw Coco digging the ground.

「Coco? What are you doing」

「Yes, I am digging a hole〜」

「A hole? Why are you digging for a hole?」

「It wouldn’t be buried if I don’t dig a hole desu yo〜?」

「Don’t bury her, don’t bury her!」

I let out a loud voice.

「She wouldn’t be buried desu ka〜?」

「Don’t bury her! I meant it as fix her clothes」

「……Ah〜」

*Pon*, Coco clapped her hand.

Is she really thinking of burying her, this girl.

I faced back again. This time I heard sounds of clothes being worn properly, so I was relieved.

「It is finished〜」

「n」

I looked back. Ruby’s clothes were fixed.

I approached her, and casted magic.

「Float」

Ruby’s body floated up.

She floated with her lying posture.

I pushed her softly, and as if to slide on ice, Ruby’s body floated in the air.

「Wah〜, amazing〜」

「Want to do it, Coco?」

「Un!」

Coco nodded very happily.

I changed with her. Coco stood where I was standing, *TsunTsun* poked Ruby.

Ruby hovered and slide.

For the meantime, I thought of bringing her to the town.

「u……n」

Before going out the cave, Ruby woke up.

I looked into her face from above.

「You woke up?」

「This is……ha,hya!」

When I met eyes with her, *Don!* Ruby pushed me back with her both hands while raising a scream.

Ruby with an adult body, and me with a child’s body.

Normally, it would’ve been me who was pushed away, but.

「Hyaaaa!」

It was Ruby who was pushed away.

Because she was floating in mid-air with the magic of Float, she flew away with the recoil of pus.h.i.+ng me away. She went inside the cave with a decent speed.

*Do〜n*   *Dosa*

It sounded that she hit somewhere, and fell to the ground.

「Kyaaaaaaaa!」

And soon after that, I heard a scream. I entered inside thinking what happened, and Ruby was screaming to the corpses of the bandits that was on the ground.

Most of them were burnt black, but one partーーfor example, a head burnt only half of it, was still there.

It was scene that you would scream at normally.

「T-This is……what is the meaning of this」

「I defeated them」