Volume 1 - Chapter 13 – ATTACK (1/2)

To Lithia’s sudden question, of course Jin was speechless. But then he remembered, what the orphanage director had said before,

「People are beings that cannot live on their own. Therefore everyone borrows someone else’s power to live」

「Ee, that’s true…」

Lithia meekly nodded to those words.

「People have things they are and aren’t suited for. Therefore there’ll be things you can and can’t do」

「Ee, I know…」

「So, isn’t it fine to live for the things you can do?」

When Jin said those words, Lithia hanged her head down,

「… the things I can do」

she murmured. Jin,

「I’m not a noble, and I have no interests in government. But, isn’t Lithia-san different?」

「Eh?」

「A person that stands above others and does not question what they do is unpleasant, and is what someone like me thinks.」

Lithia fell silent from that and seemed to be thinking about what was said.Jin said nothing more and gazed at the stars and moon.

After checking 2 hours had roughly passed by the movement of the moon, the two went inside the cabin to switch shifts. The men had a large room while Lithia was in a separate room.

In the large room, Jin woke up the sleeping and snoring Jonas and Linus

「Hn? …aa, it’s time to switch?」

「Yes, please do so」

「Hn… I got it」

Having switched, Jin lied down. Being worn out from the day, he easily fell asleep.

On the other hand, Litha couldn’t fall asleep. She was thinking about what Jin had said.

「Something I can do… huh? I need to find that something, and for now it’d probably be my current task…」

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The next morning it was unusually cloudy. Dim inside, they finished their breakfast and quickly departed. Coming out the forest, they crossed a bridge over a creek and arrived at a prairie.

「At this rate it looks like we’ll make it to a village before it becomes night」

「That will be good」

The bicycle trailers advanced, gotogoto. According to schedule, lunch was finished and there was about 15km left. It will take around 4 hours. The surroundings had become rocky.

「The village will be in sight after exiting this rocky area」

Saying that, Rock encouraged the party.

「There’s only a little left to go, hang in there」

At that moment.

「Uwaaah!」

Yang at the rear of the line screamed.

「What’s wrong!?」

「U-Uwaah, what is that thing!」

Turning around, something with a strange appearance approached them from behind.

「That’s a… golem?」

Lithia murmured.

「Golem? That thing is?」

It’s height was 2 metres and its entire body was made of iron armour in a human form. It looked really solid.

「Uwah, there’s one here too!」

it was Rock’s voice. The identical golem moved forward and approached.

「Is it aiming for the wheat? Shit, damn you, this is unreasonable!」

The wheat was important, but there was no way to beat an armoured golem, and Rock cried out in sorrow.

「I won’t let you!」

「Lithia, it’s impossible!」