Vol 1 Chapter 7 (1/2)
Chapter 7: Intertwined—translated by CesiumBlack
The two sprinted for quite a long period of time. It was only upon seeing that Silvester was gasping for breath as if he was on his deathbed that Red Cloak slowed her steps to a walk.
Silvester let out a sigh of relief. After walking for a section of road and recovering his breath, he immediately blurted out, “Warrior Queen, come with me to find my teacher!”
“No!” Red Cloak growled.
Silvester was startled but did not intend to give up just like that. After going through all that trouble to find the Warrior Queen, he could not give up no matter what!
“It’s not too far from here, only two days’ travel…”
Red Cloak stopped walking, her black pupils boring into Silvester’s face. She said indifferently, “I’m not going with you to see LL. You should give up!”
Hearing this, Silvester hung his head and said slightly sadly, “Even if it is a grave, you are still not willing to go?”
Red Cloak was shocked. She looked toward Silvester, using her eyes to wordlessly ask for confirmation. Her companion nodded his head slightly.
It was only after a lengthy pause that Red Cloak forced out a short sentence. “How did he die?”
“Illness,” Silvester honestly replied. “Two years ago, Teacher came down with a serious cold and pa.s.sed away after a month of lying in bed. His body was not well in the first place, and he’d often burst out coughing uncontrollably for some reason…”
“It was internal injuries.” Red Cloak calmly explained, “He had previously suffered from extremely serious internal injuries.”
Silvester goggled. He had not known of this, always a.s.suming that his teacher had always been sickly. In addition to that, his teacher had never explained this matter to him.
“Before he died, Teacher wanted me to seek you out. He would only let me inherit his harp and be freed from the duty of singing ’The Ballad of the Warrior Queen’ for three days if I found you and received an answer.” Silvester used a pleading tone of voice to beseech her, “Regardless of whether you’ll give me an answer or not, please at least come with me to visit my teacher!”
Red Cloak was unable to refuse this request for her to pay respects to a departed comrade.
While the two were walking through a forest, Red Cloak was originally content to just stay silent and follow Silvester, but the more they walked the more she thought that something was not quite right. She had initially thought that this forest was just a midway point to their destination, but the two of them had already been walking in this vicinity for quite some time. Don’t tell me this is the destination?
“You didn’t bury LL in a forest, did you?” Red Cloak angrily grabbed Silvester’s collar, growling, “If you buried him here, he’ll be dug up and devoured by wild animals! If LL’s grave is dug up, I’ll put you in a grave as well!”
Silvester hurriedly denied, “No, no, I buried Teacher in a very pretty place overlooking the ocean! It’s only that I need to find G.o.d first, before I go find Teacher! I remember that I put Him on a tree in this forest, but why can’t I find that tree…”
Red Cloak’s face was expressionless.
Seeing her blank face, Silvester felt that the situation had taken a turn for the worse, so he quickly yelled, “G.o.d! Where are You?! I forgot where I left You! Come out quickly!”
“Even if there really was a gold slime, you really think it would wait for you in a tree for this long?”
“He will!” Silvester confidently nodded his head, saying, “Without me, G.o.d won’t even move one bit!”
d.a.m.n it, I want to beat you up until you’re the one who can’t even move one bit! Red Cloak was on the verge of losing her temper. She honestly did not know where LL had gotten such a ridiculous student from.
“Ouch!”
Silvester’s entire body suddenly ended up on the ground. He let out a few grunts of pain, until he heard Red Cloak say, “Still not up yet? Do you need me to give you a kick or two?”
Normally, shouldn’t one ask if he needed some help getting up? Feeling aggrieved, Silvester got to his feet. However, he discovered his head now felt rather strange.
“Oh no, my head feels really heavy! I think I might have a concussion!”
After he had finished yelling worriedly, he noticed that Red Cloak’s stare was somewhat off. In fact, it seemed that her gaze was not directed at him but rather just above his head… He cried out in surprise and delight, “Ah! G.o.d, You came back?”
Red Cloak frowned and looked at the thing on top of Silvester’s head. It looked to be about the same as a regular slime— a translucent, gelatinous glob that somewhat resembled a fruit jelly. It was merely that its color was not a slime’s usual green but a golden color instead. She didn’t expect that there really would be a golden slime… Wait, does it have eyes?
Even though they were very small, like two sesame seeds suspended in the body of a fruit jelly, they really did look like eyes. However, slimes should not have eyes. In addition to that, this lump of a thing even had a brightly colored design in its middle, which at first glance looked to be a decorative motif.
Regardless of what it was, there was no way that it could be a G.o.d, even if Silvester was hugging it and repeating over and over: “G.o.d, good thing You didn’t get lost!”, “G.o.d, how have you been these past few days?”, “Hahaha, stop wiggling, it tickles!”
If this is a G.o.d, then every household would have a G.o.d—kept in the doghouse outside!
“G.o.d, this is a new friend! Let’s say hi!” Silvester introduced Red Cloak.
“G.o.d” wanted to show friendliness, initially looking as if he wanted to jump onto her. However, upon seeing Red Cloak’s eyes fill with a warning of, “If you dare get closer I’ll make mincemeat out of you,” “G.o.d” immediately shrank back into Silvester’s embrace, even using a tail he had just pulled out to tightly latch onto his arm, refusing to greet the other party even on pain of death.
“Hehe, G.o.d’s just very shy!” Silvester said laughingly.
“You call him G.o.d?” Red Cloak said insipidly, “I’ll give it a new name. From here on let’s change its name to OhmyG.o.d!”
“OhmyG.o.d?” Silvester nodded his head and said, “This name is pretty good. G.o.d is my little G.o.d, after all!”
It’s “OhmyG.o.d” from oh my G.o.d what on earth is that!1 Red Cloak did not explain further, as the only reason she gave OhmyG.o.d a name was to prevent Silvester from repeatedly calling a mutant slime “G.o.d” in the middle of a city, so as to avoid the trouble that would bring.
Red Cloak flatly reminded, “It’s getting late. We should hurry up.”
“Right!”
“We’re here, we’re here!”
The two reached their destination around evening the next day, much faster than the two days that Silvester had said it would take. This, of course, was due to the two’s traveling styles being vastly different. Silvester usually stopped frequently to look at the flowers or the gra.s.s, but Red Cloak, who had just gotten the news of a comrade’s death, did not have the inclination or patience to do such a thing.
After being kicked a few times, Silvester no longer had the inclination to stop frequently either.
They were at a patch of gra.s.s close to the edge of a cliff. The view was superb, allowing one to survey the ocean.
Even though Silvester had said it was at this spot, there was no tombstone. Red Cloak fixed an extremely unfriendly stare onto Silvester.
Silvester immediately pointed out a large stone that was not too far into the distance, saying, “Teacher is buried beside that large stone because he didn’t want me to set up a tombstone for him. He also wanted to be directly buried in the dirt, not even wanting to use a coffin. He said that once we die we have to return to the earth, and even if we’re put into a coffin and get a gravestone, won’t we rot just the same? So there’s no point at all.”
Red Cloak looked at the stone that was practically half a man’s height, while the sounds of Silvester’s explanation drifted to her ears. “I was afraid that I wouldn’t be able to find his resting place again, so I buried him beside this large stone.”
Red Cloak nodded her head, as being interred directly into the earth truly sounded like something LL would prefer. She walked towards the large rock…