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Chapter 077 - Letter

“I’m really sorry!”

After that, we finished cleaning up and came back to the wagon.

It was evening already.

Today we would just camp here like that.

Lyss apologized again for the nth time to me who had covered for her and got injured as a result.

Even though I’ve already been cured of the Giant Scorpion’s poison with magic, my body was still numb so it’s hard to move.

Numb to the point that I had to borrow Snow and s.h.i.+a’s shoulders to get back to the wagon.

Right now, I am lying down inside the wagon and Lyss is next to me, teary eyed and hanging her head down.

Snow, Chrisse, s.h.i.+a are in the middle; preparing our camp, meal, and other odd jobs.

I called out to Lyss.

“I will say this again and again, that wasn’t your fault. If you ask whose responsibility it was, then it was mine, I couldn’t understand the meaning of the unusual amount of bones scattered at the cave’s entrance. It wasn’t your fault.”

“But…...if I was to be more cautious of the surroundings then you wouldn’t got hit by the poison needle. If I was more level-headed like my elder sister then…...”

She clenched her hands which were placed on her knees.

“......I don’t know what kind of feelings you holds toward your big sister. But I think it is really good that I have Lyss as a comrade. Thanks to you we can carry luggage without a care, and we safely defeated the Giant Scorpion with the panzerfausts. Even though I received a poison needle, I escaped death due to your detoxification. That’s why I will say it again. I am really glad that I have Lyss as a comrade.”

“Lute-san…...”

“Me too!”

Snow and others who were preparing food and camp outside also join the conversation.

“Me too, I am really happy that Lyss-oneechan is my comrade.”

“Hime-sama. It’s presumptuous of me but to be able to eat and sleep together with hime-sama, it’s an honor for me.”

“E, everyone…...”

Tears roll from her eyes.

I don’t see the sadness on her face anymore.

“If Lyss got into danger then will definitely save you, as many times as we have to. Wouldn’t you do the same if we were in trouble?”

“―Isn’t that obvious! Since we are precious comrades after all!”

She wiped her tears with her fingers, and answered with a smile that resembles a cloudless sky.

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After the Giant Scorpion extermination, again, it took us about 7 days to get back to Enol.

Early in the morning, after we greeted Meiya in a hurry, we were summoned to Woodcastle.

Our group pa.s.sed through the castle’s courtyard.

We can’t dirty the castle with the body fluids of the Giant Scorpions.

The parent is about 10 meters long, whereas the child is only about 5 meters.

The two bodies stored with Lyss’ blessing appeared.

“To, to think that you really defeated it…… two of them, even.”

Even the ministers beside the King raised voices of surprise.

Lyss speaks to the King with a confident att.i.tude like she had been reborn.

“As per the promise, I have returned from exterminating the Giant Scorpions that lived in Green Howden. Father, with this you will acknowledge Lute-san and everyone’s abilities, right?”

The King made grim face at the truth before his eyes.