Chapter 89 - Meeting after Running (1/2)

Ch. 89: Meeting after Running

“I can’t help but feel that this isn’t a good situation. What do you think?”

Lapis asked him as they ran through the forest, but Loren had too much on his plate to answer her.

He was running through a place that was hard to run in and had a child under his arm.

Although it was easier than running while carrying Lapis on his back, but because the fairies chasing after them were so fast, he was having to run at full speed, and he was so tired that if he lost focus even for a second, his feet might stop moving.

“Can’t Shayna drive them away?”

‘I’ve been working on it…’

Of course, Shayna’s voice didn’t reach Lapis’ ears.

Only Loren could hear her.

Hearing her, Loren moved his eyes and looked around, and saw there were fairies here and there falling to the ground, but it didn’t seem to have much effect because of their sheer numbers.

“If we stop, we’ll end up being eaten. What do we do!?”

“Burn them?”

“Do you prefer being burned to death than eaten to death?”

Lapis’ magic was powerful.

It wasn’t something they would want to use in front of Feuille, but in the crisis they were in, Loren knew that they couldn’t afford to be picky.

But they were currently running within a forest, and if Lapis were to use the magic she used at the campsite before they entered the forest, it would burn everything around them as well as the fairies, and there was no telling how big of a fire it would become.

If that happened, they wouldn’t be able to escape scot free either.

“Can’t you use spells other that aren’t fire attribute?”

“I’m not that good at them…because they aren’t that cool.”

“Don’t choose magic based on how they look!”

Although he said that, he couldn’t tell her to use something she couldn’t.

“We’ll eventually be caught!”

“They’re smaller and can navigate through the forest better than us, after all.”

Since Loren had a large body, he had to be careful about choosing the spaces between the trees he could fit through, but the fairies that were chasing them could get past almost every opening, so they were chasing after them in almost a straight line.

“Do fairies ever get tired!?”

“They do, but I have a feeling that even if they do, that won’t stop them.”

When Loren glanced back, what he saw were fairies with bloodshot eyes and blood covered mouths, gnashing their teeth and fluttering their wings.

The sight was even scarier because of their cute looking faces, so Loren turned back, afraid that if he looked at them too long, they would appear in his nightmares.

“It doesn’t look like we could talk to them either.

“What should we do?”

Although she didn’t sound worried at all, Loren could see a hint of uneasiness on her face, so instead of saying anything, he got a better grip on Feuille and focused on running.

If he was told to charge into the fairies, swinging his great sword, although he would get quite injured, he could do so, but if he was told to think of a way to drive them back or find someplace to hide, he didn’t think he could think of any.

So, Loren decided that all he could do was keep running while hoping that Lapis could think of something.

After a while Lapis asked Feuille, who was hanging limp under Loren’s arm, a question.

“Is there a lake or a swamp that’s somewhat deep in the area?”

“There’s one that way.”

Feuille pointed in a direction.

Confirming the direction in which he was pointing at, Lapis tapped Loren on the shoulder, somehow leaned into him while running at top speed, and yelled into his ear loud enough so he could hear her over the flapping of wings.

“Let’s go that way!”

“That way is…”

I’m not sure if it’s a lake or a swamp, but there’s water! You know what to do, right?”

After thinking for a moment, Loren realized Lapis’ intentions.

It was possible that they could wait out the swarm of fairies that were chasing them.

“Same as bees, huh.”

“Yes. Now all we have to do is hope that the water is as clean as possible!”

Among the things one could do when being chased by bees that sting, jumping into water is one of them.

Creatures like bees won’t follow under the water because their wings would get wet.

Although she wasn’t sure if the fairies were the same, Lapis guessed that there was a high chance that they won’t follow them anymore.