Vol 1 Chapter 19 (1/2)
Chapter 19
Phantasmal Roar
We carried Aunty to bed and took a rest for a moment
I couldn't carry her alone and show off, so I had Ilya help me
I'd already checked her breathing before, but I did it once more to make sure
”Hht, isn't she,” I murmured, as if to reassure myself
”I believe she will be alright That was a wonderful spell, Alice-sama”
”T-thank you”
Ilya sure acts normally—
Should I think of that as so like artificial respiration?
No, I' those lines, but still
What on earth has she?
”Ilya, earlier what exactly was that?”
”I am very sorry, Alice-sama”
”No, it's not like I'ry, how should I say this, I feel like thanks to that I was able to get better?”
Oh Ilya, you're not even my slave yet but you're so polite to me already
”That is, uhm”
While avoiding me with her emerald eyes, Ilya hesitated
I see, so she can't reveal her circumstances just like that, either Just like me
”Sorry, forget it But you really did save me there Thank you”
From the point she saved me from the bandits, actually
Actually, Ilya is da!
Isn't she stronger than me?
Well, I won't lose at ranged coh!
”No, such praise is wasted on me”
”You're so stiff”
Well, if I do ether would increase and we'd could get closer or used to each other, I guess
”By the way, how did you knohere I was?”
”While I was fighting alongside the Firh the streets right away, Alice-sama because you stand out”
Finding it somewhat hard to say, Ilya turned her face away
wait a sec
” did the bandits co after me perhaps follow me?”
Ilya aardly nodded in affirmative
Ohh
The seeds that I sowed
Nono, looking at it in hindsight, I also didn't have a moment to spare
”ah”
”?”
Co at Ilya's arm, there was a cut after all
Well, usually speaking stopping one slash from a scimitar with your arm wouldn't lead to just a little cut
Her arm is so resilient I almost wanted to shout out ”What exactly is your body made of?”
”Please show it to me”
”Ah, no, such conc-”
”Just do it”
I forcibly took Ilya's arm and laid my hand on the cut
”——Heal”
It wasn't such an exhausting wound
Thus it closed right away
Actually, bruises are scary because of infections and so
”Thank you very much”
”No, I wish I could do more for you”
To pay her back
But it was mysterious
I kept holding Ilya's arm like that and carefully stroked it a bit
Her skin was so smooth
It was soft, and you wouldn't call her muscular
Or rather, her arm was delicate
”Excuse me”
”Ah, I'ot the better of me”
I let go of Ilya's arave me a troubled look
Uhhhm
What's the secret behind her Protection 5?
So doesn't quite add up
Is she not human?
”Oy”
”Ah, yes?”
From beyond the door, Blackie came in to check up on us
”The Fir after this house Relax, they won't lose to some bandits”
”Eh?”
My wonderment at why the Firm went so far h by him
Is there athis town?
”In return, I' a tough time on the meadows outside of town”
So Ilya alone is more important than the combat slaves outside?
That weird Wouldn't thatsold for is too cheap?
Is there so?
”Are bandits still left?”
”Nahh, you can probably say the bandits have been wiped fro rounds to make sure”
Then what are they having a hard time with?
With the sharp look in his eyes gried to squeeze out one phrase
”———it's a dragon”
After reaching the large street, we could bodily feel its stature and roar even if we didn't want to
The dragon wasover the inning
”Tsk, it's already come that close”
As Blackie said, earlier I hadn't felt those roars or the tre with them
No, had it even existed in the first place?
Had it suddenly appeared?
But as a reality, right noas there That phantas pressure
Thisone quite this soon
My experiences so far were plenty unreal already, but this takes the cake
It's so huge I can't quite believe it exists in this world
Had dinosaurs still been alive, it est I've seen were the elephants in the zoo
It's still ways away, but isn't there so with my sense of perspective?
It has the intensity of ahouse
”We have to make Aunty and the people in the town evacuate!”