Vol 1 Chapter 18 (1/2)

Post-war

After suffocating both of the petrified bastards to death, the conflict finally came to a conclusion In the end, the casualties were decent, mostly because they were all on the enemies’ side

As I recalled that my Xifu ounded, I swiftly carried her to the bed as I convinced her to rest

Afterwards, I dragged the corpses and arranged the them

When I was done, I rushed back to the cave, and checked my Xifu’s wound

Bullets used by a flintlock gun don’t frage should be little

Looking at the wound, I could easily spot the small lead-like ball stuck in the flesh

So I tried to reh the only tool I could use for it were the small scissors

To be honest, I was already afraid of taking thorns out ofout a bullet fro it

But, she’s my wife after all, so I have to do it

Just like hoe scratch our nose e feel it itch, ical reflexes

Taking a deep breath, I cracked my knuckles and looked at her

Her face showed a relaxed expression……Hey, you do know that you just got shot, right?

“What is it?”

“Eh, nothing If you are in pain, then bite me”

“Ah?”

As I was speaking, I put the scissors over hter flame to sterilise it In a fluid motion, I inserted the blade into the wound and forcefully tried to pry the bullet out

”Sorry…it ht?”

“It’s fine”

As expected oftreated by so out bullets, she merely knit her brows for a second

The blood co it And even if I wanted to, I didn’t have any disinfectants such as alcohol

As I stared at the blood-red wound, I realized that this was the first time in the 45 days I had been with her that she was injured to protect ainst an ‘enemy’

What would you call an ‘enemy’ in this world?

I used to think that I only needed to guard against fierce beasts and bad weather, but now it see on our door readily

I started thinking about how this whole thing happened, which left me with a few questions The first hy did the humans come here?

I was pretty sure that there weren’t any huhtfall Toas definitely more than 10 kilometre away

Looking across the plains, there hasn’t been any sign of hu it before

Because of that I hypothesized that these 5 hu supplies in their luggage only served to fortify my hypothesis further

Then, if they travelled so far to come here, how did they find us so accurately?

It would sound too forceful, to say that it was because they saw the wagon with the big sheep that I tied near the cold river

After all, the cold river was quite a distance from the cave, and the forest blocked the view from the outside

Two possibilities floated in roup had already known of our existence as well as our position

The second was that they had used some kind of device or other way to pinpoint our position

Personally, I considered the second possibility as ht be a tool to detect monsters

If that is right, then uess bore fruit

These 5 people caoal in mind, and that is to hunt down monsters

However, a hypothesis is only a hypothesis in the end, and there were still many possibilities that I hadn’t considered yet

Still, it wasn’t bad to expect the worst when your life was threatened Especially considering how the Blond Leader threatened me, and how easily he decided to fire

So in a way, there was no reason not to think of the worst case scenario

Another problem that surfaced was the question whether or not there really was any need to kill all 5 of them?

During that tier, so I hadn’t been thinking straight

But to be honest, I couldn’t possibly let even one of those 5 people get away

Had I had even an ounce of coo, then our position and existence would have been completely exposed

By having them rest here eternally, there won’t be any more people that know our position