Volume 1 Chapter 5 Part3 (2/2)

“Yo, it's been a while, Plast I'd thought that you'd broken up with us”

“It's not like I came here because I wanted to”

The lean archer replied indifferently and quickly asked, hiding his voice

“Do you really think he'd return north?”

“Whether I think it or not, the footprints say all”

“Footprints aren't left behind on cobblestone, though There's the possibility that's he's pretending to head north, and is actually backtracking as soon as he left the main road”

“Ah, I see Guess you can use your brains, heh Well, even if I do get it, let's supposed the boy really did take the kidnapped brat and backtrack on the o? South? Would he cross the Kalsudo with arle breath Then, west? Could he leave from either Vertia or Co a sail out froh money to afford to ride on a boat After all, we haven't been paid our wages for several h and slapped his pockets Of course, the other h he looked embarrassed from the silence, Varte continued to speak

“The only way left is east, but the locals there aren't kind to strangers Unless you got at least one acquaintance, you can pass through fine, but it's definitely not fit for staying Not the suitable place to escape with a kid Any way you look at it, he's only got the north to return to”

Varte showed the opened palht at hi myself to believe it Even if he'd been born and raised in that town, or even if there are still people he knows of alive left, he ain't sane if he wants to go back into that darkness”

“‘There aren't any Beasts of Darkness‘ Ain't that what you'd claiet through to Plast He only looked with cold eyes at Varte, at a foraze to the vast land north and frowned just a bit

“Still, I don't wanna spend the night outside the walls”

His whispered words were ht As expected, Varte was silent, unable to spit out anything foul

Then, Eutis suddenly raised his optiree It's all fine and dandy for hi of the sort”

Seeing how blatantly indifferent Eutis was as he just blurted that out, Varte looked up at the sky while each member of the patrol unit looked fed up with him Plast wasn't surprised, but he frankly asked in return

“You saw the dragon?”

“Stop, Plast There's no way such a thing exists,” Varte replied

“I wasn't askin' you So, Eutis?”

As Varte and his co at hiritted his teeth and answered poorly, as if trying to gloss over it

“That's the ruht that everyone knew 'bout it”

“……”

Plast furrowed his eyebrows and had a stern expression, but he'd suddenly noticed that he'd fallen behind the rest of his platoon He turned on his heels without another word and quickened his pace, returning back to his position

Varte and the others were also silent Surrounded by a stone-like silence, Eutis was alone in his self-defense

“I mean, it's true, isn't it? It's unfair We're just a bunch of nor the outside situation is just…”

His ue fell upon deaf ears as it faded into a whisper until the words were just being chewed then sed in his ht was approaching when the pursuit platoon began to set up camp At Varte's and Plast's advice, they lit the fire a feays off from the main road

“It's do-or-die now”

Varte ht be seeing an old friend Gotta make preparations for their welcome”

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