Chapter 109 (2/2)
This is pretty bad.
I could probably endure it if it was the flesh and blood of a girl.
Can we do this again with the girl sitting next to me?
The man that was hit was killed instantly. The headless body collapsed to the ground with a loud crash. His body would still occasionally twitch as it lie there. It would be impossible for me to heal him now.
The young man continued his rant after killing this man.
“I’d rather face a dragon than be sent off to die in a war! I-I’m returning home! Doesn’t everyone else want that!? I want to go home and start a happy life with my Josephine!”
Who’s Josephine?
Is this ikemen thinking about violating some virgin?
This guy’s going to do terrible things to some virgin.
“Please put the staff down. It’s very dangerous to use magic in a place like this.”
Anyway, I should try to reason with him.
I calmly stood up and faced him. If I’m too aggressive I could end up just like that middle-aged man. I held both of my hands up to look as unthreatening as possible. I also showed a gentle smile to hopefully keep him at ease. Recently, I really feel like I’m playing this role a lot.
“Y-You must understand how I feel! You must not want to die either!”
“I don’t want to, but.”
I honestly wish I had just ignored the letter from the Guild.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this is how everyone felt. I’m actually worried that this man won’t be the last to do something like this.
“If that’s so then you should run away too! We can run away and live peacefully!”
“And how would we be able to get away?”
“The only Guild member here is the person driving the coach! If we kill him there would be no one left to chase after us!”
“It would be rather meaningless for us to escape from here as murderers. Most people responded to the conscription so they could remain members of the Guild. It would be pointless if we ran away now.”
Well, this guy has already killed someone.
I don’t think he has any other option but to run away and try to hide.
“I-I don’t care! If we go to another country we’ll be fine! No, we wouldn’t even need to go that far! We could just say we were attacked by bandits on the road! If there are no other Guild membersaround to tell the truth we’ll be safe!”
“Well, that may be possible.”
“Hahaha, right!? Then, this is perfect, isn’t it!?”
“Though, you’d have to do the same thing to the coachman of the carriage behind us.”
“Then, we can do it if we work together!”
This young man was desperately trying to find a way out.
“If we work together we can take out both carriages and escape to a nearby country. If we do, we can be free again! Even if we can no longer be adventurers, it’s better than our lives ending on some random battlefield!”
His voice was becoming increasingly more erratic. I’m beginning to doubt that he’ll ever listen to reason.
I’m afraid other people here will actually want to follow him. They’re only here because they really had no choice. There are a lot of people that left everything behind in the capital.
If they were to actually go through with it and attack the coachman behind us, there’s a large possibility that the adventurers in that coach would attack them because they don’t know what’s going on. There’d be plenty of injured adventurers before we even got to the battlefield.
“So, what are you going to do!?”
A lot of people in the carriage seemed to be buying into this mans words. The adventurers were looking at each other with expressionless faces.
A small voice could be heard from the corner of the carriage.
A young woman with a great body wearing a robe sat on the floor with her knees clutched to her chest. She was trembling but she could be heard speaking to no one in particular.
“he’sright.”
How did I not notice that woman the moment she got on the carriage?
Her small voice weighed heavily on everyone around her.
Her words were just the beginning. Soon after, other voices could be heard echoing her words.
“It certainly is ridiculous when you think about it.” “Why should we have to fight for someone when we dont even know their face?” “Youre right. All I wanted to do was become an adventurer and live freely.” “I dont want to die on a battlefield.”
There are more people getting swept up in his rhetoric than I wouldve imagined.
In total, there were ten people that seemed to be standing with the young man.
Their home, their family, a lover. They all had their own reasons for wanting to do this.
Is this it?
Should I take my chance and join them?
It seems like the majority of the people in this carriage are in favour of rebellion.
No, thats a terrible plan.
Id be losing Sophichan.
Even though it may be difficult, I should be able to survive this war as long as I have my recovery magic. Besides, didnt I learn my lesson a few days ago at the Guild? This soy sauce face of mine is impossible to forget.
“Lets do this, everyone!”
All of the younger people on the carriage that decided to follow him seemed motivated by his words.
He showed a brave smile on his face.
His voice was calm and full of confidence.
While I was just as ugly in my previous life as I am now.
The world is unfair.
However, this moment of rebellion only lasted a brief second.
A voice could be heard coming from the front of the carriage.
“Y-You should all kill that man! I’ll make the life of the person that kills him easier! I’ll make arrangements so you’ll never even see the frontlines!”
The coachman was desperately yelling out to anyone that would listen.
And his proposal seemed quite tempting to those in the carriage.
“.”
The young man’s eyes opened wide in fear.
At the same time, almost all of the adventurers on the carriage attacked him.
It was as if the young man was a magnet that attracted all the adventurer’s weapons to him.
It was over in an instant.
“Gyaaaaa!”
A scream rang out from inside our carriage.
The young man’s life was over.
Several swords, spears, ice spears, and other weapons penetrated his body.
Everyone stared at his now dead body with their eyes gleaming. They stood there staring at the motionless body of the young man without showing any signs of remorse. The way they looked at him made me think of someone with severe debt staring at a slot machine hoping for a big payout.
Their cold stares caused a chill to run up my spine.
I felt as if the air in the carriage became colder.
“I did it. It was me.”
Someone said this.
Then, everyone began arguing about who actually killed him.
“What are you talking about!? I-It was clearly me that killed him!” “Quit spouting nonsense! It was clearly my spear that pierced his chest!” “My sword cut clean through his neck!” “W-Well, it was my magic that first hit him!”
Everyone was covered in blood from head to toe, yet they paid no mind to this and were only focused on arguing.
They were all fighting amongst themselves.
I’ll just stay out of it.
Please, don’t disturb me.
“was that really okay?”
A voice could be heard coming from the side of me.
When I turned to look I saw the Dark Elf still sitting where she was before.
While showing a disturbing smile, the Dark Elf stared at the scene in the carriage perplexed.
“You werent planning on trying to escape with them?”
“I’ve lived as a slave, so I’ve gotten used to the idea that there is no escape.”
“I see.”
She hadn’t moved at all from the spot she was sitting at when I first noticed her.
I guess that makes sense.
She’s probably used to war and fighting.
If someone has been exposed to an environment like that for a long time, it’s not surprising to see them act so nonchalant when someone was murdered right in front of them.
Then, we could hear the voice of the coachman once more.
“Would you all be quiet! What I said earlier applies to all of you, so stop bickering already! If you don’t stop, I’ll send all of you straight to the frontlines!”
His voice was intimidating.
It was enough to cause all of the members inside of the carriage to quiet down.
The Dark Elf leaned back against the carriage wall and muttered something under her breath.
“See, we didn’t even need to do anything.”
“I-Indeed.”
I’ll just stay quiet for the rest of the trip and violate this Dark Elf’s breasts and thighs with my eyes.
This girl’s jiggly bombshell body is the best.