I Want to Fall in Love After Getting Reincarnated as the Heroine on the Verge of a Bad Ending, but My OP Older Brother Won’t Leave Me Alone!? - Chapter 153
Translated by: ShinigamiTori
Chapter 153 ? The Hunting Tournament 7
The loud sounds and impacts continued as I shut my eyes and clung to Julius, but eventually, everything came to a halt.
When I slowly open my eyes, trembling with fear, I meet Julius’ gaze, who looks as calm as ever, “Are you okay?” and I let out a sigh of relief.
“… I-I thought I was done for.”
“No way. I’d never let anything happen to you, Rene.”
Julius said this nonchalantly, but it was clear that the situation was not something a human could survive without serious consequences.
It seems he used magic to repel everything, but if I had been alone, I would definitely have faced a bad ending of being buried alive.
I quickly looked around and was deeply relieved to see that all five of us were unharmed. Yoshida seemed to have been helped a little by Mylene-sama and was thanking her politely.
“….?”
And then, I felt a strange sense of discomfort that I couldn’t quite put into words.
Although I can’t see clearly due to the snow, the scenery in the mountains has always been similar, but this area feels different from where we’ve been. Also, it’s a little bit hard to breathe.
“I have a lot to say, but I’m just glad everyone is safe… Ah?it’s cold.”
“Yes, but this is troubling. It suddenly started to snow heavily.”
That’s right; just a moment ago, it had been clear and sunny, but now the sky was dark and we were caught in a raging snowstorm. Even just a short distance ahead, everything was blanketed in white, making it impossible to see anything.
The cold is clearly getting to Julius, who is sensitive to the cold, as he wraps his arms around me for warmth.
Mylene-sama took something out of her pocket and used some magic to send it flying into the snow.
“Could it be that this is definitely…?”
“We’re lost.”
“We really got lost, huh?”
Yoshida and Arnold-san spoke in unison.
Still, everyone here, aside from me, is a remarkable magician. I assumed that even in this blizzard, we should be able to navigate down the mountain.
Mylene-sama and Julius are deep in thought, their faces unnaturally serious. Normally, they would say something like, “It’s cold, so let’s get back quickly,” but now I can’t shake off a bad feeling.
Feeling anxious, I clutched the arm wrapped around my waist tightly, and Julius furrowed his eyebrows.
“Ah, sorry. Did I make you anxious? I was just thinking about what we should do from here, but don’t worry. I’ll definitely make sure we can all get back safely.”
“…. Is it really that bad?”
“Hmm, it’s somewhat okay.”
Given that Julius, who typically acts with complete confidence, is saying that, it might really mean we’re in a serious predicament. He was calm even when we were trapped with a dragon during school trip.
While I was feeling uneasy, a voice called out from beside me.
“Hey, didn’t you notice?”
“Eh? Who are you?”
“Idiot, it’s me.”
Apparently, the blizzard made his glasses ineffective, and Yoshida, with no glasses and his hair white from the snow, looked so different that I briefly didn’t recognize him.
I then realized that Arnold-san, who had been here a moment ago, was now missing. Where did he go?
“We’re currently near the mountaintop.”
“Ehh—!?”
I was so surprised that I let out a loud voice, and Yoshida scolded me, saying, “You’re too loud.” But it was understandable to be shocked.
Because we had just been in the middle of Mt. Belman and fell along with the ground that had crumbled away from there.
Yet here we are at the summit—it’s too strange. However, I was now convinced of the source of the discomfort I felt earlier.
It’s said that tall trees don’t grow in high places, so it makes sense that the air is thin. More importantly, as we gain altitude, the temperature drops, which must be tough for Julius. I’m also feeling the cold.
“H-How could something so bizzare happen…?”
“We must have been dragged into a monster’s territory.”
“A monster—Ah!”
I remember catching sight of a massive shadow with golden eyes right as the ground was collapsing. That must have been the monster.
“What was that thing…?”
“…. I don’t know, but it’s definitely a formidable opponent.”
That tiny moment of hesitation made me think that Julius might have an inkling of what the creature could be.
Meanwhile, something that resembled a bird that Mylene-sama had sent off earlier returned, and she let out a big sigh.
“As expected, we’re trapped. Even if we try to go down, it seems we somehow get sent back to where we were.”
“Eh!?”
“Ah, I thought so.”
Both Mylene-sama, who informed us of the shocking fact, and Julius appeared completely unfazed.
Yoshida had a slightly flustered expression though, which reassured me that my reaction was normal. These two are just too calm.
“Hey, hey, there’s a hut over there.”
Arnold-san, who had apparently been looking around the area, returned and pointed towards the east.
“….”
What started as an enjoyable hunting tournament has turned into a cliché situation of getting lost, a sudden snowstorm, and a dubious mysterious mountain cabin. My heroine instincts are telling me this is definitely not a good development.
Please, let’s avoid the cliché of warming each other with our bodies—I’ve seen that a hundred million times in manga and games.
Even so, staying like this would only wear us out from the cold, so we decided to make our way to that cabin together for now.
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