Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival [WN] - Chapter 151.1
Children of the Desert
“Give me the kid.”
Camille, who had never shown much emotion…or interest in us, directed an exasperated look at me for the first time.
“Or what if I refuse?”
“I’ll cut you apart!”
The boy in my arms flinched slightly at the murderous air coming from Camille.
At that moment, before Camille’s blade, which flew out like an arrow, could reach me, I moved away from Elena, and with the boy in my arms, I ran up the alley wall, slamming my heels against it, and caught Camille’s dagger as it swung out with the blade of my heel.
*Gakkin!
“This boy is going to die, you know?”
“Let go!!”
Fast. Camille brandished his blade with even greater speed at my words, as if he wanted to use the child as a shield, and I used my heel blade to climb further up the wall, dodging the blade and throwing the hidden weapon from the [Shadow Storage] with just a flick of my wrist.
“Damn.”
Camille, who tried to come after me using only his physical strength, fell to the ground at the same time as he played the dark weapon.
I see…he was still strong. I felt that Camille should have surpassed me in terms of simple status and skill. But something was not adding up.
“That sword.”
“What?”
Camille’s eyes widen at my words.
It was only a little. Camille also had a chain weight, and since he was a dark elf, he could probably use magic. But he could not use it because of the child.
Was he surprisingly good-natured? Was he more naive than how he appears? That’s what I thought. However, if he was this strong, he could have done a little more.
For all his strength, did he have enough experience in the battlefield? The secret, I saw, lay in the rugged dagger he held, imbued with magical power.
“I’ll hand him back.”
“!!!”
I tossed the boy to Camille, who started to climb the wall again.
He quickly caught the child, and as Camille was knocked out of position, I, who had disappeared from behind him, pulled out my knife and brandished it–
“Stop!”
Just before the blade touched Camille’s neck, Elena’s voice echoed through the alley, and I instantly kicked the wall and descended beside her.
Camille, still holding the boy, glared at me through the gap, and Elena let out a faint sigh and stepped forward as I brushed it off silently.
“The boy is covered in blood, but we have done Treatments on his wounds. We didn’t touch him, we just did the treatment because we couldn’t bear to see him dying.”
“…”
Hearing these words, Camille looked at the boy with suspicion. After a moment, Camille understood that it was a misunderstanding because there were no wounds under the bloodied body, and he let out a strained voice while his mouth was distorted.
“…I’m sorry.”
“Apology received. I did something that could have been misunderstood as well.”
Elena looked at me and I gave a small nod.
I was not saying that Camille or his associate Ron were evil, but whether they could be trusted was a different story. I understood that Elena could be trusted to some extent when I gave her the child, and she thinks that I could have done it a little more quietly.
But there was no need for us to go out of our way to show lenience.
“Do you have any clue how to cure the child’s illness?”
Camille stopped in his tracks as he tried to distance himself from us with the child in his arms.
“…What does that have to do with you?”
I nodded slightly to Camille, who replied to my words.
“Nothing relevant. I simply have the means to do so.”
“…”
Camille looked at me again at my words.
I had no intention of becoming familiar with them. I would not get involved anymore if they had the means to do so. But the child was innocent. If lives could be spared without getting along with them, that would be better.
This was our maximum concession so that we would not be vulnerable.
It would be difficult for a skeptical Camille to believe me. It was only natural, since I have behaved in that way. That was why I forced him to make a concession as well, so that we would not get used to each other.
“…I will pay for it.”
“Good enough.”
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