Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival [WN] - Chapter 25.1
Solicitation
“Hey you…”
Sera softly called out to the lonely figure of the blood-stained child standing in the darkness, and the intense glaze that had been released in alarm at her sudden appearance relaxed slightly after confirming she was not one of those monsters.
Still, the sharpness of her gaze, which made it hard to believe that she was just a child, had not disappeared, and she remained vigilant with her knife at the ready.
Sera looked at her and suddenly realized. This child did not trust “adult” strangers…
“…that girl is safe.”
When Sera suddenly said this to the child, the child finally decided that she was not an enemy, and the killing intent that remained disappeared as if melting away into the night, and the child finally looked straight at Sera.
After all, this child had fought a reckless battle to draw the monsters away from Minna, and had also defeated a rank 2 monster, a hobgoblin, resulting in her current ragged state.
This child may not believe in people, but she was still not warped as a “person”.
(She is similar to someone.)
The child’s eyes, looking straight at Sera, seemed to resemble her boss, His Excellency the Count of the Frontier, in both color and strength.
Who was this child…? The boldness and killing power that one would not expect from a child, and the fighting ability, exceeded even Sera’s son, who had been training from a younger age.
As if searching for an answer, Sera unintentionally took a step forward, and the child’s body, which had been trying to keep her distance as if running away from Sera, swayed slightly and finally collapsed.
“Huh!!!”
Sera had instantly closed the distance of several meters using her Taijutsu, and held the child’s body just before it collapsed head first.
“…”
A very thin and light little body. Such a child must have gone all out to hold herself against the hobgoblins and used up all her energy. As if she were sleeping peacefully, she looked like an adorable and harmless child, and Sera, who has a son of the same age, stroked her blood stained cheeks with her fingers like a mother would.
“…Shall we go back?”
Picking up the knives and equipment the child had dropped, and seeing the almost untied cord woven from one of those equipment, she took the strands of hair formed into a cord. Sera felt something tugging at her heart when she looked at the hair, so she silently tucked it away in her pocket.
***
“…”
I woke up in a room I didn’t recognize.
I thought… I fought the hobgoblins until they were all dead… what did I do? I didn’t remember the middle of the fight, but I thought I saw what looked like a maid at the end.
Well, that’s OK. For some reason, I felt a little better after dreaming about my mother for the first time in a while.
My body was a bit sluggish, but I was relieved to see that there were no major injuries left from the battle. In fact, there wasn’t even a scar left. Aside from my old scars, the scars I got in the past month had disappeared without a trace.
I wondered if someone had applied a meticulous [Cure] on me…
First, I checked my situation. Those bloody clothes had been taken off, and I was dressed in a simple kantoui that could be found anywhere. My body was also cleaned to some extent, but not completely clean.
Maybe some magical method was used to remove the dirt because the fine dust was removed, but the big dirt like mud still remained faintly.
There were no weapons on my person. I guessed I left them in the forest… I wanted to at least retrieve Galbas’s black knife, but perhaps I’d just had to consider myself lucky to have my life.
But there was something more worrisome than that… I was uncertain if it’s the quality of the magic power, but the flow of magic power itself seemed very smooth, and when I [appraised] myself, I found that my status was outrageous.
[Aria] [Race: Human ??] [Rank 1
[Magic: 107/112] 35Up [Strength: 48/60] 5Up
[Strength: 4(4.4)] [Endurance: 5(5.5)] [Agility: 7(7.7)] [Dexterity: 6]
[Dagger Art Lv.1] [Body Art Lv.1] [Throwing Lv.1] New
[Light Magic Lv.1] [Dark Magic Lv.1] New [Non-Attribute Magic Lv.1]
[Life Magic x6] [Magic Control Lv.2] [Intimidate Lv.2]
[Concealment Lv.1] [Night Vision Lv.1] [Detection Lv.1]
[Simple appraisal].
[Total Combat Value: 58 (With Physical Enhancements: 63)] 19Up
What was this? I thought I knew what [Throwing] skill was.
But… huh, I got [Dark Magic Lv.1]? Isn’t it dark magic? So, including light magic, my magic control level was now at level 2? [Black magic] and [Light magic] were only at level 1. Hmm… my magic power had also increased considerably, and even my fighting ability had risen.
Somehow, the status of [Intimidation] had increased unknowingly yet again, which I still didn’t understand.
The quality of the magic power… I kind of understood it by looking at the status. Maybe… a [magic stone] of the dark attribute was generated in my body.
I thought that a magic stone couldn’t be generated without using the magic of that attribute many times, but it could also be done like this… When I used [Dark] as a test, the magical element of the dark attribute overflowed from inside me, even though I didn’t dye it.
“Well, that’s okay.”
It was not really a bad thing. Maybe it’s because of the magic stone, or perhaps it’s the magic control, but I could feel the flow of magic inside my body has become smoother, and my physical condition was better than before.
“…Nn?”
At that moment, a “presence” of something approaching the room was caught by the [detection]. The vibration of a rough walk… but for some reason, this walk seemed to have unconsciously removed my vigilance…
Boom!
“Hey, are you awake?”
“…Viro.”
What was he going to do if I was still asleep… No, being Viro, he must have realized I was already awake even before he had entered the room. Instead of greeting me, he approached me in his usual way.
Viro, who had come in on his own accord without asking for permission and sat down on the chair by the bed on his own, gave me a dumbfounded and ridiculous look.
“I heard you defeated the hobgoblins? You were so reckless, too. With your fighting strength, you’d have normally died taking on a hobgoblin and four goblins at the same time.”
“I’ll do better next time.”
When I said that with no concern or remorse, Viro’s face showed an even more unusual look.