Pioneering the Apocalyptic World - Chapter 55
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Chapter 25: The freedom from the bindings
“……Ah……”
I slowly look down towards my stomach.
A white blade with a dull glow was sticking out, and slowly, something red was seeping out.
“…Aaah…”
I held my stomach and fell to my knees. From that impact something started to drip in the floor.
And like that, I dropped the magic stone I was holding… And it was immediately picked up by someone.
“Well done! Now, bring that and come over here!”
As if tearing apart the silence, Fricka’s father shouted with a so joyous voice to the point that it could even be called disgusting.
Slowly, the person who picked up the magic stone??Fricka moves forward.
I who couldn’t move… Clenched my hand hard.
Fricka, who arrived at her father’s front, handed over the magic stone-… Just a moment before it, she stopped and asked in a small voice.
“…Father, that’s enough, isn’t it?”
At first, his reaction was “Ah?” But soon he noticed that she was asking about Fin from her gaze.
His face turned into an ugly smile for a moment, but he quickly returned back his expression to normal as if trying to hide it.
“Ah, leave the rest to us and you two should rest at home. …I will scold Fricka later.”
……He is definitely going to do something other than a scolding. This scum.
The lust that oozes out even though he is trying to hide. It was so huge to the extent that made even me, who was watching from a distance, want to vomit.
I wonder how much mental damage that Fricka who has been hit up close took.
But that doubt will be soon be answered.
“……What-”
“Hmm?”
“About what are you going to scold! You degenerate!!!”
Dogan!!!
“Gyaaaaaaaaa!?”
“O-Onee-chan?”
Fricka quickly grabbed Fin’s hand and pulled her away, while taking out a staff and swinging from bottom to top??giving a direct hit to his crotch.
……Hyiie.
I really understand your desire to smash it, but even though it’s through the cloth, To such a dirty place… Wait, I thought something like that a while ago too!*
All the girls around me are just like this! What I should do if Lieze is like that too!
Wait, It’s not the time to be scared!
“Rion-sama!”
“Yes yes!”
Towards Fricka’s father, who was holding his crotch and in middle of fainting in agony, and the stunned elder trio, I threw the items that I had prepared beforehand.
Poon!
“Guaah!?”
“Gehogeho.”
Hahaha, don’t worry, it’s just a chili ball and it’s non-lethal! But It’s going to hurt your mucous membranes a lot!
Taking advantage of gap made by the people who are suffering, Fricka comes running towards me with Fin in hands.
“Had Fricka been deceived beforehand…!”
“Are you still trying to commit even more crimes… You shameless hyuman!”
The elves who were holding staffs around us became enraged and tried to use magic.
“Which one is the shameless one!?”
Because Fricka’s loud voice that they had never heard before, they closed their mouths as if they were sewn shut.
“Rion-sama cured us of our illness and even resolved the incident in the forest with only the sense of responsibility that she was a miko! What do you call an act of repaying a kindness with malice if it’s not being shameless!!!”
“… But, those are fault of that person??”
“Do you have any proof?”
The elves who tried to object to Fricka’s reasonable words fell silent.
“So did you guys tried to condemn her without any evidence, being just danced by a mere delusion?”
Quietly, but with a strong-willed voice.
Fricka slowly looked at the people who tried to attack me with weapons in hand, those who met her eyes lowered their weapons and averted their gazes in embarrassment.
Phew, it looks like I’ll be soon released from this volatile atmosphere.
I loosened the strong grip that I was using to hold the return stone for just in case.
“……Why, you can move…”
Kaina seems to have recovered from the chili pepper damage. He was wet, so he must have used magic to wash it off.
……Tch.
His hateful gaze is directed not only at me, but also at Fricka.
If he is meant to the fact that Fricka didn’t kill me??that she is acting against the orders… I see, It was him who provided the slave collar. Well I was expecting it, in all likelihood, It was that miko who made that collar. So It’s easy to understand from where it came.
“Ah, you mean this slave collar? Rion-sama took it off.”
“What… Did you say?
“It was a pity, isn’t? That I didn’t became a puppet to whatever you guys says.”
I feel like she should have been more dramatical while doing it, but Fricka easily revealed the truth. She teared the collar from her neck and slammed it into the ground.
That strong-spirit, made even me, who she wasn’t angry at tremble my shoulders in fear ……Well, umm, even though we were just pretending. I’m sorry for putting the collar in you.
“Using such an outrageous method to falsely charge Rion-sama, who worked so hard for Alness Village, and on top of that to try to murder her.… Ah, could it be that was ‘you’ that is the cause of this incident?”
Fricka seems to have come to the same conclusion as I did. Kaina’s behavior was too unnatural, so it was only a matter of time before she thought so.
If he hadn’t acted like this here, I might have had my suspicions about the Elder Trio, but I couldn’t do anything about them… But this Is nothing but his own self-destruction.
Another commotion broke out among the elves.
……Fricka’s father ordered the killing without even trying to clarify the facts……It can’t be helped to think that he tried to bury the truth.
“I-I don’t know! I didn’t put something like that on you!”
“… Because the perpetrator was my father”
In addition, Fricka’s father is still in agony, so it seems that he can’t even make a single excuse. Was it a critical hit? ……Zamaa.
“But do you really think that stupid father can prepare something like this? It would be natural to think that someone handed it to him….So what do you think my great-grandfather-sama?”
……Waa, a surprising new fact has come to light here.
It seems that Kaina and Fricka’s father correspond to the relationship between grandfather and grandson. In other words, Fricka is a great-grandchild, even if it only an in-law.
But to be, like grandfather, like grandchild… I can’t help but feel sad that the personality has been inherited so perfectly. Let’s hope that Fin-chan didn’t inherit it…
And Kaina is a direct child of that miko. It wouldn’t be strange for him to have a number of miko-made items. Fricka implicitly pointed that fact out.
Instead of returning with a theoretical bullshit, Kaina made several veins stood out on his forehead, and while turning his face bright red, he started yelling.
“T-Then, show me the evidence…!”
“Evidence……?”
“The evidence that I was the one that gave that collar, the evidence that I was involved in the incident, and the evidence that this miko didn’t steal the magic stone! Fricka’s testimony is invalid. Because she’s being taken in by that thief miko and trying to blame me for her crimes!”
…… I think it’s amazing how he can say that even though he said all kinds of lies without any proof …… When he shows that he is so that thick-skinned, It started to sound ridiculous.
However, regarding the first two, It still ends at the suspicion part, and about the third one, we were the only ones there and there was no third party. Even if I showed the traces of the battle to they, he could just say “So what?” I guess.
When I was scratching my head wondering what to do, a line that turned the board upside down flew out.
“Kaina, If It’s about the proof that you have committed crimes, I have it here.”
“Wha…!?”
*Translator note: A reference to Volume 1 Side chapter: Dungeon Trial : First