“Guuoohh!”
However, the wall was broken and the distance between us was closed in an instant.
I could see the high orc’s atrocious expression through my teary vision.
Don’t run, fight, let me have more and more fun.
As if it was saying something like that.
You monster!
While cursing at it in my heart, I swung the orc’s blade towards it.
A high pitched sound reverberated.
The orc’s blade was easily deflected.
“Tch ”
This is bad, this is bad this is bad!
My stance is broken, I can’t evade.
Item box too-no good. In this distance, I will be chopped off along with the wall.
Momo’s shadow won’t make it in time either.
He was too far away.
It also looks like Aka had his hands full trying to bring back his form.
I could see my HP.
12/100.
My HP had almost run out from that one attack.
The auto regen won’t make it in time.
If I take another hit now-
The high orc’s face distorted into a grin.
It was an expression convinced of victory.
Ah, damn it. I thought I went quite far too
Death closed in.
And at that moment, I heard a noise.
“Gooaa?!”
“Eh?”
What happened?
The high orc was pressing his hand against his right eye and was in agony.
That just now-a gunshot?
Taken aback, I turned to look at a building slightly far away. There was a human silhouette there.
A girl of a small build.
She had a huge gun in her hands.
“Don’t tell me Ichinose-san?”
As if reacting to my mutters, she held out her thumb and looked at me.
So you were alive I am glad.
She was also quite wounded but it seems like she was at least alive.
I had questions like why she came back but for now, I am saved.
I should send a mail to her later.
But, before that.
Don’t let this opportunity she made go away.
“Take this!”
I made it ‘rain’.
I didn’t have anymore plastic bottles.
This is the last rain.
The downpouring rain wounded the high orc’s body without mercy.
-Go down.
“OOooOOHH!”
The high orc screamed.
With a terrific look on his face, he dashed at me.
Even at this situation, he doesn’t know the word ‘retreat’.
Momo roared.
The ‘shadow spear’ stabbed into the high orc without mercy.
Even then, the high orc’s momentum didn’t decrease.
“This !”
I threw the remaining mass in the item box.
Vehicles, boulders, lumber.
Unlike before, all these were now clearly damaging the high orc.
Just fall.
“OOAA!”
His screams reverberated.
The intimidating aura of the high orc as it drew closer was dreadful.
Exactly what you would call a wounded beast’s force when it’s prepared to die.
But even still, he is probably enjoying this situation to the fullest.
The grin on his face hasn’t disappeared.
-Fighting is everything.
The last block hit his body.
His body was already very wounded and skin was now falling apart.
He was closing in.
At the end, just a small knife was left in my hand.
It was the first weapon I took when I went outside.
I gripped the knife–the knife which I had used over and over, which had rust all over it now.
“Uuuwaahh!”
And with the scream, I squeezed out the remaining bit of energy I had left.
Reinforced agility. And ‘vitals stab’.
And barely, before the high orc swung his blade, my knife had pierced through his heart.
The high orc’s cleaver fell to the ground.
Die!
I twisted the blade.
The knife easily broke.
The high orc roared.
It was surely his death scream.
The moment he was falling, our eyes met.
-Well done.
I felt like that was what he was saying.
The high orc’s body dispersed, leaving a big fat magic stone there.
For a moment there, I felt the time had stopped.
Silence.
My heart’s beating, rough breathing.
“Did we win?”
As if to answer my question, a voice echoed in my head.
-
“Haha we we did it Mo mo -”
Without being able to listen to the voice till the end, I collapsed.
I was able to survive.
Maybe because of the exhaustion and tension, my consciousness slipped deep into the darkness.
CH 54
Chapter 54 Epilogue – End of the beginning
I can hear a cry.
A cry of a puppy, a cry so weak that one wouldn’t probably notice if they weren’t trying hard to listen.
A stray dog, eh
That day, after doing overtime, I was returning to my run-down apartment.
When I parked the car in the parking lot, I could hear a small cry.
Wondering what it was, I got close and found one small, stray puppy.
He was probably still a baby. His body was alarmingly small.
.wan
A weak, feeble cry.
When I saw the puppy, I wrapped it around my arms and calmed it down.
It’s okay. Don’t cry.
Pets are forbidden in this apartment.
I can’t do anything irresponsible.
But, I did end up finding it.
I can’t help feeling attached, can I?
Hide here normally, alright? I will bring you food secretly. Waan
I beamed at the shaking, anxious puppy.
To make it relax, as much as I can.
It’s okay. I won’t abandon you. Uuu- .? So, you can rest easy. Ah, I know, I will give you a name.
The puppy looked at me with curious eyes.
Hmm, right, then-
Your name is-
“ .Hmm?”
I woke up.
I could see an endless, blue sky expand out into the horizon.
My consciousness slowly came together.
Ah, right.
I was did I faint after the fight with the high orc ended?
“Why was I having a dream of that time-”
I could hear a cry.
Right beside me, Momo was in sitting posture, looking at me.
Maybe he was really relieved to see me wake up, Momo came nuzzling against me.
He continued to lick my face.
“Sorry, to make you worry.”
Aka was also there, beside Momo.
He slowly moved towards me.
Seems like both of them are fine.
“We survived, huh ?”
That reality came hitting me once again.
It wouldn’t have been weird at all if we were to die any moment there.
That’s how dangerous of a monster that high orc was.
I felt goosebumps remembering his dreadfulness.
“Hmm? Now that I think about it-”
I checked my body.
There’s no pain. My wounds have healed?
My clothes are still torn but my wounds have closed up.
How?
Is this the effect of auto-regen ?
Or is it that ‘someone’ healed me?
Someone the only person that comes to mind is-
Ichinose-san ?
I opened up my mail app.
There were about 80 unread mails.
Eh
While feeling a chill run down my spine, I looked through the contents of the mails and they were just what I expected.
After the battle, she dashed here and used her skill to heal me.
It also said how she patted Momo after that. And that his hair was really nice. And that she was very satisfied.
She also wrote about how she left this place to Momo and Aka after healing my wounds.
The reason she left was simple–it is nerve wracking for her to talk to people directly.
What’s with that
But, she saved me.
I should say thank you by mail.
A reply came immediately.
I haven’t received your reply, after all. It would be bothersome to have you die.
I couldn’t help but give a bitter smile reading that.
Really, this person doesn’t change, huh?
But, it is true.
I should probably reply.