After throwing a few words to the villagers...
We imdiately left the village.
After instructing others to follow by cart or on foot, or to escape via the coast, only I and a few people moved quickly by Porter.
My hands gripped the steering wheel tightly.
==
"It's there."
They walked for a long ti, passing through forests and hills. And when they reached a place with solid ground, he finally raised a finger and pointed sowhere.
Vicente, though exhausted and panting, raised his head. And looked up at his finger and the hill at its end.
"Evacuate to that place exactly 44 days from now. It would be good to dig into the ground from now and preserve food and water. You should be able to endure for at least three days."
"B-but isn't it too high and steep?"
"Yes. That's why no matter how high the water rises, it won't dare to invade."
He turned to the tribe mbers who were briefly protesting and spoke. Then people stirred.
"..."
They whispered about how an outsider knew so much about the topography around the village, and whether the rumors that he was a spirit were true.
Of course, unlike last ti, they didn't throw offerings and ask for blessings as soon as they saw Mr. Nemo. Wasn't that what we ca here to prevent?
"Vicente, Manteo, co here. And I'd like you to mark these points by driving stakes into the ground."
"Ah, understood."
"Before 'that day' cos, everyone take refuge inside these stakes. It's necessary to protect your lives."
"..."
"..."
"..."
When he finished speaking and looked around, everyone dared not add more words. Vicente had seen such scenes many tis before, so it wasn't so shocking, but... the locals would be seeing it for the first ti.
That tone of talking about future events as casually as if they happened last night.
That attitude of walking without hesitation to places that even locals find unfamiliar, as if returning to a place he's been before.
"When 'that day' cos, everyone must evacuate here and endure for a few days. Don't worry even if fields collapse and houses break. Your safety is most important."
"..."
"..."
"..."
And that confident face.
It was a facial expression that only soone who had no doubt about their actions could make.
"A-are there no other shelters? It seems insufficient for all the tribe mbers to stay here..."
Seeing that tone, that attitude, that expression, no one could doubt him. Suddenly, the chief who had been gruff, asking what this sudden evacuation was about, was now bowing politely and asking.
In his eyes looking down at the chief, there was a calmness and composure that seed almost emotionless at first glance. After a mont's hesitation, he spoke.
"...There should be. Let's look."
And after looking around for a while...
"Let's go this way."
He starts walking toward sowhere again.
Everyone followed him as if enchanted.
His expression was still so calm.
His behavior was as casual as if nothing had happened.
==
I must stay calm.
I must not show a different appearance than usual.
I must not be frightened or fall into fear.
I...
"S-save, save ! Please... please..."
"F-father? Father! Father!"
"My... arm... soone please find my arm..."
I must stay calm.
I've seen dozens of calamities.
I've seen thousands of deaths.
But I must stay calm.
Now I could roughly sketch the hurricane's path and lifespan. The hurricane weakens rapidly after July 24.
The thod of finding out was simple. In no vision did the date exceed July 23.
The voice said that this ability is called 'eyes that avoid death.'
Of course, it can't be my death. I am an immortal being. I experienced that point to exhaustion in the first vision.
Then whose death will be avoided?
The people around .
Even if I didn't yet know well what the limits of this ability were, what conditions triggered it, I could guess through process of elimination and inference.
I've gone through several battles so far but never experienced this, so man-made disasters like war aren't included. I don't know why.
Many people have already died in Virginia, but that too has never induced visions in , so individual deaths or natural deaths don't count.
Even when a large-scale epidemic swept through London, such visions didn't co, so it seems correct to assu it only shows what will happen around .
To summarize, it could be said to be an ability that detects deaths caused by imminent natural disasters around .
I'm still not sure about more detailed activation requirents, like exactly what is considered a disaster, or how close in space and ti it needs to be for this cheat to activate. But that's what it is for now.
"AAAARGH! AAACK! M-my leg, my leg is trapped! Please, Great Chief, help !"
"W-where are you going? Great Chief, Nemo! Where..."
I see visions.
I see countless deaths.
I run like mad through them. I run following the direction people are evacuating.
Cutting through thorny bushes, stepping in stinking puddles, I run. Thus, I find the safest place for people there.
And...
"...Mr. Nemo?"
"Ah, Manteo."
"You spaced out again for a mont."
"...Did I?"
"Is it another 'revelation'... as Baron Raleigh ntioned?"
"..."
I wake from the vision and move toward that place in reality as well.
Countless visions of death continuously ravage my brain. Endless, horrible scenes unfold that make my limbs tremble involuntarily.
In them, I sotis drown. Or I am trapped sowhere, restrained, or lose limbs.
Still, I walk.
If I walk, and keep walking... I reach that place.
There.
My head clears for a mont.
The gray sky that was strangely overlapping with the clear sky of reality finally disappears as if washed clean, and the sun rises brightly. Seeing that scene, I am imrsed in an indescribable sense of liberation.
Earlier I said the na of this ability is 'eyes that avoid death.'
Also, I said that this ability is useful for predicting disasters.
Then let's look at it in reverse.
Places where the eyes that avoid death don't activate.
Wouldn't that be places where there's no need to avoid death?
...No more death appears before my eyes.
No corpses being swept away, no terrible screams heard.
Is this truly a revelation? Sothing this painful and horrible?
I just want to stay here. Until the calamity ends.
"..."
For a mont, I closed my eyes... then opened them.
Then I saw people.
They were waiting for .
"...Is it here?"
The chiefs of nearby villages look at with worried eyes and ask.
I nod to them and extend my hand to Vicente. Vicente then handed my coat. I took step by step trying to leave the newly found shelter... and stopped at its boundary.
I swallow.
"...What's wrong?"
"Are you alright?"
Vicente and Manteo ask. From a distance, I can see Raleigh looking at with worried eyes.
So I answer.
"It's nothing."
I am an angel who has received a revelation. I must foresee calamities and lead everyone to safety.
Therefore, I must give everyone certainty. I must not show weakness.
I must stay calm.
I must be calm.
There are still too many people to save. There's no ti to waste.
As I take another step outside the boundary.
"S-save ! M-mother, mother, there's too much blood..."
"S-spirits, ancestors..."
I see visions again.
Still, I walk.
A storm rages in the clear sky.
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