My Wife and I Became Sages in Another World Chapter 14: Aftermath

After the battle with the Goblin King, I passed out for three full days. I had used every single point of MP in my body, which made go into a coma.

Thankfully, Jackson was experienced enough to know that MP fatigue was a thing and that all I needed was a nice bed to rest.

I woke up in my bed, in the house that I had built in the village for and my familiars, and was greeted by Vespera and Yoru, who were sitting next to .

I supposed that Vespera let Jackson know I was awake because just a few monts later, he arrived at my place.

Jackson told about the aftermath of the battle. The remaining goblins that survived ran back to their cave hideout while the demon spiders followed them.

From what he told , Yoru went into the cave first and cleaned the entire place.

Vespera also found two surviving girls in the cave in terrible conditions who seed to be the girls they used to create the Goblin Champions.

She healed them with my potions and carried them to the village, but apparently, they hadn't said a single word ever since they got saved.

I was on my way to et both of the survivors since I had sothing in mind that could help them, but I got stopped midway by Luke, who ca over to thank for killing the Goblin King. Of course, he was accompanied by the sa shadow dog as last ti.

"Big brother Ichiro! Are you feeling good now?"

I nodded. "Mhmm, I'm feeling great! How's this little guy doing? Is he protecting you?"

"Yes! Pochi is the best! I love him!"

'Pfftt, ahahaha, Pochi!? The mighty shadow dog, Pochi...' I thought as I held my laughter. "Wait..."

"You nad him?" I asked.

"Y-yeah... Is that bad?" said Luke, looking down. He must have thought I was upset or sothing. I used Inspect on both Luke and Pochi.

Luke

Just as I thought. Luke ended up making a familiar contract with the shadow dog.

They had already accepted each other a long ti ago. It was only a matter of ti for Luke to na it and make it official.

I explained to him that now that Pochi was his familiar, they both needed to take care of each other.

He seed to like my reaction because his eyes were shining with excitent. However, there was one more thing I noticed in Luke's inspect window.

His skill was called "Shadow Control" When I focused on it, it said this:

'Hmm, that's pretty vague... What can you do by controlling your shadow, anyways?'

I did tell Luke about his newly obtained skill, but he seed confused about it. He mostly just wanted to play with Pochi, so I let him be while I made my way to the two survivors who were being kept at the clinic.

The clinic was a building that Vespera made while I was unconscious. She told she constructed it right after the battle. Thankfully, not many people had to use it yet.

When I arrived, I saw the two won who seed to be in their 20s, sitting down on their beds, with eyes devoid of any emotion or life.

They didn't look at when I entered the room. It was like they could only see what was in front of them. Even then, they had no reactions.

'Poor girls... they have been completely broken... It's like their spirits left their bodies...'

I extended both my hands and placed them on both of the girl's heads. Still, no reaction.

"Let's do this... I can't ss this up!" I thought as I focused magical power into my hands. "mory Deletion..." I muttered.

"mory Deletion" was a spell I had created myself, just like with the gravity spell I used against the Goblin King.

I made it specifically for these types of situations where soone's life could be saved by simply removing their most awful mories.

It was an extrely hard spell to cast. It pretty much drained all of my MP, although, to be fair, I was casting two at the sa ti.

When I finally linked with their minds, I was able to see through their mories of what they went through.

Now, I had seen so ssed up shit in my past life. Having the internet made it almost common to just stumble across a video of a random person dying sowhere.

Of course, those videos were perturbing. But these mories I was witnessing... Those were, without a doubt, the absolute worst thing anyone could ever lay their eyes upon.

After I selected all of those painful and disgusting mories, I deleted them.

Now, all they were going to think is that they were captured by the goblins, got beaten up a little until they were unconscious, and then got rescued by the adventurers.

It sounded like it wasn't much better, but trust , those mories were a hundred tis better than what I saw.

As soon as I finished my spell, both girls passed out. Jackson, who was behind watching everything unfold, helped put the girls back in their beds, and we left to let them rest.

"Hey Jackson... Did I do the right thing?" I asked.

"Hmm?"

"I'm asking... Did I do the right thing, you know... deleting those girls' mories?"

"Ahh, I think I get what you an..."

"ssing with soone's mories is dangerous... But when I saw what they went through... there was no way those girls would be able to live a normal life after that... With my spell, they have a chance, you know? Maybe I'm just trying to justify it..."

Jackson stopped by grabbing my shoulder and then giving a gentle pat.

"Don't fret about it, kid. I thought about it too, but y'know what? If sothing like that happened to , I would absolutely want that mory erased from existence. Besides, we can give those girls a good life in this village now... So, if it makes you feel any better... I do think you did the right thing."

I truly needed to hear that. I had a strange sense of guilt after robbing those two girls of their mories, but having soone I respected say they believed I did the right thing made feel much more at peace with my decision.

As Jackson and I walked around the village, the people would stop to thank and give gifts, like bread and fruit baskets. Everyone seed genuinely happy.

'Such a difference from when I first got here...' I thought, and I couldn't help but smile.

A bit later, I got stopped by a group of adventurers who fought with us against the goblins. Between them was Karla, the forr royal knight turned adventurer.

They were leaving the village and wanted to thank , but truthfully, I was the one thanking them too. If it wasn't for that brave group of adventurers that went to help a dying village for basically no money, I didn't think I would have been able to save all of the villagers.

"Well, now that the village is safe... Ti to think of new projects to build, hehehe" I said while rubbing my hands like a villain.