Chapter 351: Critical Hit
I left the wild boar butchering to Michelle and Cloud, and had Letina check my injury.
Though I called it an injury, it was only on the level of a bruise, so I wasn’t bleeding or anything.
Still, to see the affected part, I had to expose my chest, so there was a need to avoid any public eyes… particularly Cloud’s.
“It is swelled a little, but I would not call it an injury.”
“I’ve been saying that it didn’t hurt.”
“You say that even when you are heavily injured, so I cannot trust your words.”
“That’s an awful thing to say to your friend.”
That said, there have been many cases where I said I was fine and fainted. It was natural that she would doubt .
This ti, I was able to easily escape the impact thanks to the revised leather armor that Aste made. If it was so roughly tailored armor, the shock would’ve gotten directly transmitted to my body and might have broken a rib or two.
While I was thinking of such things, Letina suddenly poked my breast.
“Oh, what is this scar?”
“That’s from Fina’s mischiefs. She tends to imdiately go for my breasts.”
What Letina poked was the red mark near the tips of my small mounds. Fina’s mouth landed precisely on them every ti, so I still had a red bruise left nearby.
“Could it be that she is mistaking you for her mother… No, that cannot be.”
“Hey! Where were you looking when you made that judgnt, huh?”
“Do you really want to say it out loud?”
“Hmph, not that you have any to show yourself. Mine are bigger than yours at least.”
“Now you’ve said it!”
Letina leaped at , but the difference between our builds was too big. I caught her head and she started flailing around without ever reaching .
That aside, I had sothing I needed to ask.
“Michelle, about that last attack.”
“Hmm? Ah, that? It just felt like ‘that’s the spot!’ and I shot it.”
“Oh, I see…”
I aid to be a swordsman in my previous life, so I understood where Michelle was coming from. When you swing your sword, sotis, in truly rare monts, the blade smoothly slides through the enemy’s vital part.
I experienced that sensation even after I moved on to using the threads. Rather, it started happening more frequently after I started using them. I have asked Lyell about that sensation before, but while he had also experienced sothing similar, he couldn’t explain what it really was.
I kept experiencing it even after I took on the assassin work. It was probably what it felt when you pierced soone’s vital part. So Michelle has learned to feel that sa sensation thanks to her Gift.
In that case…
“Michelle, you may beco much stronger from now on.”
“Huh, really?”
“Yes. Yeah. I’m not really familiar with the details myself though.”
“I see… Ah, hey! You shouldn’t be looking there!”
“Ouch! It was just an accident. It just entered my vision.”
While my hands were stopped during the conversation, Cloud managed to steal a glance. I had the front of my shirt pulled up, so a lot of things were exposed.
“Cloud, will burn.”
“At least speak in proper sentences!”
“They say you will beco stronger if you are forged, you know?”
“Who the heck said such a thing? I’ll send them flying later. That’s a total lie, okay!”
“Incidentally, it was my dad.”
“No way I can beat him…”
Seeing Cloud fall on the ground in despair, I decided to hold off with physical punishnt. I suppose it would be too pitiful if he really ends up unable to leave any descendants.
The at and skin that we obtained from the boar sumd up to 30 kilos. The internal organs were hard to process, so we had Letina use the Tunnel spell and safely bury them.
There were edible parts but they generally didn’t last very long, so it wasn’t worth bringing them along. We got a little over 7kg at per person this ti, so Cloud was pretty happy with his orphanage tribute.
“It would only be a little longer until we can no longer take such fresh ingredients ho.”
“If the Marquis family issues a commission, they would hunt them for you, though.”
“It would be awkward to issue commissions for that silly reason. Besides, it feels tastier when you are the one who defeated it.”
“Still, you shouldn’t go hunt one alone, okay? And don’t make your servants do the unreasonable, either.”
“What do you take for… I am not so inconsiderate.”
“The Letina I t at the start was quite inconsiderate, though?”
“T-That was when I was only a kid!”
“You’re still a kid, though.”
We wrapped the at in the skin and carried it like that. However, with so much at on our hands, the sll was bound to attract wild animals, so this marked the end of today’s hunt.
We were in a relaxed mood as we reached Raum.
“Besides, I have to enroll in the higher academy grades, so I cannot stay a child forever.”
“The higher grades of the Magic Academy… That would an noble’s training, huh. I’d definitely not want any part of that.”
“Even I feel reluctant about it.”
“I don’t want to study any more. Combat experience is the best.”
“Michelle, I think you really should study more.”
She was an honest girl that accepted everything that they taught her without question. That in itself was a good thing, but it was hard to develop your thinking skill like that.
Considering what was to co, she really had to learn more things. Otherwise, she might get confused and not know what to do if she ever gets involved in trouble.
“You guys are going to Stolla domain after graduation, right?”
“Yes. There we will be staying in Gadius… Sir Gadius’ inn.”
I was really not used to referring to Gadius with an honorific.
Unlike Lyell, that old b?a?s?t?a?r?d? was quite ill-mannered. Or rather, he was awfully shy with strangers despite his appearance.
We did talk a lot during the journey after he got familiar with , but at first, Cortina used to grumble that when Gadius and I were alone, the place got shrouded in dead silence and atmosphere.
Though it couldn’t be helped. Unlike Cortina who I had known from before, that was my first ti eting Gadius.
“I have not t them very often. How are they?”
“He is surprisingly kind. And good at taking care of people. He’s far kinder compared to Master Lyell.”
It seed that Cloud had rated Gadius better than Lyell… Lyell’s hard on you because he’s vigilant of you, though.
Despite insisting countless tis that it wasn’t like that, Lyell was still suspecting that Cloud was a bug that was sticking close to , so there was no helping it.
“At any rate, there are still five months to go. Let’s just stay together as much as we can, okay?”
“Alright. We have to spend this little ti we have together. Getting depressed about what would follow will do us no good.”
“Besides, we’ll co back from ti to ti. It’s not like we won’t be able to et at all.”
“When that ti cos, I’ll show you high-level spells that I will learn in the senior grade!”
“I’ll wait without setting any expectations.”
We passed Raum’s gate while ssing about in a calm manner. The gate guard knew our faces, so he didn’t go out of his way to detain us.
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