Reincarnated as the Chapter 1117: Acceptance

Chapter 1117: Acceptance

It did pain

seeing her like that, and it was really difficult to not imdiately get up and being comforting her... it took a lot from

to not do that, but I wasn't heartless, just being practical.

We had just killed two patrolling mbers of this rcenary band, which numbered sowhere in the twenties; this was a significant amount of fighting power for them to lose, so I needed to make sure they weren't just left here to be found right away.

Any amount of minutes I could buy would be worthwhile, so with my 'newly' empowered Earth Mana I began to form narrow yet deep pits for the bodies to fall into after I finished rummaging around.

Retrieving the arrows first and making sure that Aethisia wasn't shutting down completely, I nodded to myself and gave her a mont to grapple with what just happened while I did that rummaging, which netted... not a lot.

So coins, a nice looking dagger, so questionable Emberleaf cigarettes and then a couple of unknown potions that I wasn't willing to risk ingesting, but would be nice to potentially sell if we could. 1

I don't know why I was trying to scavenge for things to make us money but... I had the space and it was sothing that I had been taught to do during my ti with the military, so whatever...

When I had taken everything off of them I rolled them into their graves before filling it up with earth and making sure the area wasn't overly obvious; there wasn't much I could do - that I knew of - to get rid of the lingering mana signature, but the dirt itself was able to be smoothed out and made to look natural.

It took

about a minute, during which Aethisia continued to grapple with what she had done, though by the ti I was standing up and facing her she wasn't looking at

with a blank look, just... a sowhat mournful, slightly scared one.

Carefully hiding the arrows behind , I clapped her shoulder with my free hand and gave her a reassuring squeeze before pulling her close, gently knocking my brow against hers as I murmured "Look at

and focus, Aethisia."

Her breathing had been sowhat labored, her eyes were watery, but upon hearing that she took a deep breath and just nodded, staring into my eyes and trying to push away those thoughts.

"It had to be done. They were bad people; you saw what so of them were doing to the citizens of this town. On top of that they are our enemies; that alone is reason enough, because if our positions were switched they wouldn't hesitate to do the sa exact thing we did."

Attempting to appeal to her logically did seem to help, though she took another labored breath and muttered "But... there was no... what if they-