(Shit shit shit!)
With Claret happily clinging onto my shoulders again, we were flying through the skies again as quickly as I could manage. Alicia was giving out constant exclamations as she enjoyed being able to see the environnt while Claret gave directions back towards the wagon.
It seed the little seven year old didn't have any fear of heights thankfully. Most likely it was because she had no learned recognition of what height looked like. She wasn't able to connect the feeling of height she had learned with what she was seeing.
Well, that was better for , as she wasn't scared at all with us flying so quickly while occasionally skimming the tops of so of the hills.
As we got close, I activate [Materialize] before dropping down near Mint's wagon.
"Miss Scarlet!"
Just as I landed, Mint yelled out and everyone gathered imdiately from positions further around. It looked like they had already closed camp and was ready to move out at any mont.
"What in god's na happened?!"
"That's right! We woke up and we couldn't find you anywhere!"
"The imps were crying out so much! There must've been a huge horde of them fighting nearby!"
(It figured that they'd go for the main topic right off the bat.)
"Ah, umm, sorry. That was my fault."
"Your fault?"
"Ah, ummm, well, I was checking sothing out, and accidentally killed an imp. And after that..."
"Haaa. Well, it seems like you got out of that fine. I suppose that's a testant to your strength? It's good that everything went well, but please be careful next ti. When imps call for reinforcents, you never know how many may show up. So of the groups can also beco distracted by other targets and cause collateral damage even when you purposely try to draw them away from friendlies as well."
"Ah, umm, alright. I'll be careful."
I wasn't at fault. I wasn't at fault in regards to this, but it was a good thing to know. But it really wasn't my fault. It was entirely an accident that I fell on one of them after all.
With that, we grouped up and made our way through the rest of the craggy hills, erging out the other side as the sky was starting to turn a different colour. It seed like normally they were able to cross the hills while the sun was still high in the sky, so I apologized once again for delaying everything.
We set up camp a small distance away from the hills, and like before, I volunteered to handle the full night watch. While the others protested since I had not only been up all day to help with the day escort but even had less sleep because I ended up with the last watch the night before and was the only one to fight monsters on top of that. They backed off once I insisted that it was in apology for making a ss of things the day before and waking everybody up because of my fight in the morning.
They didn't seem very satisfied with my argunt, but I continued to press my point until they all gave up. It wasn't like we hadn't been doing this the entire ti up to then anyways.
After everyone went to bed, I was laying on my back while staring at the stars. Claret laid her head on my belly as I slowly stroked her hair.
"Ah, yea. I figured I'd do sothing to put in their good graces."
The dark spirit pointed out that theory when I whispered my answer out.
Considering how things were now, it was probably impossible for to keep my secrets from these two. No, even more than that, considering the kind of things we said to each other the morning before, I didn't want to keep these sort of things secret from them.
I confird Alicia's thoughts.
Thinking back, I lead a pretty useless life. I've never had anything but an ordinary dead-end job, never dated anyone, I wasn't even that close to my parents by the ti I died. In fact, the only remarkable thing I could put a claim on was that I had died from overwork while pursuing my dream. A dream that was clearly dead even before I was.
Frankly, it was a pretty depressing life when I thought about it. It wasn't like I was even satisfied with anything about it. That was probably what made try developing my own ga. Not like I really enjoyed it in the end though. And by the ti I had realized that, I had gotten to the point that I had gambled too much to just throw it away.
It was nothing but a hobby of mine back then. Looking up random things that caught my eye. Learning about how things worked, how they were made. The internet was really a blessing and I felt like I really took advantage of it. To have thought that so much of that random knowledge would have co to use for .
Well, it wasn't like a ton of that knowledge wasn't useless even in my new life though. Knowing four ways to make a primitive house and seven ways to start a fire was completely useless when I could do both in seconds with magic.
But if I had to pick, then it was better that I did spend that ti doing it. The fact that it was enjoyable was a nice bonus. Rather, since it was enjoyable, I wouldn't have stopped doing so even if people told that such knowledge wouldn't ever co in handy.
As we were talking, Claret suddenly spouted out sothing way darker than I had expected. Her body trembled, and sothing wet seeped through my robes.
I stroked Claret's head as she nodded. After a few monts, she poked her face out of my crevice and gave a bright smile.
I froze at her words. She was talking about the previous Scarlet again. The only other previous I was consciously aware of was the one that died broke and all alone, with all his dreams shattered. I gritted my teeth.
(I'm not that Scarlet. I'm my own person. I'm a different person. Any similarities are either coincidences or just common traits.)
The very idea that there was a ghost of another person guiding my thoughts and actions didn't sit well with . It was like depriving of my free will. Maybe, maybe it was because of the few things I actually had, my own freedom was the one thing I had never lost in my previous life. Because of that, the very thought of having even that taken away, or denied entirely, irked .
It looked like I was being a bit too abstract in how I was explaining things.
I gave the dark spirit a quick kiss on the forehead as I continued to brush her hair. Claret froze on the spot as her face turned like a boiled octopus. The mont when I thought she unfroze and recovered, the dark spirit gave a dopey smile before burying her face in between my cleavage.
(Super effective, huh?)
That was probably sothing I should keep up my sleeve for the future.
Looking through my updated skill list, I found out what it was that I had to give my thanks to.
If that guard guy way back when didn't get distracted by the person in front of , I most likely wouldn't have had the chance to do anything at all. Fundantally it all started by a single stroke of luck.
Claret extracted herself from my arms and did a slow twirl, ending in a cute pose.
(Is it just a coincidence that they're black robes just like what I'm wearing?)
I didn't really know what to think about her words. This life aside, I really doubted the previous Scarlet had a choice as to what race she was.
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