Two Reincarnated Chapter 16: The cry of a woman

After he had bumped into one of the imperial soldiers, he fell. the people he ca out of Reiko’s barrier with were all surprised to see him fall.

"See, I told you that there were still so people left in the village."

One of them said, his tone was filled with joy and excitent. This person was either an idiot or soone who thinks everyone around is the sa.

They didn’t know that the person Haji had run into was not one of the villagers but an imperial soldier from the capital of the kingdom.

"I’m sorry, I didn’t see you there," Haji said as he tried to look up at the person he had run into, while the man was taken by surprise that he thought he was being taken by a surprise attack.

"A kid?" The man muttered as he looked down at Haji, who was now trying to stand up while keeping an eye on the man.

The man looked in front of him, and that’s when he heard people’s chatter.

The chatter was coming from the group of people Haji was with.

He raised his left hand and placed it by his ear while his right hand was occupied by the weapon he was carrying.

A small red light flashed where he placed his left hand, which was followed by a faint ringing sound while his attention was still on Haji and the chatter ahead of him.

He was calling for the other imperial soldiers to inform them that he had found the villagers.

"Sorry again." Said Haji with a smile as he tried to continue going where he was off to, but the mont he started moving, the man grabbed him by the shoulder and said to him with a smile.

"Hey!"

"Where can I find the others?"

Haji turned and looked at the man with a surprised expression, while still maintaining his smile.

Of course, the smile looked like it was being forced.

"The others?" He asked, his tone confused as he slowly turned, looking around the corner right behind the man.

’Why does he want to know where the others are?’ He wondered while the man was still holding him by the shoulder.

"They’re right behind that corner there." He said as the man turned to face where Haji was looking.

"Over there?" The man asked as he let go of Haji’s shoulder.

"Okay then, see you soon, mister." Said Haji as he leaves the man looking at the corner, as he touches his ear with his left hand again.

anwhile, as Haji had just left the man. The other people he had co with where still near the training ground and they looked like they were waiting for sothing or soone to co out of the barrier, but it looked like there was no barrier because it just looked like it was just a plane ground with no one around, even the statue that was there earlier.

"Huh?"

One of them uttered, he had noticed that sothing was not right with the barrier because it looked like there were no traces of it.

"Hey, look!" Another one of them said as he faced the training grounds with a surprised expression on his face.

Though his facial expression looked surprised, it just felt priceless to the imperial soldier who bumped into Haji earlier.

He was standing at a distance while observing them and waiting for orders to attack.

Or maybe it was the other way around.

The others turned to face the training ground, but as their eyes made contact with it, all their facial expressions were complicated to tell from where the imperial soldier was standing.

"Wasn’t there a barrier here about a second ago?" One of them asked while still looking at the grounds.

"...Hah..."

"What do you an, a second ago?" Another one asked as the whole group glanced at the grass in front of them.

"What the hell...?"

They said again with an even more surprised and complicated facial expression as they scanned the ground, when suddenly, sothing that looked like a small portal appeared in front of them.

This was the barrier opening up and giving the people who wanted to get out it to pass without doing any harm to them, and from the point of view of the people who were still inside it. It just looked like everything was normal and there was no portal opening or closing inside the barrier. But that couldn’t be said for the people outside it.

"So, what should we do next?"

A voice ca out of the portal said followed by the sound of footsteps from several people walking on grass.

The people outside just stood there with their attention on the portal, while their faces looked like they were even more confused.

From a distance, where the imperial soldier was standing. He observed everything that was happening where the n were.

A second later, five people ca out of the portal, and one of them was holding a black rose that was only found deep within the training ground of this village.

These people looked like they were so kind of adventurers. Weak ones at that.

A mont later, the portal started to close slowly while the five people who ca out of it just passed the other group without saying anything to each other.

"...Is it that..." One of them uttered as he moved forth towards the ground, but no portal appeared, and he just went straight and entered the plain training ground without anything happening to him.

"Hmmm." They all uttered, surprised by what just happened.

They were expecting that maybe the barrier would activate and vaporize him.

"Why didn’t the barrier zap you?" One of them asked, as the one on the training ground looked at them.

"Hah..."

"Is it down..."

"... But if so, then why can’t we see anyone else?" Another one thought out loud as the others looked at him.

From a distance, not far from where this group was, the imperial soldier moved closer to them while hiding in the shadows of the black.

The group didn’t notice him because they were too busy trying to figure out what was happening with the barrier.

anwhile, Haji, inside the village, was still walking while heading to his house for so water. He looked left and right, but all he could see were the imperial soldiers who were just ignoring him for so reason.

The imperial soldiers were ignoring him because they thought he was no threat, and there was no point in murdering a little kid who wanted to fight back, even if they did so.

He noticed that all of the n were carrying so kind of weapon, and then he rembered that even the first one he had t was carrying it too.

"Why are they carrying guns?" He wondered as he kept moving forward without looking back.

He didn’t realize that he wondered and knew sothing he had never seen before in his life.

This world had no weapons like guns until just recently, when the kingdom of lcelut introduced them as a new kind of weapon.

"Wait..." He decreased his pace.

Then he continued.

"What’s a gun?" He wondered with a confused face as he started to pick up the pace again.

Not far from where Haji was, a woman scread like she was terrified of sothing from a movie. Her voice sounded like one of the people who looked like adventurers who ca out of the barrier earlier.

The group that Haji had co out of the barrier earlier heard her, and with their attention piqued. They stopped trying to figure out how Reiko’s barrier woke and rushed to see what was happening.

The imperial soldier who was watching them did not bother to follow, but he decided to stay in a hidden site and observe a spot where the group was hoping to see if more and more villagers would appear.

Of course, he was just following orders he had been given through the growing light and the ringing sound from earlier when he was talking with Haji.

"What’s going on?!" Was the first question the group asked as they reached the woman who had scread earlier?

She looked terrified, and her four friends were all down, while their bodies were gushing with blood. And one of the bodies appeared like it was trying to cover the woman from an attack, but ended up receiving too much damage.

"What happened here?" One of the n in the group asked as the woman looked like she was shocked due to what happened to her friends. Her hands were covered with blood, so it looked like she was trying to heal her dead friends.

So of the n in the group fell to their knees and started to vomit because of the sight they had just witnessed, while so of them just froze with fear that they were just too afraid to move, while the others were looking around to see who could have done it. But they were out of luck because in an instant, one of them fell for good without even knowing what happened to him.

From a distance, near a destroyed building, there was an even taller building that looked like it was still being built. Rose was lying down with her weapon, or let’s just say a sniper that uses mana as ammo, to target the villagers one by one as they co.

But she was not alone in this unfinished building; the man who looked like he was always having a good ti, and three other soldiers were with her, assisting in her specialty, which was long-distance assassination.

"Can I take out the woman?" One of the n she was with said.

"No, keep her alive." The man who looked like he was having a good ti said. His na was Mathew, and he was the one who was leading the attack on the village, and Rose was second in command to him, despite being the only female in the group.

Then Mathew added

"Just make sure you take out all the others."

"They seem useless to even work as slaves."

He was busy drinking beer, which he brought with him, while the others worked. But it wasn’t like he was just sitting around and doing nothing. His whole job was to lead the imperial soldiers and make sure that they succeed.

Rose turned her sniper a little bit to her left and noticed that there was soone in one of the houses that was close to the center of the village.

This soone was just Haji inside his house, drinking water while standing near a window.

"Is that a kid?" She muttered, her tone confused.

"Did you say sothing?" Mathew asked as Rose turned her gun away from Haji.

"No... Just don’t kill the kids."

"They might be useful if properly trained as imperial knights."

Rose replied as her arm flinched a little. Mathew didn’t respond but just smiled as the other knights who were with them looked at him.

On the training grounds, five more groups of people ca out of the barrier while complaining that they were bored, and so were saying that they needed to go ho, while the others just kept on complaining that they were hungry.

anwhile, inside the barrier as Reiko was talking to so of the villagers, who were mostly won, children, and adult n. She noticed that Rica was sitting alone with the baby dragon, but Haji wasn’t with her.