The Return of Lilietta - Chapter 105

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Chapter 105

‘The history book ends there. But there was additional content appended afterward.’

Oli had magically memorized and perfectly transferred the history book from Pascal’s experimental facility. So that part wasn’t content from the printed history book, but records Pascal had added to the book.

Ethan: Albinism, commoner orphan, stayed at the Albanas Kingdom assassin organization ‘Fang’ training facility until age 22. Training facility location is… At age 23, he annihilated his own assassin organization and began wandering. At age 29, while carrying out an assassination request, he was captured by the Demon Beast Defense Force and met Emperor Gideon. Afterward, following the Emperor’s orders, he devoted himself to maintaining public order… In the 18th year of the disaster outbreak, ignoring the Emperor’s command not to kill even the most evil person, he assassinated the Lord of Colm, then joined the Colm Castle defense forces to fight in the defensive battle and died. At this time, Colm Castle was completely destroyed and the defense lines collapsed in a chain reaction, leading to the ‘Battle of Duirebourg.’ Emperor Gideon died in that battle.

It seemed Pascal had separately investigated information about the ghost in order to summon him as a revenant.

‘This is why Ethan said he shouldn’t make judgments on his own.’

But that section had notes from Oli and Gid attached to it.

‘Don’t be swayed by the narrative, history is someone’s record of edited facts…’

Suddenly that note lingered in her mind as she repeated it, but she couldn’t continue her thoughts further. Ethan had stopped walking in the middle of the forest and was muttering irritably.

“The tracks split here?”

“What? The servant and Hanna’s tracks split?”

“Yeah, it looks like this is…”

Ethan, who had been rummaging through the dirt and carefully examining the surroundings, clicked his tongue and continued.

“It seems the two stood here talking and Hanna got angry. The footprints get deeper as she paced around… then left, no, damn it, I’d say she ran away.”

“Hanna ran away?”

Rita asked back with a darkened expression.

“That servant bastard didn’t chase after Hanna, did he?”

“Yeah, this bastard walked very leisurely in the other direction.”

“Then Ethan, you follow the servant’s tracks and find out what kind of guy he is. I’ll go in the direction Hanna went.”

“You want to move separately?”

“Secretly investigating suspicious guys is your specialty. I can find Hanna and come back.”

“…Alright.”

Even with a displeased face, Ethan obediently followed her words.

“Rita, don’t do anything reckless with that paper-thin body of yours and be careful. It’s not your old body, got it?”

After spouting a round of nagging, his figure disappeared in an instant following the servant’s tracks, and Lillieta, left alone, moved in the direction Hanna had supposedly headed while drawing Silvergrass.

Despite being told she had run away, the tree branches and thickets were roughly broken, leaving tracks that even she could sufficiently follow.

‘She’s going deeper and deeper into the forest. Was she so startled she didn’t know which direction was out?’

As the forest deepened, the trees grew taller and denser, gradually becoming eerie. And from somewhere, growling cries could be heard.

‘Demon beasts? No… in this place, it’s more likely to be monsters.’

Just as she was about to become more cautious, a person’s sobbing voice could be heard faintly.

“P-p-please save me, someone please…”

‘Hanna!’

Rita immediately moved toward where the sound came from. Thanks to the quick-witted Grace casting acceleration magic, she could run at flying speed.

Soon she discovered horned boar-like monsters swarming about, and Hanna trembling on a tree surrounded by those monsters.

“Hanna!”

“Ah, ah, Miss…”

Hanna, who had been clinging to tree branches, burst into tears as soon as she saw her.

‘Thank goodness, she’s safe.’

Rita moved her gun barrel with relief. Toward the foreheads of the Horned Boars that turned to look at her after she suddenly appeared and shouted.

Grrrrowl!

The Horned Boars charged toward her.

Worried she might attract other monsters, she used silent bullets. Quiet sounds like air escaping rang out in succession as the Horned Boars dropped one by one. It didn’t even take 3 seconds for all dozen or so monsters to die instantly.

Rita stepped over the scattered Horned Boar corpses and approached the tree where Hanna was hanging.

“Hanna, are you okay?”

“Huuung, ah, Miss, huuuung…”

“You’re not hurt anywhere, are you?”

“Huuung, yes, yes, I’m fine, hueup, I’m fine, huuuung, th-thank you, thank you…”

Hanna nodded while tears and snot flowed down her face. Rita smiled with relief.

“That’s a relief. Let’s go back to the barracks for now. Can you come down?”

“Yes, hueup, I’ll come, I’ll come down, keuhng.”

Hanna tried to move while supporting herself on tree branches with trembling hands but slipped. She nearly fell but managed to cling to the branch with her whole body and barely hung on.

“Ah, ah, Miss, huuung, s-sorry, my, my, my arms and legs, hi, have no, no strength, hue, j-just a moment…”

“It’s okay, you’re like that because you were so startled.”

Rita calmed Hanna while calmly assessing her condition.

‘She was terrified but seeing me made her relax… This won’t work. If she tries to come down in that state, she’ll fall.’

When facing monsters, she would have somehow climbed as high as possible to survive, but for a maid with no special training, that place was a dizzying height even to come down from.

Rita pondered for a moment, then put away her revolver and spread both arms.

“Hanna, just jump down. I’ll catch you.”

“Whaaaat?”

‘Grace, cast enhancement magic timed with Hanna jumping down.’

[Warning: The user’s body has improved from before through training but still lacks muscle. Even with enhancement magic, it may be insufficient to catch a falling person.]

‘Do you think this is my first time catching someone? Even if I’m a bit lacking in strength, there are techniques for everything, so just cast the magic.’

[Lament: Understood, user.]

Why is that a lament instead of confirmation.

Rita wondered if Grace was overly emotional while urging Hanna.

“It’s fine, just trust me and jump down.”

“But I’m bigger than you, Miss…”

“You’ve seen me use all sorts of amazing techniques, right? I can catch you just fine, so don’t worry and hurry.”

“Huuuuu…”

“Just relax your arms and fall. You trust me, don’t you, Hanna?”

Hanna, who had been sobbing and trembling, looked at Lillieta’s calm face and finally squeezed her eyes shut.

Hanna releasing the strength in her arms that had been gripping the tree branch, and a new Horned Boar appearing in Rita’s detection range happened almost simultaneously.

It immediately took a charging stance.

‘Oh no.’

Rita calculated instantly.

She could easily dodge that thing’s charge. But if she dodged it, Hanna would crash straight to the ground.

Having finished her calculations, she remained in place and wrapped Oaths around her legs, mimicking an enhancer.

“Kyaaah!”

Krrruk!

“Hup.”

Hanna’s scream as she fell, the charging Horned Boar’s cry, and Rita’s suppressed groan rang out in succession.

Hanna, who had fallen with her eyes closed, felt relieved as she was caught in gentle arms, but immediately smelled the metallic scent of blood.

“Ah, Miss?”

Startled, she opened her eyes to see her miss’s face with a slightly furrowed brow.

When their eyes met, she smiled hazily and set Hanna down, then drew her gun at lightning speed and shot right next to her own thigh.

Phissh, the silent bullet made a deflating sound as it embedded in the Horned Boar’s crown.

Hanna checked that direction and turned pale. The boar’s horn had pierced through Lillieta’s thigh and was sticking out. Bright red blood had thoroughly stained her grayish-blue dress.

“Kyaaah! Miss! Your leg! Your leg!”

“…I’m fine.”

Rita aimed her gun barrel at the horn area of the dead monster again with a pale face, not even letting out a groan.

‘It would be more dangerous to pull out the horn like this.’

She fired a bullet to separate just the horn. The Horned Boar’s corpse with its severed horn fell over with a heavy sound.

Then she checked the condition of her thigh with the horn embedded in it.

‘This hurts like hell.’

Thanks to mimicking an enhancer, she didn’t fall or get blown away from the charge, but since she wasn’t a real enhancer, she couldn’t prevent being pierced by the horn.

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