Chapter 159 - 157 - Concern.

Seeing Ciaphia's way of acting, Emma realized Ciaphia knew something, so she waited for her to start talking. But Ciaphia stood still and didn't seem to want to talk about it, it even looked like she had passed out standing up.

"You're acting like this... Where did he go?" Tired of waiting, Emma asked as she moved closer to Ciaphia.

The color returned to Ciaphia's previously pale face and she concentrated a bit to answer, but her voice was a little hoarse and she looked very worried. Noticing this, Emma began to worry even more.

"Well, he was…" Ciaphia paused, leaving Emma impatient.

"Come on, speak up! Where did he go?!" Emma asked as she held Ciaphia's shoulders and looked into her eyes. She, who had suddenly had her shoulders gripped, was a little startled.

Mainly with Emma's creepy look.

"He had told me he was going to the forest to hunt monsters, so I lent him my sword, and..."

"What?" Emma widened her eyes and gritted her teeth, after which she released Ciaphia and prepared to go straight into the forest. But before leaving, she turned to the two girls who were looking at her.

"If anything has happened to Noah, I'll have a nice chat with you two," Emma said as she walked away. Taciane's entire body shook and Ciaphia fell to the floor on her ass as she took a deep breath.

"My God, I thought she was going to kill me," Ciaphia said as she took a deep breath.

"She would never kill you, but you better hope nothing happens to Noah."

"Why? This isn't our fault, is it? I lent him my sword... Just it"

"Maybe that's exactly why Emma said that. Since you lent him a gun, maybe she thinks you encouraged him to go to the forest."

"Damn, you're right... But I didn't do it, I was worried about him too."

"..."

"But where is he? I told him to come back early, did something happen to him?" Ciaphia began to feel guilty for lent him the sword, and she also felt guilty for not stopping him.

But what could she have done?

The girl who was now worried and afraid that something had happened to Noah quickly washed her face and grabbed something from the kitchen to eat. Then she went outside.

Taciane watched this as she sighed.

"This girl, I hope she doesn't do anything unnecessary."

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Emma, ​​who had received the information that her son had gone to the forest, ran towards her home to find Lucio and warn him about it. But when she arrived, she didn't find anyone.

"Do you know where Lucio, Lisandra, and Lari went?" She asked one of the guards passing by.

After thinking for a moment, the man replied.

"I think I saw them around there, they looked pretty worried as they looked for Noah." The guard replied. Seeing Emma's grim expression, he realized that something serious had happened, but he didn't decide to say anything about it.

Receiving this information Emma ran after them, it didn't take long to find them.

They were in front of a house talking to a lady, it was a house very close to the village wall. As Emma approached, she could hear a snatch of conversation between them.

"I heard something over the roof of my house last night, I thought it was some animal…" It was something that wouldn't make sense to be interpreted as something important and that might be necessary to find Noah.

Of course, only for the three who listened.

As for Emma, ​​she knew very well what had happened.

"Excuse me, I can talk to you three?" When she said that, they finally noticed her presence.

"Mom!" Lisandra ran to her and hugged her: "Did you find Noah? I'm very worried." She said with a sad expression.

Lari who cry before also seemed to have controlled himself and this time he wasn't crying.

Lucio as before was with a grim expression showing that he had not found anything and was still very worried.

"I know where he might be, that's all," Emma responded to Lisandra as she placed her hand on her head and comforted her.

At Emma's words, the three of them looked quite happy. But that happiness lasted for a short time.

"I talked to Ciaphia and it looks like Noah went into the forest to hunt monsters last night." Emma bit her lip as she remembered something similar that happened years ago.

She didn't like him going into the woods alone like that.

They who heard these words looked quite dejected. Lari, who had stopped crying before, started crying again.

"We have to go there immediately!!! He's been in the forest for a long time." Lari said as she ran away, she was heading straight for the gate.

"What are you going to do, Mom? You're going to bring Noah back, aren't you?" Lisandra looks into Emma's eyes, making her heart race a little...

"Of course I will, but now I have to go. Lucio, stay with her for now, I'll go after Noah."

"Are you sure you can do this alone?"

"Do you not trust me?"

"It's not that... Oh, it's okay, go ahead."

"Don't worry, I'll bring our son back." Emma put a smile on her face even as she felt great anguish. She felt that her son was in big trouble.

In addition to the worry, she was also irritated that Noah had left without her permission.

Her feelings were being thrown out of her body in the form of magic made her body glow orange as she ran quickly towards the gate.

There, she found Lari desperately begging the guard to open the gate.

"I'm sorry, I can't open the gate without permission."

"Please, Noah is outside and I need to help him." Lari was almost kneeling in front of the guard.

Emma who saw this felt very bad. She understood what Lari was feeling at the moment.

'That idiot, in addition to making his family worry about him, also makes the woman who loves him suffer.' She thought as she tightened the hilt of her sword at her waist.

'Wait for me, I'll make you pay for this.' Emma approached the gate in an instant. There, she calmed down Lari.

Lari kept begging to be taken into the forest, but Emma dismissed that idea. Leaving Lari dejected behind, she left the village and ran directly behind the village where that house was.

He went up to that house to get out.

As a great deal of magic emanated from her body, she ran through the trees.

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I had already walked for a few feet, but I felt my vision blur as I took another step. After feeling so much pain, it was as if I had gotten used to it, I wasn't moaning in pain like I used to.

But of course, I was still very worried if I would make it to the village alive.

With my vision growing darker and feeling dizzy, I tried to hold onto one of the nearby trees.

Urg~~

But before I knew it, I was on the ground on some roots. The only thing I felt before I fell was something hitting my foot causing me to lose my balance.

When I fell, I turned around and looked back, I was afraid there was some monster around, but thankfully there was no one there.

I smiled and then tried to get up again as my vision got even darker and I felt dizzy.

By the time I got up and managed to get to my feet, it wasn't long before the world started to spin in my vision and I lost my balance again. I fell to the ground and felt a huge impact on my head.

Putting my hand on my head, I felt my hair was wet, when I looked at my hand I noticed it was all red, showing that my head was bleeding.

"Did I fall on a rock or something?" I started to blink several times as I felt my body relax. I also started to feel like I was sleepy, so as it was dark, I decided to get some sleep.

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Emma who was running through the forest desperately found some monsters and killed them quickly out of impatience.

She was running through the trees with difficulty, and with the traps that were there, she had to pay even more attention.

Running for a while longer, she felt that Noah was close by, but the trees blocked her view and didn't let her see very well.

"He shouldn't be too far away." Stopping her run, she started walking around. Tree roots became more visible and the number of dry leaves on the ground gradually increased as she walked.

"Noah!!" She screamed aloud in the middle of the forest but got no response.

And so 20 minutes passed.

Emma had her hand shaking a little while she had a complicated expression on her face. It was like she was holding back from crying, she had never felt such worry before.

'He didn't die, did he?' Her heart skipped a beat as she thought that, but she cursed herself for thinking such a thing.