670 East Hurricane ③ - Escape

"Is this the voice of the people of the east? No way, the bandits of the people of the east are in a settlement by the woods...?

Yun-Sudra, who gave herself up a short distance from me, was crushing in a low voice. Thur-din, cuddled by his arms, is shaking his body with a bright blue face.

"Until I was so close, I couldn't notice the signs. Apparently, they are not as good at killing signs as the people by the woods."

Instead of me, Tia is crushing like that.

Because of its small body, its temper as a hunter for the Red People was regarded.

"Probably about six to eight. The wooden walls are in the way, and that's all I can feel."

"Six to eight... The Hurricane Party was talking about bandits of about ten to twenty..."

"Then I'm sure you're a little further away. There are about six to eight of them that can be felt by Tia."

Even while I was talking to Tia like that, I was having nightmares.

There, the anger echoes again.

"Burn to death, you want it!? Running away, impossible!

From me. From the window on the right, a new fire arrow is fired.

The fire arrow also pierced the wall and began to raise black smoke.

So I said, "Yeah, yeah!" and a raised voice is raised, and a large amount of water is poured over the wall where he was raising smoke.

The Lord of the Voice was Malfira-Naham. Malfira-Naham succumbed to himself, smashing the water in the water bottle with his momentous power.

The fire arrows that were burning the walls are extinguished with it.

but while I was at ease, now two firearrows were thrown at the top of the window on the opposite side, and I was to stand against the wall.

"It's no use! We, the outside walls, we can aim, we can! If you don't come out, it's burning!

The voice of a man with a voice but no emotion sounds ominous.

"Asta in Fa's house, if you come out, other people, harm, don't do it, promise! We, purpose, just Asta in Fa's house!

Hearing the words, Yun-Sudra bit her lips in remorse.

"How is it that Asta... Asta has never even met the people of the mountains?

"Ugh, yeah. I suppose so... did you hear my name somewhere"

But even so, I don't remember being targeted by mountain people or anything like that.

At that time, he said, "Ugh!" The sad voice echoed.

And Zilbe's roar, which was sounding like a thunderbolt, interrupts. I was struck in the back of the head by a shock, and I tried to wake myself up unexpectedly.

"Zilbe! Zilbe, are you okay!?

"Don't stand up, Asta. They'll be after you with arrows."

That's what Tia said, holding onto my wrist.

His eyes are burning up, as the flames of the Red Lotus.

"Besides, they burn all the houses as they are. You better get out there and run."

"Yeah, but there's more than six enemies out there, right?

"If you're just gonna run, you're gonna be fine"

Crushing low, Tia looked more Yun-Sudra.

"I want you to let go of the bars at its feet."

At the foot of Yun-Sudra, the firewood, which was only 40 cm long, had fallen. While picking it up, Yun-Sudra looks worried about Tia.

"I agree with you that I'm taking Asta away. But then shouldn't you take a meat cutting knife or something?

"Tier is not allowed to use 'steel'. It's a contraindication to the Red People."

After stating so, Tia smiled invincibly.

"Besides, a long stick would be more convenient if you were to strike down an arrow. Let go of the bars."

Yun-Sudra nodded, trying to roll the ground to deliver firewood.

Tia grabs it and looks up at my face.

"Can Asta run across that beast called Totos?

"Ugh, yeah. Not as good as I = fa, though......"

"Well, if Totos wasn't killed, then let's get away with it. No one can catch up with that beast."

Then the Fou women, who were grumbling on the opposite side of Yun-Sudra, raised their worrying voices.

"Ho, are you sure you're okay? Shouldn't we be hiding here until the men come back?

"No. If the guys outside come in here, it's gonna be extra hard to protect Asta. … and there will be a danger that one of you will be captured or hurt"

Tia was answering that way in a very quiet voice.

"You are important compatriots of Asta. I don't want to see you guys hurt and Asta grieve. If they're after Asta, they should get away from you."

While I was listening to Tia's calm voice, I was able to regain some calm too.

"Me too, I think Tia's right. Besides, the road to the settlement should be protected by guards, so I'm sure none of the bandits will have Totos with them. Then you can escape."

There were hundreds of guards there. If you came to the settlement kicking it, you should have a quick chaser. I'm sure these bandits walked into the edge of the woods, spreading branches and spreading grass all the way to the settlement.

(I don't know how to do that and I don't know if they're after me or something...... I can't get everyone involved)

Thinking like that, I stared back at Tia.

"Tia. The guys out there might be as armed as a hunter by the woods. Still, can we get away with this?

"If you just run, you'll be fine. If Tia's sword had been left behind, we could have fought without running away."

The black stone knife in Tia's possession was broken by a major earthquake the other day.

"Well, what if I can't use Totos? I don't really want to imagine... but those guys might be keeping the Gills from moving in advance"

"At that time, escape into the woods. You just have to hide in the woods until the i-fa's return."

In Tia's words, there was no stray.

I gather my energy and try to nod, "Okay."

"We're getting out of here. Never do anything dangerous until they're gone."

The women of Fou nodded with a tenacious face.

The same is true of Yun-Sudra and Faye-Beim, where Malfira-Naham has a goldfish face lacking acid, and Tour-Din has a crying face.

"A, Asta, please be safe...... I pray to the Forest and Western God. Never, never die."

"Yeah, thanks. Take care, too, Thur-din."

Me and Tia crept closer to the entrance.

The guys out there are watching how things are going, and new fire arrows are never fired.

That's how I put my back against the wall and looked out - I could see Zilbe lying there powerless.

He's shaking his pitch-black tendencies as he gives a sad voice to Kun. I'm sure he was shot in whether it was a paralytic or a sleeping pill. The people of the mountains were talking about setting up such things with arrows.

The moment I saw him, the anxiety and fear in me turned straight into anger.

I can never forgive you to imitate Zilbe like this for nothing. I sincerely regret that there is no power like the Ey-fa's in this body.

"It was on the right side of this cabin that Totos was connected. First, Tia goes outside, so if you give her a signal, Asta runs against the wall. You don't have to worry about arrows."

"Yeah, okay. You can run, right?

"Uhm. Go for Totos, run straight"

Needless to say, Tia jumped out the entrance.

At the same time, they shoot arrows from left to right.

They were to be knocked down with firewood flashing by the tier.

"Asta, go!

I made up my mind and jumped out.

The tone of the hiccups and arrows tearing up the air sounds, but runs through the ground without a limb. All I could do was act like Tia told me to.

Reach the wall of the Kamado cabin and turn in the direction of travel.

Really, a black shadow flew in front of me, so I got to get up.

But it was firewood in Tia's hands. Tia gave me the arrow coming from the front of me.

"I'm fine. Run."

I nodded and kicked the ground again.

That sight already contains the figure of Gilr. Gill, connected to a branch of a tree, was watching this one with a decent face.

(Gill, are you all right!

I was relieved as I ran over to you.

At the same time, I get caught up in a little anxiety. Why are these people leaving Gill alone? If Tia had surrounded Kamadu's cabin before she noticed, it would have been easy to finish Gill off.

(No, so if Gill raised his voice, I guess he thought we'd notice. Or did you not even assume that we would try to get away with it forcefully...... anyway, it's a big luck for us)

I rushed over to Gill and unraveled the reins that were tied to the branches.

Meanwhile, Tia looks like she's waving firewood behind her back. Fortunately, however, no one seemed to try to be slashed with a knife.

"All right! The reins are loose!

Asta, get in first.

I crouched Gill and jumped on its back.

At the same time, Tia fluttered behind me.

"That's good. Run Totos."

"Copy that!"

What I spanned Girl was a lot of crackling.

As he grips the reins and kicks into the side of his belly, Gill moves forward quickly.

Then my collar was grabbed from behind.

"Let me give you a little support. Asta doesn't care, let Totos run."

Apparently Tia stood on Gill's ass, waving firewood.

He's grabbing my collar, but he's not that powerful. It was a terrible sense of balance to be able to stand on a diseased toss with it.

"Mm-hmm. I lost momentum on the arrows. The guys in the back are fine now."

When I hear words like that, residue of firewood runs through the edge of my sight. Now they're shooting arrows from the side.

(I knew you were lurking everywhere. Then it's safer to go for the lodging town than to escape into the woods)

I manipulated Gill to take the road to the woods.

Run south on a large, cut, ground path. Over there, I was supposed to be able to shoot arrows from left to right.

But Tia's firewood bounces it back exactly. Just 20 meters to go, and those attacks stopped perfectly.

"Hmm. There's no sign you're coming after me. They don't have tototos."

"Right. Then let's go straight to the Lou family, tell them about the emergency, and then go for the lodging town. So ask the guards for help."

"I don't mind that, but wasn't it contraindicated to take Tia out by the woods?

"If you get mad, I'll apologize. This is such an emergency, I'm sure even Malstein..."

I almost bit my tongue there.

Girl, who was running on the ground with a refreshment, bowed down to the lid.

Even though there's no sign of any attack, Gill makes me put my foot on it. It wasn't long before I spoke to Tia, and she threw me out of the saddle - and I often lost consciousness.

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"... have you noticed, Asta?

When I realized, Tia was looking into my face worried.

I try to wake up blurry, wondering if what's happened so far has been a bad dream. Then Tia pushed her little palm against my chest.

"Better not move in a detour. If you fall, you get hurt."

"If it falls, what's an injury... Wow, what the hell?

My vision was blocked by green.

My body was raised on a tall tree. I was dressed across thick branches and seemed to fall asleep against the trunk.

Looking roughly underneath, you can see the ground about five meters away. Tia, sitting right in front of me, was lowering her eyebrows so sorry.

"All of a sudden Totos fell in, so Asta was thrown to the ground. Tia protected him from hitting him in the head, but Asta lost consciousness. Are you hurt anywhere?

"Ugh, yeah, that sounds okay...... is this in the woods?

"Mm-hmm. I jumped into the woods because there were signs that the guys who fired the arrows were coming after me. Except it's not the east side where the Ai-Fas hunt, it's the west side. There's a lot of gibberishes on the east side, and we were talking about traps everywhere."

Then, if you keep pushing west, you can leave for Inn Town any day.

But more than that, Gill was a concern to me.

"I remember Gill fluttering all of a sudden, too. Did he get hit with the poison of a blow arrow or something?

"No. It shouldn't have been imitated like that. Perhaps, long before the Tiers rode, they planted poison. It didn't look particularly painful, I was sleeping comfortably"

"Well... if Gill was alive, it was more than anything."

When I was relieved, Tia came up with her expression once more.

"But I can't stay in this place forever. Asta can't even kill the signs, can she? They can kill signs, so they can explore them. You stay in the same place, you'll find it sooner or later."

"Then let's keep heading west. Walk this way, but eventually you'll be able to get out of Inn Town."

"Hmm. Didn't you go for Lew's house at first?

"That's because I was on Gill. If the bandits catch up with us in Luu's settlement, we won't have a chance to bring back the hunters."

Lyada-Lu and Barsha should refrain from the settlement of Luu, but in a mountain people with ten to twenty opponents, they will not be able to beat it. Then it seemed like there was no other way to rely on the guards of the Inn Town.

"Okay. Tia, let's follow Asta.... Can Asta get down the tree?

"... at this height, I wonder if I'm a little unsure"

"Then Tia will carry it.... If I touched Asta so much, would I be scolded by Ai-Fa?

"I'll be absolutely fine. I promise."

After such interaction, we were to return to the lower realm.

Make me cling to my back, and Tia goes down a tall tree when she does. My weight is not bitter at all. To the power of the Red People, I was only afraid.

"West, this way. I want Asta to walk as little as possible without footsteps."

Over the head, branches and leaves folded and sealed in nature's canopy, but only on a slightly plugged wood leaking day, the tier seemed to know where the sun was.

Stepping into the west side of the edge of the woods is my first experience as well. Green, as you can imagine, is deep, with bushes and spreading grass clumping at your feet. This would be absolutely impossible, such as walking Totos. Normally, it was an incomparable difficulty with the eastern side, which is stepping in with firewood pickup and vanilla collection.

(It takes about an hour to get to the Inn Town, even through the cut path. At this rate, then it might take about twice as long)

It's a steep road that doesn't even exist a beast path, and the gradient gets tighter and tighter. I was supposed to proceed cautiously one step at a time so that the crawling grass wouldn't take my foot off me and roll me over.

"Tia, how long have I been out of my mind?

As I whispered, Tia tilted her little neck as she walked.

"It's not that long. It's enough time for Asta's big pot to boil the water on fire."

"Oh well. Well, then, it's not even half the time."

The Hurricane Party, which hit Turan last night, has today raided forestside settlements at this kind of noon. I was very uncomfortable with that fact.

If he had hidden himself at the edge of the woods immediately after attacking Turan, he could have blinded the guards. But in order to do that, we have to abandon all tototos. Now we should be on the other side of the corner.

(Mostly, what are you going to do about attacking me? If it hadn't been for Tia, he might have fallen into the hands of his enemies... but if Totos hadn't come with him, it'd be hard to get away from the woods this time)

I have no idea what Hurricane Party is all about.

Now, it's only natural that Camua-Josh should be able to do a lot of this.

Maybe - are these guys really just moving around just hitting the road? If so, exploring thoughts is inexplicable.

But they were after me by name.

My name is as good as it gets to Cornelia in Jagal, so no wonder I'm hearing it anywhere, but I wonder what the gain would be from taking my form.

(Fair enough. Anyway, now it's about running away....... Are the Tour-din and Yun-Sudra really going to be okay)

And Zilbe and Gillu, who fell into Sim's poison, are also worried. When I found out about this fact, how angry and mournful I would be - just imagining it made my chest ache.

"... asta. The sound of the river is coming up."

"The sound of the river? Oh, I wonder if you hit the Rant river. There are tributaries everywhere around these woods."

"That's what Tia's been hearing, but it seems to be a pretty big stream."

I still don't hear any tones in my ears.

But it is true that in order to go from the path closest to Fa's house to the boarding town, you have to go through the suspension bridge. If I hadn't gone further south, that cliff would have whispered my way.

"Then why don't we go for the suspension bridge? I should put it on town sooner rather than sprinkle the bushes like this... but in places like that, I wonder if they risk being ambushed"

"You don't have to worry about an ambush. The cabin walls were in the way earlier, but I wouldn't miss a sign of them in the woods."

"Then let's head to the suspension bridge for now. If we're ambushed, we'll bypass the cliffs from the south side."

But I had no idea where I was, so I had to go west first. If we go to the cliff, we'll have to go south along it.

Poisonous worms and snakes should get rid of the grigi fruit necklace, but just going through such a deep forest will surely cut your strength. But I wasn't even willing to make a weak noise, and I quietly pushed my way down the road without a path. Tia and others were walking through the woods a little bit like the fish that got the water.

and - tier behind, pointing a sharp gaze.

Those red eyes were lit with lava-like light again.

"That's not good. Signs are approaching from behind. Looks like they've noticed Asta's footprint."

"So what am I supposed to do?

"We just have to move faster than those guys. You can make any noise you want, so hurry up."

"Okay," I gathered my remaining strength.

Still, careful not to fall over, I push through the bushes that tier sent me. Then, my ears also heard the cloudy tone of the bottom.

"Asta, once the forest breaks down beyond this, it seems to be a rocky place"

"Yeah. If we go south along that, we'll hit the suspension bridge sooner or later."

"But if you go out into a nice spot, you might be targeted with arrows"

"Then, before the forest breaks down, let's change course south"

"No... I also feel signs on the south side. The only way forward is west or north."

Even heading north, perhaps a considerable distance would be blocked by a cliff. Yes, that's why the suspension bridge was supposed to be hung.

"Well, west then. Let's hope they haven't ambushed us at the suspension bridge."

But my prayers were never heard.

The forest interrupted and became rocky, and when I turned my foot south at full speed - that ruthless fact was to be poked at the tip of my nose.

We hadn't used it in over a year, a cliff suspension bridge - a suspension bridge that had been checked every time by people passing by and used for decades with guts to repair it, had been cut off from the propaganda and dropped under the cliff.

And an arrow was fired from the woods.

Tier wields firewood and repels it.

"The guys that were moving on the south side?... but too hand-wound. It's like I was sensing the Tiers' movements."

After stating so, Tia smashed her tongue.

"Right. I thought I'd hear a bird's voice from earlier... but the guys I was chasing from behind were sending instructions to imitate the bird's voice. The Tiers got ahead of themselves."

I stood up.

Tia shakes up the firewood as she shows me her little back like that.

"But I have nothing to show you. Asta uses Tia's life to protect herself. I won't let anyone hurt Asta."

Tia's voice, which was never expensive, felt strong enough determination to beat me.

And - out of the woods, the men finally appeared.

Unforgiven bandits, named Hurricane Party, the mountain people of Sim's kingdom.