The bad ending of an Otome game MTL - Chapter (124)
Episode 124
The warhorse flinched at the arrow that passed by my ear, but did not stop.
I muttered to myself, “I can’t just fall off, I can’t just fall off,” and I looked around impatiently.
Where did the arrow come from?
The end of the forest seemed to be in sight. However, it was difficult to see through the presence of the enemy due to obstacles such as trees and bushes that obscured the view.
Nettle juice!
The arrow flew through the air again.
As Sir Laertes promised that it is very difficult to hit a running horse at once, the arrow did not hit me or the horse.
But if you get hit even by an arrow shot in a reckless way, you are going to the underworld.
The shape of the horse running became uneasy as the horses were nervous at the arrows flying in succession.
It was the next moment. The horse let out a shrill cry. The horse’s lamp vibrated ominously.
I can’t see anything right now… … Did you get an arrow in your ass?
I took out the knife that was hidden in my hand and began to hurriedly cut off the reins that were only around my waist.
I was nervous and grabbed the reins, so my fingertips were pretty and it was hard to get any strength. The arrow flew again.
The roar of the horse grew louder again.
I managed to cut the reins, hurriedly looked around, clenched my teeth and jumped.
As soon as I jumped off, I saw the horse crashing to the floor, screaming.
I rolled my arms around my face and rolled to the floor, clumsily remembering the trick Sir Laertes had taught me to fall.
I groaned without realizing it, but if anyone saw me as an enemy, I thought that now would be the most comfortable situation, so I opened my eyes.
That was the moment.
Aww!
I heard something explode. It felt like a thick liquid had splashed on my limbs.
bum bum.
I heard footsteps. I lifted my head as if I had become a dead person who had to face a grim reaper.
And without realizing it, I opened my eyes wide.
A completely unexpected person stood there with a completely unexpected face.
“…… Edmund, Sir Gloucester?”
Edmund Gloucester, with a very complex face, looked over with something like a gun in his hand.
The man who seemed to be aiming for me and the horse was dead a little further away.
His upper body was completely shattered as if he had been hit by a small bomb. It was a terrible scene, but rather than that, I couldn’t understand the situation better now, so I had a stupid eye.
Edmund reached out to me. I looked at it with bewildered eyes.
“Aren’t you going to catch it?”
“…… I…….”
“Lady Emilia, do you think she doesn’t need my help even at a moment like this?”
“Oh no!”
I grabbed the man’s hand and stood up.
While holding the man’s hand to stand up, the strength in his legs was released and he almost collapsed in an instant.
Seeing me staggering, Edmund furrowed his eyebrows.
Is it annoying… … .
Normally I would have been sarcastic, but even at this moment, my liver didn’t come out of the stomach enough to be sarcastic.
First of all, because you saved me now. What’s wrong with that guy over here? Besides, what weapon are you holding?
“It is very messy. What is all this?”
Edmund looked at me and clicked his tongue. It really was a look that looked down on people as if they were looking at a slum in a slum.
I was furious for a moment, but I suppressed my anger.
“…… If you could get away from this situation, would that be a person?”
“I guess I am human.”
Edmund Gloucester snorted at me.
At the very least, even Laertes’ uniform was tainted with all sorts of stains.
Only this man was particularly neatly dressed. There wasn’t a single stain on the single-piece hair or the single glasses.
He was holding something long, made of dark metal, in his gloved fingertips, and at first glance it looked like a gun.
“What is that?”
Edmund opened his mouth as if nothing had happened.
“A magical tool for self-defense.”
“Magic?”
“Yes. It is useful in such cases.”
“Thank you for saving me.”
Edmund stopped for a moment as he turned the handle on the tip of my magic tool.
That face was very strange. It’s like hearing something you’ve never even thought of… … . Is it a face that shows cognitive dissonance?
Of course, considering the feud between him and me, it certainly is, but seeing the blue eyes looking at me as if shocked, even me trembled.
“…… When I get help, I say thank you, right?”
“Hmm…… Yes, well, yes. After all, even Geum-soo is bound to say thanks.”
…… Am I a woman who is not as good as the one in you?
I struggled to hold back those words.
“Why are you all alone like this?”
I responded by wiping off the messy skirt.
“The situation is so…… I’m nervous. While avoiding people running… … . No, rather than that, can I have a conversation like this here now? If anyone sees an enemy here.”
“You have never thought of who I am next to you?”
Edmund Gloucester looked at me with pathetic and contemptuous eyes and pulled out something like a silver cigarette pack from inside his jacket.
It didn’t look like an ordinary cigarette pack. Some unreadable characters and patterns were densely crafted with no leeway.
When I opened the lid of the cigarette packet, something that looked like a blue and black stone lit up inside.
Edmund traced his fingertips over the pack of cigarettes, drawing a circle in the air.
A twinkling, blue stone shone once inside the cigarette pack.
That was the moment. Whoops, the air vibrated.
Like when someone throws a pebble on the surface of the water and a ripple spreads out, as if someone puts a faint breath on the skin, the feeling of the air passing by. I was purely amazed.
“Wow! Was that just magic?”
“Then do you want to buy it?”
Edmund Gloucester replied nervously. I spoke steadfastly.
“What kind of magic?”
“It’s protective magic. Barrier…… It’s not as grandiose as it is, so if someone near you and me harbors a hostility that is comparable to murder, you won’t be able to approach it. It is only temporary.”
“How far are you going? Are you stuck in the place itself? Or do me and Sir Edmund move together when they move?”
Edmund looked at me suspiciously at my leech-like question.
“…… It’s stuck in the place itself. Engraving a fixed expression on a moving creature is not something that can be done so recklessly. It will be safe for an hour or so. Rather, why have you been like that?”
“one hour……. i See. One hour.”
I nodded. On that day, Edmund Gloucester looked up with alert eyes.
I limped and ripped off my skirt. The hem was ripped and torn, but it was still long.
I grabbed the loose skirt with one hand and straightened my back.
As far as my heart goes, I wanted to collapse and sleep like this. Edmunds and Almonds and whatever, as long as this place was safe for a while, it didn’t matter.
My whole body was numb and throbbing. But it can’t be.
Could Edmund Gloucester have played a part in today’s situation?
Probably not. First of all, Elodie got involved in this too, and although Edmund Gloucester took many of the Elodie obsessive Bluebeard confinement routes in the game, he never borrowed someone else’s hand to try to harm Elodie.
I tried to press down on the ground with my stinging ankles. The soft grass was trampled on.
I lifted my back and tried to kill me when Edmund approached the dead man. Edmund made a creepy face.
“What are you doing now?”
“Investigation. Hey, Sir Edmund, do you have a knife?”
The knife he was guarding was hidden in his arms, just in case.
Edmund, with an astonishing face, pulled what appeared to be a hunting knife from his waist and handed it to me.
His words were twisted like a twist from before, and his eyes were fierce, and he was blunt when asked. Is it because it’s an emergency?
I took a knife and pricked the corpse with the tip of my blade.
The clothes they wore and the tools they had were typical of hunters hired by nobles for hunting competitions.
The bow was half-broken for damage, but half remained in the quiver.
The quiver rolled over the floor with his toe to roll the quiver with his fingertips.
Arrows poured out and empty barrels plummeted across the field.
tuk, tuk, tuk.
That was the moment. Black ashes poured out of the barrel I thought was empty.
bang!
Both me and Edmund Gloucester looked momentarily blank.
Even an explosion is vague… … It was a very weak explosion.
It was a small firework that could be used as a fireworks display for children. An embers that will go out quickly if left alone.
However, it didn’t explode like that, but if he had taken it and ignited it, it would have spread to a big fire in an instant.
The place where the barrel exploded wasn’t too much of a concern as it was some distance from where I and Edmund were standing… … .
“I have a question for you, Sir Edmund.”
“Say it.”
“That protective magic……. He said, ‘You can’t approach’ if you have ‘hostility’ equivalent to murder, right?”
“That’s right. If it’s a living thing… condition…….”
Edmund paused, answering whether he understood the meaning of what I was saying.
If I could sum up those eyes in one word, that was it.
‘Oops.’
“…… Then, isn’t that the story that objects, not living things, are possible?”
The man’s blue pupils trembled as he listened to me. It was like an earthquake.
That Otome Game’s Bad End