The Story Of A Certain Adventurer (9)
A female who’s wearing a black habit appeared before us. I stiffened slightly because her outfit and expression were different from before but, it’s undoubtedly her. The precious comrade who we were searching for.
“Mylene……is it Mylene!?”
Marie shouts as she’s about to rush out but, Gand holds onto her from behind. Marie yells at Gand but, Gand did the right thing.
It’s true that the one over there is Mylene. I know because she’s the comrade who fought together with us for several years. I know but, somehow she looks strange.
Besides, the magic just now, the barrier and the bombardment of light. Both of it is the magic that Mylene has used. The magic she always used when she’s fighting alongside us……she released that towards us. Perchance she may have also been brainwashed like the townfolks.
“Your comrades are calling, you know? Is it fine to not answer them?”
I was looking at such her and, the person wearing a robe who’s beside Mylene speaks to her. It’s like an emotionless, inhuman voice. I hear that from within the robe. I want to immediately hack down the robed fellow but, I worry for Mylene who’s by his side. And then
“……It has been a while huh, everybody”
Mylene who lets out a smile to us that isn’t different from before. My head is filled with the happiness that she’s still alive and, the question of why she’s able to move freely beside that robed figure.
The townfolks who were brainwashed attacked us without any self-awareness but, she has self-awareness. The townfolks go on with their lives as usual when they have self-awareness and they attack us like right now when they lose their self-awareness but, the Mylene now has totally no indication of that. Even though there’s none, she came and attacked us. Is she not brainwashed?
“Mylene, we came to save you! Let’s hurry up and go back!”
“That’s right, Mylene. Besides, what’s with that appearance. It’s the first time I saw something like that black habit?”
Marie and Gand talk to Mylene but, Mylene remained silent. And then, she turns her hand towards Marie and Gand as it is……this is bad!
“Gand, prepare your shield!”
“Wha? Tsk!”
“Holy Bullet”
Bullets of light release from Mylene’s hand. Gand prepares his shield the instant he embraces Marie but, they were sent flying because of his bad posture.
“Wh, what are you doing, Mylene! Attacking your comrades!”
“I’m sorry, Lynk. But, this is the only way to save me”
“……What do you mean?”
“It’s simple. I’m just killing you guys so that I can live”
Mylene’s killing intent swells up when she says that……is she for real!?
“Why are you saying such things! Something like killing us who are your comrades!”
Marie receives a shock from what Mylene said and looks at Mylene with teary eyes. Gand and I also feel the same way as Marie. However, Mylene’s expression didn’t change even after hearing Marie’s voice. Shit, what the hell is going on! Even though we were able to meet Mylene after all these troubles, she wants to do something like killing us!
“Are you threatened by somebody!? If that’s the case then we’ll beat them up! So come back to us, Mylene”
We call out to Mylene over and over again. There’s no way Mylene will say something like this. She’s definitely being threatened by somebody. However, she didn’t react to our calls at all. Far from that, she looked over at us with a pair of coldhearted eyes that we’ve never been shown before.
“Kukuku, it’s futile no matter what you say to her. She used her life and made a contract. In exchange for assuring her life, she’ll be comrades with us and kill you guys. The slavery contract has already been completed”
Mylene who looks at us with coldhearted eyes remained silent, the robed person who’s beside her says that to us as he laughs. A contract to become their comrade?
“Why did you make such a contract!? If you had just waited for us to come……”
“What do you guys think you know!?”
I who can’t understand at all why she made such a contract, tries to question Mylene about it but, Mylene’s yelling voice resounds as though to cover my voice. To Mylene’s angered voice that we’ve heard for the first time, we turned silent.
“Have you guys ever felt something like an unavoidable death? A definite death before your eyes that you can’t avoid no matter what you do, do you understand how scary that is!? If I just wait for Lynk and the others to come, is what you say but, if I had waited for that then I would have already been killed!”
“……Mylene”
“Then it was proposed to me, that my life will be spared in exchange for becoming his subordinate, that’s what it was. Since I can’t rely on something like you guys saving me, since I myself don’t want to die. However, the condition was that I just have to kill you guys”
Mylene who speaks as though it’s nothing. Is this our fault. Because we were late that Mylene is……
“Kukuu, that’s not all there is to it. Since we can’t just trust what she says, she will endure pain, that’s what we have her do. Even if her face is all sloppy with tears and snot, the fluid within her body dripping all over, the endless pain continues”
“Uuu, that was painful just remembering about it. Although it’s an illusional pain, punched and kicked is a given, my nails peeled, cut by swords just for jest, wrapping it up with being stabbed throughout the body by villagers……”
……What is she talking about? Was Mylene made to taste such pain?
“However, I’m glad now that I was able to taste the same pain as that person. I’m able to have that person gently embrace me, me who somehow endured it, me who was dirty and tainted throughout my body. This is true comrades! He washes even my dirty body carefully, gently caresses my head……fufuu, it’s like paradise every passing day until today since then!”
“The creaking every night is noisy”
……What the hell is this. Am I dreaming. Mylene whose cheeks are dyed in red like she’s having a fever. We who saw in this short time the numerous Mylene that we’ve never seen before couldn’t move nor let out a voice at all.
And then, Mylene who looks over at us as she is with her feverish expression. In contrary to that expression, an outrageous killing intent covers us.
“So, please die for my sake♪”
Mylene who says that to us like she’s looking forward to it……is the gentle Mylene from before no longer there.