Shadow and The Jester
Chapter 04's
Chapter 04: Reasons.
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(POV Souji)
After leaving the royal palace, my next goal is the forest near this city, for the sake of finding safety.
After all, if I still remain in this city, then that means sooner or later, we will definitely be found and forced to return there, he said, that's the last thing I'm going to do right now.
Wh why? That's because, as I said before, all the words uttered by King Denis and Bishop Ugly are actually lies.
Then why didn't I tell the others? Easy anyway, do you think I would care about them? After all, we are actually strangers, which leaves me with no duty to save them.
Besides, I also don't really care about the people who are inside there, considering the people I care about right now are coming with me.
As I was thinking about it, Nagisa who was walking beside me finally decided to speak up, after we made it out of the city.
"So, are you now going to start this explanation of your actions, Souji?"
Not only did the girl start looking at me with a serious look, but everyone who came with me did the same thing, which of course managed to make me sigh.
"Later I'll explain, but now we need to get away from that city first."
"Why? Is there something wrong with the city?" This time, the one who asked was Kyouya's younger brother, aka Shirokin Mirai.
I initially replied with a light nod, before I said; "Yes, the city is very troubled, to the extent that a man like him decides to leave brutally."
"Are you talking, Bani-kun?"
I slightly nodded, after hearing the question from Ayano-sensei, before I said; "He should still hold his moral to not kill someone, but..."
It's hard to explain it in words, especially considering we're not really that close, plus I still don't really know about that person either.
But, the only thing I understand about him is the fact that he has such a deadly ability to kill, but never wants to kill someone, and it has to do with his morals that I talked about before.
"Better, you just save the questions you have, because we will start running after entering this forest. And remember, never look back, no matter what."
After seeing the nod full of seriousness from all of them, I then began to lead the way into the forest near the Capital of this Kingdom of Groxia.
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(POV Third Person)
Meanwhile, somewhere else...
The Dafa group managed to arrive at a lake surrounded by such dense trees, from behind which, an ominous aura emanated out.
After arriving there, the first thing Dafa did was to examine the entire place thoroughly, before he finally did something, which the other three people could not understand.
"What the hell did you do?" One of the girls who was there decided to ask in an aggravated manner, after she saw Dafa walking towards them.
Dafa himself only replied with a light shoulder force, before the teenager gestured for the three of them to sit down.
"So, are you finally going to start this explanation of yours?" Rafi immediately asked this question, after she saw that the body of her friend began to relax.
Dafa himself initially replied with a light nod, before he said; "Yes, but don't expect too much from me, because I'm not very good at this."
The three others who were there could only reply with a light nod, as it was a fact that the three of them knew.
After seeing that, Dafa finally began his explanation.
"For the first time, I want you to know that everything that the King of the Kingdom of Groxia and the Bishop said was all a lie."
"How do you know that?" The black-haired girl, who had the name Akane Vertzlicte, she seemed hard to believe the words of Dafa.
But, the other two seem to have very different thoughts with him, because...
"Why are you questioning that, Akane? Isn't it obvious? After all, from the start, why did you even follow us?" The person who immediately replied to Akane with this satire was Natsuki Sora, or better known as Kouri no joo/Ice Queen.
Akane's red eyes immediately twitched, as she never expected, when the time came when she would receive such insinuations from her good friend.
Before Akane could reply to Sora's words, Dafa who realized that if it wasn't cut off immediately, it would end up being very troublesome, he decided to immediately cut it off and change the subject.
"More important than that, I will be honest with you, if the path I will take from here is, you could say, a bit too bloody and cruel. So, I suggest that we just split up here, because I'm sure, with the morals you have, you won't be able to survive together with me."
After Dafa said that, the atmosphere there immediately became very tense, with Dafa himself just waiting for their answer in silence, while playing around with the thin threads that are on both fingers of his fingers.
While Dafa was busy doing that, on the other hand, the three people he was with seemed to be thinking about it very seriously.
After all, the three people were already very knowledgeable about the intent behind it, especially after recalling about how this teenager had killed everyone in front of him, especially after remembering about how this fellow was killing everyone in front of him, without a care for his actions.
If it were to be honest, if it wasn't for Sora running after Dafa, Akane would probably have fainted on the spot, seeing the corpse of someone who appeared to be in a very terrible condition.
It can be said, his love for the teenager has exceeded normal limits, so it might be more appropriate to be called an obsession, he said, especially after the time events of the Football Tournament two months ago.
Since then, the love of this girl became stronger, making her logical mind quite twisted.
Meanwhile, Rafi who knew Dafa the most completely understood the intent behind his words, which she believed must have had another purpose behind it.
After all, other than the fact that the teenager who would never lie in the slightest in every of his words, there are also other facts about him that sometimes have a double intention behind the words spoken by him, which sometimes makes the teenager misunderstood by others.
Here's problem. Because, at this time Rafi did not understand the other intent behind his words, which made her rather hesitant to choose which option.
However, the whole thing soon disappeared from their minds, after a great tremor occurred in that place, before a sound of broken glass could be heard echoing there, at the same time, the whole scene around them immediately changed drastically.
By the time that happened, Dafa's face immediately turned very pale, before he ran over to push Akane from where he was currently sitting, where after doing so, he ran, Dafa in that place was immediately hit by a pointed pole that appeared suddenly from the ground, which certainly surprised everyone there.
""Dafa!!/Bani-kun!!""
While Rafi and Sora immediately moved to help Dafa release a pole that stuck in his right shoulder, on the other hand, Akane who saw the whole thing could only be silent, without being able to understand what is going on.
They were originally sitting idly talking about the reason for the actions of this purplish black-haired teenage boy, but within seconds, for some reason the whole thing immediately turned into like this, but in a matter of seconds, right after the strange tremors happened there.
"I-it's... I-i..." Despite trying to apologize to Dafa, Akane was somehow unable to do so, especially after seeing the teenager's right arm on the verge of breaking up.
From looking at that alone, Akane could tell how painful it was, and even though it could indeed be considered the karma of her actions in the royal palace back then, it was, but it still feels very unfair at all, because he knows, if the teenager immediately killed those people, without letting everyone feel the pain.
So, this could not be considered fair, if he was told to have an opinion about it...
"Can you stop looking at me like that? Don't look at me like I'm dead. Anyways..." Dafa who managed to separate the pointy pole from his right shoulder, he then immediately severed his own arm, which of course made everyone there surprised, before he continued those words while covering the wound on his arm it was using his vest, "... It's nothing at all, compared to the things I've felt before."
"So, instead of you feeling guilty like that, you better stand up and get ready to run away from here. Because, it seems impossible for us to win against him."
After hearing that, while Rafi could only sigh, because that person knew that this friend would definitely say that, and Sora, that, where the girl was only getting fascinated with him, on the other hand, Akane felt that the person was really very stupid, because he could still smile like that and worry about others, but his condition was much worse than theirs.
Unfortunately, the atmosphere did not last long, because the person who was the cause of all that finally appeared in front of the four people.
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Meanwhile, somewhere else...
Souji's group manages to escape from a group of people who appear out of nowhere and chase after them for no apparent reason, but, they all end up in the middle of a forest that reminds Souji of the Amazon Forest that exists on Earth.
Fortunately, no one was injured in the chase, which occurred as a result of several strange wolf hordes that appeared out of nowhere, thanks to Souji, who managed to attract the attention of the wolf pack to the group that was chasing them, they were finally able to escape from the pursuit of the group safely.
After making sure that they were really safe, Souji finally sat down on the ground, which of course was followed by the other six people.
"Souji-san... What the hell is.. huhh... actually being... huhh... huhh.... happened?" Kyouya is the one who first voiced the confusion that everyone has, which because Souji was quite confused as well with the chase, the teenager ended up only able to answer him with a light shoulder force.
"Honestly, it's totally beyond my expectations. Because, at first I thought we were just being chased by some random bandit in this world, but..."
It was really difficult to describe Souji's current feelings, especially after seeing the clothes that those people were wearing.
After all, wanting to be seen from any angle, all of those things really did not feel real at all, especially after remembering that the background of this World should be swords and magic.
'But, why do they all have a gun on their waist?'
That's what confused him. With the emergence of the existence of this gun, it means that the technology in this World does not seem to be left so far from Earth.
It's just... 'Why don't I see anyone using that thing in the Capital too? Maybe they are from a different group? Or maybe...'
Souji had so many possibilities in his head, each one of which was quite difficult to come true, let alone considering he was still very ill-informed about this World, it makes everything so much more complicated.
'Damn 'em... If only Yu or Emilia were here, maybe things would have been a lot easier.'
Although he knew that it was impossible to be true, Souji still expected it a little, considering that the two people had intelligence at such a terrifying level.
Then, after resting for almost half an hour at the place, they all agreed to find a safe place first to spend the night, and, especially after seeing the afternoon sky covered by the dense foliage that was there, before they listened to the explanation that Souji had.
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Note Author:
Yayy! Update again!!
In this chapter, quite a lot of sudden things that are quite unexpected happen.
Like someone suddenly attacked a group from Dafa, causing our MC to lose one of his arms, while on the MC side, the other one gets a chase from a group of strange people, who somehow have a gun as their equipment.
If you are confused by all of that, take it easy, it will be explained little by little, although the explanation of the gun will be quite long anyway, considering those people will only appear again in the dozen or twenties and above.
So, if you are curious, you can just wait for an update of this novel that is once every three days.
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