“Are you injured?”

I asked Samia after we run towards her and the woman.

“Ah, no. Neither I nor this person is injured.”

“That’s good.”

I’m relieved and looked at the woman. In spite of saving her, it’s possible that this woman did something bad and the men that we had defeated were someone like the authorities.

Did I just kill? For the first time, I used the ones I made myself according to the meaning of what they were really made for. Naturally, I don’t have any experience in killing people in the previous world. Before I slashed them, I was worried that I would have some conflicting emotions but maybe with the help of the ability I got from the cheat, I could easily slash them.

Well, there’s surely something dull and heavy in my heart, but it’s not regret or fear. On the contrary, it just feels weird. If you don’t know what your action is for, there would be some blaming if someone got hurt afterwards.

“What’s wrong, Eizou? Did you get hurt?”

Samia looks into my face with concern.

I..

“No, I’m not injured either. Thank you.”

I returned an awkward smile.

“Well then young lady..”

I asked the woman who was attacked. She didn’t have anything on her shiny golden hair. I didn’t look at it carefully so it looked like an ordinary travel clothes at first glance. It was hard to notice it with her cloak on but she wore a breast plate, chain mails and even shin guards. No, she probably only have the minimum equipments to make it look like she’s going on a normal trip. If she closes the front of her cloak, the armoured parts are hardly seen.

“Young lady, can you tell me who are you and as to why you were attacked?”

“...”

“Uhm, I know you have your own circumstances.. Though I don’t know why you don’t want to talk about it, but if there is no reason for this number of people to be crossed, we will be in trouble if we are cross-examined by the guards. So, if it could help us, can you tell me about it?”

The woman stared into my eyes. It was a pair of beautiful amber eyes. She has a striking facial features, for me and probably even for the others in this world, she can be called as a beautiful woman.

However, her?looks?felt?familiar...?Was it an actress of a Western movie in?my?previous world?

“First of all, thank you for your help.”

Perhaps the woman decided to speak so after a little while, she start talking.

“I’m Diana Eimurl. I lived in the Capital, but due to so many things, I decided to go to the place of a certain person. However, when I arrived here, those pursuers strongly hunted me down. You know what would have happened if you didn’t rush here.”

She has a family name huh. If so, is this one of the various things that might be caused by the high-ranking noble that has Camilo said? If this young lady is lying.. I then glanced at Samia but she shook her head. Apparently, she was not lying.

“I see. I understand the situation. Then, what should we do with this?”

I looked at the corpses which are left a little further away. If we are to hide them, we should do it now. If we dawdle here, the patrol will come. On the other hand, if we were to inform them, we have to wait for the patrol to come. I’m a little scared of myself as I can think calmly here but I can’t stay still either.

“Let’s hide them.”

As I am hesitating, the woman ―Diana, said so.

“Will that be okay? Well, they are not ordinary bandits..”

“Right. They are after me so they can be driven back for now and I can earn time to identify that person.”

“You mean.. you should be able to go to that certain person’s place in the meantime huh..?”

“Yes.”

Then, her pursuers are not limited to those bad guys. But since they came to this point, were they also in the ship she got on?

“Okay, let’s put them inside the forest. Rike, sorry but, please pull the cart for the meantime.”

“Understood.”

I instructed Rike to do that, but I won’t put the corpse in the cart in particular. While Rike is going to get the cart, we will also bring the corpse into the forest.

“Samia, give us a hand too.”

“Okay.”

“I’m sorry.”

“What are you saying? It’s too late for that, you know?”

Alongside with Diana, we only hold the arm of the corpse and drag it inside the forest. That way it would be hard to tell if it’s the work of the wolves and we won’t get stained with blood either. Well, I did not expect that we will be doing the very thing that I just talked about a while ago though.

As we drag it with all our might, it didn’t take that long. About half an hour later, it’s now in the state that we witnessed two weeks ago. It was just in the border but it was still inside the forest. The patrol guards won’t even look into it. And by that time, Rike also came back while pulling the cart.

“All right, let’s go home then. But before that, Diana-san, can you tell me about that person? I may be able to help, you see.”

When I said so, Diana looked hesitant. Well, even though I saved her life, it’s not like she can easily tell it to a man she does not know. But eventually, she opened her mouth.

“That person was referred by my brother but he lives in a remote place.”

Hohoh-. There are?other?people like me?huh.

“Recently, I heard that he was close to this area.”

Heh~,?isn’t?that a?situation similar to?mine??That person piqued my?interest?a little.

“He’s a very good blacksmith..”

Hn?

“My brother’s favorite knife and sword were forged by that person’s hand you see. When the current matter is solved, he said that he will ask him to adjust them.”

“That... Uhm, Diana-san.. Is your older brother perhaps a guard in the town ahead? Is he called Marius?”

I reflexively asked in a polite tone.

“Yes. Marius Albert Eimurl is my brother, why? Do you know him?”

Diana replied with a dazed look.