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[Volume 8] Chapter 49: Help From The Half Elf
"Damn it." Yuudai mutters putting one of his hands against his head.
The biggest headache he has ever had is throbbing in his head. He still has his eyes closed seeing as he has just woken up. So his surroundings are a mystery though it doesn't really matter to him.
"Are you ok, mister?" The voice of a child asks.
Yuudai's headache stops as if it just became confused like Yuudai had just became. The teen opens his eyes to find a little girl (I have no idea what the child looks like, so I'm going to wing it). The girl has blond hair and hazel eyes.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Yuudai answers attempting to sit up.
It barely works since the body pain spreads once again. All except the area where his nerve endings were burned. He doesn't show any pain though. It wouldn't be right to worry some stranger that is much younger...than him.
He looks around himself finding that he is still in the forest. "So why are you here, kid?" Yuudai asks not letting on that he is suspicious.
"I live only a short walk from here." The little girl explains smiling brightly at him.
Yuudai sighs letting go of his suspicion. "Well thanks for checking on me." He thanks knowing that others wouldn't be as nice.
"Wanna meet momma?" The little girl asks smiling brightly.
"No thanks. I don't want to be a bother." Yuudai replies politely. He tries to stand up, but apparently that's his limit. He falls right back to the ground face first. The teen looks up to the kid looking at him still.
"I'll go get momma and she'll help!" She tells him running off.
"Oddly enough, I think the kid knew I was bluffing." Yuudai says to himself.
"It isn't that hard to call that bluff." Derflinger says from its sheath.
"It's a good thing you waited for her to leave." Yuudai says. "Imagine the trauma a talking rusty sword could give the kid."
"Says the injured one carrying the sword." Derflinger retorts. If the sword could use facial features, it would be smirking right now.
Yuudai rolls his eyes. During the roll, he notices something wrong with his hand. The one with the Gandalfr rune. His eyes widen at the fading Gandalfr rune. It isn't fading before his eyes, but it is noticeable that will soon fade away like a marker on ones skin.
"Derflinger...we have a problem." He tells the sword unsure of how to feel.
"Here he is mommy!" The girl's voice yells to someone.
"Tell me later." Derflinger quickly orders Yuudai.
The teen stiffly nods. He then moves his head, feeling pain in the process, in the direction of the voice. Two figures come into his sight, one small and the other average height. He recognizes the small girl, but the other catches him by surprise.
It is a beautiful blond haired girl. If he is to go by appearance, she might be around his age. Yuudai's eye then catch sight of her pointed ears. This doesn't exactly surprise him, but it tells him one thing. That this girl is possibly an elf. Though, the most noticeable thing on her is her pair of plot (You know what I mean).
"Oh my, are you ok?" She asks seeing only the noticeable wounds.
"I'm afraid I can't say I feel great." Yuudai replies trying to make light of the situation.
"Go back and get him a room ready please." The older blond instructs the little girl.
The little blond nods running off in the direction the two came from. "Are you sure? I'm a complete stranger." Yuudai points out.
She smiles brightly at him. "Sorry, but I can't imagine you hurting anyone in the condition you are in."
"Ouch. That hurts more than it should." Yuudai says to himself.
The lady kneels on the ground looking over the teen boy. "How did you strain your muscles so badly?" She asks innocently.
"I don't think you want to know." Yuudai replies nervously laughing. It's not like he's going to tell this random girl he just killed thousands of people just recently. It wouldn't exactly make her enthusiastic about helping him.
She tilts her head in curiosity. "You do know what I am, right?" She questions finding his joking manner odd. Especially with her kind.
Yuudai just raises an eyebrow. "I'd assume an elf. Why?" He questions right back. To him, it doesn't matter who or what they are as long as they're not attempting to kill him.
"You're not scared?" She asks sounding fairly surprised.
"I've seen scarier things than you. You aren't even in the top ten." Yuudai tells her wanting to wave his hand in dismissal. He doesn't move his hand due to the pain it'd no doubt cause.
The girl smiles at him. "My name is Tiffania." She introduces.
"I'm Yuudai." He tells her. "Can we leave here now? I don't like the look that squirrel has been giving me."
"Squirrel?" She asks confused. She looks around finding the exact animal. It is giving them an unblinking stare. "Um...yeah." The stare is now making her uncomfortable as well.
It then starts making noises at them. "Why is it that animals feel the need to talk crap towards me?" Yuudai asks himself.
"If I help you up, do you think you can tough it out until we arrive to my cottage?" Tiffania asks him. Yuudai nods.
She gets a good grip on him then hoists him up. Yuudai grits his teeth to keep from shouting from the sudden shockwave of pain. He puts his arm around her shoulder as she does the same around his.
"I can already tell this walk will suck." Yuudai mutters.
Tiffania hears this and giggles a little bit. He looks at her, but doesn't find any amusement from his suffering in her eyes. It seems to be what he said. He finally realizes another thing about her at that moment, she is naive and caring. Caring enough to help a complete stranger.
The two start to walk towards her place while Yuudai grits his teeth the whole time. It's easily the most pain he has ever felt so far. They eventually make it to her contage. It isn't much, but it is enough to house her and the children, if they live with her.
"So where am I staying? Hay stack? Bed of sticks? The roof?" Yuudai asks expecting one of the first two. The last one was meant as a joke.
"You're coming inside to lay on a bed." She informs him. The girl had never even considered his options for anyone in need.
Yuudai smiles then looks around. There are many children staring at him. Some of them look at him with disdain and other seem curious. The two walk past them without a word taking him to an extra room with a bed and desk.
She lays him carefully on the bed making sure he doesn't hurt himself anymore. "There you are, Yuudai." Tiffania says smiling.
"Thank you Tiff." Yuudai thanks. She tilts her head feeling weird about that name. "So how do you plan on healing the damage? I would be lucky if all this got slightly better by the end of the week."
She raises her hand showing him her ring. It's an old silver plinth ring. It is clearly aged, but also clearly well kept. "This is an ancient elf treasure. It has water magic placed inside it, however, I do not know what it is. It was a keepsake from my dying mother."
"Then I don't want you wasting the ring on me." Yuudai tells her firmly. Tiffania's eyes widen from the firm rejection of her help. "If it's from your mother then I can't possibly take what's left inside it for myself."
Tiffania smiles wider placing her hand on his head. Her ring lights up as the water magic works over his body. Yuudai tries to move his himself to stop her, but his body isn't reacting to what his mind is telling it. It's as if his body wants it when his mind doesn't.
After some time passes, she pulls her hand away noticing that her ring looks drained now. Yuudai sits up feeling barely any pain. Except in the area of his back that had the nerves burned. It seems that she was able to heal it, but the nerves will have to heal over time to be back to normal.
"You know I didn't want you wasting power on me. Why did you do it anyway?" Yuudai asks looking into her eyes.
She only shrugs her shoulders. "It was a strong feeling I had. I can't describe it, but it wanted me to do it no matter what." She answers. The two share more silence with each other before Yuudai lays back down.
"Tell me then...what I need to do. What problems do you have around here?" Yuudai questions intending to pay her back.
She tilts her head. "Why would you ask something like that?" She asks. Tiffania never expects anything back, so his question has her surprised.
"You've healed me and saved the Second Squadron from death. I am going to repay you somehow." Yuudai informs her.
Tiffania brings her hand up in front of her mouth giggling. "Get some rest then. If you still want to help when you wake up then I'll think of something." She says turning around to leave.
"Again, thank you so much." Yuudai thanks again for what feels like the hundredth time.
With that, she leaves the teen to himself. Yuudai raises his hand to above himself. His gandalfr rune is now completely gone. It bothers him, but more than anything, it alarms him.
"Derflinger...what do you think the chances of fighting that big of an army again is?" Yuudai asks the sword on his back.
He takes the sheathed sword off his back leaning it against the wall next to the bed. "Sorry, but unless you manage to pull more miraculous wins out of nowhere then there is barely a fifty percent chance." The sword answers.
Yuudai laughs not knowing why. "I guess that's still a pretty high chance." He says shaking his head.
"Get some rest partner. We don't know what else awaits us." Derflinger tells its partner. Yuudai simply nods closing his eyes.
Three Weeks Later
"Seriously, you need a better hobby." Yuudai states looking at a random thief.
Behind him is one of the children that hang around Tiffania's house. In front of him is the thief that tried to steal what little money the kid had. Yuudai sighs clenching his fist.
"Now hand over all you money before I kick you from Tristain to Romalia and back here." Yuudai threatens. The thief wordlessly pulls out a knife. Before the thief could even blink, he is on the ground with a broken nose and several cracked teeth.
Yuudai calmly walks over kneeling over the thief. He takes the thief's money and gives it all to the child. "Thank you so much, daddy." The child thanks running off.
"Holy hell, you pervert." The thief exclaims tasting blood.
Yuudai turns around giving him a blank stare. "I'm not a pervert. The children just see me like a parent." He informs the thief. "Not used to it yet though."
The thief points a finger at the teen. "Pedophile."
Yuudai's ring activates and just as quickly he is standing where the thief was laying. The thief is already halfway to Saxe-Gotha and still flying at an impossible speed. Yuudai then deactivates the power.
"That should teach the bastard to assume things like that." Yuudai mutters sticking his hands in his pockets.
"Are you sure? He might be, oh I don't know, too dead to realize that." Derflinger speaks up.
"Hey." Yuudai stays quiet for a moment. "Shut up."
End
Hey everybody! How are all of you doing? We finished the next chapter! Three, hundred, cheers for me!
Sorry for how short this chapter is. I haven't had time for writing too much lately, but rest assured, I am still punching hard on this story. I have said it for many stories of mine, but this one is a fact, I will finish this.
One other thing, I've been thinking of Yuudai having the role of the villain. Anyone have any ideas on stories I can integrate Yuudai into seamlessly? If I haven't heard of what you suggest then I'll start trying to watch or read the manga, anime or light novel.
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