Pain.
Pain and exhaustion is all he felt as his eyes slowly opened.
He blinked a few times to regain focus before remembering his current situation.
He was captured by the Blood Eyed Bandits, but he managed to escape. He got stabbed in the left arm, fell down a flight of stairs, and was hit by an explosion. The fact that he was still barely alive to crawl into the bush he was in was a miracle in of itself, even more so that he wasn't found while he was unconscious.
Night had descended, so it was dark, but luckily he had his night vision and detect enemy skills to find any enemies. Luckily there were none so he was able to relax for a moment.
He sat up and rummaged through his satchel. Luckily he still had his money sword, and a bit of food left. Unfortunately his map had fallen out, not to mention his cloak that he couldnt't grab.
He ate the last of his rations before he took out the compass to figure out where to go.
He managed to head in the right direction when he escaped so he just had to keep going.
'Man this whole experience sucks... I hope the girls are alright at the very least...' Kazuma thought to himself, looking up at the moon.
After a moment, Kazuma took a deep breath and struggled to get on his feet.
It was difficult to get up, thanks to his left arm being unable to support him as he got up.
He eventually got to his feet, doing his best to keep balance. He grabbed his satchel and secured it before he limped out of the bush and headed towards the other kingdom.
He had used his detection to avoid any monsters that were around the forest, which made his journey painless for the most part.
After around an hour of walking, he noticed some lights in the distance.
'There it is! I just gotta reach there and I'll be safe!' Kazuma exclaimed internally.
Just as he broke to limp quickly, the whistle of an arrow was heard. An arrow swifty shot past him and landed right in front of him.
His blood seemed to have frozen over as he realized the looming threat.
He slowly turned around and saw three of the bandits, including the girl, and Anak behind them.
"Shocked, aren'tcha? We knew you were gonna go this way, since you are a criminal in Belzerg. Only made sense that you would run here." The girl said mockingly.
"Indeed, now then, come with us peacefully, otherwise I'll be forced to kill you here." Anak said, pointing his staff towards Kazuma.
He stared at them. What could he do?
'Think Kazuma! You can't use your left arm, you can't run very fast! What can I do?!' Kazuma panicked internally.
Seeing as how he wasn't surrendering, Anak ordered for them to attack. He saw the two other bandits draw their knives and charge right at him.
Kazuma drew his blade and parried their attacks, but what he didn't expect was for the girl to attack as well, stabbing him in the right arm, causing him to scream in pain and drop his sword.
He looked around, he was outnumbered and outmatched.
"Just give it up. There's nowhere for you to run." The girl said.
Therefore he had only one solution.
"Lurk!" He shouted.
Kazuma used the shadows and trees to his advantage, as well as the speed boost from the skill to escape.
"AFTER HIM!" Anak shouted before the three chased Kazuma.
Kazuma ran. Not limped, ran. He ran despite the pain, despite how much his legs wanted to give out, how much his armed hurt. He ran. He felt tired, he felt like he could pass out any second, he felt like his body was like lead. But he still ran.
Using lurk, he was able to run quickly towards the border of the kingdom.
He just barely managed to dodge most of the arrows and knives that were sent his way. The ones that did hit just left scratches.
He saw the area slowly turn red, causing him to look up and see some fireballs heading his way. The trees burst into flames, while the area around him exploded.
He just barely managed to dodge them, but the smoke was making it harder to breath.
After a few minutes of running, the sight of the wall grew larger. He was so close! He could see the guards patrolling the gate. He ran out from the trees and onto the open road, and began to shout in hopes a guard would hear him.
"HELP! PLEASE, HELP ME! HEL-" Kazuma was cut off as an arrow hit him in the leg, casing him to scream in pain and fall over.
He lifted his face off from the dirt, and looked towards the wall.
"Dammit... I'm so close..." Kazuma grumbled as he crawled to the best of his ability to get closer.
"Please... help me..." Kazuma pleaded, using a fireball skill as a flare of sorts.
The small fireball flew up in the air before it dissipated.
Unfortunately, he turned to look behind him to see a volley of fire balls headed right towards him.
Just as they descended, Kazuma spoke quietly to himself.
"Oh... This must be it for me then..."
-KABOOM-
Aqua dropped her tea cup, causing it to hit the floor and shatter.
She suddenly felt dizzy and anxious, her hands were trembling while her blood felt like ice. She felt like the worst thing she feared had come true.
"Aqua! What's wrong?! Darkness called out as she rushed to the Arch-Preist's side.
Megumin looked up from the couch in concern.
"No... I don't know what... but I just have this feeling that something bad just happened." Aqua said.
She looked out the window and stared at the moon.
'Please be safe Kazuma.' Aqua prayed.
So this took me a long time to put out thanks to my phone screen breaking recently. I'm currently borrowing an old phone, and honestly I prefer to write on my phone than on a computer. Plus , I was doing a bit of work on "Shut In" because when I have ideas like that I just can't help but have to finish those, since it was short.
