Chapter 6 – The Bloodstained Afternoon

Let’s turn back the time a bit, and see what Sakura was doing…

I was still lying madly under the blanket when the carriage suddenly stopped. Then a voice came from outside the tent, “Sakura, we are going to rest here. Let’s go down, i will take your tent down too.”

‘Muuu! Don’t wanna! I-i will ignore him!’ I was sulking. ‘Muuuu!!! I was worried about him, but he just gave me another magical core! What does he think i am? A kid?!’

I just couldn’t accept the fact that i really looked happily like a kid when he gave me the first magical core. ‘I-it’s not like i even like this magical core, you know!’ then i stared again at the magical core in my hand and thought, ’but…what color was the second one he wanted to give me? Was it black and red? I wonder which one is prettier… eh no! Now i really look like a child that was given a candy! Muuuuuu!’. I felt slightly mad at him, then rolled myself deeper under the blanket. ‘Muuu! I won’t come out! I will sleep above the carriage today!’ I started being irrational.

But then i was being lifted up together with my tent. I could feel a hand was holding my body from below the leather bed. ‘Eh what happened? Am i being kidnapped by a magical beast?’ i panicked a little.

I felt my body was being taken down from the carriage, i got scared and wondered where Z is. But then suddenly my body was being put back down to the ground, i could feel the squishy grass from under my leather bed.

Z’s voice was heard from outside, “I will be going to hunt for dinner, ask Alex-san if you want to help with anything, okay?”

‘E-eh…? He is going to leave me alone? B-but…yesterday he promised me to go looking for vegetables together!’ i felt sad that he forgot about our promise.

‘I-it was my fault that i stayed in the tent and didn’t want to come out… B-but it doesn’t mean that he should just forget about our promise right?? Stupid Z!!’ I started being irrational again, i was the one who sulked, but when he went away i was the one who was mad.

‘Stupid-stupid-stupid!!! Just go die when you hunt!! If you don’t! i will feed you with strange vegetables!!!’ I went out from the tent in fury.

Then i went to Alex-san. “Alex-san! I want to go find some vegetables for dinner!” i said to him with a hint of anger in my tone.

He looked a bit surprised, furrowed his brows for a bit, then pointed toward the north. “I can hear a faint sound of river from over there. Maybe there will be some vegetables near it, but don’t go too far okay? Just scream when you meet something. Here is a leather bag for you, you can keep it. Just be careful okay! Z will kill me if something happened to you,” he said to me like a father.

Then i nodded to him and said, “Got it! I will be going then!”

‘If Z is worried about me, then he should have gone with me to collect vegetables!! Stupid Z!!’ i puffed my cheeks as i took the leather bag and put it on my shoulder.

I went north for around 10 minutes before i found a pretty wide river with a waterfall on it.

‘Uahhh…what a beautiful waterfall… If only he was here with me… ,‘ i started feeling down. But then i felt angry again, ‘Eh!! Why am i thinking about that idiot!! He was the one who forgot about the promise!! Fufufufu…let’s found some dangerous vegetables!!!’ I got madder and madder.

Then i started to prowl around the bushes near the riverside looking for vegetables. ‘Ah!! A weird looking mushroom!! Ah there is another one here!! Ooo!! Lots of different mushroom!! Fufufufu!! I will cook him a Mushroom soup!! I don’t care how it taste! As long as he got stomachache!’ I was so mad that i didn’t even consider that i could kill him with all that mushrooms.

I was busy collecting mushrooms for a while. But then… ‘Uuuu…hmm…aaah…, wh-why now….?!’ I suddenly had the urge to pee.

‘Wh-where should i go??’ I looked around me panickly.

‘It’s all bushes here!! Uuuuu…, should i just do it??’ i frowned a little, but i just can’t hold it anymore. ’No, choice then! Is there anything i can use for wiping later?? Ah, those leaves looks big enough’

Then i took some wide leaves from a tree and washed it with water from the river. ‘This should be good enough! I already can’t hold it anymore!!’ i panicked then run to a nearby bush.

Just when i was standing behind a bush, a sound was suddenly heard.

SWISHH SWISSHHH SWISSHH

I saw a flash of orange and red jumping from tree to tree. I got really scared, i dove down into the bush to hide myself, my skin was cut a little but i was too scared to care about it. ‘What is that?? Is that a magical beast?’ I moved my body slowly so i could see what that was from inside the bush.

THUMP

A huge orange creature with blood red strips landed on the riverside.

‘It looks like a tiger!! It’s so huge!! B-but why does it look so skinny?’

I didn’t dare to make a sound. I even forgot that i wanted to pee.

THUD

The skin of the tiger fell down to the ground. A man could be seen from under it, his hair was blood red with a bit of brown, his face was smeared with blood, and his clothes was stained with blood everywhere.

‘Isn’t that Z? Why is he covered in blood? And what is he doing here? What should i do?’

I pondered a little, ‘He wouldn’t tell me what he was doing earlier. So, let’s just spy on him this time!!’ got a bit excited.

Then i began to observe what he was going to do.

‘Hooo…he tied a rope… What for?’

‘Eh…!! W-why is he opening his clothes??’ I covered my eyes with my hands.

‘B-but i have to observe… Yes!! I need to observe!! I-it’s not like i want to see his naked body or something! And he still wears his underpants. So, it’s okay right?’ My common sense was beaten by the feeling of wanting to see his body. I sneaked a peek from the space between my finger.

His body is tall, around 180 cm. ‘Hooh, he is really tall indeed…i am just as tall as his chest.’ I feel my cheeks reddened.

Then he started to wash his clothes. ‘He looks pretty thin when i saw him with his clothes on, but…,’ she thought as she saw sturdy muscles covering all over his body, ‘s-so he was that muscular….’ I unconciously bit my lip.

But then she was surprised. After a careful look, she realized that his body was covered with wounds all over it. There was huge claw marks on his thigh and back, a stab wound on his stomach, a burn mark on his shoulder, and many other marks around it. But what she was really surprised about, was the wound she saw when he turned around. On his right chest was a huge wound that goes through from the front into the back. It was a big hideous wound like a hole has been carved out of it.

I looked down and felt confused, ‘I…i really know nothing about him, do i? I don’t know who he really is, what he has been doing in his life, why he has wounds on him, A-and i don’t even know his real name…? He is so mysterious…’ I felt a bit scared seeing him bathed in blood like that. With wound all over his body, i couldn’t know what kind of life he had, is he a good guy? Or even a bad guy?

‘I-i only met him for two days. I shouldn’t trust him yet. M-maybe he is trying to deceive me with sweet words and treated me well just to harm me later…’ I imagined him ripping my clothes off with a perverted smile. ‘NOOOOOOO…..!!!’ i panicked.

Then i took a peek at him again. He was currently cutting two pieces of leather from the huge tiger skin. ‘H-he is making a bed to s-sleep with me later!!!!’ i couldn’t think straight anymore.

My mind was already dizzy, ‘Euh-ehm-ah-uuuh…’ Then the final hit was shot. He undressed in front of me. Now he is bare naked… I could see his whole body in front of me.

I just can’t take it anymore. “KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!”

I jumped out of the bush and started running back to the camp direction.

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At that moment Zed was thinking about a whole different situation…

‘I could feel a Magical beast’s mana really close to her when i used [Mana Web]. I-if anything happened to her…’ My face immediately turned into a madman. ‘If that beasts touched just a single hair of her, i will rip him apart!!!’

I took out my shortsword, and ran to her with [Sky Feet] technique.

Then i screamed angrily, “Sakura!!!”

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Sadly Sakura wouldn’t know what he was thinking…

“S-sakura!” his voice was heard from behind.

‘N-nooo!!! He found me!!! H-he will assault me right now!!! I have to run! But where?!’ I looked around and found out that i forgot where the camp was, every single direction looked the same to me.

Then an angry shout calling my name was heard again, “Sakura!!!!”

‘NOOOOOOOO!!!!! He is angry now!!!! W-what should i do??’ i panicked. I couldn’t think of anything anymore. I just felt that the world spun around me and i was trapped with no way out. ‘W-will he kill me??? Astraea-sama!! Help me!!’

THUD

He fell from the sky and made a huge crater below him. He stood there in front of me, naked, covered in blood, with a really scary face, and holding a sword in his right hand.

But then he smiled at me. I didn’t know what that smile mean, but my mind was so fuzzy, that i could only think of bad meanings behind that smile, ‘Maybe he will kill me? N-no…he-he will assault me, won’t he?? That’s why he is smiling!!’

I fell down on my knees. Then i felt a puddle of water was flowing below me, i just wet myself. I stared at him and cried, “Wuaaaaa…please don’t kill meeee Zeeeeet…. I’m sorry, forgive me… A-and don’t r-rape me too pleaseeee… I won’t tell anybody about you. So, please forgive me…wuaaa…”

I kept crying and crying.

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Let’s look at what Zed was doing before they met just now…

I run with all my might to Sakura’s direction. The Magical beast’s mana is sticking very close to Sakura. ‘Did she get eaten by it already?!’ i was panicked beyond belief, ‘what was Alex and Harvey doing?? If anything happened to her, i won’t forgive them!!’ I was already enraged.

‘She is over there! Behind that tree!’

I stepped deep into the ground, jumped to the tree branches to sped up and finally fell down to the ground making a huge crater.

I looked on the direction of the mana source. There stood Sakura alone with a leather bag on her side. I looked around and saw that there isn’t a single magical beast around her.

‘Oh thank god, she is save… Hmm? Oh!! That was only the magical beast’s core that i gave her! I forgot she has no [Storage Tool] with her,’ i sighed in relief then smiled at her.

But before i can even say anything, she already fell down on her knees and cried.

‘Eh? Why?????’

Then she wailed at me, “Wuaaaaa…please don’t kill meeee Zeeeeet …. I’m sorry, forgive me… A-and don’t r-rape me pleaseeee… I won’t tell anybody about you. So, please forgive me…wuaaa…”

‘Eh what?? Who will kill who??’ i was confused.

Then i just realized that i currently looked like a serial killer right now, or even a perverted serial killer. ‘Bloodstained naked body holding a shortsword while smiling at a little girl…’

I facepalmed myself. I put away my shorstword then started to walk to her. But after i took my first step, she crawled backwards with a speed so fast that even a cockroach can’t compare. Thankfully there is a tree behind her that stopped her from going too far from me.

Then i walked really slowly to her as i spoke, “Sakura… It’s okay…i won’t hurt you”

She took out her Holy Bat and swing it wildly in my direction as she wailed, “Y-you won’t kill me..?! S-so y-you will rip my clothes off, throw me over that tiger bed and then ravish my body!! w-won’t you?!! P-please don’t!! Wuaaaaa…” She cried harder and harder.

‘How did she even managed to think about all of that…??’ When she said all of that, i couldn’t help myself from imagining about doing that to her. And naturally my exposed little brother got excited too.

“KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” she screamed as she saw my little brother waking up. Her face turned ashen, then she fainted.

‘I really should have put my clothes on before speaking to her…,’ i sighed.

I left her there fainted and went back to the riverside. I cleaned the blood on my body as fast as i can, and put my clothes on. I took the tiger blankets into my Storage ring and went back to her.

‘She really likes to cry and faint, isn’t she…? Um, this smell?’ i furrowed my brows. There i saw a water mark under her trouser.

‘Don’t tell me? she….wet herself? Pfft….,’i laughed.

‘I shouldn’t laugh, she wet herself because of me after all… Oh right i can use that…!’ i suddenly got an idea.

I went back to the riverside, and took the rest of Tiger fur that i threw away. I searched for the cleanest one and cut it into a rectangle shaped with length of 150 cm and width of 80 cm. ‘Is this long enough? Her height should be only around 150-160 cm, so an 80 cm skirt should already cover it until under her knees.’ Then i cut another fur with length of 200 cm and width of 10 cm. I opened my half wet shirt and used it to clean the inside of the Tiger fur that i will use as her skirt. I cleaned it carefully so it won’t make her itch later.

After i found that it was clean enough, i went back to her. I took out my leather bottle from the Storage ring and sprayed it over her trouser to clean the ‘Holy Water’ that she had let out.

Then i put the 200 cm fur on the ground. And over it, i put the 150 cm one. I left them down there with the stripped side on the ground, and the inside of the skin facing upward.

I lifted sakura, then put her over the tiger furs. After that, i rolled her together with the Skirt fur over and over. ‘Hmm…She is so thin… 150 cm long makes the rolled skirt too thick, let’s cut it down to 100cm.’ I cut the 150cm long fur into 100 cm, ‘Ok this is enough.’

Then i proceed with the next plan. ’Now, i only need to pull down that trouser…,’ i said to myself as i put my hand on the trouser and started to slowly pulling it from her legs.

‘Huff…it’s done! Hmmm…….,’ i pondered for a bit, then looked left and right.

“Ok, there is no one around. [Storage]!” I put the wet trouser into my Storage ring.

After that i turned her body facing downwards. Then i pulled the 200 cm long fur under her body and started to make a huge ribbon to hold the skirt behind her back. The ribbon’s tails were still too long so i cut it shorter. ‘Hmm…beautiful enough for the first girl cloth that i ever made,’ i nodded in satisfaction.

‘Let’s leave her here and find a boar for dinner first. After that, i will bring her back to the camp. It should only take around 10 minutes.’

I activated my [Sky Feet] then jumped and ran inside the forest from tree to tree. My body blurred as i moved so fast that normal eyes can hardly see me.

‘Hmm…that’s wild chickens…, and those are wild rabbits… Ah there it is, a boar…, hmmmm not so bad, a meter long, should be enough.’

I put out my shortsword and held it on my right hand. I jumped soundlessly over the unaware boar and stabbed it down right through his head. Then i lifted the one meter long dead boar over my right shoulder and ran back to where she was while still using [Sky Feet].

It took me altogether around 5 minutes to go back and forth.

‘Hmmm… i got a bit weaker, i used to hunt something bigger when i was with ‘Master’. I haven’t had any time to train after journeying together with Tooru and the others,’ i frowned as i felt a little muscle pain on my right shoulder.

‘Let’s go back to the camp before she wakes up…’

I lifted her on my left shoulder and walked back to the camp. Just right before the camp site, i stopped. ‘Would be pretty weird taking a boar on one shoulder and a girl on the other. Hmmm… let’s hide the boar first and take her back to the tent.’

Then i put the boar down, and hid it behind the bushes. Now, i carried her on both of my arms, and ran to the camp.

There i found the other three sitting around the campfire. They saw Sakura on my arms and looked a bit shocked.

“What happened to her?” asked Harvey.

I made up some lie to them, “She was surprised when she saw me near the river dragging a boar. She slipped then fell down into the river and hit her head.”

“Sorry, it was my fault. I let her went alone to pick vegetables,” said Alex while bowing his head to me.

“No, it’s okay. It was me who surprised her after all,” i shook my head.

‘Well… she was indeed ‘surprised’ because of me, and especially because of my little brother…,’ i tried to remember the moment she fainted.

“I will put her in the tent for now. Then i will go back to take the boar. Just get ready to cook. It’s pretty big.“ I grinned at them.

Hint of delight was shown on the three’s eyes.

“Leave it to me! I got a secret recipe from my grandmother to spice up a roasted boar!” said Harvey as he put his thumb up.

“Okay, i will bring it soon! Just dig a hole first to bleed it later.”

““Got it!”” said Alex and Harvey together.

Then i put her inside the tent, with the new Tiger leather bed and blanket to keep her warm. After that i went to the bushes, sat down for a while and then drag it back to the camp.

A few hours then passed, the Boar was roasted and we all ate already. But she still wouldn’t wake up. So i told the other three that i will watch over the night, and wake them up later to change the shift.

I sat there in front of her tent facing the campfire, waiting for her to wake up while pondering on how to explain this misunderstanding to her.

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But sadly the misunderstanding is getting bigger in the men’s tent…

“What do you think really happened?” said Harvey.

“She did faint, but she wasn’t wet. So Z lied to us,” said Alex.

“And she wasn’t wearing the trouser anymore! It was a skirt!” said Bernardt.

“”Right!!”” said Alex and Harvey together.

We three pondered a little.

“I never tought that Z will climb the stairs to adulthood so soon, it was only the second day…,” said Harvey while shaking his head.

Alex nodded, “They even did it until she fainted… Youngsters…”

“Then it won’t be fun like yesterday anymore…,” said Bernardt as he sighed.

Harvey and Alex nodded together.

“Well, whatever! It’s good that they are now finally together! Let’s go to sleep! I don’t want to disturb their happy time! I am not such a bastard that will spoil the romance of my friend,” said Alex while grinning.

Bernardt frowned then said, “Ugh…got it…got it. Let’s leave the youngsters alone…”

“Yeah, i don’t think Z will wake us up tonight. Let’s just have a nice long sleep,’ said Harvey as he closed the entrance of the men’s tent.

And that whole night, Z really didn’t wake them up. Even though they heard some noises and screams, but they just ignored it while thinking, ‘…Youngsters…’

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