chapter 61

Afternoon of the third day after leaving the fief capital enroute to the royal capital . The weather was nice enough to make you want to nap, but there were several corpses strewn around in front of me .

The reason was because bandits had attacked us and we had fought back . Yes, I killed a person for the first time . I had been preparing myself to do so since a long time ago and that time had eventually arrived . But I still end up thinking various things and whether I dirtied my hands .

It wasn’t something I needed to particularly agonize over . Or rather, I wasn’t even feeling anything about it……it was more something along the lines of it just couldn’t be helped? But that was the reason why it was so jarring .

When I saw the corpses of the people who were riding in the carriage with me during the cliff accident, I had just regained my previous life’s memories so it was quite hard on me because of my past Japanese ethics . But now I was a bit overwhelmed since I didn’t even feel anything after killing them……hm, I should cool down a bit .

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Umm, so I guess I just graduated from being a killer virgin? No, I’m a girl now, so I guess it would be I lost my killer virginity? Ahh, it was my first time! Wait, no, no, I’m still feeling overwhelmed . Let’s take some deep breaths .

Hm, I did regain my previous life’s memories, but the foundation was based on the common sense I had acquired after living in this world for 10 years . As such, I could only think of it as natural to kill the bandits when they attacked us . I guess it would be normal if I thought of it that way?

Additionally, I hate being forced into doing something that I didn’t want to do, so I suppose I also didn’t feel anything about killing someone who attacked and might have even killed me, so something like that? Hm, I don’t even understand myself sometimes .

The current world I was in was one where I had to defend myself in order to live, so I guess being objective would be better than excessively agonizing over it? Mmm, I tried looking at it in different ways, but it still felt weird……

So I thought back to the situation where we were attacked by bandits . It happened after we had been on the road for a while, and the bandits had ambushed us from the forest on both sides of the road . A log was on the road and blocking the way . When we got off the carriage to deal with it, bandits appeared from the bushes on the left and right .

There were six of them . Additionally, my Detection revealed that there was also a person lying in wait on both the left and right side of the forest trees near the road . They were probably archers?

The bandits had told us to leave our money, and carriage, and then upon realizing we were women, said they would take us too . Yep, cliche bandits . Of course we resisted, but it was rather one-sided .

First, Lily had used her trump card she mentioned before which turned out to be a Barrier Magic that formed around the carriage . With this, the carriage couldn’t be damaged, and we were also safe inside the barrier .

Next, Norn and Bell jumped out and knocked aside the bandits surrounding the carriage, and dashed into the forest to eliminate the backups .

Arisa jumped out of the barrier and slashed at a bandit who had been caught off guard by Norn and Bell, and Lily shot offensive magic from within the barrier . I was told to step back so I backed down .

Yep, I was being treated like a child . Well, I am a child though . And so, the one-sided development continued, Arisa brought down one person and Lily scattered the bandits with her magic, then Arisa faced off against someone who appeared to be the bandit leader .

I then noticed Bandit A sneaking up behind Arisa to attack her from behind, so I had immediately fired a knife at his head . The bandit leader was surprised by the scene and Arisa took the opening to slash his neck, thus killing him . At this point, there were only two people left, and those two had tried to escape due to the disadvantage they were in . But Lily took one of them out using her magic, and I eliminated the other by shooting a knife to the back of his head .

Hmm, since my attacks had been indirect attacks instead of direct attacks, the actual realization might have just not set in yet . Hmm… But the mental stress……huh? Was it perhaps due to my Mental Resistance .

“Ren, what’s wrong?”“Ah, well, It’s actually the first time I’ve killed a person, so……”“Is that so……but it’s better not to overthink it, okay? These people are criminals . If we didn’t fight back we would’ve been killed . ”“That’s right~ It’s only natural to defend yourself~”“Ah, no . I was just thinking it didn’t affect me as much as I had expected……is that normal?”“I see, I guess that would be shocking . I was like that my first time too . ”“I guess for me I just didn’t have time to worry about it~? But I didn’t really mind it ever since then~”

I see . I suppose I should check my skills later . Then Norn and Bell came back from the forest . While dragging the corpses .

“By the way, what should we do about the bodies?”“If we take them to the town hall, the officials will handle it, but loading them onto the carriage is rather…… . ”“Right……”

To be honest, there was some resistance to placing them inside of Storage too .

“I think it’ll be fine if we just leave them on the side of the road . Since they’re criminals, there’s nothing wrong with leaving them out to dry . ”“……Won’t the bodies become rotten and start to smell?”

“If we tell the gatekeeper when we get to a nearby town, they will come handle it so it should be fine . If there’s a reward, we’ll get it later on . ”“I see, let’s do that . ”

As such, we piled the bodies to the side of the road . Or rather, Norn handled it . I also recovered my knives . I stored the log that was blocking the road inside of Storage . I could use it as firewood so I kept it .

“But what kind of attack did Ren do anyways? For the knife to be stuck this deeply into the head……”“Um, it’s a secret? Rather, I thought Lily’s barrier was much more amazing . ”

Barrier magic seemed quite useful . But if it was some sort of rare skill, it would be a bit difficult for me to use it . However, I still observed it during the fight to grasp the magic structure . Due to the Analyze skill, I was able to figure out the magic structure, so I could probably do it……but I’ll leave it for later .

“I guess it’s one of Lily’s few good points~?”“Arisa, I’ll get mad!”“Eh~?”“Not at all, Lily’s offensive magic was amazing too . ”

Right, her offensive magic was also amazing . I didn’t know any offensive magic, so I would like to learn it somehow .

“Huh? Ren can’t use offensive magic?”“I cannot . I was thinking of looking for a spell book when we get to the royal capital . ”“Ah, in that case, I could teach you if you want?”“Um, is that okay?”“I don’t mind at all! Please tell me if there’s anything else you would like to learn!”“Well, I would like to learn about non-attribute, dark, and lightning type magic……”“So non-attribute, dark, and lightning, I got it! I can use non-attribute and dark type magic, but I can’t use lightning type . However, we can use a spell book for that . I learned magic alongside my sister so I can definitely teach you!”

Oh, it seems that I would be able to learn all the attributes with this . Oh, right .

“Ah, do you also know about alchemy?”“I’m sorry, but I’m unfamiliar with alchemy……the Alchemy skill can only be obtained if someone teaches you it . I was told that it would be good to know, but I didn’t have the time . ”“I see, I didn’t know about that . ”“So there’s things even Ren doesn’t know about~?”“That’s only natural . There’s a lot of things I don’t know about . ”“I can tell by just looking . ”“That’s right~”

Somehow, that felt rather mean . But I guess I’ll postpone alchemy for now~ However, I would like to learn more about it somehow, so I can create an automata .

“Shouldn’t we get moving soon~? Having a conversation while standing next to a pile of dead bodies is kinda weird, right~?”“……Right . ”“……Let’s do that then . ”

I actually forgot we were standing next to the corpses . Teehee~