Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival-Chapter 215.1
The Town Where the Demon Lives Part 3
“No! I didn’t… No!”
Jean shouted with a confused look on his face as he swung his dagger and turned around and slashed at his startled comrades.
“Jean!?”
“What are you doing?”
“No, no, Slay, Cara!”
Cara stepped forward to defend Slay, who had been slashed in the arm, but she was unable to point her weapon at Jean, who was mumbling gibberish.
“Stay back.”
I interrupted as I slipped in there and slammed my right palm bottom into Jean’s side.
“Guho!”
I could feel his ribs cracking through the glove with magic steel in it. Normally, this would have stopped him from moving properly, but Jean stood up in a strange position, bending his body to the side, and brandished his dagger at me again.
“No, no, stop the attack!”
“…”
Obviously, Jean’s words and actions were out of the ordinary. Was he being manipulated? But that didn’t help me understand what he meant when he said [no].
“It will hurt more than before… but… bear with it.”
More on that later. First, to incapacitate him, I put my knife back in its sheath and held it gently.
“Please, I didn’t want to do this!”
Saying this, I deflected the dagger that Jean had brought out with my hand on the belly of the blade, and while twisting my own arm around it, I kicked and shattered Jean’s bones with my knee as if I were thrusting straight down.
“Gyaaah!”
Still able to move…I brought my kicked leg down on Jean’s neck and slammed him to the ground as it was, and with a loud noise, Jean finally stopped moving.
“Ah…”
“Jean!!!”
Cara rushed to Jean, who let out a convulsive moan.
“You! You don’t have to go this far, Colette! Hurry up with Heal!”
“Uh, huh.”
“Wait!”
I stopped Colette from approaching and kneeled in front of Jean, who was still crouched down.
“Jean, are you conscious?”
“You….”
Cara was about to attack me when I put the treatment on hold and started questioning him, but Jean, covered by her, looked sane, if rational.
“I’m sorry, Cara, don’t do this. I didn’t make this ‘promise’…”
“…Jean…”
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“…promise?”
As I muttered back the strange phrase that didn’t seem to fit the occasion, Slay, who was holding his injured arm with one hand, interrupted me to cover Jean.
“I’m sorry, Jean seems confused. I want to let him heal first, so can you excuse him for today?”
“…”
I knew intuitively then [that there was no point in asking].
They were surprised by what Jean had done, but did not seem to think it was “wrong”. I could not determine whether this was because of their personalities, or whether they were as crazy as Jean, but even if I wanted to keep them in custody, it would be futile to rely on this town in the event of an altercation between adventurers.
For now, I think I should let them swim around a bit and see what happens…
What’s with the word “promise” from Jean? I thought the town’s anomalies were “miasma” and “undead,” but I think that idea itself was wrong.
“…Why don’t you take him to a sanitarium anyway?”
“Sorry, I’ll do that.”
Slay lent his shoulder to Jean, who was still making some “excuse” as I said this, and stood up.
“I’ll stay near the Adventurers’ Guild.”
“Yeah, okay.”
