I Can’t Run Away From the Girl Who Saved Me

144 – Negotiation (7)

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Even though spirits have existed in the world for a very long time, not much is known about them.

Even if you count animals, humans, and other beings, the number of beings that can communicate with spirits is extremely small.

Because the ecology of each spirit shows distinct differences, it was difficult for the spirits themselves to explain their characteristics or physiology.

It was natural that spirits, who were closer to concepts or the laws of nature than to living beings, rarely tried to explore their own identities.

Even the spirits themselves could not properly explain what spirits were, how they were born, or what kind of beings they were.

A guardian spirit is a being that embodies the concept of protecting someone.

Ash’s guardian spirit, Pia, also didn’t know much about spirits.

“how…”

But, despite this, there were two things that all spirits had in common.

The spirit cannot help but love the spirit sorcerer.

And the point is that no one can communicate with them except the spirit sorcerer.

“… Ah, ugh.”

Sylvia stared straight at Pia with her dazzling eyes, without saying a word.

Pia felt fear for the first time at the gaze that was fixed so firmly that it was difficult to think of it as a coincidence or an illusion.

Pia was moved by an instinctive judgment that she should run away to Ash’s side.

Pia jumped up like a crushed water spring, disappeared, and ran towards the door.

“Stop,”

bang!

“Whoa!”

As Pia tried to open the cabin door, something flew at high speed and crashed into the door with a loud noise.

Pia was so surprised that she fell backwards.

Pia slowly raised her head and saw a piece of rabbit bone stuck in the door and Sylvia’s head turned straight towards her position on the floor.

Pia was shocked once again.

If Pia disappeared, or rather stopped showing herself, even Ash wouldn’t be able to see her.

For spirits, who had no form to begin with, it was much more natural for them to be invisible.

However, Sylvia was clearly looking straight at Pia, who was hiding.

Pia muttered in a trembling voice.

“Why… why can I see Pia…”

“…”

Sylvia didn’t answer.

It was extremely scary and bizarre to see him turn his head unnaturally towards Pia with his mouth tightly shut.

After a while, the face started to move a little,

“haha,”

Sylvia burst out laughing.

“Hey, you’re not shaking, are you?”

“… Answer me, how do you see me?”

“I’ll tell you in advance, I can’t see you.”

“…uh?”

At Sylvia’s words, Pia slowly got up from her seat and walked stealthily to the side.

Sylvia’s head slowly moved following Pia.

“You don’t need to confirm it like that. I can’t see you. I can feel Ash’s magic remaining in your body… something like that.”

“…!”

A mysterious power created by spirits.

It is a miracle that has a different principle from magic, and sometimes boasts a power that is even more overwhelming than magic, but in order to have that power, something that needs to be consumed as a raw material is needed.

Some spirits sacrifice their own lives to perform miracles, and some spirits receive sacrifices from humans to perform miracles, but in Pia’s case, she was using Ash’s magic.

The reason why Ash, who had no talent for magic at all, had an extremely generous amount of magical power was because Pia had grown up by sucking Ash’s magical power from when he was young.

Considering that Malice, a former spirit sorcerer, was known as a great magician with tremendous magical power, it is likely that other guardian spirits also used their master’s magical power.

“horsepower…”

Pia stuck out her tongue.

The magical power remaining in his body was only a very small amount.

How is it possible for Sylvia to sense and detect the magical power that is so small that even Ash, who is the owner of the magical power and has been training in magic all his life, cannot sense it?

Or maybe I feel it because it’s Ash’s magic.

Pia realized once again that Sylvia’s obsession with Ash was far more than she could have imagined.

“I don’t know what you’re saying, but I can’t hear your voice either.”

“…a crazy, obsessive woman.”

“I guess I can only tell that you are there.”

Pia tried to curse Sylvia just in case, but Sylvia continued talking without paying any attention.

Her words that she felt his presence but could not see or hear him seemed to be true.

In other words, Sylvia is not a being who can communicate with Pia.

At that fact, Pia felt a strange sense of relief and slowly sighed.

Because the mere thought of having to act for someone other than Ash was terrifying.

“I’m sure you’re wondering when I started seeing it, so let me tell you: It was just after dinner a little while ago. It just suddenly started appearing.”

“her… ?”

“You said something like ‘magic’. I don’t really know what I’m feeling, and I don’t know why I suddenly see it… I just saw it a while ago. Your aura rippling around Ash.”

“…”

“That’s why I felt bad, because somehow it looked to me like she was forcing Ash to ‘not sleep with Sylvia.’”

“That’s because you shake your hips like an animal every night…”

“I really hope that doesn’t happen?”

Pia bit back her lips at Sylvia’s voice, which sounded as if it was cutting her off.

It was because Sylvia’s expression was so frozen that it seemed bizarre.

The face was so stiff that it looked unnatural, as if it were a corpse or an elaborately carved mask.

Pia could tell just by that expression and those words.

Just a moment ago, the way she had shown Ash and the words she had said were all lies.

‘Ash, I… honestly, I’m scared.’

no,

This woman is not afraid of anything.

It’s about walking the same path my comrades died on, about ruining the world, and about facing my own failures.

I’m not afraid of anything.

Things like that no longer bothered Sylvia at all.

There’s only one thing she’s afraid of.

Ash was just rejecting himself.

“You know, I wish the feeling I got was just a feeling.”

“… it’s crazy.”

Honestly, there was nothing for Pia to be afraid of.

It must have been amazing that Sylvia could feel Pia, but she obviously couldn’t touch her, so there was no way she could harm her.

But Pia was afraid.

This woman will definitely do it.

I will figure it out somehow.

She might not save the world, or rather, she might agree to hand the world over to the Demon King, if only she could keep Ash by her side.

That conviction gradually spread to Pia.

“Pia.”

“…!”

“I have no idea what you’re thinking. Either you don’t like me, or you’re jealous because you like Ash as a man.”

“…Krung,”

“So I’ll say it one last time.”

Sylvia slowly got up and approached Pia.

Pia sat down and slowly stepped back.

“I really want Ash to be happy by my side.”

“… Me too, Ash…”

“Even if Ash isn’t happy, I’ll keep him by my side.”

“… Ugh,”

“Even if Ash becomes unhappy or starts to hate me, I will definitely keep Ash by my side.”

“…”

“So, if you want Ash to stay happy, please don’t make me feel weird.”

Sylvia slowly pushed Pia towards the wall.

Pia, whose back had suddenly reached the wall, looked up at Sylvia, trembling with fear.

Sylvia slowly turned her fearful face towards Pia and asked.

“… Do you understand?”

“…”

“Okay, then go to Ash. Oh, of course, what we just talked about is a secret between the two of us. Got it?”

“…”

Pia dashed between Sylvia’s legs and out of the cabin.

Sylvia slowly raised her upper body as she felt Pia’s energy disappear.

I heard the door clank shut behind me.

“… Hmm, maybe I scared the kid too much… No, Ash said he only looks like a kid, so I guess it’ll be okay.”

Sylvia muttered and began to clean up the meal she and Ash had eaten.

Sylvia muttered as she gathered the bones of the meat Ash had eaten and the flesh she had left behind and threw them into the campfire.

“By the way, why did I suddenly start seeing this…”

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I was squatting on the lakeside, washing my shaved chin.

When I looked at my face in the water, it was fortunate that it was clean and neat even though it was the first time in a while that I had shaved.

It’s a thin, unattractive beard growing only on my chin, under my lips, and along my nose, but Sylvia still thinks of kissing my face when she sees it like that.

It was at that time that I was having such pointless thoughts.

“Ash! Ash!”

“huh?”

Pia called my name and hurriedly dived into my arms.

I quickly put the dagger in my hand aside and patted Pia on the back.

“Whoa! You surprised me. It’s dangerous even before I put the dagger in!”

“That’s not the danger! There’s something more dangerous!”

“What’s more dangerous?”

Pia was shaking all over.

“Why, why? What happened?”

“… That, that…”

“Speak slowly.”

Pia looked up at me with tears in her eyes.

I slowly stroked Pia’s head and waited until she was ready to speak.

“That, that…”

“huh.”

“…”

Pia just opened her lips hesitantly, then soon lowered her face, buried her head in my chest, and shook her head back and forth.

“Nothing… nothing.”

“…Pia?”

“…uuu,”

“It’s okay, just tell me.”

“…That, uhh, that’s actually…”

That was when.

“Ash!”

From a cabin far away, Sylvia waved at me and called my name.

As I turned my head towards Sylvia, she waved her arms wildly and shouted loudly.

“Are you done shaving?”

I also patted Pia’s head and shouted.

“Oh, it’s over!”

“Okay, let’s go back to training in five minutes! We’re going to do evasion training today too!”

“Okay! I’ll go!”

After I finished answering, I lowered my head again and looked at Pia.

Pia was shivering with her face buried in my arms.

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