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

107 – Discovery (2)

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After leaving the cabin, I slowly chewed over the questions that kept coming to my mind as I walked with Pia to Millwood Village.

Why did Ms. Sylvia attack me?

Why didn’t they just leave me unconscious, but went to the trouble of tying me up?

What on earth could have scared her so much?

What on earth is Ms. Sylvia hiding?

No matter how much I love Sylvia and know a lot about her, since I can’t look into her head, everything will be just guesswork in the end.

I thought carefully about it, using the clues I got from her expression and eyes.

If you want to share your heart, love, and become a family with others, then trying to understand their hearts is not a choice but a necessity.

In fact, the answers to most of my questions came to me more quickly than I thought.

The reason why you knocked me out, the reason why you restrained me, and yet the reason why I was so afraid.

I am not so dull as not to realize that Ms. Sylvia loves me, has lost me once already, and is terribly afraid of losing me again.

So, even though I saw her in a pretty rough situation, I didn’t blame or feel disappointed in Sylvia.

Even though my shoulder still ached from being held by her, my head still hurt from being hit, and my wrist from being cut by the blade still stung,

I loved Sylvia so much that I couldn’t hate her just because of this level of hurt.

To me, Sylvia was already more than just a lover.

She is the hero of the world, my benefactor, the love I want to share my life with, and also a lewd female who obeys my orders at night.

Ms. Sylvia was a new family member who came to me like a miracle after losing all of my family.

Although my love may not be as great and fanatical as hers, I was not so uninterested in her that I could not even figure out what kind of person Sylvia was.

Now, the fact that I can guess the reason why she attacked me and locked me up without even having a single conversation with her is proof of that.

I would rather take this opportunity to dispel her fears.

I will not leave her,

Ash Staff will make it clear that he will never leave Sylvia.

I promised myself that.

However, there is one last question that has not yet been resolved.

What on earth is she hiding from me?

The moment I found out the answer to that last question.

For the first time, I thought I had to run away from her.

At first, I couldn’t understand her.

Her viciously violent appearance was completely different from the Sylvia I had known until then.

Only then, for the first time,

I realized that I knew nothing about this person named Sylvia.

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Sylvia, who had been hit on the back of the head, fell forward with a sharp fall, but kept her gaze fixed on me.

She didn’t seem to be that shocked, as she just sadly reached out her hand toward me and shouted that it was a misunderstanding.

But my gaze was not at all directed at that pitiful Miss Sylvia.

At that moment, all my nerves were firmly fixed on the naked woman who had attacked Sylvia.

“…That’s ridiculous.”

Even though it was a dark night, I could see everything.

The person who was being beaten by Sylvia was slowly recovering,

And the naked woman revealed like that.

She must have been the knight who had stayed at my cabin for a few days before Sylvia returned.

She was said to be the Pope’s direct inquisitor.

“Alice…”

“… Ah, no, no! No!”

“Sister?”

“No! Ash! Please, don’t come.”

The unbelievable truth filled my head so much that there was no room for Sylvia’s pleas to enter my heart.

Why didn’t I know?

Of course it’s old, and it’s changed a lot,

But how could I see her without knowing her?

“Sister Alice!”

At my shout, the woman dropped the lump of iron she was holding and spoke softly.

“I knew it.”

My eyes became hot with tears.

Honestly, I was giving up.

It wasn’t the warrior’s companion, nor did it have the grand title of the only spirit sorcerer of the present age, but at least it was a time when everything was peaceful.

I thought it would never be possible to get back the happy childhood days I had lived with my sister Maria, my sister Leila, and my parents.

I thought that because I had lost my entire family, my past had almost completely disappeared from this world.

But, it appeared before me like this.

Anyone who remembers Ash, who was just a talentless aspiring wizard from the countryside.

Traces of my past that I thought I would never see again.

“Are you really my older sister?”

Sister Alice nodded slowly and continued speaking.

“I believed… that there was no way he could have died.”

“…Ah, ah.”

“It’s been a while, Ash.”

“Alice Nu…”

I was so surprised that I couldn’t think of anything.

Why did she appear in this terrible forest?

What is the ability to restore a body from a state where it should have died?

And, why was Sister Alice fighting with Miss Sylvia?

If I think about it carefully, it’s full of strange things, but I was so overwhelmed that I didn’t have time to think about it.

So, I was late.

Until I noticed that Sylvia was pointing a knife at Sister Alice.

“Ms. Sylvia!”

“stop!”

Sylvia screamed and swung her knife at Alice.

But Sister Alice, as if she had expected it, dodged by leaning back and falling.

As soon as her back touched the ground, Sister Alice jumped up and kicked Sylvia in the chest with her foot.

There seemed to be no damage, but Sylvia, who had been pushed back, grabbed the sword with both hands again.

I hurriedly walked towards Sylvia and grabbed her back.

“What are you doing!”

“…Ah, ugh”

“Sylvia, why are you with your sister!”

“Stop it, stop it!”

Sylvia clenched her teeth and shook her head violently.

Just by shaking my head, my slender body, which was holding onto her back, began to sway wildly.

I held onto Sylvia’s back and waist tightly, using all my strength in my arms to not let her go.

“Miss Sylvia, he’s not an enemy. He’s someone I know.”

“Ahhh!”

“Sylvia, please!”

“Stop it, Ash!”

Ms. Sylvia cut me off with a sharp, tearing scream.

I found myself closing my mouth in response to the intense force.

Ms. Sylvia slowly turned her head and looked at me, who was holding her back, with a sidelong glance.

A ghostly light was seen shining in the red eyes that seemed to be a mixture of resentment and sadness.

“Why… why… why are you doing that? Ash…”

“…Ms. Sylvia?”

“…”

She asked softly.

“Ash, do you love me?”

“…yes?”

“…”

I just couldn’t grasp the situation.

I couldn’t even figure out the intention of the question she asked.

Why on earth are you asking that question now?

However, I decided that calming Sylvia down was the most urgent task, so I nodded vigorously and said.

“of course.”

“Am I Ash’s family?”

As soon as I finished answering, she asked me again.

I nodded again this time.

“Yes, you already know. Sylvia knows best.”

“But why ‘Sylvia’?”

“Right… Yes?”

For a moment, I couldn’t understand what on earth she was talking about.

Miss Sylvia… no, ah.

ah,

no way.

“…Why, that woman said she was my older sister,”

“Sister Sylvia, that’s not it. Sister Alice, since she was little…”

“…Because you’re my fiancé?”

At her sad voice, I shook my head hurriedly and said.

“No, no! You know that I love you, Sylvia, no, you know that I love you, Sylvia!”

At that moment,

Sister Alice opened her mouth.

“You’re playing.”

“Sister?”

When I looked closely at Sister Alice, there was something strange about her condition.

The hideously distorted scars on his chest twitched as if he was breathing, and his skin was perforated in places like melted leather.

And inside the hole, a faint light leaked out, rippling like sunlight seen from under the water.

There was something that didn’t look normal.

“Ash…”

“…huh?”

At Sister Alice’s call, my sister and I slowly looked at each other.

Sister Alice looked at my face for a while and then nodded.

“…My eyes hurt.”

“…uh?”

“…Sylvia has placed the same curse on you.”

“…Ah, that.”

Sister Alice picked up the lump of iron that had fallen to the floor and held it as if it were a large shield hanging from her arm.

Slowly the shield began to glow white.

“I love you… Is that also an effect of the curse? This is some really vile brainwashing, Sylvia.”

“…fuck you.”

I opened my eyes wide and shook my head at Sister Alice’s words.

“Sister, it’s not like I’m brainwashing you. I really…”

“Even so, that’s wrong. It doesn’t change the fact that it was a mean act that took advantage of your situation.”

“…Wait a minute, I can explain.”

“No, you wait, Ash. I’ll take care of everything.”

“Oh, I said no!”

It seems that my older sister was under the mistaken belief that Sylvia had forcibly tied me to this forest.

Or maybe you think I’m being brainwashed by a curse,

In order to clear up Sister Alice’s misunderstanding, I released one of the hands that was holding Sylvia’s body and reached out to her.

At that moment, Sylvia opened her mouth.

“It’s no use, Ash.”

“…yes?”

“She’s just a troublemaker. A b*tch who came into our house with dirt feet and tried to steal you away.”

“…Sister Sylvia, no. Please…”

“Go to the hut and wait.”

Sylvia said that and then lightly shook her shoulder.

I was thrown to the floor helplessly with just that little movement.

Before I could even get up from my fallen body on the floor, I shouted desperately at the two of them, who seemed ready to clash at any moment.

“Both of you, wait a minute. Wait, stop it!”

Before I could finish speaking, a loud spark flew out of the pitch-black darkness.

When I came to, Alice and Sylvia were rolling around a long way from where they had been standing a moment ago.

It seemed like it had crashed and fallen in that one moment.

I quickly got up to stop them, but something exploded and broke in the air, and the two people were no longer where they had been a moment ago.

Even though it was night, I couldn’t follow the two people’s movements with my eyes.

I looked around in confusion, but all I could hear was the sound of the two clashing all around.

“Stop it! Stop it! Sister Sylvia! Sister Alice!”

The impact of something hitting me so hard and the wind blowing as the two people ran made my body, which was still standing, sway.

I was concentrating all my energy on chasing those two people somehow.

At that moment, something flew next to me and landed helplessly with a thud.

“…Eww!”

It was an arm whose name I didn’t know.

“…Fuck,”

I looked around.

Judging by the fact that even the severed arm was flying, it was clearly not a conflict that could be ended with just a few words.

Fortunately, if the fight could be stopped now, neither of them would be seriously hurt.

Sister Sylvia already knew very well how strong a human being is, and Sister Alice, judging from the regenerative power she showed earlier, wouldn’t die from losing an arm.

The evidence of this was the eerie crackling noises that can still be heard even now.

The problem was that I was the only one who could stop these two scary people.

“Uh… Me?”

Frankly, it was impossible.

The conflict between the two was too intense to be a result of a simple misunderstanding, and too intense for someone like me to stop it.

But, there was only me.

No, it was just me and Pia.

“Pia!”

At that moment, a voice was heard from above my head.

“why?”

Before I knew it, Pia was riding on my shoulder.

Pia said, poking my temples.

“Why did you call?”

“Help me, I need to stop this fight.”

Pia looked around, making a humming sound.

Looking at her head moving constantly, it seemed as if she could follow the movements of the two clashing people with her eyes.

Pia, who had been looking around for a moment, turned her head in all directions and then bent her upper body and head forward.

Pia’s face came into my sight upside down from above.

Pia said, her ears drooping.

“Uh… Me?”

The serious face of a six-year-old child was surprisingly scary to look at.

I answered, avoiding Pia’s gaze, who was looking at me with confused eyes.

“…we have to do it.”

“…”

Pia sighed, then jumped off my shoulder, flipped in the air, and landed on the ground.

Pia babbled and stamped her feet on the floor, then quickly looked at me and spoke.

“okay.”

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