Chapter 333 This Is The Best!
My eyes were closed and darkness was all that I could see, but despite that, I still had
control over my senses. And that meant I could feel pain.
In fact, the pain was the only thing I felt.
Slowly opening my eyes I took note of my surroundings and saw that right now I was
inside a cave-like structure with my head resting in Req''sp.
She was gently stroking my hair and touching my face. I didn''t approve of this either
but well, it was at least better than being kissed while unconscious.
I tried to get up and suddenly a wave of pain surged throughout my body and I was
forced to lie back in herp.
"I don''t think you should get up," she said, finally noticing that I was awake.
"For how long was I out?" I questioned. "What happened?"
"About three weeks I''d say," she replied.
As soon as I heard that, I was this close to having a mental breakdown. However,
despite being in the condition I was in, my mind didn''t waver—this was one of those
times when I was d for all the mental training I put myself through.
Still though, three weeks. That was a really long time. I''d nned to get out of this hell
and meet with Anya and my parents in about four days, however, that n had
completely gone into the gutter.
"Thest thing I remember is that a portal opened right above our heads and millions
of demon beasts rained upon us. I was fighting them and…yeah that''s about it. What
happened after that?" I asked.
"Nothing really. You kept fighting and fighting and fighting. After that you kept
fighting the beasts for a whole week, then you copsed," she said.
"And it''s safe to assume that once I copsed, you took care of all the beasts
afterward?"
"Yeah," her voice was different from usual. There was no energy in her voice, no
cheerfulness like there usually is. It was a low, and calm voice.
I looked up to see her face and found that she wasn''t smiling either. That usual
childish smile she had on her face was gone,pletely. In ce of that, there was a
bitter expression.
"A whole week huh," I mumbled to myself.
Honestly, I was amazed at myself. Fighting for an entire week didn''t just mean fighting
for an entire week, it also meant that I went without food or water for a whole week
and was still alive.
If I had to guess, I''d say that the only reason I was alive was because of mana.
Probably the energy needed to run by body was taken from the mana I had.
However, that just makes the situation even worse because along with using my mana
to perform an attack and fight against the beasts, I was also using it to keep myself
alive. And for a whole week at that.
That was something even I didn''t know I was capable of doing.
I went for a whole week without food or water, so I guessed that was the reason why I
was feeling this intense pain near my stomach.
I had no idea how much hunger a person felt after not eating for seven days, but what
I was feeling still felt like overkill.
Therefore I decided to take a look. I bent my torso upward and Req helped me with
that. Once I was sitting up straight the pain suddenly increased tenfold and I fell back
in Req''s arms.
I was able to look only for a second, but that was more than enough. Combined with
the fact that the pain increased when I tried to get up, it wasn''t much trouble to figure
out what was happening.
There was a wound near my stomach and a deep one at that. There was a ck cloth
wrapped around it like a bandage, and looking at it closely it was my cloak. It was
probably Req who did that to stop the bleeding.
"It wasn''t fatal, but caused a lot of bleeding.," she said. "Right when you were on the
verge of copsing, a beast managed to get you. It would have killed you but I meddled
in and stopped it…but I was toote."
"What are you talking about? Even I could tell that I would''ve been stabbed right
through my stomach and died. You managed to stop that from happening. How were
youte?" I asked.
"No, I WASte. This was aplete failure. My primary job is to protect you, but I''m
not even capable of doing that. This is the second time I have almost gotten you
killed…" she said, her voice dull.
I couldn''t really understand what she meant by "second time". As far as I could
remember, this was the only time when something like this had happened.
After thinking about it for a second, I understood what she meant. She had failed to
save me in the previous timeline where my powers went out of control and I almost
froze myself to death, perhaps that''s what she was talking about. But I didn''t get why
she was acting as if that was her fault.
My powers going out of control was my fault and it had happened because I went
insane after seeing my family die.
As I was thinking about all that I felt something moist falling on my face. Looking up I
saw that tears were dripping down from her eyes.
She was crying. Req was crying. This thousand-year-old warrior who had lived in war
and gone through many traumatizing events was crying.
Why? Because she failed to keep me unscathed.
"A-All of this…every time…I fail to protect you. All because I am addicted to battle, and
I forget what my main purpose is when I''m fighting," she said as tears began to fall
down from her eyes.
"The time I spent in the war…the years I spent fighting, fighting, and only fighting, it
had made me into a battle addict. Every time I fight I enjoy it, and I enjoy it so much
that I forget about everything else. And I forgot to protect you too!"
She cried and sobbed, her tears falling on my face.
As she was going through all this, it took me a while but I soon understood the whole
situation. I understood her mindset and her way of thinking.
And when I understood it, all of a sudden it became really hard to stop myself from
breaking out into a wide grin.
''This is the best!'' I thought to myself.