Civilization Guardian Front

She muttered in a volume only she could hear.

Opening his golden eyes, he cast a provocative look at the dumbfounded Lyfa.

Learn a bit, Suguha-san.

"Hmm..." Lyfa's face was stiff.

bump!

A dull voice sounded.

Chios followed the reputation...

The kobold whose fur was dyed dark red by its own blood fell down in front of Asuna.

The beast's eyes revealing despair and pain were barely half opened, and every time he took a breath, his body became weaker and weaker.

Blood continued to flow from at least four open wounds pierced by the rapier,

Even if left alone, it will die within minutes.

well.

This is the safest way to fight.

Like one-on-one, there is no need to rush to deal with the enemy, and turn around to deal with another opponent as soon as possible. After successfully inflicting damage, you should not pursue with additional variables. Instead, you should fight steadily to expand your advantage until the victory or defeat with no doubt.

In particular, beginners do not have enough skills and experience to minimize the possibility of making mistakes, and are not suitable for risky and radical moves.

Asuna, who has self-knowledge and knows that she is just a recruit, has done much better in this respect than Lyfa, who has years of foundation in kendo.

Seeing Asuna approaching the monster with a rapier in hand, gritting her teeth to end her opponent's life, Chios said lightly:

"There is no need to make up the last sword, let it drain the blood slowly."

"Teacher..." Asuna hesitated.

Although he is an enemy, he is already mentally prepared to be killed if he does not kill, but there is no need to not even give the mercy of liberation, right?

"What? Don't you have any compassion for monsters who roast their fellow citizens to pieces?"

! ?

Hearing what Chios said, the expressions of Asuna and Lyfa changed drastically.

Compatriots, dismembered, roasted...

They slowly turned their necks and looked at the fire on the other side of the stream.

The sharpened wooden branches standing obliquely beside the fire, and the pieces of meat that exude a burnt smell...

Is it a human corpse?

I have been fighting with this smell just now?

Just thinking of this, my stomach feels as if it is being squeezed tightly by invisible claws.

Asuna covered her mouth with her hands.

The food I ate before entering the forest surged up my throat, mixed with the smell of meat not far away, as if I was chewing and swallowing the cooked food made from the corpses of my compatriots.

uh...uh...

No matter how hard I tried to avoid thinking about it, I couldn't stop the nauseating delusions from appearing in my mind over and over again.

Fluid mixed with gastric juice seeped from between the fingers.

Stimulated lacrimal glands produce tears.

Witnessing the monster howling and losing blood before made her feel a little uncomfortable at most.

After all, it is not the same kind.

It is relatively easy to accept psychologically.

However, when the subject is replaced by a human...

Even if she didn't do it by herself, and she never witnessed the process of killing and dismembering, just the picture formed by her brain based on the simple words and sentences of young people made her feel extremely trembling and disgusting.

she doesn't want to believe...

"Teacher... you are lying, right?" Asuna trembled.

When she asked this, Lyfa also began to deceive herself.

"Yes, yes, it's so far away, how can you be sure that it's... Ryan, you don't think what Mr. Chios said is true, do you?"

"..."

Ren was silent.

"Humph..."

Chios snorted

The same smell, he had smelled it more than once when exploring the dungeon in the past.

Passing through the middle layer, you will occasionally find the wreckage of adventurers who unfortunately lost their lives.

If they were killed by hellhounds, more than half would be reduced to charred corpses.

Therefore, he is no stranger to the smell of roasted human flesh.

"If you don't believe me, let's get closer to confirm."

After finishing speaking, he let go of Lyfa's hand, dragged the kobold whose spine was crushed and was paralyzed and screamed in pain, and walked towards the other side of the stream unhurriedly.

Ren walked silently behind him.

The two girls who followed up nervously soon saw evidence supporting the youth's words...

A boot dropped among the grass by the water.

There's no way a kobold could wear something like that.

Even if you have mastered the production process, the difference in foot shape is doomed that they are not suitable for this type of shoes.

This is just the first evidence...

As they continued to move forward, linen shirts, trousers, and gloves scattered on the ground came into view one after another.

A broken dagger lay flat beside the fire, and the upper half of the blade was unknown.

Chios leaned over to pick up the broken blade, and sniffed it up to his nose.

"It's covered with human blood, and there are some bone fragments..." He shook his head and sighed.

"This person probably didn't expect that the weapon he bought for self-defense was eventually used by monsters to dismember him. Because the process was too rough, the blade finally broke due to the unbearable load. I don't think a dead body would be so difficult for a kobold to deal with." ...The victim is probably conscious at the moment, and had to struggle fiercely to create such a result."

When Asuna and Lyfa heard this, there was no trace of blood on their faces.

Chios didn't look back and cared about the two of them.

Putting down the broken sword, he reached out from between the stone moss and picked up a metal necklace.

Flat Metal Plate Charm...

Inscribed XXII in the middle.

Above the numbers, a smooth white porcelain bead reflects daylight.

""Apprentice Volunteer...""

"Yeah." Chios replied to the two with a blank face:

"It seems that he didn't participate in the training of the guard group, and he didn't even take what the "Abyss of the Blue" said to heart. He still thought it was a game. He bought some equipment and wanted to go out for an adventure. As a result..."

Sore eyes, take a day off

My eyes are very red when I wake up, maybe I watch too much on the computer recently?In short, take a day off and you should be able to recover...................................... ...................................

Chapter 840 Five? Terrible

"Although it is because I can't get rid of the arrogance of being a player, and underestimate the world too much, which led to the tragic ending we are seeing now..."

Chios stared at the fire, his eyes reflected the flames and the scattered bones.

No more human remains were found around, and the number of meat and bones skewered by the fire was not enough to piece together a complete corpse.From this, it can be inferred that the kobolds had eaten once earlier, licked the bone marrow and threw the inedible pieces into the fire.

What is roasted now is the rest of the trainee volunteer soldier who died tragically.

He kicked down the wooden spikes standing obliquely around, causing them to fall into the fire together with the meat, and quickly covered them with charred black.

"But no matter what, the reality has cost him his life. I don't intend to accuse the deceased...After the cremation is over, take his ashes back to the cemetery in the central capital for burial. This is our compatriots in our hometown. The only thing that can be done for him."

Chios made the sign of the cross in front of him.

"May his soul rest in peace."

Turn around and face Asuna and the others.

The two girls' faces were pale, as if they were about to vomit at any time.

Such a shocking education might be a bit too heavy for a newcomer coming out of town for the first time...

Still, it's better to learn from other people's tragedies than to bleed for lessons yourself.

"He's dead, and we're going to live on, now, take a deep breath..."

"Teacher, why can you keep calm?"

Asuna asked emotionally.

This is a person who was dismembered and treated as food...

Hearing this, Lyfa and herself felt shuddering and nauseated.

Ryan was not that serious, but he still clenched his hands tightly, and his usual mischievous look was no longer visible on his face.

Chios, however, was different.

When analyzing the process of victimization of the deceased, his brows never wrinkled, as if he was dealing with a daily chore.

This made the girl a little uneasy.

Does the teacher often face dead bodies?

However, why do teachers from good family backgrounds have such experience?

"Did you forget? I double majored in law and medicine in college..."

Chios reminded.

"Not only have I seen donors in anatomy classes, but I have also closely observed the corpses of many tragic victims during my forensic internship, and I have even been splashed by the corpse water sprayed out by corrupted and swollen tissues."

"Corpse, corpse water!?"

Lyfa stared wide-eyed and took several steps back.

"Yes, it's actually the same thing as fish sauce, but it's not boiled and seasoned, and it smells terrible, like canned herring..."

In comparison, the barbecue is at least much more fragrant, and the appearance is not bad.

Thinking about it, Chios thought it better not to mention those "flavorful" jokes that he likes to make when chatting with his classmates from the medical department.

In the current situation, non-professionals will probably only feel disgusted after listening to it.

"You guys feel uncomfortable just thinking about it. I've seen it with my own eyes, and I've been in contact with it several times. I'm basically used to it. I'm sorry, but I can't understand your feelings at this moment, because I've seen worse."

"worse..."

"I don't want to know at all."

"Yeah, so don't dwell on this topic..." Chios glanced at the fire.

Burns too slowly.

With the hands behind his back, he quietly drew the rune, and while warming up the flames, the young man instructed the three girls to collect the spoils:

"Cut off their right paws with kobold weapons, those corpses are not worth the edge of your sword and saber."

"Speaking of which, big brother Chios." Ren pointed to the half-paralyzed monster beside the young man.

"What are you going to do with this crippled kobold?"