Sheryl’s POV

I did not know what number of days had handed since we began retracing our steps again to Euclid Village, however we have been now in an open subject the place the crops have been useless, and the soil was all muddy.

“I do not know if I ought to rejoice that we’re getting close to that pungent forest once more,” muttered Emi.

“Let’s simply be glad that we’re alive,” Ford stated.

I sneered. “Alive however would possibly as effectively be useless. We odor worse than a rotten corpse!”

“There’s going to be a river within the final forest earlier than Euclid village.”

“I do not want your sympathy, Megu,” I retorted.

Megu shut her mouth and apologetically smiled at me, which bought on my nerves. For an grownup, she was performing an excessive amount of like a shy teenager.

“Ma, yaAarRgh!”

Megu chuckled and held her kid’s hand with hers. “Sure, sweetie. We’re close to the village now.”

Augh! My ears felt like they have been about to be damaged each time I heard her daughter wail.

“She’s already one. Cannot she converse human?” Emi grumbled.

If there was one thing Emi and I might agree on, it was what she had simply stated.

“It is stated that infants solely develop correct speech after they’re two,” Stan butt in, stuttering.

I glared at him, successfully shutting him up.

“At the very least the newborn’s wails aren’t as loud as your voice.” Edgar laughed.

“What did you say?!”

“Cease preventing again there,” Brago referred to as out. “It is about to get darkish quickly. Let’s decide up the tempo.”

“Hey, what’s that?” Ford requested, pointing on the horizon.

I rolled my eyes and sarcastically answered, “Darkish clouds.”

“No.” Ford jabbed his finger additional into the ocean. “THAT!”

All of us appeared to the place he was pointing and located a cluster of strange-looking purple clouds that got here collectively from the ocean. Thunders rolled, and the wind howled because it was quick approaching our location.

“W-what is that?” Stan nearly moist his pants once more.

Megu held her little one near her whereas Emi squinted her eyes, attempting to dissect what she was seeing.

“C-could or not it’s . . . the Apocalyptic Occasion that everybody’s been speaking about?” Ford’s face went pale.

In reality, all our faces had most likely turned pale on the sight of the purple blood sky that was swiftly masking the horizon.

“Let’s go.” Brago’s voice snapped us out of our daze. “NOW!”

We rapidly moved and entered the forest.

“The place ought to we go?” I requested, trying again to examine what we had seen earlier. There was blood-colored rain coming from these clouds.

W-what are these?

“Go to the goblin’s cave!” Emi shouted.

“B-but that cave is infested with goblins,” Stan argued.

“Except you will have a greater thought?”

“W-why do not we go on to the village?” Megu urged.

“By then, the rain would have already caught as much as us, genius,” Emi retorted.

“Simply go to the cave first, and we’ll determine issues out!” Brago ordered, and we bumped into the woods and into the Goblin’s lair.

We defeated these goblins earlier than, so I wasn’t frightened about their presence. What I used to be extra frightened about was the rain.

One thing advised me that the red-colored rain was dangerous information. The chilly wind biting my pores and skin and the primary sound of water touchdown on the soil despatched all my tremendous hairs on edge.

“Do not cease and hold operating!”

“It is nearly upon us!”

“Run!”

Finally, our group made it to the Goblin’s cave in a single piece. Brago and Ford took the lead, slaying the primary signal of goblins as we entered the security of the cave.

However the slowest amongst us, which was, after all, Megu — since she was carrying her little one, was nonetheless meters behind us, and the rain was nearly at her again.

“Megu!” Brago was about to depart the security of the cave when Emi stopped him.

“You loopy?! We do not know what that rain might do to us!”

For all I knew, Emi was simply too blissful that Megu and her child would lastly be out of the way in which. I felt the identical.

They have been useless weight, and I could not be any happier in the event that they have been gone. Extra gil, EXP and meals for me.

In addition to, we would have liked canon fodder — an experimental topic that will present us what that odd-looking rain would do to us.

It was not like I had all the time been evil or something. I used to be as soon as a cheerful teenager, dwelling one of the best of my life again on earth. In reality, everybody bought alongside at first. However on this world the place dwelling was troublesome, and sources have been scarce, it did not take lengthy for our hidden nature to return out within the face of loss of life.

Each girl for themselves.

Taking a look at Megu, who was desperately defending her little one from the rain, I used to be extra desperate to know what would occur than fear about her, to be sincere.

However I used to be left dissatisfied when Megu bought contained in the cave. She was panting, and her face appeared bloody. Her physique wasn’t too moist, however her face was drenched by the scarlet rain that appeared like blood.

Megu wiped her face utilizing her gown however not earlier than she was performed checking her little one. The newborn was greater than alright — not having even a single drop of rain on her. If there was one factor Megu was good at, it was taking good care of her daughter.

“S-sorry,” Megu smiled after some time. “I used to be too sluggish.”

We appeared away. None dared to fulfill her honest eyes since everybody right here, besides perhaps Brago, was anticipating that one thing would occur to her beneath the rain.

“In case your boobs weren’t so large, they may not have weighed you down,” I stated it in a whisper, however it ended up like a shout. My phrases bounced from the cave partitions, producing an echo.

I did not care, although, and pretended to examine my nails.

Megu solely smiled and apologized once more.

I clicked my tongue, confronted along with her passive perspective. It could have been higher if she retaliated, however she was being submissive on this scenario as a substitute, making me angrier.

“There’s nothing to apologize about. I am simply glad that you simply’re alright,” Brago stated.

Emi sighed on the facet. “So it is simply common rain?”

Ford stepped somewhat nearer to the doorway earlier than he prolonged his hand into the rain.

. . .

. . .

We waited for one thing to occur, however even after a minute, nothing occurred.

Ford withdrew his hand and launched a sigh of reduction. “Aside from the bizarre coloration, it appears to be simply regular rain.”

Emi sneered. “We will see that.”

“So what now?” Edgar positioned his palms on his again. “Are we nonetheless going to remain right here?”

( . . . continuation on NOTES)

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A/N (Would not eat cash)

To fight piracy, 100 phrases or so on the finish of each chapters might be posted on NOTES.

It will scale back coin and likewise a strategy to combat piracy, so it is a win2x scenario

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