Chapter 19 “Ambush Failed”

Kalysto turned and looked at her new pet. Her eyes looked like two glowing emeralds glowing with barely contained fury.

“What the hell were you thinking doing something like that? You could have died!” she shouted and approached him.

Frightened by her reaction, the cub backed away. And Kalysto froze when she saw his reaction.

She opened her mouth and closed it again several times before she was able to articulate a word, and ran her hands over her face for a moment as she tried to adjust her expression so as not to frighten him again.

“The next time you think of doing something so careless, I’m going to punish you. Do you understand me?” Tsuki lowered his head and let out a pitiful moan that softened her heart. “Now come here. I need to check that wound.”

And after taking out the arrow and using the Purification spell to disinfect the wound, she started to heal it until two notification windows, one blue and the other violet, appeared before her.

[Warning: the user has only 10 MP left. Please wait a few minutes before attempting to use any skills again or your health will be severely affected.]

She took out a Mana potion from her inventory and drank it in one gulp. And without even looking at her stats she got up and approached the fallen goblin’s body to retrieve her knife and after putting it away in the inventory she picked up the bow that the goblin had dropped and seeing that hers quiver was empty, she grimaced. Still, she did not hesitate to stow her new loot inside the inventory. And without looking back, she returned to the entrance of the cave, where she retrieved her bow and finished looting the other monsters. Which included the hobgoblin’s staff and two leather pouches strapped to his hip.

After giving the bodies a short glance and deducing that there was nothing else of value she could get from them, she raised her gaze to the sky, unable to determine how close to nightfall it was.

“We need a place to spend the night, preferably away from that walled city” The problem was that she had gone so far into the forest that the high treetops didn’t let her see the great wall surrounding the city and she had no way of knowing how far they were from the road full of bodies, which could surely lead her to the next nearest town or city.

Kalysto let out a long sigh and looked at her new pet.

“Time to go,” she said, and headed towards where she thought was the same road she had taken to get there.

Ten minutes later, she could see how bad her sense of direction was.

“Was this really the right way?” she wondered after another five minutes of intense walking.

Tsuki, completely unaware of his new owner’s dilemma, wagged his tail excitedly and barked in her direction, then ran off into the forest to his right.

“What part of “don’t ever do that again” didn’t he understand?” She growled, full of frustration, before she started running in the same direction he had just disappeared.

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Several minutes later, she found his white tail sticking out in the middle of a lush bush whose dark shade of gray leaves caught her attention.

“You are in so much trouble, young one,” she hissed. And she approached him cautiously, fearing he would run away again. That was until she saw Gabriel, one of the boys from the archery club, holding a branch in his hands as he tried to protect his fallen twin, whose leg had been pierced by an arrow.

Why do they always shoot at the thighs? She couldn’t help but wonder. And how come the Wonder Twins are here too?

Tall, blond, and blue-eyed. Both were the typical display of university beauty that many women dreamed of and Gabriel’s twin, Gideon, was the typical man ready to seduce all the hapless women who fell for his charming smile. But if the rumors surrounding the university campus were to be believed, Gabriel had also shared some of the sexual exploits with his brother over the past few months. They had even slept with the same girls at the same time. Though his dating collection was far more diminutive than his twin’s.

Were they also victims of another summoning circle, like Edward and Koden? She worried. But then what had gone wrong with their summoning?

Surrounded by ten goblins armed with knives, an archer, and one with a spear, the Wonder Twins had no chance of defending themselves. Not when Gabriel, despite belonging to a sports club, wasn’t very good at it. In fact, he was more the shy and quiet type. He wasn’t even very athletic.

Other than his pretty face and that he always blushed and stumbled over his words the few times she had spoken to him, there was nothing eye-catching about him.

Should I save them?

She didn’t know whether or not to do it. It was one thing to face five goblins, and quite another to face twelve. And if she took into account that she had to protect Tsuki....

There was no reason to put the cub at risk.

And she still had to find Edward and Koden. And find a safe place to spend the night.

And if she helped them, then she would feel bad later for not healing Gideon’s wounds, but she wasn’t willing to let them know about her class as a saintess either.

That could be problematic in the future... plus, I still don’t know if I can trust them.

Yet her not helping them at all would also make her feel bad.

Maybe if I just shoot a few of them and then run off, a part of them will chase me and, with the group divided, it will be much easier for them to defend themselves on their own. And for me to defend myself from those chasing me.

The problem was that people tended to have this crazy idea that it was a person’s obligation to help them if they had done it before. A case in point was Edward himself, who had brought Kodar to a tutoring session for which he didn’t pay a cent. Probably with the intention that she would also teach the other engineering students for free.

That idiot... Maybe I should stop helping him. Let him learn to respect other people’s time and free will.

But at the thought of it, something clenched inside her.

What on earth?

But Kalysto didn’t have much time to think about it nor to make a decision about the best strategy to use to help the twins since Tsuki, decided to play the Hero and throw himself into the battle as soon as he saw the goblin with a spear approaching the twins.

“What the hell?” she growled. She barely had time to react as soon as she felt the rustling of leaves in the bush as her pup struggled through it, and out into the small clearing where the enemies were.

His small white figure immediately caught the attention of the goblins. The Archer was the first to react by pointing his bow at him with an arrow ready to pierce his small body. Kalysto immediately drew her bow and shot him in the neck.

You are so grounded!