After my little romp with Saemi at the lake she and I returned to the campfire, we were both sitting facing each other as we stared at the campfire, neither of us knew how to start the conversation after our little exchange of affection at the lake, we both simply continued to stare at the small fire, after letting out a sigh I decided to start the conversation.
"Tomorrow we will go a little further into the forest, we need to find the boss room if we want to go to level 2”
Saemi jumped up from her seat not expecting me to start a conversation so abruptly, but she soon pulls herself together and agrees with my idea.
"Alright... this time, I promise I'll be more helpful"
Saemi said.
"If it's about the shadow case you don't have to worry about it that much, neither of us expected that thing could be so fast"
I said in an attempt to comfort Saemi.
"You don't have to worry about being abandoned if that's what's bothering you, I've told you before that I don't intend to abandon you as long as you're not 100% useless"
Hearing my words Saemi looked surprised for a few seconds and fearfully asked me a question.
"Why... why are you helping me so much?"
Hearing Saemi's answer I couldn't answer on the spot, I caught myself thinking about why I was sacrificing so much for Saemi's sake to the point of almost dying holding a sword that shouldn't be held by a mortal, if it was in a normal case, I'm sure I would be able to escape on my own, after thinking for a while, I came to some conclusions, Saemi was important for my revenge, so I need her to be on my side at any cost, that she chooses me instead of Shinji, or at least that she feels safer with me than with Shinji.
And the last conclusion I have come to is that I am probably starting to like Saemi, obviously not in the romantic way, and it is true that she is beautiful and that I have fantasized several times about fucking Saemi, but that is only sexual desire, not love, noticing Saemi restlessly moving from side to side I decide to answer Saemi's question.
"Well, one way or another, you are important to me”
(My revenge I mean, but clearly, I can't say that directly to her face)
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Hearing my answer Saemi's face flushed in a way I had never seen before.
"I... I love Shinji, so I can't match your feelings, but... um... if you want... I can help you with that if you need it"
Saemi said with her face completely red, she completely misunderstood what I meant, sighing I turned to the opposite side of Saemi and lay down on the grass.
"Let's get some sleep, we have a long day tomorrow”
I said closing my eyes not expecting an answer, however just before I went to sleep a small voice could be heard coming from behind me.
"Good night, Makoto"
After hearing this I blacked out, already the next day I am woken up by Saemi who was rocking me from side to side.
"W-What happened?"
I spoke after getting up totally alert looking everywhere for new monsters.
"Relax, there aren't any monsters, it's just that I've been awake for almost an hour now and since you didn't show any signs of waking up, I was worried that something might have happened"
Saemi said as she looked at me, I was a little surprised that she openly stated that she was worried about me but it seems she didn't even notice.
"I don't usually wake up early, thanks for waking me up"
I said after getting up, Saemi opened a small smile on her face and answered me.
"No need to thank me, you also helped me earlier, that's the least I can do for you"
After that I walked over to our campfire and threw dirt over it putting out the fire.
"Let's get going, maybe we can find something today”
Saemi nodded her head in agreement with my words, after that Saemi and I started to walk deeper into the forest, but before that we went to the lake and started to make marks on the trees using my knife in case we need to come back, this place is a good spot to take a bath and the water is potable, while Saemi and I were walking through the forest we bumped into two horned rabbits, we used them both to train Saemi's magic, both times Saemi easily hit the rabbits, clearly there was a significant improvement in her accuracy but I didn't dare ask why her accuracy improved so quickly.
Another thing to note is that Saemi is showing much less fear than before, you can even tell she's having fun walking through this forest, well, I can even tell you why, just me and Saemi walking through this forest is giving us a sense of freedom, as if we can do what we want and when we want, after walking for a while Saemi and I came across two new monsters, I knew what they were because of some games I played in the past, two small green humanoids using knives, both wearing only thongs around their waists which personally didn't hide much.
(Well, I will take this chance to test my new skill)
I thought looking at the two Goblins.
"Saemi let's defeat them, I'll take the one on the left and you take the one on the right"
Saemi quickly nodded her head and began to prepare her wind bullet.
"Alright, let's go, Fast Step"
I said as I looked at the Goblin that would be my target, in an instant I was behind the Goblin, without wasting any time I activated my new skill.
"Dark Manipulation"
After I said these words, my left arm was taken by a shadow, in seconds the shadow descended to my hand and turned into a sword, without wasting any time I turned the sword towards the Goblin's head, in seconds the Goblin's head was rolling on the ground while his body fell to the ground covered by a green liquid, as soon as the other Goblin realized what happened to his friend it was already too late, his head was abruptly blown off, causing green blood to spurt everywhere.