I Can’t Run Away From the Girl Who Saved Me

28 – Training (6)

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Ash covered his mouth with his hand and pondered for a moment.

The feeling of flying ice bullets getting stuck in your body.

The shock transmitted through the bear skin.

No matter how much Silvia did to control her strength, it wouldn’t end with a simple bruise if she hit those pieces of ice with her bare body without wearing a bearskin.

Even if you brush against it, your skin will be torn, and if you hit it straight, you can break your bones.

In particular, if you get hit in the stomach, in the worst case, you may have internal problems.

Ash shuddered at Sylvia’s determined attitude.

Concern and dissatisfaction were evident on her face.

Why is Sylvia making such a face?

worried? Are you unhappy with slow growth?

Ash worried that she might think of him as pitiful.

But at the same time, I could feel it.

A certain emotion hidden behind her expression.

Ash could faintly sense her anticipation from the slight twitching of the corners of her mouth.

Ash closed his eyes and removed his hand from his mouth.

“… I’ll do it.”

oh i don’t know

it will work out somehow.

Ash thought about that and accepted her offer.

Sylvia’s divine power and pharmaceutical knowledge were all excellent enough to save Ash from dying, so at least she wouldn’t die.

‘Sylvia is hiding it to not burden me, but I can see it clearly.’

she is looking forward

If so, you can’t betray that expectation.

I couldn’t bear to say it because I was too ugly, but he was also ‘a man’.

When you get expectations, you want to prove it.

Ash made up his mind.

“I’m serious?”

“Yes, I will.”

Sylvia smiled lightly.

Like Ash’s intuition, she was definitely expecting it.

It’s just that what she was expecting wasn’t that growth or success.

‘If I hurt him moderately, he’ll know.’

how helpless you are

how much i need

Sylvia intended to teach Ash with her whole body that she would never survive without me.

“Prepare. ash.”

Sylvia looked at Ash’s determined expression.

Eventually, a twisted smile breaks through her face.

Ah, Ash.

You can be in pain as much as you like.

You can be frustrated at any time.

Even if you cry loudly, I can happily listen to you by the side.

Sylvia’s fingertips blew cold air.

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Ash kicked off the sand and jumped up like a spring.

Even though your feet are slow, you have to roll as hard as you can to give yourself a little time to react to the flying ice.

At that moment, Ash heard the sound of something flying.

It was something I had already heard hundreds of times over the past week.

As soon as Ash grasped the sound, he rolled aside.

“already!”

With the sound of the ground crashing, the sand splattered and fell on Ash’s head like rain.

As soon as he rolled off the ground, Ash stood up and looked at Sylvia with a slightly embarrassed expression and took a backward step.

‘…Something seems to be flying too fast?’

Ash glanced at the ground as he brushed the grit from his face and hair from his sweat.

The sandy bottom was hollow, as if it had been scooped out two or three times with a colander.

Although she reacted reflexively, it was clear from these marks that she was throwing faster and harder than usual.

According to the rules, you are free to dodge, but that doesn’t count as being blocked by Ash.

In other words, Ash had to melt the ice bullets coming towards him with this power five times.

Ash sensed something was wrong and screamed.

“Sylvia-san, do you know that I am not wearing a bearskin…!”

Ash stopped talking and immediately waved his hand.

The flame-clad beast that appeared leaving a trail of fire following the trail of his arm swing swallowed the ice in an instant and disappeared.

Ash gasped in surprise.

“… Huh, heh,”

“Huh, did you stop it?”

“… Mr. Sylvia?”

“Four more times.”

Sylvia slowly tossed and caught the ice she had made in her hand as she approached Ash.

Ash tried to say something, but then shut his mouth and started running again.

Suddenly, a sound like something exploding came from behind Ash.

Ash looked back to determine the trajectory of the flying ice.

Sylvia is gone.

“…what?”

Sylvia, who had suddenly disappeared, was nowhere to be seen no matter where she looked around.

Ash, realizing something at that moment, made a hasty stop and jumped backwards despite no warning.

At the same time, something from the sky landed on the spot where Ash was standing, like an explosion.

“Cock!”

Ash looked up, blocking the sand splashing on his face with one arm.

Up in the sky, Sylvia was stretching her arms back to throw the next piece of ice.

The explosion just before was the sound of Sylvia kicking off the ground and leaping.

‘Something, the difficulty level is strange?’

Ash thought as he spewed out the fire with his fingertips.

Sylvia saw the fire that Ash had put out beforehand, stopped her arm from throwing the ice, and started falling towards Ash’s location.

Ash was furious.

It was because he realized that what Silvia was aiming for from the beginning was not just a surprise attack from the air.

The reason she jumped was to instantly close the distance with Ash.

If the distance is close, it is impossible to avoid, let alone block.

Of course, Ash’s miserable run was enough to catch up with Sylvia’s light running, but Sylvia wanted something more dramatic.

I hoped Ash would be scared a little more.

Ash cast a spell.

At the same time, Sylvia landed on the floor with the momentum to overturn all the sand around her.

bang!

A huge roar, like a house collapsing, echoed through the forest.

Sylvia prepared to throw the ice as it was.

I had to close my eyes because of the sand flying around, but I was confident that I would be able to find the location of Ash by the sound of the sand hitting it.

However, no matter how hard I listened, there was no sand hitting Ash.

“… ash?”

“…Whoa,”

From far away came the sound of a heavy sigh.

Sylvia slowly opened her eyes amidst the acrid dust after all the sand that had risen into the air had fallen to the floor.

Ash was already more than 10 meters away from Sylvia.

“… Teleport?”

Sylvia tilted her head and said.

“Please. How do I use such legendary magic?”

“Once upon a time, my colleagues used it as if they were eating.”

“…are you crazy? that colleague.”

“You… what did you do?”

Ash said with a laugh.

“Tumble.”

Tumble.

A simple beginner magic that makes things fall or roll.

It was a magic that even Sylvia could use.

She used to use her tumble to slash enemies who had fallen when fighting tricky monsters, but it was usually magic that just made them fall in place.

“It’s a tumble, but does it go that far in an instant?”

“I was scared of Sylvia so I walked five times in a row. After rolling around, I ended up here.”

“Five times?”

“I’ve never used the same magic consecutively before, but it worked. this,”

Ash laughed and started running again.

Sylvia felt nervous as she looked at Ash’s back.

Magic is the weaving of spells.

A spell is a word with power.

Magic made by weaving five or fewer spells is beginner magic,

If it is twenty or less, it is called intermediate magic.

A tumble is made by combining three words.

pull each Push. pull back are words that mean

It is a magic that makes you lose your balance by repeatedly pulling and pushing.

Ash said he used tumble five times, but he couldn’t keep rolling with just that.

Because the ‘push’ order in the middle gets in the way.

Perhaps Ash was unconsciously pushing and forgot the magic.

Since you said it five times, ‘Pull. Push. pull.’ And two pulls five times.

A combination of thirteen words.

In that short moment, he used what was virtually intermediate magic.

“…It’s difficult,”

“What did you say?”

“…”

Silvia clenched her teeth.

Ash’s growth was progressing much faster than Sylvia expected.

Seeing Ash dodged his attack and now turned his back on him and ran away, a moment of inexplicable fear surged up to the tip of his chin.

Sylvia created ice sculptures with her hand full.

“… calm down.”

Sylvia was breathing slowly and deeply, trying to calm her excitement.

If you make a mistake with the power control, Ash will be crushed to death like an insect on a shoe.

If she was so afraid of him disappearing that she killed Ash with that hand, it would be a really bad joke.

But even so, it was clear that Ash would easily pass this test with the same level of attack as before.

I thought that taking off the bear skin would give Ash that much fear and pressure, but perhaps it was because he took off the heavy skin, Ash acted much more quickly and judged faster than he thought.

“This is not what I imagined.”

What do we do?

At this rate, Ash might leave him.

Like that back view you see now, you might turn your back on me and run away.

Sylvia contemplated whether to shoot all the ice in her hand.

If you manage your strength moderately well, you will end up fainting after being hit by these numerous ice cubes.

No, no.

If Ash reacts calmly, the test might end as it melts five or more pieces of ice at once.

Sylvia bit her lip in nervousness, feeling that it was gradually changing from the picture she had drawn for the first time.

“…I never thought it would be this difficult to have to control my strength so I wouldn’t die.”

Sylvia muttered quietly, leaving only three ice cubes in her hand and dropping the rest on the floor.

Ash must still be used to the ice that only comes flying one at a time.

But in fact, I never said or decided that I would throw just like that.

In that situation, what if you threw several at once, and not two, but three at the same time?

Ash, obviously flustered, would miss at least one piece of ice.

If you say foul play… well, it was foul play.

However, even if Ash later protested, it was an ambiguous violation that could be evasive, saying that there are no rules for the beasts of the forest.

Sylvia slowly twisted her waist and pulled the arm holding the ice behind her.

Elbows further back than the back of the head, hands holding the ice slightly above the temples.

Slowly pull your back up so that your upper body looks slightly upward.

Ash is running hard in the distance.

calm down.

You can’t throw with all your might.

ash.

running hard,

That leg I fixed.

Divine power, I used this divine power given to catch the demon king to save you.

With my help, you can walk and run like that.

therefore.

stop running away

“Don’t run away from me!”

Sylvia’s arm swung like a whip.

At the same time, the chilling sound of cutting through the wind quickly entered Sylvia’s ears.

“Oh, no.”

The transparent ice flew fast enough to leave a white beam of light in its wake.

A little harder than she thought.

“no! ash!”

Sylvia ran frantically towards Ash.

As if trying to catch the ice he threw.

However, the ice had already almost reached the back of Ash’s head.

Time passed slowly.

No, Sylvia’s accident passed quickly.

Damn it, it’s the head.

I couldn’t be sure what would happen if I got hit in the head, and the back of the head with something like that.

f*ck, why did I throw it so hard?

Asshole, no matter how urgent you are, you should have thrown it a little lower!

what to do

What should I do?

Sylvia looked at Ash with a bewildered expression.

At that moment, Ash’s body flashed as if it were shining.

“…ash?”

The flame-clad fox instantly wrapped its tail around Ash and swallowed the ice as it burned.

The size of the fox was said to be large enough to cover Ash.

As if protecting Ash from Sylvia, it completely covered Ash with its thick tail.

Sylvia stared at him blankly.

Ash was the same.

“…This must have been a fox.”

Ash muttered.

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It was not something to be dismissed as ‘I just melted a piece of ice’.

I was really surprised by the wit of using tumble.

It was clear that the huge fire fox from earlier was probably preparing a spell to increase the size of the fire in advance while running away.

I have no choice but to admit it now.

Ash has changed in this week.

Of course, passing this test doesn’t mean he’ll be able to beat the bear last time, but at least Ash has proven that reaching that level isn’t impossible if he has the right mentor.

And that teacher was Sylvia herself.

As a result, she developed instantaneous judgment and quickness, not magic skills, to Ash.

He raised the talent to survive and fight.

Sylvia was troubled.

Ash is getting stronger so he doesn’t die in this forest, should I be happy?

Should I just watch it increase the chances of leaving me?

Am I unable to stop Ash?

Sylvia just stood still, unable to sort out her confused emotions.

The three ice cubes that I had just thrown at Ash.

If Ash hadn’t blocked those bullets, it was clear that something terrible would happen.

It was such a lethal speed and intensity.

Because of the momentary emotion, Sylvia’s power was stronger than expected.

Of course, it wouldn’t have been enough to pierce his head, but at least it would have been enough for him to fall over bleeding from his head.

And the human body could die from that level of shock.

“…I could have killed him.”

Sylvia covered her mouth.

The area around the red eyes also became bloodshot with blood vessels standing red.

“I… Ash…”

I almost killed Ash.

I didn’t want to lose him, so I almost lost him forever.

And, the growth of Ash that she tried to stop eventually saved Ash.

Saved Ash from Sylvia.

Ha, is the forest dangerous? Are bears dangerous?

no.

“it’s me…”

She was the most dangerous being to Ash in this forest.

A being that could accidentally kill Ash.

An existence that Ash is vigilant even when approached.

A human who is contemplating whether to cut off Ash’s leg or not.

“…ha, aha…”

Sylvia gasped as she looked up at the fox’s face looking down at her.

I was so horrified and terrified that I had almost killed Ash a moment ago.

The gaze of the great burning fox was on her.

The fox was quietly looking down at Sylvia, as if on guard.

Was it a form of magical power?

Ash’s magic was wary of Sylvia.

Sylvia muttered as if making excuses.

“Oh, no… I don’t mean… no… please,”

The fox just silently looked at Sylvia, but did not respond.

The hot wind only quietly pushed her away.

“No… ah!”

At that moment, the fox disappeared in a flurry of sparks.

Amid the sparks flying in the air, a grinning Ash appeared.

As I looked at Ash’s face, I suddenly burst into tears.

She didn’t feel relieved to see him in good shape, nor did she feel sad at the thought of the tragedy her actions could have caused.

Tears for unknown reasons just flowed quietly.

Ash, in fact, didn’t know Sylvia’s speed and just looked excited.

“You just threw three, right?”

“…”

“Then there is only one left, right? Right?”

Ash laughed and was delighted, as if he had no idea that he had just been nearly killed.

Ash’s innocent appearance, snorting and running around excitedly, combined with the situation from a moment ago, and Sylvia felt a strange fear on the contrary.

It was like watching a child humming along without knowing anything about an alley full of kidnappers.

Ash suddenly looked towards Sylvia and tilted his head.

“Sylvia… are you crying?”

Sylvia quickly lowered her head.

I hated seeing Ash cry.

She had already seen her naked body, and even more embarrassing than her naked body, she had revealed to make fun of Ash, but now she wasn’t ashamed of her tear-stained expression.

Rather, what he didn’t want to see was not his crying face, but the shocked look at what he had done.

He hoped that Ash, who didn’t even know what had happened to him earlier, would remain unaware.

How would Ash feel about Sylvia if he found out that he had just died?

He must have feared her more than the forest and the bear.

Sylvia was afraid Ash was afraid of her.

“… the flames… my eyes… hurt.”

“Oh, sorry. I had no idea that magic would grow to this extent.”

“…”

“Miss Sylvia?”

What do I want to do with Ash?

I’m sure you want to stay by my side.

It was certain that he never wanted to go back to solitude again.

You want to cut your leg off?

No, I don’t want Ash to get hurt.

Do you want him to be strong?

No, I don’t want Ash to have the ability to be independent of me.

So, would you like it to stay like this?

No, I don’t want Ash to die in vain in this dangerous forest.

“Miss Sylvia?”

Sylvia felt the chaotic thoughts in her head float here and there, crashing into each other and spreading out in all directions.

It was a mess that could not be sorted out in a short time.

What do I want to do with Ash?

In the first place, what am I of Ash?

What is Ash about?

I know to the bone why I need him,

What is the reason Ash needs me?

Does Ash need me?

i need ash

Why do I have to suffer this pain because I can’t get out of this forest?

“Sylvia-san, what’s wrong!”

Sylvia could not calm the confusion.

I needed time to think.

Sylvia tossed what she was holding in her hand once again at Ash, who was approaching her.

“Wow!”

Ash spewed fire foxes from his hands in an instant.

The fire fox spun in the air and became a wall of fire to block the flying pieces.

Judging by how quickly he reacted, Ash has definitely grown.

However, the shard passed through the fox and pierced Ash’s waist in an instant.

“Ouch!”

Ash spit out, grabbed his side and collapsed.

As if he couldn’t breathe, Ash’s face, which was pinned to the floor, was breathing heavily, scattering sand grains around his mouth.

Ash clenched his teeth tightly, drool dripping from his teeth, wriggling his forehead on the floor for a moment, then collapsed.

It’s fainting.

Perhaps, in his dying consciousness, he wondered why his flame could not melt the ice.

It has to be.

The last thing Sylvia threw was not ice, but an ordinary stone she picked up from the floor.

“… I’m sorry, Ash… I need a moment… to think…”

Sylvia gently hugged the fainting Ash.

Ash passed out with his forehead crumpled and saliva dripping from his mouth.

Sylvia stroked his hair once, and gently brushed the area around his eyes to straighten his crumpled forehead.

Then, with his thumb, he wiped the spittle from around Ash’s mouth.

“Sorry…”

Sylvia looked at Ash’s face like that for a long time.

As the surroundings became quiet, I could see more clearly how strange the state I was in now.

My mind was confused.

I’ve never felt this way before, so it’s hard to explain what it feels like.

When did you feel this way?

When you see someone using a sword you’ve been carefully grooming all weekend and roughly cleaning it?

When the long-awaited reservation for the blacksmith approached and I went to entrust the request, when I found out that the original artisan had already passed away last week?

When the monster that I thought I had killed turned out to be parasitic in the body of my comrade, and I had to cut it down along with his body?

When did you realize that you had this damn curse on you after defeating the demon king and killing all the villagers on the way back to the kingdom?

They were all similar, but somehow different.

It was a feeling I had never felt before.

One thing is for sure, the confusion Sylvia feels right now is accompanied by tremendous emotional fluctuations, just like those events in her memory.

Sylvia quietly hugged Ash and rubbed her cheek against his chest.

“Passed… Good work Ash…”

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