Volume 1
Chapter 7
I Became a Bodyguard
Translator : PolterGlast
"Ah... I'm beat."
I felt a level of
fatigue I had never experienced before. Before I died, I never really cared
about fatigue, but honestly, this level of fatigue, after dying so many times,
is taking its toll.
I want to take a rest
somewhere...
Thinking about that, I
started walking aimlessly again.
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After that, I
continued walking without resting, but,
"Huh?"
I stopped when I came
to a certain space.
"Could this
be..."
The space was badly
damaged. The trees were blown away from the roots, and the ground was gouged
out as if it couldn't be any worse. The fact that nature was so damaged meant
that an incredibly fierce battle had taken place here.
This was the space
that I had created when I fought the tiger.
"Hey, you!"
"Hm?"
I turned around
because I heard a woman's voice.
"Wha! Don't turn
this way!! What are you showing me!?"
"Eh..."
She called out, but
she said not to turn around, it was a bit unreasonable... Oh, that's right. I
was naked right now.
I didn't turn towards
the voice, and I could hear someone walking towards me. Come to think of it,
the voice just now.
"Hey."
"W-What is
it..."
"By any chance,
are you the woman I saw earlier when I was fighting the tiger?"
"Haa? Of course.
Who else would be in a forest like this? Don't ask such an obvious
question."
"……Sorry."
I was just trying to
confirm, but whatever.
"So, what do you
want?"
I just turned my face
towards the woman.
"What do I want?
...Don't you know? Looking at my appearance and my state earlier, can't you
make some kind of guess?"
"……………Well..."
"Hmph, whatever.
I'll tell you from the beginning for your ignorance."
What a haughty young
lady...
"Okay? I am───wait, what?"
"?"
I was waiting for her
to explain, but suddenly she widened her eyes as if she had noticed something,
then fell silent. What's going on?
She's muttering
something and thinking.
"………Can you
understand what I'm saying?"
Is she making fun of
me?
"But of
course..."
"Hey, are you
Japanese?"
"Yeah, but───wait, how?"
When she said that, I
realized. Come to think of it, this was another world. Yet, she was speaking
Japanese and knew the word "Japanese".
Could it be───
"I knew
it..."
"Wow, what a
coincidence. Did you reincarnate here too?"
"Yeah, that's
right. ………Well, with so much evidence, there's no way to doubt it
anymore."
Doubt? What is she
doubting?
"Anyway... don't
you have any clothes?"
"Haha... It seems
like they all tore during the fight..."
"Well, of course
they would if you fought like that. Just wait a minute. Maybe I can do
something."
"Okay."
It seems like she'll
help me somehow.
"………"
The woman closed her
eyes and held out her palm as if concentrating on something. What is she doing?
"………"
Then, suddenly, a
faint blue light began to emanate from around her palm. When the woman slowly
opened her eyes, a dark brown coat suddenly appeared from nowhere.
"Whoa!"
I couldn't help but
exclaim in admiration at such a magic spell.
"I see... I did
it. ………Here, wear this."
The woman seemed to
have mixed feelings about being able to produce the coat.
"Thank you."
Well, since I'm being
offered it, I'll take it.
I slipped my arms into
the sleeves of the coat and buttoned it up front.
"Haah... at least
it's a little better now. Just stay like this until we get out of the
forest."
"Okay."
"Alright. Then,
may I ask where this is and what you've been doing?"
"Sure."
I didn't feel anything
in particular, so I replied simply.
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"I see... you
haven't been here for very long either. You don't know where this is either, do
you?"
"That's
right."
"Haah... it's a
dead end then."
The woman looked up at
the sky.
"Well, I see that
you've also died and been thrown into this place, and you've been wandering
around for days. But what were you doing while you were wandering?"
"I was killing
animals."
"I-I see..."
The woman seemed a bit
taken aback. Did I say something strange?
"Do you know
where we are in this forest?"
"Not at
all."
"Right, that's to
be expected. ………Ah... I'm so unlucky, so unlucky! I'm so unlucky that it makes
me laugh, gosh! My clothes are covered in blood, and the forest is damp and
disgusting!"
She seems to be angry
about a lot of things. What a busy person. ...Ah, right.
"I know where a
river is."
"Why do I have to
be stabbed in the first place?! What's wrong with that guy?! So disgusting───really?"
"Y-yeah."
"Guide me there
quickly!!"
She changes the
subject quickly. Does she like rivers so much? ...Well, whatever.
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"Ah... it's great
to be able to wash off the dirt. Just make sure you're not peeking, okay?"
"I won't. In the
first place, I'm not interested."
"Okay then."
The woman immediately
took off her clothes and went into the river as soon as she reached it.
Apparently, she wanted to wash off the dirt on her body.
I'm hiding behind a
large rock near the river. She told me to do so.
"Still... what is
this 'skill' anyway? It's convenient, but it's hard to believe that such power
can be handled without any risk. It's too much of a violation of the laws of
physics."
"Who knows?"
"What's your
skill? Well, since you can fight like that, it must be an amazing skill."
"Well, the
goddess girl called it a 'failure'."
"───What? Are you kidding?
Even though you can fight like that?"
"Yeah. My skills
aren't meant for combat in the first place."
"Huh!? Wait a
minute! Then what is your skill!?"
I tell her the name
and summary of my skill.
"N-No way... it's
really not a skill related to combat at all. Then where did you get that power
from?"
"Beats me. I
could do it before I knew it."
"That's
ridiculous."
Only the sound of the
woman splashing in the water can be heard.
"Hey, you."
"Hm?"
"Do you have any
objectives?"
"Not
particularly."
Fighting is my raison
d'être.
"Then, be my bodyguard."
"Huh? Me?"
"Yes, you. Your
power is first-rate. Yet, it's a waste to have such power without any purpose.
So, use that power to protect someone who is also first-rate, like me───no, you should use it.
So, be a bodyguard. Protect me with all your might."
"Okay."
"Yeah, I knew you
were going to refuse. But think about it. We're both in this situation right
now───wait, what?"
"Hm?"
""………""
For some reason,
silence fell.
"Wait a minute.
Did you just say, 'Okay'?"
"I did, but...
was that bad?"
"Bad? Normally,
you'd refuse, right? With my attitude and my way of speaking, anyone would
refuse. I had prepared an excuse to persuade you, but it was all wasted. What?
What are you? Are you a nodding doll or something? Hey, are you really human? Maybe
you're just a slightly intelligent ape?"
"No, I'm human,
though."
"Then assert
yourself more! There's no bite to your conversation at all!"
Bite in a
conversation...
"Is that so
strange?"
"It's not just
strange! It's very strange!!"
You don't have to say
that much.
I can hear the woman
sigh.
"I wonder why
this happened to me?"
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