Goblin Slayer Side Story_ Year One, Vol. 1 by Kagyu Kumo

Author:Kagyu, Kumo [Kagyu, Kumo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen Press
Published: 2018-10-29T16:00:00+00:00

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Cow Girl awoke to a sound sometime before dawn, while the sky was still a dark blue.

“Hr…nn…”

She squirmed in her bed, until just her head was poking out from under her blanket, and looked out the window.

Sunrise was still some way off; it was that numinous moment between full dark and dawn. Even the roosters were still sleeping.

Yet, she was sure she had heard something. Footsteps. Faint but…bold, nonchalant.

“Is he…home?”

Being careful not to make any noise that might wake her uncle, Cow Girl slid out of bed.

Traces of nighttime still hung in the air, clinging to her bare skin without mercy, making her shiver.

She pulled on an ill-fitting undershirt and lit the wick of a candle. She crept quietly into the hallway and began walking hesitantly through the silent house.

She was already well on her way when she was seized by the fear that she might be wrong about the noise; she picked up a piece of firewood and held it in one hand.

“Um, uh…”

Finally, she arrived at his room. The door was shut tight; she swallowed heavily. She knocked gently, reluctantly, on the door, then she opened it a crack and peeked in.

“Welcome…home…?”

There was no answer. In fact, there was no sense that anyone was inside.

The bed still showed no sign of having been used. The blanket was folded neatly. There were hardly any belongings within.

Cow Girl took a careful step into the room, stirring up a thin layer of dust on the floor.

“…He’s not here?”

But then the faint sound came again. It could have been nothing more than her imagination, a phantom of hope, but she was sure she heard it.

Inside the house—no.

“Outside… Maybe.”

Come to think of it, didn’t he say he would borrow the shed…?

The shed was ancient and had long gone unused. Could that be where the sound was coming from?

Cow Girl raised the collar of the shirt that was all she had on over her bare skin, then stepped out the front door and into the night.

Immediately, she was caught by a whistling dawn wind that felt like a knife on her skin. It was supposed to be spring now, but the gust felt like a last gasp of winter.

The candle guttered; Cow Girl hurriedly sheltered it with her hand and blew on it.

Maybe it’s not quite proper, being outside dressed like this…

She dismissed the thought; it wasn’t as if there was anyone there to see her.

The shed rose as a shadow against an ultramarine sky. The roof and walls were full of holes, and with the wind whipping through the grass all around, it looked deserted.

I guess I’ve never actually been in there…

She had the sense that the shed had always been like this, ever since she had come to the farm five years earlier. Had she gone into the shed when she was exploring on her first day here?

“Oof…”

Maybe she really had imagined the sound? Cow Girl took a step back.

There was no one there. There couldn’t be. She had been crazy to come out here alone.

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