Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Vol. 07 by Rifujin na Magonote

Author:Rifujin na Magonote [Magonote, Rifujin na]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: light novel
Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment
Published: 2020-06-20T04:00:00+00:00

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There, in the early afternoon at the guild, I spotted some faces I knew: Suzanne, Timothy, and Patrice—all the members of Counter Arrow. Well, not all. If they were here at this hour, it meant they’d just finished a request, so I had probably just missed the others.

They were usually the ones to approach me, but I decided I should occasionally greet them first. After all, I was in a pretty good mood today. “Hello.”

“Oh, it’s Rudeus.”

Hm? They seemed kind of gloomy. Not just Suzanne, but Timothy and Patrice as well. “Did something happen?” I asked.

“Yeah…it’s Mimir and Sara.”

I didn’t see those two around, but just because the five of them were a group didn’t mean they had to spend all their time together. That was how I rationalized their absence, anyway. Had something happened?

“Did the two of them get married or something?” I teased.

“So you crack those kind of jokes too, huh?”

“I’m sorry.”

Timothy’s usual smile was missing. In fact, his expression was just the opposite—all clouded over. It seemed my words had annoyed him. Was I right? Had something really happened? “Um, do you mind if I ask about it?”

Timothy went silent. Instead, it was Suzanne who looked up and said, “They’re dead.”

My rare joyful mood vanished in a second. “Oh. I see,” I said.

I couldn’t quite digest the idea that they were gone. And it wasn’t like this was the first time something like this had happened to me. As adventurers, death was our constant companion. I’d heard that another party I was close to had been completely wiped out.

Even so, it was depressing. Accepting their deaths wasn’t the same as being unaffected by them, after all. I wasn’t particularly close to either of them, nor did we know each other all that well. Still, we’d shared meals together; overcome death together. I couldn’t help feeling sad to hear they’d lost their lives.

But there was nothing to be done. Sooner or later, all adventurers would die. The possibility of death shadowed them so long as they continued this line of work. That was just how things were.

“No,” Timothy said. “Mimir aside, Sara isn’t dead yet.” Although I’d already accepted the fact, Timothy now claimed otherwise. His face twisted in frustration as he snapped at Suzanne and Patrice. “We were just separated from her during the battle. It’s not like we saw her corpse. So maybe if we had just searched a little more, we could have—”

“Give it up,” Suzanne urged. “You couldn’t see anything in that forest, not in that blizzard. We’re better off considering her dead.”

“But—”

“I said give it up! If we’d stayed there any longer to search, we would be dead too! We knew that, and that’s why we obeyed your orders!” Suzanne barked at Timothy as the latter hung his head.

It seemed Timothy had given the order to retreat. Now he was regretting his decision.

I could understand why. Regret was inevitable once you saw where your decision led. When you were forced to abandon something

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