Chapter 47 Raid: Toxic Rat Lake (5)
Chapter 47 Raid: Toxic Rat Lake (5)
I quickly backed away as Mari uncovered his eyes, but to my surprise, he didn't unleash his energy with a tantrum of adrenaline and anger... but he just hugged Mari and cried and cried until he was exhausted.
"I-I wanna leave!" Asger shouted with tears rolling down his cheeks.
"Unfortunately, that is not possible," I muttered, but a wave of emotions flooded through me as Asger glared at me with the harshest eyes he could muster.
Should I really have put them through this while they were so young?
"I-I hate you!" Asger shouted at the top of his lungs, saliva spraying my face as he cried out again and again until he slumped into Mari's arms.
"Okay, we'll leave if you want," I sighed before pulling out four stones with a strange rune carved into the middle of each one.
"Where did you get those?" Mari asked, her jaw dropping with shock.
"I stole them. But, if we use them now, there would be no evidence... it's a bit disappointing that we'll have to use them in such a useless situation, though," I sighed and directed my eyes to the boy who began to think.
"F-Fine... but I'll only forgive you just this once," He stuttered, with Mari glaring at me instead.
"Asshole," She muttered under her breath before I resisted the urge to roll my eyes and shoved the stones back into my bag.
"Let's continue,"
We took about an hour's break before continuing since we needed that wound Asger to fully close up.
Plus, he just needed some time to calm down.
The next switch wasn't very far since all of the sand had disappeared, and as soon as I pulled it down, the floor underneath us gave out.
"*sigh*... What a pain," I muttered as the clashing thoughts of me wanting to take care of my siblings but also make them stronger swirled in my mind.
Fwip fwip fwip
I flicked out three strings of water that wrapped around my siblings, grabbing them tightly and pulling them close to me.
"Don't worry... I got you,"
As they all shut their eyes tight with fear, I looked down and saw where the widened tunnel of rocks ended and came in contact with the boss room below.
Plus, the illumination of light allowed me to see small edges in the expanded tunnel, so I used these to my advantage.
Fwip
I quickly flicked those three strings to the jagged edges, breaking the fall of my siblings much easier.
I also did the same for myself, but I was a bit too late, meaning I fractured both of my feet upon landing.
"My knees... are still intact. That's good," I let out a sigh of relief and grit my teeth through the pain of slowly backing up.
Searching for the presence of my siblings, a wave of panic quickly washed through me since a cloud of dust covered the entire cavern, which was supposedly the boss room.
But it didn't take even another few seconds since the dust cleared, and I found all three of them groaning from the beating that they received as they crashed to the ground.
But nobody was crying, screaming, or just gasping for air, so I knew they were pretty much all fine.
BOOOOM BOOOOM BOOOOM
"All of you stay towards the edge of the boss room and never try to help me!"
And just like that, the boss was here, and a drop of sweat ran down the back of my neck.
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