I Became the Burden of a Conscienceless Party

59 – XX Tina (4)

XX Tina (4)

“Magic from behind! Get out!”

“Gyaaah!”

I reacted at the same time as Esmeralda spoke, but magic brushed my cheek.

I couldn’t even imagine avoiding it.

No, how can you avoid it when you’re running with all your might like this?

“No, what is a grown man doing acting like a girl!”

“Huh!”

So is it okay for a grown girl to be so fat?

I ran, swallowing the nonsense that was popping up in my head.

Even if I wanted to talk in the first place, I couldn’t speak properly because I was out of breath.

What the hell is this?

Why are you revealing your partner’s most sensitive information in front of him?

Do you want to commit suicide?

Even a fool like me wouldn’t tell the warrior that I’m a demon. I mean, I have that much thought.

As I watched Esmeralda’s stupidity, I remembered why I had tried to escape from the warrior party.

No, it’s not like it’s new. Didn’t you want to throw away the warrior party just because of this blind sword?

“Jim, if you’re tired, should I give you a lift?”

When my mouth started to taste bitter and my vision started to get blurry.

Millia asked, sitting on the black tentacle that was moving next to me.

“it’s okay!”

Although I was out of breath and had difficulty speaking properly, I conveyed my thoughts more clearly than ever.

I hate being hit by tentacles like that even if I die.

More than that, it’s scary to see Milia riding on something like that.

But looking at the wrapped Irina, I could tell that it wasn’t a bad spell.

Yeah, it’s not bad magic.

As long as it doesn’t come only to me!

“Umm… … .”

As I was watching intently, I saw Irina coming to her senses while wrapped in tentacles.

Thank goodness, if her barrier is there, the back of our heads will be a little safer.

“oh…….”

But, when I saw Irina faint again after screaming out her last words, I realized that I was expecting too much.

If you think about it, it was obvious. If you had fainted because of the tentacles, how could you endure being wrapped in them?

Irina’s appearance, which had even started to bubble, seemed somewhat distant from that of a saint.

Damn, it felt good when I was passed out, but now the foam in my mouth is killing me.

It was when I was watching such a pitiful scene.

“Ah, I don’t feel well… … .”

For a moment, Tina tried to say something with a pale face.

Kwaaang!

The ceiling collapsed.

Since I was at the very back, I was able to discover it first.

In a feeling as if time had stopped, I turned my head towards where the largest piece of debris was falling.

“ah…….”

There was a warrior there.

Even in the most dangerous places, there are still the strongest people.

But is that really true?

She is almost like an injured person, having already endured several traps with her body.

There is a high probability that this is the reason why they decided to run away instead of fighting in the first place.

Because it wasn’t in perfect condition.

Because the wound has not yet completely healed.

Then whose fault is that wound? Well, if you really want to find out, it’s probably my own fault for forcing myself into the ruins.

However, most of those wounds were inflicted while protecting me.

A path she could have definitely escaped without a problem if she had been alone.

If you think that it was my fault that you got hurt, I can’t help but feel responsible.

In that case, even if it is discovered that I am a demon, it is right to save her here.

Of course, there is also the shallow ulterior motive of thinking that if he uses saving her life as an excuse, she will forgive him.

Well, the important thing here is that I rescue her in a cool way.

In a split second, I calculated everything in an instant and reached out my hand.

“oh.”

And because I was so focused on protecting the warrior, I didn’t notice the rock under my feet and tripped.

Esmeralda disappeared from sight in an instant. Instead, I felt her bright blonde hair tickling my face.

Yes.

“Huh?!”

“Huh?!”

Instead of saving the warrior, I attacked him from behind and knocked him down.

***

“Huh!”

Esmeralda opened her eyes with a painful groan.

I remember running away from the ＜Eye of Truth＞ scholars who were chasing me.

‘And just when I thought I had gained some distance while avoiding the traps according to Tina’s intuition… … .’

It looks like the ceiling has collapsed.

Perhaps, as the distance widened, scholars became impatient and destroyed the relics from the ceiling.

‘You’re a scholar, but you’re radical.’

Now that you’ve already started, it’s too late to make excuses.

It was a moment where I had to capture the warrior party no matter what I did.

Yeah, so I did whatever.

It is clear that they used a drastic measure of completely destroying the ruins.

‘By the way, am I the only one who came to my senses…?’

Esmeralda first pushed herself up by pushing away the debris of the building that was crushing her.

Chul-chul.

However, the sound of what was thought to be debris hitting the ground was hard to believe to be a pile of rocks.

Esmeralda, who had been frowning and enduring the pain, was finally able to figure out what was weighing her down.

“load……?”

Esmeralda’s eyes widened in shock.

Did he pounce on me while I was down? No, that couldn’t be happening.

Esmeralda could immediately guess that Jim had thrown himself to save her.

‘No, that’s ridiculous. No, why? Did they just overlap by chance?’

Esmeralda denied it at first.

I don’t think Jim has ever been caught up in something. If he has been caught up in something like this, then it’s already a ghost story beyond s*xual desire.

But there was absolutely no reason for Jim to sacrifice himself for himself.

That’s because Esmeralda is several times stronger than Jim.

The physical abilities of Esmeralda, who is in charge of the vanguard and uses her body to attack, and the cowardly Jim, who uses magic to fire long-range bombardments from the rear, are on a different level.

Jim probably knows that too.

“Surely… … you’re not worried about me getting hurt or anything, are you?”

So you’re saying you risked your life to protect it?

Esmeralda desperately wanted to insist that it was just a coincidence, but the thought that Jim had saved her kept coming to her mind.

In fact, Esmeralda’s prediction was more than half correct. The only important part was wrong. That was that Jim had risked his life to protect her. To be honest, Jim had no intention of risking his life.

I just tried to get her to leave the party by using magic to get rid of her and confessing that I was a demon.

There was such a terrible plot, but Esmeralda was unaware of it.

“Hey, Jim? Are you okay? If you’re okay, could you tell me something?”

Esmeralda decided to check her luggage first, no matter what.

Although there were other colleagues lying down around him, he couldn’t help but pick up the fallen luggage first as if he was protecting himself.

“I’m breathing… … . Oh, didn’t you just say something?”

“… … .”

“hmm…….”

Esmeralda put her ear close to Jim’s voice, trying to hear what he was saying as he seemed to be mumbling something.

As Jim’s face got closer, I could still hear his voice.

Esmeralda felt embarrassed by the close distance, but she strained her ears to hear what Jim was saying as he died.

“Please let me retire… … .”

“Oh, that’s okay. Let’s continue to work hard together, Mr. Jim.”

A voice full of earnestness.

But it wasn’t very important, so Esmeralda closed Jim’s eyes and refused.

He’s not dead. He just seemed to be sleeping with his eyes open, so I closed them.

“Well, Jim, you should know that you’re lucky to have met a party leader like me. Where in the world can you find a party leader who thinks of his party members this much? Haha.”

Esmeralda opened the backpack Jim was carrying and took out a potion.

A considerable amount of potions have already been used to treat her. Potions are expensive, so they should usually be kept as emergency supplies, but if you think about using them for the person who saved you, it’s not a waste.

Anyway, Jim couldn’t receive Irina’s treatment, so he couldn’t save it.

“Well, Mr. Jim is finished… … .”

As soon as Esmeralda finished giving Jim first aid, she headed towards Irina without looking back.

If we can just bring her back to her senses, it should be possible to heal the rest with divine magic.

“Irina, wake up.”

“Ugh… … Hey, warrior. Don’t shake me like that. I feel like I’m going to throw up… … .”

“Treat him and vomit. If he passes out, Millia will carry him.”

“I woke up. I woke up!”

Irina stood up firmly on the ground with a pale complexion, perhaps remembering the transport of Milia.

The sight seemed to resemble that of a warrior who had come from behind.

“Whew, who should I treat first?”

“Isn’t that a problem Irina has to decide from now on?”

“If you were okay, I should have checked before waking you up.”

“What would I know?”

“Oh my, it’s useless to just feel good about your body… … .”

Esmeralda shrugged and dragged her colleagues who were strewn about. She too was badly injured, but her shock was lessened by her luggage.

The reason I didn’t reveal that fact to Irina was because I thought it would be annoying if it became known.

‘Nothing untoward happened.’

Esmeralda made an excuse that wasn’t an excuse at all.