[Aliel] Chapter 20 – The Real Ami (Patreon)

Sorry for the late post, college was so busy that I had a rather rough time. Coupled with my broken PC 2 days ago, I can't upload The New Horizon on time.

Here is the update of the new chapter, please enjoy it~

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With a piercing sound, Aliel impaled her spear into the goblin’s head. Around her were bodies of goblins that she met after walking around the rocky area for about an hour.

She approached the body of the goblin that she pierced and looted it.

“With this, the mission is finished. Finally! I can go back to the town and take a nice bath.”

Aliel put the fangs in her inventory and held her spear over her left shoulder with her left hand. She looked around her surrounding while putting her palm above her eyes, covering the sunlight so she could see the area better.

She didn’t find any monsters or suspicious individuals around the area and finally decided to walk back to the town.

Aliel chooses to go through a forest in order to find some monster on her way back. It was her idea to get some exp while she went back to the town. If she could at least find one or two monsters, then it’s good. Even if she can’t find any monster, going through the forest would be better rather than going through the road.

If she walked back using the road that the merchant usually uses, there is a chance she will encounter a PK or in-game bandit. That situation would be good if she encountered a PK, but because no player besides Aliel reached level 10 yet, there would only be a bandit with no loot at all. Or at least that’s what Aliel experienced in other games.

‘This game is different, it’s better to be safe than sorry. There is a chance that I will encounter a high-level bandit if I walked on the road, so the forest would be a good choice for me.’

Although the forest was a lot safer than the road, Aliel remained vigilant and looked around at her surrounding a lot. She would jump and run immediately if she find something suspicious, or jump towards the monster in case she saw one.

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With the trees and bushes, Aliel had a bit of trouble walking on her way back. Her speed has decreased. It has been around 10 minutes since she entered the forest, but she only managed to walk around 300 meters.

Because of constant wariness, Aliel’s focus has decreased a lot and she tumbles her feet with a root and fell to mud. Her clothes were now stained with mud.

Aliel stood up and had an expression of disgust while looking at her clothes.

“This sucks!” grumbled Aliel.

She tried to cleanse some of the mud from her clothes and managed to clean most of it.

‘I need to learn water magic, this is suck! The blood, the mud, all of it has a smell and they are too realistic. Unlike the other game that fake the smell of blood into something sweet in order to get more players, Lisrem did the opposite. That crazy bastard really has a brain on his head, this sucks, but this is great.’

After cleansing the mud off her clothes, Aliel began to walk again, but this time she was aiming to reach the road.

Picking the forest way is Aliel’s mistake, she just thinks that it will be safer in the forest and meet some monster, but she didn’t meet any and the forest only slows her down.

When she was walking towards the road, she saw a glimpse of a shadow behind her. Aliel was put on guard immediately as she gripped her spear tighter.

She looked back at the last location where she saw the shadow and looked around the area near it. Aliel saw some bushes move, she extended her free right hand and send a Mana Arrow towards the bushes, causing the figure hiding behind the bush to yelp in surprise.

“Kya!”

Aliel raised her eyebrows as she heard the yelp. She recognized the voice that was coming from behind the bush.

Aliel slowly approached the bush and saw Ami crouched behind the bush while looking at the spot beside her that was hit by Aliel’s Mana Arrow.

Aliel looked at Ami suspiciously as Ami looked back at Aliel with an idiot smile on her face.

“E-ehehehe, you found me.” Said Ami while scratching the back of her head using her left hand.

Aliel frowned her face as she stabbed the tail of her spear to the ground, startling Ami who was trying to stand up.

“Um, why are you looking at me like that?” Asked Ami as she stepped back with her left leg.

Aliel looked at Ami with judging eyes, she saw that Ami’s clothes were still clean. There was no sign of fight and her sword’s scabbard didn’t have any dirt on the space between the tip and the sword.

Ami certainly didn’t fight any monster and only followed Aliel since they were separated. Aliel becomes wary of her and pointed her spears at Ami’s neck.

“Why did you follow me? Don’t try to lie to me.”

Ami stepped back again as Aliel pointed her spear at her and put both of her arms in front of her chest, waving at Aliel to show that she didn’t know what she was talking about.

“W-what are you talking about? I was just going back to the town, why did you say something like that?!”

Aliel still didn’t believe what Ami had said. There is a road path that was relatively safer than the forest. Why did Ami take danger by walking through the forest part? That was suspicious.

Not only that, Ami was hiding behind the bush and watching over Aliel when she could greet her without hiding. They knew each other and introduced themselves before the mission.

They did argue about something, but Ami should’ve greeted Aliel instead of hiding behind the bush. That’s why Aliel was wary about her. She understood that Ami was stalking her from her behavior alone, but she can’t just assume it without asking her.

“Really? Then why did you hide behind the bush? That’s suspicious. I bet you’re following me since we are separated. That’s a good job of you to be able to hide from me.” Asked Aliel as she stepped forward to keep Ami in check.

Aliel wouldn’t even let her guard down a second against Ami. Aliel saw Ami suddenly change her attitude.

Ami relaxed her arms and looked at Aliel with a rather twisted smile on her face. Droll spilled out a little from her mouth as she made a weird gesture with her hand.

“Ah~ I can’t do this anymore.” Said Ami as she looked at Aliel.

Aliel was now confused, why did Ami suddenly act like this? This is not the act that the usual PK or Bandit NPC took in the usual games.

They usually unsheathed their weapon or prepared their spell in case of Sorcerer, not acted like Ami who looked at Aliel with an expression befitting a pervert.

Aliel blinked her eyes several times until she finally realized that the girl in front of her- Ami -was the same as her. She’s a pervert…

Aliel slightly relaxed her grip on her spear as she pulled it back and made Ami surprised. She just smiled and said.

“So you wanted to get into my pants?”

With a happy face, Ami shouted. “Yes! I’ve been watching you since yesterday! The way you kill those goblins had made me wet!”

She squirmed and hugged her own body as she let out a ragged breath.

Aliel just sighed while holding her head. She thought that Ami was a bandit or killer that wanted to kill her, but it turns out that she’s just a pervert.

Aliel looked up to the sky and muttered. “Damn you, Lisrem.”