The Fresh Start In An RPG World 15 Chloe's Story - Nobility

Kay looked in another direction, paying attention if he could see that he was focused on a house, that had been completely destroyed, not even a wall was standing.

— I didn't want to talk before, but... — His voice was weak and failing, he was almost crying. — I had grown up in this village.

I received his words with a great shock. During work in the morning, Kay looked pretty down, but I thought we were all equally, after all, no one there was really okay with that scenario.

In our group we have a motto, "Nothing that happened before matters," we didn't talk at all about our past, at first the rule was created to hide Mary's ident.i.ty, but we realized that we all needed her.

Now he was facing the past that he tried so hard to leave behind, there, in the city where he had lived, which is now in ruins.

— I have few good memories here... — Now a few tears ran down his face. — But it was my city, you know?

He finishes speaking and wipes away his tears, no time our eyes crossed, he didn't seem to want an answer to his words. I know how you feel, sometimes just someone to listen to is enough.

— I'm sorry — I speak trying to find the right words. — I didn't know.

In the end I couldn't say anything too much, just words that seemed empty.

— I should be apologizing. — He looks at me and forces a little smile. — Nothing that happened before matters — right?

He wipes his face when a few more people approached him. His eyes were red, but he could still force a smile. Our motto was horrible, we can try to hide it anyway, but the truth is what matters. It will always matter.

— Shall we get back to work? — Kay talks by breaking the silence after a while and getting up.

Hold out your hand towards me.

— Come on — I answer by taking his hand.

A camp was set up near the entrance to the city, the location was chosen because it was the safest. On the other side was a forest with dangerous beasts.

Although I was exhausted, mentally and physically, I couldn't sleep that night. My head was working one hundred percent, Maria, Kay, the war, all this was driving her crazy. What was I supposed to do?

The hours pa.s.sed like minutes and in the blink of an eye the time had come.

When I left the tent, I saw that there were already some adventurers awake, those were the ones on guard for the night.

— Have you woken up? — One of them said when he saw me. — You still have time.

— I'm just going for a walk, it's a custom I have — I answered.

— A few minutes ago another girl left. — Another girl enters the conversation. — If I remember correctly you were together before. She told me she was just going for a walk, but it's taking a while.

Probably Mary.

— Thank you, I'll try to find her — I'm talking about going towards the forest.

Along the way I didn't meet any adventurers, they were all in places close to the camp, which helps a lot when someone wants to go out in hiding.

On the way I'm watching the city. This was the farthest part of the coast, so there is not much destruction here. Some houses were almost spotless, while others suffered magical attacks from far away. What kind of magic destroys an entire house?

Arriving in the forest I find Mary sitting under a tree, beside her was her backpack and her staff. She looks at me and smiles.

— You decided to stay. — She speaks by looking at me.

I'm out of equipment.

— I'm sorry — I answer without being able to look into her eyes.

I don't know if I'm doing the right thing. The truth is that one part of me wants to run away with it, but another part says otherwise.

— You don't have to worry. — Her voice was calm, but her eyes are filled with tears. — I understand...

Can't keep her tears up they start to flow down her face. I know very well how she feels, after all, we are together for a long time, she is much more important to me than a brother could be. I end up crying too.

— No... It's not that I don't want to go with you... — I end up sobbing because of the crying, but I can control myself. — Since then I've been a little weird too, it's like I feel a sense of duty. If I go with you now it'll feel like I'm trying to get away from it.

— I wanted to be just like you. — She says by bending her head.

I go to her and hug her.

— Your situation is different from mine. — I pa.s.s my hand on your head. — You need to keep your freedom so that we can meet in the future.

She looks at me with an expression of doubt.

— You thought what? That we would perish forever? — I look into your eyes. — You're a best friend and you always will be, of course I'll come after you later.

She had stopped crying, but when I hear my words I start again.

— I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make you cry-speak into despair.

— It's a cry of stupid joy. — She gives me an even stronger hug now. — Try to read the mood.

We stayed there for a while in silence, Mary is the first to speak.

— I'm going to the city of Tot.

Tot?

— This is on the other side of the Kingdom...

We'll be very far away,

— You said you'd come — he says pouting. — You can't run anymore.

After all that we were laughing, just like two idiots. I'm going to miss her very much, but like I said myself, we'll meet again.
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So we say goodbye. I kept looking at her until she completely disappeared from my sight. I feel a tightness in my chest when I see that this really happened, but I have to endure it, that is my decision.

When I got back to camp Kay and Joe were awake, it was time for the shift change.

— Good morning — I'll talk to you both.

— Good. — Joe talks focused on his coffee.

— Good morning. — Kay looked a little better than yesterday.

We sit together with the group that we will be working on today.

Adventurers do not usually eat well in their missions, today was no different, we had hard bread and some meat that was hunted nearby.

— Where is Mary? — Joe asks after a while.

They didn't know that Mary was a n.o.blewoman, it will be a hard task to try to explain to them.

— I need to talk to you after lunch — I'm getting up.

I'm not ready for this yet.

— About what? — He seemed suspicious.

— Mary. — I'm getting away from them.

Even though they didn't know it, I find it hard that they didn't suspect anything. The rule of not talking about our past, her att.i.tude too perfect for a common plebeian, she stood out even though she didn't try to do anything too much. Was it an air of n.o.bility?

We all worked with all our might that morning, most of the bodies were burned yesterday. Just the memory of that smell is enough to make me look bad. At the time I had to go far away. Today they were burned a little further away from the city, although it is more laborious the smell would not get in our way.

— Will you work with rubble today? — Kay asks when he sees me.

— It's better than feeling that smell — I answer.

— I agree.

During the lunch break we all got together. We went to a place where no one could hear us.

— Mary... — I start talking, but I don't even know where to start. — She had to leave our party for a while.

I decided to talk for once.

— Why? — Joe seemed shocked by the news.

I spent the whole day trying to think of a convincing excuse. I can't tell them the truth, but I also don't know if I could fool them. "She said she'd been traveling for a while," that obviously wouldn't work, I still have something I thought of.

— She has some business with her family, it would be bad if she stayed here for a long time. — I end up talking too fast.

When I'm nervous I usually do that. At least I found a way, instead of lying let's omit the important parts.

— Is that something you can't tell us? — Kay asks.

— Something like, unfortunately I can't tell you the details, she asked me to keep it a secret — I answer.

Joe seemed to be upset about that news, but he didn't say anything, he just kept quiet while I answered a few more of Kay's questions, like, "Is she going to be okay?" or, "Are you sure she took everything she needed?". Between us he was the one who always remembered things we'd forgotten and Maria was the one who always forgot everything, so I understand her worries.

— Let's just get back to work. — Joe talks by turning around and starting to walk.

Kay and I were alone.

— What's wrong with him? — I speak by kicking a rock.

— You're a pretty slow reader when it comes to Joe, aren't you? — He talks while he laughs.

— What do you mean? — I ask.

He just starts walking too.

— In the end he's right, we have to get back to work.

— Wait a minute — I do. — Explain it to me!

Kay goes to work and I follow him. I wish I had talked to them more that day, but I couldn't have known what would happen next.

That night we suffered a night attack.