The Male Lead’s Sickly Aide is My Type - Chapter 88.2
Chapter 88.2
She felt remorseful, and although she felt sorry, she also felt her insides churning, thinking, ‘Did he really have to say it like that?’ If it had been any other time, she would have put everything else aside and tried to talk to him.
However, given the circumstances, Carinne decided to focus on closing the gap for now and deal with Archen later.
Still, it was a bit puzzling, seeing him watching over her.
“I can’t go?”
“Let’s talk later.”
She mumbled vaguely, and Iris seemed a little surprised. Her wide purple eyes seemed to be saying, ‘You and the aide weren’t like that, were you?’
“What happened?”
“I don’t think this is the time to talk about it. Let’s talk later.” Carinne waved her hand to cut off the conversation. Now was not the right time to pour out her worries.
The party reached the end of the town, and the gap was just around the corner. Carinne gestured for everyone to wait a moment and peeked around the corner.
Seeing her face, which was frozen stiff with her face sticking out, Duke Lucas turned back after checking the net twice. The area around the gap was truly a monster’s paradise. There was a black hole, presumably an interdimensional gap, at the point where the pillar of light descending from the sky met the ground, and monsters surrounded it.
She thought she didn’t see any monsters, but they were all gathered near the gap.
Archen, who had seen it, was slightly impressed.
“We need to get close to the gap to close it.”
“There are too many to deal with one by one. I wish we could disperse them like before.”
At Duke Lucas’ words, everyone looked at Iris. Iris tilted her head as if to ask why. So he explained kindly.
“Those birds from before, can’t you call them again?”
“Those guys are too far away to call again…”
Iris said with a sullen look.
It also meant that it would take a lot of time to call back that many friends. It seemed like a powerful skill that had a long cooldown.
Then, an idea came to mind.
“How about we lure them away?”
Carinne began to explain, facing people who looked bewildered as if they didn’t understand what she meant.
“First, we approach the monsters and make a fuss. Then the monsters will follow us, right? Then, each of us takes one alley and leads the monsters in. Then, when the time is right, we can just hand them over to those guys… No, these guys.”
The friends here referred to the dogs and cats that were circling around Iris’ feet.
Iris said that they were a great help in luring the monsters away. Then wouldn’t they be helpful this time as well? We could have left the monsters to the guys from the beginning, but there weren’t enough of them. Also, with their small bodies, it wouldn’t be easy to draw aggro.
She clapped her hands and said it was a good idea.
“I’ll give them a good talk!”
She didn’t know how the dogs and cats would understand human language, but… For now, we decided to trust Iris.
According to the plan, one person had to stay in town. It was to prepare for the case where the monsters didn’t follow. It didn’t take long to decide that Archen would be the one. He was the only mage in the party who could handle a large number of monsters at once.
“If you get tired or get caught by a monster, come back here.”
He said he would memorize a spell while waiting. It meant that he would take care of it if we failed to lure the monsters away and returned to town.
After finishing the arrangement, Carinne’s party, excluding Archen, turned the corner.
As they coughed a few times to make some noise, the monsters looked back. The monsters spewed out black smoke from their mouths and rushed forward with a fearsome group.
Carinne ran towards the alley she had marked with all her might. She could see Iris running in the opposite direction. Duke Lucas seemed to be trying to draw as many monsters as possible by circling the town once.
‘Anyway, go and live…’
Carinne entered the alley.
She didn’t know what Iris did, but one dog and two cats were waiting for her. Carinne hid behind a pre-placed barrel, and the monsters that followed her naturally chased after the running dogs and cats. The operation was a success.
As she came out of the alley, catching her breath, Iris came running from a distance and called out to Carinne.
“Something’s wrong! Aide, the aide is….”
“Archen?”
Iris looked very urgent. Something must have happened. Her heart felt like it was falling.
“Over there, Carinne, we have to hurry…!”
Iris was so pale that she couldn’t breathe properly.
Oh, in the end…
Carinne unconsciously bit the inside of her lip hard.
She could taste the faint taste of blood in her mouth, but she didn’t even notice the pain. The day of the witch trial came to mind. His figure, lying there with his head bowed as if he were dead, filled Carinne’s mind.
Did he collapse from using too much magic like that day? Or maybe he lost consciousness.
Please, she hoped his life wasn’t in danger.
Regret pierced her heart like an awl. She should have stopped him earlier. She should have clung to him, telling him not to use magic, regardless of his pride. What was that d*mn pride compared to a human life? She had never felt so pathetic in her life.
Hoping it wasn’t too late, Carinne ran with all her might.
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