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I watched with bewildered eyes as the coachman immediately rode away on horseback.

I thought he was a kind old man!

“Aaron!”

I got up and looked for Aaron, who should be right in front of me.

“Rose?”

I urgently grabbed Aaron’s wrist as he answered and peered out the window.

‘Surely the Teheran Forest should be a monster-free zone?’

Not only were there cities surrounding the Teheran Forest, but this forest was also a place frequently visited by humans for logging and gathering.

So the territory governing the Teheran Forest often cleaned out monsters and other species.

‘But what is that!’

I, being unfamiliar with monsters or other species, shuddered at the sight before me.

I’ve seen goblins, magical beasts, and leviathans, but I’ve never seen anything like this before.

“Saaah-!”

They looked like skeletons surrounded by flickering dark blue flames, emitting strange smoke.

It was a monster I didn’t even know the name of.

‘Is it a skeleton?’

I was reminded of monsters often seen in fantasy movies, but this didn’t seem to be it.

Skeletons are usually unimpressive like small fry, but this one had a presence that anyone would recognize as a named monster.

The sound of its huge greatsword dragging on the ground was terrifying.

Moreover, it seemed to be about 2 meters tall, and behind it, other monsters that looked like subordinates were clattering around the carriage.

I hurriedly took my eyes off the window and pressed myself against the carriage wall, taking deep breaths.

I had thought until now that Calix was the protagonist and that’s why he attracted accidents, but it seems that wasn’t the case.

‘I was the problem!’

I held my head and looked at Aaron with a dumbfounded expression.

Aaron also seemed a bit flustered, as his usual bright expression that made him look like he lived for the day was gone, replaced by a serious face as he looked back at me.

‘What should we do?’

When I asked with just my lips, tensed up, he answered with a solemn expression.

‘I don’t know?’

As expected, life is something you have to pioneer yourself.

Damn it. He’s no help.

I covered both Aaron’s mouth and my own with my hands.

For now, all we could do was hope that the monster group would pass by.

But contrary to that hope, the sound of dozens of bones clattering came closer and closer to the carriage, and I finally let out the scream I had been holding back.

“Hu, aaack!”

Kwadeuddeuk! A sword emanating a fierce aura split the carriage in half as if cutting radishes.

My flesh trembled.

When I was with Calix, I was somewhat okay thinking that he was the male protagonist so things would work out somehow, but not now.

“Rose!”

At that moment, I grabbed his hand as he called my name and approached me, pulling him towards me.

“Saaaah-!!”

The monster’s huge sword plunged into the spot where Aaron’s leg had been, like Excalibur.

He could have been cut in half if we were a moment late.

“Run!”

We hurriedly ran out of the carriage. It was hard to run properly because our legs were shaking.

“What on earth is that!”

There was really no one here who could fight.

The only fortunate thing was that we at least had weapons.

The dagger Calix gave me, and the kitchen knife Aaron always carries around.

But would stabbing a skeleton with a knife even have any effect!

“Hmm, it looks like a Lich King?”

“What does that mean!”

His serious expression from earlier was gone, and now looking quite interested, he spoke while running busily.

“An undead magic swordsman. A remnant of the magical era.”

“Magical era?”

That’s content I saw in the Imperial Library.

But how does Aaron know about it?

“Saaah-!”

Pak! My attention was drawn to an arrow that suddenly fell at my feet.

And I looked back.

“Ga-ga-ga-gak-!”

Led by the largest skeleton, skeletons about the size of human males began to nock arrows on bony bows, rattling their heads.

‘We’re completely doomed, aren’t we?’

Is it really because of me? Is Morisias taking revenge because I mistreated the diary?

“It’s the price of borrowing the power of demons, extra-dimensional beings.”

Suddenly, Aaron picked up a stone from the ground and threw it at the head of the nearest skeleton that was drawing its bowstring.

Thud! The rattling skeleton’s head rolled and fell to the ground.

“What do you mean? Another dimension?”

In response to my question, Aaron grabbed another stone and threw it at the head of a following skeleton while saying:

“Humans of the magical era summoned demons, absolute beings from another dimension, to prevent the extinction of their race.”

Clatter-clatter, another skeleton head rolled on the ground, and Aaron grinned as he grabbed my hand and pulled me along.

I was bewildered.

What kind of situation is this?

Did they just die because he hit their skulls with stones?

“As a result, all the humans who summoned demons became undead.”

Aaron, seemingly excited, held my hand as we ran, then suddenly looked back. The Lich King, twisting its body grotesquely with a rattling sound, was running towards us.

“Hmm. Judging by its appearance, it looks like the prince of Degshil that perished in the magical era.”

“How do you know that?”

Aaron spoke calmly as if telling an old tale.

Even though my heart was pounding so hard I felt like I was going to die of shortness of breath.

“Because I’m the grandson of the Crimson Bookstore?”

I was dumbfounded. Does being an information broker mean you know all the information in the world? How on earth can he tell it’s a prince from the vanished magical era just by looking at its appearance?

And what’s with that expression?

Until just now, he was acting scared with a serious face, but now he’s grinning nonchalantly.

I always thought he was a bit crazy, but I never dreamed he was so out of his mind that he couldn’t even grasp the situation.

“What are you saying? Stop looking and run!”

That’s when it happened.

Suddenly my right hand felt empty, and I turned back to look at Aaron who was following.

“Rose, run away first. I’ll debone this one with my knife. Teiron made me pluck chickens for a year, so I’m really good at this.”

Aaron proudly said as he pulled out a boning knife mainly used for stripping bones from the knife bag he was wearing.

“What nonsense are you spewing! Are you not going to run right now?”

“Ah, I’ve even deboned a horse before! Remember the New Year’s banquet last year had horse meat stew.”

I couldn’t help but swear.

It made me even angrier knowing that he was spouting such nonsense out of concern for me.

I gritted my teeth and quickly grabbed the back of Aaron’s neck.

“Keureureup. Keuk!”

“Ah!”

But at that moment, one of the skeleton soldiers lunged at us, and while dodging, I ended up letting go of Aaron.

“Aaron!”

“Hurry and go, Rose. You almost got hurt because you’re dawdling.”

Suddenly, Aaron’s voice became calm.

Perhaps he learned assassination techniques as the grandson of an information broker?

Is it okay for me to just run away like this?

‘But I’m the one who brought Aaron here.’

Sensing my confusion, Aaron clicked his tongue briefly and pushed my shoulder.

“Oh my god!”

Because he pushed quite strongly, I was thrown far from him. Thanks to that, he waved cheerfully while surrounded alone by the skeletons.

“See you in the village! Roose~!”

He looked like a brave sugar cube that had entered an ant hill.

“Hey! Are you crazy?”

“Go quickly, Rose.”

For a moment, the light in Aaron’s eyes changed.

A strange sensation I felt before.

Does he definitely have some ability I don’t know about?

“Hmm. You’re still not going.”

Aaron said as he struck the shoulder bone of a skeleton that was rushing in like a swarm of bees with the handle of his kitchen knife.

With just one gesture from him, the skeletons that were frantically rushing in easily crumbled to the ground with a rattling sound.

“Aaron! Behind your head!”

Whether he heard my words or not, he ducked his head and picked up the fallen skeleton’s hand. Following that, a sword swept through the space where Aaron’s head had been.

“Go quickly, Rose.”

“Ack!”

Despite nearly having his neck cut off just now, Aaron threw the skeleton finger he had just picked up at me.

“Hey, you crazy bastard!”

“If you don’t run away, I’ll throw you a toe, Rose.”

In the end, I had to flee, leaving Aaron behind.

Because Aaron actually started picking up the skeleton’s toes one by one.

‘Really, that crazy bastard!’

I felt like crying my heart out.

The only fortunate thing was that Aaron, surrounded by skeletons, really looked completely unfazed.

“Ah, seriously, why are you doing this.”

I wanted to cry right away, but even though it was hard and sad, I held back, following the example of Candy who never cries.

And I ran in the direction the coachman had fled.

At this point, the most realistic solution was to go to the village and request support from the guards.

But, wait a minute.

Who was the current lord of Prongsis again……?

I vaguely remembered that after Rose’s parents died, it passed to a cousin or something.

But that place would be a territory on the verge of collapse, would there even be guards or knights?

Everything went dark before my eyes.

“Aaaaargh! Morisias or whatever, just die!”

I couldn’t run away like this.

I didn’t want to use it, but I had no choice.

I took out the diary from the bag I was carrying.

“If you don’t provide a useful answer right now, I’ll personally give you a half-body bath in Kamesis’s holy water.”

And I opened the diary.