Chapter 21: Disgust
Kaos left Stannou in despair, and Stannou behind him was already strewn with corpses, but all the knights, guards, and adventurers who stood in his way were slain by him, including some high-level mages, but they were completely vulnerable to the powerful black sword.
In one afternoon, Kaos killed a lot of people, many, many people, many innocent people, and even ...... And the people closest to me.
As if he had lost his soul, Kaos came to the place where Ellie and the others were hiding, in fact, it was just a clearing not far from Stanrow.
When they saw Kaos, all the children showed a happy expression, but when Lolo ran up to see Kaos's appearance, Lolo was stunned for a moment, followed by the other children behind him.
Because Kaos's appearance was a little scary, like a messenger from hell, the blood all over his body and the strong smell of blood made him give people a sense of fear from the depths of their hearts, especially their children who had not yet grown up couldn't help but be even more afraid.
Everyone was stunned for a moment, but Kaos was still walking aimlessly, step by step.
At this point, Ellie plucked up her courage and stepped forward and said, "Brother Kaos...... Are you alright......"
Kaos didn't answer, only to see him fall in front of Ellie all at once, and Ellie was frightened, she hurriedly ran to Kaos's side, shaking his body.
"Brother Kaos, Brother Kaos, are you okay!"
Seeing this, the others also came to Kaos's side, and everyone also showed a worried look.
"What's wrong with you, Brother Kaos. Ellie asked.
“......”
Sand ~~Sand ~~~
At this time, there was a rustling sound on the side, and the surrounding children were directly stunned.
Kaos, whose eyes were vacant, moved slightly, and he looked expressionlessly in the direction where the voice came from next to him.
"Did you get the smell of blood?"
Suddenly, a giant wolf more than two meters tall jumped out from behind the sand dunes next to it.
"Whoa, whoa!!!"
The wolf let out a howl at everyone gathered together, and Kaos slowly rose from the ground. The surrounding children were already panicked the moment the giant wolf appeared, and they hurried behind Kaos.
Kaos stretched out his trembling right hand to the wolf, but the wolf ignored Kaos and pounced directly on Kaos, but suddenly, a rock spike from the ground pierced the wolf's body, and the wolf that made Ellie and the others die like this.
Kaos squinted his eyes and smiled at the children behind him, a smile with a hint of weariness.
"Everyone is relieved that it is safe. ”
Kaos said in a hoarse voice, obviously trying to reassure everyone, but no one felt any reassured.
Kaos then said, "It's okay, I'll take it to Los Ca!"
The children glanced at each other, and then Lolo asked, "Which one...... Where's Sister Linas?"
"Linas...... She...... She's a bit of a problem and may not be able to join us anymore. ”
Kaos said as if nothing had happened, and then he dragged his tired body in the intended direction, never looking back at everyone in the process.
Looking at Kaos's back, everyone showed a hint of hesitation, until Kaos's back was getting farther and farther away, and Ellie said, "Follow along! ”
Only then did everyone follow Kaos.
......
Three days have passed, and this journey back to Los Ca has lost its original vitality for the first time, although Kaos is still the same as before, very gentle to everyone, and takes care of everyone very seriously, but there seems to be a trace of invisible indifference between them, and this feeling cannot be concealed no matter how much Kaos smiles.
This is true not only between Kaos and the children, but also between the children.
Because of the preparation in advance, there was no problem in terms of food and water, and along the way, Kaos also sensitively avoided all the demonic beasts countless times with his own perception, and his perception of magic was much stronger than before, which was the benefit of his promotion, but as a price......
He would rather not accept such benefits.
After a few more days, camping in a safe place, Kaos sat alone outside the tent to keep vigil for everyone.
The vigil was incomparably lonely, and that loneliness came with the moment Kaos disappeared from Linas, but for him, it might just be a re-identity of the same person.
At the fire, Kaos took out a broken sword from the bag next to him, this broken sword was the only relic left by Linas, and Kaos would take it out and put it next to him every night, because it would feel like Linas was beside him, at least Kaos felt that his inner loneliness would be much less.
"I'll keep the kids safe in Los Ca, and I'll protect what you guard. ”
Kaos couldn't help but think of the past few days, when Linas was with the child, and he stood by and watched them quietly, not participating in any of their activities.
Kaos is not good at dealing with outsiders, and instead, Linas will even play with them.
It seems that Linas has a better relationship with them than her own words.
Kaos couldn't help but think so, but it was really ironic to say it, it was obviously his own request that Linas came to rescue them, but in the end, Linas was more concerned than himself!
“......”
I don't know why, tears flowed down Kaos's face, and seeing the tears falling on the broken sword, Kaos couldn't help but clench his fists tightly.
"What if...... If I hadn't asked you to save them, maybe ...... Maybe you won't die......! Obviously, you wanted to refuse, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. ”
Kaos cried with self-blame, from the time Linas was arrested, Kaos had this thought, if it wasn't for his own nosy, maybe Linas wouldn't have died, at that time, it was clear that he only needed to bypass the knights led by Klin, and he didn't care about the life or death of these children, and Linas also clearly showed his unwillingness to meddle in this matter, but, if it wasn't for his own insistence, Linas was afraid that he would really bypass Klin's knights.
"Stupid, stupid!! Kaos, you're such a fool!" Kaos cursed to himself.
Suddenly, Kaos heard something behind him, and he suddenly turned his head to see nothing but the tent, but he could clearly feel what was going on in the tent.
Kaos immediately wiped away his tears, then frowned, and said in a deep voice, "Come out, Ellie, I heard your voice." ”
After a few seconds, I saw Ellie walk out with her head down and a look of loss.
"I ...... I just had some trouble sleeping and then ...... And then, I heard Brother Kaos, you ......"
Kaos felt a little bored in his heart, he turned his head to look at the fire in front of him, and said coldly with Ellie on his back, "Go back to sleep! ”
Ellie glanced up at Kaos's back, and then quietly returned to the tent.
......
"Get up, lazy bugs. ”
The next day, Kaos woke everyone up as usual, and in the midst of all kinds of dissatisfaction and complaints, everyone reluctantly got up, but Kaos, as usual, carefully assigned everyone's work.
"Ellie, you take everyone to wash up, remember not to use too much water. ”
"Luo Luo, you allocate today's breakfast, don't steal it, be careful if you are found out, I will beat you. ”
"And Roma, count the number of people. ”
"And ......"
......
Kaos is like an adult directing this group of children younger than himself to do these things, but in fact, the oldest of these children, Ellie and Lolo, are almost fourteen years old, two years younger than Kaos, but Kaos shows maturity is not a two-year gap.
"Very good, if we're done, let's go!"
Kaos spoke loudly among everyone, like the child king, and everyone obeyed Kaos's arrangement in an orderly manner.
The journey is tedious, even if half a month has passed, and everyone has not fully adapted to it, but there is still at least half a month to go until Los Ca, and every day during this time will be repeated like this without change.
Of course, this situation is still glad.
Dusk was approaching, and Kaos was getting ready to take everyone to rest, and after walking all day, everyone seemed tired, even Kaos, but they didn't complain, because it might be fate.
After finding a nice place, Kaos told Ellie and Loro to set up their tents.
"I'll trouble you two about setting up a tent, I'll rest for a while, and I'll call me for something. ”
Lolo smiled and said to Kaos, "Don't worry! ”
Kaos's rest of the day was such a short period of time, that is, from dusk until the night when everyone went to bed, and during this time, Ellie and Lolo organized everyone to set up a tent and eat dinner.
After arranging, Kaos took a mat from his backpack and laid it on the ground, where he lay down and fell asleep.
And looking at Kaos's figure, Ellie couldn't help but bow her head.
"Ellie, we're ready to eat, and we're going to have to work hard, because Brother Kaos has done enough. Lolo walked up to Ellie and gave her a piece of bread and a glass of milk, and it was their dinner.
Ellie slowly took the bread and nodded, and looking at Ellie's expression, Lolo felt that something was wrong.
"What's wrong with you?"
"No...... Not...... Nothing ......."
With that, Ellie took the bread and milk and left.