On the road 3

Three day's had passed since we helped out the old man and thing had gone surprisingly well. Aside from the occasional animal spotting our trip had been pretty uneventful. Of course I knew this luck would probably run out but I had my fingers crossed.

"Are we almost there yet" Sharla complained.

"No, for the thirteenth time we are not there yet" for the past two hours she had been asking that same question. At first I thought she would have gotten bored of asking but it seems she is quite persistent.

...

"Soooooo, what did you do before this"

"Me? Meh, I mostly just did whatever I could to survive. You know begging steel, I killed once or twice. Of course it was all just in self defense. Unless..." I paused thinking back to when I was still naive going day by day believing everything would be ok and that some great being would come along to help and the days spent with her[1].

"Unless.. what?" Hearing her voice brought me out of my trance.

"Oh, Nonono it's nothing just thinking about the old man that used to take care of me. He died a couple years back. He was a bit crazy, stingy and rough around the edges but he was ok... now let's hear something about you. What was it like in Extrilla?"

"Oh it was great, everybody was really nice there and I had lots of friends and we always played games..." as her rambling went on I noticed something was not right. The once peaceful forest where birds sung for all hours of the day seemed to have been put on halt.

"DING"

"Second trial: survive the wolf attack!!

Reward: 351 exp, organization skill"

I immediately jumped off the horse and got into a battle stance waiting for them to strike first.

"What's wrong?"

"Wolves" I say flatly.

"WHAT? How do you know?"

"You know that trial thing I told you about a while back."

"Yeah why?"

"Well I just got another one saying I have to ."

To my left I hear what I assume is Sharla getting off the horse before she says, "I'll help!"

"N-" before I could say anything a wolf jumps out of the bushes to my right. I quickly move as left as possible before running into the horse.

I manage to just barely manage to avoid the wolf, causing it to fly by me, tumbling to the ground.

"Sharla, get back on the horse now! I'll take care of it just get far away from here!"

"No! I won't! I'm staying right here!" Seeing as she won't listen no matter what I say I threw her my good dagger and take out the short sword and dagger I looted back in town.

"There if you want to help stay close to me. You have to do every thing I say when I say it."

"Ok!"

I quickly spot the wolf from earlier starting to get back up and immediately rush over to it, making sure to activate slash. In one clean move it's head was separated from its body.

In all directions a howl can be heard as two more wolfs jump at as.

"Duck!" I yell at Sharla as I put my dagger up hoping I can stab it in it heart.

As my dagger sinks deep into its heart I see the other wolf fly over Shar's head.

"Go now" I yell as I fling the wolf's body off of me. Following my instructions she races ver to the wolf and stabs it in the head.

Out of nowhere a bigger looking wolf leaps at me. I react as fast as possible having to sacrifice my arm in order to stop its advance.

Seeing my arm out it instantly laches on and starts tugging. Knowing this will be my only chance I duck into it and stab its gut shoving my short sword deep inside.

As it howls in pain my other hand is freed and I use the opportunity to stab it through the eye. It quickly succumbed to its wounds and falls limply to the ground.

...

After an hour of killing a seemingly endless amount of wolves I finally receive a message.

"DING"

"+351 exp you have completed your second trail!"

"DING"

"You have learned the organization skill!"

Leaving the messages and status aside for now I was quite surprised how well Shar had fought.

"Hey Shar anyone ever teach you to fight?"

"No why" she said as she gasped for air.

"Hmm~ well, your pretty good at it."

"Thank you for the compliment?"

"I think we should head out now" I say as I notice the sun going down.

...

After a couple minutes of walking we eventually find a good spot on the side of the road.

As soon as the tent was up Sharla jumped in and almost instantly fell asleep.

"Haaaa, seriously how can one person be so cute" I say as I climb in and wrap my f

arm's around her. In just minutes I myself fall into the sweet grasp of sleep.

...

When I finally wake up the sun is just barely peeking over the trees and a a fresh coat of water soaks the ground.

All around birds can be heard chirping back and forth. It was quite the beautiful scene if only the heavy smell of iron didn't hang in the air.

Within the tent the sound of Sharla waking can be heard as I take out a loaf of bread and some dried meat.

When I thought back to our fight yesterday I couldn't stop thinking about how lucky we were.

Note:

[1]: this is referring to her friend who will get a backstory probably in the coming chapters or at least soon.

Heyo guys today you may have noticed I updated my other chapters it wasn't anything big but there were some discrepancies. I fixed the hp and changed [skill points] to [status points]. Thanks to 'SinfulSnow' for pointing out the hp problem which also in turn allowed me to notice the other thing.

As always stay safe, satay heathy, thanks for reading, and have a good evening.