What the
With a smirk she raises her hand showing her sign of support in his struggle
She continued
Only for the silence to be disturbed with an unexpected answer
"I'm sorry but I think.... I gotta say I need space right now, and with this abruptness I might make the most reckless actions, so for now please give me time to think" Lute said calmly while bowing to the witch
She then suddenly smiled and spoke
"Hmm, I guess so with your condition it's just rare for a random person like you to be so light headed, but.... 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬, 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘸𝘢𝘺" She said leaving the last part of her words very hard to hear
"So I'll give you a day to think then" She said before fading
After her disappearance the compose and calm facade was immediately destroyed and was replaced with a pale face
Although those dreams he had was like living another life, it was totally different from watching it as a viewer and experiencing it as the person
The sight of everyone's blank eyes, pale skin and lips and the smell of burnt skin was traumatizing
He went near the corpse of his childhood friend, the sight of her sullied body, the sight of white liquid dripping from her private part, the sight of a face filled with pain
It was... horrifying
He had spent half of his life with her and just at this moment he understood her signs
She actually... liked him and the fact that he just realized it now was.... truly heart wrenching
But... regretting can never change anything, so let's just try to deal with the current situation at least he began to move the other possible corpses or at least retrievable body parts
He then dug each holes for a person or a single body part as it is simply undistinguishable especially after being burnt
He then placed his childhood friend Lydia the last before covering them with soil at least they will retain their last dignity being buried
He then prayed for them hoping that they can live a good life in their next life
Burying them might be good but it would obviously show someone survived as some random traveler won't obviously give much care about anyone unknown
But is there really a chance for him? If he were to not bury them then it would feel like he had failed them in their last step and anyways even if he were to choose to accept the witch or not, sooner or later he would just be hunted down
Now with him completely finished burying his remaining fellow acquaintance he began to sit down and rationalize
"Damn no matter how I think of it, her arrival doesn't seem to be coincidental and the fact I survive was almost impossible and the only way I could possibly survive from my head twisted could be her work" He said analyzing
'From my memories that could be an almost instakill, with me very relaxed in that situation, my spine was twisted and my brain stem at that time should have been severed but in no way I could survive, I do not know the difference between the human anatomy here or in that world but I am sure that most parts are the same' Lute thought
'She can revive anyone instantly, or my situation can still be salvaged at those moments or... she could also possibly turn an object back to a state in a past, although I'm confused about this memories but right now this really helps me a lot especially when analyzing possible situations and the easing nervousness'
'The fact that she had given me such proposition gave me a question, why me? With those guys reactions and words I can say at least 70% this isn't their first but the witch gave such proposition? What can possibly make me special? My fanatism towards those Reincarnators? doubt that I'm the only one who faced such cruel reality'
'Is it because I can have more motivation to kill them? I can be considered on the lower spectrum on that, they have destroyed many families and it isn't rare for a person like me to exist'
'Is it my memories? No with her reactions, although she probably have faked it but she said that I was just some random person which could possibly mean she doesn't really know anything eye catching about me'
'That only leaves one answer, with the mangas and novels my dream persona has read, the only conjecture I could reach is that...'
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'I'm this world's protagonist'