My second go at life // Orsted x oc (Mushoku Tensei)

Chapter 25

We followed them and found out they were really dumb. 'I'm deaf right now and even I can tell there's monsters above them.' I was staring at a giant spider somehow walking on branches. 'We need a giant slipper.'

The spider then jumped down in front of them and they all freaked out so I went to help. 'Not yet!' Rudeus yelled in his mind.

"Huh?!" I stopped and turned to him. "Death!"

Ruijerd seemed to be telling him about the same concerns I have just way better than me. 'Things aren't desperate yet!' Rudeus explained.

"Bul-Snake!" I heard the snake was coming the way the nice people were walking. They didn't have an escape route since the spider was behind them so I ran towards them.

'Ceres, we really should make them as grateful as we can! That will do more to do-' Rudeus started to explain and I couldn't even understand him anymore.

"ARE YOU PAUL?!" I yelled at him over my shoulder, and he froze. "Worse!"

I wasn't able to make it in time and the bird guy got sliced right in the stomach by the snake and then went flying into the tree next to me breaking his body even more.

I heard the shattering sound of his bones even the littlest of cracks. Blood rained down on me as his body slammed onto the floor next to me with no movement making me freeze and then fall onto my butt.

I got picked up and saw it was Ruijerd.

I focused again since more people could die including my friends, so I used my wind magic to get out of Ruijerd's hold and launch myself into the air.

I saw the two last two nice people and sent them back Rudeus's way, so he could protect them and the spider looked up at me.

When I noticed I shivered a little, but Ruijerd stabbed it through pinning it to a tree.

It got free easily and Eris was running through trees making it chase her, so she was keeping it busy.

I launched some wind magic at the floor below her making her fly up.

"Woah! Ceres so cool!" Eris yelled as she was right above the snake. "Watch this!"

She went down much quicker than I have ever seen her go and the snake was sliced in two leaving me in awe.

"Lansing!" I started to panic, but Ruijerd carefully caught me. "Safe!"

He let me down when I patted his arm frantically. "Rude." I went over to him and took his hand in mine since I could see he was really regretting his choice.

"Why did you stop me?" Ruijerd spoke up. "I could have saved him."

Eris went to speak up, but I motioned her not to as I made more wind magic in case Ruijerd tried to grab Rudeus. "I thought it would work out better for us," Rudeus admitted.

Ruijerd started to come closer, and I put my hand up as a warning. "There, talk!" I exclaimed, and he didn't stop walking.

I was afraid to even use my power intentionally to hurt him, but he reached out for Rudeus. "AWAY!" I yelled as I sent him back with my wind magic.

He landed far back from us and I was on the edge of tears. "Rude, talk! Someone died because of this! Because of us!" I screamed.

"Rudeus was the one who let the child die! Not you, Ceres!" Ruijerd retorted. "You killed a child! Rudeus!"

"I'm thinking as hard as I can, so..." Rudeus tried to find an excuse.

"Hey! Don't fight each other!" Kurt yelled. "It's our fault that our buddy died."