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

Chapter 48

I used my wind magic to fly in the air and eventually, I heard Rudeus's voice in my mind. 'Ceres they said they lost Sara in Trier Forest, to the west. The blizzard had blinded them and there was a herd of snow buffalo that attacked.'

'Not gonna question me?' I asked. 'Or scold me?'

'No, I can't just stop you that would be cruel of me.' Rudeus explained. 'And...I can't judge you. You do this because you care for people, you want to help even if there's a small chance they are alive. You know the pain of dying when people could have helped if they just reached out a hand.'

'You did that for me.' I reminded him. 'Well with your entire body.'

I giggled as he let out an oh in his mind. 'Honestly, I don't know if I'm doing this to make myself feel better or because you are out here. Well, finding Sara is my way, I guess.' He thought.

'There's a bunch of snow buffalo around the area you are entering. Make a middle finger with the earth. It's the easiest way to take them out for you.' I responded. 'Earth style! Do the ninja signs!'

'...Can she see me?' I could feel Rudeus move around with my wind magic while I was further in the forest checking around for any kind of life, but I was finding just buffalos so I would blast them into the sky. 'A FLYING BUFFALO?!'

'That's me! And you did the signs wrong!' I pouted.

'...Your power is getting kind of scary recently.' Rudeus admitted. 'Good kind!'

"Ah..." I let out as I found Mimir. "He's dead."

I felt some tears fall down my face, but I felt bad that I really wasn't that upset about this. I guess I expected this at some point since I have seen parties lessen a good number of times.

'Mimir is dead.' I informed Rudeus in my mind. '...Will you cry if Sara is dead? I can look for her body alone.'

'Don't! I don't even care if she's alive or dead.' Rudeus responded surprising me that he felt similar to me, but I was the more emotional one. 'Right now, I want to accomplish something. Or maybe I just want to choose not to turn my back on someone, since Eris turned her back on me.'

'...She went to train.' I hummed.

'This isn't a time skip.' Rudeus retorted as I used earth magic to open up the ground then I used my wind magic to move Mimir's body in it. I burned it in case he turned into a monster.

'But what if we do find her dead?' Rudeus asked me.

'You might be disappointed, you might cry.' I responded. 'I don't really know either. Death is really confusing it hurts, but can also be a good thing...I feel awful thinking that.'

"Says the girl making a man a grave." Rudeus laughed as he patted my head since he caught up to me.

He was in awe of the stone I made for the head of the grave. I had made a statue of Mimir that wasn't too bad since I had made one of them all before for practice with my earth magic.

Rudeus patted my head roughly and prayed for him then he noticed Sara's earring, so she might be one of the skeletons here. I didn't see any of her clothes, so I still searched for her as Rudeus burned the rest of the skeletons.