The Immortal Has a Guardian Spirit - Denpi

Chapter 19: Stalker Collector (5)

It seemed as if the whole world held its breath, and the silence continued for a long time.

"...Ah."

Hah, Raven let out a short sigh and lifted his hands to cover his face. He felt his eyelids tremble.

... He must have been quite surprised as it was his first time seeing a fire in 10 years. His eyes, which had lost their function, felt sore all over again. His whole body was complaining of pain.

"If you do this well, I will set you and your parents free."

"It's not difficult. All you have to do is install the portal."

The sound of the day the association crossed the line gnaws at his brain.

"You can do it, right?"

Memories began to flood beyond the gaping mental barrier.

The day a foolish child who grew up cut off from the outside world and knew nothing entered the world for the first time on a mission, an explosion occurred upon the completion of the mission. A terrible heat swept through his whole body. A part of his eyes and soul that was stolen from him. And even tinnitus that shakes his brain.

Bleep-

... It must look funny. It wasn't an explosion, it was just a fire, but what an absurd thing this was. Raven, realizing his condition, lowered his head and laughed. His hands were shaking.

"──Captain!"

It seems that the tinnitus was real. He thought he could faintly hear someone's voice through the tinnitus, but as if it was not an auditory hallucination, it got louder and louder, and then I felt a hand grabbing my shoulder.

"Are you okay?"

The boundary between reality and the past, the consciousness that had been wandering in a disconnected world, was finally lifted into complete reality. Raven blinked his eyes blankly for a moment as the startled mercenary grabbed his shoulder and shook him.

"I tried to keep quiet, but I felt like your reaction was unusual... "

"...I'm dizzy. Hands off."

"Oh, yes."

The mercenary quickly withdrew his hand and widened the distance appropriately. Only then did the shaking of the green eyes subside. The tremor in his hands also disappeared, and Raven, who checked that my condition had returned to normal, began to giggle belatedly.

A sharp sneer lay low on the floor, as if clawing itself.

"Idiot."

"..."

It's not common for someone to die alone in the middle of a monster's den, losing their eyes and soul, and suffering burns all over their body, so it's worth remembering, but that's still the case.

'This was before I even gained immortality.'

No matter how much time has passed since then, he still reacts like this. his embarrassment is at its peak and all I can do is laugh.

[Guardian spirit ??? gives a miserable look.]

... Especially because of this reaction from the guardian spirit.

'Don't look at me like that.'

He was able to meet him thanks to that, but what if he actually felt miserable?

This was just because it had been a long time since he had let his guard down and faced the fire. The last thing he saw before he lost my eyes was a scarlet color with intense heat. And that's just it.