Leon Greyrat: The Second Son - Mushoku Tensei OC

Chapter 36 - Doldia Village

— Leon Greyrat —

It had been a week since the rescue operation, and after one day of travel, I had spent the rest of the time relaxing and playing with some children of the Doldia village.

I mean, since we would be spending the next few months here, I might as well make some connections, right?

And a few of the girls seemed nice and the perfect friends for Eris, Norn, and Aisha.

But it had already been seven days... I was getting a bit worried that something had gone wrong with Ruijerd and the rest.

Maybe the ship had already left?

Or maybe they got caught up with the smugglers?

I didn't know, but I was anxious that Eris was left watching Aisha and Norn by herself for all this time.

I could trust her, of course, but it didn't mean I wanted to leave everything to her for so long.

And so, deciding that enough was enough, I made the decision that after a good night's rest, I would head back to Zant Port first thing in the morning to see what was happening, and if need be, offer my assistance.

But rather than being welcomed by the singing of birds or a hesitant knock by one of the kids, I was instead woken by the sounds of screaming and an instinctual churning in my stomach.

Something... something was wrong.

Haa... I knew that something would happen.

Just my fucking luck.

Shooting out of my bed, I quickly grabbed my sword before heading out the door of the residence I had been gifted by Gyes, only to see the nighttime scenery lit up by flames.

A... forest fire?

The rainy season was just about to come when the land and forest would be drenched with water, which meant that right now, the forest was extremely wet, so something like this should be extremely rare.

Unless, of course, it was... not natural.

"Fire!"

"Evacuate the houses!"

"Ansha!? Ansha! Where are you!?"

Beastfolk ran around panicked as armoured humans chased some, trying to grab any women and children they could and cutting down any that provided any resistance.

So it was an attack... that explained the fire.

The sounds of confusion, carnage, and fear entered my ears, quickly snapping me out of my thoughts.

Right. That didn't matter right now.

There was a fire, and fire was bad, so the obvious thing to do was put it out.

Raising my hand into the air, I summoned rain clouds across the sky before having them converge above me, twisting and churning the atmosphere, I infused the clouds with mana and transformed said mana into water before letting it all fall.

As the rain began to pour down, I noticed a man, a kidnapper, tear a child from a woman's arms before unsheathing their sword, raising it to bring down on the woman's neck.

The fire... the death... the destruction... it all reminded me of that familiar nightmare that stemmed from so long ago.

The night I lost Mom... the night I lost that sweet woman that first showed me love...

I wouldn't let that happen again, not as long as I could help it.

Extending my other arm, I generated a stone bullet before releasing it, accompanied by a blast of wind to propel it toward the kidnapper.