Kidnapped to Another World

KTAW Chapter 13, revised

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Chapter 13

Because of the presence of the orc fort by us. It was clear we had to get out fast. Before they figured out which way we went. Even then I worried they'd catch up with us.

We were now trying to get everyone moving by having escaped out the back door of the ruins of our former school. It was beyond repair, and actually now seeing it from the outside it was amazing so many people had lived through however we were brought to this world. It looked like a building that had gone through World War II bomb runs in Germany, almost because of the earthquake stuff and also orc damage together.

It was also the ideal time to go before the orcs came back.

I wondered if the travel between worlds was part of why the building had eroded so much. Some of the damage didn't appear to be from the orcs and they didn't have siege weapons. So it's clear the energy of being summoned was partly part of the damage.

We'd been moving for some time and at first no one was talking but I couldn't ignore how upset everyone was. In addition to the grief, and anger, there was a lot of desire for revenge. We'd finally worked our way down the stairs, and barely gotten out the back with a long line of tired and gore covered students in ruined clothes.

We had everyone stay quiet and not talk. If they heard us... it'd be all over.

But there were signs some of the orcs were watching us with scouts and so we kept everyone armed and tried to keep even numbers throughout the line of people with the weapons or with the people with weapons at different hall check points as we worked down to the ground floor. People also were really scared and a lot of the halls were still dark so it took a long time.

It was confirmed we weren't alone still when we heard steps in some of the darker halls that had no light in them as strange heavier footsteps ran away from our retreating party. That made the others really nervous, since it was believed there were no other survivors left in the school and the orcs had pulled a lot of the bodies out already on the first floor at least.

Nobody from the 1st floor had come back to the second floor and the third where we were at before coming down. So it was clear they were dead and carried off.

"You think we have time to salvage the kitchen area? We could bring any supplies there," Akimoto suggested.

"I don't think we have time, before the orcs come back. They will come back. Its either go or lose more people," Asakura Sensei said.

"Besides even if we did have time to screw around I'd rather find a place to get the gore off all our clothes," Yumi said dourly. She was right. Everyone was covered in guts and blood, both their own and that of their friends, and that of the orcs.

And because we'd been pulled to some other new world, none of the plumbing worked in the school because there was nothing to feed water up through the pipes from underneath.

"I ...agree...though I know a lot of people will be mad later when we don't know where food is going to come from," I said.

"Yeah that's true," Akira agreed.