Glimmering of Sword and Shield (Rising of the shield hero X Sword art online)

CHAPTER 13 : UNEXPECTED VISITORS

A days have passed after the wave of calamity occurring around the continent of Alddbell, the damage caused by the undeads and monsters that appearing out of the sky while the wave of calamity have made a quite an enormous impact on the civilians. Bunch of injured civilians or even a traumatic children have slowly been recovered thanks to the help of Kirito's party aided by Raphtalia and Naofumi, with the healing skill of Naofumi and his medicine, the victims of the wave have finally decreasing. But where there was a war, there's always a great number of casualty of war, such as separating the children from their parents, sacrificing his own life to protect his wife and child, or even the worse of all, one family getting slaughtered as they try to protect one another.

Naofumi couldn't bear such as this view, he feels sick as he walk around the village seeing one family after another crying over the lost of their loved ones, he even stood in silence as he watch a little girl crying over her dead parents over the tombstone.

" Naofumi-sama " Raphtalia call out to her companion as she interupt her friend's thought watching over the crying kid.

Naofumi turn his gaze towards Raphtalia as she approaching him " Hm? oh Raphtalia " his gaze turn again into the crying girl as Raphtalia idly stand beside him

Witness what Naofumi see, Raphtalia couldn't bear her pity sorry to the girl who just lost her parents, she put on a concerned face as she try to get Naofumi's attention

Raphtalia : " Naofumi-sama, the kids just like me have been decreased isn't it? " 

Naofumi could only nod in agreement " Hm ", without saying anything  Naofumi approaching the crying girl followed by Raphtalia, as they arrived at the girl's position, Raphtalia straightly kneeled down and hug the little kid to comfort her, as Raphtalia hugged the little girl, she began to cry with the force of a person vomiting on all fours

" Its okay, no need to hold back, onee-chan is here, let it all out " Raphtalia is gently stroking the little girl's hair

Naofumi witness the situation as he clinch hard his hand with a determined look on his face, seems like he found another resolve to fight the catastrophe .

While Naofumi and Raphtalia touring the entire village, Kirito and the other try their best to get the downed civilian to the camp they set up for refugees, Asuna is tasked as a healer of the injured civilian while the rest of the girls are either helping Asuna or getting Naofumi's medicine.

Of course with the help of healing spell everything went smoothly, but a greater spell requires more mana, and mana are limitless by one per person, Naofumi is also couldn't even brewing ten medicine over one time, his leaf shield maybe specialize in brewing the medicine, but there are a limit in stock of materials to brew one.

While Sinon, Silica, Lisbeth, and Yuuki are out of hunting for materials, they don't really know that there are some undeads  which not properly killed lurking inside the forest, they are not aware of anything because they think the place is already secured, so they decreased they alertness around.

" So  we gotta find this kind of leaf around here huh? " Lisbeth says as she staring at the medic leaf on her grasped  

" Yup, Naofumi-san request us to search for this leaf so that he can make much more of the medicine " Yuuki says as she walk calmly beside Lisbeth

Sinon start scanning for anything that could match the description of the leaf " And he says it should be around here somewhere " 

Silica's eyes caught something impressive which make her dash quickly into the depth while leaving her party behind.

Seeing Silica acted like that, Lisbeth reflexes chasing her " Silica?! Wait ! Hey SIlica?! " 

Yuuki and sinon follow Lisbeth chasing Silica onto the depth of the forest " Hoi you two, Wait for me " Yuuki says as she dash charging into Lisbeth