The moment I first sensed four presences gathered together in one place, urgency seized me.
It was because of the anxiety and worry that the weakest member of our party might have gotten hurt.
“You fucking bastard, seriously, you scared the shit out of me.”
“He’s already unconscious… Please stop hitting him.”
“This bastard started it.”
However, the moment the actual situation entered my sight, I threw every last one of those emotions straight into the trash.
Daniel was one thing, but worrying about Meister, who looked like they could survive perfectly well even if tossed into hell itself?
I had been an idiot.
“…I came because I thought something might have happened, but you’re perfectly fine.”
“Sir?”
“You’re here?”
“Is anyone hurt?”
Still, I should at least ask.
After posing the obligatory question, I approached the subdued people before even waiting for an answer.
The person Daniel had taken down looked more or less all right, but the one Meister had subdued barely looked human anymore.
“…Did you kill him?”
“You think I killed him?”
“No matter how I look at him, it seems like you did.”
“Fuck, I said I didn’t.”
Good grief. His face was going to be completely blue and purple tomorrow.
He was already skin and bones, and with bruises added on top of that, he somehow looked even more pitiful.
Feeling sorry for the unconscious man, I slung him over my shoulder.
Pity aside, if we left him here in this weather, he would obviously freeze to death, so there wasn’t much choice.
“Let us return to the meeting point for now.”
“Yes.”
Daniel likewise bound the person he had subdued with…