Chapter 75: Starus: Horror
Kim was starting to feel like her old self. Mostly. Whatever had happened to her had left her feeling weak and more helpless than she could ever remember being in the past. She'd been able to build her strength back up, though she didn't really mind being waited on by Elin. In fact, she actually found she enjoyed it a little.
Although, she wondered if she should do that to Elin as well sometime. After all, Elin was the one who'd taken care of her, especially when it came to keeping clean. In addition to taking care of Heather and Sonya. Kim didn't complain about that, although she wouldn't deny that she felt a little jealous about it. Elin should focus her attention primarily on her, but at the same time, Elin was her own person and Kim would be fine if Elin wanted a dalliance with someone else from time to time, as long as she came back to her each time. Or at least while they were in the same world.
The tranquility she'd started to feel disappeared when she learned about the goblins being able to leave that dungeon. While she'd gotten her strength back, she didn't like the idea of those goblins out there. With what she knew they'd done to Heather and Sonya, she wasn't about to let anything remotely like that happen to Elin. Which meant that she was going to talk to Jonas about devising a defense to fight those goblins, a plan to enter the dungeon, and complete that challenge. Not only for the sake of having completed another challenge, but to make sure that those goblins wouldn't be able to get Elin to do whatever unholy things they would do to her.
If anything was going to happen to Elin like that in any manner, it was going to be after she was dead or after they were back on their own worlds where Kim wouldn't be able to reach her, let along know what was going on for her.
Regardless of what they did, Kim was confident that they were going to need to improve their stats, which meant increase their levels, upgrade their equipment, if possible, replace what needed to be replaced, like her armor, and learn what they could about the surrounding area.
She couldn't be sure if her suggestion to the others about leveling up would be taken to heart, but she knew what she needed to do herself. She just wished she had looked into this during the time when she was regaining her strength, rather than just laying around and being useless.
Though, she idly wondered what might be different if Heather and Sonya woke up. After all, she didn't really know all of what Sonya was capable of and with Heather, it would always be useful to have another healer. Especially if it came down to a pitched battle in the village.
Elmo was leading them up the stairs to the room where Heather and Sonya were resting, and while Kim tried to keep worries of Elmo wanting to try something with Heather and Sonya catatonic, like they seemed to be most of the time, out of her mind, she couldn't help but see images of Elmo doing things to them that disgusted her.
However, she merely focused on gripping her sword's hilt tighter and keeping her mouth shut. If she said anything about that, she was confident that it would affect Elin more than Elmo. Especially if she was just imagining things.