Chapter 324: Farewell to Bella
324 – Farewell to Bella
Having asked a favour of Nell, I head back to the village. On the way, I run into Bella giving medical treatment to some Lithovar warriors. It seems she’s been going around with a team of Lithovars to collect the warriors who fell in battle and treat them with magic and medicine.
Seeing me, they raise cheers of joy and rush over. Bella gets them to calm down, then entrusts the medical treatment to the person next to her and hurries over to me. She speaks her usual chant and closes her eyes to prepare for [Telepathy].
『Dragon-god-sama! Just now, all the children came back! It’s all over now!』
She’s rather excited, considering she just remonstrated the other Lithovars for trying to get close to me. A faint smile is visible from her eyes-closed expression. Despite being so young, she’s had to bear the burden of contacting the dragon-god, reconciling the villages, preparing countermeasures for the enemies, commanding in the actual battles, and healing on the battlefield. It’s inevitable that she’d have a reaction appropriate for her age now that she feels relieved.
I watch her, finding her current state charming. It’s all over, finally. All the calamities that have befallen the Lithovars who live on the frontier are over. The manticore, the antagonism between the villages, the strange increase in abysses… and now, the war with that idiot noble’s private army. This ever-perilous forest should be a bit easier to live in now.
…It’s a shame I have to leave just when it’s become easier to live in. But I definitely don’t think it was pointless. There’s no way I could think that. With this, peace has finally returned to the Lithovars and this forest.
“…Dragon-god-sama?”
Unsure of what I was doing, Bella cracks open her eyes. Then, releasing she spoke out loud rather than with [Telepathy], she hurriedly closes her eyes again… I can understand normal speech though. But it would be a hassle to explain that now.