(Rem x Reader) Re:Reader - Starting YOUR New Life in Another World

Chapter 29: Beastslayer

A/N: Here's this week's chapters! A little earlier then normal since I'll be busy later. Again, shout out to ShuTDowN for catching the small errors on the last few chapters.

The sound of panic filled the forest. Crashing through brush, jumping on fallen logs, dodging tree trunks, and ducking under branches, YN and Subaru were running. Running for their lives.

During their fight with the mabeasts, YN and Subaru had fought together with Ram. While Ram was easily able to lay out beast after beast with her wind magic, YN and Subaru struggled to, but ultimately held their own. Only wounding some with his loaned sword, Subaru was assisted mainly by YN, who with a few casts of Jiwald, had slayed several.

However, after slaying many of the unending hoard...

Subaru: Gha! I thought you said you could fight!?

Being held under Subaru's arm, the pink haired older sister maid responded to his complaint.

Ram: Ram fought, didn't she? Only my strength hadn't lasted as long as I'd hoped.

Struggling to keep up with Subaru and Ram now, YN began to lag behind.

Using so much of my mana back there might not have been such a good idea. I barely have any strength left to carry myself forward.

Running through the forest, Subaru was close to ten or so paces ahead of YN and widening the gap. Looking to his side, a single mabeasts had begun a close pursuit of Subaru with the maid still under his arm. One mis-step, one obstacle, the beast would tear into them both.

Raising his arm, YN summoned the last shred of mana in himself, sent it to his palm, and fired off the last spell he could muster.

YN: Jiwald!

The light from his spell escaped from his open hand, scattering before him and enveloped his target. Letting out a final roar of pain, the mabeast was no more.

They're safe. For now.

YN's final clear thought rolled through his mind before he became very weak and fatigued. Trying his hardest to keep running, YN's legs eventually swayed too much mid-stride, making him lose his balance and begin to tumble.

Seeing a deep, but narrow natural trench in the ground ahead of him as he began to stumble, YN knew he would need to jump over it in one go to keep the pursuing mabeasts far enough away.

Approaching while still running, YN readied his footwork, preparing to bend his knees and shoot forward. Getting up to the edge, YN attempted to propel himself across, with all his might he pushed off.

But no jump came.

After his knees and other joints bent to propel himself forward, no launching motion came. YN did not have the energy or stamina, his body would not let him. Without being able to cross over the trench, YN's inertia nonetheless continued forward, landing him a one way trip, downward.

Trying to brace his own fall, YN held his hands out forward to catch himself, but when the ground came, the same lack of strength his legs experienced was also true for his arms trying to brace his fall.

With the sudden impact, YN rolled and tumbled into the trench. Sliding downward, YN grabbed for whatever he could. He felt his hand grab bark. A branch.

Trying to pull himself up, YN quickly realized this branch was not actually attached to anything, and instead the motion of trying to catch himself had worked against him, causing him to fall to the bottom of the trench, the branch he pulled covering him.

Now motionless at the bottom of the trench on his back, YN spit the dirt from his mouth. Realizing the situation still at hand, he had fully expected that a few mabeasts had followed him down into the trench.