Before F.R.O.N.D.E.R

A Strange Encounter (Part2)

"Reimi, Reimi Frieden!" - I also introduced my name to Sir Rigen

That man after hearing my name, he kept repeating it, he had no response about my surname at all. My family clan was very well known in this place for its Knight tradition.

It was even very famous for foreign kingdoms on this continent, this man surely didn't come from this place.

I also repeated Sir Rigen's name to make sure that I would remember it, then I looked outside, seeing my dead comrades.

I wanted to bury them but how could I do that while guarding for Her Highness? I looked at Sir Rigen, holding his hands and begged him.

Sir Rigen didn't understand a word of what I said, but he could see my thought by looking at my eyes.

Then Sir Rigen said words like to accept digging the graves for my people, he said a strange word at the end of his line "Okay".

"Okay?" - I also repeated that word with curious

Then Sir Rigen took out a shovel he brought from his bag and went down the carriage, digging graves for my people.

While waiting for Sir Rigen, I searched for food inside the carriage. I managed to find a lot of them, I had eaten some to make sure I would be full while checking at Her Highness.

An hour passed, I looked outside again and saw Sir Rigen, who was now maybe exhausted after digging the graves, maybe he had done digging.

I looked back to check on Her Highness and noticed that she had opened her eyes slowly. Her Highness was now looking at me, I felt so happy.

Rigen's perspective

After hearing what Reimi said inside the carriage, I immediately got in to check up on her and her friend.

Uh oh! The blond-haired girl who had woken up was now cautious about me, she held a short wooden stick, pointing at me as if to defend herself.

"M Highnes! Thi ma wa ou savio, I kno tha yo ar ver confuse righ no bu pleas cal dow, I wil explai fo yo late!"

(My Highness! This man was our savior, I know that you are very confused right now but please calm down, I will explain to you later) - Reimi trying to explain to her friend

After hearing what Reimi said, that blond-haired girl calmed down, she looked at me and said some words, as if to thank me.

I also introduced my name to her after that.

"Shera, Shera Sonne!" - Shera introduced to me her name

I repeated Shera's name, she also did the same with my name with curiosity on her face just like Reimi, and then Reimi explained to Shera something.

Shers later opened her eyes wide and seemed to be understood something from what Reimi said to her, but the strange thing after that was Shera staring at me.

She looked around my face very close then immediately kept her face out of me with a bit red on her face. A few seconds later, Shera had signaled for Reimi as if she was thirsty.

Then I took out a bottle of water from my bag and handed it over to Shera, Shera and Reimi were now focusing on the bottle.

They examined it, impressed at the details on the bottle, impressed at how well it was made.

I used hand language, tried to guide the girls on how to open the lid, after looking at my performance they did like what I told them.

After opening the lid, Shera drank the whole bottle, seemed like she was very thirsty.

After drinking the water, Shera and Reimi look outside, then they went out to see their people's corpses.

I also went with them and they walked closer to their people, they kneeled on the ground, joining their hands to mourn for the people who died.

Then Shera sat on the ground, crying, watching me and Reimi placing their people's corpses in their graves.

The sky was very dark now, it took us about 30 minutes to place the corpses in their graves and mourn the death.

I must move on now, maybe I couldn't go back to my place anymore, maybe I had been sent to the past or another place.

I must live here, if I couldn't return, then I would live here for the rest of my life.

Shera, who was now done crying, said words like to thank me again or something like that.

Then she took a sword from one of her dead soldiers and gave it to me. I also thanked her, though we cannot understand each other because of language distance.

"John! In the earlier fight, you wasted 5 bullets, but you were a sharpshooter so the shots killed the attackers immediately."

"You only have 235 bullets left, use them wisely, try to used to using the melee weapons or you will die when your rifle runs out of ammo!" - SA suddenly warned me

"All right! I know!" - I replied to SA by using my brainwave

I had received the sword from what Shera gave to me, maybe someday when I had learned their language I would ask Reimi or Shera to teach me to use a sword. I need to learn their language to live in this place.

I also need to reduce using my rifle, that would be my trump card when I got into hard time situations.

The sky was already dark, and I was about to sleep, the girls felt a bit guilty when they asked me to sleep outside while they sleep inside the carriage, but I accepted that.

The ground outside was not cold, I lay on the ground in a place where I felt warm and slept. I cannot stop thinking about my fate when I had to live in this place.

I struggled a little bit while trying to sleep, but finally, I managed to sleep well, I would consider my plan tomorrow.