Not Sure, Another World Reincarnation

Chapter 126: I Want to Bury Myself if There's a Hole

I was currently secluding myself, becoming the highly acclaimed NEET.

Its impossible, you know! Definitely impossible! I was so scared that I couldnt walk outside! Yeah, this is not a joke.

Its been around a week since I got attacked by those mysterious thugs in the forest that day. A terrible thing almost happened to me Yeah, I wouldnt step out of this room after all of that. By the way, this was Lilys house.

Seriously, this was already light trauma. Normal people would start having androphobia. Just looking at the butler made me tremble. Whats with this chicken, you ask? No, its me!

What happened to my mental tolerance skill! Its fucking useless! I guess this matter had exceeded the permissible limit. So LV10 wasnt completely resistant to anything? Its seriously no use.

They saved me before those men could do anything to me, but experiencing a crisis of chastity had nothing to do with being men or women, okay? Shocking thing was still shocking. Ugh.

I knew my mind was too weak. I was so gloomy. I didnt want to breathe. Its hard to be alive

Norns fur was the only thing that comforted me. I had been sticking beside her the entire time. But only Bell accompanied me when I went to the toilet.

In the daytime, I was burying myself in Norns belly as she curled up near the edge of the room. I just stared at the ceiling. At night, I was so scared that I couldnt sleep. In the end, Lily accompanied me until I fell asleep. Thats why the dark circles under my eyes were deep. Recently, I forced myself to sleep using a sleep potion.

Ah Well, thats why I had been depressed, but I couldnt admit it. Anyway, lets talk about what happened after I was rescued.

Vector came a few days ago and told me about them hmm, where should I start?

For the time being, lets start from why Lily and Arisa came together with Vector. No, maybe earlier than that? Hmm.

Well, Ill start from why I got attacked.

To put it simply, it was because of our poor contact. The main problem was I didnt share information with Vector.

I originally had escorts as a reward for meeting the various conditions Vector presented at the blacksmithing request. But he didnt tell me about the escorts. Naturally, he didnt tell me any information about the total escorts and how they moved to protect me. For the time being, Master told me about it at the beginning of the year, but I still knew little about them.

So there were various misunderstandings starting there. I thought Vector reduced the number of escorts because my security had been ensured, but that wasnt the case.

Thanks to Masters efforts, the people who were sniffing about me had mostly disappeared. But there were a few groups left. By the way, they were friends of those who attacked me. The client was a weapon merchant with a bad reputation.

And the number of escorts was decreasing since they were involved in the investigation. Moreover, it was under Vectors command.

I misunderstood and thought that I was safe. And after going out, the execution team found an opportunity and tried to kidnap me When I heard all of that, I wanted to say that this was all Vectors fault. His debts increased now, huh!

By the way, it was a coincidence that Lily and Arisa came to rescue me with Vector. They didnt have any particular connection with him before.

And Gim, Triela, Cain, and the others actually came to rescue me too, but I lost my consciousness immediately after Lily rescued me. I didnt know that they got involved until I heard about it later.

And the story became complicated because of various coincidences

Hmm, lets start with Lily and Arisa first. After we broke up in the royal capital, they returned to Harula, eventually stopped working, and became a full-time adventurer. And after discussing this and that, they invited me to join their team.

In the spring of the New Year, when the snow melted, they returned to the royal capital with a carriage.

However, I just left the workshop when they arrived at the royal capital and searched for me. It was bad timing. But to surprise me, they decided to chase after me in the forest, which they thought should be my destination. And they met Gim and Triela on the way, who were talking about something.

Actually, Lily and Arisa were acquaintances with Gim. Gim was the one who taught them the spot to collect herbs. And they learned a lot of things from him when they were just starting out people sure were connected in unexpected times, huh.

I went off track, huh.

Seeing that the acquaintance they met after a long time seemed panicked, Lily and Arisa talked to him to know what happened. And when they listened to the story, they knew that a rookie adventurer who helped him before was being followed by bad guys. And after listening to the details, they found out that the rookie adventurer was me.

They were surprised that everyone, including Triela and the children, knew me, but they could sense that something bad was happening.

And as they discussed whether to follow me, Vector who ran at full speed appeared.

Vector told me that the last escort who I thought had left and disappeared shortly after I entered the forest actually rushed to call him.

The escort realized that he couldnt deal with all the people who were following me with him alone.

Now that they knew the situation from Vector, everyone ran around in the woods looking for me with all their might and made it in time.

Well, its something like that. But I heard it from someone else and didnt actually see and hear it, so I wasnt very sure.

By the way, the men who attacked me had been known to have bad behavior for a long time. They belonged to a criminal guild in the royal capital, regarded as a problematic group.

They had been involved in various crimes in the past, but no one could catch them because its hard to find their lead. But their activities had become more and more recently, causing them to make a slight mistake. They tried to do a stupid thing with me when they were kidnapping me instead of moving quickly. That means they got ahead of themselves because of their pride.

I also heard that they were shrewd poison users, but lets omit that.

Anyway, they were also involved in using multiple poisons to make Norn and I incapacitated without noticing anything. Apparently, various dangerous poisons and other amazing techniques were shared in the criminal guild. Criminal guild sure was amazing. Too scary!

By the way, some of those men died in the forest. The rest were arrested and died during interrogation. It seemed like they were bound with a lot of restrictions on magic, so they died after spitting out various information.

Ah. By the way, the order of arrival for the people who helped me was Vector, Arisa, Lily, Gim, Kuro, and everyone else. Kuro was still a child, but wasnt she a bit too fast? And Triela, Cain, and everyone else arrived at the same time.

After that having the poison derail her sense of smell and other things, Norn got angry and minced one perpetrator. Norn thank you? However, Bell who was together with Norn was a little injured, so that man probably resisted a little.

After mincing the criminal into cuts of meats, Norn arrived by my side. She was so angry that no one could calm her down Lily and Arisa, whom I once traveled with together, struggled to calm her down along with Triela and the other kids. They then returned to the city.

In addition, Norn carried me on her back the entire time. Its more like Norn started rampaging when someone else tried to carry me Huh? Im being loved by Norn?

After that, in order to ensure my safety in the royal capital, I hid in Lilys house since I had stayed there before.

Anyhow, Vector told me all of that as he prostrated himself.

I didnt care if the royal family was prostrating to me. Its all his fault, anyway.

That being said, he now owed me big time Should I use that as my shield to ask about the orphanage? No, Im still a bit anxious. Its more like a bad premonition This all feels like a one-man show, you know?

After all, he already noticed the perpetrators from the start. Its like I became his decoy Yeah, lets stop it for now. This all screamed suspiciously. I couldnt believe him. Impossible.

My distrust of men because of this incident was probably one reason I couldnt believe Vector, but I wasnt confident that I could make the right decision in my current mental state.

So I asked Vector to go home without saying anything special.

Ah, the merchant who was the mastermind also had been caught and sentenced to death. His business also crashed in a go. I didnt really care, though.

Later, the criminal guild got exposed. Right now, Vector was busy getting rid of the remnants. But then, there were still many other criminal guilds.

I felt sick living in the royal capital.

After that, I was buried in Norns belly in the daytime, living my life being gloomy and all.

I didnt like this kind of me.

However, my [Mental Tolerance] skill seemed to gradually work after a week. I became a little mentally better, so I decided I shouldnt stay like this and came to think of how to cure this.

Yes, I decided to ask Lily to have a date. To be more specific, I had her hold my hand all the time.

I wanted to make fun memories with the people around me, overwriting the unpleasant ones. If this went well, I should become better! My [Mental Tolerance] was also a great help!

I was being too optimistic? I had to take that so-what attitude, or else I would continue becoming a hikikomori all day. Thats not good. Besides, I couldnt make Lily take care of me in her house all the time

Well, doing that should improve my mood, even if it didnt heal me completely.

A date you mean going out? I dont mind, but are you sure you will be fine? As long as you hold my hand, I think I can manage? Hm I guess you cant stay like this all the time I understand, lets have a date!

I asked Lily about it when we slept together at night. I was glad she understood me. Yay! Im having a date with a cute girl!

No, Im faking my courage, okay? I need to stay excited