Scenario:A Tale of Kindled Bonds - Chapter 2: Hanging by a Branch - Episode 4

A Tale of Kindled Bonds - Chapter 2: Hanging by a Branch - Episode 4

The Jorha researchers fall one after another to the goblin attacks. A few command Kusuki to take down the Goblin Princess, but not a single researcher is left alive at the end of the slaughter. Nectar and friends, though worried about Kusuki, decide to brave the cold world outside and escape into the snow.

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Goblin Soldiers: Kill! Kiiill!

Assistant: Ahhhh!

Kushina: ...
(...!)

Nectar: Kushina. Focus. Shinsha, please cover your ears.

Shinsha: O-okay...

Ugusu: Nectar...

Nectar: Ugusu, there's no time to save the others. I'm going to clear the path forward. Wait for my signal.

Kushina: ...
(Got it!)

Nectar: ...!

Goblin Soldier: Grah?

Nectar: I have no quarrel with you. Out of the way!

???: Bark!

Goblin Princess: I didn't expect much from the descendants of the Diadem's creators, but to think you'd stoop to playing with simple toys.

Researcher 2: The Diadem... You speak of the form-altering mechanism developed by one of Jorha's founders?

Researcher 2: Long lost to us... But that's right... The goblins were our pawns born from the Diadem!

Goblin Princess: There you go. But do seal your lips. We are no pawns of yours.

Goblin Princess: For goblins shall be the new masters of the skies! The time for your annihilation has come!

Researcher 2: Ha-Haha! Experiment 949! Capture this female vessel for the Diadem alive!

???: Grrr... Rrrr!

Researcher 2: At once!

Goblin Princess: So noisy.

Researcher 2: Huh...

Goblin Princess: Heh... Hehe... Ahahahaha!

Goblin Princess: Finally... The last vestiges of mankind possessing knowledge of the Diadem have been removed from this world!

Goblin Princess: The legitimacy of our king is secured! Ahahahahaha! The world shall soon face a retribution of its own making!

???: Grrr... rrrr...

Ugusu: This is... outside?

Nectar: Yes, Ugusu. Let us be off, Shinsha. Kushina.

Kushina: ...
(All right...)

Shinsha: ...

Carried into the outside world by her friends, the girl shivered from the harsh cold.

She knew, even without her sight, what had happened. The smell of fire and the screams of the dying were enough.

All the same, she feigned ignorance and allowed her friends to take her into the unknown.