>>5303072With no real fanfare or final attempt at retaliation, Job simply falls by himself, exhausted from having to regenerate for so long, he chose death over dealing with such excruciating torture.
"Saves me the trouble of using my bombs." Guts was glad that he didn't have to waste more of his arsenal.
"My... Treatment... Couldn't come sooner..." You speak out of breath as the fight finally subsides, angry at your lack of stamina despite keeping up well with such a living legend.
"Ha! Take that, Mandragoran freak!" The townsfolk come back to kick away at the monster."
"I'm glad he's dead!"
"What are you feeling proud of, murderers? You've all provoked him without thinking twice! This is all your fault!" A teary eyed Rita attempts to push people off from Job's rotting corpse, but gets slapped in return.
"Grrr, what did he do to deserve being killed!?" She threw a knife at you and guts, but the Swordsman easily caught it between his fingers, and you are too heavily armored to even feel it bouncing off your plates.
"I do not condone their disdain against him, young Rita. If we had a way to save him, i surely would have thought of one, but when these Mandragorans reach this state, all that's on their mind is rampage. Whatever humanity was left in there became far too little."
"He was a monster, and we had to put him down. There's all there is to it." Guts is a lot less sugarcoating than you in his response.
Before Rita could jump at his throat, an embellished carriage stopped near the corpse, out of it came a man dressed in high class clothes, with facial hear that more resembled a lion's mane.
"So that's Bolzack..." Farnese whispered, hiding behind Serpico as he returned to her side, in case she was recognized.
"These large wounds... Were you the ones responsible in slaying this creature?"
"Yes." You reply in unison with Guts.
"You have my utmost gratitude for taking care of these hostile patients while I work on my cure. My army is not what it used to be." Despite the rough appearance, Bolzack seemed to be somewhat benevolent with his own kind.
"What would bring you to my lands, being plagued the way they are?" Bolzack almost admits to having lost the fight with the Mandragorans already.
>Just passing by.>I heard you were working on some alternative medicine, and my body is starting to fail me.>A friend in my group has her head in the clouds, I was hoping to find something to bring her back to earth.>Just helping Guts over here.>I have something for you, consider it a gift from an Ilos lord. (hand him the money from the bandits)>Write in. 