>>6006507Marie is the first to react, shouting your name before crashing into you to deliver a hug with the strength of the bear, “I was so worried? What happened? Are you alright? Can I do anything to help?”
“You can get off of me!” You try to say as you squirm from under the excitable woman.
“Oh, right, sorry!” She says before leaping back while pulling you off the rubble as well. She brushes off her clothes before going to brush off yours. Leaving you to make eye contact with the wounded inquisitor.
“Can you heal it?” Is the only thing he says.
“I-it will take awhile,” You’re a bit put off by his cold demeanor, a far cry from his usual self. He simply nods and sits down on the rubble. Healing someone isn’t exactly fun, or pretty work, but you set to it immediately. You’d expect your magic to be drained, you used a lot during the fight and the sudden collapse doesn’t bode well for your mana levels. But as you set to healing the inquisitor's wounds after pulling out the splinters you find casting to be easy, almost like a support mage is boosting you. Strange. At least you’re lucky enough to have a patient who doesn’t complain, even if he should be crying on the ground with the wound he’s suffered.
“We should discuss our next plan of action while we’re all here,” Inquisitor Abram says, his tail twitching as he looks over the destruction, “There is much to do.”
“Our plan should be simple, we counter-attack the Stranger in his home and send him and his army to be nothing more than a report in the archive,” Silas says, “We even have his boat to ram into this fortress.”
Asher gasps as he goes to speak, “D-don’t be too hasty,” a deep breath, “We don’t know what he has up his sleeve.”
“Yeah, I was hardly expecting to fight manga and game characters today,” Marie says like you’re supposed to understand that. You think you hear Inquisitor Asher chuckle under his breath and say something about a lack of originality.
“You mean the figures Asher was fighting before I-” Followed a hallucination and collapsed like a fool is what you don’t say. At least you’re smart enough to put together context clues.
“Mhm! They were really tough! Though I wasn’t expecting such an early boss to be a dual boss!” Marie says.
“Sure, Asher and the Stranger might have struggled against them but surely that isn’t a metric we should be relying on,” Silas scoffs.
“You’re all forgetting this town has been completely destroyed, hundreds are now homeless and the Clan Elder is dead. Are we really going to leave them all here with nothing?”
