My second go at life // Orsted x oc (Mushoku Tensei)

We went to go pick up Ruijerd and the place we went to was a small hut in the outskirts of the city.

I looked back at the view of the city to see it wasn't as grand as the other ones we have been, even the people here look miserable. 'So even other places in the world can be quite miserable, and they even have smuggies here.' I thought.

My foot hit something, and I looked down to see Rudeus laughing hysterically. 'Smuggies!' He cried from how much he was laughing and I cried with him. 'That's too good! Sorry!' He got up and wiped my tears.

'Horn dog.' I glared at him and used that nickname since he hated it. '...Sorry.'

Rudeus patted my head then took my hand and we carried on walking and arrived at the hut.

Rudeus knocked, and it was answered by a shady smug man. He let us in and then opened up a trapdoor that was in the middle of the room.

We were both a little unnerved by how dark it was down there. The man silently led the way with a candle in hand, and I held onto my staff so he wouldn't get suspicious of it and so I could make sure it helped me produce more wind magic.

I filled the entire place with wind magic and it went quite far.

'There are many people here, talking about pain and ass and then hemorrhoid slimes.' I informed Rudeus in my mind. He was confused until we went by someone who laughed about offing someone who was a pain in the ass by using hemorrhoid slimes. 'Off?'

'I don't think that's the concerning part.' Rudeus looked unsure when I looked at him. 'Offed means to kill.' He explained, and I froze for a second but kept walking when the man leading the way looked back at us.

'They are bad people.' I groaned then I brightened up seeing a huge white dog, but it's locked away in a prison with a magic circle under it and two men were outside guarding it.

"Hey, what are you staring at?!" One of them yelled.

"Not you obviously," I answered and Rudeus pulled me along.

"Sorry about my sister!" Rudeus apologised.

"People said they felt sorry for me for having a brother like you." I reminded him. "But that's stupid, so they should shush their bush."

'Nice try rhyming.' Rudeus praised me in his mind, and I smirked.

He took my hand in his when I froze and he was a little confused, but I could hear far ahead of us.

A girl was crying hysterically, and I could hear some breathing stiffen meaning it was Ruijerd, he could hear the crying to.

I tried to rush forward, but Rudeus didn't let me.

We carried on and soon heard the crying more loudly then I got grabbed by my cloak making me pause as the screaming was right by my ear. I turned to see a little girl my age with cat ears.

Her eyes were begging me to save her then she got stabbed in the back by a man behind her making my blood go cold and the girl let go of me.

I let go of Rudeus and grabbed onto her hand, but she wasn't making any more sound.

Rudeus snatched my hand away and pulled me along before I did something stupid. 'Rudy, I can't handle this.' I admitted as my grip on his hand tightened and I was crying so much. I tried to keep my sounds in, but my tears were flowing non-stop.

'I didn't think it would be like this...' I admitted.

"Here he is." The man stopped in front of the last prison cell, I felt so much better seeing Ruijerd.