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The next day…
At the break of dawn, Ellen and I woke up.
We had fallen asleep leaning against a building wall, relying on each other for support.
We were too exhausted, despite being in a situation where anything could have happened. We were so tired that we had given up thinking and just fell asleep.
It wasn’t really sleep—it was more like passing out.
“Are you awake?”
Eleris greeted us calmly as if she had been awake this whole time. Ellen looked bewildered.
“… Did you perhaps not sleep… because of us?”
“No, I was also out cold… We almost had a big problem, all of us.”
Despite what she said, it was obvious she hadn’t slept. Waking up in this environment made it hard to understand how anyone could have slept.
The corpses, burnt to charcoal, were piled up, and blood and pieces of flesh were scattered everywhere. The smell of burning bodies was foul.
“There’s water to wash up with in the inn. For now, let’s clean ourselves up and eat something before we set off. I’ll tidy up here a bit more.”
The first thing to do was to improve our wretched appearances.
***
The zombie bodies had been burned to such a degree that they could never rise again. It might have been the intensity of the flames, or Eleris must have taken additional action while we were asleep.
Ellen and I scrubbed our dirty bodies at the inn, which had been swarming with zombies the night before. We changed into different clothes, but there was nothing we could do about our armor, which had been splattered with blood.
It was time to tend to our swords, but since they had an automatic repair function, we just gave them a rough wipe with an oiled cloth.
After having a simple breakfast of preserved food,...
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