"So, are you guys also bandits?" Kyle asked.
The two women looked at Kyle in terror and didn't answer.
They were focused on the blood all over his clothing.
"I'm a Fighter from the Stark Brotherhood," Kyle said. "I'm tasked with dealing with the bandits, and well, I'm done. So, yeah. Not sure how you feel about that."
The eyes of the two women opened wide.
"Y-you killed them?" one of them asked with a shaky voice.
"I mean, yeah. Just did my job," Kyle said as he awkwardly scratched the back of his head. "Sorry about that, I guess."
Then, the two women looked at each other in shock.
The next moment, the woman with the baby started to cry as she hugged her baby tightly.
'Sucks to lose a loved one, I guess,' Kyle thought as he awkwardly looked at them.
"Is it true? Did you really kill them?!" one of them shouted in shock.
"I mean, yeah," Kyle answered awkwardly. "So, you need an escort or something?"
These two women did not feel the least bit dangerous.
It was clear that they had no power whatsoever.
They were just normal humans.
"Jullianne," one of them said to the other through tears. "They're dead."
The other one just kept crying without saying anything.
Kyle just looked at the side, not sure how to handle the situation.
"They're finally dead!"
'Finally?' Kyle thought as he looked back.
"We're free! We're finally free! I told you someone would come to rescue us! I told you that we just have to survive!" the woman shouted as she hugged the other woman.
"You hear? We're free! We can go back! You can see your husband again!"
"Aaaahhh, I get it," Kyle said. "You guys are not here voluntarily, are you?"
"No," the first woman said, shaking her head quickly. "We were kidnapped."
Kyle sighed in relief.
'This could've become really awkward. Lucky me!'
"Alright," Kyle shouted. "Pack your stuff! We're going back to society!"
The woman with the baby kept crying helplessly while the other one quickly grabbed their essentials, of which there were not a lot.
After some minutes, they followed Kyle out of the camp.
As they walked past the corpses, the first woman lost control of herself.
She charged over to one of the corpses and kept kicking it.
"This is what you get! You deserve this! I hate you! I hate you!" she kept shouting.
The other one kept cowering in the back, looking at the corpses in horror.
"She always like that?" Kyle asked the woman with the baby, who didn't answer.
"Alright, that's enough," Kyle said after some seconds. "We gotta keep going."
The first woman looked at the corpse with hatred before following Kyle again.
After about a minute of slow walking, Kyle became impatient.
"You know, it's like a couple of kilometers to the street and a bunch of kilometers to Gelden. It's easier if I just carry you."
After some logistical issues, the lone woman clung to his back like a baby monkey.
Due to the baby, Kyle had to carry the other one in a bridal carry.
Yet, when he extended his hand to the other woman, she fell back in terror and just looked at Kyle's hand as she started hyperventilating.
Kyle groaned. "I know that you probably went through some shit, but we're in the middle of the forest. There could be beasts everywhere. We don't really have the time."
Kyle moved forward, but the woman kept backing away from it in horror.
"Oh my god," Kyle groaned. "I don't have time for this shit."
The next moment, he just grabbed her and put her into a bridal carry.
The woman's body froze, and she didn't dare to move while protecting her baby.
"Alright, let's go," Kyle said as he slowly accelerated, making sure not to go too fast.
"Happy there are only two of you. No idea how I would carry a third one," Kyle commented.
There were a couple of seconds of silence.
"There used to be three of us," the woman without the baby said.
"Ah, yeah, I get it," Kyle said. "Sucks."
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