... live free!

It's kind of warm around my chest. I wake up thinking about that. That's it. There was Lena sleeping on my chest.

"Is that it?"

Like you were fighting an orc earlier? I remembered being beaten up by an oak and falling downstairs trying to remember what had happened with that in mind.

"Maybe Lena helped you?

If I thought so and looked closely at her face, she looked blue. Why do you look so pale? I thought so, but I realized it was there.

"Maybe he fell over the use of magic?

I think Lena is because she can use magic, but it doesn't feel like she defeated the demons anywhere near her. The smell of blood...... When I thought that I felt the smell of blood from around my right arm and looked there, my clothes were cut from shoulder to sleeve and the sleeve area was red. But there was no sign of blood on my right arm. Instead, an empty bottle had fallen nearby.

"I used potions for me..."

When I see my injury since I started seeing Lena properly, she often uses potions to heal me, but she often uses expensive potions. I know it's an amount I can't pay if they charge me for it, but Lena's not charging me. Besides, I often get dried meat to eat. I'm glad, but I'm too nice to me and I want to be so sweet...... It made me cry when I was thinking about it. I wonder if she escapes scared when she sees the marks of my terrible burns just like the orphanage kids... Driven by such anxiety, I was weeping.

Then I managed to calm my anxiety and move my painful right arm to wipe my tears.

"Phew, phew..."

It hurt so bad, but I tried so hard to think that if there was a tear trail when Lena woke up, I'd be extra worried. When I thought about that in this state for now...... I noticed the discomfort.

"Can your right shoulder move normally?

I realized I should have been hit in the right shoulder when Orc hit me, but I could move it normally. And I think I broke my right arm terribly, too, but it's back to what I saw it for.

"Maybe Lena did? But how?

I decided to wait for Lena to wake up with that in mind.

I really wanted to hold Lena gently, but if she hated me, I didn't do that because I thought I couldn't get back on my feet anymore. I can't do it well because my arm is broken in the first place. That's what I said, looking at Lena's sleeping face, "If a demon comes while Lena's asleep, use her own life to protect her. But let's!" and waited for Lena to wake up, determined to do so.