Extra's Perfect Ending-Chapter 303: Oven

Horse galloping sounds echoed throughout the cave. The cave was full of stone and ice. Holen drove his horse as fast as he could, attempting to avoid the vines that were pursuing them. The vines were fast and followed behind Oven’s horse, who was injured.

Visibly, the horse looked like it was about to die, its legs got bruised earlier in the trap and now it was running behind. Oven could see as clear as day that he wouldn’t be making it at this rate.

He clenched his teeth, his mind racing over words he said earlier in the day. He gazed behind him and remembered the others who had been turned into statues. He then glanced at Holen, who was racing deeper into the cave. A well of emotion filled his face, and he abruptly stopped the horse without informing anyone.

I’ll be meeting you soon

He always regretted that he couldn’t save his friend, however now he could save them by drawing the vines to himself. It’s not rational but he was not a rational person to begin with.

Without making much sound he raised his sword ready to face whatever the vines had to offer. His blade swung fast, years of expertise fighting people in the northern border made him far sharper than a normal knight that served in the empire.

There was no scream of victory, only the silent sound of the blade slashing against the vines. The grey vine looked like it was alive. It snakes on the floor trying to wrap Oven to incapacitate him.

However, his sword was still faster at cutting the vines than the hen surrounding him. Oven was able to hold on for dear life, however, he knew he couldn’t keep this up. The reason why they ran in the first place was their numbers, and Oven started to feel that right now.

He panted hard as more and more vines came at him. He kept slashing and his hand felt tied, the weight of his armor kept increasing because of fatigue. Until at some point, his swinging became slow.

"What the hell was you doing!"

The sound came from behind, but at that point, Oven didn’t hear it anymore, his vision only consisted of vines and a sword cutting it. However, at some point, his body had been lifted up.

Oven heard they were saying something but at this point, he was too tired of speaking. He was not on his horse anymore but he could see that the vines travel further and further away.

Then he rested... thinking it was his end.

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A while later he woke up inside the cave, however, this place felt rather odd. Surrounding him was a room of a building. There’s no way that a cave could have something like this.

"Is this heaven?"

"No"

Right then, Jell answered the question. Oven’s eyes widened as he looked at the knight hitting beside him.

"Did you die too?"

Jell sighed and was about to say something when he saw Holen walk up to the knight that was still thinking this place was heaven. Then Holen punched the night in the face.

His hand felt a bit numb from how hard the face was. Oven pain from that attacked and rubbed his cheek.

"What the hell was that for!" Now he was clear that he was stuck in this godforsaken place.

"Why the hell did you do that!?"

"Do what!?"

"Don’t act dumb why the hell are you sacrificing yourself!" Holen’s face gets right up to Oven’s. His anger could be felt by the knight. The knight’s face also changes into that of anger because he feels like his action wasn’t wrong.

"My best friend is already dead and I have nothing at home... Just let me die..." He could only muster such words.

"Then your best friend would have died for nothing"

"No" Oven answered with a bit of anger "They died for a piece of paper that didn’t have any value, Now, we’re stuck here to die"

"You don’t have to die"

"But...."

"Fucking listen to me," Holen said with a complicated face, it’s a mix of sadness and something different. "This job, I didn’t pick you at random, Oven. Kansas was a good man that I often went to bars with and I’ve worked with Yuhan for many years now... I picked you all because I could trust you and that thing wasn’t built overnight. Oven, I trust you enough to drag you here in the north. I couldn’t be here by myself because I would die, I trust you with my life Oven."

Holen faces the ground, his expression unreadable to Oven. His eyes also felt a little watery when he thought about Holen and how the man was over the years.

"Next time, don’t die on me"

Holen finished peaking and sat down on the ground. He wiped his face and sat right in front of the two knights.

"So what do we do now?"

jell asked, pulling both of them from their emotional moment. Holen looked at Jell and thought for a minute. Oven settled his emotion and asked.

"Where even are we?"

"Don’t know, somewhere inside the cave"

Jell answered honestly. after they rescued Oven from his own stupidity, they found this place that happened to have a door and hid. The door was made out of stone and its weight took tow people to push so they thought this was the best place to hide from the vines.

"Where’s Kanku?"

"He’s off exploring something" Jell pointed in the opposite direction of the room. There they find the young kid looking around the room.

"And you let him do that?"

OVen felt like it was very dangerous to have a kid wandering around a place that looked like some kind of ruins. He never explored one himself but he heard from the one that often did, Kansas. He would love to explore this place.

"Don’t worry, this felt like just a normal room"

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"You can’t just feel ruins, they often hide traps! Let me check on him...." Oven sprung himself up and was about to go to the kid when he heard something.

Click

His eyes widened and jumped to the kid’s position shielding the kid from whatever the mechanism activated.

"AGhhhhh"

The kid screamed very loudly; however, it was not from any trap but from Oven pressing himself on top. The knight’s armor and strength were no joke for a tribal kid. Realizing his mistake, the knight loosened up a bit and checked out the situation, only to hear Jell laugh in the back.

"What is so funny about this!?" Oven was a bit frustrated. He almost died and his friend was laughing.

"That’s just a mechanism to open a door"

"Oh"

Oven felt a bit embarrassed after going through all of that. The door opened to a pitch-dark room that all of them couldn’t see clearly inside. Some light slipped through from the outside, and illuminated the room.

"Seem like we can’t go there anymore," Jell said, he wouldn’t want to be exploring a ruin in pitch darkness, that’s just a recipe for an accident to happen.

"No, we could," Kanku said, lithing a fire of a torch and creating a light source.

"What?" Oven felt like he had seen a ghost "Where did you get that? And that?" He pointed at the fire and the wood that used to lit it.

"Oh, I got lighter, so don’t have one? I sneak this from my mother’s room, they say that a noble from the empire always has one, it’s so cool being able to light a fire anywhere!"

"You have that?" Oven felt like he was behind the times when he saw a tribal kid using a lighter.

"My mom got it from the Empire raid, he kept this in her room without even using it! Such a waste of a good tool, you guys don’t have one?"

Oven and Jell looked at each other and they both looked at Holen. Out of all of them, Holen had the highest chance of having something like this. After all the noble that pocketed a light usually had tobacco with them.

Holen shook his head.

"I’m not a noble of the empire and didn’t fancy any tobacco. Maybe I would get into it in the future."

"We can explore that now right?" The kid looked a bit disappointed that Holenw wasn’t a noble because the detective felt much more like a mobile than anyone Kanku had ever seen.

"I don’t think we should" Holen shook his head again. It wasn’t about taking such risks and potential dangers just to satisfy his curiosity.

"Then I’ll go," Jell said with a monotone voice. The other two glared at him wanting his reason. "Look, I’m not about to sit here doing nothing. There’s a perfectly good ruin for us to explore so we might as well do it. We can’t take on the vines outside anyway."

Holen felt a bit bad about this however, he also could see Jell’s point. Sitting around and waiting for the vines sound outside to disappear was the most boring thing to do here

"I’ll go with you, I’m more experience than you in traps".