Stein Rays's Move (12)

It took me a moment to grasp what was happening. Why was Rays-sama lying there? Why was blood flowing from him? I’d been watching closely for the arrow that struck Franklurt. What had happened!?

“Rays-sama!?” Lapilia-sama rushed over with a scream.

“Hurry, stop the bleeding!” Granz-sama’s angry shout rang out.

“Who attacked Rays-sama!?” Nelfia cried, her voice sharper than I’d ever imagined hearing from her. One of the startled soldiers hurriedly pointed and said, “Come to think of it, there was a soldier who ran over that way...”

In the direction the soldier pointed, another person lay fallen.

An arrow was embedded in his forehead. He lay on his back, completely motionless.

Hoping against hope, Wickhart and I rushed over. The moment I saw the man’s face, I gasped.

“Givan-san...? Why?”

The person lying there was Givan, the messenger. He was already dead. It must have been an instant death.

“Judging by the circumstances, that man seems to have been the one who attacked Rays-sama,” Wickhart said, keeping watch on the direction the arrow had probably come from...