Asuka opens her eyes slowly even though the pain in her chest still remains.
「Ah, you’re awake?」
She looked towards the side where she heard the voice.
Yuuto’s worried face is seen and Asuka recalled what happened to her.
「Yuuto, this place is?…」
「Ah, geez, don’t move. The wounds was just blocked」
Asuka tried to get up but Yuuto opened his mouth to rebuke her. Confirming that she’s laying down in bed, Asuka held the right part of her chest.
「This, arena」
「This is the first aid room. Since you were sleeping, it was lent for overnight」
Yuuto’s fatigued face can be seen. She doesn’t know how much time had passed since the fight but since the candle lights are lit, it’s probably night already. Looking at the window, she saw a beautiful starry sky.
Did he wait for her all this time? Seeing Yuuto felt relieved, Asuka’s cheeks blushed instinctively.
「T-that’s right. …the wounds It’s closed?」
Asuka noticed the abnormality on her body for the first time. There’s still some pain but her chest had already returned to her everyday clothes and there’s no scar of the hole anywhere.
The arrow Thunderbolt shoot out certainly should’ve gone through her chest.
Asuka stares at her own chest in wonder and Yuuto kept talking while having an expression of relief.
「I think the recovery mage cured it. Though I didn’t met her, what was her name again? The Eight in the hero ranking…」
「S-Strawberry-san!?」
Yuuto nodded at Asuka’s shout. Yuuto was also surprised as Asuka’s wounds were completely recovered when he saw her in the first aid room. The high ranks in the heroes are really beyond imagination.
「It seems that she came to sightseeing for an emergency. …Well that’s how many the people who saw over it」
Then, a lot of people had a change of heart.
He is one of them but Yuuto didn’t say it of course.
「That was cool」
Instead, he made a brief comment.
Asuka turned around and Yuuto laughed.
While looking at Asuka with his mouth wide open, Yuuto scratched his cheek.
「Somehow, I was surprised. Asuka-sama became a real hero」
‘What are you saying?’, Yuuto thought
He’s the one who made her a hero. But, Yuuto thought that it’s beyond an encounter.
「Thunderbolt-san is definitely one of the『World’s strongest』 She might be hated but she’s never a coward or a cheater, she’s a genuine hero」
And, Asuka surpassed her.
Her scarlet sword cut the Gungnir and it didn’t reach her. The full power attack she gave certainly exeeded Yuuto’s 『Scarlet Sky』that time.
The scarlet armor, the scarlet sword, even the ring on her chest, it didn’t reach the strongest bow user in the world.
「Honestly, it’s mortifying」
Yuuto muttered. But, Yuuto closed his eyes feeling calm.
Then why did she lose?
That’s obvious.
She, that proud bow user won’t be defeated by Yuuto.