Red bracelet

Looking at the man that Kairen referred to as 'soil dude', he thought to himself.

'What is wrong with this guy?'

Why was he acting like this? 

Wasn't he different last time?

No. Even from the first moment they saw him, he seemed unwilling to fight.

Still, he was not like this!

'What should I do?'

Kairen waited a little bit more for the man to say his words, but no matter how much he stood there, the man just mumbled to himself and said nothing understandable.

So Kairen decided to ask his own question.

"Last time, why didn't you kill me?"

The man visibly flinched at Kairen's words. He raised his head and clenched his spear.

"You..."

His voice trailed off.

"Me...?"

"You... are..."

'Come on, spit it out already!'

Kairen screamed in his mind.

"Do you, by any chance, know me?"

"...."