Discharging the unwanted

 "Wha-"

Bleegh!

Bell did not know what the heck was going on.

She opened her mouth to speak but unfortunately before she could even utter a single word properly she puked out everything she had eaten earlier in the morning.

This continued for about a moment or two; finally when Bell's condition improved, she noticed that Ryder was no longer just a few metres away from her and was instead standing a long distance away from her with a bottle of water held in his hand.

Bell moved her head slightly and looked at Ryder but just as she did, Ryder retreated further away from her and said something that added more confusion in the already confused Bell's mind.

"Don't turn around, it's not over yet;"

What… What did he mean by it's not over yet?

Soon enough Bell got the answer to this question of her when once again she felt the familiar feeling of something wanting to break out of her body through her mouth.

"No…not agai-!"

Bleegh!

Once again the sight of Bell puking out a mouthful of vomit from earlier repeated itself in much the same way with the only difference being the thing that she vomited out – it was a black semi-liquid substance with little shiny particles in it.

If looked closely one would notice that those shiny particles looked quite similar to small metal granules.

"Finally it's over;"

It was Ryder's relief-filled voice that made Bell turn her gaze away from those metallic particles and towards Ryder himself.

"Here take this;"

Ryder said, throwing the water bottle in his hand at Bell while not moving even an inch away from the place he was standing.

"Quickly clean yourself and move away from that thing;"

Ryder's voice when saying this sounded a little afraid and even his eyes when looking at the black vomit that came out of Bell's mouth, appeared to be shaking. From this action of his, it could be seen that Ryder was really averse to even taking a step closer to whatever that vomit contained… or so it seemed.

Seeing this sort of attitude of Ryder, Bell could do nothing except giving him a resenting stare and sigh in her mind.

After all, who could stay calm and cool after being put in the state she was in? There were things she wanted to complain about and wanted to display her discontent and dissatisfaction regarding Ryder's current behaviour towards her.

But before that, there was something much more important that she had to take care of very urgently.

'Ugh.. this prickly feeling in my mouth!' She hurriedly caught the water bottle when Ryder threw it towards her and thoroughly cleaned her mouth from both inside and outside.

'Now it's much better;'

She sighed in relief and only a moment later did she look at Ryder who was still just staring at the black substance that she had vomited.

"Ryder-sama;"

She called his name to attract his attention.

"You…"

Just before she could voice out her thoughts Ryder cut her words in the middle.

"Get away from there quickly!"

Ryder urged in a partly cautious and partly panicked voice.

"....No wait, forget what I said just now;"

"Don't move from there;"

A moment later Bell heard Ryder say this; and before she could even properly understand what was happening, she saw Ryder suddenly appear next to her.

And at the same instance her vision went blurred for a fraction of a second and, as if through teleportation, she found herself along with her chair in a completely different area.

An area that was quite a distance away from the place where she vomited. She turned her head at Ryder and saw that he was holding his breath by pinching his nose tightly with his left hand and with his right hand he was holding onto the rear part of the chair Bell was sitting on.

Seeing him act like this, Bell was reminded of the way Ryder has been behaving from a while earlier and she did not know why this made her suddenly grow really irritated. So much so that a strong and irresistible urge to scream and shout out all the pent up frustration regarding all that happened earlier formed in her mind.

She wanted to ask him that, if he knew something like this was gonna happen shouldn't he have warned her before? At the very least she would've prepared herself for this experience which can only be described as very unpleasant.

And as if that wasn't enough, even now he was not explaining anything to her. But unfortunately before she could do any such things, she saw Ryder move his hand away from his nose.

"Are you feeling alright?"

"Is there anywhere you're feeling pain or anything similar?"

"Is your head alright? Do you feel like hitting someone by any chance?"

He asked three to four questions in succession in a single breath. His voice sounded a little impatient.

"No, wait don't answer…first let's get away from that thing;"

He said immediately after, as it could be guessed the 'that thing' that he was referring to was the black vomit that came out of Bell's mouth earlier.

It was just then that Bell heard the sound of footsteps and it was getting louder with each second. She looked in the direction the sound was coming from and saw a man running in panic close towards the place where she had vomited earlier.

After a moment she noticed that he was being chased by two kobolds, and that he was badly injured.

Seeing this, she quickly looked at Ryder with a gaze that said that she wanted to help that man. But Ryder's response was not what she expected.

"... Let's… let's just go away from here, please;"

Ryder's voice carried a heavy sense of desperation when he said this and just as he finished speaking, the sound of footsteps stopped and when Bell turned her head there to see what happened.

She saw that both the man and the kobolds that were chasing him were lying on the ground.

Ryder cursed when he saw that happen. 

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