Helmut: The Forsaken Child - H.F.C Chapter 278 (Part 2):

Igrelle asked curiously.

[How is that possible?]

[You can’t do it, but I can.]

Arrogantly declaring this, Elaga approached the white rabbit closely.

Sarah asked with a suspicious face.

“You’re really not going to kill it, right?”

[Yes, have you ever seen me lie? Now move aside.]

Sarah slowly moved away.

The white rabbit, which had regained consciousness and was watching cautiously, tried to jump up and run away the moment Sarah stepped back. However, that attempt quickly became futile.

Thwack!

[Where do you think you’re going? I knew you were conscious.]

Hit by Elaga’s front paw, it fell back to its original spot. Elaga pressed down on the white rabbit with its front paw. It was an irresistible pressure.

‘No! I can’t disappear like this!’

Naho’s consciousness struggled. But there was nothing it could do.

Tears welled up in the white rabbit’s eyes out of frustration.

Sarah looked at it as if pitying it, but that was all. Elaga focused its mind while looking at the white rabbit.

‘Might as well practice.’

Extracting Naho’s consciousness like extracting demonic energy. It’s a similar act in the sense of pulling out some heterogeneous power from inside the body.

It had done it to Helmut, but that was instinctive, not something it thought about with its head.

To send Susan and Sarah out of the Forest of Roots, it’ll need to extract their dark energy, so it needed to experiment at least once.

Whoosh.

Black smoke rose from the white rabbit. Naho’s forcibly extracted consciousness was incinerated by Elaga’s energy and dispersed in the air.

After a moment, Elaga stepped away from the white rabbit. Sarah ran to the white rabbit and shook its body.

“Pomi! Are you okay?”

Soon the white rabbit shuddered, regained consciousness, and stood up.

However, as soon as it got up, it leapt and ran away. It was because it had seen Elaga.

Sarah desperately called out to the white rabbit running away in one breath to the other side.

“Pomi!”

The white rabbit stopped running, tilted its head, and looked back at Sarah.

A familiar voice. But because the presence of Elaga and Igrelle was so terrifying, the white rabbit couldn’t overcome its instinctive fear.

After looking back for a moment, Sarah was shocked to see the back of the rabbit running away with its tail between its legs.

“Why, why is it doing that? Doesn’t it recognize me?”

Leaving without even a greeting.

It felt as if the white rabbit Sarah knew had become something else entirely. Elaga explained.

[It wasn’t strong enough to awaken demonic nature, so now that Naho’s consciousness is gone, it’s just become an ordinary demonic beast.]

“Pomi was my, my only friend!”

Sarah wiped her tears.

Sarah had grown attached to the white rabbit through the few brief encounters they had.

Watching her cry loudly, Elaga realized that living in this Forest of Roots without a single friend was too cruel for this young girl.

After all, Sarah had memories of living outside the Forest of Roots.

Unlike someone like Helmut who could live well alone, Sarah was the type of human who needed to live mingling with other people.

‘Right, humans belong in the human world.’

Though it was a bitter thought, Elaga couldn’t help but recall the thought it had while raising Helmut.

[Let’s go to your mother first. You humans over there, follow me too!]

If those humans can take Helmut out of the Forest of Roots, then this mother and daughter can leave together at that time.

It planned to leave the rest to Helmut after that. Since he was strong in the human world, he should be able to help Susan and Sarah settle and live in the human world.

‘What should I do?’

Igrelle, who had been looking regretfully at the white rabbit moving away for a moment, pondered.

The humans it had brought had met Helmut as intended. This should have been the end of their connection.

But it was regrettable to end it like this.

Of course, Alea and her group weren’t at all regretful about getting away from the annoying Igrelle, but Igrelle had shaken off boredom for the first time in a long while. It couldn’t give up this exciting feeling so soon.

Igrelle declared proudly:

[Elaga, I’ll go with you too.]

[What? I’m going to the central region. That’s my territory, why are you coming?]

[Think of it as repaying a debt since I helped your human get out of the Forest of Roots.]

[…Do as you please.]

Elaga was a demonic beast who knew how to count what he had received. Igrelle might be curious and willful, but he wasn’t a bad creature, so it wouldn’t cause harm.

“We’ll move quickly in the same way as before.”

Alea called the golem. She, Asuka, Sian, and Charlotte would travel riding the golem.

Helmut and Sarah naturally climbed onto Elaga’s back.

And so, with only one white rabbit having left the group, they all headed towards the central region.

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