Reincarnated As An Ogre, I’m Going To Enjoy Life In This Other World! - Chapter 111

I had started staying in the village, but perhaps due to the battle with the dragon, my body wasn’t moving as I wished. Every time I tried to move, pain shot through me.

Now, I was helping carry wood again like I had before, but in the past, I could carry two logs easily on both shoulders. Now, carrying even one was enough to make pain shoot through my body.

(This is pain I’ve never experienced before… It feels like it’s spreading through my body… Could it have something to do with what happened during the fight with the dragon?)

I tried to act like nothing was wrong so I wouldn’t worry Saki and the others, but maybe it showed on my face, as Saki asked with concern.

“Onichan… are you okay?”

“Yeah, I’m fine.”

I said I was fine, but honestly, I was extremely worried. While I had suffered external injuries since my reincarnation, this kind of pain was something I hadn’t experienced before.

(Maybe… something bad is happening to my body?)

I spent several days with that anxiety weighing on me, and one day, I decided to consult Yuzuriha about it.

“Yuzuriha-san…”

“Kingil-sama, what’s the matter?”

“Actually…”

I explained to Yuzuriha what happened during the battle with the dragon.

“I see. After hearing the dragon’s words, Kingil-sama, got angry and used a mysterious power that you didn’t even understand yourself. After defeating the dragon, you lost consciousness, and when you woke up, the aftereffects of that power caused pain to spread throughout your body, correct?”

“That’s about the gist of it.”

I didn’t expect Yuzuriha to solve the problem, but I wanted someone to listen to me, because I couldn’t shake off my anxiety.

“Kingil-sama, I am not a doctor, so I can’t be sure, but the symptoms are most likely…”

“Most likely…?”

I swallowed nervously, my anxiety growing.

“It’s probably muscle pain…”

“Muscle pain…? You mean the kind of muscle pain that happens when someone who doesn’t exercise suddenly does something strenuous?”

“Yes, Kingil-sama, in your case, it’s probably not so much a lack of exercise, but rather due to pushing your body beyond its limits…”

Yuzuriha said with a slight wry smile.

“Th-thank goodness~~~~! I was seriously panicking, thinking this would last forever!”

Thinking about it, in my past life I never even did light exercise, so I never experienced muscle pain. So, this is my first muscle pain in my life.

“Recently, Saki was worried about how Kingil-sama was acting, and it turns out that was the reason.”

“I’ll go and explain it to Saki-chan right away.”

“Sure.”

I tell Saki about my muscle pain.

“Onichan, you had muscle pain?”

“Yeah.”

“Oh, so that’s what it was…”

Saki gives an indescribable, awkward smile.

“Anyway, it’s good that we know the cause now. You should rest and take it easy.”

“Yeah, you’re right.”

(Ah… that expression on her face is like she’s thinking, ‘You were freaking out over something like that?’)

I felt a slight sadness welling up inside me.

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