Slayer 01-12 | Goblin

He wiped his sword on a goblin’s tunic. “The goblin would have killed her first. She will limp for a week. She will live.”

The Guild receptionist, a kind woman with tired eyes, had explained: He only takes goblin quests. No one else will work with him. He smells. He’s rude. But if you want to survive, you’ll go with him. Goblin Slayer 01-12

She wanted to say something brave. Instead, she started crying. Not from fear. From a sudden, terrible understanding: he had never expected anyone to protect him. He had fought alone for so long that the idea of a hand reaching for him, not past him, was foreign as a song in a dead language. He wiped his sword on a goblin’s tunic