Light Novel Chapter 16

The Past is the sixteenth chapter of the Didn't I Say To Make My Abilities Average In The Next Life?! light novel.

Summary

 * The captured bandits are interrogated and it is found that these bandits are not related to the bandits they were looking for. Reina voices that she wants to have them killed and not take them to Amroth however when the caravan voted, they decide to take them alive. After they began their journey again, Mavis and Pauline question Reina on why she is so fixated on hitting the now defenseless bandits and Reina explains how her father and friends were killed by bandits.
 * In the past when she was ten, Reina was the daughter of a traveling merchant going from town to town when her father's cart was attacked by bandits. The bandits ended up killing Reina's father however Reina was saved by the hunter party called the Crimson Lightning. The Crimson Lightning decided to take Reina along with them and taught her many things about being a hunter. On day when Reina was thirteen, the Crimson Lightning took an escort request in which they were attacked by bandits. The merchant decided to break the terms of surrender and offered up the Crimson Lightning and Reina as a sacrifice. The Crimson Lightning were killed causing something to break within Reina. Reina then declared that the old her was dead and that she was now "Crimson Reina, the Bandit Slayer" and proceeded to kill the bandits and the merchant.

Characters

 * Crimson Vow
 * Mile
 * Mavis
 * Reina
 * Pauline
 * Dragonbreath
 * Bart
 * Crimson Lightning
 * Bruan (flashback)
 * Gordon (flashback)
 * Erik (flashback)
 * Ari (flashback)

Locations

 * Kingdom of Tils
 * Road to Amroth
 * Amroth (mentioned)