Chapter 2 – Useless hero, hurry up and get stronger so you can be of some help, right?
Episode 2
There was a woman who laughed at me while pouring divine power into her scarred body.
“Puheup, you are really weak. There’s nothing disrespectful about being hurt like this against low-ranking monsters~♡ What would you have done without me?”
“…… Didn’t the saintess tell you to fight?”
“Then how long did she intend to live as such a worthless human being? You need to be a little stronger to help me. Seeing his bug-like skills, it seems like we’re still a long way away~♡”
This b*tch.
It has always been like this since I met Saint Estelle and started her journey. When I asked her why we were on her adventure, she replied, of course, to subdue her demon lord.
-Of course, I don’t think I can even reach the tip of the devil with such weak skills. So, our warriors have to raise their poor skills somehow~? You don’t want to become a useless warrior, right?
After that, as part of the training, the saintess brought the demons and I faced the battles repeatedly. In the process, whenever someone gets hurt, the saintess treats them like this.
I don’t know where or how they bring the demons. Are you spraying some pheromones?
But the fortunate thing was that the saintess was quite sincere. In words, I always say that I am useless, but the actions I do seem to really want me to grow.
Seeing that I bring only low-level monsters that I can deal with, at least she doesn’t intend to kill me.
‘… But how can I not fix that tone?’
From noble mtl dot com.
I don’t know how a b*tch called a saint came to have a mesgaki-like tone. You should have read the novel….
No, you said it normally in front of other people in the first place. Why is this crazy b*tch only doing this in front of me?
The saintess lightly slapped her forearm and said.
“Okay, her treatment is over. Now it’s time to roll hard again with her mediocre skills.”
“…… Do you do it again?”
“No way~ How long are you going to live with that kind of X food?”
“… You can do it.”
First year. Let’s get stronger.
The saintess left me alone again and headed into the forest. This time, she brought along monsters resembling reptiles, kobolds, who were stronger than the goblins she had dealt with just a moment ago. They were so f*cking mad for some reason.
“Quik! Catch that b*tch! I won’t capture you and violate you!!!”
“Kyaaak♡ Warrior, if you get caught by those trashy kobolds, you will be raped! Don’t stand there like a fool, hurry up and help me!”
“… What are you doing?”
About 10 kobolds appeared.
I killed 20 goblins while getting hurt, so can I beat 10 kobolds now? While I was thinking in my head, the saintess hid behind her back.
“Come on, show your skills like an idiot, hero♡”
“… Whew.”
Still, the saintess won’t let me die.
She held the holy sword straight. Originally, the saintess told me that a holy sword is a deadly thing for those related to demons. That is to say, even if it is cut properly, it is a fatal blow to the monster.
This body that can barely catch goblins with a holy sword like that is like an idiot. Thanks to this, she has nothing to refute even when the saintess insults her for being a slut all the time.
She swung her sword at the kobold that charged first. The kobold, who rushed at it with ignorance, rolled on the floor, howling in pain, even if it was only lightly brushed.
“Quiik! It hurts! It hurts!”
“Quik! That sword is unusual. Everyone be careful!”
Kobolds are more intelligent than goblins. That’s why they rate kobolds as more dangerous than goblins. With the information obtained at the cost of one person, the kobold began to act with a close eye on the holy sword.
Of course, kobolds are low-level monsters. Even if they keep a close eye on them, their behavior doesn’t change much. He only thought about avoiding it when wielding the holy sword, and did not consider the reach of the weapon at all.
As I swung the holy sword wide, two more kobolds lost their lives. The kobolds let out strange cries and shot the crossbows they were holding.
“Ugh!”
I dodged the others, but one shot hit him in the shoulder. Damn it hurts I glanced at the saintess behind her, but she didn’t seem to have any intention of healing her wounds until the battle was over.
“Hmm… Are you still not done? To be worse than a rookie adventurer, it’s really a shame to be called a hero~”
“…… Damn, why the hell did my salesperson become like this?”
I’d rather do an assignment.
“Keugh….”
He pulled out the arrow stuck in his shoulder with force. Because I couldn’t swing the sword with the arrow stuck in it. Thanks to that, the flesh was torn and blood gushed out.
f*ck, it really hurts. In novels and webtoons, they move well even after being hit by arrows, but I wonder if they are all crazy people who can’t feel pain.
By biting down on his molars, he barely endured the pain and charged at the kobold. When the kobolds finished loading and lifted their crossbows again, they swung their holy swords again.
“Quiec!?”
“Sir, the crossbow is broken!”
The holy sword shattered the kobold’s crude crossbow with a single blow, and he cut off the kobold’s head with his foot. The other kobolds expressed their anger as they saw their fellow kobolds flying back with a roar.
“Quiik! Kill him quickly!”
“Kill!”
Kobolds with still intact crossbows aimed at me. However, my sword was a little faster than their actions. As soon as the arrowheads were fired from their crude crossbows, the crossbows and stupid-looking cobwebs shattered together.
The crossbow was shattered, and the arrow, whose path was twisted, passed past me rather than piercing my cheek.
Now, the last two are left.
“Qui, quiyik! Human, strong!”
“Run away, run away!”
The kobolds threw away their crossbows when their comrades were attacked, and started running around. Looking at them, I looked back.
“… What should I do?”
“Are you thinking of leaving the monsters behind? I really lack the mindset as a warrior~. I think we’d better go after him right now before asking such stupid questions.”
“… Yes.”
I regretted why I asked such a question after hearing the harsh voice. I saw one as I went into the forest in pursuit of the kobold that had run away. I immediately followed and cut with the holy sword.
“Quiik!!!”
Leaving behind the kobold who had fallen with a scream, I set out to find another kobold. I walked around for a while, but still didn’t see one.
“Where did you go?”
If I can’t catch it and go back, I’m sure I’ll hear another damn thing. The place where the arrow hit my shoulder from earlier hurts, so I want to quickly grab it and go back.
“Kreukreuk….”
“Is that it?”
Something seems to have changed the sound of crying. Still, I thought that the cry of the monster might be different, and moved on. But it wasn’t the kobold that was there. To be precise, there was something resembling a wolf that was grabbing with both feet and devouring what was supposed to be a kobold.
“… Uh?”
“Kreukreuk….”
Among the monsters the saintess told me about, there was one that looked like that. Among the ‘Noll’, a bipedal monster resembling a dog or a wolf, the mid-level monster with a massive body, the Nol Chieftain. It was a monster whose strength far surpassed that of a low-class monster.
So it was a monster that I had no way to defeat. As these thoughts dominated my head, my body stiffened.
“Klaralak!”
The Nol Chieftain roared and threw down the kobold he was eating and raised an axe.
“Aagh!”
The great ax of the Gnoll Chieftain landed on my head, and the sight of it filled my mind with fear of approaching death.
I don’t want to die. Why do I have to die in a place like this? f*ck, let me go back to my house quickly.
After thinking all sorts of things, I instinctively closed my eyes and swung the holy sword.
“…… Huh?”
Even though the time passed when the ax should have split my skull in half, I felt no pain, so I opened my eyes.
The gnoll chieftain’s ax blade stopped overhead. Frightened, he quickly escaped to the side, and the huge body fell to the floor with a thump. Blood flowed from that huge body.
“… Did I catch you?”
Oh f*ck. I caught an intermediate level monster.
Won’t even a saint recognize this?
“Oh, hero….”
She seemed to have followed me into the forest, sneaking up from behind me and saying.
“Did you catch the Nol Chieftain?”
“Yes? Yes, it happened…I don’t know how I did it either.”
“Huh, the useless hero has worked hard.”
“…Rather than that, could you heal that wound?”
“Are you hurt again? To be beaten by kobolds is really disrespectful. I can’t help it, I’ll treat you~♡”
While doing that, she treats her with sincerity. She doesn’t show any signs of getting tired of repeating fighting, getting hurt, and being treated like this every time, wondering if she’s being revered as a saint for nothing.
“By the way, saintess, I also caught that Nol Chieftain, so shouldn’t we be able to deal with stronger monsters now?”
“Yes~~? You don’t even know how you got it. Are you excited and narcissistic about accidentally defeating the Chieftain?”
“…I think I made a mistake.”
f*ck. I can’t say anything.
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‘I was surprised….’
I was worried about Abel who had gone into the forest and followed him. He was facing a Norl Chieftain, not a kobold. It was a monster that Abel’s skills couldn’t match yet.
At the desperate moment when the Nol Chieftain’s ax was about to be thrust into Abel’s head, Estelle used her s*xual skills.
《Holy Sword》
She closed her eyes and did not see Abel, who swung her sword, but the sword made of brilliant light cut through the gnoll chieftain in an instant. It was so powerful that even an intermediate level monster could be cut down with her single sword.
“A hero….”
And Estelle, who was about to call Abel, hesitated.
‘Um….’
I thought it might be okay to give him a little reward for his recent hard work. Abel decided to act as if he had defeated the Chieftain himself.
Waiting for Abel to figure out the situation, then timing her, she appeared.
“Oh, hero….”
And she acted like someone seeing the situation for the first time.
“Did you catch the Nol Chieftain?”
Abel answered as calmly as possible.
“Yes? Yes, it happened…I don’t know how I did it either.”
But Estelle saw it. The corners of his lips twitched slightly. He was so happy with the sense of accomplishment that he had caught a mid-level monster, it was plain to see that he was at a loss for what to do.
‘It’s cute.’
I heard that I liked it that way, a hundred times a thousand times that I was good at doing this. Because I was able to see Abel’s cute reaction.
“Huh, the useless hero has worked hard.”
As she praised her, the corner of his mouth twitched. Cute person. She never thought that she would be with such a hero, but she was very lucky. Maybe it’s Goddess Solaria’s mercy.
Abel pointed at her shoulder and said, keeping the corner of her mouth raised slightly.
“…Rather than that, could you heal that wound?”
I could see her shoulder, which had been hit by her arrow earlier. Estelle was happy to see Abel making demands on her, and contrary to her sincerity, a sharp answer flowed from her mouth.
“Are you hurt again? To be beaten by kobolds is really disrespectful.”
Abel flinched. It was a reaction that came because she, he, and she knew too well that they were weak. Feeling sorry for her appearance, she quickly added her words.
“I can’t help it, I’ll treat you~&”
Still, I don’t act too grumpy without giving treatment. Estelle was the one who wanted Abel to be stronger than anyone else. She healed Abel’s wounds by generously pouring her divine power.
‘Thank God, I didn’t get hurt too much this time.’
Except for her shoulder, which had been properly hit by an arrow, there were only scratches and bruises. A warrior is definitely a warrior. The speed at which his skills improved was extraordinary.
Looking at Estelle, who was internally happy with his growth, Abel said.
“By the way, saintess, I also caught that Nol Chieftain, so shouldn’t we be able to deal with stronger monsters now?”
Estelle tilted her head at Abel’s remark. She didn’t know that this side effect would happen because she gave it back to him.
So Estelle gave realistic advice. Of course, the tone that came out of her mouth was poignant.
“Yes~~? You don’t even know how you got it. Are you excited and narcissistic about accidentally defeating the Chieftain?”
“…I think I made a mistake.”
Abel said that, and her expression turned sullen. Seeing his expression like that, Estelle thought she said too harshly, so she didn’t know what to do inside.
‘Looks like you’re in a bad mood….’
A word slipped from Estelle’s mouth as she pondered how to tell her.
“Still, you’ve become a little bit useful, poor warrior~&”
😌good to see her real personality is rather soft