43 – Making Butterfly Soup
My feelings after seeing the demon king.
Of course it was, but my heart was fear.
The ghastly fear learned in the past, and the fear seen directly in front of his eyes, was felt by the demon lord.
And in the face of such horror, it was meaningless to have a beautiful appearance.
The appearance of the demon king was a very lovely and pretty girl, but in the end, what mattered was the essence.
I don’t care about trivial things if I’ve experienced the creepy magic myself.
“Hmm… I got caught.”
That’s why I froze for a while…
Still, it didn’t matter.
Because there is a return scroll.
In preparation for such a situation, I am prepared to tear the return scroll immediately.
I made it so that you can escape immediately if you want to.
And now, just then, I picked up the Instant Return Scroll, and was about to tear it.
“Wait a minute.”
The demon king looked at me and said something unexpected.
‘Why are you doing that…?’
Originally, I thought that even attack magic would fly.
In the past, when I ran away from the demon king, the last thing I saw was the demon king using his magic to kill me.
But for some reason, the demon lord didn’t use attack magic on me.
Why are you telling me to wait?
I really don’t understand.
“Why should I wait?”
And there was no reason to listen to the demon king.
But, thinking that a little conversation would be fine, I replied to the demon king’s words.
Even at such a moment, I was ready to tear the return scroll at any moment if I did anything nonsense.
“Let’s talk to Jim.”
The demon king smiles at me like that.
It seemed that the Demon King had no intention of fighting for now.
He was staring at me while suppressing the overflowing demonic energy as much as possible.
“I don’t know why. Why do you want to talk to me?”
But I won’t let my guard down.
The opponent was an enemy, and I couldn’t be careless.
We talked while looking at the demon king without slowing down even a bit.
Actually, it might not matter if I tear the scroll like this.
But this was an opportunity for me.
I might be able to dig up this and that information while I have a means of escape called a scroll.
I asked the devil what I was most curious about.
Why are you interested in me?
“You’re a guy Jim is quite interested in.”
The devil’s answer to that.
“I don’t know if I’ve become interested in the demon king…”
It was a word that I couldn’t understand even after hearing it once.
Listening to what the demon king was saying, I couldn’t understand a little.
There was nothing to pinpoint.
For several years, the Demon King’s Army and the warrior’s party have engaged in many large and small skirmishes.
That said, the demon king and I only met once.
“So what do you want to say?”
Anyway, so what does the demon king want to say to me?
I wouldn’t say that I called because I was interested.
“Hmm… That’s what I want to say.”
The Demon King listened to my words and pondered.
Then he looked at me and said with a meaningful expression.
“I will never lose to you. I will beat you. I don’t know why, but I wanted to say this.”
And the expression of the demon lord who said such a thing looked somewhat lonely.
“I don’t understand…”
I couldn’t understand even more when I saw a demon king like that.
Why are you giving me such a lonely expression?
And who am I to want to win?
No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t understand it.
“Goodbye anyway.”
It didn’t matter.
I tore up the scroll and returned to the academy dormitory.
“Alan…”
And the demon king left behind.
The demon king left the place with a lonely, but slightly relieved expression.
“Hmm…”
That’s how I came back to the academy.
A lot of things have happened, but in the end, everything seems to have worked out.
Although half of the hero’s strength was recovered, Miner was safely rescued.
I don’t know why the demon lord is, but I don’t feel like he let me go so easily, but…
Still, this is a very good achievement.
I was satisfied.
“Then shall we go see the cats soon?”
Anyway, now it’s time to do the next thing.
I went to the room where Miner returned.
“Huh… Alan.”
When I opened the door, I could see Miner crying and hugging me.
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Miner.
The thief of the warrior party.
She felt so much relief right now, at this moment.
I never really knew what would happen…
In the end, I managed to escape like this.
She was really in despair.
She thought that now she was hopeless and that she was sure to suffer something terrible.
Of course, her heart was extremely concentrated, and it was very touching that Alan came to her in such a situation.
“Hueeng… Alan.”
The door is open.
And Alan came in.
Then Miner couldn’t control her tears.
“Thank you for saving me…”
The man who saved his life.
Thanks to Allan, and a sense of liberation that finally got out of fear, etc.
Many things started to take over her emotions, and she finally couldn’t help but shed tears.
‘I… I thought of you… As a wallet…’
In fact, Miner did nothing good to Alan.
Alan secretly stole Alan’s money, and she even spent it on her own.
Even so, Alan came to rescue him.
This was very emotional for her.
“Huh… Thank you so much.”
Alan was her lifesaver.
Miner saw Alan like that, and although her body was restrained and she couldn’t move properly, she was embraced by him.
Now, at this moment, Alan was the hero who saved him.
As she fell into his arms, she washed away the thoughts that had been troubling her.
“Ugh… I was so scared…”
By burying his face in Alan’s chest, Miner thought about what had happened.
She thought that she was really going to die at one time, and that if things continued like this, she might suffer terrible things, so this reaction was natural.
“Yes. Yes. Was it difficult?”
And Alan gently stroked Miner’s hair.
She hugged her while she was crying.
He comforted Miner with kind words.
“Yeah… It was hard.”
“I’m fine now.”
Every time that happened, Miner complained even more.
Still, her allan comforted her.
Miner felt the warmth, and she was overcome with happiness.
‘Alan is such a wonderful man…’
While being hugged by Allan, Miner was overcome with slightly different emotions than before.
He was the man who saved him, and on top of that, it wasn’t a light action to take care of himself who was hurt like this.
This action was enough to move her heart.
Miner felt his heart pounding.
Looking at Alan’s face, I don’t know why, but her breathing quickened and her face went red.
So dazed… When she lost her mind.
“You may want to rest, but would you like to follow me?”
Alan stroked Miner’s hair and took him somewhere.
Miner silently followed Alan…
Because at this moment, she had no choice but to reject her.
“But… Where are you taking me?”
After walking like that for about 5 minutes, Miner was curious and asked Alan.
Where the hell am I taking myself?
No matter how much I thought about it, there was nowhere to guess.
So I asked…
“I know when I see it.”
Allan grinned and took Miner away.
And when about 5 minutes passed like that.
“Arrived.”
Alan’s destination was finally reached.
It was Alan who opened the door and raised her hand to introduce Miner into the room.
“Huh…?”
And seeing such a room, Miner could not help but be surprised.
Because she was strange.
No matter how you look at it, it was not an ordinary room.
“A huge… Cauldron…?”
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In her room was a cauldron that could fill the room.
And next to it was the firewood for boiling such a cauldron.
Why is there such a needlessly large cauldron?
Miner didn’t understand at all.
She looked at Allan, wishing he could explain this, but…
“I prepared it for you.”
“A… Cauldron…?”
I couldn’t understand even after hearing Alan’s words.
Are you going to give me the cauldron as a gift…?
Then why are you giving the cauldron as a gift?
I didn’t understand anything.
That moment when I was so blank.
I heard something inside the cauldron.
“Whoop whoop… Whoop!!!”
A sound as if begging for help with all your might.
It was the sound of something wriggling inside the cauldron.
“What is…?”
What the hell are you talking about?
Miner jumped up to check, then looked at the cauldron.
He was able to discover something shocking in it.
“Uh… Sister…?”
At the bottom of the empty cauldron, I was able to find a cat, Suin, who was tied up and her mouth was blocked…
The cat Suin was her own sister.
His older sister, Mer. She was in the cauldron
“Why is my sister here…?”
Miner didn’t understand at all.
Aside from the pleasure of meeting her sister after a long time, why is she here?
I couldn’t understand it at all, and I couldn’t understand the other things at all…
It didn’t take long for her to understand.
“Because… Why are there cats in the butterfly soup?”
Allan pushed Miner into the cauldron.
“Ah… Alan…!?”
And then I closed the lid.
The moment she took the miner, she got goosebumps.