The next day, meal prep time.
“Hey, give me the salt shaker over there.”
As if nothing happened, Jain turned the meat over and spoke. When Ren handed the salt shaker, their fingertips touched for a moment. Ren’s face turned red as if it had been painted with paint, and he took a step back. But Jain carelessly sprinkled salt on the meat.
“Then, please wash the dishes, please.”
“okay.”
‘It happened yesterday, and it’s the same as usual.’
I was a little upset. Ren wiped the plate under running water, glanced at Jain’s back. And I remembered what happened yesterday.
*
The one who fell asleep, as if buried in a sleeping bag, continued to moan lightly and toss and turn. It looked like his back was wet with cold sweat.
“father…”
It was like having a nightmare. It would have been easier to wake up, but I didn’t wake up while tossing and turning. Ren, who didn’t know it was going to be like this, was sitting on his knees next to him, confused, not knowing what to do.
“The will, surely…”
I slept softly again. His face, drenched in cold sweat, looked so painful. Ren hesitated, shaking his shoulder to wake Jain. The moment he put his hands on both shoulders, Jain got up from his seat and took a deep breath.
“Wait, are you okay? I’ll pour you some water!”
Ren quickly poured water from the canteen and handed it over. Jain, who wiped his cold sweat-drenched bangs, took a glass of water from Ren’s hand, drank and wiped his mouth. It was only then that he looked like he was going to live.
“Thank you. I’ve come to my senses.”
Shaking up the droopy hair that was wet with sweat, Zain handed him a glass of water. Ren put his hand on his chest and sighed.
“thank god.”
It was at the same time that Jain realized that it was strange.
“What, why are you here?”
“You and you go into the girls’ tents every day without permission. So, I’ve been in too.”
“I am. Is that the purpose?”
“Huh? Ugh…”
“I’m not going to go in in the future, so go out and sleep.”
After saying that, Jain turned around again. this isn’t it Today, I was going to confess. I liked it a lot and came wearing underwear. Confused, Ren said while shaking Jain to wake him up.
“He, not that, Bo, I came here to repay you. With me…”
“Retribution, what do you mean?”
Jain stood up as if annoyed. And only then did he realize that Ren was wearing black underwear. And he said with a smirk.
“Are you also bitten by that ragweed boy? What kind of thinking, all of a sudden.”
Even here, it would have been better to just say that I had come to confess. However, Ren, who was a purely cultivated girl in her own way, was unable to say such a thing and wiggled her fingers.
“He, that’s because he fought for me and saved my life… in return.”
“It’s enough if I woke you up earlier and gave you a glass of water. Thank you. It’s a f*cking nightmare I have every day, but I almost had to sleep until tomorrow.”
Jain, who shook Ren’s head and stroked Ren’s head, suddenly stopped while trying to lie down. He looked as if he was worried that he was afraid to even imagine.
“Really, I believe it, but I’m asking just in case.”
“Well, what is it?”
“Are you a virgin?”
Ren’s face reddened like an apple again. I’ve never been alone with a man for so long in a room before, and it was natural. Ren nodded like a stiff piece of wood. I relaxed the strength in my back so that I would fall naturally in case of an attack. But Jain sighed in relief and wiped his chest, but didn’t approach him at all.
“thank god.”
“Well, what.”
As Ren timidly rebelled, Jain grabbed Ren’s small shoulder and spoke seriously.
“You see, a virgin is neither an object of trade nor an object of transfer. Like the air, sky, and sunlight, she is not an object of possession. Don’t do it. You’ll regret it. All right?”
Roughly speaking, it was like saying that purity is precious and should be kept.
You’re the one he really likes, you idiot!
Ren wanted to scream. But when he saw Jain’s face that had reached in front of his eyes, there was nothing he could do other than nod his head as he lost his shyness.
“okay.”
“Okay. Then it’s safe.”
For some reason, Jain had a satisfied expression on his face. In the end, Ren had no choice but to escape from the tent.
*
‘Is this a broken heart?’
Ren, who was washing the dishes, bowed his head. Thinking like that, my nose wrinkled and I felt like I was about to cry. As I did that, even risking my life to fight for me, I thought I would accept it of course, so I went…
Again, the bridge of my nose became cold and I sniffled. Just thinking about it made me feel like I was going to die of embarrassment. Ren, who had been groaning all night, came to a conclusion on his own as to why he was hitting the wall again after treating him well. Glancing at Jain’s back, he thought to himself.
‘Maybe they just don’t think it’s the right time to do that.’
The number one cause of the breakup of the adventurers’ party was always the issue of political affairs regardless of the east and west. I remembered what Jain said when he first joined the party. It was said that there must be a reason to capture the Demon King. There, I thought that yesterday’s sleep talk, the sad expression on waking up from the dream, everyone had something to do with it.
‘You must defeat the Demon King, you must be carrying some heavy duty.’
When I thought about it that way, a lot of things made sense. Shaking his head, Ren wiped the last plate down and put it down.
‘Yeah, when I think about it soberly, right now, in a party, there’s a couple who are suddenly dating on the premise of marriage, and then I think it’s going to be very bad.’
All of a sudden, he was drinking kimchi soup from a bowl, but Ren himself did not realize it. At that moment, Jain’s blunt voice was heard from behind.
“What are you doing, when you’ve finished washing the dishes, you should bring the plates here. Come quickly.”
“okay!”
Ren, who ran at a trot with a bunch of plates, stood next to Zain and began to transfer the meat. And I asked as if nothing happened.
“You know, but how many children do you want to have?”
“Why are you asking that?”
“Well, I was just curious.”
“Um, about five people?”
“Five or five people each? It’s a little, difficult, why?”
“Because the more brothers and sisters, the better.”
“That’s right. I’ll have to do my best.”
“I’ll have to do my best. Child support doesn’t usually cost a lot.”
Ren, who had been stroking his belly for a while, said as if nothing had happened again while cooling the meat with a fan.
“Oh, by the way, how did you pick it up. Karin doesn’t seem to want to have children?”
“okay?”
“Yeah. I’ve heard you talk about the love of dragons before, but when the hero said that they wanted to have five children, he just got angry. Every time I see a child, I look cute, I want to walk hand in hand. surprised.”
“That’s right. That’s great.”
And then, I decided.
This party, which has been aiming for the demon king, has defeated the demon king, and after everything is over,
Let me confess my sincerity once again.
“I can’t use it. I don’t know. What did you write?”
“It’s a secret! I’ll tell you tomorrow!”
So, the day before the battle against the Demon King, I secretly put my sincerity in the cake. let’s be together forever After reading the letter in front of everyone, I thought of confessing before anyone else.
“From now on, let’s just live our whole lives without seeing each other. It’s like we don’t know each other and we’ve never met.”
And the cake was horribly broken in less than a day.
All Ren was allowed was to sit down on his knees and stare at it with dead eyes.
*
“This is the end of the adventure you went through.”
Sonnet Street Information Room. Eunyo Daewon, who had gathered all the information, finished the story and looked at Soria’s appearance. The reason why Eunyo Daewon, the key intelligence officer of Eunyodang, looked after his eyes was simple.
It was because Soria had come in and asked for information, saying that she should know what happened at the hero’s party today.
“That’s right. Lady, it’s all better now, so the head of the family was so relaxed. It’s good, it’s good.”
And Soria was now taking off her glasses and was crying.
“You were hiding such a great sadness only from me, my lady…”
Soria, who had been wiping away her tears, abruptly stopped her hand. Because suddenly a great sense of uneasiness had overtaken her.
“Wait! Then why is she locked up in that room right now…”
Having not seen Ren’s face for a whole month, Soria is now suffering from extreme anxiety. Lost in reason, she began to make hasty reasoning.
“Sorry! Is it morbidity? The solution to morbidity is drugs! Isn’t it possible that you are locked up in your room and given dangerous drugs to soothe the pain of your broken heart?”
“Hey, what kind of drug… is she the kind of person?”
“Other than that, I’ll buy something with top-secret service! Even in Lawless City, the home of the Thieves Guild!”
‘Certainly. This is a woman’s sense.’
Soria’s doubts gradually turned into certainty. At that moment, a painful groan that was leaning against the door ignited Soria’s imagination.
“This is definitely a drug. No, that’s the only thing, isn’t it?”
“Madame, where are you going?”
As Soria jumped up and left the door, Eunyo tried to grab the hem of her robe as if in bewilderment. But now, Soria was in a state of runaway.
“You have to open the door and pull it out! Otherwise, you could seriously hurt yourself!”
“I, the handmaiden. The head of the household has ordered the young lady to just have some alone time, but…”
“How is it! Even if it’s not the head of the family, but the Demon King, or even the Jin Demon Hwang, you can’t stop me!”
“Handmaiden! Where are you going!”
This has to be knocked down and pulled out unconditionally. You have to pull it out, eat it, put it to sleep, and calm your mind and body. Soria made up her mind and immediately ran out of the door and headed for Ren’s room. Soria, who arrived in front of the door in the blink of an eye, leaned her ear against the door again and overheard the sound. That painful moan was heard again from the room. Soria couldn’t stand it and screamed.
“Girl! Get out of the room now! One kick doesn’t mean the world is over!”
“So, Soria? What, what?”
“That bastard, he says he’s in Rotern! Now, all the other party members are leaving in their wagons to rescue the exhausted bastard! Will the young lady be confined to her room by the way?”
“Okay, okay, okay, stop shaking the door! I’ll open it!”
“I’ll open it up! I’ll get you out of this harsh fate!”
“No! Never open it! If I open it, I, I will die!”
Ren’s reaction was somewhat different from what he expected, but Soria’s ears were not audible. She soon took dozens of shurikens from the holster on her thighs, held them like a fan in her hands, and threw them towards the door. The mahogany door leaf was shattered into dozens of pieces by the maid’s blow.
“Come on, lady, first take a bath with me…”
And then, Soria saw the appearance of the room exposed through the broken door and hardened like a rock.
“What is this?”
The appearance of the room where Ren was locked up was very surprising. Soria was shocked as if she had been hit in the head. I was so surprised that the dialect I had forgotten after being enrolled in the Sonnets came back.
“Hey, I told you not to open it…”
A dead silence enveloped the two of them. Ren’s slender complaints flowed out, but Soria was still staring blankly at the room.