6. Spilled Water
– Smart
Just before Maya’s lips collided with mine, Maya’s face came to a halt with the sound of knocking on her door.
– Sir Austin! What are you doing? I’ve been hearing a lot of noise ever since…
As Princess Alexis’ worried voice came through the tightly closed door, the doorknob began to rattle.
Maya, who perked up her ears for a moment and focused on the sound outside the door, narrowed her torn pupils still looking at me and asked in a cold voice.
“……Who are you?”
“Ah… No, that… He’s the one I’ve been with from the forest… Get away for now.”
“…Hmm.”
Maya’s vertically torn eyes, which had been staring at me from the distance where the tips of her noses met, moved towards the doorway, where there was a knocking sound.
– Oh… Sir Austin? You’re inside, right?… If you can hear me, please answer me..
When I didn’t respond, Princess Alexia, who made the sound of stamping her feet for a while, shouted again.
– Sir Austin…! I’ll get the key!! Please wait a minute!
She glared at her door for a moment, then Maya turned her head and put her mouth to my ear and let out her rough breath.
“Whoa… Princess Alexis… Is that her…?”
“……It’s so… Ah… Isn’t it?…”
“No. That’s right.”
At the hot breath that kept tickling my ears, I trembled and opened my mouth with difficulty.
“Keukssuk… Yeah… What would you do if you got hit by Sipal? No, didn’t Princess Alexis seduce you to not go back to the party in the first place?”
“…I know.”
“…..What?”
“I know, Austin. We’ve been bullying you… So you’re not coming back to the party. I know.”
“…Why are you doing this when you know it?”
After stretching her back and looking down at my face for a moment, Maya fell on top of me again and rubbed her face against my chest like a cat.
“…Just. It’s my stubbornness. I need Austin.”
“…Can I take that as saying that I’m in trouble because I, who was in charge of chores, disappeared?”
“…..No.”
Maya, who rubbed her cheek against my chest, raised her head and looked up at my face.
With the pupils back to normal, the eyes burned red from the traces of dried tears.
“…I just… I just hate… Austin. I don’t like you being with that woman… With that person.”
At the sound of Maya’s voice shaking as if she was about to burst into tears again, my head went cold.
When I was at a party, one of the crazy b*tches, who always berated me and couldn’t kill me, came out of nowhere and pretended to be an unreasonable lover as if I had an affair.
At the duplicity of Maya’s vomit-like attitude, I looked straight into Maya’s eyes and opened my mouth with a hard voice.
“…Hey. Come out now.”
“Ugh… I hate it…”
Are you unaware of the fact that I am angry, or are you shaking your head in a nasal voice to try to defuse the situation somehow?
Perhaps the latter, I thought.
You don’t have to listen anymore.
“…Maya.”
“…Austin…”
I gazed straight into Maya’s eyes as she looked at me with affection for a moment, then lifted up and wrapped both free legs around Maya’s neck, who was sitting on my back.
“…Uh…Uh…?!”
While Maya still couldn’t figure out what the situation was, Maya’s position was reversed in an instant as she crossed her legs and lowered the legs wrapped around Maya’s neck.
“Profit… Austin…!”
As if to protest against me, Maya glared at me with slightly inflated cheeks and tried to move her arms. In order to stabilize Maya’s body, I flipped her body over and wrapped her arms and legs around her like a snake.
“Huh…! Austin…!! What now…”
“Shh… Quiet.”
As I tightened Maya’s shoulders with a sharp voice, Maya’s mouth fell shut, perhaps foreseeing a future where her arm would fall off.
“Okay. Now let’s talk.”
“……How…”
“Huh?”
“Uh… How could Austin be… Hiding… His skills…?”
“…Huh, really.”
Did I look down on you this much? With that in mind, I let out a short sigh and clicked my tongue.
“Maya. I must have forgotten because I always cooked and waited on you, but I spent 4 years as a Ranger. In a one-on-one situation, even in a one-on-one battle, unless you’re a hero or a Gracie, you can’t lose.”
Until now, I was looking after you. It was a word that had the meaning implicitly.
And she, who is a genius at best and a clever brain at worst, spoke in a trembling voice as if she understood what I was saying.
“Ha… But… Adrien is always. The Rangers of Maetel Kingdom are pathetic…”
Adrien. She always laughed at me and looked down on the Rangers I served.
“Yes… Adrien. Do you know why that b*tch always looks down on the Rangers?”
“…Why… Why…?”
“Adrien can fire dozens of shots in the time it takes for me to fire one, but I’m slow compared to him, so I use a burst crossbow.”
Adrien always made fun of me using the crossbow.
While pouring arrows nonstop at the location of the enemies I briefed on during the battle, I used my more accurate and penetrating mithril crossbow, memorization, and melee combat skills to support the warriors and pin down the enemy’s boss. Played a role in pushing
It was because the heads of the Demon King’s army were able to withstand Adrien’s silverwood arrows from Mandalay.
I dealt with ragtags who lost their boss and wandered around, and after the battle, he would always openly insult me, saying, ‘What to do with that slow crossbow?’
“Adrien, that stupid b*tch. In the first place, each party has a role to play. Adrien is a role suitable for dealing with large-scale enemies or giant monsters such as ogres, while I scout, assassinate, and engage small enemies. You’ve been trained as expected. Maya, do you really believe in the words of such a stupid b*tch?”
“……That’s it.”
“Do you really think Adrien can be my opponent? I can kill Adrien in one minute in a one-on-one situation.”
The Silver Wings Patrol, an archer knight order of the Elven Kingdom that Adrienne served, was created to deal with the huge marine demons of the Demon King’s Army that tried to attack the back of the Elven Kingdom by crossing the sea in the past.
Of course, I personally appreciate the elves’ bow skills, especially the silver wing patrol’s bow skills, but all kinds of special bolts, destructive mithril crossbows, and professionally trained anti-personnel combat techniques are Adrien’s specialties in fighting monsters. It is rat poison for them.
“Maya.”
“…….”
“…Maya.”
“…Huh… Huh…?”
Seeing Maya’s bewildered attitude, I let out a sigh and released the limbs that were restraining Maya.
“Anyway, again, I’m not planning on going back to the party. So please get off. What time is it now?”
“…….”
“…Haa…”
When I resolutely issued the order to celebrate, Maya let go of his hand little by little, his tail and ears drooping.
I thought I had nothing more to say, so I got up and walked to the door and opened it myself.
“Get out. And I hope I won’t have to see your face from now on.”
Maya, who had bitten his lower lip and glanced out the door, seemed to have given up soon after, dragging her trudging steps out the door.
“…Sorry. Good night.”
“Yeah. Quick get out of here. You’re making me feel like sh*t.”
I watched Maya slowly descend the stairs until the end, and after Maya disappeared, Princess Alexis hurriedly climbed the stairs and opened the door, then I saw her running toward me.
“Huh… Heh… Oh… Sir Austin… Why did you answer…”
“Sorry. I forgot to fall asleep… I actually have a bad sleeping habit, so I think I was a little noisy.”
“Ah…”
Princess Alexis, who blinked her eyes and pursed her lips for a moment, her face flushed bright red, perhaps ashamed of the fact that she had been mistaken.
“Aw… I’m sorry… I’m… Worrying for nothing…”
“No. I don’t know what to do with you worrying about me.”
Princess Alexis groaned as she covered her face with her hands for a moment, then raised her head and asked, as if she had suddenly remembered something about her.
“Oh … Oh, I know the cat’s wizard girl who was just going down?”
“……No. Who are you talking about…”
“Ah… Well… I just ran into him when I was rushing up the stairs. He was crying while muttering Sir Austin’s name..”
“…I am a stranger. You must have woken up in the middle of your sleep because of me, but you should go to sleep.”
After sending the hesitant Princess Alexis back to her room, I returned to my room and lay flat on the bed.
“…Ugh, it’s cold.”
While I was closing the window due to the exceptionally cool wind, I suddenly saw a large wizard’s cone-shaped hat walking away from the inn.
…Tonight, I’m going to sleep with the windows and doors tightly locked.
* * *
Maya walked helplessly back to the inn where the hero and party members were staying.
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No matter how much she regretted it, she couldn’t take back what Maya had done to Austin.
It was already spilled water.
Maybe Austin won’t come back to the party in the future, and may not even accept Maya’s apology.
But I don’t want to give up.
She didn’t want to be away from him.
“…Sigh…”
Before entering the room where her companions were staying, she hurriedly wiped her tears with her sleeve and opened the room door. The warriors and party members who were discussing how to find Austin turned their eyes to Maya and expressed their doubts. .
“Maya! Why are you so late? You haven’t even eaten dinner.”
“Maya. Where the hell did you go? I kept worrying.”
“………”
The attitude of Adrien and Gracie, who welcomed her warmly, came even more awkwardly to Maya today.
“Huh? Where have you been? Maya.”
The warrior, Lee Yu-jeong, approached with a worried look and asked, and Maya pondered for a moment whether she should tell the truth about her visit to Austin.
“…I just came for a walk.”
“I’m sorry. Don’t leave without saying anything.”
The hero reacted to Maya’s answer as if it was not a big deal, and Maya sighed inside her and sat down between them.
Isabelle, who had been watching Maya ever since she entered her room, sneaked up to Maya and sat down next to her.
“…?”
It took a moment for Maya to express her doubts about Isabel’s behavior that suddenly clung to her, and Isabelle suddenly put her mouth into Maya’s ear and whispered.
“Maya… Didn’t you go for a walk?”
“…….”
“I know everything. This smell… You’re here to meet Austin…?”
Isabel’s breath tickled her ears, and Maya shook her body.
“…It’s not.”
“…I see. Got it.”
At Isabel’s unexpectedly easy going away, Maya couldn’t help but put on a slightly flustered expression.
Isabel looked at Maya for a while with her meaningful smile on, then turned her head to focus on the conversation of her party members.
“Puechwi!!! Ugh, did you catch a f*cking cold?”