44 – Natalie, hang on (2)
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In the afternoon, I headed to the devil’s den I visited last time with Edward.
Edward wanted to reunite with the priestess Aslag, who had cured him.
At his request, I had no choice but to cancel my afternoon schedule and was on my way.
Both wore chestnut seller hats and walked side by side, but Edward kept lagging behind.
Looking at his expression, he is deeply troubled.
“What are you thinking about?”
“Well… I’m thinking about how to say hello when I meet her.”
“Just say hello.”
“I want to impress as much as possible. It will be remembered for a long time.”
Edward suddenly clapped his hands.
“right! I can practice with you!”
“What?”
“Become Aslag for me!”
“You want me to pretend to be that woman? Did you take the wrong medicine?”
“Wait a minute! Help me to say hello naturally without being nervous!”
He’s really into it.
Maru stopped walking and faced him.
“Okay, do it. Let’s see how well you do.”
“Thank you!”
Edward turned around and muttered something to himself.
“The one in front of me is the wife of Aslag. The one in front of me is Aslag’s wife. It is certain that the one in front of me is Aslag’s wife… ”
“What are you muttering to yourself?”
“Wait a minute. You’re hypnotizing me. Maru is Aslag’s wife. Maru is Aslag’s wife… ”
Edward’s expression changed.
I got more leeway.
Hypnosis seems to have succeeded.
“Oh, who is this! Isn’t that Miss Aslag, the one who healed you the other day!”
Maru refined his voice and imitated a female voice as much as possible.
“Excuse me, but who are you? I can’t remember.”
“As for me, the next king of this great kingdom! Ed, my name is Prince Edward!”
“Go away.”
“Ouch! Floor! Don’t look at me in disgust! That expression is not her!”
“I don’t even know what a woman is, but what if she reveals her identity as a prince from the beginning? Try something different.”
“Did it seem excessive? Got it. Let’s try a different approach this time.”
Edward cleared his throat and corrected his expression.
I looked back at the floor.
“Aren’t you Miss Aslag? What are you doing here? Oops, oops, it seems the sky is anxious to let us meet. To be reunited with you on a sunny day like today is truly a match made in heaven.”
“The greeting is disgusting.”
“Don’t spit on the floor when people greet you! She can’t be!”
“Do it a little more naturally.”
“I don’t know what to do naturally. He gets nervous and says anything.”
“Look Carefully.”
After clearing his throat, Maru made a soft expression.
“Are you Miss Aslag? I was thankful for the other day. My name is Edward. Matching the color of women’s underwear is a hobby. If you don’t mind, let’s try matching the color of the underwear Miss Aslag is wearing today, shall we?”
Edward shouted, tearing his hair.
“No way! Don’t make me a pervert! I’m not such a bad person!”
“Just say hi. I will take care of the rest.”
“Will you help me?”
“You are just watching. I’ll talk to her first, and then I’ll try to have a natural conversation with you.”
“What a great idea! If you step up, you’ve won thousands of horses! great!”
Edward clenched his fists in delight, then looked back casually and said:
“But hey. What is that woman thinking?”
“who?”
“I’ve been following you ever since. It looks good because it’s big, but haven’t you seen it?”
Maru looked back.
Natalie, clad in bikini armor and wearing a black cape with thick ankle-length hair, slung over her shoulders, was following.
He even had a large and fancy two-handed sword hanging from his back, so his presence was huge, drawing people’s attention.
When Maru looked at herself, she flinched and lowered her head quietly.
Maru rushed towards her.
“Why do you keep following me? Go your way.”
As I urged her to speak, she opened her mouth in a hushed voice.
“you… It’s like going hunting. I was wondering if there was anything I could do to help… Looking at it, there are only two of us. You don’t need a tanker?”
“I do not need. It’s a place just for two.”
“Dae, I won’t ask for anything in return, so just let me be with you.”
“Hey, can I use an S-class warrior for free?”
Natalie’s eyes twinkled and she nodded hastily.
no problem this
“Ah, but that tanker’s personality isn’t good, so I can’t do it. I’ll just go. Good bye.”
Maru immediately turned around and left.
Natalie dropped her shoulders and put on a sullen expression.
After a while, when I arrived at the site where the devil’s den was opened, I saw the manager I had met before.
Unlike when the Devil’s Den was first opened a few days ago, the amount of monsters pouring out was significantly reduced.
Usually, these devil’s dens are called Pidegi Caves.
It means that the number of monsters is small and it is ridiculous to only crawl out and deal with weak ones.
After the Pidegi Cave period, the Devil’s Den automatically closed and disappeared without a trace.
“I remember seeing that funny hat. You guys are here again.”
“It doesn’t matter if there are two of us, right?”
“It’s less dangerous than before, so take your own seat.”
Maru and Edward easily headed to the hunting ground, and Natalie, who appeared afterwards, was caught.
“It’s a dangerous place, so I can’t go there alone.”
“Do you want to die? A place like this doesn’t suck for me. If you don’t want to be beaten, let me in right away.”
Natalie opened her eyes as if she had been dying and made the manager tremble, but in the end, she was able to enter on the condition that she accompany another party.
“what? Didn’t you come today? I can’t see it.”
Maru and Edward did not settle down and searched for a priestess named Aslag for a long time.
But she didn’t even show a nose poke.
“Well, there is no Ollie again because we met then. I left it to pure luck and came blindly, but it failed.”
“no… I never thought my love would be this tough… ”
Fortunately, Edward found people who had been at the same party as Aslag the previous day.
But the priest was a man.
I went right away and asked.
“Miss Aslag didn’t come today?”
“Mr. Aslag? Two months later, two warriors were coming to a place called Narundra, so I left there to see the warriors. I’m going sightseeing, so I won’t see you for a few months. He’s not even a member of our party in the first place.”
The hero of this era was a super star, so there were many people who deliberately followed him from far away to see him.
It seems that Aslag was also of that type.
Maru patted Edward’s shoulder, which seemed powerless.
“What can I do? It must have been unrelated.”
“My love… leave… go… ”
“We will be going to a place called Narundra soon, isn’t it? I will meet you there Since we’re here, let’s go hunting hard.”
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“Wow, great!”
“That person is a monster… ! Also look at the equipment! It’s different from normal adventurers!”
Natalie was slaughtering monsters with a two-handed sword without hesitation.
Since she was so active by herself, the party members had nothing to do.
I was just admiring it.
“What are you doing here with these bastards! Shit! I can’t eat it!”
She suddenly got angry, put a two-handed sword in her back and tried to leave.
The leader of the party rushed over.
“You must not leave the party. The site manager let me in on that condition.”
“What?”
Natalie grabbed him by the collar and lifted him up.
“Ouch!”
“Do you want to go back? Who are you to control me are you my boss?”
“I’m sorry!”
“Go away if you know.”
Throwing him to the floor, she left.
“I want to be with Maru.”
Natalie muttered firmly and wandered around looking for the floor.
Occasionally, when a monster rushed at me, I didn’t even look at it properly and hit it with my fist.
With one punch from her, the monster was greatly shocked and turned round.
“See you there.”
Fortunately, I found Maru quickly.
I just wanted to apologize to him for the past as soon as possible.
Even after breaking up with Maru, there is nowhere to go anyway.
It will only become a wandering knight.
Even if he tried to join a new party, it didn’t even come into sight unless it was a warrior class party.
It’s okay to be ignored by Maru.
It’s okay to be trampled on every day.
Among the people she had ever met, the best personal connection, the prince, was right in front of her eyes.
As the saying goes, even a slave must be the king’s slave, so even if you are treated like a dog, it’s better to be the prince’s dog.
It will bring many opportunities, wealth, and a comfortable life that were unimaginable in the past.
You can call it a snob.
If you realize that an acquaintance you’ve known all along turned out to be the crown prince, everyone will think like you in order to protect that precious network.
However, because of what he had done to Maru in the past, his heavy heart did not change.
He found out the unexpected fact that Maru was the crown prince, and his goal in life changed on the way, but his apology was sincere.
-In order to stop you from being addicted to paradise, it was best to put you in prison. It was the only way to protect you.
It was the only thing he could do to save himself.
As loyal as he once was to Keira, he wanted to be his dog now.
“The first man who slapped me on the cheek… ”
Natalie was not born to be a leader.
A person who is strong enough to be a leader, but will be ruined by an indolent and dissolute life unless someone guides him from above.
A longevity who must serve his master in order to live properly.
She instinctively chose Maru as her next host.
“Five… ”
The moment she got closer to Maru, Natalie hesitated.
It was amazing.
Maru’s ax to hunt monsters was amazing.
puck! puck puck!
Puck puck puck!
In her memory, it was very refreshing to see a person who only carried luggage powerfully hunting monsters with an ax in one hand.
“People have completely changed… ”
While Natalie watched admiringly from the shallow hill, Maru suddenly pointed at her with the ax in her hand.
“Hey you! Get in the way, so get out of sight!”
“Mi, sorry! I won’t bother you!”
Natalie hurriedly moved to a place where the floor was out of sight.
Hiding behind a tree, I stuck my head out and kept watching him hunt.
“Floor! Miss Natalie is watching again from the other side.”
Edward covered his nose with a handkerchief and pushed the corpses of the monsters that had fallen nearby with his feet to clear them out.
I was helping Maru not to fall while fighting.
“Leave it.”
Maru hit the back of the monster’s neck with a one-handed ax and threw it away.
“I’ll be leaving for a few days.”
Natalie continued to wander around until the hunt was over, and on the way back she followed with a pitiful look on her face.
However, Maru never paid attention as if he were treating a stranger.
‘It doesn’t hurt if I do that for 100 days.’
By the time he returned home with a cold attitude towards Natalie.
Compared to other times, the palace was noisy.
Everyone looked up at the sky and let out a sigh.
The news of the defeat of Kiera and the Toledo family, who had left the Eastern Expedition, spread far and wide.
“Well… ”
After hearing the news belatedly, Maru didn’t think much of it.
His impression was very simple.
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