Inside An Adult Game As A Former Hero chapter 104

EP.104 Queen Maker

“So I’m going to stay with Lupus for a while. It will take a considerable amount of time to restore the broken administrative system.”

The first floor hall of the inn.

We had breakfast and explained our plans to the party members.

“I feel sorry for both of you. However, as the situation is the situation, be patient even if it is frustrating.”

Eri and Ophelia continued to wait for me in Lupus while I was roaming the continent. I would have wanted to finally get out of this damn city, but I would be annoyed at having to sit down again.

But what?

“If the hero says so, I will gladly do it.”

“it’s okay. It was a situation where I was reluctant to go out because the research I was doing was not finished anyway.”

They didn’t show any signs of discomfort. I don’t know about Ophelia, but what about Eri? She’s the one who always grumbled.

“If you say that, is it a pretty important study?”

“that’s right. If you didn’t speak up, I was going to talk to you first about staying in the city for a while.”

“Oh my, since you said that, I wonder what kind of research it is.”

Leslie, who had been quietly eating beside her, suddenly raised a voice. Perhaps surprised by her mention of her own research, Eri widened her eyes slightly. But she soon glared at Leslie with her narrow eyes.

“Why are you curious about that?”

“It’s a research that an excellent wizard like Eri-san considers important. As a wizard, how can you not be curious?”

Perhaps it was a word that raised Eri in a secret way, but Eri’s expression became more contorted rather than improved.

“The same wizard? yes. Do you know how disrespectful it is to be interested in other people’s research as a wizard?”

“Yeah? Was there such a culture? sorry. I didn’t know that. I was just curious, so I just asked.”

“under! You didn’t even know the basic rules of the tower on the same topic of wizards? Funny.”

Eri spoke as if it were abominable, but returning to her was a casual answer.

“Oh, was that the rule of the tower? sorry. I’ve never been to the tower, so I don’t know.”

“…You never went to the tower? So you’re saying that all your magic is self-taught? Are you that genius?”

“Oh my, it’s an exaggeration to be a genius. Am I just following the inspiration from the book?”

“Are you inspired? Are you sure you’ve created some original magic to say that?”

“Original magic? Depending on the point of view, it might be. Because no one can copy my magic.”

Eri narrowed her forehead as if she was making fun of someone.

Leslie smiled and spread her palms out.

-Shoot it.

A whirlwind of cold air flowed from her palms. Frost changed form from sword to spear, from spear to an axe, and from an ax to a horse.

As the chilled horses squealed, their manes flew away. It was as if a living horse had been placed on her palm.

“As you can see.”

“How can you control that kind of magic power…”

Eri’s face no longer contained any unpleasant emotions. Instead, she hardened her expression, as if she had seen something she shouldn’t have seen.

Leslie tilted her head.

“Magic control? Are you talking about this?”

The shape of the horse that was beating the tulle was scattered and an eagle was formed. The eagle flapped its long wings and floated in the air.

Eri with only her eyes fluttering without a word.

Turning to her, Leslie said in a voice that there was nothing wrong with it.

“Is it just okay?”

“just..?”

“Yeah. just. It has been from birth.”

“…lie.”

“Are you lying? Are you lying about what I have to gain by lying to s. Eri?”

Still a calm voice.

Eri bit her lip and patted the table, got up from her seat and strode towards the stairs.

“Eri, where are you going other than eating?”

“I have no appetite.”

With a sigh, she went up the stairs.

I looked at her and turned my gaze to Ophelia.

“Ophelia, I’m sorry, but can you go upstairs and comfort Eri?”

“Yeah. I’ll make you eat even while you’re doing it.”

“It must be annoying, but thank you.”

“You don’t have to thank me. These are the words of the warrior.”

Ophelia nodded her head and went up to the second floor with Eri and her plate. She opened her mouth after making sure she was fully up.

“Did you do that on purpose?”

“Is that on purpose? What are you talking about?”

“…”

As I narrowed my eyes and stared at her, her puzzled expression turned into a smirk.

“You knew.”

“Of course. There’s no way a guy who doesn’t know what magic control is going to get to that level.”

“Maybe it’s just that I’m very talented, right?”

“The more excellent people are, the more faithful they are to the basics. You know that?”

“It is.”

Leslie folded her palms. The cold air in the form of an eagle was scattered in the air.

“Apart from that, it is true that I have been able to do this since I was born. I want you to believe this.”

I nodded.

What she said this time was true.

Because her power was closer to superpowers than magic.

Converts the mana in the body to cold.

It is the so-called mystery body.

Thanks to this, it was possible to skip the high magic control and chanting, but there are also clear limitations.

Because all mana is replaced by cold, ordinary magic cannot be used.

Thanks to this, she cannot use basic magic such as shield, let alone other elemental magic such as fireball.

“So, why is that?”

“It’s not really for a good reason. It was just a little cheeky.”

“Are you c*cky?”

“Yeah. If what you’re saying is because of your own research, it seems like it’s only natural for Cloud-sama to be tied up, right?”

“Is that what it sounded like? You have a very twisted personality, too.”

“…not just because of those words. I know that type of person very well. First impressions are important to such a person. If I looked down on you, would you think that I was inferior to you?”

“How do you know that?”

“Because I am that type.”

Leslie laughed softly.

“More than that, Cloud-sama, knowing my intentions, why didn’t you stop me? If Cloud-sama said one word, I would have kept my mouth shut.”

Why didn’t you dry it?

yeah…

“Be motivated and work harder. It’s because he’s a little ticklish, he’s talented and he has a good heart.”

“Don’t you think your heart will be broken on the contrary?”

broken heart?

I suddenly remembered what happened in the Geogeuncho dungeon.

Those days when we only slept for three hours a day, studying combat and magic at the same time.

A smirk came out.

“I wasn’t raised that weak.”

Even if she tried to change her job to a battle mage, he remained strong as a mage.

Can it be broken like this?

“I don’t know what you’re talking about, but I can see that you trust Eri that much. This makes me jealous.”

“Then you worked so hard and showed the results. Do you have anything suitable for you?”

“Are you talking about administrative work? like. Let’s do a great job and win Cloud-sama’s trust.”

“I will remember that.”

nothing else to say later

As she smiled as she recalled the amount of administrative work that was currently piling up, Katarina next to her spoke in a tired voice.

“You guys really… I feel sorry for Eri.”

Katarina shakes her head.

I narrowed my brow.

“Why are you talking like someone else? The most serious of us.”

“Am I not as treacherous as you?”

“Instead, you are the weakest.”

“…maybe not the best.”

“Then, is there anyone in this inn who can fight and win?”

Katarina’s mouth shut.

She rolled her eyes and muttered in a low voice.

“Ophelia-san…?”

“You’re choosing a saint candidate here? I’m sorry, but do you have any conscience?”

“Ugh..!”

When Leslie asked, as if absurd, Katarina’s face lit up with embarrassment.

I shook my head.

“It’s not the conscience that matters. The important thing is that not even Ophelia can win.”

“…What? No, no matter how much you ignore me… Isn’t that a bit off-putting?”

“I am not ignoring you. Rather, I appreciate your potential. Are you the only human who can communicate with spirits?”

“Then why can’t I win?”

“There is a difference between having high potential and being realistic. What is the level difference between you and Ophelia right now? How different is the practical experience?”

It’s true that Katarina is really good at technology.

If Ophelia simply wields her blunt weapon quickly and hard, Katarina is good at anomalous sword dance and the use of Qi.

But the overwhelming difference in specifications is unavoidable.

What if Ophelia puts on a buff right away and really rushes to Katarina?

It can be minced meat.

Not a joke, for real.

“If it’s practical experience, I…”

“For our party, we don’t count bandits as a career.”

“…”

Eventually, Katarina’s mouth was completely shut.

However, there is no sign of fully accepting the reality. It must be because of her mother’s strong pride in sword dancing.

‘In the meantime, I’ve been saying too much.’

It felt like I had to wake up my sense of reality.

For that, Dalian is the best.

If you’re going to fight Katarina, then Neria would be the best, right?

It’s the same knife.

“But Neria hasn’t come down today. She didn’t even show up yesterday morning.”

“Ma. Neria? Not only in the morning, but also at lunch and dinner? Unless I was mistaken, it seemed like he was just in the room all the time.”

“What? Hey, why are you saying that now?”

“Uh, huh? Are you serious?”

“Are you okay then?”

“No, I thought you were practicing in your room. Just like Eri is researching…”

“Where in the world is there a knight who trains while starving for food?”

Saying so, I put the sausages on the plate. You’ll be very hungry, so make it as thick and long as possible.

“I am eating. I’m going to visit Neria for a while.”

Leaving them behind, I went up to the second floor and knocked on Neria’s door.

-…

There was no reaction.

knocked once more

“Neria? Are you sleeping? Can I come in?”

This time there was no response. isn’t it inside? It was time to open the door puzzled.

The door, which had been slightly opened, slammed shut roughly at the same time as a thumping sound was heard in the room.

“Neria?”

-Cloud? Why why?

“Why, you haven’t been out since yesterday. I came here because I was worried.”

-worry..? Are you worried about someone like me?

“Like you? What are you saying now. It is natural to worry if a colleague is in a strange condition.”

-Ah… yes… we were colleagues…

“Yes. So stop talking nonsense and can you go inside? I have something to ask you.”

-Yes? Come on, wait! hang on! I’m leaving!

When I pushed the door with strength, Neria shouted hastily. She sighed in relief as she took her strength away from her hands.

I waited patiently for her.

Moments later, the door opened and Neria came out of the room with an awkward smile.

“Did you wait long?”

“I didn’t wait too long… What’s wrong with your complexion?”

The condition of Neria that I saw in two days was nothing.

Maybe he slept or something, his eyes were open, his eyes were blurry, and his hair was fuzzy.

There…

“Why are your eyelids so swollen? Did you cry?”

“yes? Oh no. Crying says who cried.”

“Isn’t it? It was very swollen.”

“Because it’s not… He said you had something to ask of me, didn’t you? What?”

Neria shook her head and changed the subject.

If I asked any more questions, it would seem that he would never answer. I waved my hands.

“it’s okay. Looking at the status, I can’t ask. Eat and rest well.”

“no. I’m fine. I’m really fine, so tell me anything. Anything I can do, I will help.”

I refused a few more times, but Neria insisted on holding onto my arm.

As if I had to listen to a request.

At that insistence, I had no choice but to back away.

“I was going to ask you to fight with Katarina.”

Neria stiffened.

I sighed.

“After all, Dalian is hard…”

“I will.”

“You can’t overdo it. Take a good rest and do it later.”

“no. I want to do it today.”

Neria’s eyes were full of will to do it, and I tried to say something, but I just put up with it. What will you do if you are going to do it?

“thanks. Let’s eat rice though. You starved for four meals.”

I held out her meal that I had brought. She smiled as she grabbed her plate.

“Oh, thank you…”

For some reason, that smile hardened as she looked at the sausage on the plate. Not only that, she shook her body like an aspen.

“Ugh!?”

threw the plate

oh my, shit?

I hurriedly snatched the plate and caught the falling sausages one by one. After receiving all of them, he felt relieved and turned his gaze to Neria.

I was thinking of scolding you for what you were doing.

I did…

“Wow..! Ouch..!”

Seeing Neria vomiting gastric juice with nausea, that thought disappeared.

…is the sausage spoiled?

I smelled it, but it didn’t look bad.