Inside An Adult Game As A Former Hero chapter 20

EP.20 Dance with Orcs!

“Cheers!”

Only the three of them sat in the quiet inn, Annie raised a glass of ale. When Sang-ju and Sang-joo clashed their glasses, the ale filled with ale swayed like a wave.

“Gulp, gulp, gulp, Kyaa! Sweet!”

“What does a little bastard know what alcohol tastes like?”

As I said with a grin, Annie shouted.

“Do you even know what alcohol tastes like? atmosphere! You eat with the atmosphere!”

“Huh… is it that good?”

“Good! This messy life and my country are all over with today! It’s all thanks to you!”

“If you hug me, you will die.”

“Kek. Because my brother is so cold. I can’t thank you for giving you a hug from a pretty woman like me.”

“Pretty? you? Sincerity?”

Annie frowned as I looked up with her eyes wide open.

“My brother should have died in the final, too.”

“Then you must have served your whole life and died of old age.”

“Um… I hate that again. Oh, more brother than that! I have a question… What did you get as a prize?”

Annie asked with her eyes wide open. He pretends to be polite, but Old Businessman is also pricking his ears.

“Why are you curious about that?”

“Why am I curious? You just won the battle. Didn’t you get something great?”

“It’s going to be huge. I just received 1 million gold and two items.”

“The ship… a million gold..!”

Annie’s mouth widened.

Did she say that the money she earned from betting was 240,000 gold, excluding commissions?

She seemed to be very surprised when the amount nearly four times her own came out.

“Item… What item did you get?”

“It’s an item, I just got three ordinary rings.”

I got three rings for winning the battle.

Bleeding Ring.

Increases the chance of bleeding. During bleeding, the opponent takes damage equal to 2% of their maximum HP every 1 turn.

Perm’s ring.

Negates the first lesser magical attack hit at the start of battle.

The green ring of an unknown knight.

Durability increases by 10%.

Although they are not bad rings, the reason I participated in the struggle is because of the unknown knight’s green ring.

The Ring of an Unknown Knight Series.

I’ve already collected 2 out of 4! Now, if you just collect two more and go to that dungeon to upgrade…

“What kind of ring is that?!”

My thoughts were broken by Annie’s face that suddenly appeared.

Don’t put your ugly face on it. I don’t listen.

I pushed Annie’s face away with my palm.

“You know what to do? When you are curious about it, make a plan for your life.”

“Hey, that’s all already set up. I will go to Prona Kingdom.”

“Prona Kingdom? Why are you there?”

“Among other kingdoms, the land there is the most fertile, isn’t it? I’m thinking of buying a suitable farm and a slave to keep the farm. While the slave works, I play and eat!”

“Huh… that’s a great life plan.”

“Is that right? To be honest, I really wanted to go to the Empire, but the taxes there are too expensive…”

Annie shrugged her shoulders. I patted her on the shoulder, I said.

“Still, it’s not bad if it’s a Prona Kingdom. peaceful and good But how are you going to get to the Prona Kingdom?”

“I’m thinking of putting an escort quest in the Adventurers’ Guild. Wouldn’t it be okay to spend about 5000 gold by the time it arrives with two or three people?”

“All. A woman with 240,000 gold is going to go that long way alone, surrounded by three adventurers? Is your courage virtual?”

Annie tilted her head for a moment. Her complexion turned blue as if she knew the meaning behind my words.

“Well, then, how about putting it on escort agency? I think it will be very crowded and safe!”

“Why do they accept you when you don’t even know each other?”

“That’s… right… Can’t I give them that… money?”

“Would a rich person accept the luggage for just a penny? Should you give them quite a bit?”

“Okay…”

She thought money would solve everything… Annie grabbed her head and muttered.

I smiled looking at it and turned my gaze to Old Merchant.

“Can an old man help you? It’s not a face you don’t know, right?”

“Eh? Why is the old man coming out all of a sudden?”

“From the outside, that old man is a pretty great yangban. It’s the top week of the big top.”

“Sa, the Escort master?!”

“Hmmmm…!”

When Annie opened her eyes and looked at him, Old Merchant coughed in vain as if he was embarrassed.

“Gee, was it real? Sa, Sang-ju senior! Help me!”

Annie suddenly knelt down and started hanging the Old man’s tight. Sang-Joo panicked and tried to pull her away, but he wouldn’t let go of his leg, as if she had met her last hope.

“No, I meant to help from the beginning. So let this go.”

“Really? Come and say nothing else! In other words, goja without peanuts!”

That was when the inn was very noisy.

rattle.

The inn door opened and a man entered.

* * *

A hierarchical order is certain among blood relatives.

Who was born with a nobler blood? Only that one determines the status of blood relatives.

A low blood relative cannot oppose a noble blood relative.

Especially if it is the owner who shared their blood.

The same is true of Krapa.

He fell into Haley’s eyes 200 years ago and became a blood relative. He didn’t know it until he became a blood relative, but after he became a member of his household, he realized it.

How noble and great is his master!

‘I will never let you down.’

“Hey there~ Handsome brother~”

A drunken Annie tapped Krapa’s side.

How dare anything lower touch my body!

In the first place, I should have removed that arm! I will endure it because it is the first to carry out the master’s orders!

“Why?”

“Is that real? You said you came to see this oppa in the finals?”

Well, you spoke in a timely manner.

Don’t delay pulling out your arm.

“Yes, that’s right. It’s such a touching scene. To be honest, I still can’t forget it. That’s why I wanted to meet you once, so I followed after you.”

Krapa looked back at Cloud with a friendly smile. It’s because he’s been wearing a fat expression since he came.

After a moment of awkward silence, Cloud spoke up.

“What about the others?”

“Yes?”

“There must be no other people who have followed me besides you.”

Other guys?

Oh, are you talking about those rubbish?

“Haha, I saw a few people like that. You didn’t stop me from going, did you?”

“What did you say your name was?”

“It’s Howl.”

Of course, he could not tell the lower human the true name he bestowed. So Krapa took the pseudonym Howl.

“Yes, Howl. I won’t turn around and say anything. I don’t really like anyone lying to me.”

“Yes?”

“Don’t lie.”

Cloud’s eyes looking at Krapa fell coldly.

‘…Is it possible that you were noticing me?’

How?

No, that’s not important.

If you’ve noticed it, there’s no point in looking around now.

“Since when?”

“From the beginning. The bastards in this city can’t stand the winner who was beaten like that in the final. At least they were thinking of sneaking in while I was sleeping and snuggling up. So what have they been doing?”

“…I killed them all.”

At Krapa’s words, the inn’s air froze. Annie and Old Merchant looked at Krapa with hardened expressions to see if the intoxication had completely gone away.

Meanwhile, Cloud’s eyes were still cold.

“Why?”

“It was unavoidable. They were plotting to kill you, Cloud…”

“No, then why are you killing them? Even if it wasn’t for you, they would have died for me anyway. All I’m asking is, what have you got to do with me and kill them?”

it is now

All I can say is now

“Because I admire your skills! So, it was hard to let these guys do things like that. Cloud, please let us go together! Give me a chance to learn the wider world!”

Krapa bowed his head and shouted loudly.

For him, a henchman of a high blood family, bowing his head to a human is a great shame.

However, in order to fulfill the master’s orders, this level of shame can be tolerated!

‘…Why are you saying nothing?’

It’s been a while since he bowed his head, but there’s no answer. Whether you like it or not, isn’t it time to give you an answer?

But raising his head here is something he can’t do. Creepa knew it from the experience of serving an honorable person for a long time. Do not raise your head until the answer comes.

It’s been a while, Cloud said.

“I want to go with you… It doesn’t matter, but do you like garlic?”

At the word garlic, Krapa immediately flinched. Because he wanted to know his own identity. But he soon decided that he couldn’t.

Not only did he hide the characteristics of his blood family, but he also suppressed the blood as much as possible.

Before he uses the blood technique, a human can’t figure it out unless he notices it. No matter how much the opponent said to be a hero.

“Garlic… Why…?”

“Yeah, I like garlic. If you’re going with me, you’ll have to eat garlic a lot, so I was wondering if it would be okay.”

“…I will bring my own food.”

“For reference, I don’t plan on going with a guy who doesn’t eat garlic. The co-workers I had last time said they didn’t like the smell of garlic and ran away.”

‘…The biggest reason for the disbandment of Hero Cloud’s party was because of garlic.’

Somehow, it splits so easily.

The garlic smell is unbearable.

“So you like garlic? no?”

“…”

The higher race, the Clan, has two weaknesses.

The first is holy energy.

The holy energy emitted by the priest who believes in the goddess Iries burns the flesh of their blood.

The second is garlic.

Unlike the Holy Power, it is an object that can be obtained easily by ordinary humans, and it is like poison to the blood relatives.

For some reason, it is not known yet, but when a clan of a lower level eats garlic, they lose control of their blood and die as it is.

The above two reasons are the reasons for hiding from the lower human beings despite the fact that the blood race is a higher race.

No matter how high and strong they were, their weaknesses were too obvious.

Hearing Cloud’s words, Krapa fell into deep trouble.

‘It’s supposed to be garlic.’

When it comes to Krappa level, eating garlic doesn’t kill him.

It just a little bit painful.

‘Not a little, but very painful…’

“Why do you hate garlic?”

“No. I like it!”

I can bear any pain for the sake of the master’s orders. Even if it is a pain that burns the intestines!

And if humans were to eat garlic, how much would they eat? At the very least, it would be used as a seasoning for food.

With that in mind, Krapa accepted Cloud’s offer.

And the next morning.

“Hey, garlic in the morning is delicious.”

Krapa was terrified when he saw Cloud handing out a bunch of raw garlic with the sound of a dog.

“Uh… um… why is this…?”

“Why? You must eat.”

Saying that, Cloud took a piece of raw garlic, put it in his mouth, and chewed it.

“Oh, shit.”

The noble vampire has spoken of low-grade swear words in a long time.

* * *

It is certainly.

This damn bastard must have figured out who I was. Or is there no way you can do such a fucking thing!

Krappa muttered to himself as he chewed the jerky pickled in garlic juice. In front of him was garlic jerky and garlic bread.

Even if he wanted to eat something else without garlic, Cloud dismissed it, saying there was no such thing.

There really weren’t any dogs at all.

– Oh, Mr. garlic smell. Can’t we go somewhere else to eat?

– You go and tell me.

-What? no. you just saw. Someone else went to talk earlier, and his eyes were wide open. It was the eyes that could kill a real person.

The people using the same rooms as Krapa and Cloud murmured as if they were dissatisfied.

Krapa raised his eyes.

Lower things! Who knows that he doesn’t want to eat something like this! Every time he picked it up and ate it, his stomach was turned upside down!

Krapa trembled and looked around.

The culprit in this situation was lying peacefully on the bed with his eyes closed. Krapa was very dissatisfied with his appearance, but what to do? He have an order from his master, and he have to endure it.

“…you still won’t tell me?”

“What?”

“Your destination. It’s been a while since we’ve been on the ship, but you still haven’t told me where you’re going.”

A few days have passed since their first meeting at the inn.

Cloud said that he would tell him about his next destination later, but he didn’t tell him until now when he got on the ship.

“Well, the time has come to tell you. So where are we going…”

It was then.

Thud! The ship shook violently with the impact.

-What? What’s up?

The room was suddenly engulfed in commotion.

“Howl, go out and find out what’s going on.”

“…Yes.”

I didn’t like the way he treated me like a boss, but I had no choice but to do this.

Because I have to carry out my master’s orders…

Krapa tumbled out of the room.

“Hey, what the hell happened…?”

Krapa narrowed his eyes at the scenery in front of him.

He rubbed his eyelids with his fingers, but the scenery did not change.

“Haha, shit.”

These days, low-level swearing keeps coming out.

widely.

With the door closed, Krapa strode forward and grabbed Cloud by the collar. Cloud, who was grabbed by the collar without a word, tilted his head.

“Hey you bastard! You told me to walk instead of boating! I ignored those words and climbed into the boat…!”

“What? Why are you all of a sudden?”

“Why is that? storm! There is a storm outside!”

A great storm was raging at the sea. The sailors were busy trying to somehow get out of the storm.

Hearing the story, the people in the room became more agitated.

Cloud’s reaction, on the other hand, was fat.

“What else do I say? When I saw the reaction, I thought even the twisted deep-sea octopus had popped out. Were you just trembling like that with a storm?”

“Storm?! Just a storm?! The ship looks wrecked right now, do you say that?!”

In front of the mysteries of Mother Nature, he belonged to a high-ranking clan and had nothing to do with it.

There is no resistance and it is just swept away.

-Wreck! Wreck! No, I can’t die!

Confused, the guests rushed outside. Cloud sighed and released Krapa’s hand that holding his neck.

“Yes, I understand. It might be the first time you go through a storm.”

“…So it’s not the first time you encounter the storm?”

“Sounds natural. What is my adventure history? As an experienced adventurer, I teach you what to do when you encounter a storm at sea. Follow along.”

Kreepa gulped his saliva with a nervous expression on his face.

Really… Is there a way to deal with storms?

Yeah, looking at his confident face, maybe there really is.

No matter how lowly a human being, isn’t the opponent a hero wandering the continent?

Krapa decided to believe Cloud’s words.

“For now, lie down in bed.”

…?

It was a strange instruction, but for once, Krapa lay comfortably on the bed.

“Close your eyes.”

Krapa closed his eyes.

“Take a deep breath to calm your mind.”

As he take a deep breath, the feeling of urgency calms down little by little. He was no longer concerned with the noise around him.

‘Not bad.’

Yes, I’ve heard that calm is the most important thing in any situation. A vampire my size must not forgot that.

Reflecting, he waited for the next instruction.

“Are you calm? Then go to sleep.”

“…?”

“When you grow up, why do you make such a face?”

“ruler? You mean literally go to sleep?”

“Is there any other meaning to growing up?”

“…Didn’t you say that it was a remedy for the storm?”

“That’s right. If you just go to sleep and wake up, everything will be fine. Whether the ship got out of a storm, was wrecked and washed up on the shore, or drowned and went to heaven. We just have to wait for the results.”

Then Cloud lay down on the bed and closed his eyes.

Krapa was at a loss for words at that casual look. Soon he came to his senses and grabbed Cloud by the neck again.

“That’s the way to deal with it!”

Cloud said while looking at Krapa with an annoyed expression.

“It’s a workaround. What better way to do than go against nature and follow the rules? Just leave it to fate. That’s life.”

Cloud shrugged off Creepa’s hand, then laid back on the bed and closed his eyes.

Krapa’s eyes darkened.