Inside An Adult Game As A Former Hero chapter 52

EP.52 Elisa

“Brave, the dungeon won’t be closed because you didn’t take Ruin Krasio’s essence. A human destined to have cleared this dungeon will come.”

It was the angel’s answer to my question.

I wondered if the future of Mars breaking the dungeon would disappear by taking the giant root plant, but fortunately, it seems that wasn’t the case.

‘Actually, even in the original game, if you were going to choose a giant root plant, party members were arrogant not to play around.’

There seems to be a choice, but in the end, the choice was determined by an integer.

The big geuncho was just a McGuffin for gags.

“Then we will go. Rahmiel-sama, do your best too.”

“Ah… there…”

“Yes?”

“…No.”

Rahmiel was about to say something, but then shut her mouth.

It’s spicy.

It didn’t seem like a very important word anyway, so I left the 30th floor with my colleagues.

On the way up, I stopped my colleagues on the 9th floor, and headed to the trap room where the aphrodisiac sound came out.

The situation in the trap room was as I expected.

After stunned the hat he was enjoying in full swing, he carried them around his shoulder and went out.

“…Cloud, who are these people? Why does it smell so bad again?”

Eri covered her nose and frowned. The other two responded similarly.

After washing, I came to wash…

It seems that the smell on his body for a long time of several weeks did not go away that much.

“…it’s better not to know.”

I didn’t answer because I thought they would be really shocked if they found out.

We managed to get out of the dungeon after a few more hours on the ninth floor.

“Haha… sunshine… how long is it really…”

“I know, right. It feels like a little over a month, but it feels like it’s been years since I saw it.”

Eri and Ophelia, feeling the sunlight shining down on them, put on bright expressions on their faces. On the other hand, Neria still had a gloomy face.

“Neria.”

“Yes? Why that… uh, Cloud over there? What are you doing now?”

I was going to ask her why she was depressed, but instead he answered the question.

What am I doing?

Can’t you see

“Huh!? What?! Why am I here… Kek!”

When he woke up, he hit Chris on the neck, knocking him out again.

“You say it smells bad? So I’m deodorizing.”

“…sorcing a person in a lake and then taking them out?”

“It would be convenient if the smell went away just by sOrcing it, but then you won’t be able to breathe. So, even if it bothers you, you have to do it.”

“Ugh…? Here…”

“Oh, he woke up again. Is it because the lake water is cold?”

“Huh? Chris!? Wait, what is this…! Ugh!”

The mother, who woke up, was also knocked on the nape of the neck and passed out.

I put my hat in and out of the lake for a while, and the three women looked at me as if they were looking at something strange.

I was dissatisfied with those eyes.

Hey, you say you smell?

* * *

After getting rid of the bad smell from the hat, we came down from the mountain. When I arrived in the city, I handed Neria the hat I had been carrying on her shoulder.

Neria, who was depressed, looked at the hat I had given her and gave me a questionable expression.

“Cloud, Why are these people?”

“Take them to the inn in moderation. I have a place to go for a while.”

“If that’s the case, then I…”

“Neria.”

Ophelia intervened and shook her head, looking at Neria.

At that, Neria got a little grassy and calmly carried the hat I had given her on her shoulder.

“Okay. Have a safe trip.”

“Uh… Yes.”

What?

Did the two of you exchange signals that only I didn’t know?

That’s too much.

I feel like I’m being bullied somehow.

Still, I did not ask them because they quietly accepted the hat.

After confirming that they were heading to the inn, I headed to the house of the receptionist, Elisha.

‘Yuriel said she would be successful within two months… How did it really turn out?’

I was thinking of checking the progress.

By the way…

‘What?’

Elisha’s house was not the house I remembered from the beginning.

The garden crops planted in the small yard were all dried up and dead, and there were spider webs all over the house.

What?

Wasn’t it a well maintained house when I last saw it?

I wanted to know what the situation was, so I grabbed a passerby and asked. After holding a little more than ten people and asking questions, I was able to hear the truth from an old woman.

“That house? Her husband had an affair and left the house with the child. It’s been that way since then. A few times, I think she went to the place where her husband and children live… Even that doesn’t seem to work. Tttttttt…”

“Do you know where the husband and the child live?”

“What do the bachelors know about that?”

“I know the owner of this house, so please…”

When I gave her 100 gold, the aunt didn’t ask any more.

Having found the address of the place where the husband and children live, I headed there.

And I was able to witness an unbelievable sight.

“Mom! Push harder!”

“Aren’t you afraid?”

“I’m not afraid at all!”

“Yes? Eight!”

“Hey ah ah ah!”

Yuriel was pushing the swing where Elisha’s son was riding, and seeing the bright smile on his face, the two seemed to be very close.

I stared blankly at them for a while.

Until Yuriel, who was pushing the swing, found me and waved her hand.

She didn’t hide her welcome and came to me.

“Are you here already?”

“How did it happen… what’s the situation?”

“Did I say that? Two months is enough. Come in, I’ll explain the details inside. Jerry? Guests will come and Mom will go in, so have fun!”

Yuriel led my arm into the house.

* * *

-When I first heard Mr. Cloud’s story, I thought. Maybe their relationship is a little stale, he said. I wanted to dig into it.

-So, I put it into action right away… The relationship between the couple was worse than I thought, right?

-Elisha did not establish her husband’s authority in the family. Whatever he tried to do, she doubted and did not believe him. Her crippled husband had never been able to start without the help of her wife. Except he’s lying in bed. Thanks to this, the person was feeling a lot of helplessness and inferiority.

– In the case of children, Elisha did not have a relationship with the child. It was natural to play, and they didn’t even have enough time to spend together. It must have been inevitable that she would have been busy with work, but she was not mature enough to allow her child to take it into account.

-Since the situation in their family is like that, there was a lot of room for me to dig. We continued to meet by pretending to be coincidences, and we filled our gaps.

Yuriel created a happy family just as Cloud demanded.

First, she donated 3000 gold to the church to fix her husband’s leg, which was crippled.

Her husband, whose legs have returned to normal, has become more ambitious and is now planning to open a shop with Yuriel.

Even in the midst of that, Yuriel did not neglect the child. She entertained the child as he wished. She nevertheless made meticulous plans for her child’s future.

– When I’m old, I’m going to send them to the academy in the Empire. Since you are a commoner, you may not be able to make a career out of it, but would you be able to work in a large company?

After hearing the whole story, Cloud handed her 50,000 gold.

Because the family she created was not worth the word happiness. Yuriel, who received her money, said that she would not have to worry about the cost of her child’s education, she smiled brightly.

‘…I didn’t know you would be so happy.’

Yuriel, her husband, and their children.

‘She wasn’t a good mother.’

Rumor has it that she was a faithful wife, but the truth was quite different. After all, you can’t know the contents of anything until you opens the lid.

Smart-

Cloud knocked on Elisha’s front door. He only looked at how she was doing and she was going to get her attention from then on.

-…

It was time to knock again because the knock didn’t respond.

profit-

The door opened and Elisha appeared.

Her hair is messy and she has dark circles under her eyes.

She looked pretty exhausted.

Elisha looked at Cloud and tilted her head.

“Mr. Cloud? Why are you here…?”

Cloud showed her the wine he had brought instead of answering. Elisha looked at the wine and thought for a moment before she opened the door.

She led Cloud to a chair in front of the table.

“Would you mind sitting on a chair and waiting for me? I will wash up.”

* * *

Why did the Cloud come?

She was puzzled for a while, but soon found the answer without difficulty.

‘Perhaps because of the adventurers I introduced before.’

The S-class adventurers she introduced them to at that time did not return.

That meant one thing.

It must have been ruined this time too.

So, he went to the guild to ask why she introduced these guys, and he must have come here after hearing her situation.

Elisha went out to the living room, wiping her damp hair with a towel.

Cloud was sitting in a chair in front of the table.

Seeing that the wine bottle he brought with him was uncapped, it must have been waiting for her to come out.

At that little consideration, Elisha smiled and sat down next to him.

“Were you waiting? That’s okay.”

“If you’re going to drink alone, I wouldn’t buy it.”

“It looks like an expensive drink… Then I’ll drink it Thank you.”

Elisa took a sip of the drink that Cloud had poured out.

A strong, but not unpleasant, alcohol scent pierced her nostrils.

She put down her glass and said.

“Did you hear all of my rumors?”

Cloud shook his glass of wine and nodded.

She knew it.

“It’s as rumored. Your husband had an affair and went out. They said the child liked his stepmother, who had not seen many children, and he followed.”

She poured another glass of wine and poured it into her mouth.

And then smiled a little.

“Mr. Cloud, you know? I thought I had a really hard life, right? I sacrificed myself for my family. But I guess my family didn’t feel that way.”

Elisha closed her mouth again.

Can I tell you this story?

A story that you have only kept inside?

Elisha was worried, and decided to just tell him. She was already exhausted, and she wanted him to give her a little consolation from him.

“I was in debt. About thirty thousand gold.”

Cloud’s hand, which was shaking the glass, stopped when she broke her luck.

“Isn’t that a lot of fun?”

“How could you owe such a debt… was this house so expensive?”

“I inherited this house from my parents. It’s a little hard to say this, but I was the only daughter in a family I lived for a little bit. Thanks to that, when we got married, we started without debt.”

“Then where did all that debt come from?”

“My husband gambled secretly and went into debt.”

“Thirty thousand gold each?”

“It was originally 3,000 gold. But my husband hid it to try to solve it on his own, and as time went by, it became ten times the principal.”

“Ten times the principal? What crazy interest rate is that? Didn’t you just report it right away?”

“I wanted to… Then my husband found out about gambling and got caught.”

“Isn’t that better than paying back ten times the principal?”

At Cloud’s words, Elisha laughed bitterly.

“Then what about Jerry? You can’t let our son see his dad get caught as a criminal.”

“…”

“However, at first, you said that you would pay back the principal, saying what a ridiculous interest rate? Then, do you know how to get out of there? They broke my husband’s leg the other way. Would you like to cut the monthly interest with that?”

“Uh… so your husband…?”

Elisha grinned.

“Right. So I crippled him on crutches. Thanks to it, he couldn’t work. But do you know what they said after making my husband like that? Next, they say they make my child’s legs like that. Then I realized Oh, my whole family will die if I report it clumsily.”

“…There are many adventurers you know? If you can’t report it, why don’t you just ask the adventurers to scold them?”

“Ask the adventurer? Whoops…”

Elisha laughed as if she had heard an interesting story.

“Well, will the adventurers really help me? It would be nice if they didn’t try to wield me by taking gambling debt as a weakness.”

Elisha drank another glass of wine.

Even though it was a drink without any snacks, it went well as if drinking water.

“Anyway, I had to pay off the debt. First, I sold all the precious metals that my parents had handed down. I also stole all the money we had saved up to send our son to the Imperial Academy. Even after that, you still have 10,000 gold left to pay back?”

Then she met Cloud. Elisha murmured.

“I realized it when I saw Mr. Cloud who gave me 2000 gold to introduce some decent adventurers. Oh, this person is a hogu.”

“Hey.”

“Fufu, please don’t stare at me like that. I mean, I was in a hurry back then. There is no place for money to come out, but I still have a debt of 10,000 gold.”

“So, after introducing the strange guys, you ripped out 7000 gold more by introducing the S grades?”

“Ding dong dang, I was able to pay off all my debts thanks to you! Thank you, Mr. Cloud!”

“Isn’t it good to pay off debt while eating others?”

“It was good. I felt freed from the heavy shackles that held me. I thought that the only thing left to do was return to a happy family again…”

The bubbly voice suddenly turned into melancholy.

“I must have been the only one who thought so. Seeing you leave me so easily.”

“…”

“Maybe this is the price of a crime that ate Mr. Cloud?”

Elisa smiled slightly, as if joking around.

However, the calmness did not last long.

Again.

Tears ran down her cheeks. Her face was also slightly distorted with sadness.

“Honestly, it is true that I resented my husband a lot. That’s right, 30,000 gold? It is the amount that makes my eyes go dark. I tried not to express my feelings, but he must have felt my resentment a lot. It must have been sad.”

She wiped the tears with the back of her hand. Still, she did not stop talking.

Like a child explaining why she cries.

“I was very strict with my son. I was in a very sensitive state because of my debt. I can’t remember it very well, but I probably wasn’t a good mother. So I paid off all my debts, so I’m back … I tried to go back to being a good mom again…”

The older she get, the less she can express the sad feelings she have accumulated inside.

There may be various reasons, but in Elisha’s case, it was because she was the head of the family.

The head of the household is the pillar that supports the house.

When the head shakes, the house shakes.

That’s why she’s never been weak.

But she no longer has a family to support.

The tears that burst out in a situation where there was no reason to hold back did not stop.

Elisa looked at Cloud with a tear-mangled face.

“Mr. Cloud, what I did with the adventurers I introduced to… it didn’t go well, right?”

“…Yes, yes.”

“Sorry.”

As she has always done to feed her family, Elisha bowed her head.

“I won’t make excuses for saying I did my best. I received a huge sum of 7000 gold from Mr. Cloud, but I couldn’t show yoy how to handle it properly. I can’t give it back because I don’t have the money right now… but if you want, you can do whatever you want.”

“…It’s okay. Because I am also responsible for things that went wrong in the first place. Besides, you said you got cut from the guild for that too? Because you blew up three S-class adventurers. So, raise your head.”

“Are you forgiving?”

Cloud offered the wine.

“Thank you. Cloud is a very broad-minded person.”

Elisha smiled with wet eyes.

After that, there was a quiet drinking party for a while, while Cloud…

‘Write… I’m fucked.’

I was feeling a strange feeling.

Clearly, it is true that Elisha devoured him. This is something he admits too.

But my conscience hurts

What this feels like. Let’s say you have an opponent who is quite fussy while playing a game.

After thoroughly stepping on the opponent, you enjoyed the refreshing feeling of tea bagging.

However, it was like hearing the person complaining that he was his friend, and that he had stopped playing the game because of it.

‘…Should I introduce a man?’

This time, it was time for Cloud to think about whether he should visit even a famous male prostitute’s house.

“Ummm…”

Elisha nodded and began to fall asleep.

‘…Let’s put Elisha on the bed and think about it.’

He took Elisha and went into the bedroom. It was time to lay her down on her bed and leave her as she is.

Elisha grabbed his arm.

“I… Mr. Cloud. It’s really absurd, but… just once… Can you please comfort me…? It’s so hard right now…”

Beyond the disheveled clothes, a large breastbone stood out.