73. I’m against this bond!
“Queeek!”
A goblin screamed and cut its throat. That’s the last one When Cream re-delivered the Holy Sword, which had not been stained with a drop of blood, there was no longer a living life in its place.
I called the adventurer’s guild leader, but considering the distance, I’ll have to wait a while before I see his face. So in the meantime, we were handling various requests.
Of course, most of the quests involved crushing the pitiful monster’s head. The distance of several days was narrowed in an instant, and as he handled group requests by himself, the rewards quickly piled up.
[I eat raw as a real adventurer. In my time…]
[Do you know what number you said that? I heard you were a famous adventurer!]
[Because the time I was stuck at the bottom was much longer. Do you know the sadness of lower-class adventurers? Do you know!]
[I don’t know. And I don’t even want to know.]
The holy sword firmly cut off my grumbling. While talking like that, Cream, who had been resting for a while using the corpse of the orc chief she had killed as a chair, stood up.
Because Mr. Jinjak was skinny for the monsters nearby, we were about to go on an ‘expedition’ to a faraway place. The area around Haire has become safe, but the surroundings are more crowded because of the monsters who escaped from the hero.
Even though Cream wiped out one of the newly settled villages, there are still several groups of monsters that infest this area. Busy yesterday and today too.
It’s a shame that I can’t taste their blood and soul because I don’t have a blade. I want to fix it as soon as possible. In the midst of grumbling, we moved on to our next destination.
[Hmm?]
However, as we got closer to the monsters’ nests, instead of the smell they gave off, the smell of blood grew thicker. Cream murmured as if it sensed something.
“Someone, there is.”
[I see, we seem to be a step behind this time?]
It’s not an individual request, it’s more like a bounty, so we could be fooling around. However, it was something strange to be the work of an adventurer party aiming for a bounty.
There was only one sign of presence felt in the sea of blood, and even Nana and Cream were faint enough to be missed. The presence stood in the middle of the nest, as if waiting for someone.
It’s a bit embarrassing, but what can I do? Unlike me, who showed signs of reluctance, Cream approached us without hesitation.
[Huh?]
As soon as the figure of the opponent was revealed, I let out a stupid moan without even realizing it.
Blonde hair that shimmers light yellow like the early morning sunlight. Indigo-colored eyes with dew on them like tender buds in spring. There was a face that had not changed even after hundreds of years.
Her most stereotyped appearance is often what people think of her as a fairy, but it is her face that compares her to other fairies. The corner of her mouth was raised, a bad-tempered expression.
“That is…”
I didn’t expect to meet in a place like this, but Cream also seemed to instinctively know the other person’s identity.
“Isn’t that your first time with that lady? Nice to meet you!”
The fairy, Kaliya, waved her hand as if to welcome her, but her flower-like smile looked dull because there were arrow holders everywhere. Soon, Kaliya lightly jumped off the branch.
“You?”
“Mmm. Self-introduction time is good, but… First of all, do you want to see the person who called me?”
The mischievous indigo-colored eyes seemed to be turning around, but as soon as they found it embedded in Cream’s shoulder, their eyes sparkled.
– Activate the Eye of Truth (S)!
– Activates ??(EX) of ?. Defend your opponent’s search for information.
When someone tried to read my records, I felt a unique licking sensation, but it soon disappeared as if I had washed it. Her azure eyes widened in surprise.
“Oh, did you learn a new trick you haven’t seen before?”
No, I’m a little embarrassed too. Originally, that trait had no such effect. I just didn’t notice, is this also one of the changes caused by swallowing the holy relic?
“Shu, it’s been a while, aren’t you going to say hello? I’m going to be a little upset.”
[······It’s been a while.]
Just as I recognized Kaliya at a glance, she also recognized me at a glance, who had changed a lot in her appearance. I finished my speech with a sigh at the gaze that gradually became coy.
[Riya’s sister.]
Adventurers Guild Leader. And the receptionist older sister, who has been active since the days when adventurers gathered and established a guild, when things were done in a rote way without a system.
She was actually the focal point and face madam of the early guild. In fact, most of the adventurers who were active in the tavern at the time must have been trying to do something about Riya-noona. I am one of them.
“That’s right.”
Ah.
[I’m patient now! Pain! Okay?]
Sometimes I’m scared of cream. ······Actually often.
“Yes, yes. Didn’t our Shoo get more handsome while we couldn’t see each other?”
[Thank you for drawing.]
If I told Geom that he was more handsome than when he was a human, would that be a compliment or an insult? Even now I am all broken and left in a shabby state.
“So, what happened? Shu knows, but this older sister’s time is quite expensive.”
[Ahahahaha, that’s not really a big deal…]
I didn’t expect it to come so suddenly, so I wasn’t ready yet. Anyway, Liya noona also has the ability to determine the authenticity, so I just said it directly.
[As you can see, this is how I look now…]
“Yes, yes.”
[Do you know about the Elder Lich? Where are you now?]
“You know, I even saw your face recently.”
As expected, do Jangsaeng species communicate with each other? Liya’s words went beyond simply knowing the whereabouts of the Elder Lich, and implying that there was some kind of friendship between them.
[Thank God. Help me!]
“Hmm.”
It’s a little scary when she snorts like that. My sister Riya had a mischievous smile, just like when she messed with me when she was a human.
“Bare mouth?”
[······What do you want?]
“Oops. Would you ever try to rip something off my dear brother? I just have a little question.”
Embarrassingly, Riya noona, who had been staring at only the cream stuck in her shoulder, lifted her head. The azure eyes of spring and the black eyes of night reflected each other.
She didn’t hate cream, perhaps because she knew her traits wouldn’t work in the first place. However, while her eyes were on Cream, Riya-sister was still talking to me.
“Even if I introduce Shai now and you get repaired… Isn’t it meaningless if you continue to be with the hero in the end?”
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Kaliya, the leader of the adventurer’s guild who is known for acting like a fool, knew about the rumors of the continent.
Because I will become the seed of disaster, the warrior Cream takes me with him as a manager. Anyone with some information will know that such an excuse is false.
Cream didn’t try to hide how much she cared for me. The excuse prepared by the holy sword so that his position as a hero would not be embarrassing was just that shallow.
“I don’t know why, but why don’t we break up with the dragon now?”
So, Riya-sister wouldn’t have known. Even if I knew that Cream cared for me, he wouldn’t have known how much he cared for me.
“·······You.”
The universe rotated in Cream’s eyes. The starlight flared up. The moment the temperature around her coolly subsided, sister Riya, sensing her foreboding, immediately withdrew her feet.
The moment she stepped back from her, the tree branch behind it stretched out and she grabbed her by the waist and tossed it away. Immediately after that, thorns of ice sprang up all over the area centering on the cream.
[Hey! What are you doing!]
“Oh my God. What kind of cute thing is this again?”
“Continued, close, pretended, liked, didn’t, heard, heard.”
Cream drew out the holy sword. A will that was close to desperation came from the holy sword. The moment Cream was fully prepared for battle, a shadow flew over it.
In Kaliya’s hand, there was a bow that looked as if it had been plucked from a nearby tree. A strange object with no strings or arrows. However, the moment Kaliya pulls her air.
“Don’t stop, don’t stop.”
Intangible arrows rained down and collided with the sparks that Cream shot into the air. Archery that has reached the level of mastery, which ordinary mortals cannot achieve even if they reach it in their lifetime.
But Cream was no ordinary mortal. The moment Cream twisted her waist and swung her sword into the air, her three slashes interlaced and ran, trying to cut Kaliya into thirds.
The level of jokes and threats has already gone far beyond. An attack with obviously murderous intent.
[Hey! What are you really doing Holy sword, try drying him!]
[If this is also the will of the warrior.]
Even in the midst of that, the holy sword was talking like that in a carefree way! Kaliya, who narrowly avoided the sword attack by tumbling several times, fired arrows again.
At the same time, I felt a strange flow all around us. Magic, the power to force the phenomenon you want in the world by commanding spirits.
Cream staggered for an instant. Very short break. However, at the moment the tip of her sword crossed a little, an intangible arrow scraped her cheek. Shiver. Blood flowed from her
“Ah.”
As if the wound was unfamiliar, Cream had a puzzled expression. However, her face soon turned ferocious. In response, the flames that swallowed her anger and grew spread out in all directions.
It seemed to me that the end of this fight was in sight. Although Riya-nuna takes advantage of her gap and injures Cream, she can never defeat the warrior. I won’t support it though.
If defeat deepens, Kaliya will run away. Cream is also fast, but still can’t beat the high elf’s mobility in the forest. Then the elder lich’s clues would disappear as well.
[I don’t know why, but please calm down!]
Finally, Cream’s attack stopped. Kaliya also watched her actions from a distance. She seemed to have leisurely dodged all of her attacks, but she had beads of sweat on her forehead as well.
Still, the fight entered a temporary lull. I also sent a mental wave to Liya, who was still aiming the intangible arrow.
[Sister calm down too.]
“Okay. Seriously, I’m already doing it, but it makes me feel a little bad.”
Riya noona’s lips, which usually had a mischievous smile, twisted the other way.
“I couldn’t even explain what was going on, but it was the job of her dearest sister, so I gave up everything and came to help… Is this what it is?”
[No, so this is not my will…]
“Yes. I don’t understand why it looks like that. I’ve heard quite a bit about you… My brother, after becoming a sword, your personality has changed a bit, right?”
I thought that since Cale revealed my true identity, Riya-sister wouldn’t be surprised, but the tone was strange. As if I had known for a long time that I had become a demonic sword.
[Yes, it did change. In many ways.]
“But why are you still being held in the hands of a hero like that? If I wanted to run away, I would have been able to run away.”
Every time Riya-nuna said that, her fingertips of cream twitched as if they would jump out at any moment, but I was barely able to hold on to her.
There’s information you need to hear from Liya-nuna, but here she stabs and only damages us. Cream seemed to agree to some extent, perhaps because it was a problem related to my safety.
Umm, anyway, that’s why I won’t leave the hero.
[I signed a contract.]
Of course, no matter how soul-bound they are, if the distance is wide enough, the weapon and its master have little effect on each other. There were many who tried to run away from me like that.
I also tried to run away from Cream like that.
“Contract?”
[Yes. Do you know my sister? The bonds of souls that all ego weapons form.]
But why now?
[That’s why I can’t help it.]