240 – Lucia (3)
As he said, Siron headed to the room where Johanna, the fish-man girl, was staying.
The last time I saw her, she looked gaunt, perhaps because she had lost consciousness, but contrary to my worries, Johanna seemed fine.
“You came back safely!”
“Uh… um, that’s right.”
“I’m glad, I’m glad! You don’t know how worried I was!”
Johanna hugged Siron with an expression of emotion.
Cheolpuk-
‘…what?’
Hearing an unfamiliar sound, Siron shifted his consciousness downward.
The hem of the clothes that touched Johanna… was damp. Siron’s eyes widened at a sight that was difficult to understand in his head.
[The evil demon uses hexes!]
Latera, who shared consciousness to a certain extent with Siron, was horrified to see his gaze resting on the slime-covered skin.
[Hero, what are you doing without falling!]
‘…’
Siron remained quiet despite the shouting that echoed in his head.
It wasn’t because he wanted to enjoy the feeling of warm skin sticking to his skin, but because he couldn’t push Johanna away because he had an emotional debt.
It was unnecessary physical contact, but Siron stood still… and accepted her one-sided favor.
“oh…”
Johanna suddenly came to her senses and hurriedly fell from the chest. The sticky slime created dozens of strands of thread, and Johanna fell with a shy smile at the indescribable sight.
“S-sorry. I do this once a month… but I’ve shown you an embarrassing side of me.”
[lie! Hero, this woman is lying!]
‘…I know.’
[How can you lie so shamelessly even when the queen is dead? Moreover, she is trying to seduce a man she has only seen a few times by rubbing her chest. Not some kind of prostitute!]
‘Leave it alone, it’s still a baby.’
[…The hero has changed. Personally, I thought it was attractive that they beat and killed demons without mercy.]
‘When do you say I did that? You’re so sensitive today, you too…’
[Hero, let’s stop and focus on the conversation.]
‘…’
Siron suddenly left Latera with a straight face and focused on Johanna. The wet clothes were sticky and made me literally have nowhere to put my eyes.
He wasn’t just an adolescent boy, he received proper s*x education from a maid, and he had a fiancee, so he was able to put an iron plate on his face without difficulty.
“I’m glad you look okay.”
“Huh? Are you worried about me?”
“okay.”
Siron nodded and continued speaking calmly.
“If you look at the situation at the time, it wouldn’t have been surprising if the queen used your body as an excuse to take hostage. She could have done a dirty trick by casting a complicated curse.”
“…”
“If Kihara had been more vicious, if there had been no blood, no tears, and no particular appreciation for me, I might have killed you.”
“Si, there’s nothing to worry about!”
Ahahahaha. Johanna smiled shyly and scratched her cheek in embarrassment. She waved her hand and said it was okay, but she couldn’t hide the cold sweat forming on her plain face without makeup.
“I didn’t do anything good. Even if I did, I would have thought it was deserved karma.”
“Karma?”
“You said she was the queen, right? After all, it was we fishmen who served that monster. That was the same for my father who fled from tyranny, and no matter how much he was favored by the monster, the crime of harming him was…”
“If it was due to coercion, there are extenuating circumstances. And, as a result, didn’t your father survive?”
“still…”
“I told you not to worry.”
Siron patted his shrunken shoulder.
“The power of each person is utterly helpless. Isn’t it Kihara who has reigned over the fishmen for hundreds of years? You just hid in a safe place rather than face the storm. Who on earth would say that’s a bad thing?”
“…”
“It’s up to someone like me to brave the storm and kill the monster.”
“So, what should I do?”
Johanna faced Siron with a redder face than before. Latera sighed, her soul feeling hot and sticky.
“I ask my father for forgiveness for my treason, and live well without being found out that I am a demon. And…”
Chiron stroked his chin and licked his lips as if remembering something.
“You can do penance.”
“Repentance?”
“I don’t know if I can say this, but right now the empire is intentionally letting the demonic beasts that come across the mountain range pass inland? Of course, they will weed out the strong entities. Nothing in this world works perfectly, right?”
“What is that…”
“My prediction is that the frequency of encountering demonic beasts will increase. Not ogres or cephalopod monsters. Unusual creatures that I have never seen before will appear in this village.”
After speaking, Shiron rummaged through his arms and pulled out a useful weapon.
“I asked what can I do?”
A short sword with a green-blue blade. Yohana put on a sullen expression, wondering what the hell she had heard, but the sword was handed over safely.
“It’s lame compared to the weapons I use, but it’s probably better than most black iron swords.”
“……yes?”
“Protect this village. It will be difficult to receive support from the knights with a change like this. Either swing the sword and become a master or form a vigilante group, it’s up to you.”
“…”
“Someday, I’ll make sure I practiced properly.”
Shiron hugged Johana, who was absent-minded, and drew the sign of the cross on her chest.
Johana looked at the blue-green sword and smiled slightly, then waved at Shiron as he left the inn.
After waving for a while, Johanna realized her fate and tied her shoes to go home.
Becoming a top-notch expert was a difficult request to ask a mere country girl, but Johanna didn’t mind him.
She is a demon and time is on her side.
The path to becoming a master seemed distant, but Johanna did not feel that it was impossible.
*
Two days after killing Kihara.
There was no need to remain in the small fishing village of Orr and the coastal city of Rowen, but Siron and his party had not yet returned to the capital.
No, it would be more accurate to say that I couldn’t go back.
It was probably time to buy a ticket to Lien, but Shiron was able to see Seira, who looked like she had no intention of going back.
“Hey, kid.”
“…?”
“How can you be so young? You should play outside and do that, but then you regret it when you get older?”
The fact that she had no intention of going back was a valid conclusion after seeing her with sunglasses on the bridge of her nose.
A mint-colored bikini that clearly reveals the curves of the body.
Jet black sunglasses.
The gorgeous earrings, of which I had no idea where she had gotten them, were making Seira look like a vacationer rather than a wizard.
Of course, the ridiculous clothes that usually cling to her body made it difficult to think of her as an archmage… but the sight of her in a costume that she came to play with was enough to embarrass Siron.
“Why are you f*cking f*cking all of a sudden? You, don’t you want to dress properly?”
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Seeing [The Elf Wizard at the Pool Party], Chiron felt ashamed and threw off his coat.
This is not a beach, but a platform to go to Rien. When you see a snarky look that doesn’t suit the place… isn’t it natural for your face to turn red and make you want to separate from the person who is causing you shame?
“Huh! An adult will give you advice, but I don’t think you’ll listen…!”
Seira, who draped her overcoat over her shoulder, snorted. Siron wondered why she was so damn crazy, but decided to hear the reason later and left the platform.
“What kind of advice is this? When did you say you started acting like an adult?”
“…Is that so? Still, as a senior who experienced the expedition first, I think I was well taken care of…”
“Who was the one who kept staying in his room and only came out to go to the bathroom? Also, have you completely forgotten the memories of when you first met me?”
“…”
“What does that look like as an exemplary adult? Hiding your identity at the auction house and coming out as a slave…”
“Is that important now?”
Seira grabbed Shiron’s hand and stopped talking.
“Why do I have to come to such a nice place and leave so soon? It’s something I’ve come to feel naturally as I’ve lived, but you have to work when you work and rest properly when you rest? Not only I but Kylie couldn’t take care of that, so it was really difficult in the end. My emotions were dry and a shadow appeared on my face. It won’t be erased… Anyway! We worked hard, so let’s have fun.”
“…okay.”
Siron reluctantly agreed as he was dragged along.
There was a 700-year-old elf who was not a child at all, but was complaining that she couldn’t play even though she came to a vacation spot, but she didn’t seem to have the slightest will to enjoy the vacation.
It was clearly felt even in the hand dragging the Chiron.
Trembling as if nervous. His palms, though dry, were damp from perspiration.
‘I wondered why Kylie’s name came up.’
It seemed that Shiron could vaguely understand Seira’s intentions.
While Shiron was asleep, maybe even before that, Seira knew Lucia’s true identity.
There was no time to know whether there was a touching reunion between colleagues or not, but seeing as Seira was not saying anything, what she wanted was peace and harmony among colleagues, not destruction of relationships.
This unreasonable action,
It was an act that Seira wanted to take care of Kylie.
There was a bit of insufficient evidence to get there, but looking at this situation, I had no choice but to think that way.
“Lucia.”
Siron called the name of the girl crouching on the sandy beach.
As Seira said, there was a woman there who had not been able to build up even a single memory of her youth and had fallen into disrepair.
Lucia, who was making a sand castle, looked back in surprise.
“Are you wearing a swimsuit too?”
“Uh… I didn’t wear it because I wanted to. So… Seira… you forced me to wear it…”
“Just wrap it up tightly. If you’re not so confident, why did you wear it?”
The way he approached me with a grin on his face looked like a bad boy. Lucia, whose face was bright red, grabbed her coat and took a step back.
‘That idiot. Even if everything is prepared, I can’t eat it…’
Seira rubbed her bulging arms and remembered Kylie’s old self.
My colleague from 500 years ago, who only knew how to fight, had lost his two-headed body and had become nothing more than a two-headed person.
At the moment when she was looking at the refreshing scene in an adult manner, someone clung to Seira’s leg.
“Sira-sama.”
“…Why are you doing this, kid?”
“I want to wear a swimsuit, too. And… I think it would be good to buy a swimsuit, eat something, then go back to the dorm and take a nap. Of course, I want to get a room far away from the hero.”
When Latera asked with an innocent expression, Seira hugged her.
“I don’t like quick-witted kids.”
“Am I good? You can praise me more.”
Latera, with a cute smile, placed her face in Seira’s arms.