15 – Decline-7
“… Excuse me.”
I hurriedly took out a handkerchief and wiped her clothes.
f*cking her is f*cking shit, but first of all, I was the one who made the mistake.
It looks precious at first glance, but if the smell of saliva soaks into it, you will suffer a great loss.
“It doesn’t matter. Since it was a sudden situation, I was thinking that you would be taken aback. Please, think carefully.”
“think…”
After regaining my composure, I pondered over the meaning of her words, then glared at the hero with a blank smile.
“Do you think that makes sense?”
It was a mistake that I made, and I couldn’t accept the hero’s words.
“In the first place, you’re going to propose? What do you want?”
“Baron Leodrin is still not well-known, and his rank is not high. It is too much to ask the royal family to marry first, so other people can understand this marriage…”
“First, you have to make me understand.”
I forgot my disgust and glared at the hero’s eyes.
“You’ll have to explain a lot. Why the hell do I have to agree to this marriage…”
“The Emperor’s order is the most certain reason for me, but Lord Leodrin won’t be satisfied with that much.”
“Command?”
My empty laugh must have looked like a mockery, and the hero’s eyes became bitter.
“Watch your attitude.”
“I wouldn’t have liked it if you came all of a sudden and said, ‘Marry me.’ I’m finally bringing it up, but I hate you.”
Only the extermination of the demon lord is over. I tried to be polite somehow, but there were too many bad memories to be ‘kind and warm to everyone’.
“Fortunately, the prospective couple has one thing in common. I hate you too.”
“You’re telling me to marry someone like that, but you can’t be gentle with your words.”
“It is necessary.”
The hero seemed a little angry with me, but she wasn’t so foolish as to lose herself in her rage.
“I’m almost certain to be the next emperor. However, a woman’s body is a weakness that can’t be helped. I have to inherit an heir with my body, and my power may be shaken when I am pregnant.”
Are you pregnant with that body? No matter how much I thought about it, I could only feel sorry for the baby.
“If you marry a family with a foundation in the empire, the power of that family will inevitably be strengthened.
“So do you fold?”
Externally, I am treated as a miraculous return of a man from the Leodrin family who went missing.
No matter what I do, since I have no support base, I think that the imperial power will not be threatened. It made a lot of sense. However.
“So, why should I accept it?”
“…You’ve become stubborn. When you’re on an adventure, don’t you listen well when I’m told in a nice way?”
Perhaps the hero was trying to scare me, and started spurting out his lifeblood.
Frankly, it’s scary. It’s scary enough that you’ll do something wrong because you’re scared.
A feeling of dread, atrophy imprinted on her body, conformity to her majestic appearance. But the emotion so great that it covered it all was hatred for her.
“At that time, we were defeating the demon lord, right? I agreed. The situation was a little different from what you said at the time, but I accepted it anyway.”
“It’s your choice.”
The hero handed over the responsibility to me without the slightest wavering.
“I know. So, haven’t you done everything?”
Killing the demon lord was something that had to be stopped immediately. Even if I felt that my treatment was unfair, I was able to endure it with an appropriate sense of duty.
Rather than enduring, it might be more accurate to say that he did not fall.
“But no matter how much I think about this, it seems like it has nothing to do with defeating the Demon Lord?”
“This is the order of His Majesty the Emperor…!”
The best knights say they can subdue civilians simply by living.
I don’t know if that’s true. Usually, knights are those who show their true value in using swords, and when it comes to dealing with coercion and killing, they usually solve it by pulling out their swords without playing around.
It was half a rumor, but seeing the hero in front of my eyes, I had no choice but to trust it.
The fact that I’m looking straight into her eyes right now is a knife-like death to the point of being miraculous. But, for some reason, I was fine.
Perhaps she still had the power of the hero she hadn’t taken. Or, he might have gained more courage while breaking through monsters and following a party of warriors.
Or, let’s imagine a little more unrealistic.
“There’s no reason I should listen to that, is there?”
Maybe it’s because my hatred is stronger.
“This is the Emperor’s order! It’s for the Empire!”
“It’s none of my business!”
The hero and I glared at each other for a while.
“In the first place, what kind of marriage is marriage to someone who will be leaving soon? Oh, do it if I go. No matter how I sell my name… It’s not even my name anyway, but I won’t care if I get married or adopt it.”
“I need you.”
“It’s a pity. He probably isn’t there anymore.”
“Then, you should delay your return. You’ll have to stay here for a few more years. When the imperial power is stabilized, if you say you’ve died properly and go home…”
I closed my eyes for a moment and thought. The hero crossed the line drawn inside me as if it were nothing.
The reason I was able to hide my hatred for the warrior party was because I was the one to leave.
Whatever you did to me, I could forgive, no, I could forget. However, if you block my return from now on, I have no choice but to get angry.
“I’ve been waiting for years, and now I’m going to have more patience?”
I gathered the last of my reason and appealed to her conscience.
It was going crazy for a month, but I could understand it. Even if I think about it, the warrior party completed the mission with abnormal speed.
However, the way he forced me to sacrifice for reasons he liked aroused a different kind of hatred even for me, who already hated heroes enough.
Originally, the Hero was not such an irrational person. He was the kind of person who made people feel uncomfortable by saying the right words very dirty and offended. I didn’t say anything wrong from the start.
Maybe he was originally like this. Because the purpose of defeating the demon lord coincides with her purpose, she said ‘correct but unpleasant’, and this may be her true face in politics.
“You’ve become quite confident. With the emperor’s kindness on your back, did you feel as if you were anything?”
“under…”
At the hero’s party, I endured it. The goal of defeating the demon lord was being accomplished without difficulty.
I didn’t want to spoil the teamwork by revealing that I was a warrior and not a porter.
Picking up magic tools, talking to residents, staying on watch, and doing other chores were all endured in front of the cause of being efficient.
“It’s just that there’s no reason to hold back now.”
“I’m treating you with respect now… but as soon as His Majesty’s favor ends, you’ll have no choice but to propose to me even if you don’t want to.”
The story was so long I forgot. marriage proposal, yes It was that damn marriage.
“I never intend to.”
“If the Empire refuses to let you into that world, what do you think you can do?”
Is it a threat now? It feels like the hatred I had for her, which I was already filled with, is accumulating and sticking to me.
“Are you who didn’t make any effort and had nothing to say except that you were granted the authority of a hero by the goddess? You who gave up your responsibilities and handed over all your powers to me?”
At that moment, I remembered what I could do and what had happened.
“Please refrain from talking.”
I forcibly suppressed my simmering desire. Reason returned in an instant.
“Did I say something wrong, porter?”
I couldn’t hear the warrior’s sarcastic remarks. Yes, you need to find the opposite s*x.
“…Well, it’s not wrong. But, because of that, the emotions I have to feel are the problem.”
My determination to return within a month ‘somehow’ remains unchanged, but other than that, I didn’t want to take anything from this world or do any harm.
No matter what the hero said, it was better to think that the dog was barking and move on. The next time you come to see me, you’ll have to avoid the imperial family or something.
“I have feelings too, but emotions do not suppress my duties and duties of the imperial family. Isn’t it shameful to be swayed by emotions?”
Having heard it so many times during training, I could now predict what she would say next. The feeling of hearing this as an honorific was a bit different.
“If you feel humble, shouldn’t you practice training, if you feel dishonored, shouldn’t you make achievements? If you don’t do anything and only grow mean feelings, you will end up making yourself inferior and inferior.”
“It’s not that kind of problem.”
“If that’s not the case, then what is it?”
“That sounds like I need ‘the strength of a warrior’ to get back.”
I drank the rest of the tea and lay down on the bed before I could see her leave.
It’s just words that don’t deserve to be heard, thoughts that don’t even need to be considered. When you wake up, you probably forget.
Wow, idiot