152 – A New Competitor
There was one thing the hero wanted from me before.
– Bouquet. I would like to receive a bouquet of flowers.
One of the three wishes presented as a condition of handing over the Dispel Pendant to me.
‘Come to think of it, it wasn’t a big deal, but I’ve been putting it off until now….’
I don’t know about anything else, but I think I did something wrong with this one.
It’s not too late, but I thought that if I showed it, we could at least have a conversation, so I immediately stood up and wrapped my arms around Sonia’s.
“Thanks Sonia!”
“Huh…?”
Ian’s unstoppable action made her eyes wide open.
“If I were alone, I would never have thought of it. As expected, there is only you!”
“That’s right?”
I don’t know why, but the corner of Sonia’s mouth went up little by little at Ian’s figure praising herself.
‘Yes. I or someone else will take care of him.’
Doesn’t it feel like you’re finally getting a reward for all your hard work alone?
“Hmmm. It’s enough to know. So, what are you going to do for the hero?”
Sonia, who was imprinting the temperature of the hand held by her in her memory, asked without much thought.
‘Thanks to Sonia, I remembered it. I can tell you this much.’
“Bouquet.”
The corners of her mouth stiffened at once as she ascended to heaven at the revealed identity of the gift.
“…What?”
“He told me before. He wanted a bouquet of flowers.”
The corners of her mouth began to fall at the words that came out of his mouth this time.
‘A man said he wanted to receive a bouquet from a man? Why… ?’
She heard that there were people with strange tendencies among her superiors, but the fact that one of them was a hero came as a great shock to her.
“It’s not the time to be like this. The horns are also sweet, so I have to go buy them right now.”
Ian released her hand and left immediately.
“Wait a minute!”
Sonia hurriedly called him, but he had already left.
‘I believed….’
Softly.
Sonia feels a tremendous sense of betrayal by the hero.
The day she moved into her Ian’s house.
A hero once visited her room late at night.
***
-Kooung.
“Phew~ This is the end.”
Wiping the sweat from her forehead with the back of her hand, she sat down on the last bed she had brought and brushed her hands.
‘Where did he get the money to build a mansion like this….’
Even in the mansion, there was definitely a class.
It was not unreasonable for her to be surprised since this place was much larger than the mansions of the guards she used to see when she was sometimes hired as a bodyguard.
Wouldn’t it be impossible to buy a mansion like this even if you saved up your salary for the rest of your life?
Seeing this, she seemed to know why she had been so lukewarm.
‘I have enough money, but if I ask to get married, I’ll start with suspicion.’
But if you’re not greedy, that’s not the case again.
Of course, I didn’t care about money.
What she is aiming for is the position of hostess.
In other words, it was a position called the royal family room.
She was determined to keep this a secret from her parents no matter what.
If this fact is known, she might come to the Empire at once.
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-Oh, my son-in-law, he has great skills!
-What did I say honey? My daughter looks like me and has eyes for men?
‘Obviously, after this, when will we get married and when will we have children?’
That guy is in a state of confusion right now.
He reminded himself that it was not yet time to expose his claws.
The plan to zapatri was still intact, but he endured it with superhuman patience.
In the end, the end of this match will come down to a fight over who gets into his heart.
Judging from her performance at the last tournament, she thought that if she waited while building up good feelings, the competitors would kick the ladder on their own.
‘Anyway, I hope it’s okay…. The saintess says there is nothing wrong….’
She acted out of a desire to save him from the party, but she didn’t know that he wouldn’t happen this far, so she wasn’t at ease.
– Smart smart.
Someone knocked on her door.
-Ms. Sonia. I’d like to talk to you for a minute, is that okay?
‘Hero? What are you doing at this hour?’
“Wait a minute.”
She is currently wearing only a shirt and underwear that exposes her navel.
I couldn’t show my skin to a man who wasn’t him, so I opened the door only after wrapping myself in her outerwear.
Then a warrior wearing a breastplate stood in front of the door.
‘Why do you dress like that at home….’
But Sonia, who didn’t want to ask more than that, decided to draw her attention.
“Why did you come to see me at this hour?”
A bit of a poisonous question.
She reminded me of her when she was in her town.
“This is going to be a bit long, can I come in and talk to you?”
“…Why?”
Sonia raises her alertness as she naturally tries to enter her room.
“I don’t want to cause any misunderstanding by bringing another man into the room.”
What if he wakes up and finds out about this? There should never be such a misfortune.
Then the warrior’s expression immediately distorted.
“…Don’t worry about that.”
“How can I trust the hero?”
-Shock.
Sonia covered her breasts with both hands and looked at her suspiciously.
“Haa…”
The warrior sighed and opened his mouth.
“I’m not interested in that.”
“You will continue to do so.”
“You seem surprisingly suspicious.”
“I don’t want to be suspicious of people I like.”
Tired of the conversation running parallel lines, the warrior eventually decided to confess his purpose.
“Let’s get down to business. The porter… no, I’m here to convince you to bring Ian along to the party.”
Then Sonia’s expression was poisonous.
“I’d like to ask about that too. I’m thankful that he took me to the role of an instructor, but why would he want to take him? It’s me who won the championship.”
Sonia shot sharply, and the hero replied.
“I fully understand Sonia’s feelings.”
“So, why would someone who understands want to take you?”
“Think about it carefully. Are you sure it’s okay to leave him in the Empire?”
“…What are you talking about now?”
Hearing that, Sonia frowned with her puzzled face, and the hero continued her explanation.
“Is there any guarantee that no one will approach him when he is left alone?”
“That’s it…!”
Sonia is speechless at the hero’s question.
I couldn’t say no. Didn’t she just come back from the southern part of the country this time with a beastly woman with the same hair color next to her?
It’s not like I just went there to play. That’s about it. Then, in this place where there is no such concern?
“….”
Thinking of that, I couldn’t bear to deny it.
When I come back, I feel as if the hand of a woman I’ve never seen before is filled with even a ring.
Wasn’t he trying to drown himself before hearing what was going on inside him? There is no guarantee that a second self will not appear.
“In that case, I’m here to tell you that it would be more desirable to keep it within sight and protect it by yourself.”
The hero continued as if Sonia would not give her time to worry.
Sonia began to lean towards her hero’s proposal.
“…Why do you go that far?”
When she questioned her, who did not let go of her doubts about what was left of her, her hero said.
“I want him to be happy.”
I could feel the sincerity of the warrior’s expression as he spoke while looking into the air.
“…Good.”
Sonia, who judged that she was sincere in what she said, had no choice but to agree with her hero’s opinion.
After coming back to the present and knowing her warrior’s taste, she felt a deep sense of betrayal.
‘I believed… !’
She began to feel that the content of her words was distorted.
-Because I want him to be happy.
She thought she was supportive of her relationship with him, but what she really meant was her declaration of war that she would make her happy.
‘I didn’t even know that… !’
In her party, the hero she thought she could trust and rely on has now been upgraded to a dangerous existence to her.
As expected, she stuck out her tongue saying that it was a warriors party full of tricks by Kwon Mo.
I heard that you managed to keep your chastity even in the chaos that the four of you were aiming for.
***
“Brother!”
When the hero opened the door to her orphanage and entered, the girl who was playing with her doll saw her and Odo ran to her and hugged her.
“A gift? No present today?”
“Sorry, not today, Yurika.”
“hehehe! Come on sister!”
Yurika finally calls her older sister when she says she doesn’t have any presents.
It was a slang only for orphans who made it to protect her secret.
“But it’s nap time now. Why are you awake?”
“That’s just. I can’t sleep… Rather than that, let’s play house! Yurika is bored alone!”
Seeing her stammering and changing the subject made me smile.
“You slept late again yesterday. My sister must have said that I wouldn’t grow taller then.”
“Heeing…”
In response to the resolute hero’s answer, Yurika began to show off her charms.
‘This place is as it is.’
She realized that it was a space where she could be where she was.
“Where is the director?”
“He went to water the garden. Listen, I grew tomatoes this time, but they grow fairly quickly…”
Well, it must have been a tomato, but seeing his younger brother explaining with his arms wide open, the warrior smiled silently and stroked his head.
“Then wait a minute. I’ll see the director.”
“Yes! Hurry up, unnie! It wasn’t fun to play house alone! Unnie is the groom!”
“Okay.”
When I went out through the back door of the building, I saw an old man with a thick gray beard watering his garden with a watering can.
The warrior approaching him called the old man.
“Director.”
“Hmm? Durandal, what are you doing here?”
“I’m coming home. Do I need to do anything special?”
“The boy who said he would come when he came came without contacting me.”
The old man put down the watering can on the floor and sat down on the stump of a tree next to him and opened his mouth.
“So, what are you worried about?”
The old man saw right away the reason why the hero came to the orphanage.
‘As expected, the director knows everything.’
A warrior. No, Durandal confided his troubles to the old man.
“I see.”
“I’m sorry, director. I shouldn’t say such weak things…”
As the hero spat it out as if blaming himself, the old man patted her on the shoulder.
“I’m so glad.”
“Yes…?”
“Since I told you to hide your gender, there hasn’t been a day I haven’t regretted it. What did I say. I wonder if I interfered in your life…”
“Don’t say that. It’s true that I was comfortable thanks to that.”
The old man looked at Durandal with admirable eyes.
“Still, I’m really glad I found a mate like this. Your Majesty’s words were true.”
“Damn, pair?! It’s not like that yet!”
Then Durandal flushed her face and waved his hand.
“Not yet? Then you’ll just have to wait.”
“So that’s not it…”
Seeing Durandal in trouble, the old man smiled more comfortably than before and opened her mouth.
“Seeing you come out like this, I want to see it too. What kind of person is it that made you like this?”
Durandal calmed her excitement at the old man’s question.
“They see me as a Durandal, not a hero.”
“Hmm?”
She raised one of the old man’s eyebrows.
“Should I say it’s reassuring to always believe in me who I don’t even believe in myself…”
“It’s been a while. How long has it been since I’ve seen your smile like that?”
“Is that so?”
“I think it’s the first time I’ve seen you since you became a hero.”
While talking about him, the story blossomed. The old man asked.
“By the way Durandal. Didn’t you see Tommy on the way?”
“Tommy? Why Tommy?”
Tommy.
He was a boy who had been following him around ever since he was little.
“Oops, I guess I didn’t see it. I left early in the morning to buy a present for you before you set off on your journey again.
“I’ll go out and look for it.”
“Can I ask you a favor?”
“Don’t worry.”
The time when the warrior who got up was about to leave the orphanage. Something clung to my leg.
“Where is your sister? You and Yurika decided to play house!”
“Sorry. Something urgent happened. I’ll be right back.”
“Heeing…”
I don’t think it’s suitable for Yurika’s play house.