Chapter 145 – [Porter] Ruella’s Proposal
“… What?”
Come to think of it, yesterday she definitely seemed reluctant.
Still, she seemed to be convinced and went back in the end…
“At least until I die of old age, I’ll make sure you don’t have to worry about money. Honor? Title? I can give you anything you want. In the name of my Luella, I will provide her with the rest of her happy life.”
“… Are you worried that we might catch the demon lord?”
If she’s loyal to her Demon Lord, this is a natural concern, but honestly, we can’t guarantee that we’ll be able to defeat one of those Luellas right away.
Is it really necessary to do this?
“I know, to the extent that you are weak. But last time… It’s not that we beat the demon king because we were really strong. A lot of luck came together.”
Luella felt she needed a little more explanation and added her own.
“A warrior is such a being. It doesn’t matter if the hero is strong or weak. In the end, if left alone, the hero will one day defeat the demon king.”
“It must be something a warrior would like to hear.”
Isn’t that the greatest anxiety of a warrior?
Anxieties like I am too weak, can I defeat the demon lord?
If you tell Louella’s words, she will surely be able to relieve the burden in her heart.
“But it is impossible to do it alone. Why do you have colleagues? A hero unites with his colleagues to become one hero. If your colleagues leave one by one, a hero will cease to be a hero.”
“So please see me and leave? Watching you rule the world?”
In fact, no matter who rules, the commoners and the lesser ones like us don’t change much.
Churches and high nobles claim that monsters destroy everything and exterminate humans, but rumors that are heard secretly say that there is not much difference.
It’s just that strange monsters roam the streets, and life itself is not shaken.
Of course, it is also because we have no roots to shake.
“Are you not interested in humans losing and winning anyway? Anyway, you can live well. Yes?”
“That’s why you suggested it to me.”
I came knowing that I had no reason to reject the offer.
Actually, that’s not incorrect.
I don’t really care if the hero wins or not.
The world does not end when the hero loses, and the world does not become a better place to live in if the hero wins.
Maybe losing is better.
If you win, you’ll just go back to the previous one without any change.
For those who have nothing to lose, chaos with unknown possibilities may be better than stagnation.
“Splendid houses, rich estates, social prestige. And even a slave who will serve you for the rest of your life. Isn’t that the life you want?”
Luella’s suggestion was to turn that uncertain possibility into a perfect possibility.
“I will provide you with a carriage. Tonight, take the two of you and get out of here. And settle where you want. I can provide all the basics for living.”
Louella said that and smiled.
“Can you understand that I agree?”
The reason Luella went this far was to completely eliminate the hero’s threat.
It divides and weakens the party members, and makes them absolutely unable to fight against the demon lord.
The reason is, of course, that she obeys the Demon King.
So what about Sarah? Sera doesn’t seem to agree with this, so is she not obeying the Demon King?
“Hmm…”
“Do you have any reason to worry? I believe that you won’t be able to open your eyes to a strange sense of mission or say things like that.”
“No, it is not.”
If that was the case, I wouldn’t have thought of stealing the hero’s party members in the first place.
It’s just that things are a little strange right now.
Originally, I need to be careful about suggestions that only benefit me.
Don’t scammers always come with sweet offers like this?
“… I want you to hear the answer soon.”
You can see Louella’s expression change.
From smile to anger.
The corners of her mouth go down from the top.
Clap!
At that moment, the locked doorknob turned.
What, when did you lock it?
“Master?”
Seria’s mysterious voice.
Why did you lock the door? Seems to ask
“I really… I’m dumbfounded. I don’t know why they’re kicking this great opportunity.”
Luella realized it was time, and she fretted.
“If you’re drunk with a sense of justice that doesn’t work, I’d recommend just killing yourself.”
Sense of justice? No, I’m not worried about that.
It’s just that the offer is so suspicious.
However, it is also true that I am thinking about this proposal.
Why am I worried
“Ha… You don’t even need a spirit sage anyway, do you? What’s the use if you die from being greedy?”
Louella is right.
Since Seria and Arin already exist, there is no need to be greedy.
It’s not like there’s any reason why I have to get Uni.
Clap clap clap.
“Ha… Come back tomorrow Enough then.”
Then she jumped out of her window.
I checked that there were no traces left outside the window and opened the door.
“Why did you suddenly lock the door?”
“I didn’t lock it.”
“Yes?”
As soon as Luella entered, she locked the door and tried to talk.
After all, this year is suspicious.
Seria and Arin would of course oppose it, so they tried to stop them from entering the room.
I am the owner anyway, and the girls will have no choice but to follow my words, but why did they go this far?
Afraid it will get into the ears of the warrior?
“… Master? Why are you like that?”
“Don’t mind.”
Why am I still at this party?
Of course it’s because of Yuni, but if that woman has special value to me, that’s not the case either.
Yesterday, I rejected it with my honest feelings, but I couldn’t easily figure out the reason when I dug into it.
“Hmm…”
I guess I’ll have to think about it a bit.
***
The next day, Uni went out to receive Ertina’s training.
She barged into our room before leaving and left her bluff.
“Don’t cling to Eric. Because I will kill you.”
When Yuni warned her in such a lifeless voice, I was slightly troubled.
Looking at her, would it really be enough?
“Sherry…”
Before I could say anything, she shut her mouth.
“What?”
She responded after about 10 minutes.
“It’s going well.”
At her words, Arin nodded her head.
“What went well?”
“The warning itself is proof of that. While Yuni is with Ertina, she can’t spy on us with her spirits.”
“… Will that happen?”
Seria confidently crossed her arms.
“If surveillance was possible, there would not have been a warning. As expected, there is still an immature side to this.”
She warned in advance that something might happen while she wasn’t watching, but in the end, she ended up exposing her own weakness.
“We can do it like this.”
Seria and Arin made up their mind to go ahead with the plan without any changes.
Before they left, I suddenly remembered what I had said with Luella and stopped them for a moment.
“Why did you guys join the Hero party?”
The girls seemed a bit taken aback by the unexpected question, but since it wasn’t a difficult question, they answered it obediently.
“I had a dream.”
“I didn’t receive a revelation from the goddess like Eric, but… I had a dream in which we defeated the demon king together with someone.”
I can’t remember whether she heard it from the hero or Seria, but she said that the hero’s companions also received unreasonable revelations.
It wasn’t a clear revelation like the hero’s, I just heard that it was a vague dream on the same level that I would be with the hero, but that seems to be this.
“I’m sure you didn’t come to the party because of that one thing. What did you come up with in the first place?”
Recalling the past for a moment, the girls were lost in thought.
“I am… I just had blind faith at the time, so I thought it was fate. I believed that I was given the mission to subdue the demon king together with the hero.”
Arin decided to join the hero party because of her faith.
The moment she met the hero for the first time, she said that she was convinced that this was all a fate given by God.
“Well, I didn’t really have that kind of faith… At that time, I just believed that if I defeated the demon king, my position would be clear. Subjugating the demon lord is an honor that is second to none in the world.”
Seria was for honor.
Seria, who dreamed of becoming a great mage who would leave a name in history, immediately responded to her hero’s proposal.
“What about Yuni?”
“What is uni…”
“They say that since Eric became a hero, he just followed him. Because he was a crush.”
Uni was because of love.
That blind obsession brought the qualities of a dormant Elemental Sage into bloom, and made himself a suitable being to be a hero’s ally.
In the end, each of them was by Hero’s side because of honor, faith, and love.
The hero probably thinks that is his mission.
In other words, it is a responsibility.
Luella said I had a sense of justice that wasn’t quite the same, but it wasn’t.
I know best that I don’t have that.
Then why am I here?
“Master, why did you come to this party?”
As if reading my question, Seria asked me a question.
“You chose it.”
“That’s because the master raised his hand first.”
Seria replied with a slight smile.
I remember.
At that time, she had lost everything in Deron and left as if she had been kicked out, arriving at a nameless rural village.
She was confident in her physical strength, so she worked as a porter and lived on a daily income. One day, Seria called porters and saved people.
I was the only one who raised my hand then.
“Why did you raise your hand?”
“There was no particular reason.”
There was really no reason.
It was just from the simple thought that I wouldn’t have to look for work for a while because I would do it for a long time at a hero party.
It wasn’t until after I came in that I realized why the others didn’t apply, but that was the case then.
“Now?”
“Now…”
Now, the porter’s role has become ambiguous.
Giving a daily wage is meaningless now at the point of Seria.
In fact, Seria’s giving me her daily wages has also disappeared.
You can write whenever you need.
Now, my role as a porter is ambiguous, and I have become a piece of trash who steals the women of the warriors and eats favorably.
I myself am a person who doesn’t really care if I’m in a party or not.
Seria and Arin, who will come with me if I fall out, are important.
But isn’t that what I know?
Why do I stay
“Because I have to eat Uni.”
Yes.
What do you have to worry about?
Ever since I impulsively took an aphrodisiac in their water, I had already been living on impulse.
“This is a masterly answer.”
Seria laughed at that answer.
“Then we will go to make the master’s wish come true. Would that be the answer?”
Seeing that she smiled slightly, did she notice Luella’s visit?
I don’t know exactly, but I don’t know if I knew what happened.
“I feel like I lost my role to Seria.”
Arin, who couldn’t say anything, grumbled.
“It is an illusion. Let’s go, Arin.”
Arin pursed her lips and looked at me.
“This is my specialty. Originally, I’m the best at listening to concerns, so I’ll definitely do it from now on! Just tell me. OK?”
Arin only left her room after receiving my request.
After hearing their stories, I am convinced.
Yeah, she can’t get out of here.
It doesn’t matter whether you catch the demon king or not, whether you get honor or not, whether you give money or not.
My goal now is to capture Uni, and that’s enough reason for me to stay in the party.
After a while, Luella climbed through the window and came inside.
“I gave you time to think, so now you can hear the answer, right?”
“Thanks to you, I’ve been thinking about it for the first time in a while.”
At my words, Ruella smiled.
“Yeah, it’s not a bad thing to use that hard head sometimes. When will the wagon be ready?”
“No, I am not going.”
At those words, Luella’s expression hardened.
“… Why? Why would she take the risk and stay?”
“Yuni is still there.”
“Even if I suggest a better way?”
I looked at Louella and grinned.
Louella is a smart woman.
A woman who knows what is better for her and what is worse for her.
So you won’t understand me.
“Originally, I’m an asshole who lives with my dick instead of my head.”
I won’t stop until I subdue Uni under me!
Ruella’s expression distorted at my proud declaration.
