Chapter 208 – [Porter] Change
“We broke up.”
The next evening, she briefly went to the warrior and said so.
“… Broke up?”
What does this all of a sudden mean?
“I can’t remain Eric’s lover like this.”
She looked calm, but there was an unconcealable agitation in her eyes.
“Are you really good with that?”
“… Huh.”
She replied, but her slightly turned head showed her desire to deny it.
Rarely, Seria and Arin also sat quietly with their mouths shut.
In this situation, she must have no intention of touching her planting.
“Hmm… Then you no longer need to come to me for the hero, right?”
You don’t have to be stronger
There is no excuse that you have to match the sexual preference of a man who is not your lover.
“Yes… Ji.”
She replied as she glanced at me.
“Then I guess you didn’t come to cuddle today?”
“… Huh.”
She responded as if she had made up her mind.
Well, the relationship between the two has been severed, but I don’t think I’ll feel like running right to me and hugging me.
In fact, she won’t resist too much if you forcefully pull it.
Say no, no, and eventually hug me.
But that’s why it’s hard to win her heart.
Let’s back off a bit here.
“Okay? Then I can’t help it.”
“Huh?”
I said calmly to Yuni, who was looking at us with slightly embarrassed eyes.
“Why did you think I was such a piece of trash flirting with a woman who had just been dumped?”
Well, that’s actually true.
“If that’s the case, I’ll try to restrain myself. I guess I need some time to be alone for a while.”
She looked at me with a slightly surprised face.
If he really meant to reject it, he wouldn’t have come to visit us like this, but pretending to take care of it for no reason.
She wanted to say that, but she didn’t have to hurt her more, so she swallowed her words down the back of her throat.
“… Then I’ll go.”
Yuni returned to her troubled face.
But then, how are you going to solve the room?
***
The next day, we set off again.
Yuni seemed a little tired, perhaps because she had slept through the night, but she dozed off every time she rested in the middle.
Her hero looked at her sadly, but… She can’t take another day off because of her.
Uni herself didn’t want that, so we moved on.
The next destination is the city of monsters where humans remain.
It is said to be one of the most important cities that are not far from Mawangseong.
“Uni, you…”
“Ahaha… That’s how it is.”
Uni revealed to Ertina that she had broken up with the hero.
She glared at me straight away, but what… Because she didn’t break up to obey me.
In the meantime, the hero who had always stuck with Uni was now alone.
Come to think of it, Hero would have no reason to go with us anymore.
The relationship with the last remaining Uni was also severed, and now, even if he really wants to go to the Devil’s Castle alone, no one will stop him.
But he hasn’t yet.
Looking at his thoughtful face, I wonder if he’s worried.
In the meantime, I’ve always organized parties with them, but now that I’m alone all of a sudden, it’s a bit awkward.
Perhaps sooner or later you will come to your own conclusions.
What if you really decide to go alone… We’ll be here
On the way, she glanced at her uni several times, but her hero didn’t reach her anymore.
Uni went with Ertina.
She didn’t act like she had any lingering attachments to the hero, but that was only superficial, and whenever Eric wasn’t looking at her, she looked at him with longing eyes.
He deliberately avoided looking at me.
However, the nervous expression on his face makes me wonder if he will do something, whether he comes to me soon or makes a tease.
Still, there was no sign of anything different until we reached the next village.
After a few days like that, we arrived at the village of monsters where humans live.
There was nothing particularly different about being a village of monsters.
Humans don’t live like slaves under monsters, and their lives haven’t improved significantly.
They were just living the same life as before.
Yeah, it’s not too different from what I thought.
After all, everything the elders said was nonsense.
“Today I will rest here and then go.”
Ertina suggested that we take a day off in this village.
The hero also obediently agreed to do so, so we took a room at an inn in this village.
One triple room and two single rooms.
“… UNI.”
“Are you okay.”
After Yuni said that to Ertina, she first took her key and went up to her room.
“… You.”
After confirming that Yuni climbed first, Ertina looked at me and her hero and said.
“Ha… Is this an unavoidable flow?”
Resignation.
That reaction, which I felt from Luella as well, as if it couldn’t be helped, was very annoying.
“Warrior. Could you give me some time tomorrow? I have something to tell you.”
The hero seemed surprised for a moment, but soon nodded his head.
Upon receiving his confirmation, Ertina looked at me.
“I hope you make a wise decision.”
“What are you talking about?”
“… Please remember my words even at the last moment.”
Ertina finished with those words and left.
After making an appointment with the hero to meet again in the morning.
I do not like it.
That attitude of pretending to know something but not telling us anything.
The hero glanced at me and went up to his room without a word.
“We are going too, Master.”
Seria pulled my arm.
It’s a wise decision…
Are you saying there are times when I have to make judgments?
“Okay, stop pulling.”
I lightly fed honey chestnuts to the heads of the girls pulling my arms amicably and went up to the room.
Okay, first of all, let’s think about Uni.
***
After returning to the room, we came up with various ideas about what to do with Yuni.
“… After all, you have to win her heart…”
“So you’re not a slave, you’re just a lover.”
Ignore the grumbling Seria.
“Hmm, mind.”
“Anyway, Yuni doesn’t have a lover right now, right? Even if the master takes the position, no one will say anything.”
As Arin said.
It is also that she was aiming for her from the beginning and left her alone.
“Then?”
“How about going on a date first?”
There were many discussions after that, but in the end, this was the one we chose.
Catching her swaying heart seems easy, but also difficult.
Well, you won’t know until you try.
“Then come and go.”
“Yes.”
“Have a good day.”
With their support, I left the room.
For some reason, I think I heard Seria and Arin’s disgruntled complaints before leaving…
She probably doesn’t like it when I try to date her, which they have never done before.
The part where he reluctantly puts his feelings aside and faithfully gives advice for me felt cute.
Should I pay a little more attention?
No, it would be fun to tease them with Uni.
Thinking about this and that, I stood in front of Uni’s room.
Smart.
No answer came from inside.
“It’s me.”
“…”
Are you thinking of not answering the end?
I kept talking to her at her door.
“Are you listening? There’s nothing wrong with being locked up in a room like that anyway.”
Are you really listening?
Even so, if you were actually outside the room, it would be a dirty embarrassing situation.
But at least I didn’t see any sound or appearance outside the room… Probably inside
“Come out tomorrow morning. I am waiting.”
I said so and went back.
It was under the judgment that it would be better to say it directly like this rather than adding reasons for Katabuta.
What if you don’t come… I’ll have to think of other means.
Hardline, at least now, isn’t such a good idea.
She has no choice but to give her a choice.
And the next day, I found her sitting with me in front of her inn.
“… Don’t be mistaken.”
“What?”
“I am… I just want to get some fresh air.”
I laughed at her words.
“… I’m just walking alone you… He followed suit.”
“Are you saying that?”
When I pointed out her poor excuse, she bit her lip lightly.
“Oh, if you show me this…”
“We’re not even lovers anymore, so what’s the matter?”
“… You are not a lover either.”
Well, that’s right.
And I don’t plan on leaving you as a lover in the future.
“It’s just that the two of us can go together, why are you attaching meaning to each one like that? Aren’t they from the same party? Is not it?”
Yeah, well, is there a law that says two men and women must be lovers to go out together?
You can just walk around for no reason.
“… It’s just an excuse.”
“Didn’t you?”
Having nothing to say, she got up from her seat without saying a word.
“… So where are you going?”
“Well?”
Come to think of it, I didn’t think of that.
She looked at me as if taken aback by my irresponsible words.
“Well, there must be something somewhere. It’s not an outing with a purpose anyway, is it? Let’s go at once.”
So I took her and started walking around her.
I felt it while wandering around a bit, but it really doesn’t distinguish it from other villages.
Just… It’s a rural town with some monsters roaming around.
He also said that there was nothing to see in this town.
“Ha…”
Yuni, who seemed somewhat drained, let out a sigh of hers.
“Oh, is that a forge?”
“Smithy…”
It seemed that she was interested, so I took her to her smithy.
“Others, are you an outsider?”
Surprisingly, the blacksmith was not human.
What is the name of this child, the race?
This ignorantly large and muscular guy must be…
“T-Troll…”
“No, that’s right. T, troll… Blacksmithing…”
This troll blacksmith was at least twice as tall as me.
For some reason, the roof was filthy high…
“Hey, nothing special here. Troll… I’m good at this…”
“… How are you getting along with the villagers?”
Uni suddenly asked such a question.
In some cases, it may seem like a rather rude question…
“Everyone is scared, but… Don’t hit it’s okay.”
Won’t be able to hit
Even if a guy like that stays calm, his existence itself is a fear.
What was disconcerting was that he was quieter than expected.
All the monsters we met were like lunatics who couldn’t communicate, except for some.
If these are not exhibitions, are they usually like this?
I think I saw an unexpected side.
“What, are you going to buy something?”
“Ah, um… What do you have?”
Uni’s eyes landed on one of the hanging weapons and accessories.
What she sees… Is it a ring
“One with that one.”
“Um, sweetheart… The gift of the ring is fine…”
“Huh?”
Why is the ring
Apparently, there is such a thing among the customs of distant places.
Give your spouse a ring as a gift.
It’s an undeserved gift for a slave…
I grabbed her hand and checked it out.
“What, what are you doing!”
“Keuhehe, is that why you were wearing it?”
She still had the ring on her little finger.
It must have been a gift from the warrior.
It’s proof that you haven’t completely forgotten him yet.
I forcibly pulled the ring off her little finger.
“Wait for a sec… Ha, don’t… !”
“If you don’t fight… It’s possible.”
“We are not fighting.”
The empty ring fell off easily.
And in that place, the ring I bought… Some left
The ring is bigger than the little finger.
Yes, I’ll go in here.
I put the ring on her ring finger.
She looked at herself for a moment at the ring on her finger.
It’s not like I’m talented in art, but at least I look better than the one the hero put on.
“… Gee, I feel bad.”
“So are you going to throw it away?”
She looked at her hand for a moment and then without a word removed my ring.
But I didn’t give up.
“The gift… I’ll take it.”
It’s like saying you can’t get it.
Actually I have no idea, it’s kind of funny.
“If you’re going to visit me later, wear it and come visit me.”
“…”
Yuni tinkered with the ring for a moment before putting it in her pocket.
“That… Give it back.”
“Oh, you mean this?”
As I was fiddling with the ring that her warrior should have bought, she snatched it away.
“You won’t have to wear it anymore.”
“Oh…”
She hesitated as she put the ring on her little finger.
“Or do you still want to feel like a lover?”
“…”
As if she was thinking something about my words, instead of putting on the ring the hero had given her, she put it in her pocket.
There was no ring on her left hand anymore.
Neither my ring nor his ring.
But sooner or later a ring will be put on her hand.
One ring, not two or empty.
