Chapter 96 – [Hero] Last Week
In my room, I was devising a way to escape based on the facts Sera had told me.
Assuming that all the information she gave me is true.
I asked her three things.
It was Luella’s purpose, the way to escape, and the identity of the Four Heavenly Kings.
Luella’s purpose was not particularly different from our perception.
To make this world the devil’s.
That was Luella’s goal.
After saying this, Sera generously told her that Luella was especially loyal to the Demon King among the Four Heavenly Kings.
But doesn’t that mean that you and the other Four Heavenly Kings don’t serve the demon king that much?
Come to think of it, I have met most of the Four Heavenly Kings.
The Skeleton Merchant has already disappeared, and Luella and Sera are now in this city.
It would be best if we could reliably annihilate the two here, but… Probably impossible.
With everyone in the city held hostage, they couldn’t act recklessly.
So the lane I chose was to run away from here.
Maybe we would kill all the people in the city for running away, but either way it was a gamble worth taking rather than sitting back and waiting for everyone to die.
So I asked her to teach her how to escape.
Then Sarah gave an absurd answer that she could just walk out.
Would you have asked if that was possible?
I was trying to argue like that, but I thought that maybe there was a hidden meaning here.
Her attitude was strangely friendly.
Of course, given her personality, it could be that she really meant to tease her, but maybe this could really be the answer?
I think I need to think a little more about this point.
We can’t all gather together and discuss like before.
If you do, you will be caught like last time.
In fact, from the point of asking the Four Heavenly Kings how to escape, I wonder if it’s meaningless…
Smart.
The knocking sound distracted me.
I was slightly annoyed, but I said it without showing off.
“Come on in.”
But nobody came in.
I tried again in case I hadn’t heard, but I couldn’t feel any presence outside the door.
When I opened the door, I found a letter lying on the floor.
There’s no one passing by around, so who the hell is that?
There is no sender and no envelope.
It was just a piece of paper folded in half.
[A week later, out of the city of Luella]
The letter contained only this one sentence.
***
Next day.
We visited all of our party members one by one and talked about the contents of the letter.
In fact, I doubted whether I could believe this even from me, but now there was only one corner to believe.
“Wow! We can finally get out, Eric! But why is she helping us?”
“I know…”
Uni was genuinely happy that we were able to get out.
Of course, neither I nor she knew why Sera was helping us this much.
“… Can I answer you later?”
Seria listened to me and slightly frowned.
Is she worried about whether or not she can be trusted? It was also reliable.
She disappeared and came back with her slightly flushed face and nodded her head.
“Yes? A week later? Ah… All right.”
For some reason, Arin seemed to be slightly reluctant to face me.
She was a little shocked, but she seemed to be in a bad shape, so I thought that might be the reason.
Arin, who politely declined my care, she pondered over something, but she eventually nodded her head.
Except for Uni, everyone’s reactions were a bit strange, but they delivered everything anyway.
Oh. You didn’t tell Mr. Jeren.
I hurriedly knocked on his room.
“Aren’t you going to be there now?”
“Uh? Okay?”
As I was knocking on the door, Uni, who was just passing by the hallway, said a word.
Did you go outside?
“Do you know where he went?”
“Um, I’m not sure, but maybe it’s in Seria’s room?”
“… Why?”
The moment I heard her words, my heart felt like it stopped beating.
… Why does he say he’s in Seria’s room?
“Huh? You’ve been coming and going often these days. Isn’t that so? Didn’t you know Eric?”
I didn’t know.
Seria never said anything like this to me.
Of course Mr. Jeren too.
“… What are you two doing there… ?”
“Um… I thought you were learning magic…”
Yuni rummaged through her memory, and she could barely remember what someone had said.
“Oh, Eric, where are you going?”
I immediately ran to the front of Seria’s room.
I knocked on her door roughly, and after a while, Seria, who had become shaggy, came out with a disheveled look.
“Um… What’s the matter?”
“Three, Seria… Were you sleeping?”
It was the first time Seria was messed up like this, so I was a little embarrassed.
I only saw her always neat and tidy, but she also had such a defenseless side.
“Ah… I’m tired on the way, so wait a minute. What’s more?”
“Oh that… Hey, maybe… I wonder if you haven’t seen Mr. Jeren…”
When Seria heard that, her eyes widened sharply.
“… Why do you ask me that?”
“Yu, Yuni… Together these days… He said he was studying magic…”
No, it can’t be.
Now I know that I’m not a bad person who steals other people’s girls…
“You must have heard from Yuni. Not here.”
“… Okay?”
“All right? I’ll just go in.”
Ceria yawned at her and shut the door.
Although there were still some awkward corners, it was a little thrilling to show such a defenseless side.
Eh, does this mean we got along better?
The belief that it’s okay to show everything, even your flawless appearance… Could it be something like that?
Then it is.
Seria believes in me like this, but I shouldn’t betray her trust first.
I thought so and nodded her head.
However, in a corner of my heart, the seed of distrust was growing again.
Second day.
I didn’t do anything on this day.
For some reason, I felt drowsy and the weather was so nice, so I took a short walk.
At first, I was embarrassed whenever I saw people, but now my gaze has become more natural.
Rather, it was more awkward for them if I didn’t scan their bodies.
I came back with an unintentional sigh.
… No, did you go out to do this from the beginning?
Actually I don’t know either.
Third day.
For some reason, the city was noisy.
Rumors spread all over the city that the newcomer I had seen at the strip theater the other day had a second appointment.
Of course, we’re going out soon, so it has nothing to do with her performance.
I believed in Arin from the beginning, but it was refreshing to relieve her worries a bit.
Fourth day.
I heard some disturbing news.
It was rumored that the newcomer’s second performance would be her last.
Unprecedented Shortest Retirement.
Of course, there was an uproar, but there was no reversal of the position.
But what bothered me more than that was the fact that the concert was two days later.
The day before the escape, of course.
Could it be just a coincidence?
Fifth day.
I found a familiar person in the middle of the street.
A tight, high-exposure nun’s uniform that doesn’t look awkward even compared to the naked people around her.
It was Sarah.
As if to seduce men, she twitched her buttocks while walking, and was suddenly kidnapped by men who ran out of the alleyway and disappeared into her alleyway.
“What?”
Should I save it?
But what about the Four Heavenly Kings?
I was embarrassed, but my body was already running towards it.
Damn you!
But before I even entered the alley, I heard the sound of something bursting and stopped her.
Fruit… Would not be
There can be no fruit in these alleys.
What then?
“Oh, you are a warrior. Are you here to help? Romantic.”
She was debating whether or not to go in, but she first poked her head out of her alley and looked at me.
“Wow! Oh that… Mmm, you’re all right…”
… The red marks on her face bothered me very much.
Sera must have noticed my gaze and smiled like a bad boy.
“Are you concerned?”
“Ah… I hope that…”
“I killed them all.”
When my expression hardened, Sara smiled and touched my cheek.
“What are you confused about? While that person has already cut down dozens of her demons. Yes?”
“That, that and that…”
Come to think of it, this woman was also a demon.
If you insist that it and this are different, it will be the same from her point of view.
Is there a difference between me slashing her demons and her killing humans?
“That and this one?”
Sarah narrowed her eyes as if she knew it, and she looked at me.
Her eyes and her mouth were smiling, but the aura she felt was anything but calm.
“… Sorry. I made a mistake.”
“Oh my goodness.”
I immediately apologized to her.
She has never thought deeply about the ecology of her demons or their existence, but from her point of view, I must be a bad person who killed her own people.
It occurred to me that it didn’t make much sense for me to accuse her of killing her human.
If Seria and Arin heard it, they would get angry at me for saying nonsense, but my honest feelings were like that.
“Are human heroes bowing down to monsters right now?”
“… I, a human, apologize to you, a demon.”
The official name is a monster.
But in the past, they were called demons.
The name demons sounded like they were creatures on a par with us, so they changed it to monsters.
“Whoops… It’s funny. There are still people who say things like this.”
Sera was fiddling with my cheeks and even the lobe of my ear.
“Excuse me…”
No matter how much I’m in the position to apologize, isn’t this a bit strange?
When I said something out of awkwardness, she laughed and removed her hand from my face.
“My apology was well received. But you are a hero representing mankind, not ours. You don’t have to care about our affairs. So, don’t bow your head to the demons from now on.”
“Yes? Ah… Yes.”
I listened to her sermon about her heroic mindset to her, her Four Heavenly Kings.
What irony is this
Sera also burst into laughter as if this was funny, and I ended up laughing awkwardly too.
“Ahaha… Oh, that’s funny. Then, hero, if you want to protect me, will you take me to the church?”
She didn’t have anything to do anyway, so it didn’t matter to her, but for some reason, I felt like I was getting too close with her, so I heard her hesitate at the moment.
“Whoops… I don’t see you as enemies. It’s not Luella, though.”
Sera said quietly, as if she had read my worries.
… Okay. Let’s take this opportunity to learn more about her.
Her third answer that she did also bothered me.
“If you follow me, I will also tell you a funny story.”
Sarah said, wiping her cheeks with the back of her hand.
Her blood-stained face was no different from that of a human.
