Chapter 146 – Old Connection (5)
It is early morning when the darkness that hangs around is slowly dissipating.
“…”
Roden, who was leaning against the railing, was admiring the scenery outside, suppressing a complicated and cramped feeling.
“Whoa…”
He let out a big sigh, not knowing how many times it might be, and looked at the letter that had been fluttering in his hand the whole time.
『Dawning time, I will be waiting for you on the rooftop.』
If you look at the back of the letter, you will see a name written on it.
『Han Geon-woo』
‘… No matter how you look at it, it must be her handwriting.’
It is impossible to recognize the old name written in uniform and neat handwriting as if measured with a ruler.
How can I not recognize the name of this world that she wrote and read clearly for the first time, which made it possible for Roden to freely read and write the text of this world?
‘The guy in the armor who handed me this letter must be Philia… Oh, her real name is Seras.’
If you think about it again, the physique is pretty similar.
I wondered in my heart how she was able to perform such a cumbersome tail trick while wearing cumbersome armor.
… When you are immersed in such thoughts, the surroundings gradually become brighter and the sun gradually rises above the horizon. Sunrise is coming soon.
“Is it time soon? There is no obligation to follow the instructions in the letter that was handed to you unilaterally, but… ．As expected, I can’t be bothered.”
Roden, who eventually decided to climb onto her roof, approached the bed where Roxia and her twin sister lay side by side before she left.
All three of them are sleeping soundly, probably because it is a bit early to start the day. Roden whispered so that they would not wake up.
“… I’ll be right back.”
Before returning, Roden left a simple note in case the girls woke up and left the room.
However, through the railing, not the door.
In my experience, the stairs going up to the roof in these buildings are locked with a fairly high probability. If so, it is much easier and faster to go up the wall.
ㅡSasasasak!
After confirming that there was no gaze looking at this side, he concentrated mana on both legs, and quickly and quickly reached the rooftop by riding the wall like a flat land.
‘Come to think of it, I also learned this application from Philia.’
There was no need to look around the rooftop, the figure standing on the other side came into view.
Unlike the time we met yesterday, the knight is taking off his helmet.
The long ears protruding from the sides, the neatly tied blonde ponytail… It was a very familiar back figure. Roden became convinced that the person in front of him must be Seras.
Just then, the sun rose over the horizon. Seras looked at the landscape and slowly turned his head toward Roden.
“You came right on time. Geon-wu… No, he’s using the name Roden now. It doesn’t sound like a very fitting name.”
“You didn’t call me out at this time just to evaluate my name, right? It’s not like we’re chatting about things like that… Uh… ? “
“Why are you so surprised by something like this? Say what you want to say to the end.”
The face of Seras that he met again was no different from the last time he remembered it, but there was a big difference besides the appearance.
“Or did you want to smoke too?”
“… I’m fine. It’s a bit unexpected.”
He was holding a fairly large piece of tobacco that had been burnt more than half. If you look carefully at your feet, you can see that there are two smoked tobacco pieces.
—-Use it… ! Wow!
Correction. Now three.
Roden had been thinking about what would happen if he reunited with Seras from the day before, but
I didn’t expect to see him turning into a cigarette smoker who couldn’t even remove it.
‘Hmm, hmm. People need some cigarettes, so let’s get over it, and the first thing we need to check is… ．As expected.’
In the past, Roden used an artifact to imply that she died with the demon king right after the punitive force and the demon king were formed to deal with not only the demon king but also the warrior.
As a result, she began to live in seclusion by spreading the death of her hero to the world through her.
Nevertheless, what Seras’ nonchalant reaction, who is now facing him, means… ．
“Has the suggestion been released…? Will you at least avenge the enemies of her men here?”
“If they were going to kill you, they would have attacked you without the hassle of meeting each other separately.”
Roden’s voice mixed with hostility, and Seras lightly raised his hands to reveal that he had no intention of attacking.
“Listen first, just like you said, the suggestions gradually unraveled and came to mind one by one. Can you imagine how I felt the moment I remembered everything?”
Showing off her self-deprecating laugh, she took her brand new cigarette from her bosom and put it in her mouth.
ㅡChip profit… !
“Whoa…”
Seras lit the fire with a familiar motion and took a deep breath, then recalled the incident while exhaling faint smoke.
About 5 years have passed since the Demon King was subdued.
As the influence of her artifacts gradually faded, her hints were undone, and she suffered great confusion over the course of a month by her reawakened memories.
Since then, Seras, who has regained her mental stability, has pondered countless times about what to do with the hero who must be alive somewhere in her world, and her conclusion is… ．
“You decided to just leave me alone?”
“Yes, we deviated a lot from the original plan, but in the end, the hero disappeared from this world.
I don’t trust Seras anymore, but I don’t think she’s lying because I don’t feel any hostility towards herself in her.
“Then why did you come to see me now?”
“Whoa… ．I didn’t mean to find out. I ran into you by chance at the adventurer’s guild… I called you here because I really wanted to ask you something.”
Tapping off the burnt part of her tobacco, she pointed the end of her tobacco at Roden and asked a question.
“I have been curious since the moment I remembered it. That day… Why did you let me live?”
“Ha, if I asked you what to ask, you would know that all the memories of that day came up, right? I needed someone to report to Altma’s head that the hero had been taken care of, and you were the right person for the plan. That’s all.”
“That’s no reason. If you needed someone to deliver false testimony, it would have been much safer to use someone else rather than me.”
Touching her elongated ears, which symbolize her own race, as if showing off to her roden, she continued her words.
“There are big and small differences between individuals, but elves have a high resistance to magic by nature. And since the suggestion you cast as an artifact is also a type of magic, it has been released over time.”
ㅡWow! Jiik, Jiik!
Seras, who had spit out the smoked tobacco before he knew it, asked again as he nervously trampled on it.
“I’m sure you’re not an idiot who wouldn’t even expect that… Tell me. Why did you let me live?”
“…”
When Roden, who had been refuted, was unable to answer right away and kept a brief silence, Seras, who had been glaring at him, suddenly pricked up his ears and put the helmet on the floor.
“Someone is coming up from there. Is it your group?”
“What… ?”
Roden only then turned his head belatedly. As she said, he felt a sign that a person was coming up from the direction he had come up a moment ago.
What gradually emerged was a curved black horn. And among Roden’s party, the only person who possessed horns was… ．
“Master… ?”
It was Roxia who was floating her own body like a balloon with her fly magic.
The moment Roden left the room a moment ago, Roxia, who had woken up, witnessed him climbing through the railing to the rooftop.
At first she tried to wait patiently in her room until her master returned, but she also couldn’t stand it and followed, until now.
As soon as she found her owner, Roxia, with a smile like sunshine, flew towards him and hugged her tightly.
“Good morning, Master!”
“Good morning. Loxia, you woke up exceptionally early today.”
Although a little taken aback by her intrusion, Roden, who did not show it on the outside, calmly stroked the back of Loxia, who was rubbing her face in a charming way.
After enjoying the embrace, Roxia slowly fell away and belatedly noticed the existence of Seras, whom she had not seen because her field of vision was narrowed.
“Who is this?”
“… The person in the next room. Since we met here, we were chatting for a while.”
“Ah, that’s the article you talked about yesterday.”
Recalling her conversation the day before, Roxia gently nodded her head at Seras.
‘The demon that the princess and Danir met… Calling him by the title of master is, after all, a slave of a different race. I remember that other women were also wearing it, but he turned into a lewd bone that would devour it regardless. This is why men.’
Meanwhile, Seras’ eyes hidden behind her helmet were as cold as ice.
Seras, who stared at the demon girl without saying anything while feeling the creeping contempt, gradually opened her eyes wide at the sensation she had experienced sometime ago.
“I can’t believe this feeling… ?”
After being subdued by Roden in the past, Seras, who was dragged into her throne room, watched the battle between the hero and the demon king from beginning to end.
And now, Seras, who sensed that the same energy as the demon he felt in the past was flowing from the demon girl in front of him, was greatly shocked and hurriedly threw off his helmet… ．
“Uweeeeek… !!!”
The fear of the demon king, deeply imprinted in his mind, burst and he started pouring out his vomit!
“Kyaaaaa!! What, what, what, what?!”
The first meeting between Seras and Loxia was covered in vomit.
