Chapter 247 – Change
#247.
Chow!
Gaon pulled out his spear and stood up.
Beneath it was a four-meter-tall troll-lord with a hole in its heart and a long tongue sticking out.
Also, once I found it, it wasn’t too hard to deal with. I poured all my aura to crush the fireball, and at the same time, I aimed for a gap in the defenseless guy who was swept away by the wind of the storm.
Thanks to this, a large part of the danjeon was empty, but it was filling up quickly in real time.
Looking towards the wall, I see monsters in chaos as the command system is paralyzed. The guys who had just joined forces to attack the castle are revealing their murderous intentions to each other.
It was the moment when the balance of the fight, which was already trying to win, tilted completely to one side.
Gaon waved his hand to the women who were watching him anxiously from the wall, letting them know that he was safe, and leaped with all his might.
No matter how certain victory is, the fight is not over. It needs to be dealt with quickly in order to reduce the damage even a little.
Gaon swung his spear like a windmill in all directions. The crescent-shaped strong air fired along the trajectory of the half moon hacked the monsters apart.
They later stop fighting and rush at each other, but they can’t reach it and are severed.
Starting with Gaon, not only Chorin and Hayeon, but also Hirencia and Isabella, who were controlling their firepower, exerted their full power and were able to take care of all the monsters within 10 minutes.
When the last remaining monster’s breath was cut off, the soldiers raised their weapons and cheered.
─I won!!
─God!!
When they saw the monsters coming endlessly from the mountains, they thought they were going to die, but they realized that they were alive and poured out their joy.
Then a soldier shouted loudly.
“Long live the black storm!”
Perhaps the last blow left a big impression on him, so Gaon was nicknamed the Black Storm. Starting with him, all the soldiers start chanting.
[Black Storm! Black Storm!]
It was really cheesy, but on the other hand, I felt proud. It was because in my previous life, I had heard criticism from many people in a similar but completely different way.
3 years from the 3rd round. A corner of his heart feels like he is getting confirmation that the road he has been working hard on is not wrong.
As I was looking up at the sky for a while and controlling my emotions, the party that had crossed the wall approached me.
“Gaon, where are you hurt?”
Chorin, as always, asked about the safety of her body.
“It’s okay. There’s nothing wrong. It wasn’t even that difficult of an opponent in the first place.”
“Then I’m glad. It just looked great.”
“Thanks for the compliments.”
When Cho-rin praised her, as if she couldn’t lose, she immediately praised him with Ha-yeon raising her thumb.
“Master, it was wonderful! Best!”
“Okay. Thanks. You are cool too Have you become very strong?”
“Really? Hehe, training hard is worthwhile.”
In fact, in the fights so far, Ha-yeon has only played half of the role of a sidekick, so it is inevitable that she is satisfied with her role as a little bit.
Gaon, who was gently caressing her hair as she clenched her fist as if to try harder in the future, turned her head to see her Isabella.
She didn’t show it, but still, standing still in her subtle distance gave the impression that she was somehow asking for praise.
Although she thought it couldn’t be, Gaon praised her performance.
“Isabella also worked hard. As a result, the damage has been significantly reduced.”
“… I just did it to restore the honor of the Martinez family.”
“Yes. Great.”
When I sent her warm eyes, her shoulders twitched, and she turned her head away from her gaze. Her shy look was quite cute.
‘And next…’
It was time to deal with Hirencia, who stood awkwardly at a slight distance from them.
She looked at her group in turn, looking for the right moment to interrupt her, then met her eyes with Gaon and smiled broadly.
His innocent smile even made him look innocent at first glance. A corner of her heart trembles as if an earthquake had struck.
This is the first time since regression that she has a direct conversation with her bare face. She couldn’t figure out how to start her words, so she just wet her saliva on her stretched lips.
The moment I opened my mouth,
Jerk-jerk-
Lord Northmond, who had completed the rough training, came right up close with the knights.
The lord had a macho appearance with a 2m tall body and a shaggy beard.
He said in a deep voice.
“My name is Woodreck Northmond. First I’d like to thank you for your help. If it wasn’t for you, I wouldn’t have been able to withstand the attack of the monsters.”
“… It’s called vacation. I’m glad you found it helpful.”
It was regrettable that the conversation with Hirencia had been pushed back, but I was a little relieved that I had time to properly prepare.
When Gaon introduced himself, Lord Northmond played with his beard.
“Hmm… Maybe it’s because I only live in this mountain, my knowledge is rather limited. It’s the first time I’ve heard of the name Hyugaon.”
“I understand. Because it’s not famous. We are just running a small guild.”
“That puts my mind at ease a little.”
Lord Northmond smiled, as if thanking him for understanding, and glanced at Hirencia.
“By the way, if it’s not my misunderstanding, the lady over here isn’t the daughter of the Chevrons… ?”
Platinum hair, amber eyes. And a swordsmanship reminiscent of a flash of light. Hirencia is a very famous figure in the empire, so she seems to have figured out her identity with just that amount of clues.
She stepped forward and stood beside Gaon as she answered.
“Lord Woodreck Northmond. Nice to meet you. My name is Hirencia Chevrons.”
“I guess so too. She never thought that a princess would exist. Does that mean that the duchy noticed the monsters in advance and sent support?”
The image Austin Chevrons has in Empire is the strongest and the unknown. She thinks that even if she is a bit vain, she will do it somehow.
It was his intention that no matter how far the duke’s family was from this place, it would be possible to know in advance if it was an intelligence group there.
Hirencia denied his misunderstanding.
“No. The duke doesn’t know that I came here. I was just following him.”
While looking up at Gaon, Lord Northmond unexpectedly realized that the representative was not Hirencia, and hastily apologized.
“Excuse me for this. Forgive the rudeness. I must have been more exhausted than that, but I’ve held it too long. I’d like to invite you to dinner tomorrow, is that okay? I can’t give you a great return, but I hope you’ll allow that much.”
“Of course. I will be happy to attend.”
Upon accepting his offer, the lord of Northmond inquired about the place where he was staying and went up the wall again, saying that he would send a carriage at the appointed time.
It was a natural move because there were many things to do, such as organizing the post-war and dealing with the injured.
Gaon looked at the back and opened his mouth with difficulty as he looked at Hirencia thinking that the time had come again.
“First, let’s go to the hotel where I am staying. It’s okay to talk about it here.”
“Yes! I do.”
It’s her place. Seeing her willingly approaching her, he swallowed her sigh into her and led the way toward her hotel.
***
“Sit down.”
“Yes. Thank you You use the room a lot.”
“Because we all stay together.”
“Together? Ah… !”
Hirencia, with her buttocks on her sofa, glanced over at her party at Gaon’s words, then sighed softly as her face blushed as if thinking of what to say.
In response, Isabella frowned as if she was displeased, and Chorin and Hayeon clung to Gaon even more, as if to prove it.
Hirencia spoke more stammeringly, more conscious of her breasts being crushed by his arms.
“Ooh, first of all, can I ask you a question?”
“… I cannot promise to answer all of them. But as long as it’s not difficult, I don’t mind doing it.”
“Thank you. Then why are you helping me? Why did you go to such lengths for me on the hill or in the Dragon’s Lair?”
Just like unreasonable malice, unreasonable favor can also become fear in some cases. Hirencia couldn’t guess why Gaon was helping her.
It’s true that she doesn’t remember it, but she did know her when she was little. It is also meaningless to assume that Because it’s only been 3 years since Gaon came to this Union.
Hirencia isn’t bad with her hair. Rather, she is on the bright side. There’s no way she wouldn’t remember meeting her only three years ago.
If so, there must be another reason.
For example,
‘Like it was love at first sight.’
She muttered to herself, and then hung her head in shame at the thought of the assumption being too absurd for her to feel.
This is definitely unreasonable.
She says she doesn’t even remember her, she’s never even talked to her, she’s only like that.
Even if he could, Gaon would not be such a light character.
‘Is not it?’
… She’s a flirt who has flirted with 5 girls, so maybe she can’t completely rule them out.
When Hirencia was confused by the number of cases that cluttered her head, Gaon opened her mouth.
“I cannot go into detail, but in short, it is because I owe you that much.”
“… Yes? Debt?”
“That’s right. It’s a debt that can’t be repaid even if you pay it off in your lifetime. So that’s helping. Did you get an answer?”
Gaon’s answer rather fueled confusion.
It is said that in just three years, Hirencia gave him a grace she could not repay in her entire life, but she has never done anything worthy of it.
Above all, I can’t say it proudly, but I know that her line of movement never overlapped with her before meeting her on the hill because I dug up Gaon’s whereabouts through her general butler.
How could I be gracious and clear my debt when we weren’t in the same space?
‘Is it a lie? But…’
Those eyes. Her feelings in those eyes that always looked at her warmly could not be dismissed as false.
Thinking about it over and over again, she set it aside and asked additional questions, thinking that a conclusion could not be reached anyway.
“There are parts I still don’t understand, but I’ll just get over that. Then the second question. Why did you come to this Northmond estate? If… Did you know that a monster wave would happen?”
“… I knew. I came to prevent damage.”
“I see…”
It is unknown until the exact story is revealed, but Hirencia couldn’t hold back her soaring mouth at the fact that the reason Gaon purposely came to this faraway place was to save people.
The reality of the masked man she longed for was a little different from what she thought, but there was still a respectable part.
Before meeting her, she thought she had a lot of things she wanted to ask, but when she met her in person, all those questions were scattered like fog.
Hirencia thought of asking another question, so she rolled her eyes and caught Isabella in her eyes and stopped her movement.
Isabella also met her eyes, stiffened her body, then glanced at Gaon, and she soon relaxed and buried her body deep in her sofa.
In response, Hirencia cautiously opened her mouth.
“Now, the last question. Would it be okay?”
“Do. And you can just call me comfortably.”
“Is that so? Then I’ll call you comfortably. Gaon Mr. Feel free to call me too.”
“All right. Hirencia.”
It was a much more convenient name than I thought. She agreed, but she didn’t know what to call her, so Hirencia, who opened her eyes wide, calmed down and asked a question.
“I… Isabella Martinez. Right? The one who assaulted me in her nest the other day.”
Her display at the time was so extreme that it was out of her control and not worth the slightest bargaining.
How can she make such a woman so modest? It would be impossible in the usual way. What kind of trick did she really use?
While thinking about it, she suddenly remembered her romance novels that she read when she was young. It was about a woman who is obviously mad for revenge, meets the man of her destiny, falls in love with her, and eventually dreams of happiness, not destruction.
If you match Isabella with Gaon, she becomes a very exquisite match.
Though she thought it was an absurd speculation, she couldn’t get her thoughts out of there.
Rumor has it that Gaon is quite horny. But if she was simply that, she wouldn’t have made so many lovers.
That’s because she’s charming and has a great talent for seducing women, so it’s possible that she used that method to attack Isabella as well.
Due to the tension she felt facing Gaon and the pressure from her to ask anything, she ended up putting her words in her mouth, which should only linger in her head.
“Ho, is Isabella also Gaon’s lover?”
“… Yes?”
“What are you talking about! Are you crazy!?”
Koo-ung!
At Hirencia’s question, Gaon just asked in a daze, and Isabella, who had been frozen like ice for a moment, immediately slammed the table in front of her sofa with her fist in a fiery rage.
For Isabella, who was in her transitional period due to the rapid change in her environment, this misunderstanding was poking her beehive.
Realizing that Hirencia also asked an outrageous question at her furious reaction, she hastily bowed her head.
“Sorry! I had a strange misunderstanding. I apologize.”
“… It’s okay. I will go back to my room.”
“Oh… !”
Isabella got up and left her room, thinking that her shaking thoughts might get tangled up in her own mess.
Hirencia couldn’t even reach out and grab her hand, and only clench and open her fist, blaming herself.
Gaon pressed his temple at what happened in an instant and opened his mouth.
“Herencia. Calm down. She surprised even Isabella, so she wouldn’t have been so upset. We have dinner tomorrow anyway, so let’s meet and talk again then.”
If she was really angry, it wouldn’t have ended like this because of her personality. I must have grabbed him by the collar or spit out curses at him.
It wasn’t that serious.
“… Should it be? Sorry. Saying weird things It just makes the atmosphere worse… I’ll just go. See you at dinner tomorrow.”
Hirencia left her greeting with her sullen face and left.
I guess I should have a talk with Isabella in advance tomorrow morning.
‘Then shall we wash now?’
After clearing things up, Gaon took Chorin and Hayeon to the shower room. It was necessary to cool off the heat of the body heated up by the battle.
Soon, a moan escaped through the shower wall.
