Chapter 250 – 250. Urgent Request (1)
“Wow! Sister Erin is here!”
“Really?”
“Really?”
“Huh! I bought a lot of delicious bread!”
“Wow!”
A girl found Erin, and young children cheered and gathered at Erin after checking the large bag of bread she was holding in her hands.
“Hey, guys… Calm down! I will share everything!”
It is crowded with the buzz of baby birds waiting for the mother bird to throw their food.
Erin was taken aback at the sight of the children losing order as they became noisy in an instant.
“Kyaaak! Who is this! Just now! You touched my ass!”
Wanting to see a girl with no malicious intent and just a beautiful appearance in trouble, she screams at the bad hands of the boys who are playing mischief.
It was an incident in the adventurer’s guild, different from the male adventurers who had lewd thoughts about him, and it was just an act of a child who likes to play pranks, so it’s nothing to be angry about.
“Everybody quiet!”
It was Lily, who was emitting tremendous anger, who immediately created an atmosphere of silence by shouting at those children.
“If you guys do this, Erin won’t be able to share the bread! Stand side by side from now on! Don’t cut in line!”
“Yes!”
As soon as Lily’s screams stopped, her control was finally taken, and the children who had been blindly clinging to Erin began to fall off one by one and form a line.
Little by little her order was established, and Erin let out a sigh of relief and smiled at Lily.
“Sister. Thank you.”
“No. I’ll help you. Now, children, take turns and take the bread.”
“How come the number of people seems to have increased more than before…”
“Because it keeps coming in… There are also some orphans who were accepted by the Heilangdan.”
At the same time as the establishment of the orphanage, most of the children who entered this place were either slaves who, like Lily, were subjected to vicious human experimentation by a remnant warlock of the empire, or orphans who lost their parents for various reasons and had nowhere to go.
Among them were the majority of the orphans from the Heilangdan side, whom Eunhyeon accepted as her condition as she came to use the Heilangdan as her subordinates.
Erin, with her expectant gaze, looked at her children, who were looking at herself and her Lily, then she glanced back and spoke to Gerard, who was looking at them.
“Gerard! Can you help us?”
“Yes. Gladly.”
“… Erin, do you know that person?”
Seeing Erin’s attitude of asking for help from Gerard without hesitation, Lily asked Erin suspiciously.
“Yes? Ah, ahaha… For now… I know.”
Smiling awkwardly, Erin continued her words.
“I also had a similar experience with Gerard as her older sister.”
“What!? To you?”
Lily, who heard Gerard’s atrocities for courting an underage girl, not a woman of her age, glared at Gerard with various expressions accompanied by her astonishment.
Gerard, who received that gaze, waved his hand with a wry smile.
“At the time, I didn’t know Miss Erin was a teenage girl. I could have been in big trouble, too.”
If Riod hadn’t intervened well in the middle, she would have been terribly beaten by Eun-hyeon afterwards.
Erin gave the full amount of advocacy she could, with an ambiguous expression on her face.
“I-I’m not a bad person…”
What you’re doing is a bit bizarre.
“This… I haven’t even properly introduced myself yet. My name is Gerard. He is an adventurer for a living.”
“Coming to think of it, I didn’t even introduce myself and started courting right away. This human?”
Lily’s expression made her laugh at the action.
“Yeah… Sister. And Gerard…”
She whispered to Lily that she was a colleague who had teamed up with Illyana and Eunhyeon in the past, and that she was one of the current six great heroes, whispering in a small voice that children would not hear.
“What, what!? This pervert!?”
With disbelief, Lily scanned Gerard’s entire body, starting with her face, and soon put on a shocked expression.
Aside from her own master, Eun-hyeon, whose existence was hidden until recently, the existence of a hero standing shoulder to shoulder with the eight-digit high-ranking wizard, the Black Witch, the Saint of Vesta, and the best knight of Fernias, is in front of her eyes. I couldn’t believe it.
Moreover, it is even more shocking that the great hero is a pervert gentleman who has openly courted and sexually harassed him.
“Gee, it’s real. I even got help once.”
It is Gerard who has been of great help in dealing with the empire’s remnant warlocks who have released drugs in the Fernias Kingdom.
The warlock was a villain who had conducted human experiments on Lily and her many children as slaves and mutated them into demons.
It was Eun-hyeon who saved Lily and her orphans, but it is true that they had a common connection with the warlock named Randall.
Gerard deliberately did not reveal the fact.
“By the way, didn’t you know, too? Then why did she reveal the identity of her older sister…”
Even though it was a relationship they didn’t even know very well, why did Lily confess to Gerard that half of herself was her demon?
“That, that’s it, since I’ve met him once at the master’s house, I only knew that he was on the owner’s side, so he knew the situation to some extent! Who could have guessed that pervert was such a great person!”
Before Illyana and Eleanor officially got married to Eun-hyeon, they had the experience of inviting Gerard over for a meal and serving food, so Lily only knew Gerard as a man close to Eun-hyeon.
After explaining the situation to the duke’s family, Lily’s circumstances, which were allowed to be Eun-hyeon’s maid and maid, were known to all of Eun-hyeon’s acquaintances.
If you think about it, the people related to Eun-hyeon were all high-ranking people, so it was the root of the problem that they didn’t ask for their detailed status.
Lily regretted that if he had known it would be like this, he should have remembered his name and history by asking Eun-hyeon in advance.
“Haha! The dishes at that time were really delicious! Lily-sama is such a wonderful woman!”
“No, that…”
“To think that Hyun-nii is managing the dungeon house and running this nursery school at the same time! Seriously, Lily-sama’s behavior deserves respect no matter who sees it.”
“That, thank you very much…”
“So, please give birth to my child, embrace it with warm motherhood and affection like the children in this orphanage, and create a happy family with me.”
“It’s starting again. Really!”
As soon as all the bread was distributed to the children, the passionate courtship started again, and Lily’s mood, which had been trying to calm down, flared up again with irritation.
“Whoa…”
Lily let out a small sigh and calmed her rising irritation again, and she returned to her cold expression, as if she were dealing with a higher-ranking superior than before.
Now that he knows Gerard’s identity, he can’t swear recklessly like he did before.
With the introduction of Eleanor, she opened her mouth, showing the dignity and formal attitude that had been instilled in her education by the maid of the duke’s family.
“Once again, there is one person I have dedicated my whole life to, body and soul. So, I can’t accept Gerard’s proposal. I am really sorry.”
‘Lily sister, no way…’
Around the time Erin had an uneasy thought that Lily might have her feelings for the same object as herself.
Caang! Caang!
Erin and Gerard’s eyes changed fiercely when they heard the sound of the bell striking strongly and resonating throughout the territory.
“This… Gerard?”
“… I have a bad feeling.”
Gerard’s voice was low as he radiated his eyes as an adventurer and warrior, different from his pitiful appearance before when he was proposing to Lily.
“This is an urgent call-up order for adventurers. I think we should go to the guild right away.”
“I will follow. Lily’s tea was good.”
“Uh, yes. You have to be careful.”
As Erin stood up after greeting Lily, she ate a delicious piece of bread and the eyes of the children who were playing were focused on Erin.
“Sister Erin. Are you leaving already?”
“Sister. Go play with us!”
“Sorry. I got busy all of a sudden… I will definitely come to play next time!”
“Yes… Okay!”
Erin followed after Gerard, who was running ahead of him.
Even if her body has been strengthened through her magical powers, she is running at a very high speed, even if not at full speed. It’s so much that I can’t think of it.
“That’s great.”
“Uh… Is that so?”
“I heard that she was promoted to silver rank in one year, but it’s certainly not something that a girl Erin’s age can achieve.”
“Lol. It’s all thanks to Hyun and the drivers who helped me a lot.”
Seeing the girl respond with a shy expression at the recognition of her skills, Gerard also smiled and looked ahead.
“It seems to be coming soon.”
Gerard and Erin, who approached the adventurer’s guild by fast movement through body strengthening, were in a very crowded state due to the crowd of adventurers who had gathered in an emergency call, so it was not easy to even enter the building.
“What happened?”
The sudden change in the situation prompted the adventurer’s guild to issue an emergency summons. Erin, who was thinking about what the urgent situation would be like, asked Gerard with her worried face.
“… It must have happened what I was afraid of.”
“Is that something you were concerned about?”
“It’s about Beast Stampede.”
“Ah… But, hadn’t the duchy regained her stability now?”
“No. It is not a duchy.”
Gerard shook his head without a stiff expression.
“It cannot be concluded that Monster Stampede only happens here, in the territory of Fernias Kingdom. Under the control of the Adventurer’s Guild, we were able to suppress the flooding of monsters in the dungeons within the kingdom’s territory, but the real problem lies elsewhere.”
Erin also realized the meaning of Gerard’s words, and hardened her complexion.
The dungeons inside the kingdom’s territory were completely suppressed, and the problem of large-scale monsters flooding and coming out to the ground had already been sorted out to some extent by mobilizing a large number of adventurers and kingdom knights and other troops.
However, Gerard’s concern was not within the kingdom’s territory.
“Magic beasts coming from the outside…”
“That is correct. The kingdom of Pernias is a country located in the west of the continent, bordered by the sea at the western end, and the sacred kingdom of Erenia and the small kingdom of Rendir to the north and south. Miss Erin, do you know what is at the eastern end of the kingdom?”
“No. I’m fine too…”
“It is the territory of the Mirvabilla Empire, which was destroyed 20 years ago.”
“…”
“Perhaps the reason for the summoning order now is…”
[From now on, we are announcing an urgent request from the Duke of Armitas, the owner of Armitas, to the Adventurer’s Guild!]
When Gerard and Erin managed to enter the guild building among the crowds of adventurers, the head of the adventurer’s guild read the contents of the request in a voice amplified through magic.
[This is a request for support from Mograf, who is in the middle of a siege due to ‘Beast Stampede’! The condition for completing the quest is to annihilate the large-scale monster army that threatens the change! The reward is 10 gold coins!]
The adventurers who heard the contents of the notice being read by the head of the guild hardened their complexions, and the murmurs began to cause confusion little by little.
[The departure date is in 3 days! Applicants, please come to the reception desk!]
