Chapter 173 – Chapter 173. The Warrior Who Wants to Be Sold (3)
“Did I send it as is?”
After Dave was called out at Celica’s request, Ymir, who remained at the seat, began to express his worries as he saw where the two had left.
He couldn’t help but feel anxious.
No matter how Celica says that her personality has brightened since this morning, her bright personality has rather led her to approach her with Dave, who wants to distance herself from her.
Verdia was also anxious about that, but even so, Verdia eventually sent the two of them away without stopping them.
“… Dave must have an idea.”
At least in Verdia’s eyes, it seemed as if Dave had grabbed Celica, who was about to leave.
That must mean that Dave didn’t want to send Celica back as it was.
I don’t know if it was intentional or if it was just a reflexive reaction to the amount of distance I’ve been keeping, but if Dave acted like that, Verdia was willing to respect it.
“Ymir, you must have felt it too, right? That Celica’s state of mind eased during her travels.”
“Oh well, yes. Today was particularly bad, so I wondered if I had secretly stole my medicine…”
“Perhaps the excitement at that time was the confusion that came from just waking up. After that, it entered a period of stability, and if the efforts of the past paid off and returned to its former self…”
“I wish that was the case, but maybe it just seems fine right now.”
Maybe they had a seizure again in a place they didn’t see, and something accident might happen.
Seeing Ymir stare at the place where the two left with anxious eyes, unable to erase those thoughts, Verdia began to laugh softly.
“What, why are you laughing all of a sudden?”
“Because I never thought you would worry so much about others.”
“… Why are you suddenly calling people bad guys? Did she feel so bad that she was fucked with a cock once and teased for being a crappy pussy that was declared a slave?”
“Huh, I’d say it’s lame… Big!”
Verdia manages to clear her temper by clearing her throat. After she regained her composure, she could not find any ill feelings toward Yumir.
I wouldn’t have known if it was before, but now I feel that he too is an expression of clumsy emotions without malice.
“Ymir, you must be aware of it too, right? In the past, you were keeping your distance from wizards like you and party members like us.”
“No, what. Even so…”
“Now that you have reached now, a change has occurred to the point of worrying about Celica and the people around her. Ever since I met none other than Dave.”
Verdia smiles as she appreciates it.
She found the smile uncomfortable, but Ymir couldn’t tickle her normally and looked away from her with her face blushing.
If you deny that fact here, it’s the same as denying her feelings for him.
It also means that his heart toward him is as strong as himself. Convinced, Verdia turned her gaze to another party member who would share that consensus.
“By the way, Heira, where are you looking at?”
“…”
“… Heira?”
“Presence.”
Heira speaks briefly at the end of silence.
The low, yet weighty voice was one of Heira’s habits.
If there is something that can stimulate your unique senses, you will be less talkative because you focus all your nerves in one place.
“A lot.”
Yes, at this moment, I sensed something dangerous in this neighborhood.
“… A lot?”
“Yeah, big beasts are running somewhere in a herd.”
And it was because of Heira’s excellent sense that she was able to be guaranteed safety on this trip.
Verdia, who had avoided many dangers from him, soon exchanged glances with Ymir and prepared to take up arms.
“Are they targeting us?”
“No, not where we are.”
On the other hand, Heira, feeling the sensation, did not hold the bow unlike Verdia, and only looked at the place and frowned at her.
“I am running away from something.”
“… Are you running away?”
“Huh. I think I am terrified.”
Dangerous monsters that Heira is wary of are running away in groups in fear of something.
At least, since they weren’t targeting themselves, there was nothing to be wary of, but those who knew the warlike nature of the monsters couldn’t help but feel doubts.
“Has something huge appeared around here?”
“No matter what, even those guys are running for their lives, but they probably know that their lives are a waste. Do you still want to check it out just in case?”
“No, there is no need to take any risk. More than anything, it’s in a completely different direction from where the two of them left, so if you leave your seat for no reason and the road gets twisted, you’ll be in trouble.”
If there is no problem in a place where there are at least two people, let’s wait.
Even while the two exchanged opinions and came to a conclusion, Heira’s gaze was still fixed on the spot where the abnormality was detected.
‘… No. They’re over there.’
Shortly after disappearing to the other side of the forest.
To the place where Celica and Dave, who somehow changed direction and left.
***
Yep, it was really easy to organize.
Although each one of them, considered a dangerous species in the human realm, ran in a group, about half of them were slaughtered at the hands of only one person and were pouring blood mercilessly on the floor.
And the other half just ran away.
To none other than the one woman in front of me.
To that crazy woman who even took off her armor in the middle because her armament was only a wooden stick, and it was difficult to even move her body.
“Hey, was I this weak at this time?”
Even after committing such an absurd thing, she just muttered leisurely as if what she had done was nothing.
“Hey, I’m a human too, so I must have had a childhood. He’s still this weak, but he must have been no different from a real baby in the past, right? Yes, I, Celica, three shots~”
With a playful gesture of hers, she flings the twig she held in her hand on her floor, and puts her finger to the corner of her mouth.
“Puhuh, just like this~”
With her behavior now considered her habit, she turned her back on the tragedy and immediately began moving her steps toward me.
The one who single-handedly slaughtered the outrageous monstrous creatures wandering this forest, awakened them to fear, and drove them away.
“…Dave.”
The flesh he exerted on them was reaped as if it had never happened, and he once again revealed his unique innocence.
No, pretending to be that relaxed.
“I did go out on my own unwillingly, but even though I went this far, they wouldn’t believe me, would they?”
Yes, she was a warrior.
Although physically lacking, he is a warrior who is mentally already complete.
It didn’t take a thousand words or persuasive power from evidence to prove that it wasn’t just the result of mental collapse.
“Do you think all of this is just plausible delusion?”
Just strength.
The overwhelming strength that I couldn’t even dare to judge myself was teaching me that she was a true being.
Even she made me imagine how huge her despair was that she couldn’t overcome.
“How far.”
The moment I realized that, what I felt was fear.
“How far, do you know?”
The person in front of me is just frightened, afraid, and a chill hits my whole body, and my body is frozen to such an extent that even the trembling that would come from it cannot occur, and my head is messed up like a tangled skein of thread.
At the end of it, only the first question that came to my mouth was barely spit out.
“Do you know where? What are you curious about, that’s why you ask?”
As if she expected even that, Cook burst into laughter and began to close the distance with me step by step.
“You forcibly controlled my mind and raped me?
One step.
“That you had a relationship with not only me, but the whole warrior party?”
Another step.
As light as that footstep, I mentioned that the girl in her future knew all the facts about her that I had been hiding all along, and that she wanted to confess to her someday and make her atonement.
“Either that or Dave you…”
“Why are you keeping me alive when you know all that!”
Her screams burst out of my mouth as she refused to listen to her even knowing what else to say, and her steps began to push her steps away from her.
“Knowing everything, on the subject you know…”
My eyesight is trembling.
Her eyes staring at her trembled violently, and she felt her world twist as if it were collapsing.
“I wish I knew I did that to you… You should have killed me as soon as you returned to the past.”
Yes, her tragedy has made me this way.
From a target to be wary of to a being to be feared.
To the extent that I just waited for that moment to end, I felt that everything about her that I felt towards her was meaningless.
I don’t know what this guy meant by calling me alone, but no matter what I do, it’s impossible to beat him.
It has the power to make all of that meaningless, so I have no choice but to play into this guy’s hands.
“… They say strange things.”
Celica burst into laughter at my words and continued talking while standing there.
Even though her mouth was covered in blood, she just continued her words casually.
“Dave, whatever resentment I have towards you is a good thing for me now.”
As if you put your hand on my chest and become immersed in the beating of my heart that I feel from it.
“You took my virginity? I like that. It started off as fake, but later became real. Because you always tried to be an ideal lover in front of me.”
Spitting out of her mouth with her eyes closed is all I ever did.
And in the future, her attitude she wanted to maintain until she was like this.
“What made you bond with the other party members? I can forgive you for that too. If my lover truly loves me, I can be generous with everyone who has ever loved you.”
It’s not a lie.
There was no way that what came out of her mouth in this situation was a lie.
She truly loved me, and even though she knew all of my truth, she was willing to embrace it all.
“Even I, who has such a large bowl, can’t find hope even after returning to the past.”
Knowing that all of that would turn pointless, that what had given her her deepest despair awaited her in the not-too-distant future.
“But you said this in front of me? If you go back to the past, you can change everything.”
How ridiculous I must have looked for speaking confidently on such a subject.
The me who made noise while looking only at the results 10 years later.
How could she fathom how great the despair she felt was.
“It’s okay, tell me!”
But now I just wanted to be freed.
What are the thoughts of this being who harbors more unknowns and who casually passes away even what I feared so much?
“What do you want from me?”
Why not three people from the same party?
Is she becoming more obsessed with me who played her lover?
“… What do you want?”
“The reason you only revealed your identity to me, and the reason I called you out separately is because you wanted something from me!”
If I listen to it, will this heart be at ease?
No, whatever it is, I just want this moment to end.
“I, what do you want me to do? If you’re not trying to kill me, what do you want me to do for you…”
As if even his heart, which had been maintained all along, was completely broken, his knees could not bend and his head sank into the dirt.
The shock made my head hurt, but it was okay.
It didn’t matter if the skin was cracked and blood flowed.
This kind of pain would be insignificant compared to waiting later.
So all I need is resignation enough to withstand whatever the person in front of me will do.
“… It’s no fun.”
However, despite such servile behavior, she only mumbled that she was bored.
The moment I heard that, I felt the emotions I had felt before subside in an instant.
“… What?”
“Yeah, not funny. I wasn’t expecting such a pathetic reaction.”
It’s fun. Was everything seen so far simple enough to be defined by a word like that?
“Anyway, there is no point in talking to you. For you now.”
The sound of footsteps accompanying him.
The moment I felt that it was gradually moving away, the head that had been buried in the ground began to lift gradually.
Through the tragedy, to Celica who wants to return to the place she came from.
“Where are you going?”
To the fallen warrior who tried to head towards them without even wiping off the blood on his body.
“First of all, Heira… No, Heira only has a good sense, but because she doesn’t know the world, she doesn’t notice. If it starts, she will just stand there blankly and then quack and die, so the stimulation must be weak, right?”
No, that’s not okay
“Verdia-nee isn’t bad either, but… Um, yes She would also like Yumir unnie. The two of them are similar in many ways, and they changed a lot because they were influenced by each other.”
If you send this guy like this.
Really irreversible things happen.
“How are you Dave? After all, the one who kills Ymir-sister…”
-Fuck!
The sound of fingers snapping.
The power that spread from him took control of her mind and attempted to restrain her body.
I don’t know if it will work or not.
But she couldn’t leave it alone.
“If you want anything, ask me to resolve it…”
The person in front of me is Celica.
Even if it’s someone I love, I shouldn’t leave it alone.
“Leave those three alone.”
So, at this moment, I had to be prepared.
In her future, she will not succumb to the madness of her hard-heartedness and her despair.
I am determined to give up my heart to the madman in front of me.
“Don’t lay your hands on those three…!!”
Neither love nor atonement.
In order to give up all the feelings I had for this person, and to correct my broken heart with the single-mindedness of protecting the remaining three people.
Now, what I have to do now is to define the beings that I can’t do anything about as enemies, and to make up my mind to protect even those who remain.
-Duduk.
As soon as she exerted her full power to restrain her spirit with that one thought, she stopped in her seat and began to twist her body and look back at me.
A joint that rotates abnormally even in a restrained state. Despite exerting her power to suppress it, her gaze was finally directed at me.
“… Okay.”
But she doesn’t run.
Just facing me in that state, I just gradually draw a smile on my lips.
“I was waiting for that.”
That smile is brighter than ever.
It’s not like I’ve been putting off the pretense like before. It’s not even a joke.
“Now.”
Sincerely.
It’s like you’ve been waiting for this situation.
“Now you truly hate me, Dave~♥
She has been whispering her love for me at this moment of my hatred.
I can’t even dare to understand.
Passionately the most ugly madness.
