Chapter 69 – Episode 69. If It’s Not a Coincidence, if It’s Fate
And, after such a game had taken place, by the time we reached the present.
“This is a scam!!”
Athel refused to admit his defeat and showed intense anger toward Heira.
It was embarrassing for the crowd.
She, who has always maintained her image as a lofty strongman, was horribly ruined, because no one here expected it.
“There’s no way a kid who’s just been labeled an adventurer can do such ridiculous tricks!!”
“Um, Mr. Athel over there? I understand your heart, but just before that, no matter who sees it, your…”
“Shut up! Where are the low-ranking guys trying to disparage me!?”
Atell ignores even the words he wants to calm down with threats.
Her bloodshot eyes were teaching her that she had lost her sanity.
“A worm like you can just let it go on its own! I’m not going to climb up to the point of cheating that doesn’t work!!”
“Scam, Rani…”
The crowd looked puzzled at Athel’s words.
Heira was also embarrassed.
“I just shot an arrow as you told me…”
Because she couldn’t understand her current anger with her own common sense.
She just followed the rules she suggested and shot her arrow, but why is she so angry?
“This…”
However, even such an innocent attitude was only regarded as disrespectful to Athel.
“This dog-like bitch is treating someone as an asshole!!”
Unable to bear such a moment, her raised hand soon began to swing toward Heira’s cheek.
It’s disgusting to those who lose their reason and do it.
Her gesture was clearly visible to her eyes, but Heira was willing to accept it without hesitation.
‘I don’t understand, but… Still, there might be something I don’t know.’
Yes, it’s because he doesn’t know anything about human society.
Isn’t she in a position where she has to live with them and find a ‘new home’ among them?
‘Yeah, because I don’t like being alone anymore.’
She felt that if she wanted to find a new place for herself, she would first need to get to know humans…
-Grasp!
However, to put that thought to shame, it wasn’t Heira’s cheek where the sound of hitting the flesh resonated.
Heira could sense it right away.
At that moment, she saw a shadow intruding between herself and Athel.
‘… ‥Who?’
Yes, someone stepped in and greeted him in his place.
A man with blonde hair and tanned skin.
The moment he saw that figure in his eyes, Heira felt a familiar sense come over him.
“… You.”
The man who felt that familiarity stood in front of Heira and quietly spoke to Athel.
“What are you trying to do to my woman?”
Nasty atmosphere.
But for some reason, the voice sounded familiar.
‘Me…’
It’s not like an illusion.
The senses developed over the course of 100 years have reached a level far beyond that of ordinary humans.
‘I know this person.’
The heart beats the moment that certainty highlights familiarity.
It was at that time that Artel, who belatedly grasped the situation, approached her with his eyes wide open.
“My woman? Ha, what is it you… Right now, suddenly appearing and blocking my hand isn’t enough, are you covering that woman?”
She seems to have a belated awareness of swinging her hand over the opposite sex, but that was a good thing for Athel.
Because he was still an S-class adventurer, and his opponent was a slob who didn’t seem to have the proper equipment.
“Looking at his behavior, he seems like a porter at a shabby party, but I have to say how arrogant he looks to build a bloody relationship without knowing the subject? I’m an S-class adventurer! You guys are talented people who have risen to a position that none of you could even dream of!”
She must be aware that her skills are several steps below her, but her overbearing attitude has changed even more fiercely than the first time.
At that attitude, the man also raised his eyes sharply, but Athel only snorted at her as if even that was ridiculous.
“What are you glaring at!? Won’t you get off in front of me right now!?”
Are you not even aware of how you will appear to the public?
No, on the contrary, it would be more angry to be aware of it.
In the face of losing in a match against Jawa, whom he looked down upon, he would have no choice but to act in an active manner in order to protect his pride as a high-ranking adventurer.
“… Whoa.”
Facing such an unsightly appearance, the man sighed deeply and prepared to turn his back quietly on the spot.
Whether it stems from the patience of enduring anger.
Or, I didn’t know if it was from the thought that I was glad that this situation was over in this way, but whatever it was, I had the opportunity to get out of this place safely.
“Let’s go.”
As if that was enough, the man soon began to prepare to leave while holding Heira’s hand.
“Ah…”
The moment that hand was held, Heira let out an exclamation and hesitated.
But in the end, it was only short-lived.
I was taken aback by the sudden action, but the familiarity I felt at the moment his hand touched made that confusion disappear in an instant.
No, beyond that, it’s even cozy.
One day… Or as if we have met and come together over and over again.
‘… If.’
As if immersed in that sense, Heira puts power into her small hands.
The feeling was even clearer when he followed him out of the archery range and onto the road.
‘Could it be this person?’
The senses I felt from the time I woke up early in the morning become clearer, and the unfamiliar sensations felt at this moment begin to add up along with the familiar body temperature.
– Pounding, pounding.
The moment when even the beating of his heart became clearer, Heira squeezed my chest tightly and began to engrave his back in my eyes.
‘It’s not a coincidence…’
As if chasing after the reverberation of non-existent memories.
‘If it’s not a coincidence, if it’s destiny.’
Chasing only the afterglow of memories that have disappeared.
The satisfaction I didn’t feel early in the morning, I hoped that he would be able to satisfy it, even if it was simple.
“Excuse me…”
It was around the time I entered the alley that I wanted to express that feeling.
“Sorry.”
But before he could even open his mouth, the man stopped in his tracks and immediately spewed out an apple.
He even bowed his head politely while facing himself.
“… Uh?”
“I don’t know the details, but… It’s true that trouble broke out while fighting an S-class adventurer who was there, right?”
To Heira, who did not understand the action, the man continued his explanation with a cautious smile.
“Each person is different, but S-class adventurers usually have a lot of pride, so they often have trouble with the people around them. So I thought it would make things worse if I left it longer, so I broke in, but I still blocked it without seeking consent.”
“No, it’s okay, that…”
“Moreover, no matter how much it is done to make the situation natural, it must have been quite a burden for you as I even brought up words like ‘my woman’ for no reason.”
The moment I tried not to pay attention to the words that were being spit out, I was startled, and my body hardened.
‘My woman… ?’
Yeah, he obviously said that to himself.
At the time, the atmosphere was too urgent, so I brushed it off, but looking back now, it was a word that could be seen as rude.
It’s because someone you’ve never met for the first time has limited your relationship with yourself that way.
“… Are you okay.”
Even with that awareness, Heira didn’t take his remarks as bad.
“No, I didn’t think that word was bad…”
No, I think it was rather good.
To the extent that, if possible, there is even a willingness to change the words into truth rather than lies.
“Oh, I see. That’s good.”
But that’s just Heira’s inner thoughts.
Scary to hear such an affirmation, soon the man turned his back on Heira and prepared to leave her alley.
“Then, excuse me.”
“… Uh?”
“The situation was largely settled, and you said it was okay. I hope that the rest of your day will be peaceful…”
Saying that, the man tried to get out of the alleyway without hesitation.
Is it because of my mood that such a goodbye is considered hasty?
‘Leave…?’
No, no matter what, the man she cares about is about to leave.
As if we will never see the end of this meeting.
‘I thought I finally found it, but I’m leaving like that person… ?’
A very long time ago
And the moment when the image of a person he could never see again was projected onto him.
‘I hate that.’
Heira lunged at him and squeezed the hem to stop his steps.
For the first time in my life, the moment I called someone directly.
“Wait a minute!”
Even so, Heira did not shake off her desperate heart.
I don’t know why, but my instincts say it must be this man.
Because I couldn’t erase the urgency that I didn’t want to let go of this man who felt the reverberation of my lost memories.
“Excuse me… By any chance, don’t you need a colleague?”
To the desperate remarks that came from his heart, the man who had been silent answered without looking him in the eyes.
“… No, thanks.”
“My specialty is archery.”
Even so, Heira said urgently.
I don’t want to let him go, as if I’m trying to catch him somehow.
“You can hit anything you aim for. He has hunted dangerous beasts many times, and he knows how to navigate in the woods. I can sense presence, I’ve learned to cook, and…”
“No, I don’t really need any companions right now.”
“Other than that, I’ll do anything you ask me to do.”
Heira, who spat out without judgment.
But even though he realized it, he had no regrets.
The voice that flows as if she is about to cry at any moment proves that.
“I’ll do anything you say, so…”
Please don’t leave me alone again.
Right after I tried to vomit the sadness that had accumulated over a long time.
“Are you doing anything?”
Before the words behind it were even spit out.
It was only then that the man turned to Heira and began to meet his eyes.
“Yeah, if you let me go with you, whatever…”
“Really?”
In such a state, repeated questions are asked.
Along with him, the kind smile he had been making before disappeared, and a bloody look gradually began to settle on his face with his back to the sunset.
The moment the cold, dry eyes turned to him. What that meant, Heira instinctively sensed.
“Really…”
Don’t speak carelessly.
As if warning you that if you answer incorrectly here, something you will really regret will happen.
“Can you listen to anything I have to say?”
Heira starts to hesitate involuntarily at such a cold voice.
But my heart was already hardened. Even if it was so sudden, it didn’t matter.
If I was allowed to stand by his side, I would like to go with him. It was the first time in her life that she felt like this, and Heira felt that it was her destiny when she met him.
“Yeah, really… Ugh!”
Something that shuts my mouth in discoloration with such a resolute will.
Startled, Heira looked down at something covering her mouth.
Lips, and the tongue poking through the gap.
‘What is this.”
I had used my fingers to poke his mouth in the morning, but what I feel now is on a different level.
Intense, stimulating and hot. More than anything, you can even feel that something from the other person is entering you.
Fascinated by such passionate energy, faint memories gradually emerge in my head that has turned pure white.
“Whoa!”
Soon, the head pushed away along with the grip that fell roughly.
The man who coveted her lips immediately looked down at her and let out her cold voice.
“…Remember?”
Yeah I remembered all of them
The feeling of déjà vu I had felt so far was by no means an illusion.
Really, that the man in front of me is the main character of my memories that have disappeared.
“Then let me ask you another question.”
When I looked up scared to notice it.
Soon, the man who had trampled on his body and mind raised his eyes wildly and sounded a silent warning.
“If you say you’ll come with me, I’ll make you feel the humiliation you’ve never experienced in your life.”
If you felt destiny in a meeting that was just a coincidence.
“But are you really going to follow me?”
Anything that continues beyond this will become a ‘bad relationship’.
