Chapter 77 – Episode 77. 1st Month After Party Formation (2)
For an adventurer, the aftermath of a quest is a very important thing.
As there is always a risk involved, there are not a few people who invest a significant portion of their wages in meals or entertainment.
Of course, low-profit adventurers take that satisfaction out of alcohol with good cost-effectiveness, but fortunately, if the situation is like today, it will be possible to liven up the banquet atmosphere in a better way than alcohol.
This farmhouse where we are currently staying is overflowing with quality agricultural products that even trade with the royal capital.
Various spices can be obtained through the benefits of such trade, so if a person skilled in cooking is in the party, a grand meal worthy of a royal banquet will be possible.
“… Even thinking about it again, I still can’t believe it.”
However, despite having a table prepared by a person with such outstanding skills, Celica couldn’t calm her temper and was chewing the meat on her fork vigorously.
Of course, I couldn’t even think of savoring the taste. Anyone who is stabbed in the back by someone they believe to be a colleague will react the same way.
“Yeah well, I understand.”
Of course, the colleague who stabbed her in the back of the head didn’t think it was a big deal and ate the soup as usual.
“No matter how fervently the priests claim that God exists, they have never seen it in person. Isn’t it natural that you don’t have faith?”
“Stop talking! That’s not what I’m talking about!”
“Hey, don’t hit the table. It’s a high-end dish that you eat after a while, but what if it topples?”
“Food is precious only when it’s like this, and you’re not the kind of person who eats food for its taste in the first place… !!”
For the past month, I have shown the attitude that if I can fill my stomach, I will dig up even weeds on the roadside.
But Celica also doesn’t want the table set by Dave to be overturned.
Eventually, as I calmed down and ate the food, Ymir grinned and looked back at Dave.
“Haha~ Our Dave’s shield is really good~ That fluorine-like guy calms down as soon as he hears your name.”
“… Ahaha, you are still playful.”
Dave smiles vaguely.
In addition, he does not express his young embarrassment, but it probably means that he is not looking at the current situation positively.
“Anyway, Mr. Ymir. To be honest, I think it was a bit harsh this time. Even though magic can use mana to mitigate the damage, this time the valley collapsed and the falling rocks poured heavily, didn’t you?”
“Um, is that so?”
Ymir laughs at Dave’s earnest advice and puts the meat on a fork into his mouth.
As she pondered her thoughts, she slowly turned to Celica with a serious tone.
“Well, I must have been a bit harsh. I’m sorry. If it had been adjusted properly, I wouldn’t have had to hit such strong magic… It seems like it will take more time before I get a sense of actual combat.”
“… That said, it’s already been 1 month. Even if you can’t aim as accurately as Heira, you have to get a feel for it so you don’t harm your allies.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about, but there’s a big difference between using mana when using magic and when using a sword. I think it would be quicker to explain this by learning it yourself than by talking about it… Um, yes At this point, would you like to learn magic from me like Dave?”
“Yes? Like Dave?”
“There’s nothing wrong with learning it. There are types who actually use swords and magic together.”
It’s been a month since I’ve been partying.
Ymir was continuing Dave’s training, which she had been doing before Heira and Celica joined.
Of course, training based on ordinary meditation, not the way Celica was shocked.
At that level, it would not be bad for her to undergo training, so it could be said that Celica was quite appetizing.
“I’m sure there’s nothing wrong with learning a few magics, but…”
“Yes~ If you learn it, it will be useful in many ways, right? I’ll make it cheaper for you now~”
“No, you were getting paid!?”
“Then you should get what you deserve. Do you know where you can easily get the lectures that the Archmage gives while investing his personal time?”
Of course, Dave is getting the lectures for free, but it’s because he’s helping with his research.
As much as he made it possible for me to finish a study that might not have progressed over the next few years in a single morning, he could give me any number of lectures he directed.
It is a separate matter for other party members to benefit from it.
“But where is the chance that I can’t get it? I’m sorry and I’m also a party member, so if you accept the offer now, I’ll teach you cheaply~”
“… That’s Okay. I just want to finish my swordsmanship training.”
“Oh, you don’t trust me too much. If you give me the leftover meat on your plate, you can take the lecture for free.”
“No need… Yes? What did you just say?”
Whirik at that moment! With a sound, the steak flew off the plate placed in front of Celica.
Celica’s eyes widened when she realized that Yumir had robbed her of her portion of meat with her telekinesis.
“Ah! I was just trying to save that!”
“Um~ After all, it’s the meat I saved until the end, so the taste is even more special~”
“Aaaaa! Why are you taking what others have saved without permission!! Give it back right away! I want it back!”
“Eh, even if you give it a chance, you kick it. Okay, okay, now it’s a refund.”
“No, why are you giving me what I ate! There are a lot of things down there!”
“Even though I comforted him, he talked a lot… No you bastard, you can’t reach for her plate!”
“Is it fair to steal it with telekinetic power!?”
Serika, whose emotions are intensifying, tries to steal it by force, and Ymir, who even floats the dishes that belong to her with telekinetic powers, as if making fun of such Celica.
Dave’s face began to turn pale, worried that there would be a big accident in that precarious workshop.
“You two, calm down. Because I made a lot of food…”
“Poohyong.”
But in the meantime, a faint laugh is heard.
At that moment, the two people who were holding each other in check, including Dave, also stopped fighting for a while and looked back to where the sound had come from.
A green-haired girl bursting into laughter with her hand over her mouth.
“… Ah.”
Did he feel strange at the silence that followed?
Soon, Heira stopped her laugh, and she began to stiffen up, feeling the eyes staring at her.
“… Oh, that’s…”
Could it be that she did something wrong?
Yes, it was a situation where a fight was likely to happen at any moment.
It would obviously be wrong to burst into laughter at such a serious moment. It’s been a while since I tried to spit out an apology.
“Heira, you knew how to laugh.”
Celica, who had been staring at Yumir as if she was going to kill her, began to smile at Heira with a softened face.
“Come to think of it, I’ve never seen him smile.”
Same goes for Ymir.
As if seeing her now was good, she also put down the dishes she had floated with her telekinesis in front of Celica, and began to burst into laughter with her skin.
She likes to be teased, but has she found something better than that and stopped her pranks?
“Even though we’ve been together for a month, she’s so blunt that I don’t even know what she’s thinking every day. If I don’t talk to you first, I won’t even talk to you first… Dave, have you seen it?”
A glance moves towards Dave.
In fact, aside from personal time, Dave had been spending the most time with Heira for about a month.
One of the conditions for Heira to join the party was helping Dave with his work, and her current table was also prepared by the two of them in cooperation.
“Well, now that I think about it… Yes. I don’t think it ever happened.”
From a certain moment, the topic went back to himself instead of the fight between the two.
Feeling the tension in the atmosphere, Heira shrank her body, and she glanced up at Dave, who was looking back at her.
“Uh, over there…”
It is not the first time that it has been the subject of attention.
At the archery range a month ago, many people looked at him and vomited admiration, and even before that, suspicious men approached him at the bar.
But at no time would I have been as nervous as I am now.
To her, who wanted to adapt to human society, the three people who taught her what she needed and cultivated her affection were considered to be different.
“Me… Strange, maybe?”
Heira feels uneasy about her doubts that they felt towards him at this moment.
She doesn’t express her emotions aggressively, but her flushed cheeks teach her that she also has a feeling of shame.
“No, is it rather nice to see?”
Yes, she said that as a person, she also has feelings that can be understood and sympathized with.
Couldn’t that be viewed negatively as her colleague?
“If you express your feelings honestly, it means that the distance has become that close. Rather, I was worried that Heira wouldn’t be able to adapt to our party… Do you two think so too?”
“… Um, what is it?”
“Yeah~ It’s nice to see Heira’s smiling face so cute.”
The two people sympathize with Dave’s words side by side. The smile drawn on that face must have come from true feelings.
Yes, the people at this party are accepting themselves.
Heira was keenly aware of that during her month-long journey.
“I hope Heira will show that face more often in the future.”
“Yeah, it looks good, so please smile a lot from now on. I will continue to grind this guy for your smiling face.”
“No, why does the conclusion fall in that direction!”
The teasing started again like that.
However, Dave, who was watching the scene, did not express his concern as before.
Even after fighting like that, they cooperate on the set as if it never happened.
At the end of it, sitting at the same table again and having a meal would be proof that they have become that close.
“Whoops.”
Heira, who was watching the man who had taken her back with such a confident smile, put her hand on his pounding chest and quietly closed her eyes.
At this moment, I feel that a consensus has been formed in my heart accepting this situation.
With that kind of heart, while suppressing the complex feelings I feel every time I face him.
***
Yes, Heira was attaching the name Cha Cha Jung to the party he belongs to.
Serika, who always treats her as if she were her own sister, and Yumir, who is younger than herself but looks trustworthy like an elder.
Even though they hadn’t met for a while, she even had the idea that if they were to create a family, it would be nice for her to become the same as the two of them.
-Wheein~
But unlike the two of them, Dave…
When faced with the man who had brought her to this party, Heira felt a complex feeling that no other person had ever felt.
The reason is always when I’m alone with him.
“Uh, uh, uh… ♥”
A remote warehouse located on the outskirts of town.
As soon as he entered the place, Dave, who bound himself with a prepared tool, put his hand on the device that operated the mechanism attached to the pubic area that had put him with an eyepatch on the wall.
“…Such a lewd bitch.”
While unrestrainedly revealing a mockery directed at himself.
“A subject who was a virgin until a month ago is now pouring water like this with just this level of stimulation.”
“Cheer up, woman… Zoo, Zooin, Ni…”
-Wheeying~
“Euhei Iik~~~♥”
The moment when even the apple I tried to reflexively spit out was blocked by the strong vibration.
It was around the time when his back was straightened by the violent moaning that was now being actively thrown out. Heira, feeling her head turning white, let out her scream with the last of her strength.
“That, that… Zooey, Zooeyi, Jeba gmaa… This, it’s getting weird, it’s getting weird, bo, the pussy is getting weird… It’s getting weird.
Even though you might feel sympathy for that bitter cry. He doesn’t stop manipulating it and just keeps watching it.
-Jureuk, jureuk.
Eventually, by the time the water poured out of the pubic area stimulated by the vibration, the trembling body lost its strength and collapsed as if leaning against a wall.
Even before the lingering effect goes away, the instruments attached to the body vibrate as if stimulating it again.
“Oh, oh, uh… ♥”
The climax of hell that I’m not familiar with even though it’s been repeated many times.
In the process of torture, all Heira could do was to shed tears and saliva and let out moans entrusted to her instincts.
‘How come…’
At least as a lingering consciousness.
‘How did this happen?’
Even before he came here, he recalled the image of a man who acted kindly toward himself.
