Chapter 184 – Nosferatu (11)
With Adela joining them, the preparations were finally over.
If it’s a game, [Exciting! With the phrase [Saint: Adela has become a companion!!], It was possible to move on to the next area.
In fact, Adela did not call in expecting a great deal of help on this occasion.
It’s true that it’s a necessary number.
Adela’s role comes only after the work is done.
If you wield her mighty divine power wrapped around her body, or if you use it in a way that blows it at all, you will do your part in her fight.
However, if I genuinely needed someone to help me in battle, my older sister, who would be stuck in the manor and interacting with Kona by now, would have been more helpful.
Adela, too, she came when I called, but she was just her face when she didn’t know what to do with herself.
She was a saint who was no one else, and had a slightly dying face. It’s a rare sight, but I decided to cheer her up.
“Adela.”
“… What is it?”
Adela glances up at me. Perhaps because of her short stature, her eye level was quite different. Thanks to that, her voluptuous curves are visible at a glance when looking down from above.
Does this mean that the body is still growing?
What a saint is…
For a while, she was immersed in her wild thoughts. I lightly tapped Adela on the crown of her head.
“I believe you, Adela.”
“…”
Adela shut her mouth. Seeing her sneakily sweeping her arm, she seemed to get goosebumps…
But. She has her kinship with me and she puts up with it, but in reality she hates men terribly. Let’s try to understand
“Master, what about me?”
“Daisy too.”
“… Hey. I am?”
“I believe in Eileen too.”
“… Heh, hehe.”
Unlike the man-hating saint, two women who craved my attention and affection clung to me. Perhaps because she didn’t know that Adela liked women, she seemed to feel threatened by the lack of distance between her and me.
Even Eileen, who usually bounced off me like a tsundere, subtly leaned on me.
“Ah, master. Give me your hand, please. Yes?”
“What are you trying to do with your hands?”
“You know.”
“… Can you lend me some too?”
At first, Adela, who was watching the two women who were close to her body in a childish way, envious of me but happy, then, as the water level between me and them rose in an instant like an escalator, her face crumpled.
“… Great.”
And even coughing.
“Oh.”
“… My, what have I done.”
Only then did the two realize that an outsider was watching them, and they fell in shock.
Adela’s expression was very blatantly accusing us. She said, “What are you doing in front of minors, gentlemen?”, Her eyes piercing…
Indeed, to the two women who did not know the true nature of the saintess, the eyes of a woman who was considered one of the most sacred on the continent——and of a young girl who had not yet reached adulthood—seemed very painfully.
“… I want to hide, Master.”
“This, this, this is all because of you… Because you seduced me!”
Even if you say so.
“When are you leaving, Duke?”
“… Go right now.”
I’m never embarrassed
In fact, it was scheduled to depart at the same time as Adela joined. The preparations were all over, so Daisy and Eileen finished their preparations without saying anything.
“Let’s go, Duke. To save the world.”
You don’t have to rush like that. In the first place, even if Adela hadn’t answered my call, I would have gone to purge Nosferatu as planned.
It would have had to be very different from the original plan.
Whether or not she knew my feelings, Adela chirped with a slightly excited voice.
“It surprised me. I never thought the duke would need my help. Aren’t dukes always lofty alone?”
“I’m sorry. I don’t remember.”
“Ah, that, I’m curious…”
It was when our party, with Adela added to the existing party, reached the main gate of the mansion. Adela talks about my past, which I can’t remember, while Daisy and Eileen show a subtle interest in it.
“Are you going?”
I said I didn’t need to see you off. Blackwood’s owner, Logan, was waiting. Even so, I was alone without even an attendant, as if he had grasped my intention to leave quietly.
“Dad… !”
Daisy’s eyes widened. He noticed that he hadn’t expected his father to be waiting in silence in a place like this without an attendant.
“Hey, Daisy. I was sad that this father didn’t see me off—”
“I was able to listen to the master’s old stories just right now, so why are you interfering!”
“…”
Indeed.
No matter how Black Wood is, even the Black Wood, who was happy to hear that he was taking her daughter as Chepesche’s wife, it seems that he is a father with a daughter after all.
Yes, it would be hurtful to hear such a direct declaration of ‘I hate you, Dad!’. I didn’t really want to see an old man crying.
The gaze looking at me just for a moment was unusual.
“Hmm, hmm…”
After clearing his throat, Logan took a good look at the group.
“… Is it one minute longer?”
It was Adela’s story. Obviously, a woman who hadn’t been there the day before had been added to the group, so it was surprising.
‘Has there been one more woman?’
… It seems that there is such an intention.
Is this the strength of a father with a daughter? Even though I was trying to get stabbed for no reason, I felt unfair for a moment.
No one else, Adela. A saint who trembles if he is a man!
“It’s not like that.”
“…”
“Anyway.”
But even so, if she said, ‘Saints are actually lesbians who like women, so don’t misunderstand me,’ in that case, it was clear that Adela’s friendship with me would also fall to the bottom.
“Eww. I’m feeling a bit sick to my stomach. What should I do, Duke?”
So you shut up
Fortunately or unfortunately, Logan didn’t ask further. The conversation was also sluggish, and there was no need for a longer one, as it was simply a greeting to us, so a concise greeting was all.
“I’ll be back, Father.”
“Okay. Be safe. … No There is no need to stop by again, so stick close to His Highness the Duke. You know what I mean by Abby?”
What are you teaching your daughter?
“Sure.”
What else are you affirming?
“Good job, my daughter. Although there must be many strong competitors nearby, in the eyes of this father, my daughter is the best. You know?”
“… Huh. I’m sorry for getting angry earlier.”
The warm words of kindness and reconciliation between her families are very nice to see, but the feeling is subtle that the reason for her father and daughter to unite is me.
It’s not that I don’t like it.
“… Big hum. Sorry.”
Logan, who had been chatting happily with Daisy for a long time, cleared his throat in embarrassment.
“No, it looks nice.”
“Whoops. It is a harmonious family. I’m sure the Goddess will be pleased with it too.”
Eileen, who has just lost her father, and Adela, who as a priest from the start values harmony within the family.
Both of them had a soft smile on their lips.
“… Right.”
Daisy, embarrassed to be alone, covered her face with her hand.
I hope it’s because you’re cute
*
It was a little delayed, but the journey started again.
And I realized
My thoughts were short
The gear coil had to burst.
At first it went smoothly, without any problems… , After about half a day, Adela started to burst into rage.
“Hey, hey, Duke! … When can we rest?”
The group paused for a moment. I glanced back at the group. Daisy in full maturity, Aileen who follows us by levitation through magic, and me who has nothing to say.
… No one ever gets tired, so I didn’t pay attention to the distribution of stamina until now.
Even Eileen, a sorceress, only needs to be careful of depleting her magical power, but thanks to her approaching the Arch Mage, she also recovers faster than the magical power required for her simple flight.
Thanks to that, Adela, who followed us with a can, seemed to be impatient and raised a white flag.
Even if you restore your tired body with holy power, the pain you felt from walking for a long time won’t go away.
That is, that’s it. The muscle pain itself is gone, but the muscle pain I felt a while ago remains as a vivid memory, and my legs become stiff.
I looked up at the sky. It was the time when the sun was slowly setting.
“It’s still a bit early to make a bed.”
“… How much Are you talking about being homeless?”
“I can’t believe that.”
“… Wow! It’s the devil! To put me, to put me to sleep again on a wet, dirty, stuffy, dusty floor——!!”
“Quiet, be quiet.”
I subdued the half-crazed saintess.
The sight of a saintess rolling her eyes out and trying to tear her vampire head off. If the vampires in this world were a common fantasy world where they weren’t recognized as a popular race, everyone would have been moved by the saintess’ example.
No. Still, there will be people who will be shocked. ‘The saintess is so extreme… ?!’ While saying things like that.
“Saint… ?!”
Ah. Daisy had her eyes wide open. Even so, it was an unimaginable face of a woman the size of a saint, tearing at a man’s hair without dignity and going mad.
Yes. Who would have imagined that
I was also a little flustered, and I looked down at Adela, who was restrained by my shadow, huffing and tearing up.
“What’s the matter?”
“What’s wrong? What’s the problem-?! Man, is he really really not remembering anything? That’s right, since I said memory loss… ! I’m going to hate you, really!!”
Is it me from the past?
But you really don’t know. It’s just that Adela has bad memories of her camping out in the open.
“I’m glad.”
“Relief? Did you say you were lucky? Yes?”
“You seem to have experienced falling asleep outdoors, so there’s no need to struggle to adapt.”
“Die, really!”
Unfortunately, he did not die from the curse of the saintess. In the first place, the saintess is also a body that cannot use her curse.
“Don’t lose your strength in a place like this. Still, you seem tired, so let’s take a break here today.”
“I don’t need that consideration, so please let me go!”
“Didn’t you agree and follow me?”
“You can pick me up again tomorrow with space magic, Duke!”
Hmm.
I hate it because it bothers me.
“Goddess, please punish this man!!”
Naturally, the goddess never punished me.
