Chapter 183 – Ep.12 – Hero
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When I opened my eyes, I saw Kaede sleeping with me. Her breathing was transmitted intact as she fell asleep soundly without a single drool.
She was warm and surprisingly soft. Anxiety and worry did not grow there.
Her arms and chest resting on my neck quietly moved along with the steady breathing. I was also seduced by that comfortable rhythm, slowly, very slowly… I was able to breathe in line with Kaede.
Even though I woke up, I lay still like that for a few more minutes. Kaede didn’t even show signs of waking up yet, but it wouldn’t hurt to wait until she woke up.
But when her hazy mind awoke, a different sound came over her ear. It was a very small, quiet, but clear and distinct sound.
As she cautiously turned her head toward it, she saw Rico’s healthy, exposed back, and beyond that, Helen, who was seated somewhat loosely. Both tilted her head slightly, swallowing something down her throat.
Elegant and neat pale green pottery resembling Levi from the Dwarf Mountains. And clear liquor in that porcelain bottle.
The two emptied their glasses without saying a word. Rico, who fills a full glass and roughly pours it into her mouth, and Helen, who drinks quietly as if savoring it, but never stops, and passes it all, was a combination that didn’t suit me at all.
There was no conversation between the two. There was only the sound of emptying the glass and putting it down on the floor, and the clean sound of refilling the glass.
“… “
It was only after I saw Riko empty her glass five more times that I quietly left Kaede’s arms.
After all, Kaede didn’t wake up, but Riko and Helen looked at me after breaking her drinking spot, which had been drinking in her silence.
Rico squinted her eyes, resentful of sleeping in another woman’s arms, and Helen looked at me kindly.
I look at them alternately for a moment, then move over to Rico and take the seat next to her. Rico snorts at her and gulps down her drink, but from what I see, she’s definitely feeling better than before.
But right now, talking with Helen is more important than Rico. She has to come up with a plan. It showed me a terrifying future or past, but I still don’t know what to do with it.
“Where are the other sisters and Eva?”
“I don’t know either. They say they got a map to Mudriel from the Dark Elves or something… I went to do something stupid. It’s not my business.”
“Ah yes… “
So start the conversation cautiously. After that, he carefully asks Helen a question, pretending to be talking to both Rico and Helen.
“… Even though she’s being chased by the Queen, she’ll be fine as long as she goes to Mudriel, right? Can we just go on like this?”
Helen seemed to have noticed my intentions as well, and smiled kindly as she joined the conversation.
“Um, I don’t know.”
… But the answer is strange.
Don’t you know
Is it difficult to tell Riko behind closed doors?
“That, yes. Yes… “
“Is there any other way to go? There is no Just go where you are going.”
Anyway, the first conversation ends without any results. Rico and Helen take another drink, and I try to shake my head between them.
How should I say it so Helen can hint at me?
“Well, then! What if I get caught?”
“Just kill yourself. There is no answer if you miss the opportunity, so just close your eyes and draw. Tell me how to do it?”
“Oh, no… “
“Or, as I said before, stick by my side. I’ll kill you too before I run after you. Okay?”
Rico’s great advice is over, and now it’s Helen’s turn to say something.
But Helen doesn’t say anything, just smiles and pours her another drink. Only the pleasant sound of empty glasses being filled lingers in the room.
‘Why aren’t you saying anything… ! What if she gets caught and shows her how to be confined and bred? You should tell me what to do. The last time I showed Rico-noona that I was being scolded, I managed to solve it on my own, but this time I have no idea what to do… ‘
Squinting your eyes,
Coughing,
Even when he taps her leg to signal her, Helen just smiles.
And she repeats the same answer.
“I really don’t know. Delrin knows the answer. I’m just praying by your side… “
“… Do you?”
Hearing it makes me angry. The attitude of treating them as if they were other people’s work is so disappointing.
He said that he was on my side or that he should only trust his words, but whenever it was important like this, he withdrew his foot. Isn’t that really too much?
What are you saying to me
“It’s going the way Delrin wants. You may think you are being pushed along by the steep river, but in the end Delrin-kun is rowing his way… “
“What has this bitch been talking about since earlier? Are you drunk? Yes? Are you drunk?”
Giving no attention to Rico, whose voice had softened slightly, Helen looked only at me and continued to speak incomprehensible words to the end.
Anyway, to sum it up, it seems that she was saying that there was nothing she could do for her.
Is it okay to just stand by and say it’s not my job? Should I help with my ability or something? Or should I explain why I can’t help?
I tried to ask him that way, but I gave up and just let out a big sigh.
“… That’s Okay. All right.”
Her smile, which still hasn’t been erased, was quite different from usual. I could feel the pity in her smile toward me.
Still, I had to find a way to live, so I looked at Rico and opened her mouth. She is determined to tell her everything.
“Lee… “
But, before I finish calling Rico,
Helen quietly took her hand and placed it on her own lap.
“Mr. Delrin.”
Helen’s head moves very carefully, very slowly, very quietly. She goes to the left and then to the right, showing me all of her pretty profile.
As she gently closes her eyes and shakes her head, she is speechless and unable to say anything. Her Helen, her words and her actions have an air of mystery that I can’t take my eyes off of her.
“Don’t do that, Mr. Delrin. “
“… Why. Then just die like this? That’s too much. Is there any reason why I shouldn’t tell you? Yes?”
After swallowing her saliva, my words, which I spat out with difficulty, make Helen suffer. The pain is transmitted from her face.
Helen is still smiling, but her lips tremble at times, and her weary eyes are wet with her incomprehensible tears.
I couldn’t understand why she was in pain. She was just embarrassed.
“Delrin, Delrin… Don’t do that Delrin, my champion… “
Helen refilled her glass. Rico, who was drinking together by her side, was drunk and said, “I was drunk. ” Was repeated pathetically.
In the room, only me and Helen were clearly awake.
“I pray for my fragile warrior. Gods, please have mercy. Please look down on the boy who is walking down a harsh road, and be the light that illuminates his future path.”
Still, Helen didn’t explain the reason to me. I just clasped my hands together and muttered a prayer.
“Please give courage and wisdom to the savior who has taken on the task.”
I felt something strange. Every time he heard Helen’s soft voice, her hands tightened.
However, my hands didn’t shine bright like praying in a common fantasy world, or Helen’s hair didn’t all rise with divine power.
“Delrin, oh… Don’t bring the lost future back here. Please brighten the future with your own light. Help me through the ordeal you have to go through.”
This prayer…
It was more sincere than any prayer Helen had ever shown.
More than all the prayers that fill the pierced stomach and call forth the golden light,
The meaningless prayer of holding my hands together was the most sincere and heavy.
“… If you say it, you die. Delrin.”
Maybe that’s why Helen’s last words lingered in her ears longer?
“I have to kill myself. I will continue to kill until even your ability obtained through the power of God fades. I will kill you with all my might. So please.”
Helen was serious. She is more than ever.
“Please close your mouth. We will take you safely to the Garden of the Gods without fail, so please persevere even if the process is harsh. Didn’t you say I’d send you home? Don’t think about anything else. At the end of your journey, you will surely return home. I guarantee. I’ll send it by all means. So please overcome the ordeal alone. Then you can go back home. Delrin. Did you know? Or you will live here for the rest of your life. Until the death. No, even after death. Forever.”
It was an obvious threat. Helen’s own artificial threat without any reason or basis.
But for some reason, Helen looked sad.
“Don’t make me kill you.”
Even with her threats, she held her hands tightly as if begging for me.
He said he wanted to avoid killing her with his own hands,
She held on to it for a long time…
Everything is over
Helen put my hands down and quietly slipped outside.
The only ones left by my side were the sleeping Kaede and the drunken Riko.
“Dellin, Delhi… I’m cold… You have to stick by my side, huh? Next… “
Even Rico, who was like that, crawled up to me and fell asleep right away with my knee on her knees.
I was the only one awake.
“… Save.”
[The save point has been set!]
In this quiet and cozy moment, I shouted save. That’s how I stopped this moment of peace that won’t come back for a while.
