Chapter 10 – It’s a Party!!
YuRia and Mirian noticed each other and then went to Horde alone and said to Horde who was hiding in the bushes.
“There are things to move inside. Follow me.”
Hearing this, Hod, who had been squatting behind the bushes waiting for Hero’s party to come, groaned and rose from his seat.
“Eww… There are only two left.”
Horde looked at Mirian and raised his hand as if to relieve last night’s humiliation.
It takes time to go to the end of the cave, so I thought I would go in after educating myself here again.
Horde courageously raised his hand and swung it towards Mirian’s cheek, but Horde’s hand could not even touch Mirian’s cheek and was lightly grabbed.
“What?!”
To Mirian, a first-class warrior, Horde’s attacks seemed to have stopped, but Horde widened his eyes as if he hadn’t expected it at all.
“Let go, let go!!”
Horde swung his hands wildly with a shocked expression, like an owner bitten by a dog, but Mirian, who held Horde’s hand, didn’t budge.
Mirian silently looked at Horde who couldn’t shake his hand, then threw Horde away and said.
“Tell me this time. Don’t touch me again.”
“This person… The sow doesn’t even know the subject… !”
Scared to finish his words, Mi-an grabbed Horde by the neck and lifted him up.
“Keuuugh!!”
As Mirian’s hand grabbed Horde’s neck, Horde struggled in the air, held in Mirian’s hand, unable to breathe properly, let alone speak.
“Ugh… !!”
“Be careful what you say in front of me from now on. Whether I look at my strength or my status, I am not someone you can say carelessly.”
Mirian, who threw Horde back to the ground, moved back to the cave, but Horde snarled from behind, and his footsteps stopped.
“… Are you now pretending to be a knight on the subject that was panting under me until a few days ago? I know your naughty temperament, but you’ll be begging me again in a few days!”
“…”
At those words, the mistakes of the past came to mind in Mirian’s head.
Even though it started with alcohol and threats at first, there is no change in the fact that in the end, he wanted it from his side.
She had no intention of dismissing it as a one-time mistake or cheating, but neither did she intend to continue this abusive relationship.
“Okay… As you said, it may be.”
“You know me! Then, even now, beg again…”
“But even so, I will never do it with you again. Whether it’s buying a prostitute or hunting like Lina, I’ll take care of my needs.”
Horde shouted in bewilderment at the sight of him accepting his own lewdness without denying it.
“… Yes, do you think you can be content with being a normal guy?!”
“The demon king’s army cuts people down like weeds in various places… Surely there is not a single man in the world who is better at sex than you?”
“…”
Horde couldn’t refute those words and had no choice but to watch Mirian as she moved into the cave.
“Isn’t something coming soon?”
*****
Horde and Mirian arrived at the cave cavity where Hero’s party was waiting, but Hero’s party was nowhere to be seen.
When I looked around to see where the hero was, the voice of the hero came from the secret passageway that the hero broke earlier.
“Mirian is here!!”
Hearing the voice from inside the secret passageway, Mirian and Horde stepped on the rubble and went inside.
Upon entering the passageway, there was another door open in the floor besides the door leading to the outside.
Originally, it was a hidden door like this one, but Lina found it after noticing that there was a space on the floor.
“Isn’t it?”
“Uh! Come in quickly!”
There was a ladder, but it wasn’t very deep, so Mirian jumped into the basement.
Horde then left her rucksack on the floor, followed Mirian and climbed her ladder inside.
“What…”
In the basement, huge test tubes were piled up that contained an incomparable amount of research data and monsters that were incomparable to those in the cavity.
Although Horde’s backpacks can hold a lot of stuff thanks to magic, they couldn’t possibly fit in the backpack.
“Mr Horde… I called this on purpose, and I’m sorry.”
“Oh, no… It could be.”
“Let’s call the guild staff and tell them to take it. Aren’t you supposed to come here at least once to investigate anyway?”
At Lina’s words, Hero’s party nodded and climbed back up to get out of the cave.
The hero and his party arrived at the village they stopped by before entering the forest before dark.
Upon arriving at the village, the hero asked Horde, who was sweating profusely.
“Come to think of it, Horde. Where did you leave the wagon before rushing into the forest?”
“That… I left it at the village inn stable, so you can go and pick it up.”
This village was a rural village, but because adventurers often stopped by in the forest next door, there was an inn or a stable to leave the horses.
When we arrived at the inn guided by the Horde, the village chief saw Hero and the others and jumped out in a hurry as if he had been waiting.
“Mo, adventurer! Thank you so much for saving my grandson!”
“Oh, no, sir, please raise your head.”
“No, it can’t be…”
Of course, the old man was grateful to the hero and the others who saved his grandson, but this servile attitude did not come only from gratitude.
The innkeeper was overjoyed when the grandson’s party returned and the village chief saw the grandson returned unscathed except for a few torn clothes.
However, soon after hearing that a priest had cured his grandson, his face turned blue.
Of course, treatment in the new building is not free and costs a lot of money.
Besides, it was natural to assume that if the party was such that the priest was present, it was a party with a high adventurer rank.
Realizing that the party had been entrusted with an unofficial verbal request, the village fell into an emergency.
“Yeah… This is the fee for this request…”
I hurriedly collected money from the parents of the children and saved as much money as possible, but it was still far short of the amount.
“…”
The hero looked at the tattered money pouch handed to him by the village chief, looked at it for a while, then stood up and said to the village chief who had bowed his head.
“Chief. It’s not even an official request, so I won’t accept this money.”
Seeing the money bag the hero held out, the village chief couldn’t understand the hero’s intentions and just stared blankly at the money bag.
It’s a small amount of money for the warriors’ party, but to think that an adventurer and no one else refuses the money.
“Are you really okay?”
“Yes. What can I say instead… Would you mind paying for the horse at the stable?”
“That, of course, I can do that, but I, really…”
As the village chief rolled his eyes at the money, the hero put the money bag in the village chief’s hand and said,
“I was satisfied with the sincerity of preparing the money like this. Thank you.”
“…”
Saying that, the hero smiled, and the village chief froze as he accepted the money bag.
After accepting the money, the village chief muttered absentmindedly as he watched the carriage disappearing over the horizon.
“Warrior… ?”
*****
Returning to the fortress city, the Hero party paid the wagon rental fee and hurriedly went to the adventurer’s guild.
It was late, when the sky had already darkened, but the adventurer’s guild was still running.
“I have completed the quest and have come to meet the guild master.”
“Yes! The guild master is waiting with the Director of the Ecology Survey!”
Following the guide’s guidance, I went upstairs and entered the guild master’s room. The guild master and the director of the ecological survey were standing in the same location as yesterday.
“Sorry, I’m a little late.”
“No, no! I’d rather come sooner. So… What was the result?”
“… There was an executive.”
The hero explained to the two what had happened over the past two days.
The two seriously listened to the hero’s words, and when they heard that Hanji had used giantization magic on the beast, they opened his mouth wide, then let out a sigh of relief when they heard that the duration was short.
“It seems that it was in the middle of research, and it probably won’t be used by other demon lord wizards.”
“Whoa… That’s fortunate.”
“And… Unfortunately, we failed to capture the Demon King’s army officers alive. Sorry…”
“No! The warrior has nothing to apologize for! Rather, I’m sorry! I should have told you beforehand that such magic activates when an officer in the Demon King’s Army tries to betray you.”
“Yeah… Rather than that, did you say that there are a lot of specimens of that gigantic magic and monsters in that basement?”
“Yes. There are a lot of good looking things in the basement.”
When the hero said that, the warden’s eyes changed and he said as if shooting at the guild master.
“Guild Master, this is not the time. We will dispatch an investigation team as soon as possible.”
“Hmm… That’s right. Then, warrior. Could you tell me where the cave is?”
“I will teach you that!”
Rina said so and handed the guild master the map she had taken with her when she went to Hanji’s cave.
The map outlined the route to the cave and the location of the cave.
“Thank you. Then, warrior… If I find anything out of the cave, I’ll tell you right away.”
“I look forward to it.”
“Yes! Stay tuned! And this…”
What the guild master handed over was a ticket to a famous restaurant in the city of Three Stars.
Three Star is a restaurant so famous that even the bravest know it, and it was famous for being as difficult as picking a star in the sky.
“I am close with the shop owner, so I got a ticket for a private room. Today, I will cure my travel addiction there.”
“Ah, this is so… Then it is not polite to refuse a favor, so I will accept it gratefully.”
“Thank you! He says everything! Then we’re done…”
When the guild master left, Lina, who was next to the hero, said.
“Let’s write that quickly!! I wanted to go to Three Star at least once!”
“Okay! Let’s go quickly!”
The Hero group, who went to Three Star, were guided by a staff member and moved to a designated private room.
And soon after, the waitress started carrying out so much food one by one that I wondered if I could really eat it all.
“Wow… !!”
The food brought in was all luxurious, from tuna sashimi, which is difficult to eat in the inland areas, to Buffalo steak with high-quality abalone, to grilled whole Ortolang, which is said to taste heavenly.
As if she hadn’t had many opportunities to eat these things in her long life, Lina licked her lips while watching her cooking.
When all the food was gone, the hero got up from his seat holding a beer mug the size of his head.
“Now then, congratulations on subjugating the officers of the Demon King’s Army… Cheers!”
“Cheers!!”
With the sound of her glasses clinking, Lina, who emptied her glass faster than anyone else, began to covet the food placed in front of her.
“…”
At first it was Martha who looked at her ravenous Lina with her savage eyes, but once she tasted her food placed in front of her, her eyes changed and she focused on her food.
Not to mention Horde and Warriors from commoners, YuRia and Mirian from nobles had never tasted such a delicacy, so they shed tears of emotion while savoring the taste of the food.
Hahahoho laughed like that and the time passed by with a warm atmosphere.
Just as drunk people began to appear one by one, YuRia, whose face was red from being drunk, suddenly asked the hero.
“… Warrior there. Can I ask you something?”
“Huh? What… ?”
“That… There’s that…”
Yuria, who was about to speak her words, took a sip of the drink she was holding and said to the hero, as if to encourage her lack of courage.
“… Eh, if Martha confesses right now, will you accept it?”
“… Uh?”
“… Fuck year…”
