Chapter 16 – Elves Have Good Noses
“Excuse me… Could you please give me some time?”
When parents or teachers call for a thief to numb their feet or when they commit a mistake, people feel anxious for no reason.
The anxiety that everyone has experienced at least once in their childhood now gripped Horde’s heart.
“Kuhm…”
Hod glanced at Lina, who was sitting across from him, and Lina gestured as if to go ahead.
The Horde didn’t want to be alone with the hero, but in the end, he had no choice but to stand up.
“Yes… All right. Let’s go.”
Reluctantly, Horde, who got up from his seat following the hero, arrived with the hero in an alleyway not too far from the inn.
‘Here…’
Perhaps it was a target, but the alleyway was the same alleyway where the Horde had been sleeping a while ago.
While Horde was restless, wondering what the hell was going on, the warrior made the same expression as Horde, then lowered his back and said.
“Mr Horde… Really… Sorry.”
“Yes? Yes?”
The Horde, who had no idea to see the warrior who suddenly bowed down and apologized, was greatly embarrassed.
‘What? Are you trying to kick me out?’
Horde had never suffered such a polite banishment, but it was common for him to start out with an apology when banishing from a party.
“Hero, why are you like this… ? Whatever I do wrong…”
“Yes? No, I made a mistake…”
The Horde, who couldn’t understand what the hero was saying that he had done something wrong, was frustrated and seemed to go crazy.
“Warrior… I don’t know what the fault is, but it’s okay, so please tell me quickly.”
When Horde spoke, the hesitant warrior soon made up his mind and spoke to Horde.
“… Actually, during magic training, I massaged Yuria’s breasts.”
“… Yes?”
As soon as the word came out of the hero’s mouth that he had massaged Yuria’s breasts, Horde’s thinking stopped.
‘… What did this bastard just say?’
He was a Horde who knew better than anyone else that he had no right to be angry with him, but anger welled up deep in his heart.
Whether or not he knew how Horde felt, the hero continued to speak to Horde.
“… In order to ascend to a higher level, it was said that it was good to directly touch the circle in the heart and feel its mana, so it was inevitable. But even if it’s training… I came here because I thought I should apologize to my lover Mr. Horde.”
“… That, that’s right.”
“And apart from an apology, I wanted to compensate for this somehow…”
It was not a mistake that the hero touched Yuria’s chest, but it was the result of Yuria’s authority.
Usually, in situations where most of the blame is on the other person, the hero is forced to apologize to the Horde according to Martha’s advice.
If Horde and the two of them had been a casual couple, he would have been able to punch the champion or forgive him, but Horde knew he had no right to be angry with him or forgive.
“…”
The time when the Horde was just looking at the hero who bowed down and apologized, unable to be angry or forgive.
– Talk!
A stone from a distance hit Horde in the head, and Horde’s gaze naturally turned to the direction the stone flew.
‘Did he follow me…’
The one at the place where the stone flew was Lina, who had sent Horde away with a jaw-dropping gesture.
Lina, who was watching all of this with an excited expression on her face, beckoned Horde to come here quickly.
“I… Hero, can you give me a moment?”
“It’s time… ? I’m fine, but…”
The hero, who was prepared to be beaten by the Horde, was puzzled when he heard the Horde suddenly ask for time.
But since she had done something wrong, she couldn’t argue and nodded her head.
“So, shall we talk later?”
“No, it only takes a moment, so please wait.”
Having said that, Horde left the hero and left the alley and hurriedly headed for Lina.
Perhaps to hide her own presence, Lina saw her horde running towards her and headed to a different alley from the one where her hero was.
When Lina stopped she rushed over, her breathless Hod said nervously to Lina.
“What… ! Dad, tell me quickly… !”
“What are you so tired of? More than that, you know what I have to say here?”
“I-I didn’t say anything because I didn’t know that…”
“What… I thought she was like that because her mouth wasn’t coming off, but she just wasn’t thinking about it.”
Horde, thinking that she had to go to the hero quickly, didn’t have the strength to respond to Lina’s sharp words, so she just urged her Lina to answer her.
“Just… Tell me quickly what you have to say.”
“How can I say… He said it’s okay to go and touch his chest in the future and do all of that training.”
“What, what?!”
For Horde, who realized his love for the two of them, he couldn’t quite take the word for it.
Horde, who couldn’t accept Lina’s words, shouted at her, not paying attention to the stares around her.
“Why, why should I do that?!”
Unlike her raging Horde, Lina spoke in her flat tone.
“Why… Think about it. If you tell the hero not to do that again, what will the hero do?”
“Yeah…”
If he was a good warrior, he would apologize to the Horde again and again, even if it was training, he would never touch those two again.
Horde, who had been with the hero and knew the hero’s heart well, said to Lina.
“If you are a warrior… I will never touch them again.”
“I guess so. So who would hate it the most?”
Needless to say, the answer to that question was Yuria and Mirian who loved the hero.
Horde, who was obsessed with the fact that the hero had touched Yuria’s chest and was not fully aware of it, gave her a slap in the back of the head.
“The two of them have a crush on you, to the extent that they have already penetrated the bottom and reached the underworld. But if you go further down from here, this time it’s not the favorability, but you could go to the underworld.”
However, if the Horde side gives permission to the hero, the possibility is very slim, and even if that happens, it is only a very small number, but there is a possibility that Yuria and Mirian’s liking will increase slightly.
“You are now at a dead end. There is no other way than to forgive and willingly allow. Furthermore… When I think of the smell of flowers on the warrior’s body…”
“The smell of flowers… ? What does that mean?”
“No, this is the story. Anyway, you quickly go to the hero and tell him you’re allowed.”
“… Awesome!!”
Even when she heard Lina’s words, she thought she couldn’t help it, but the thought that she had to say that with her own mouth made her teeth grind.
Horde knows very well that the two of them and Horde are not lovers or anything, but rather a relationship between the perpetrator and the victim.
Even so, when she thought she had to say that to the hero, her anger rose and she couldn’t possibly go where the hero was.
“Just… Can’t you do it for me?”
In the end, Horde’s choice was to ignore the current situation like a child, but Lina said with a frown on her face.
“Are you a kid? And if I do it for you Then what do you think the warrior is?”
The hero isn’t stupid, and if he did, he’d probably think that Lina pressured the Horde into allowing it.
And more than anything else, Lina didn’t want to do anything to wipe the back of an adult.
“… I have no choice but to do it.”
“Yes, this sister will watch over you from behind, so hurry up and talk!”
Horde stretched her shoulders and pushed Lina on her back to the alleyway where the hero was.
When we arrived at the alleyway where the hero was walking with heavy steps as if he were walking on his feet, the hero was waiting there without moving a single step.
‘I thought this would be fun?’
Lena, away from the Horde and mingling with her crowd, pricked up her ears as she focused on the conversation between the two of them.
The warrior was the first to speak out among the two who had been silent while looking at each other for a while.
“Mr Horde… If you don’t know what to do, you can just beat me until I feel sick.”
“Oh no, that… !”
He didn’t even say he would, but when he saw the warrior taking off his armor to make it easier to hit, Horde calmed down and barely opened his mouth.
“… Hero, there is no need for that.”
“Then… At least a monetary reward…”
“… No, you don’t need that either. And during training… You don’t have to worry about touching your body.
“No, it can’t be! No matter how much training it is, how can you be with someone else’s woman…”
How great it would be if we could just say that the warrior’s words were right.
However, Horde, who couldn’t say that even for the sake of the future, spoke to the warrior with the feeling of eating his own flesh.
“The warrior… A person who has a mission to defeat the demon lord, how can you care about that? Well, you don’t have to worry about me…”
Even when the hero shook her head, realizing that what Horde was saying was reluctant, Horde insisted that she train with them.
In the end, the hero who couldn’t break Horde’s will grabbed Horde’s trembling hands and said.
“… I never knew Mr. Horde cared so much for innocent people. I’m a warrior, but I’m so weak that I’m hurting Mr. Hod’s heart… It’s just embarrassing…”
Even the hero’s sincere apology was only sarcasm to Horde.
As the hero continued to thank Horde, whether or not he knew Horde’s feelings, Horde opened his mouth to end this conversation as soon as possible.
“No… It’s unavoidable… No more apologies or thanks.”
“… If I subdue the demon lord, it’s all thanks to Mr. Horde’s sacrifice. I will never, ever forget this today.”
“… It’s okay. And I want to tell them this in a timely manner, is that okay?”
Hearing Horde’s trembling voice, the hero guessed Horde’s feelings and nodded.
“Yes… You see. If you feel uncomfortable because of me, would you like to step aside?”
“… Sorry. A little please.”
As the hero bowed his head one last time and left the alley, Horde waited and kicked the trash in the corner of the wall.
“Fuck!! Fuck!!”
Lina, who came to Horde’s side, almost burst out laughing at the sight, but she managed to hold back her mouth.
“Hey, calm down.”
Hod, who had been kicking the trash for a while, looked back at Lina as she breathed heavily.
As if changing her mask, Lina erased the smile from the corners of her lips in an instant and spoke with concern for Horde.
“You worked hard… I’ll tell them about today’s work when I see the right time.”
“Whoa… ! Why did you suddenly change your mind?”
“Why did you lend a hand like this… At least I want to take responsibility for this matter. Elves have a strong sense of responsibility.”
And above all, it was rather counterproductive because it was too revealing for Horde to say it directly.
“Is it…”
Hod, who nodded her head as if he had heard and understood her Lina, spoke one last time before turning her back on Lina and leaving.
“Then please… And… Thanks.”
“What have you got?”
Lina thought as she watched the back of Horde’s head as she left.
‘A foolish but not very pitiful person.’
If I had left as advised yesterday, I wouldn’t have suffered such a miserable situation.
It was also a kind of advice and consideration that Lina asked the warrior to allow her to touch the bodies of the two.
Since you will see such a miserable situation again and again in the future, Rina’s own advice and consideration to leave as soon as possible.
However, Horde foolishly did not understand the meaning and took the last remaining chance.
‘I don’t know what will happen in the future…’
No matter what happens to you in the future, I will watch you until the end.
Well, I’m not going to tell you anything really helpful anymore…
