Chapter 30 – The Princess Appears!
“This is what I wanted to do. Do you understand now?”
Martha, who had been quietly listening to Lina’s question from behind the corner, shook her head without saying a word.
Of course, she wasn’t that Martha was stupid, and that she didn’t understand what Lina was saying.
After inciting YuRia and Mirian to flirt with the hero, they interfere with it behind the scenes, causing them to fall into greater disappointment.
Meanwhile, she gives Horde false hopes by pretending to help, and ends up hating both of them even more.
She was Martha who grasped the idea at once, but her Martha expression was still dark.
“No… I don’t get it at all. What’s fun about hurting things like that even while hurting the hero?”
The image of the warrior returning to her room with her shoulders drooping from before keeps popping up in Martha’s mind.
For Martha, the important thing was the hero, not the misfortunes of the two women who were attached to the Horde.
Of course she would nod her head if asked if she wasn’t thrilled, but she didn’t want to see that, even as she hurt the hero.
When Martha opened her eyes and said, Lina smiled and said to Martha.
“Isn’t it okay if you comfort me when I’m hurt?”
“Ugh… ! Thinking that far…”
Hearing her words, Martha was moved as she imagined a hero who depended on her, while she was depressed, but she was not like this anyway.
Martha could not accept any attractive proposal, saying that it would be obtained by hurting her hero.
“I’m fine, so from now on… Do it in moderation.”
“Moderately? You’re not telling me to stop at all?”
“… It’s already happened like this, and if Rina stops, those strait girls won’t stop. So, in moderation… !”
“Quaaaaagh!!!”
Before Martha could finish her words, someone’s terrifying screams came from her deck.
As soon as Marta and Lina heard the scream, they ran straight to the deck.
The hero must have heard the scream, and he came out of the room and ran towards the deck while running into Marta and Lina.
“What are you talking about?!”
“It’s probably a flying witch. It’s not common, but it’s not uncommon for flying beasts to attack airships!”
As Hero and the others went up to the deck, Mirian, who had arrived earlier, was fighting against a gigantic beast that looked like a combination of a bird and a human.
It wasn’t just Mirian who was fighting the beast on the deck, but the adventurers of Azul Kingdom were also fighting the beast with their swords drawn.
“Mirian!”
When the hero called Mirian’s name, Mirian, who had just split the confronting monster in two with a large greatsword, turned to the hero and said.
“Did the warrior come too?”
“Uh! What are these magic beasts?”
The one who answered that question was not Mirian, who was confronting the Witchbeast, but Lina, who was right next to her.
“The names of these demons are Harpies. It’s a demonic beast that lives in highlands like high mountain peaks, but it must have flowed all the way here!”
A harpy was a bird-type monster with a human head, and because it could mate with humans and reproduce, it kidnapped humans and used them as stallions.
And when the breeding is over, the man or woman used as a stallion eats the human with whom they mate, just as the female mantis eats the male mantis.
Because of its ferocity, ability to fly freely in the sky, and the fact that it acts as a group, it was a very dangerous monster that was designated as a B-class monster by the adventurer’s guild.
“I requested help from an adventurer in Azul Kingdom. I agreed on behalf of the hero…”
“Good job! And what else is important?”
“It’s not particularly important, but the Horde has been kidnapped by harpies.”
“What?!”
Hearing that, he looked closely at the harpies roaming the sky, and saw one harpy grabbing the Horde with its sharp claws.
Horde’s back was bleeding from the harpy’s sharp claws, but perhaps it was so much that Horde couldn’t even scream and had a pale expression.
“You should have said that first!! Horde!!”
The hero immediately grabbed his sword and ran toward the harpy holding the Horde.
“Wait a minute, hero!”
Mirian didn’t even have a foothold, but he couldn’t even use flying magic, so he wondered what the hell he was thinking, but somehow he felt like he could do anything if he was a hero.
“What are you doing?!”
“That’s already wrong, so give up!”
“Hey come back!!”
However, unlike Mirian, the adventurers of Azul Kingdom, who did not know that a hero was a hero, shouted at the hero running toward the Horde to stop.
The hero ignored the words and jumped onto the railing, using the railing as a platform to leap towards the harpy nearby.
– Wooddeuk!
The railing broke with an eerie sound and the warrior jumped high into the sky.
“Warrior?!”
Mirian didn’t know what the hero was thinking, but he was able to know what the hero was thinking by looking at the next action taken by the hero.
Everyone thought there was no scaffolding, but in fact there was what we would call scaffolding, technically speaking.
However, it was too unstable to be called a scaffolding, so not everyone thought it was a scaffolding.
“Queuck!!”
The champion kicked his harpy and used it as a platform to jump on another nearby harpy.
“Turn it off!!”
The harpy, which became a stepping stone, fell to the ground as it vomited blood as the part it stepped on was completely shattered.
Then, the hero jumped up, using other harpies as a stepping stone, and in an instant, dozens of harpies crashed to the ground and reached the harpies who captured the Horde in an instant.
“Oh my god… !”
The adventurers and Mirian, who saw a scene that was hard to believe even after seeing it with their own eyes, looked at the hero with their eyes wide open.
“Haa!!”
The hero swung the sword he was holding, cut off the harpy’s leg with a single blow, and decapitated the harpy with a second strike, slaying the harpy and catching the falling Horde.
However, the harpies, who were frightened when they saw the hero stepping on and killing his own people, never went near the hero.
As Lina was about to throw the rope, the warrior’s sword began to emit a brilliant light.
‘Ah, I don’t think I need help with this.’
Lina, who made that decision in an instant the moment she saw the light, raised her bow again and aimed it at the harpies near her.
While Lina was doing this, the hero’s sword, which began to emit a brilliant light, exploded with a tremendous roar.
The hero, who was thrown forward by the shock from the sword along with the explosion, safely boarded the airship again.
‘I can’t use it anymore.’
The hero was able to safely board the airship again, but he could not use it because only the hilt of his black sword was left.
“Martha! Mr. Horde is injured, please help me!”
“Ah, yes!”
The warrior who entrusted the Horde to Martha received a spare sword from Mirian and went into battle again.
Still in the sky, countless groups of harpies were waiting for the hero.
*****
‘Therapy…’
Meanwhile, Marta, who was asked to take care of Horde by the hero, was troubled when she saw Horde with a severe wound on her back.
With Martha’s skills, it was easy enough to make it look like it never existed from the beginning, but is it really okay?
‘I can’t leave it like this…’
If Horde is left to die like this, the hero will be sad and Martha’s skills will also be questioned.
Marta had no intention of letting Horde die, but even so, she had no intention of healing him.
‘Low Healing…’
Unlike high-grade healing, which makes scars and their aftereffects disappear, not only scars remain, but also considerable aftereffects.
“Ugh… !!”
A moan escaped Horde’s mouth as the wound healed very slowly.
Seeing Horde like that, Martha continued her healing without batting an eye.
In the meantime, the battle continued on her deck, but the adventurers of Azul Kingdom, who recognized that Marta was her priest, protected Marta, so Marta was able to concentrate on her treatment.
“Sir. When his treatment is over, would it be all right if we take care of our adventurers?”
“Yes! Sure!”
Martha nodded her head and went on to treat Horde’s back.
After her treatment was finished, Horde had three large and ugly scars on his back.
“Then next…”
“Quaaaaagh!!”
No sooner had Martha speak her words, the adventurer, who had been cut off by a harpy attack from afar, rolled over her deck a few times before falling on top of the Horde.
“Oh… You are really fast.”
This time, Martha restored her adventurer at once with advanced healing instead of the low-level healing she used against the Horde.
The wound regenerated at a speed that was incomparable to that of earlier, and the adventurer, who had collapsed with a moan, jumped up with his eyes wide open.
“Are you okay now?”
“Ah…”
Martha said to the adventurer who groped her wound without answering whether it was the first time she had experienced advanced healing.
“Are you okay?”
“Ah, yes… ! Thanks to the priest, I’m fine now!”
“Okay! Then go and fight.”
“… Yes?”
She put on a puzzled expression as if she didn’t understand what the adventurer was saying.
Even though her wounds were all healed, she did not think that the words to go back and fight would come out of the mouth of the priest.
“Ha…”
To the adventurer with a puzzled expression, Martha pointed to a hero who was unique among many adventurers who slaughtered harpies and said,
“Our warrior, don’t let that hurt you and go and fight again. Hurry.”
“Oh that… ! Yes!! All right!!”
At Martha’s words, the adventurer didn’t say anything, saluted as if she were a superior, and went back to fighting with her comrades.
The other adventurers who were guarding Martha by her side looked shocked, but Marta didn’t care.
“Then… Next minute?”
*****
As time passed and YuRia, who was furious with her alone in her own room, came out and joined her, all the harpies surrounding her airship crashed to the ground.
After the battle, the deck was filled with blood mixed with the blood of adventurers and harpies.
“Whoa…”
After the battle, the hero wiped the blood off his sword with his sleeve and returned the sword to Mirian.
“Thank you Mirian. You used the sword well.”
“Nothing to worry about. By the way, you’d better get a new sword later.”
“I know… But there is nothing appropriate.”
While this conversation was going on between the hero and Mirian, one of the adventurers from Azul Kingdom approached the hero and said,
“Thank you so much for your cooperation. I will definitely compensate you with money later on for this and the treatment of that priest.”
“Ah, you don’t have to worry so much…”
Saying that, when the hero tried to refuse, Mirian, who was next to him, tapped the hero’s arm and said.
“Warrior. Don’t mind, just accept it. If they just skip it here and this story gets leaked, it will be directly related to their credibility.”
“Hmm… If it’s something like that, I’ll discuss it later with the hero from that party and decide.”
“Yes, and… Speaking of which, the hero of our party wants to say thank you.”
Saying so, the adventurer who spoke to the hero avoided the seat, and there was an adventurer wearing a unique helmet that covered his entire face and was approaching the hero.
“Thank you for your cooperation. I am… Gee, it would be rude to say hello while wearing a helmet.”
Saying so, he took off his helmet, revealing a few droplets of sweat from the hard battle, along with thick brown hair that he had no idea how it had been tucked in.
Her graceful features, wrapped in warm and plentiful hair like soft fur, had a childlike corner like a girl, but her slightly thick eyebrows drew attention.
Contrary to her graceful and girlish appearance, her body, which was quite healthy, had an indescribably noble atmosphere, so it was difficult to talk to her easily.
When I saw her voice and figure, I was a warrior who was well aware that she was not a man, but as soon as I took off her helmet, her beauty jumped out.
Whether the hero was embarrassed or not, she continued her speech and reached out her hand toward the hero.
“My name is Grindella Azul, a hero of the Azul Revival Adventure Team. Please take good care of me.”
When Grindella opened her mouth, the hero who finally came to her senses took her hand and said,
“Ah… My name is Yoa. Please take good care of this one.”
While the two adventurers were holding hands, there was someone watching the scene face down.
As the aftereffects of the healing had not gone away yet, a voice so small that only Horde could hear came from the dreamy Horde’s mouth.
“… Princess?”
