Chapter 53 – Punching Bag
“Ha…”
Sweat dripped down Horde’s round jawline and soaked the neck of his shirt.
The Horde is now half-forced to move their luggage with the adventurers of the Azul Revival Adventure Team.
Normally, the amount of luggage to be moved was not so large as the number of people was small, but with the addition of 100 people, the amount of work was large.
“Ugh… !!”
Horde, who had been addicted to alcohol for a while, suddenly moved his body violently, losing control of his body and gasping for breath.
As if his body was aching, pain ran through his body along with a cool chill.
However, what was more painful than the pain was the gaze of the adventurers passing by after seeing the Horde.
‘Fuck…’
During the subjugation of the Behemoth, it was discovered that he was caught running away, so the adventurers’ eyes were cold.
Everyone wants to say something, but I felt like I had no choice but to put up with it because I was a member of the Hero party.
‘It can’t be helped…’
I’ve heard that it’s a strong monster, but it’s strange to fight head-on with a monster that’s not even a real creature.
And isn’t it too much to treat them like this because they ran away in front of such a witch in front of a subject that was not very helpful.
It was Horde who wanted to shout what was so different between me who ran away and you incompetent people, but he knew very well that saying such a thing would only make the eyes on him grow colder.
‘Chew…’
That time when you forcibly swallow the words that come out of your heart and silently carry your burden.
“Excuse me… Mr. Horde, could you give me a minute?”
Looking at the hero with a troubled expression from a distance and a mysterious expression mixed with anxiety and anticipation, Lina approached Horde and said.
I can do anything as long as I can get out of this heavy labor, not just okay.
However, when I thought of what happened every time the hero asked for time, my mouth didn’t fall easily.
“… What are you doing?”
“That is… What are we talking about here, can we change seats for a moment?”
Horde, who couldn’t say no to that, nodded his head and said in a low voice.
“… All right.”
So, the Horde, who had moved along with the hero, was headed to a remote alley with few people like back then.
Recalling what happened then, Horde was nervous, and the hero opened his mouth with difficulty.
“I… Actually, I came here because I want to ask Mr. Hod.”
“Is that something you want to ask for?”
“Yes, actually, do you remember that I went to her accommodation to pick up Yuria earlier?”
Hod nodded, remembering the hero’s journey to the Great Library earlier.
‘Come to think of it, where did Yuria go? No way…’
Did the old sages say that auspicious premonitions are always wrong and ominous premonitions are always right?
Horde’s eyebrows began to frown at the words that came from the mouth of the warrior soon after.
“Actually… It looks like I offended YuRia by saying something wrong. How can my girlfriend Hod relieve her anger?”
“…”
Isn’t this kid really doing this on purpose?
Horde wasn’t the only one who thought so, but Lina, who was watching this scene with some anticipation, also made an awake expression.
The Horde suspected that behind the hero’s naive expression was a poisonous snake, but the hero, who did not know the fact, spoke calmly.
“Anyway, even if I said more, I don’t think they would listen. Since he’s a lover, I wondered if he could somehow ease YuRia’s heart…”
“… Well.”
If I had known such a convenient method, I would not have gone through this trouble.
In the first place, the word was a lover, but what kind of great relationship could there be in a relationship that led to rape?
Although, over time, it became not rape, but half-blooded. That too was a thing of the past.
“How can I not?”
“That, that…”
Horde looked at Lina with a look on her face asking for her help, but she averted her gaze as if Lina didn’t even know.
She said that no one, no matter how long she had lived, could give a definite answer to a question like this.
After Horde kept her mouth shut for a long time without giving a clear answer, Lina said.
“I… Warrior. Why don’t we just wait for time to work it out? It’s not like there’s a sharp way to let go of anger right away.”
“We don’t have time to just wait. They will soon be attacking the supply base of the Demon King’s army, but if they are in that state even during battle, their lives may be in danger. However, if we exclude them from the supply base attack battle, we might become even more depressed.”
Considering that the origin of this incident was that he had left Yuria in the battle to subdue the Behemoth, the hero’s thoughts were reasonable.
“Write… It is, though.”
Lina, who had nothing to refute, pondered for a moment, then pointed to the Horde and said to the hero.
“Then… Me and this guy will try something.”
“Really? Is there any good way?”
“… I don’t know if this will work or not, but don’t expect too much and wait.”
Perhaps thinking that doing something is better than doing nothing, the hero nodded and spoke to Lina and Horde.
“I’m sorry, but I’ll ask you two. I hate to think about it, but in the worst case… No, it would be better not to say such things.”
Lina, who roughly guessed what the hero was trying to say, put on a bitter expression, but Horde, who didn’t understand, tilted her head.
“Then I hope for good results…”
After the hero left, Horde, who confirmed that the hero had disappeared, asked Lina.
“… Do you really have any good ideas?”
“It might be a good idea… I don’t know if it will be self-killing, but I’ll have to try something first. Because it’s better than doing nothing.”
“… What are you talking about So what could I possibly be?”
“Remember what I said before? You said that when a woman is at her weakest, she is grieving.”
“I remember. You can’t…”
When he was appalled at whether he was going to do something like that in this situation, Lina said with a look that she couldn’t help it.
“Yes, there is nothing like a new man to overcome the sadness of a broken heart. Time to do what you do best.”
*****
Horde, who stopped right in front of Yuria’s accommodation with a bottle and glass in one hand, silently looked at Yuria’s visit.
‘Will it really be okay?’
If you ask me if there is a better way than this, it wasn’t like that, but no matter how much I thought about it, it didn’t seem like this.
What is the meaning of this act of carrying an oil canister in a fire pit?
‘But I don’t think he would do something like this without meaning.’
Although Lina was normally mischievous, she was not, and she was not an elf so discreet that she would play pranks in these situations.
Even though a wizard named Rose came in, there was no way she would think of defeating the 7th circle wizard.
Besides, considering Yuria’s lustful nature, it wasn’t a very unlikely event.
In the end, Horde briefly knocked on Yuria’s door in a panic.
Then, unlike the first time the hero came, there was a sound of slow footsteps beyond the door.
– Splat, splat, slap.
Horde swallowed involuntarily as those undead-like footsteps drew closer.
Horde’s hand throbbed with the liquor in the bottle at the sound of footsteps approaching.
Soon after, the door opened with the sound of her old hinges ringing, and a haggard figure of Yuria appeared through the crack in the door.
“… It was you.”
Her words sounded like she was disappointed, but she didn’t feel much disappointment in Yuria, probably because she thought it would turn out like this.
She had hoped for her just in case, but now that expectation had disappeared, even the slight vitality in Yuria’s eyes had disappeared.
Seeing Horde’s face, YuRia forgot to close the door and turned her back on Horde and went back to her bed.
Perhaps understanding that to mean that it was okay to come in, Horde followed him into the room.
“… What?”
Horde entered the room as if she hadn’t expected to come inside. Yuria looked at Horde with her sharp eyes before lying down on her bed and said,
“That… , Kuhm!”
Horde cleared his throat once and showed the bottle he was holding to Yuria and said,
“That… I have come to comfort you.”
“…”
As if Horde hadn’t been paying attention from the beginning, Yuria opened her eyes wide as if she had just seen the bottle she was holding for the first time.
Yuria, who was sitting on the bed, got up from the bed and approached Horde, holding out his hand and saying,
“Give me that…”
“Huh? Oh yeah…”
Are you trying to pour me a drink like before? Horde handed the bottle to Yuria with a face filled with anticipation.
“…”
Upon receiving the bottle, YuRia looked at the bottle in silence for a long time without pouring or drinking.
Seeing Yuria like that, Horde, feeling something unusual, bent over her and hesitated behind her.
“Eww… !!!”
Yuria’s expression changed in an instant, and she threw the bottle at Horde with all her might.
– Clink!!
Seeing the bottle brush past Horde’s head but hit the wall, Horde gulped, wondering if his head could be like that soon.
To Horde, Yuria approached little by little and spoke in a low voice.
“… Are you, am I that funny?”
“Oh, no, I…”
No words come out of Hod’s mouth, which in the old days would have joked or been sarcastic.
That much, the intent to kill in YuRia’s eyes was so bleak and intense that even Horde, a mere porter, could feel it.
“Do you think I’ve become your real lover because I’m whining under you? I want to cut out my pussy that your body came in. No, I feel like I want to tear out all the flesh that touched your body and replace it with other flesh. But what do you see when you see me like that? Come to comfort me? You… Did I look that funny?”
“I-I just…”
“… It’s because of you. Because of you… Because of you… !!!!”
Horde, feeling that things were going wrong, tried to escape, but sooner than that, Yuria’s magic-enhanced hands strangled Horde.
“Ugh, ugh… !!”
Unbelievably strong power passed down Horde’s neck from this slender arm.
With that force, Horde grabbed Yuria’s wrist and struggled to escape, but no matter how hard she tried to get her arm off, she didn’t budge like a huge boulder.
‘I’m not a fucking human… !!’
Yes, even though she was pushed behind by Rose, the fact that Yuria was also a transcendental person far beyond the human realm did not change.
Horde, who thought of Yuria as his sex slave, belatedly realized that fact, but it was already too late.
YuRia was still strangling her from above the Horde, and the Horde beneath her was unable to do anything.
“Lee, Lee… !!”
No matter how hard he tried to call out to me or someone else, no matter how hard he tried, no words came out in this strangled state.
Every time her vision gets blurry, fear fills her heart as this blurry vision reminds her of her future.
Tears flowed from Horde’s eyes as he foresaw his own death as he felt his spirit tear away from his body.
At that time, her hand that held Yuria’s wrist gradually loosened against her will.
“Yuria!!”
“Then she dies for real!! Hurry up and let go of her hand!!”
Ironically, it was Lina’s voice that pushed Hod into the fire, saving Hod’s life.
