Chapter 8 – Doubt
The warrior who heard my telepathy stiffened on the spot.
I kept wondering if this was right or if this worked, but I couldn’t do anything because I was worried, so I tried to send telepathy with the feeling of using magic, and it seemed to be surprisingly successful. As proof of that, as soon as I sent telepathy, the hero became frozen.
“It’s a story…”
The warrior was making a surprised expression, as if he hadn’t expected me to suddenly speak to him.
In this part I was sure.
If the hero who heard telepathy was an ordinary hero, he would have asked if he could talk to me, but he didn’t. I hope I’ve misunderstood, but considering the fact that I knew the wagon was a slave wagon, it’s not a matter to be overlooked.
The hero is obviously hiding something.
I don’t know what it is though.
“What are you calling to talk about?”
The warrior sitting on the bench asked me with a complicated expression.
Of course, I couldn’t directly ask who it was here. To the end, my doubts about the hero were nothing but why he knew that the wagon was a slave wagon, and how he was going to deal with it.
If you ask only that, the hero will not think strangely and will pass.
Deciding what to ask, I turned to the hero.
– How did you find out about that wagon?
“…”
At my words, the warrior bowed his head.
Is it too hard to answer?
From what I thought, the most probable thing is that he is a possessor like me.
If you are a possessor, you have no choice but to know what is going on in the game, so you will try to deal with the situation at that time. If he’s a true possessor, then that’s a problem, and in the end, isn’t that guy also aware of what’s going to happen in the future?
If that happened, it was clear that the story would flow strangely.
If we don’t date, we’ll all die together, but let’s close our eyes and get pregnant..
Not crazy either.
In fact, looking at the appearance so far, no matter how much I think about it, that seems to be the nature of that hero, but even if you are a possessor, if you have that kind of personality, you’re a person who will be twisted somewhere to the point of playing a game like this. In fact, he has a twisted personality, but if he were to say he was acting, it would give him goosebumps.
It was said that it could be covered by magic, but when I saw that they took care of me one by one, who had all kinds of disabilities, I could see that it was absolutely not something that came out of smoke. A guy who talks to a wizard of the opposite sex even though he’s a colleague while playing this kind of game, and cleans up what’s on his mouth so calmly?
Do you think that makes sense?
Of course, even if this is the case, I still have the biggest doubt that he is a possessed person…
“I heard rumors about carriages. I just wanted to check it out just in case.”
“…”
Oh, I see.
That’s what it was.
Do you think I’d believe that guy…?
– According to what you said, it’s contradictory that they tried to hold me hostage.
I’d like to tell her not to scold her, but Rumia isn’t a heroine who uses that kind of tone. Just like her outward appearance, she values efficiency like a mage, so when she speaks telepathically, she is monotonous and just words.
In fact, when Lumia speaks in telepathy in the game, she doesn’t come out as a voice, but only speaks words that are condensed and correct.
If they went in just to check, wouldn’t the slave traders try to take hostages?
When I looked at him with a sullen expression, Hero himself failed to meet my eyes, perhaps realizing that what he said was strange.
Hmm.
Maybe it’s because I’m suspicious, but I can see that I’m very anxious.
If you see him being anxious, it’s because he’s worried about something, but you can’t ask him to tell you the truth. And anyway, the result went well, but it was a little strange to ask it suspiciously.
Can’t help it
– If you don’t want to talk, you don’t have to.
I said that and put the leftover bread into the warrior’s mouth.
I didn’t give it for any other reason, and it’s true that I suspected it, but it was an act I did because it had to be seen as pure curiosity to the hero. Of course, since I had to act like Rumia, I wasn’t joking while laughing.
The bewildered fellow hurriedly chewed the bread that came into his mouth.
And here I thought to throw in one more rice cake called ordinary.
– I heard your voice that I shouldn’t have heard at first, so I followed it because it was amazing.
This line is the line spoken when opening a good feeling window with Rumia, who has just met.
I also played the game, so I remember this line.
If it is somewhat similar to what I guessed, I think that by saying this line, information will be obtained, but suspicion from the hero will almost disappear.
Something like this made me feel a bit strange.
If someone saw me now, wouldn’t it look like a flower snake trying to take advantage of the hero?
I didn’t do anything to be called a flower snake, but rather, I struggled to survive somehow because I couldn’t see a future where I had to die.
“…”
The warrior didn’t answer.
I had no intention of continuing the conversation any longer.
I got up from my seat.
It wasn’t that I didn’t get anything from asking this time.
Rather than that, I wanted to play around the fantasy-like town as much as I could.
Anyway, I had to wait for the bounty to be given to us today anyway, so I wanted to take a tour of the town. It was my fault for bothering to say it now that I would rather find a lodging and go and talk at that time.
I wish I could feel better…
In order to do that, I have no choice but to show my sincerity.
I looked around for a while, then held back and carefully held the warrior’s hand.
And I bowed my head.
It was a kind of message asking for good luck in the future.
And it was an act that he did in the hope that a man would not like it if he held a woman’s hand.
Just by looking at his appearance, even when he sees the same man, he thinks that this bastard is handsome, so even though it’s unpleasant, it’s not physiologically unpleasant, so it’s not like he can’t hold hands.
Why don’t you shake hands with men?
Of course, I immediately regretted it.
I didn’t have anything to say to the hero with a blank expression, so I quickly let go of his hand and turned his head.
What about this awkward atmosphere?
I just held my hand
I sighed.
Now that it’s like this, I’ll have to give her a tour of the town.
I’m not familiar with this place, but it was a beautiful town with a nice view. Wandering around will ease the awkward atmosphere as well as the hero’s mind.
Maybe..?
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Rumia was always wise.
No matter what happened during the trip, it was Rumia who always gave us advice when something happened during the fight against the Demon King’s army. While grasping her battle situation was difficult with her magic, the advice she gave always changed the battle situation.
Thinking back on it now, her party wouldn’t have gone well without Rumia.
Maybe that’s why
She was supposed to emerge from the wagon, but was caught right in by Rumia while trying to make sure nothing happened. She had something to tell me in telepathy, and when she brought up the story of the carriage, she froze on the spot.
What should she have said?
How should she have said that Rumia would have trusted me.
Looking back now, she wondered if Rumia would have been disappointed in me because she tried to gloss over it with a lie. What will she do if she disappoints her on the subject of making Rumia fall in love with me?
I secretly let out a sigh.
I looked around.
Rumia seemed to enjoy wandering her streets, to the point that it was hard to believe that she had ever spoken of such a serious thing before. Sometimes she grabbed my sleeve and tugged, expressing that she wanted to go, and when I went with her, she was very happy.
Seeing her happy face seemed to put her gloomy heart at ease again.
She was tugging at her sleeve again now, but it seemed like she had just held her hand for the first time before.
I looked down at my right hand.
I still felt the illusion that Rumia held her hand.
“Ah..”
Perhaps it was dissatisfaction that I was not following properly, but the force pulling me was stronger than before. The outward expression didn’t change much, but the pull was stronger, so I could tell what she was trying to say.
“Okay, I’ll follow you.”
“!”
It was only then that the force pulling me down weakened.
I felt strange as if I was carrying a child with me.
I followed Lumia with a look of helplessness and followed her steps.
