Chapter 15 – I Got a Girlfriend.
-Oops
I woke up with a feeling of vomiting.
I quickly ran to the bathroom and vomited.
I stayed there for a while, gagging endlessly.
It becomes covered with tears and mucus.
My head is dizzy.
Usually, when I vomit after drinking too much alcohol, the dizziness caused by alcohol often subsides, but this was not the case.
The spirit of alcohol was as it was, and the feeling of nausea tormented me as well.
It seems to calm down a little, so when I get up, the feeling of vomiting comes back.
After wrestling like that, I seem to have calmed down a bit, so I go out of the bathroom.
I looked around.
My room is still messy.
Drinking glasses and bottles lying around.
Russ on my bed.
It was a mess.
How much did you drink?
I don’t even remember.
Alcohol eats alcohol, why am I like this when I don’t normally drink like this
I wonder if I ate a lot without remorse.
The world spins around
-Widely
I grabbed the wall and supported myself.
First of all, I need to rest a little longer.
Oh, one more time before that.
****
I expected it, but it was a long-lasting hangover.
Even when I went to the bathroom frequently, I felt sick to my stomach.
I had a cold sweat and a headache.
It was a hangover that made me want to die dozens of times.
What the heck did you eat yesterday, or is it because you ate too much?
It was to the point where Russ, who wanted to drink for some reason, began to resent it.
Russ also worked hard all morning and came to his senses around lunchtime.
I offered to make food to relieve the hangover, but I refused because I didn’t think I would be able to eat any food anyway.
It was so painful and difficult that I forced myself to sleep and endured it.
I kept begging for a long night’s sleep, but I didn’t want this type of sleep.
How much more did you sleep
I slept for a long time, but my body suffered, so I felt more tired.
My whole body cracked.
When I opened my eyes, the outside was colored orange.
It was evening.
Russ hadn’t gone home.
Is it over now?
Lily noona, Bien, and even Russ.
The promise is over and now is my free time?
My throat was so dry.
However, if I drink water, I have a strange anxiety that I will vomit again.
At first, he only wet his lips.
The last holiday is coming to an end, and I still have work to do.
I need to get a commission for tomorrow.
If you want to spend the little time left for me, go out quickly
I have to accept the request and go home
The damn body was tired and didn’t want to move.
He sighed.
I have to do it though.
I simply washed up in the bathroom, changed my clothes, and headed to the requesting office.
****
“Ah, you are here. Starches.”
A small, bespectacled male guide greeted me.
I smiled.
“How are you doing?”
“What I do is sitting down. Mr. Stitches… Are you okay?”
He looked at me with a concerned expression.
“What are you talking about… ?”
“Your face doesn’t look good… I’m worried.”
At his words, I laughed.
It was understandable that he was worried.
Guides face death easily.
If the party enters the dungeon, there is a chance they will not be able to return.
In that case, the guide will hear about the death of the party through the words ‘Request Failed’.
No matter how businesslike they try to treat each other, they constantly see each other’s faces and talk, and even if they don’t want to know, they learn the other person’s information and build intimacy, and through death they learn the cruelty of the dungeon.
This guide also sees my expression and is worried that I might die.
“It’s because of the hangover. Don’t worry.”
He asked with a relaxed expression.
“What, did you have a drink because you were worried?”
“It’s not like that. Well, that’s okay, can you show me some requests?”
“Oh, wait.”
It’s not without concerns, but it’s an uncomfortable topic to talk about.
At my words, the receptionist rummaged through the papers.
“C-class party ‘Barefoot’, reliability… 6th grade. Now, these are the possible requests.”
He hands over the list of requests.
Naturally, I took the list and scanned it with my eyes.
He pondered for a while and returned the documents to him.
“Um… I’ll have to do this. Tiwit scorpion venom. We will bring this.”
The Tiwit Scorpion is a type of giant scorpion that appears in the dungeon.
It is a dangerous poison that can lead to death if not treated properly when stung by the tail.
It is also used as a medicinal herb and has many uses.
The amount to be brought was roughly… The amount that would come out after catching three.
It’s a monster I’m not used to yet, but I thought it would be okay when I thought about the sum of the party.
The receptionist hesitates to receive the documents.
He seemed to have something to say.
“That… Starchis-san. I may be a bit presumptuous, but…”
“…Yes?”
“How about taking a slightly safer request? Ah! Of course, other things are also dangerous, but the tiwit scorpion is a little…”
His cautious expression contained deep concern and a warm heart.
“I’ve been collecting them before, are you worried?”
“That… Ah, no, then. Actually, what do I know? Starchis would know better.”
Then, hastily, he withdrew his advice and dipped his quill in ink.
But I had a quick change of heart as well.
There is nothing wrong with trusting the guide’s intuition.
“No. I do as you say. Next to that, I’ll take the Kingboar’s Horn. Was it six horns?”
My expression brightens up my face.
After he does, he sweeps his chest.
“Yes, six. There was a part that I was burdened to say because the pay was going down, but I feel very comfortable when I listened to my request.”
“Is there something that bothers you?”
When I asked, he looked at my expression carefully and nodded.
“Yes. There is. Anyway, I wish everyone in the party good luck.”
****
It was night when I returned home.
After eating dinner, I should take a good rest until lunch when I meet the party members the next day.
The scars of the hangover were still there.
-Kikkik
…?
I feel the presence of people in the room I opened the door and entered.
It was the sound of someone cooking.
Soon there was the sound of someone running from the kitchen.
He opens the door and welcomes me in.
“… Russ?”
“Oh, Chis, are you here?”
“Why… Why are you here?”
Didn’t you go home?
What about my free time?
“Ah, since you were suffering from a hangover, I tried to make you something to eat. Are you okay now?”
Looking at her blankly for a while, I silently nodded her head.
She also nodded brightly and led me into the room.
I…I want to rest.
.
.
It wasn’t until midnight, Russ went back.
****
Lily couldn’t sleep well for four days.
It was because her quarrels that she had with her Starchis all day plagued her.
‘It was a perfect day.’
She thought
‘I had fun smelling his body, seeing his boyfriend’s look, eating delicious food and playing.’
At her final parting, Starchis asked Lily not to see her until later.
Lily, thinking of course she was just whining, shot him in the hopes of correcting him.
But he was different from usual.
Unlike usual, he didn’t lose to Lily, but he snarled in a low voice and pressed Lily.
He followed her words one by one and drove them against the wall.
But even as Lily was driven against her wall, her heart was pounding because of her love for him.
Even though I knew that this was not the case, my heart raced wildly.
And when she thought she couldn’t run faster, Stachis asked.
-‘Lily sister, do you like me?’
“Big..!”
Lily said her heart tightened just thinking about that time.
She grabbed her heart and wrote.
Do you like it
Why do you ask something so obvious?
Likes. Love. Can’t be without him
The world shines beautifully just by his existence.
At that moment, she wanted to reply that she liked it.
But the moment she heard his sigh, she couldn’t.
If you think about it, yes.
I had never seen him so angry in my entire life.
I wonder if I can confess in a perfect situation, but should I confess in this situation?
Then what if you reject your heart?
He vividly imagined her leaving her.
So, for the first time, she came up with her perfect lie.
The easily nervous Lily disappeared, and neither her voice nor her face revealed the truth.
She replied resolutely.
She doesn’t like him
And her painful memories haunted her for days.
She shook her head to clear her thoughts.
Lily was going to the meeting point faster than usual.
Lily decided to let her tail down this time.
When it comes to the time they break up and meet, she says she will never back down, but in the end she is Lily, the position she is.
There’s no way she can win him over as a favorite of hers if he comes from his heart.
In fact, she knew Lily too.
True to his words, she says that only lovers do to play so long.
She can’t have him yet so she needs to back off a bit.
Lily reconciles with Starchis, and as she grows closer, maybe things will get better for her.
There is also anxiety.
‘Wouldn’t that be the only thing that asked me to break up early?’
She should find out without asking.
If only she did it to me after asking…
And if Vienne and Russ knew this, they would find a weakness.
When I went to her meeting point, Bien had arrived earlier than her.
“… Bien, how are you?”
Vienne frowns when she sees Lily.
“Hey! Lily you! How hard you made Starchis! You were so tired when you were with me!”
“Oh… It’s not because of me, isn’t Bien making it too hard for him…?”
And Lily narrows her eyes because of the unpleasant thing she forgot.
“… You must have stayed up all night with the wish ticket. It’s natural that starchis are difficult.”
“If it wasn’t for you, we could have eaten together until dinner on the second day!”
“Oh, on the second day, we didn’t eat together until dinner? That… That’s too bad.”
Lily smiles weakly.
Just as the little fight between Bienne and Lily was accelerating, Russ approached.
“Russ, how are you… ?”
“… ?”
Lily and Vien hardened when they saw Russ.
Russ came over with her relaxed expression and stood with her left hand on her chin.
There was a ring on the index finger of her left hand.
As she brags, Russ taps her lips with her index finger.
“How are you, Lily?”
As the two of them froze, keeping an eye on her fingers, Russ made an exaggerated gesture.
“What do you look at… Ah..! This one! This is a friendship ring.”
Russ laughs.
Lily felt her jealousy flare up.
‘I fought Starchis… Do you come wearing a ring?’
Russ noticed Lily’s serious expression on her and smiled.
Everything is unexpected
This time it was Russ who was convinced it was her own victory her.
“Ah, Lily, you matched Stachis’ boyfriend look, right?”
Lily flinches and moves, and Vienne looks at them alternately.
Bien said she couldn’t keep up with the situation at all.
So Russ matched her friendship ring with her, and Lily bought her boyfriend’s look with her?
She sees herself
‘They left something special, but what am I…’
Bien clenched her fists. I wondered if I would have left the most special memories this time, but when I opened the lid, I was most pathetic.
“Maybe you crossed the line a bit… I think. She wondered why someone who should n’t be a lover was curious about his lover look her?”
Russ didn’t even glance at Vienne, who was overcome with her sense of defeat her.
Bien is no match. She was concentrating on Lily.
“Oh, why don’t you buy me clothes… ! So… Russ also got a ring-“
“I’m a friendship ring.”
Her expression hardened coldly, said Russ.
“You can do it with friends. Don’t be fooled, Lily.”
Russ slowly walked up to Lily and she whispered.
“Treaty. Do you have to keep it?”
****
Starchis arrive and they enter the dungeon.
After hunting and hunting for a long time, only the last King Bore was left.
It wasn’t even a difficult request, so it was progressing a bit effortlessly.
“Let’s chase it quickly!!”
Starches shouts.
The last King Boar was running away like an arrow with its large size.
“Lily sister!! Walk slowly!!”
“Ha ha… Ha… It’s hard being covered by the trees right now! I need to hold on a little longer!”
At her words her, Starchis put strength on his legs to catch Kingbore first, but unexpectedly, the speed didn’t come out.
I still felt strange about this request.
I didn’t seem to have the same strength as before, and I got tired quickly.
Starchis couldn’t help but look at Russ.
Russ met her eyes with Starchis and nodded her head, then sped her off and chased King Boar first.
Soon after, a bang and the sound of a shield being struck are heard.
Kkuik!! The sound of the howling monster also follows.
I ran to the place where there was a little more sound, and suddenly a road came out in the forest.
All the strong grass was lying there and no trees were growing.
At the end of the road were Russ and King Boar.
Kingboar got up again to avoid Russ, and this time ran to Stachis.
‘It was a mistake.’
Starchis said to Kingboar in his heart her.
A King Boar that charges in a straight line with its head down.
He squeezed the tonfa of his right hand.
“Slow!!”
Lily’s sister’s spell explodes.
It was noticeably slower, but it was so fast that it was hard to ignore even now.
But she had more than enough for him.
Just in time, he swung his tonfa.
And that moment.
Uh?
Starchis’s eyes blinked once. Dark and bright
His whole body He loses strength once and then returns.
And the weapon he was wielding slipped out of his hand.
It was a moment.
Bang!!!
It was not his weapon his and the head of the kingboar that made the sound,
It was the head of King Boar and the body of Starchis.
It flies backwards and Starchis falls.
“…Uh…?”
“Cheese!!!”
“Aww!! Starches!!”
The moment everyone thought it was over, Starchis was killed.
Bien ran into the dust fumes his body his created.
Kingboar looked around for a place to escape after being hit by Starchis.
– Shook!
However, Kingboar loses his balance and falls down.
The front legs of the monster fly in the sky.
Lily gritted her teeth and attacked him.
‘Dare… Dare!!!’
“I know you can’t die in peace.”
Lily said as she approached the mob that was lying down and whining.
It felt like something had snapped from my head.
And before she could inflict further torture, Russ came and cut Kingvore’s throat.
With her vainly unobjectionable to her own wrath her, Lily rolled her red eyes and glared at her Russ.
Russ wasn’t interested at all.
“Russ? What are you doing—”
Russ pushed Lily past.
Without even thinking about retrieving the knife lodged in the King Boar’s neck, she went to the place where Starchis had fallen with her wide eyes.
“Hey Chis!! Are you okay?”
Lily was taken aback by her actions.
Thinking that the situation was over and that she was safe with nothing to threaten Stachis, she ran towards him, clutching her sobbing chest.
There were quite a few thin trees he knocked down.
However, Starchis, her party her, was better than expected.
It wasn’t that he had fainted or had any major injuries.
Lily let out her first sigh of relief.
Instead, Starchis sat there silently with both hands on his head, looking very remorseful.
Originally, he was supposed to reassure them that he was okay.
At that look
No one could speak to him except Vien, who was praying and treating minor wounds.
Everyone didn’t know what to say.
It was because it was the first time Starchis looked like that.
****
What was it before…?
I kept thinking back and forth.
My eyes go dark and my body loses strength.
It was as if the process of fainting was vividly felt through the body.
The scene after that continued to come to mind.
The feeling of a weapon slipping out of your hand.
A dull pain and my flying body.
The eyes of the party members who looked at me in surprise.
Lily noona and Bien, who had to break away from the battle line and stand in front of the monsters.
I clenched my hands.
Missed the weapon.
I am not the first farmer to fight,
I, who was trying to make a living with weapons, lost my weapons.
“Because everyone can make a mistake like that… ?”
Even though Bien comforted her by her side of her, she did not feel at ease.
The opponent was the King Boar, so it ended like this.
It was a monster that I had already experienced several times, so it was this much.
What if… I hadn’t listened to the guide yesterday?
What if it was a fight with a Tiwit scorpion?
Tiwit scorpion, unlike kingboar, is warlike.
Instead of running away, it rushes to kill the enemy standing in front of it.
What if I missed my weapon when fighting it?
I closed my eyes tightly.
The party must have been in crisis because of me.
On this floor where one mistake kills,
Can I unburden my heart with the excuse that it can happen to everyone?
The fact that the one standing in front of me was not a Tiwit scorpion but a King Boar
It’s all down to luck and the help of the guide.
Once again I clenched my hands.
It shouldn’t be like this.
Our party had now arrived at the entrance of the dungeon.
Now, if you bring only the horn of the King Boar, you can rest for another 5 days.
But I continued to struggle.
Why did I have to experience this situation?
Because I’m out of power
Why did I lose my strength
Because I couldn’t take care of my body.
Why couldn’t I take care of my body?
That…
I turned my head and looked at the party members.
“Should I meet for two days this week? Didn’t I see you only one day last week?”
“How can you be so bold? You know why, Lily!”
“I think it would be good to meet a lot of me who had a little more influence on this quest.”
Haha…
I couldn’t help but burst into laughter.
Are you still doing this at this moment?
I shouldn’t be like this… I started to get a little angry.
I’m so worried for you, why don’t you know that I’m having a hard time.
I took a deep breath and exhaled.
I tried to hold back my anger over and over again.
But it didn’t work out.
Widely. And the pulse is released.
Thinking about it became stupid.
Okay!!
That’s all I had to do!!
I do not know. How will your brother’s advice help you?
But I know that this situation should not continue.
It was entirely my fault for missing the weapon, but they obviously had a share in overexerting my body.
Look at the topic of conversation.
It is also a topic that seems to happen.
And honestly, you have to do them again next week?
Oh, no more.
I don’t know how long I can lie without getting caught,
I will do it now
You won’t feel guilty.
You’re going to pout? Do it yourself. I’ll die anyway
Little by little I understood what his older brother said to leave it alone if he was upset.
“Is it Chi? What do you think about it.”
“Are you meeting me for two days this week?”
“Ah… That, Starchis. I’m sorry before. I won’t insist on meeting you for a long time, so will you meet me for two days?”
They all lean in together and ask me.
“Ah, everyone. I actually have something to say.”
I had a bright smile.
At my words, the three opened their eyes wide,
“I don’t think we’ll be able to meet even one day this week.”
All three make the same frown.
Why are you making such faces?
It’s not like you like me or flirt.
What is it like not to meet?
“Chiss, I think I should explain it straight.”
“You! Say now I’ll remember! You’re not sick! I checked!”
“Starches!! Maybe it’s because of me? Don’t be angry, I was wrong!”
Vienne and Russ look at Lily’s sister.
“What else did you do?”
“Mr. Lily, what have you done?”
I waved my hand.
“No, no, it’s not because of Lily.”
I took a deep breath and said.
With the determination to never get caught in a lie, as naturally as possible.
Trust your brother
It will be solved
“I have a girlfriend.”
