Chapter 109 – Spring Is Coming
Time passed quickly and it was already February.
Sooner or later, the long-awaited spring will finally come.
Over the course of about a year and a half, my belly fat, which had gradually accumulated, disappeared like a lie in just one month due to Master’s thorough diet management and rigorous training.
Just like a Hollywood actor whose body completely changes before and after deposit.
In the middle of the battlefield, I was called an idiot, and I went back to my early 20s, and I looked in the mirror in the morning and got drunk on my own good looks.
‘As expected, it’s cool.’
This is living probabilities.
Even though he has turned 28, he still has the look of a bad boy, his sideburns, and his shiny blonde hair after he shaved his head and grew it again.
There was not much depth when I was young, but as I got older, it gradually increased.
‘Do I not look like a Hollywood actor? That… What was the name of the cast? What’s the star?’
The memory of the previous life was now completely blurred, but it was still a time when I was frowning in order to recall it somehow.
“He’s playing.”
Dorothea, who had come to brush her teeth, said this while looking at me standing in front of the mirror in her panties.
“Get out of the way because I need to use the sink.”
She slapped her on my ass with the palm of her hand and motioned for me to fall behind her.
“Yep.”
I politely handed over the sink to Dorothea, put a towel over her shoulder, and came out of the bathroom.
“Ugh, it’s cold.”
I was wearing boxer shorts, so even though the heating was on, my body was shaking.
It was annoying to go up to the second floor where my room was, so I put on a bathrobe that was hanging by the bathroom and headed to the kitchen.
Then Vanessa, who was baking toast in the kitchen, asked while holding a spatula.
“Oh, welcome. There are two types of jam, strawberry and marmalade. Which one are you going to eat?”
“I’m marmalade.”
“For side dishes, there are bacon, sausage, and fried eggs. What do you like?”
“Three pieces of bacon are fried to a crisp, 1 piece of sausage is enough, and 2 pieces of fried sunny side up.”
“I thought you would say that, so I prepared it in advance.”
Vanessa shrugged her shoulders and placed the two freshly-finished fries neatly next to the toast.
Since she had already been living in the same house for over a month, Vanessa knew all about my tastes.
Because of the neatly tied up ponytail and the ribbon that tied it, the more I see it, the more I look like a newly married wife.
I took her plate as she handed it to me and set it down on her table.
A richly set table from the morning.
As I grabbed my fork and knife to eat, Vanessa, who was seated across the table from her, looked at me with a calyx in her hand under her chin.
That gaze was a bit burdensome, but I took a bite of the well-cooked sausage without being conscious as much as possible.
Podeudeuk!
As her teeth dug in, juicy juices burst out.
The unique, juicy yet wild smoked flavor came up strongly through the nasal passages.
The taste was very special, perhaps because it was a top-notch sausage made with only lean meat and fat without mixing wheat flour.
Of course, it was also because the cook’s cooking skill was at a high level.
“How are you? How are you?”
“No, it’s delicious.”
“Whoops, I put my love for you in it.”
“…”
How did it happen?
It’s definitely Vanessa who said she had no feelings for me at first.
In fact, after the first relationship, I didn’t ask for any responsibility, I just came to me whenever I was lonely at night and mixed flesh.
Now that we live together, the number of times was quite frequent, and sometimes Dorothea joined us to enjoy 3p.
But at some point, when she came to her senses, it became very natural for her to prepare her breakfast, and even help her wake up in the morning.
The act of affection escalated more and more, such as putting a robe on me when I went outside, or if something smeared on my cheek while eating, I took it off and put it in my mouth.
Just like newlyweds.
The biggest problem here is that I didn’t particularly hate it.
I’m not married yet, but isn’t it okay to start a family with such a devoted woman… To the extent that I felt that.
If it feels like a frog is slowly boiled to death in hot water, is it because of your mood?
It felt like we had to end this sweet life together as soon as possible.
Unless you want to have a wedding with Vanessa like this.
“It’s been in the mood to kick things off since morning, but it’s just that.”
At that time, reinforcements arrived to save the awkward atmosphere.
“Oh, welcome.”
So said Vanessa, who had heard Dorothea’s sarcasm, and she hurriedly got up from her seat and brought her portion of the meal she had prepared in advance.
“Hey, put some ketchup on me.”
“Yes.”
As requested by Dorothea, I held the ketchup bottle upside down next to her and brushed it off on the plate.
Only then did Dorothea start eating as if she was satisfied.
She was subtly her childish taste, and she loved bright red ketchup just like her own hair.
As the three of them sat side by side at the table, the topic of work came naturally.
“Last night, while communicating with the Demon King, I heard that he would soon declare war on the Oz side.”
“Because the days are going to get warmer.”
The operation begins in the spring.
Then this comfortable daily life will be over.
I was afraid of it, but also expected it at the same time.
It’s because it’s a job to cut out the upper part of this country that is rotten as much as it is.
“Come to think of it, the warrior’s arms, you must be keeping them well, right?”
“Sure.”
I sneakily lifted my bathrobe and showed her a necklace made of red jewels.
A jewel that adorned the warrior’s circlet.
The official name is Unlimited Faster.
This is because it is a secret treasure of the Oz royal family, which is said to gift the wearer with infinite mana.
So this jewel was no different from a dream item for wizards.
Because it is a cheat item that allows you to use high-ranking magic without limiting mana.
Unlike Excalibur, which can only be used by warriors, the circlet and shield among the warrior’s three gods could be used by anyone other than demons.
It is said that warriors in the past lent their shields to warriors and their circlets to wizards, but Artorias, who had gone through the prison, took it all by himself.
Anyway, since Unlimited Power itself is a beautiful ruby, Dorothea quietly asked, holding a fork in her mouth.
“Can’t I try it on too?”
“I don’t care, are you okay?”
“Witch is a job title, not a specific race.”
“That’s right.”
Persuaded by her words, I obediently removed the ruby necklace from her neck.
“Oh yea!”
Dorothea happily reached out to touch the necklace.
Dismissed!
“Ah, take it!”
But the sparks from Ruby’s necklace forced her to immediately remove her hand.
“What! This! Discriminate against people! What!”
“Isn’t it because your heart is evil like a demon?”
“You’re talking about your in-laws!”
I picked up the ruby necklace that had fallen on the floor again while teasing Dorothea.
I said it like a joke, but it was a hypothesis with some basis.
Unlike normal wizards (wizards) who deal with elemental magic, witches (witches) deal with curses and astrology in addition.
Since it was originally conceived from the demons, it was not strange that it would cause rejection if it had some kind of effect on Dorothea’s mana.
I hung the Unlimited Power around my neck again and spoke to Vanessa and Dorothea.
“There really isn’t much left now, so prepare your mind in advance. We have to do our best so that the follow-up units can safely enter the city.”
“I know.”
Vanessa, who exuded the atmosphere of a newly married woman until just now, was back as a knight.
It was the same for Dorothea, who was just playing tricks.
“You know. My magic is strongest when there is nothing to protect.”
Her specialty is annihilation.
A sorcery bomber that wipes out all enemies using super-heated flame magic.
Before her, there was even her antagonist Baron Louis of Dorothea, but now there was no one in her capital who could stop her.
“Don’t run wild inside the palace. If the infrastructure is broken, it will take a lot of money to restore it after it is occupied.”
“I know that much too?!”
A year older, Dorothea was still hot-tempered.
As a friend, he listens well to me to a certain extent, but I needed someone to control me when I was running out of control by myself.
“Vanessa, you know when you’re in trouble, right?”
As I swiped her neck slice, Vanessa smiled and nodded her head.
“Don’t worry. I’ll knock you out in one shot.”
“Come on! Come out! Bastards!”
After such a hearty breakfast time, I headed to the Emerald Tower to receive training from Master today.
***
Mid-February.
The cold season when everything freezes over, and around the time when a warm wind begins to blow little by little in Oz, the capital city, the Demon King finally gave us an order.
‘Assassinate King Oscar and join the advancing Demon King’s army.’
It was, after all, the prelude to a one-week war.
