Chapter 31 – Cheers to Your Eyes
To begin with, the land south of the fortress became completely flat in the aftermath of the two Hexa Spells colliding.
The baron, who charged terribly with the tsunami wrapped around him, was torn apart and died, and even his body could not be found because he was caught up in the storm.
It was an empty ending for one of the two pillars that had supported the kingdom’s magic world for decades.
I joined Dorothea, who had taken refuge in a place where the aftermath of magic could not reach, and headed to the official residence in the center of the fortress where the other soldiers had flocked earlier.
“Shall we send a pursuer right now?”
“No, that’s okay. For now, let’s be content with capturing the Hamburg Fortress. We’re pretty tired too.”
Saying that, Dorothea, who roughly waved her hand and kicked Eva out of the office, glared at me standing idly next to her, then let out a deep sigh.
“Haa… I’m really dumbfounded. I never thought I’d be on the same side as the guy who risked his life half a year ago.”
I shrugged and smirked.
“If you want to argue, ask the demon lord. I was captured by you demon lord.”
“Shut up! That’s what I mean!”
Dorothea, who glared at me with her axe eyes wide open, crossed his arms and said,
“First of all, I need to tell you how you became the Demon King.”
“That’s not difficult.”
Following her, I sat on the sofa in her office, and it took me about an hour to tell Dorothea a summary of what had happened.
It’s not something to hide anyway, and what can I do if I can alleviate her hostile attitude towards me even a little.
When the two of them met as enemies, they were busy fighting, but there was no way to know each other’s inner circumstances, so after hearing all the reasons for my betrayal, Dorothea spat out a word with a puzzled expression.
“Isn’t the brave boy a complete idiot?”
Cool, you say it well.
I smiled and nodded in satisfaction at the reaction I expected.
“I think so.”
“How can you be blinded by women and neglect the magician, the backbone of the party?”
As the Four Heavenly Kings belonging to the Demon King’s Army, which always lacks talent, it seems that Dorothea did not understand the hero’s trolling.
“If you were my subordinate, the kingdom would have been destroyed long ago and remained.”
“Hmm? You think I’m so overrated?”
This is a bit unexpected
Didn’t you hate me?
Then Dorothea nodded her head with a look that she did not like, and added her afterword.
“Yeah, your ability is good. Well, it’s because Inseong cut all the points, so it’s a bad thing.”
Then it is.
Perhaps it was because she gave away her soul every time we met, but Dorothea still didn’t look at me well.
I smiled kindly and passed that gaze, then extended her right hand to Dorothea first.
“Anyway, now that I’ve become the Demon King’s army, it’s just a nuisance to the Demon King if we make things that will make each other blush. So let’s make peace with each other.”
Then Dorothea, as if overhearing something absurd, pointed his finger alternately at herself and at me.
“Me? With you?”
“Why? Hate it?”
“Isn’t that obvious?”
Dorothea said so and buried his body in his chair.
“I’ll repay what I owe you with my life this time in a different way, so don’t even think about getting too friendly with me. Honestly, you’re uncomfortable too, right?”
She said that and she stared at me with her red eyes, which made her uncomfortable because she seemed to be trying to look inside her.
In fact, I didn’t even think that I wanted to be close to her.
Anyway, since I signed the contract with the Demon King, I thought that I had to do well, so it was just annoying to increase my interpersonal relationship here.
However, if you blatantly refuse to make friends like this, it is rather a person who comes.
As I was thinking about what to do, I remembered the advice I heard while talking to Eva yesterday.
“Dorotea, you like to drink.”
“…How did you know that?”
“I was talking to Eva yesterday and I heard about what gift is the best way to win the commander-in-chief’s favor.”
“That bitch is real.”
I’m sorry for Eva, but I crossed her arms and asked whether Dorothea would change her teeth or not.
“Why don’t you bet on a drink with me? If you win, we’ll pretend we didn’t see each other, and if I win, we’ll try to reconcile.”
Then Dorothea asked with her dark eyes.
“Why should I make such a bet?”
It still doesn’t come off easily.
But in this case, there is the easiest way.
I asked with a grin.
“Are you scared?”
A person with strong self-esteem cannot stand it if it is touched.
And, as expected, simple Dorothea reacted furiously, raising a vein on her forehead and raising her middle finger.
“Fuck you! Fuck you! Tell the kids below and tell them to bring all the drinks in the warehouse!”
Great. Caught
***
Of course, Dorothea didn’t really start drinking right away, probably because she knew how to distinguish between public and private.
First of all, after figuring out the supplies remaining in the fortress and distributing food, everyone gathered together and ate as they said when they marched out.
It was because everyone skipped dinner to eat after the fort was occupied.
Perhaps because she allowed her to plunder, the demon king’s soldiers were flirting with each other wearing gold items they liked.
One of the things they wanted, the human women, were already gone, but they seemed to think that it was enough because they made money.
There was enough food and drink left.
In the meantime, the soldiers of the Demon King’s Army ate dinner laughing and chatting, probably because the amount of food was strictly limited due to the small amount of supplies.
When their stomachs were full and their minds were at ease, they started drinking, perhaps to forget the day’s worries.
Well, it’s not something I can’t understand.
Just a few hours ago, the colleagues who laughed and chatted together died.
The death of a close friend was a difficult thing for anyone to accept.
Even now, the burning of the corpses in one place is in full swing.
Apart from human corpses, it seems that the bones of the soldiers of the Demon King’s Army are going to be collected and sent to their families back home.
I took off my mask out of sight of the soldiers, ate a simple meal, and headed to Dorothea’s room as promised.
Inside, the liquor table was already set up, and it looked as if all the expensive alcohol in the storage room had been stolen.
As we entered the room and our eyes met, Dorothea smiled and said,
“You didn’t run away?”
“Because there is no reason to run away.”
After I said that and closed the door to her, she poured amber-colored wine into her glass that was placed in front of her.
“Do you think you can beat a witch with alcohol even though you’re barely human?”
I shrugged and sat down.
“Long and short is the way to know.”
Do not underestimate the liver that has been trained since childhood with the drunkard master.
From now on, what happens here is a confrontation between me and her pride.
Well, I’m not the type to lose weight anywhere when it comes to drinking, and I didn’t think I would lose to Dorothea, who was much smaller than me.
She handed me a full glass of wine.
Judging by the sweet scent wafting from the glass, it looked like a type of liqueur.
After me and her met each other’s eyes, we emptied our first glass neatly.
Gulp- gulp- gulp-
Not a single drop of alcohol is allowed to be left in the glass.
It was like a declaration of defeat.
After one glass was empty, the next one was filled without delay.
Simple snacks were placed on the table, but no one picked them up first.
They raised their glasses full of wine again and bumped each other’s glasses.
Klopp-klopp-klopp-
In an instant, one 600mL bottle is all gone, and another bottle is opened.
This time it’s tequila.
And after emptying the tequila bottle, I drank wine.
As the number of empty bottles on the table increased one by one, it gradually became a scene where people were not drinking alcohol, but alcohol was drinking people.
I slowly felt my mind getting hazy.
It’s a tingly feeling that you can only feel when you’re drunk.
No matter how high the volume of alcohol is, it seems that there is no business in front of bombshell liquor without countermeasures.
As hard as I was, Dorothea’s complexion didn’t look very normal.
Before we knew it, we were laughing and chatting with faces red like apples.
At first, it was a drinking party that started because of a bet on pride, but at some point, it didn’t matter.
The stiff atmosphere was relieved, and the remnants remaining in each other melted.
We toasted as we stared into each other’s eyes with hazy eyes.
And when you come to your senses-
Both were lying face to face on the bed.
What?
