My childhood friend the hero was genuinely angry

5 – The Hero’s Childhood Friend (5)

I have a childhood friend named Chloe. There was one childhood friend who was a chosen girl who was appointed a hero since she was a child, and who had a great talent for anything.

But compared to that childhood friend, I was a really normal guy. Just an ordinary commoner man in the village with no talents or possessions, that was me.

The two are so compared to each other that they are childhood friends who grew up in the same village.

And by the time I got to know that, a feeling of inferiority slowly came to me.

Chloe is chosen as her hero and is going well, but I am far less than her. Of course, I also wanted to be successful like her.

But I wasn’t her genius like she was. All I can do is catch up with her by trying with her normal talent, so I’ve been working hard to live her life since then.

I studied like crazy. No matter what, I learned a lot. I wanted to find something talented.

I would have been devastated if I hadn’t found my talent here, but fortunately I found out that I have magical talent. After realizing that fact, I desperately sharpened and polished it.

It all started with the desperate struggle of an ordinary boy who wanted to escape his feelings of inferiority, but whatever the reason, my efforts paid off.

I lived learning magic hard, and when I got older and my feelings of inferiority gradually cooled down, fortunately I was able to become a pretty outstanding wizard.

Also, I have become a person who knows a little more than others. Now that I have learned many things from her in order to keep up with her, I can now confidently say that I have enough knowledge to give the right answers in various situations.

“Oops…”

But even I couldn’t find a way to do it at this moment.

Princess of Alprada Kingdom, Lucy, sitting quietly in front of me right now.

She was quietly sitting in her chair and looking at her book. No, she was paying attention to me while pretending to read a book.

To be honest, it was very burdensome for me to be honest.

‘As expected, the king contrived, right?’

First of all, she herself said that the reason she came here was because she didn’t have a room.

Because there was a festival here, the inn room was full, but they said they had no choice but to stay with me because all the rooms were full.

But, of course, that was a really ridiculous excuse. It wasn’t me who couldn’t see through that much.

Perhaps the purpose of the princess is to stay with me until she makes these absurd excuses. It’s so obvious.

Then who really did this? It was certain that the princess did not come on her own.

After thinking about him for a bit, I was able to answer that he was the king of Alprada Kingdom. No matter how much I thought about it, no one else could have planned something like this. It was clear that this situation had been concocted by him.

‘What the hell is the king thinking?

But from here, another question, then why the hell did the king send me? I couldn’t give him an answer.

What would he gain by sending the princess, Lucy, to me? Now that I am a sinner expelled from the empire, why am I sending her princess? The more she thinks about it, the more her head hurts.

‘Stand… Can’t it be…?’

As I continued to search for an answer, there was a hypothesis that passed through my head. The hypothesis was that all this might be a trap.

Me and Lucy, now sharing a room like this, if I touch Lucy here, wouldn’t she use that as an excuse to kick me out?

If all of this is the king’s plan and I’m playing around…? I thought so.

“I guess not…”

My head got hot for a while, but it didn’t seem like it.

No matter how you think about it, the king of Alprada Kingdom is not the kind of person who would do such a thing. He was a fairly sympathetic person.

Much less, he was not the kind of person who would use his own daughter, the princess, to do such a thing. She was a father who cared very much for his daughter. I don’t think it would be a strategy to sell traps using Lucy.

‘Should I go out for a while?’

In the end, there was nothing that could be answered, but one thing was certain: there was nothing good to see if we were messing around like this.

I had to somehow ventilate this uncomfortable atmosphere where there was no conversation.

That’s why I got out of bed. Then I put on my clothes again and got ready to go out.

“Where are you going?”

Then the princess glanced at me and asked.

The princess who closed her book and asked while tilting her head, I answered her question.

“I want to go for a walk…”

“I see. May I accompany you?”

“Well, that’s good.”

After a little conversation like that, the princess also packed her outerwear and got ready to go out.

As expected, it seemed that she intended to follow. Well, that much was to be expected.

Well, I don’t think it’s too bad to accompany you. I readily agreed to her proposal, and the two of us took a walk in the middle of the night.

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‘I did as my father said, but…’

Princess Lucy, she was now accompanied by Xerath at the command of her own father, the King of her Al Prada Kingdom.

Lucy was carrying out her father’s words to somehow look good to Xerath.

The King of Alprada Kingdom told Lucy that the warrior’s wizard, a man named Xerath, was a very important man. That’s why I said that the mission I entrusted to Lucy was a really important one.

‘Hmm… Is he such a great man?’

But Lucy didn’t really feel that way. The man now in front of her in a modest wizard’s suit, Xerath of the warrior party, to be honest, she couldn’t understand why he was so great.

No matter how you look at it, he was just an ordinary guy with a slightly handsome appearance. It didn’t seem like anything special.

‘Everyone says it’s great…’

Of course, when he was active as a warrior party, he didn’t know that he saved his kingdom. She knows what happened too.

It was clear that he was the unmistakable hero of Alprada Kingdom. Because most people in the kingdom knew about it.

However, the kingdom’s princess Lucy couldn’t be sure because she hadn’t seen it with her own eyes. At the time, she was studying abroad in the Empire, so she couldn’t see her.

‘Are there many good wizards out there?’

That’s why, to be honest, I kept questioning whether Xerath was such a great person. Stories are bound to be exaggerated after all. I wonder if that is the case with Xerath.

Also, there are a lot of really great wizards in the empire. Compared to them, would a man named Xerath really excel? I thought.

Of course, even being a wizard of that level is a valuable talent for a small kingdom like Al Prada, but I wonder if he’s making such a fuss.

‘I couldn’t just go, even if I saw my father’s happy face…’

I have such doubts, but I thought that I should follow my father for now.

She knows what a superior king her own father is. He is never a man who would do stupid things. As a wise king of a country, he was a man with very deep thoughts.

For now, I was thinking of observing Xerath from the side. I just wanted to walk beside him and watch him.

But then, Xerath suddenly stopped on the road.

“Huh…? Why are you stopping? Is there anything?”

“I have a question for you, princess. Have you heard of a drought recently?”

Lucy tilted her head and asked Xerath, and he answered while looking at the rice field next to him.

Looking at the fields where crops weren’t growing very well, which seemed to be about to dry up, he looked a bit serious.

“Ah… Yes. It hasn’t rained in the past few days, so the crops are drying up…”

Certainly, his expression was very precise. There was a very severe drought this year.

At this rate, we might end up having the worst harvest in the history of the kingdom.

This is very unfortunate, but it was unavoidable. Just because there was a drought, there was nothing a mere human could do.

“I see. Then can I help you?”

“Yes…?”

…? But what did he hear now?

Now this man is trying to solve a problem that mere humans can’t solve.

The princess was taken aback by those words and had no choice but to ask again, and Xerath answered.

“Can I help you?”

“Hmm… Yes. Of course, I’d appreciate it if you could solve it…”

“Okay. Then we’ll fix it.”

If you solve the drought, it is clear that it is very grateful.

Just resolving this drought will be enough to feed the farmers in the kingdom. It was what the royal family of the kingdom wished for.

From the kingdom’s point of view, the solution to the drought was very urgent. But, can you solve this? I couldn’t help but wonder.

‘What the hell is going to solve it?’

How does Xerath, the wizard of the warrior party, try to solve this problem?

You mean to make it rain? I thought so, but Lucy couldn’t help but shake her head.

Anyway, that’s really impossible. No amount of magic could create such a supernatural phenomenon. No matter how great a wizard he is, he won’t be able to make the impossible happen.

That’s common sense. I thought.

“Uh…?”

Dude. Duduk. Pop. Pop.

However, Lucy’s common sense thoughts were soon to be shattered. Soon after, it was Xerath who memorized the spell.

And then, as if to ridicule Lucy’s common sense, dark clouds gathered from the sky, and it suddenly began to rain in the kingdom.

I couldn’t believe it even after seeing it. As Lucy studied abroad in the Empire, he has learned a little about magic.

“Nonsense…”

She didn’t know how absurd this was. A wizard who can make it rain is unheard of.

But now this mage has made it a reality. Just one sorcerer.

Is this the wizard of the warrior party? I really can’t believe it when I see it. She seemed to understand why her father coveted her so much.

“…”

When she was just staring at Xerath with her wide eyes.

Xerath glanced at her and began to take off her outerwear to see her.

“Ah… Come to think of it, I made the princess fall in the rain. I’m sorry. Please use this at least.”

And wrapped it around the princess’s head.

Lucy, who was so shocked that she didn’t even know she was getting wet, finally came to her senses.

“… Ah… Thank you… Xerath…”

She thanked Xerath and accepted her robe.

In her hair, she felt the warmth of Xerath from the robe she had been wearing until now.

Is it because of the cold rain? Or is it for some other reason? For some reason, it was Princess Lucy who noticed that her own face was slightly red as she stared at her Xeras.