The Porter Is Not Interested in the Hero Party

19 – form of love (8)

“Ugh… … .ぅ… ! ah… ! ah… !”

An unknown demon officer was laughing. She seemed to think the stars in the sky were playing a joke on her. Are the deep scars and annihilated soldiers nothing more than a laughing stock to her? Perhaps the excessive pain ran through her body and drove her crazy.

I saw the corpses of demons lying on the floor. The demons were rolling on the floor with terrible faces, and the survivors crawled like worms over the corpses of their fellow tribesmen and got stuck in the spear. Whenever the soldiers found a crawling creature, they threw their spears while betting points with each other.

“It hit the head! I won!”

“Damn it! Not yet! I just need to hit it from farther away! Hurry up and find someone alive!”

Soldiers rummaged through corpses for their stakes. A demon who pretended to be dead was dragged out again and became a target. The spear that flew through the wind hit him in the neck. The demon, whose neck had been pierced, collapsed to the floor with a sound of air escaping.

“mister. Do you have business with that officer?”

The soldier, who was looking for a living demon, finally looked at the officer lying at my feet. He spewed bubbles of blood and went out of his mind, but he was clearly a living demon. She was covering the corpse of another colleague like a blanket, begging for sympathy with her fingers trembling.

I rummaged through the hem of the devil’s robe and pulled out a letter. The blood-soaked letter couldn’t be kept for long, but the contents could be read.

[I love you. Mostra.

you are my best girl

Damon]

“Damon?”

I tilted my head at the name I had heard somewhere before putting the letter roughly in my pocket. This letter was supposed to be delivered to the upper level through the warrior. When I turned my head, the soldiers were still looking at me.

They were waiting for me to say that I don’t need this half-corpse demon.

“Take me with you.”

“Ah, ah… ! Queek… !”

As if they had waited, the soldiers dragged the demon officer, Mostra. The body that had escaped from among the corpses was mangled like the lower half of a beast hunted by wild dogs, indicating that she would not live long.

“Hey! hurry! Before we die, let’s make a bet with this year!”

“You f*cking bitch! Gear up quickly!”

“Ugh… ! hee… … !”

I took my eyes off the interesting bet with the spear. Looking to the side, Ashria was grilling a small piece of meat over a bonfire and making an ecstatic expression. Beside him, Millet was roasting and eating bell peppers. She nodded and asked Ashria.

“Ashuria. Why are you in such a good mood?”

“millet. Didn’t you see the overwhelming swordsmanship that the hero showed off a while ago? How can you stay calm when you see that bravery?”

What Ashuria was talking about in a state of excitement didn’t seem to make sense to Millet either. Millet tilted her head and frowned, then said:

“….I do not know. Are you so happy about that?”

“millet. Overwhelming power is soon, overwhelming love. Only stronger power can make stronger contact, and lovers whisper love by leaving marks on each other’s bodies. You proved in today’s fight that you are the one who can leave the strongest mark on someone.”

“Is it good? I think love doesn’t need hurt. I was taught that love is mutual understanding.”

Millet seemed to have a normal way of thinking about love. I climbed the stairs without bothering to interrupt their conversation. A warrior was sitting in the castle. It was in a precarious position, as if someone pushed his back, and he could plummet straight down, but the warrior was not even vigilant and was looking at the bare floor.

I spoke from behind the warrior.

“What are you doing? Dangerous. Warrior.”

The hero turned his head, checked my face, and smiled. The blue eyes of the star-lit warrior’s face shone like jewels.

“Someone said, ‘It’s Mr. It’s not dangerous. I am a warrior.”

“What are you worried about? A traitor has been caught, and an evil demon officer has been defeated. Although the villagers trapped in the magic stones did not return, they were one step closer to victory.”

“that’s right. It’s a pleasure.”

The warrior’s voice did not sound happy. The hero answered in a tone as if reading an obituary, then bowed his head again. I sat next to the warrior. My legs couldn’t touch the floor, and when I lowered my head, black darkness filled my vision like a swamp.

“Then why are you depressed?”

“I was just thinking about the traitors. those traitors. Earl of Maindall and Baron Luke. And, the soldiers who followed those people and tried to betray us.”

“Warrior. You shouldn’t think deeply about traitors. Even if you try to understand those greedy, irrational things, you only build up anger. There are so many people in the world who commit absurd things for absurd reasons. It’s like a landslide. A landslide that has no choice but to know in advance and eliminate the cause.”

The warrior stared blankly at me. The hero’s eyes looked clearer than usual. He hugged his knees uncharacteristically and buried his head between his legs.

“Still, I don’t understand. You swore to fight for your country. Why can he abandon that oath and all the people who stand by him? I believed that people were all fighting with one heart. I believed that he would help me as much as I fulfilled my mission as a warrior.”

“Warrior. At such times, I don’t think about those traitors. You have to think about yourself, warrior. The more you spend your mind on such trivial things, the more you will eat them. Never mind that stuff, I say it every morning when I look in the mirror. ‘It’s fine. I sent them to hell again. I can do it.’”

I said that and patted the warrior on the back. Compared to his strong swordsmanship and decisive attitude, the hero’s back was weak. As I brushed my back, the hero looked at me startled, then pushed my hand away casually and said,

“Oh, ok, it’s okay.”

Looking at the strange distance between them, it seemed that they were from aristocrats. Nobles were different from soldiers, so even when consoling them, they used to exchange noble words. It seemed inevitable that they would feel reluctance to direct skinship.

“I can’t fully understand the disappointment of the traitors. I can’t tell you how to get rid of it completely. All I can say is, fill your ego and push it away. There is no such thing as perfect mutual understanding. Just by looking at us, the hero is the one who will save the world, and I am not a porter.”

Did I misunderstand when I said ‘just a porter’? The warrior replied in a puzzled voice.

“Your uncle is not just a porter. he’s our colleague I always depend on you. mister. Really.”

I laughed at the hero’s remarks. It was because the hero’s misunderstanding felt interesting. Seeing my giggling, the warrior put on a slightly relieved expression, as if he knew he had misunderstood. I looked at the horizon.

A pale yellow band was in the shape of a rainbow in the sky, and a white semicircle was rising from the boundary. The operation, which began late in the evening, was coming to an end in the morning.

“What I want to say is that the position is different. Perhaps the hero will not be able to fully understand me, and I will not be able to fully understand the hero. But as the warrior said, we are also allies. Even though we can’t understand each other, they are colleagues we can trust and rely on. warrior. If your heart hurts over something you don’t understand, just say it like you do now. How is it? Even if no solution came out, did you feel a little better?”

I spread my hands like a magician. I smiled and waited for the hero’s response, but the hero was staring at me with a blank expression. The hero looked at me for a long time and blinked, then finally smiled and said.

“That is also true. Thank you. mister.”

The warrior’s morale was the most important factor in our adventure. Even if the hero regained his energy, I didn’t want to let him hang around like he is now.

I got up and said.

“I know what to do when I’m depressed. Didn’t you decide to stop by the city and take a break for a while? Would you like to go with me?”

“…Ah, um, it’s okay.”

Seeing the warrior’s disapproval, I knew what he was thinking. The hero seemed to think that I would take him to seduce a widow or go to a brothel. I shook my head and said.

“Warrior. no matter how much i Would you like to take the hero to such a place? I will go to the bathroom. Let’s go and cool off, and together… … .”

“Yes? Oh no! I do not like it!”

The tone of the warrior’s voice suddenly rose and moved further away from me. Wouldn’t he have hated it less than this if he had said that he had seduced a widow? Ashuria and Millet, who were chatting below, poked their heads out after seeing the hero’s fierce rejection.

I shook my hand at Ashuria’s stinging gaze and said.

“I didn’t do anything.”

The warrior also said with a blushing face.

“Oh that… . do not misunderstand. Shit, it’s not that I don’t like it. It’s because I like to take a bath alone. My, my room had a great view from the bathroom.”

“…was there a private bathroom?”

“….. My father made it because he is good with his hands.”

It seemed that it was still too early for the young master of the aristocratic family.