The World After Leaving the Hero Party

7 – reunited – 2

Her voice was quite hoarse. Obviously, that was not a voice that the hero who defeated the demon lord would utter.

I turned my body while staring at her with her shoulders drooping, staring only at the tips of her boots.

another angle, another angle.

The sound of Claire’s boots echoed in the hallway. How long have you been ignoring it?

Even when she arrived in front of my room, she just followed me without saying a word.

Then I opened the door and asked her who was just hesitant.

“If you have something to say, say it.”

There was no answer. It would be a waste of time to spend more time with her looking for something to talk about with her lips moving.

So I left her and went inside.

How long has it been like that?

-smart.

ignored Right now, checking the blueprint for the future is more important than him.

– Smart smart smart.

Achievement of becoming an S-class adventurer along with the role of the princess’ teacher.

And I have to… Oh. I haven’t even hit the casino jackpot 3 times yet. I have to do this, and also get the Achievement of the Girl’s Song.

-Smart smart smart smart smart smart smart smart smart smart smart smart smart smart smart smart smart smart smart smart.

-Tongue, Hyeonu! Hyeonuyah… Wait a minute… It’s okay if it’s just for a moment. Wait a minute! huh? me, talk to me please… please please. please. please. please. please. please. please. please. please.”

-Kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung.

– I have something to tell you. I have something I must tell you. please. please please It’s okay even for a moment. huh? huh? Hyunwoo… Hyunwoo… Just one face. huh? It’s okay once. Just once… please. Please… Jebaal…

It sounded like madness, but it didn’t really give me goosebumps. Right now, it’s more about doing my job than worrying about him.

I continued my thoughts, putting off the sounds from outside the room and the pleas full of despair, and when I was somewhat organized, I opened the door.

“My…”

Unable to get out of the pit of despair, Claire hung her head and stared blankly into the air, unaware that I had opened the door.

How beaten is that?

Her white hands were stained red and the door was slightly cracked.

They said it was Junchi even if it rotted.

After all, a warrior is a warrior.

“Hyun, Hyeonu…”

Claire smiled with happiness when I opened the door, as if the door to salvation had been opened. It’s a smile I haven’t seen in a long time.

“Hyunwoo… black… over there… me. me…”

“Don’t sit there, come in. Everyone is watching.”

I pointed down the hallway. There, several ministers and maids were looking at us with faces full of bewilderment.

However, Claire didn’t care about that. No, to be precise, there didn’t seem to be anything to worry about.

Of course, so did I.

“Have you been watching?”

It’s actually a good spectacle. It wouldn’t be easy to see a warrior who claimed to have defeated the demon king and saved the world be ruined like this.

But those who knew what I meant ran away in a hurry.

“What are you doing? Come in.”

However, Claire, who was sitting on her knees with her knees bent, was unable to get up. He just sat there blankly and looked up at me.

“Damn, my legs are loose…”

really varied I picked her up, and Claire looked at me with a tear-stained face, then bowed her head again and sobbed.

“Thank you… Thank you…”

“Have something like this.”

He sat her down on a chair. While she sat down weakly, her shoulders drooping and her head bowed while muttering something, the lady-in-waiting in the room prepared tea with a surprised expression.

As the two cups of tea were placed on the table, Claire looked back and forth between the cups and me.

what are you looking at?

Is it because you can have tea with me?

There was a faint but sure light in her eyes.

Hope.

that I will come back to them.

A very vain hope.

“…thank you…”

When the lady-in-waiting left, Claire gently held the teacup with both hands. The white steam created by the warmth touched her tear-stained face.

Claire always drank tea like that. I enjoyed the scent, then the warmth, and finally the taste.

It was always like that when I drank the tea I rode on the road.

“…haaa…”

A deep sigh escaped his dry lips. I also took a sip of tea.

“…tasty…”

“I guess so.”

“…It’s my favorite taste. It’s similar to when you burned it…”

It was the tea that the lady-in-waiting gave me, but she was drinking the past, not the tea, perhaps because she was drinking tea with me.

it’s the past

I’m sure it is.

“Because I remember all of your tastes. I worked really hard.”

“You did. You… you always did…”

“Of course, the effort didn’t come back. Well, it’s okay. I didn’t expect that.”

She flinched at my words and shook her shoulders.

As if to prove that the past between me and the warrior party wasn’t just sweet, the aftertaste of the tea was bitter enough to make my tongue itch.

Enjoying the bitter taste, I took another sip and put the teacup down.

“Hey, hey… Hyeonu.”

Hyun Woo.

Hyunwoo Yoon.

Until the awkwardness between us after Chapter 5, Claire called me Hyeonu more often than Sage.

When Chapter 2 was over, it relieved her of pressure and relieved her of stress.

The name Hyeonu gave a little something special between me and Claire.

The fact that Claire now said ‘Hyeonu’ instead of ‘Sage’ may have been to reveal and maintain even a little bit of intimacy with me.

“…I saw…I wanted to see it. I, really. Really… You, sniffle. Drinking… tea with you reminds me of the old days…”

I don’t know what it is because there are so many things going on.

As I looked, Claire continued her gibberish.

“Ah, I saw earlier that it’s summer… A summer festival is about to be held over there.”

“Ah. That?”

“Yeah. Do you remember? It was like that back then. When we participated in the summer festival. We went around a lot…”

In order to conquer the summer festival, I had to go around all the shops and get a medal after playing all the minigames there.

And we were able to achieve that feat easily because our hands and feet matched well in our own way.

As I recalled that time, Claire was looking at me.

No, I was looking at the past with me.

“Really… it was fun. Yeah, was it? Huh? We had a really good time. I was full and I told him to stop, but Hyunwoo grabbed my arm and dragged me… Yeah, but you know what? Sa, actually, it was annoying and not like that. . It’s just, I just like that you take me around.”

“Hmm. I did.”

Claire’s words were incoherent. She looked pretty urgent, to the point where she had to spit it out without thinking.

“Actually, you know. I… I said I was chosen as a hero, but I didn’t really realize it until then.”

I remember, and I know.

Claire, a girl from a rural village, became a hero because she was chosen as a hero by drawing a warrior’s sword.

Etiquette, swordsmanship, and magic.

And how terrible and difficult it is to fight against monsters.

The fate of an innocent girl in a rural village who knew nothing had changed at that time.

She became a warrior, and set out on a journey aware of her mission as a warrior.

However, even during the journey to defeat the Demon King, Claire’s heart was still a timid girl from the countryside.

I tried hard to hide it.

Although it was hidden as a duty as a warrior.

“But. That’s when I found out. People… people complimented me a lot and cheered me on.”

Well, when I went around with Claire, people who recognized her did a lot of service.

Thanks to that, I was able to achieve the achievement easier than I thought.

“I knew then. Ah. I am a warrior. My existence gives these people courage. But…”

Gulping, swallowing heavily, Claire stared blankly at me.

Her eyes were shaking so much that it seemed like they were the eyes of a drunken person rather than the eyes of a hero who defeated the demon lord.

“To me… it was you… uh. it was you. Only… only you gave me courage. You made me go, you made me fight… uh, now I know that. …Am I such a fool? You, I knew you were having a hard time, but I just turned away and pretended not to know, hoping that the party would be maintained. A real fool… Stupid… Such a me… Yo, even a warrior no.”

Claire smiled happily as she remembered the past and grabbed her arm with a trembling hand. Scratch the area covered by the cloth.

North north north north north north.

Scratching the fabric to tear, Claire muttered blankly.

without knowing what I’m trying to say It just kept pouring out what was inside.

“You always worked hard for us, you were always enthusiastic, but we didn’t even know that. Black… I was nothing. In the end, I was an idiot who didn’t know what I could or should do. Because of you, I couldn’t fulfill my mission as a warrior. An idiot, an idiot who didn’t know that even though it was there…”

With her head bowed down, Claire continued talking incessantly, as if muttering.

My sun-like eyes swayed here and there, losing focus, and my hands lost the rope that my laughter created and squeezed the air.

Her shoulders drooped, and her legs trembled as they touched the table on which the teacup was placed.

Tears were dripping, soiling the floor.

Without even looking at me properly, she shed tears, barely holding onto the hem of my clothes, and let out a wet voice like a broken radio.

“I’m sorry… I’m sorry… I’m sorry… I’m sorry. I’m sorry… I’m sorry… I…”

she trembled Like someone who was addicted to drugs and then released.

As if I heard the sentence that there is no more medicine to give you now.

– Knock!

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Just as I was about to speak, the door suddenly opened. When Claire and I looked at each other, there was a cute girl who looked good in a red dress.

Princess Lucille Ermeyer was standing.

She must have been running pretty fast, gasping for breath, then looked back and forth between me and Claire.

“Princess? What’s up?”

“Haa… haa… Me, that’s it, Master.”

At the word teacher, Claire was startled and stared at Lucille and me alternately. In her eyes was confusion and disbelief.

Why did you come anyway?

No, apart from that, I didn’t teach anything in particular, but to call me a teacher right away.

I felt pretty good about the future.

The future is bright!!

If you do well, won’t you get this achievement in a month or two?!

“…Master. I, ah, I want to learn more about what you taught me earlier. I… can you give me some time, if you don’t mind?”

“Ah. Yes. Well. That’s right. Hey. Claire. Anyway, let’s talk about it later. I have work to do and I have to go out. Oh. And that arm treatment… Huh? It just went well.”

A priestess stood outside the door, perhaps following the princess.

If it’s a priest for the princess, he’s stronger than me, so he should be able to heal properly.

So, after calling her and asking for treatment, he approached the princess.

Looking closer, I could tell for sure.

Her self-esteem is so low that she doesn’t come out of her room easily, so it was quite a stretch for her to come all the way here herself.

I lightly held Lucille, who was gasping for breath and shaking her legs like a newborn elk.

“By the way, Princess. Why are you here?”

“That’s it…”

She glanced at Claire, who was looking this way without even blinking.

“I’ll leave at once.”

Claire stared blankly at this side with her tear-stained face.

And Lucille glancing at her.

I don’t know what the relationship between the two is, but I thought there was no need to be in the same place.

I took Lucille outside, and then she spoke softly enough for only me to hear.

“I know the relationship between the hero and the master… hey. That’s why the hero was going to harm the master or go, take him by force…”

“hahaha. That’s not going to happen.”

Then you cross the line and become enemies with me.

After hearing my reply, Lucille smiled like a bashish, peach-colored camellia flower.

Then, as if she realized what she had done, the blue-eyed girl collapsed. He lifted her up, who was breathing heavily. Why is it that I’m not in a good condition? It’s holding me tight.

“I’m sorry. I, uh, forced myself in… there… rudely…”

“it’s okay.”

I escorted her to the room, and Lucille leaned against me as if she felt more comfortable.

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Just as people in relationships that have now ended lean on me when they were having a hard time in the past.