Abandoned Retired Warrior Decides to Return to Farming

“By the way, what’s your name?”

Just before going down the mountain, Lucia asked me that.

There was no need to hide it, so I gladly answered.

“Cael. It’s Kael.”

Hearing my words, she muttered several times with her mouth, and then nodded her head.

“Yeah, I remembered. Then Kael. See you later.”

Then he gently waved his hand to me.

Like a child on a picnic, she went back down the way she had come up with light steps.

While holding the paper with the strategy and script written on it in my hand.

“······ha.”

Seeing her back as she quickly descends, I let out with a sigh the worries I had been holding back.

maybe it’ll be ok There were no suspicious movements in Lucia’s tone and gestures. If you could fight me again, I wouldn’t betray the strategy I told you.

When I thought about it, a smirk came out of my mouth without realizing it.

“My co-workers betrayed me, but now I’m sitting there trusting my enemy, the Demon King.”

The irony was absurd and irritating.

I can’t. When I go back to the village, I need to get some anger out with Serin.

I remembered the operations I had delivered to Lucia before returning to the village.

I wasn’t a strategist, and I wasn’t sure because it was a strategy that I came up with on the spot.

The resurrection of the demon king was completely unexpected. There was also the sudden reunion, which was embarrassing, but it wasn’t all that bad.

Before I left the Empire, there were no loyal or talented people left with Aurelia.

She would have put under those who only suited her taste, and would have rejected those who were smarter or superior than her.

Just like when you betray me.

It must be to make herself stand out more than anyone else, and to prevent a possible coup.

Currently, there is no country on the continent that is richer and more powerful than the Empire, and within such an Empire, she holds the most power.

Therefore, hiring such a talent would not have been a big problem for her.

So far, that is.

At this point in time when Lucia is resurrected, everything that Aurelia has built up may be shaken.

No matter how gorgeous a tower is, if its interior is rotten and damaged, it will collapse even with a slight impact.

“Maybe it was a gift from the goddess who took pity on me.”

I muttered as I looked in the direction Lucia had gone down.

No matter which one of them wins, I have nothing to lose. On the contrary, it would be nice to see that the power of both sides would be weakened.

Thinking so, I followed her down,

“yes? Wait a minute.”

But why did it go down to the village? To get to the Empire, you have to go the other way.

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“Heh heh. This is where Cael lives.”

Lucia looked around the village and exclaimed.

Shortly after descending the mountain, she was wandering the streets, sightseeing the town.

A water wheel that spins to the sound of the brook. A unique smell of a mixture of soil and fertilizer. The quiet atmosphere of the countryside was so strange to her, who had only lived in the castle.

“How does that work?”

I peek on top of the spinning water wheel and look at it,

“Ugh. It tastes awful.”

jumped and ate the unripe fruit from the tree,

“Ahaha. He looks so weird!”

He also approached and observed the animals in the kennel.

The final destination of her wandering around for such a long time was a pure white cloud.

The clear blue sky that I couldn’t see when I was staying at the Demon King. She was looking up with her mouth wide open.

“······ah. Isn’t this the time?”

After a while, she stretched out and looked around again.

“Are you sure it was next door?”

Then, on the way back, he ran into a man standing in the distance.

The residents were preparing to evacuate, so most of them never met her, but there was only one person who stayed in the village and waited.

No, it’s actually an elf.

“Ahhh······.”

And it was Serin, who was an elf who was protecting the village under Kael’s orders, who first noticed the opponent’s existence.

When she saw Lucia, she covered her mouth in disbelief.

A shriek escaped between her fingers, which drew Lucia’s attention to her.

“yes? Who are you?”

But he didn’t even know who Serin was.

That day, Serin, who was behind Cael, also encountered the Demon King, but only Cael remained in Lucia’s memory.

So, even when she saw Serine, her reaction was blunt.

“Why don’t you say anything? you ask Who are you?”

But at Lucia’s words, Serin just trembled and cried.

“Uh, why? Why must it have been sealed here… for sure?”

“Something is annoying.”

When she ignored her words, Lucia’s stomach churned.

‘Shall we hit one?’

However, he soon recalled what Cael had said and loosened his clenched fists.

“Looking at you here, are you the owner of this human village? Because Kael told me not to kill the humans here.”

Saying so, she calmed her anger.

Serin, on the other hand, stepped back little by little with eyes terrified.

She had long since lost her self-esteem and confidence in her abilities.

It was Cael who caught the Demon King, and that it wasn’t a hero’s party, I’ve been deeply aware over the past month.

Fortunately, Lucia wasn’t interested in Serin, who slowly opened up the distance.

You have to run away like this and ask Kael for help. For her ignorant of circumstances, that was the only way to live,

“But are you deaf?”

After discovering the long ears of the elf race, Lucia narrowed her eyes.

And the distance that I thought was wide enough narrowed at once.

“Damn!”

Serin stumbled on a stone beak with a shriek and fell backwards.

But even seeing her like that, Lucia did not feel any sympathy.

Eyes still unimpressed. However, the atmosphere was completely different from before.

“I don’t know why, but it’s been annoying since before. you.”

“Ah, ah, ah, ah!”

“This is definitely a human village, isn’t it?”

After looking around once, Lucia continued.

“Because you are not a resident of this town, and you are not human. Even if I kill you, Kael won’t say anything.”

Having said that, she put her hand on Serin’s crown.

It was empty-handed, but Serin knew instinctively.

That blade was sharper and sharper than any sword he had ever seen.

It will be cut in half or, in the worst case, burst without a trace.

In a situation where just imagining it gave me nausea, Serin could not breathe properly and was sobbing.

‘I don’t like it. I don’t want to die. Ka, Kael! Where is Cael now?’

Unable to even think of confronting the opponent in front of her, she sobbed and looked for Kaelman.

Fortunately, the eyes met with Cael, who was chasing Lucia.

But not only that, Cael watched the situation with interest, eating nearby fruits to see if he was willing to help.

‘You’re too much!’

Serene was indignant, but she couldn’t afford it any longer.

Lucia’s fingertips came closer and touched her forehead.

It was like a kind of sentence with death imminent.

“Come on, wait a minute. Wait!”

At that moment, Serin shouted desperately.

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kael, obviously, that name came out of her mouth a while ago. Many times too!

Leaning on a glimmer of hope, she barely opened her trembling lips.

“Hey, didn’t you say Ka, Kael?”

“·················ogue.”

Lucia looked down at her with a twisted posture and without a word.

Normally, he would have killed him right away without listening to him, but when Cael’s name appeared, even Lucia had no choice but to hesitate.

“I, I know Kael. Perhaps if you kill me, Kael will be sad…”

Is it correct to say this? Serin was not confident as she spoke.

However, the previous words the Demon King had said seemed to be favorable to Kael. I don’t know why.

So, if he proves his relationship with Kael, he might save him. Serin leaned on that possibility and begged for her life.

“Boo, you should definitely ask Cael, and he’ll find out. yes it will certainly. Ehehe.”

“······okay?”

Serin shed a smile mixed with aegyo, forgetting her face.

Thanks to this, Lucia’s life was also cut short.

But her hand still rested on Serin’s forehead.

“Hey, there… So, first of all, if you lower this hand a little…”

“Then I will ask. What’s your relationship with Kael?”

“yes?”

Serin’s speechless mouth twitched.

“I, I am…”

Lucia’s finger tapped Serin’s forehead and pressed.

Tock, tock, tock tock.

Serin’s heart was beating as fast as it was getting faster and faster.

However, in my mind, the relationship with him was not easily arranged.

‘Well, what should I say?’

colleague? If I said this, my head would be broken first by Kael, not the Demon King.

So, should it be considered a public good? But what if you take it lightly and just kill it?

However, if you lied that it was a close relationship, and even confirm it with Kael, you don’t know what will happen to you.

“Why is there no answer? Are you lying too?”

Lucia’s impatient fingers began to press Serine’s forehead.

Serin’s tears gushed out as much as the pain digging deeper and deeper.

You must be able to prove your relationship with Kael, and there must be no lies. I have to appeal to him not to look ridiculous and to be what he needs-

woo

Just thinking about that, Serin couldn’t stand the piercing pain she felt on her forehead and shouted out.

“Pe, it’s a pet!”

A sublime voice that cannot be found even in the form of a princess and a hero of a country.

A word from Serin, the owner of that voice, echoed throughout the village.

“Puhaha.”

Seeing this, Serin burst into tears as Cael grabbed her stomach and smiled.