ALL NOVEL chapter 2
2 – Captain Killer
The next morning,
A white world spread out beyond the window, probably because it snowed a lot during the night.
Kir, the former assassination leader of the Demon King’s Army, was knocking on the door of the other world due to hypothermia last night.
“If you want to search next time, go somewhere else. It’s unlucky to do that in front of someone else’s house.”
“……”
“There’s soup in that pot… uh… that’s it.”
I told you to eat the soup still boiling in the fireplace,
On behalf of her, who didn’t seem to wake up even if she listened to me, she personally poured her soup into a bowl and handed it to me.
“Will I feed you too? Won’t you wake up soon?”
Only then did she slowly raise her body, accept the soup I gave her, and stare blankly without eating it…
She then noticed the bandage wrapped around her ankle and was stroking it with her hand.
“When you go out later, wash your blanket and leave. How many days have you not washed? Nastily…”
“……”
I sighed while looking at the dirty duvet from sleeping in my bed…
Kir is suddenly shedding tears like chicken droppings.
“Hey!! What are you crying about when the assassination leader of the demon king army under the world said that?”
As a former head of the assassination team, the days when he was commanding hundreds of elite assassins under his command were gone, and seeing him crying miserably, wondering what he was sad about, made me feel uneasy.
Because it was like looking at me…
Where are the days when I was active as a warrior and was respected by everyone on the continent?
Now I’m stuck in the mountains and I’m living my life hunting..
Are you saying this is a waste?
I went out to hunt with an uncomfortable feeling as if I had made a cry for no reason, and until I came out, Kirer squatted on the bed and cried.
When I came back to the cabin, Kir, who should have been in bed, was cleaning here and there with a mop.
I didn’t know when I washed my body, and unlike in the morning, I was wiping the furniture in a tidy look.
Looking at the blankets spread out in front of the fireplace, it looks like they were really washed like I said this morning…
The bandage, which seemed brand new after wandering around for a while, quickly turned black.
“Hey! Go and lie down in bed.”
I shot at her with her annoyed tone, and she flinched at the moment, then hesitated and continued cleaning her.
“Can’t you hear me? Go and lie down in bed You can’t use your ankle forever.”
“…..”
“Looks like it’s been quite a while since I was hurt. Why are you walking around like that?”
“…..”
“You don’t want to talk to me? Then, get out of this house.”
“Don’t… I’ll tell you!”
Kir, who was holding his mop in his hand and kept his mouth shut, hurriedly responded to the words of sending him out,
Kir’s charismatic face, which had never been seen before, had a pitiful face like a puppy kicked out on a rainy day.
“…. The demon army was defeated… Chased by the allied forces, and even the gate back to the demon realm was closed… And a big battle broke out… That’s the injury I received…”
“When was that?”
“Two years ago…”
“So you’ve been like that for two years?”
“…..”
I couldn’t imagine what had happened in the past two years, not receiving proper treatment and living like a beggar.
I haven’t been comfortable with myself, so should I say that I feel a bit of the same?
“Please don’t kick me out.”
“What?? Why me?”
“I’ll do everything you ask me to do, whether it’s cleaning, washing, or cooking. So… let me stay here for a while.”
“That. Why should I?”
“….. I’ll do anything you ask me to do… I see…”
Kirr couldn’t bear to finish his words and fell to the floor.
“Stupidly…”
Stupidly…
Thinking about washing with cold water in this cold weather just because you said it was dirty in the morning…
As soon as I entered her cabin, I saw that she had washed and the kettle I used to heat the water was still there, so I could intuit that she did it with cold water.
Her high fever was the result.
I think sleeping in bed today is wrong…
But I couldn’t sleep on the sofa…
I ended up sitting in a chair with my eyes wide open because I had to nurse by my side because of Kir, who was sleeping in agony all night long.
Her fever slowly subsided by the time the sun came up in the morning, and as the soup for breakfast boiled, she got out of bed and looked around.
“From now on, there is a large pot here, so heat up the water and wash it. Don’t fall down again.”
“Because of me… Can’t… Sleep…?”
“You should be able to sleep with quite a few grunts.”
“…… I’m sorry.”
Today, we put her rice on a tray instead of at the table, and we ate together on her bed.
I boiled the soup thin because I was worried that I couldn’t digest it because of the fever… But I’m only eating meat.
“I don’t know if you can’t digest it after that.”
“It’s okay! I think it would be nice to die like this!”
“If you are going to die, would you die outside my house? Is it difficult to dig a grave?”
I didn’t care about my venomous remarks, and when I saw Kir, who was putting a lot of meat on both cheeks as if he had heard a rumor, he opened his mouth again.
“How long have you been eating meat now?”
“Two years.”
“You haven’t eaten meat in 2 years?”
“Yes!”
Then…
You can only eat like that..
“Then what about your men? Wasn’t the size of the Assassins too large even when the Demon King’s army was defeated?”
“I don’t know. Everyone is scattered.”
“Wow… after becoming a leader… aren’t you worried about your subordinates?”
“Then what about you, the warrior? Weren’t you married to a saint? I thought I would be living in a luxurious mansion by now…”
“Damn… f*ck…”
Damn it… Kiryeon…
I told you the story of the saintess.
“Haa… Haa.. Why… Haa.. That… Story… Haa… Hah…”
My symptoms of anxiety started again, starting with shortness of breath, cold sweat and trembling hands and feet,
Kir looked at me with a surprised face at my sudden action, not knowing what to do.
“Why… Why? Warrior? Are you sick?”
When anxiety symptoms started like this, there was a medicine I often took,
I immediately took out the liquor I had hidden in the kitchen and started drinking it like water.
How much did you drink…
As my drunkenness began to rise, my anxiety symptoms gradually began to improve, and I was able to breathe a little easier.
“Ha … Ha … You … One … More … More … The story … If you take it out …
“Uh… Uh… Mi… Sorry…”
Her face looked like she had a lot to ask me,
I didn’t dare to take it out in response to my reaction to talking while exhaling.
After that…
Kir never talked about the saintess and warrior party, and she focused on recovery and physical therapy as much as possible and practiced hard to walk like before.
I don’t know why, either.
She was nursing by her side, helping her with physical therapy so that she could recover quickly, and even making food that was good for her energy to help her recover.
Just like my heart, when the cold winter passed and the warm spring day approached,
An unwelcome guest came to the cabin where Kir and I live.
“Carlos, I will make the soup for you tonight!”
“Didn’t you tell me not to make soup?”
“Hey… Why?”
“Do you think I ate the poison you put in your soup the other day and wandered between death and death for days?”
“Don’t worry. I will take care of you this time.”
“The bottom line is that you want to inject poison again?”
“hehehe…”
That enemy b*tch…
I haven’t recovered enough to perform the fancy assassination technique like before, but
Even though I can move around enough to do my daily life, I don’t leave my house.
“If your leg is healed, why don’t you leave my house now?”
“My leg still hurts~”
“The girl who said her legs hurt almost flew over this steep mountain when she went to the market yesterday?”
“Did you see it?”
“Can’t you see it flying in front of me like that?”
Kir is smiling shyly in the kitchen about what he did well..
“Actually, I ran like that yesterday and my legs hurt again~”
“This time just die!”
“What’s wrong~ Carlos~ But since I am here, you don’t have to do housework like laundry, dishes, or cleaning~”
To be honest, there were a lot of things that were comfortable with Kir.
When I went hunting, it was good to take care of all the housework and keep it clean, and it was nice to have a hot dish served when I came home.
And…
Best of all…
I used to have anxiety symptoms once or twice a day, but now it’s reduced to once a week.
The intensity also weakened, so I didn’t feel breathlessness to the point of suffocation like I did back then.
“You eat that much.”
“What? Now, is that very rude to the lady?”
“Ooh~ That lady smells like toilet X…”
“Kalos!!!!”
Embarrassed by my teasing, Kirr, flushed to the point of blush, threw the hard bread away in anger,
I easily grabbed the bread and took a bite.
“Okay. Okay. I won’t talk about that. So, straighten up that impression.”
The best assassination leader of the Demon King’s Army is glaring at you with an angry face, so even I, a warrior, are terrified.
“If you’re going to keep teasing me like that, make me another bathroom~”
“How much does it cost to build your bathroom…”
“What is money?”
“Wait a minute…”
I sat across from Kir and stopped eating, then quietly went over to the window and looked out.
Just in time for that moment, the knights came up the hill.
“Why? Carlos?”
“Haa.. It bothers me..”
“Why? What is it?”
“I just… I think something bothered me.”
“Troublesome…?”
Kir seems to be asking what’s going on next to me, but I just stared at the knight’s crest outside the window and didn’t explain anything.