Only the Party Members Returned, Not the Hero

4. Only party members returned (4)

4.

I decided to find out the whole story.

Even though our Expedition of Heroes was made with bad luck, so we can’t expect a bond or trust above the average.

It had to be possible to make fundamental guesses about how each other would behave in the future.

Simply put, it means that at least the members of the expedition corps should act predictably.

It also meant that I would never be in a situation where I was treated like an idiot until yesterday, but now I’m suddenly treated well, as if I had manic depression as a group.

I can’t take a single step forward in a situation where I might turn around again and hit the back of my head at a decisive moment.

Consistent hatred, in itself, is credible.

Inconsistent love makes it impossible to trust the person itself.

The reason is simple.

Now we are sitting on a chair in the prayer room in the basement of the warrior’s mansion.

I interrogated Tania, who came to see me at night, and found out where the other two women were hiding, and had the three women sit side by side in front of me to understand the whole story.

Elish, Tania, EL.

The three women sat side by side in front of me and looked at me.

With faith, anxiety, nervousness, etc. In the eyes.

“I will be honest with you first.”

I opened my mouth first.

“Until now, right up to yesterday, I knew that they treated me as an unreliable person, and I was willing to accept it. No, in the first place, we’ve been doing well so far. We talked a little harshly with each other, didn’t show any consideration, and alienated me three-on-one, and things went well.”

“… ….”

“… ….”

“… ….”

Three different breathing sounds.

“I’m fine. My mental strength is fine, and even though I live like that, I don’t feel sad or sad about anything. I used to live without a single close person, but now I don’t resent the world because of it. So you don’t have to be overly friendly with me like you are now.”

“… ….”

“… ….”

“… ….”

Three different breathing sounds.

“Oh no, why are you doing this all of a sudden? What did i do wrong I don’t know what made my ears uncomfortable so far, so now I’m going to make my heart uncomfortable. They’re not children, and even if bullying is bullying, shouldn’t we do our job? I can’t do it like this If your attitude changes quickly and inconsistently like this, what can you trust and leave my back? I’m not asking you to remain with a snobbish, trashy, high-nosed attitude. What did I do that was difficult? Do what you do with your filthy personality!”

“Mi, sorry….”

“Sorry, Ellen.”

“… Sorry.”

Three different apples.

He even lowered his head as if he had no face, so now he can only see the top of his head instead of the three eyes. Ah, EL’s palanquin is reversed. I didn’t know that.

“Elish.”

“Tell me….”

“Until yesterday, they told me to prepare for a slap in the face if I missed even one level. I’m not going to the wizard’s class today, am I? Come on, hit me.”

I turned my head and put one cheek in front of Elish. Whispering with both eyes closed.

“Ah, it’s Chira. Yes?”

“My, how dare I….”

You dare? Driving me crazy. I laughed and straightened my head and turned to the side.

“Hey, Tania.”

“Yes.”

“A person like me who wanders around without urgency doesn’t deserve to be a hero. I applied for a vanguard knight in order to quickly switch to the position of a hero because I would search before going to the Devil’s Tower.”

“… ….”

Tania opened her eyes wide as if I didn’t know if I knew that, and then she lowered her head and wriggled her fingers.

When I was in the warrior school, I always took the top spot, so I must have said this to my friend out of frustration.

Unluckily, I was just walking down the side hallway, but I wasn’t really that angry, wondering if anyone could say such a thing.

Before I entered the warrior academy, I heard worse things, but what?

However, Tania, as if that was not the case, took out her own sword from her side with her procrastinating fingers and laid it horizontally on her round table.

“… I won’t say she didn’t. It was an embarrassing guest in the past, I’m really sorry. You can hit me if you want. I won’t fight back or defend….”

“… ….”

I looked at Tania with her expressionless expression. If I say that, what more can I say? I can’t really beat it.

“No, saintess. He says he’ll hit me, but I don’t have to stop him….”

The saintess EL, who should have slammed me as a thug while running rampant on the street, asking how she could use violence between colleagues, was quiet.

She turned her head to that side, and EL looked at Tania with the expression that she had to pay for her, and then met her eyes.

“… ….”

“… ….”

“Does the saintess look like she did something well? They say I’m Satan. She says that Satan is a fan of Tania, shouldn’t you stop him?”

“I think I did the right thing… ?”

“Hey, am I really hitting you? You come here hit?”

I raised Tania’s sword from her sheath and prepared to strike her in the head.

Whoosh, whoosh, the scabbard that moves up and down her violently is soft enough to touch Tania’s head before being lifted up again.

One pair of eyes are tightly closed, and the other two eyes move swiftly up and down along the scabbard.

It looked like the eyes of a cat chasing a swinging toy. The problem is, nobody really thinks to stop it.

“… ….”

Tak, I put the sword back on the round table and sat down.

Actually, finding out the whole story of the case- I tried to wrap it up in a grandiose sentence, but there was only one case that came to my mind right now.

Regression.

With what?

With the pocket watch my father gave me.

Until daylight, I had never thought that my pocket watch was used by women, so even after hearing the sound of the hour hand moving three times, I couldn’t make it that far.

A pocket watch does not return just by holding it in the hands of just anyone.

This watch has obvious limitations.

In order for me to return, I must have this watch at the time of my death, and I must have a past where someone gave their lives for me.

Since my father risked his life for me, the hour hand on my pocket watch has moved forward one notch.

The hour hand, which moved forward one square, moved back one square, reviving me when I was stabbed to death by a drunken robber in a back alley when I was about ten years old.

So, the fact that the hour hand is now moving three steps forward.

The three women risked their lives for me, and I risked my life for the three women.

That’s what it means.

But why?

Why did you do that?

What wind blew the me before the return, and the three women before the return, so that they could not kill each other and settled the past, where they were anxious to die, and risked their lives dizzy for each other.

I disapprovingly pulled the pocket watch out of my pocket and set it down in the center of the round table.

“You guys have returned.”

Dalgrak.

A single pocket watch sits lonely in the middle of a wide round table.

Women’s eyes tremble violently, as if from an earthquake, then take one look at the pocket watch, then one look at my face, and bow down.

“That’s right.”

Why? There was no need to tell them that.

It was not a problem that could be solved quickly by pushing ahead. In any case, the results were clear.

I have failed at least three times.

At least three times, the idiot expedition failed to defeat the demon.

The idiot Expedition had to fight and fight with each other for idiotic reasons, but in the end, they were defeated without being able to defeat the Demon God three times and had to return.

“Seriously, now I’m about to get a creative headache.”

I got up from my seat with my pocket watch.

I didn’t mean to give a thumbs up, it was because my head was actually pounding.

Until now, there was only one reason why I had endured all discrimination and contempt because I was a commoner, because I was poor, and because I was the son of an apostate. Still, since I’m a hero, shouldn’t I just hold on until I defeat the Demon God?

But voila.

Your expeditionary force couldn’t even touch the toes of the Demon God even though they tried three times.

If so, that means we need a new method.

“… ….”

I took a handkerchief out of my pocket.

The gaze of three women gathering in a white handkerchief.

I swung the handkerchief from side to side.

Like Tania’s sword, the eyes of the women followed swiftly from side to side.

I held out the handkerchief while holding it and held EL’s nose.

“… No.”

“… ….”

“… ….”

The feeling of something soft and small passing through a handkerchief and grasping it in his hand.

Lee El was just staring at me with her eyebrows neatly lowered and thin eyes, while making a dumb sound somewhere in between, not yelling, laughing, or annoyed.

As if he wouldn’t interfere no matter what I do.

I threw the handkerchief onto the round table.

It was unfair.

Now I see women who act like docile sheep.

“I will rest. I will take a vacation.”

“Ellen, but there is no holiday in the expeditionary force….”

“No, are you going to rest? Are you going to take a vacation? It will take three days. Just wait for someone to come into my room. I said Do not come in.”

“Yeah, but, there is still something to discuss….”

Don’t come in because it’s a discussion and I need to cool my head.

I took my pocket watch and left the prayer room with only a handkerchief left behind.

And exactly three hours after my vacation announcement, women started knocking on my door.