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As he said, Siron headed to the room where Johanna, the fish-man girl, was staying.

The last time I saw her, she looked gaunt, perhaps because she had lost consciousness, but contrary to my worries, Johanna seemed fine.

“You came back safely!”

“Uh… Um, right.”

“I’m glad, I’m glad! You don’t know how worried I was!”

Johanna hugged Siron with an expression of emotion.

Cheolpuk-

‘…what?’

Hearing an unfamiliar sound, Siron shifted his consciousness downward.

The hem of the clothes that touched Johanna… was damp. Siron’s eyes widened at a sight that was difficult to understand in his head.

[The evil demon uses hexes!]

Latera, who shared consciousness to a certain extent with Siron, was horrified to see his gaze resting on the slime-covered skin.

[Hero, what are you doing without falling?]

‘…’

Siron remained quiet despite the shouting that echoed in his head.

It wasn’t because he wanted to enjoy the feeling of warm skin sticking to his skin, but because he couldn’t push Johanna away because he had an emotional debt.

It was unnecessary physical contact, but Siron stood still… and accepted her one-sided favor.

“Oh…”

Johanna suddenly came to her senses and hurriedly fell from the chest. The sticky slime created dozens of strands of thread, and Johanna fell with a shy smile at the indescribable sight.

“Sorry, sorry. Well, he does this once a month… I showed him an embarrassing side.”

[lie! Hero, this woman is lying!]

‘…I know.’

[How can you lie so shamelessly even when the queen is dead? Moreover, she is trying to seduce a man she has only seen a few times by rubbing her chest. Not some kind of prostitute!]

‘Leave it alone, it’s still a baby.’

[…The hero has changed. Personally, I thought it was attractive that they beat and killed demons without mercy.]

‘When do you say I did that? You’re so sensitive today, you too…’

[Hero, let’s stop and focus on the conversation.]

‘…’

Siron suddenly left Latera with a straight face and focused on Johanna. The wet clothes were sticky and made me literally have nowhere to put my eyes.

He wasn’t just an adolescent boy, he received proper sex education from a maid, and he had a fiancee, so he was able to put an iron plate on his face without difficulty.

“I’m glad you look fine.”

“Huh? Are you taking care of all my worries?”

“Yes.”

Siron nodded and continued speaking calmly.

“If you look at the situation at the time, it wouldn’t have been strange for the queen to use your body as an excuse to take hostage. I could have done a dirty trick by casting a complicated curse.”

“…”

“If Kihara had been more vicious, if there had been no blood, no tears, and no particular appreciation for me, I might have killed you.”

“Si, there’s nothing to worry about!”

Ahaha. Johanna smiled shyly and scratched her cheek in embarrassment. She waved her hand and said it was okay, but she couldn’t hide the cold sweat forming on her plain face without makeup.

“I haven’t done anything well. Even if he did, he would have thought it was deserved karma.”

“Karma?”

“You said queen, right? After all, it was we fishmen who served that monster. It was the same with my father who ran away from tyranny, and no matter how much he was cursed by the monster, the crime of harming him was…”

“If it is due to coercion, there is room for extenuating circumstances. And, as a result, didn’t your father live?”

“Still…”

“I told you not to worry.”

Siron patted his shrunken shoulder.

“The power of each person is extremely helpless. Isn’t this Kihara, who has reigned over the fishmen for hundreds of years? Rather than face the storm, you just found a safe place and hid. Who on earth would say that’s bad?”

“…”

“It’s up to someone like me to brave the storm and kill the monster.”

“Then, what should I do?”

Johanna faced Siron with a redder face than before. Latera sighed, her soul feeling hot and sticky.

“Ask your father for forgiveness for your treason, and live well without being discovered that you are a demon. And…”

Siron stroked his chin and skimmed his lips as if remembering something.

“You just have to repent.”

“Repentance?”

“I don’t know if I can say this, but right now the empire is intentionally letting the demonic beasts that come across the mountain range pass inland? Of course, strong individuals will be weeded out. Nothing in this world works perfectly, right?”

“What is that…”

“My prediction is that the frequency of encountering demonic beasts will increase. Not an ogre or a cephalopod monster. Unusual guys I’ve never seen before will appear in this town.”

After finishing speaking, Siron searched his chest and pulled out a useful weapon.

“I asked what I can do?”

A short sword with a green-blue blade. Johanna looked shocked, wondering what on earth she had heard, but the sword was handed over to her safely.

“It’s shabby compared to the weapons I use, but it’s still better than most black iron swords.”

“……Yes?”

“Protect this village. This change will make it difficult to receive support from the Knights. It’s up to you whether you swing your sword and become a master or form a vigilante group.”

“…”

“Someday, I will check if I practiced properly.”

Siron hugged Johanna, who was dazed, and made the sign of the cross on her chest.

Johanna looked at the green-blue sword, smiled slightly, and waved her hand at Siron, who was leaving the inn.

After waving for a while, Johanna realized her fate and tied her shoes to go home.

Becoming a top-notch expert was a difficult request to ask a mere country girl, but Johanna didn’t mind him.

She is a demon and time is on her side.

The path to becoming a master seemed distant, but Johanna did not feel that it was impossible.

*

Two days after killing Kihara.

There was no need to remain in the small fishing village of Orr and the coastal city of Rowen, but Siron and his party had not yet returned to the capital.

No, it would be more accurate to say that I couldn’t go back.

It was probably time to buy a ticket to Lien, but Shiron was able to see Seira, who looked like she had no intention of going back.

“Hey, kid.”

“…?”

“How can you be so young? You should play outside too, but then you regret it when you get older?”

The fact that she had no intention of going back was a valid conclusion after seeing her with sunglasses on the bridge of her nose.

A mint-colored bikini that clearly reveals the curves of the body.

Jet black sunglasses.

The gorgeous earrings, of which I had no idea where she had gotten them, were making Seira look like a vacationer rather than a wizard.

Of course, the ridiculous clothes that usually cling to her body made it impossible to think of her as an archmage… but the sight of her in a costume that she came to play with was enough to embarrass Siron.

“Why are you being so crazy all of a sudden? Are you not going to dress properly?”

After seeing the [Pool Party Elf Wizard], Shiron felt embarrassed and took off his outer clothes.

This is not a beach, but a platform to go to Lien. When you see a snarky look that doesn’t suit the place… isn’t it natural for your face to turn red and make you want to separate from the person who is causing you shame?

“Hmph! Adults offer to give me advice, but I don’t listen to them…!”

Seira, who draped her overcoat over her shoulder, snorted. Siron wondered why she was so damn crazy, but decided to hear the reason later and left the platform.

“What kind of advice is this? When do you say you started acting like an adult?”

“……Is that so? Still, as a senior who experienced the expedition first, I think I was well taken care of…”

“Who is the one who stays locked in the room and walks out only to go to the bathroom? Also, have you completely forgotten the memories of when you first met me?”

“…”

“What makes you an exemplary adult? He hid his identity at the auction house and came out as a slave… ”

“G, is that important now?”

Seira grabbed Shiron’s hand and stopped talking.

“Why do I have to come to such a nice place and leave so quickly? It’s something I’ve come to feel naturally as I live, but you have to work when you work and rest properly when you rest? It was very difficult at the end because neither I nor Kylie could take care of that. Emotions are dry and the shadows cannot be erased from the face… Anyway! We worked hard, so let’s have fun.”

“…Okay.”

Siron reluctantly agreed as he was dragged along.

There was a 700-year-old elf who was not a child at all, but was complaining that she couldn’t play even though she came to a vacation spot, but she didn’t seem to have the slightest will to enjoy the vacation.

This could be clearly felt even in the hand that was currently dragging Shiron.

Trembling as if nervous. Even though my palms were dry, they were damp from sweat.

‘I wondered why Kylie’s name came up.’

Shiron seemed to vaguely understand Seira’s intentions.

While Siron was asleep, perhaps even before that, Seira found out Lucia’s identity.

There was no time to know whether there was a touching reunion between colleagues or not, but seeing as Seira was not saying anything, what she wanted was peace and harmony among colleagues, not destruction of relationships.

This unreasonable action,

It was Seira’s action because she wanted to take care of Kylie.

There was a bit of insufficient evidence to get there, but looking at this situation, I had no choice but to think that way.

“Lucia.”

Siron called the name of the girl crouching on the sandy beach.

As Seira said, there was a woman there who had not been able to build up even a single memory of her youth and had fallen into disrepair.

Lucia, who was making a sand castle, looked back in surprise.

“Did you wear a swimsuit too?”

“Uh… I didn’t wear it because I wanted to. So… Seira… you forced me to wear it…”

“Just wrap it up tightly. If you were going to feel so confident, why did you wear it?”

The way he approached me with a grin on his face looked like a bad boy. Lucia, whose face was bright red, grabbed her coat and took a step back.

‘That idiot. Even if everything is prepared, I can’t eat it…’

Seira rubbed her bulging arms and remembered Kylie’s old self.

My colleague from 500 years ago, who only knew how to fight, had lost his two-headed body and had become nothing more than a two-headed person.

At the moment when she was looking at the refreshing scene in an adult manner, someone clung to Seira’s leg.

“Seira.”

“…Why are you doing this, kid?”

“I also want to wear a swimsuit. And… I think it would be nice to buy a swimsuit, eat something, then go back to the dorm and take a nap. Of course, I want to choose a room far away from the hero.”

When Latera asked with an innocent expression, Seira hugged her.

“I don’t hate quick-witted kids.”

“I’m nice, right? You can praise me more.”

Latera, with a cute smile, placed her face in Seira’s arms.