episode_0012
by fnovelpia
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“I’m sorry, Nellis, Scarlett. Because of me….”
After returning to the inn, Nellis, Scarlett, and Aria gathered in Aria’s room away from Kalt.
Aria, whose complexion looked better than before, apologized to Nellis and Scarlett.
Aria was worried that Kalt would ignore her attempt to join Nellis’ party due to her sudden worsening condition.
“No, it’s okay. Mr. Kalt joined our party. Are you better than that? You’re not thinking about it anymore, are you?”
“Yes, it’s okay. I’m really sorry….”
Scarlett spoke to Aria, who lowered her head.
“Don’t keep apologizing. You can do better in the future. Stop bowing your head. Why bow your head when you haven’t done anything wrong?”
It may sound cold, but Aria and Nellis know that Scarlett is saying this out of concern for them.
“Yes. Thank you, Scarlett.”
When Aria smiled, Nellis felt relieved and decided to change the subject.
“But I’m really glad. Mr. Kalt joined our party. Mr. Kalt was in Maybelle’s party! I felt it when I was catching a kobold, but it was really easy to fight because there was one more person!”
“He definitely has skills. Even though he was a kobold, I took him down easily.”
“There are many strong people even if they are not heroes.”
“Yeah, I’m sure he’s stronger than me.”
“Hey, I already told you not to decide like that.”
“But~ He looks really strong. Plus, he has a handsome face.”
“What’s the deal with the face?”
“Ah, the face is important. If your teammate is handsome, it’s good for the eyes too~ I’m tired of this life of only chopping up monsters! I need someone to cheer me up!”
“Really, you… haha.”
Scarlett touched her forehead as Nellis spoke carefreely.
“Hehe, Nellis is always so bright, it’s nice to see her.”
Nellis waved her hand and denied Arya’s words.
“No, I’m bright~ I’m just trying to be bright. Ugh, if I’m being honest, I’m a bit anxious about the future. I kind of glossed over it today… but eventually Mr. Kalt will find out. It’s our problem.”
“”… .””
Scarlett and Aria fell into a heavy silence at Nellis’ remarks.
“ah.”
‘Ah, I was trying to brighten the mood. I made it heavier for no reason… !’
Nellis regretted her mistake.
But that didn’t mean it was an issue that could be ignored.
‘Oh, what should I do? … ah!’
“But! If you don’t know, Kalt might be able to solve our problem, right? What is that? That’s right! Mental counseling! You said you solved your coworker’s problem through mental counseling! Kalt was at Maybelle’s party… Maybelle’s party was also about us at first. “They said it was like a sloth party!”
“…I still can’t believe that. That Maybelle’s party was a sloth party. Besides, the problem those people had… could have been much more trivial than what we had. I just coaxed out of my intimidation as a beginner and grew up. You can bet.”
“It’s good to have hope! Arya! Scarlett! And me too! Don’t you want to stay like this forever?”
“Nellis is right. I can’t keep doing this forever.”
“Of course, I don’t like it like this. But what are you going to do? Even if that Kalt solves it. In the end, we have to reveal our problem before we can solve it or not. Go and tell me right now.”
“uh….”
Nellis, who had been in good spirits just now, turned her gaze to Scarlett’s words and wiggled her fingers.
“Well, wouldn’t it be a little too early right now? I think it would be better to talk after building more trust.”
Even though I wanted to solve the problem, I was worried that Kalt might leave right away if I told him right away.
“….”
Scarlett’s stinging gaze pierced Nellis’ heart.
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썣썄죤 죣!
At once, the heads of several monsters flew into the air, and then a woman with orange sidetail hair appeared.
“Yes~! This is the end!”
A woman swings a knife in the air, shakes off the monster’s blood, stretches, and smiles refreshingly.
It was Maybelle, the fastest hero.
“Good job, Maybelle.”
“It finished faster than usual.”
“That’s because there’s no Kalt who’s always nagging me! Ah! I moved in a good mood!”
Behind her is a wizard with long, wavy green hair.
Ian the Storm Witch and a nun with long golden hair.
Sister of Charity Marti approached Maybelle.
Two days after expelling Kalt.
Maybelle’s party first uses B-level monsters to keep the three of them together before adding additional members.
I was in the middle of a request to subdue the Iron Orcs.
Maybelle spoke to her colleagues as if she felt relieved.
“Because there is no Kalt, I don’t have to nag in the morning and I don’t have to be bothered to go ahead! Goodbye to that strange juice!”
“Eat this, eat that, there’s nothing to bother you with. Well, it’s a bit of a shame that I can’t eat the breakfast he made.”
“Because Kalt was good at cooking.”
“Tch, when it comes to things like cooking, you just have to finish the request quickly and eat it. I’ve been told so many times that I’ve had scabs forming in my ears that I keep telling myself not to skip this or that. Besides! Look at this!”
Maybelle pointed at the dead monsters with her sword.
“I took it down so quickly because I did it alone. If Kalt had been there, I would have been nagging him to speed up, so I would have been late.”
“It would have been better if Kalt had been there.”
“what?”
“Well, if I kill you this quickly, I won’t have time to use my magic, right?”
“Ah~. There’s no need to use Ianna’s magic on guys of this level, right? When there’s more or… someone more worthy of fighting appears, pop it!”
“That’s right. Still, the next time it shows up, let me clean up one or two of them. If you don’t use them too much, they lose their feel.”
“Ugh, Ianna is talking like Kalt.”
“Maybelle, Ianna. Shouldn’t we take out the magic stone first?”
“Oh, that’s right. Ugh, it’s annoying. I need someone to replace me quickly.”
When Kalt existed, most of the recovery of magic stones was handled by Kalt.
“Hang in there until then, Maybelle.”
Maybelle’s party, without Kalt, dug up magic stones from the fallen corpse.
“Phew. The end! Now, let’s go again!”
“Maybelle, wait a minute.”
Ianna stopped Maybelle, who retrieved the magic stone and was about to set off again.
“why?”
“Are you feeling unwell today?”
“No? Are you feeling fine?”
“But the sweat is streaming down my face.”
“What, really?”
Maybelle was surprised by Ianna’s words and smoothed her cheek.
It was only then that Maybelle noticed that sweat was beading on her cheeks.
“Really? Why are you like this?”
It was strange.
The speed I used when defeating the Iron Orc was faster than when I was with Kalt.
But that didn’t mean I was overexerting myself to the point of sweating like this.
Because he didn’t even sweat after cutting off the Iron Orc’s head in the first place.
For Maybelle, she couldn’t help but feel confused.
The only thing that was different from usual was that he had extracted more magic stones from the monster’s corpse.
What’s the problem? While doing it.
Marti said, laughing.
“Isn’t it because it’s been a while since I crouched down and dug up a lot of magic stones? Maybelle is surprisingly low on stamina, too.”
Maybelle puffed out her cheeks as her colleague teased her.
“What? You’re saying that! If you’re going to do that, why don’t you help Marty too?”
“I’m not in charge of mining magic stones in the first place, right? Kalt also told me not to do that.”
“That’s because Marti isn’t very dexterous and it took a long time to dig it up.”
“Not only that, but I had a big problem.”
Maybelle shouted at Marti, who was looking away and making excuses.
“When will that get better? And it’s not good against monsters.”
“Oh, did you do that? I don’t really remember.”
“Both of you, let’s go. Grab as much as we can before the sun sets and return to the village. Even though I don’t have any karts, there’s nothing I can do. I don’t want to chew on beef jerky until dinner.”
“Yes, Ianna.”
“Okay, I want to have a good dinner too.”
Due to Ianna’s restraint, Maybell’s party moved to hunt the monster again.
Maybelle didn’t know yet.
Cold sweat appeared not only on his face, but also on his back.
Maybelle’s problem, which she thought had been resolved once Kalt’s hypnosis was lifted, was about to resurface.
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After returning from the request and seeing Nellis’ party enter their room again, Kalt chuckled.
Looking at the atmosphere, it seemed like Kalt was worried that Aria might cancel her membership due to her adverse reaction.
On the contrary, since I personally saw that there was a problem from Kalt’s perspective, I had no intention of leaving.
Still, their reaction was good.
‘Because I truly know that I am needed.’
It’s different from Maybelle’s party, which was annoying and didn’t know how to thank them, even though they did so well to help them get better, even excluding hypnosis.
-What about nutrients? Stop nagging! And stop making that weird juice!
Maybelle is throwing up at the special nutritional juice made to keep her in optimal condition (she complained that it was not tasty, so I made it as sweet as possible).
-Why do you keep stopping me? Kalt just needs to come quickly!
Maybelle gets angry even if you stop her from charging without thinking about her rearguard position.
-Kalt? Why are you asking me to study this kind of magic? Prepare for an emergency? Can’t you just prepare your own tools?
Even when I tell her to learn lighting magic, preservation magic, and simple flame magic for emergencies in addition to attack magic, Lee Anna doesn’t listen.
-Kalt, last time you told people to extend a healing hand, but now you are stopping them? No matter how soon I leave to fulfill the request, the injured child over there… How can you say something so indifferent that you can get better by just applying acupuncture?
In a situation where he needs to save a little more divine power ahead of an important request in which a demon may appear, Marty tries to use divine power because a child who fell and hurt his knee is crying.
“ah.”
Kalt felt a pain in the back of his neck as he thought about it for no reason.
“Mr. Kalt? Why are you doing this?”
“It’s nothing, Nadia.”
Kalt immediately composed his expression and smiled at Nadia.
‘Yeah, it’s good for your mind not to think about those bitches you broke up with.’
There is something else I need to focus on now.
“Nadia, if it’s okay with you, would you like to have a drink with me later night?”
According to one’s own desires.
“I’ll make the snacks.”
It’s about having a hot night with a widow.
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