episode_0016

The atmosphere of the drinking party has already begun to ripen, and I have no idea how long we have been staying here.

Drunken people are leaving the store, and even if they drink water, the strong scent of alcohol cannot be erased.

It was only when the alcohol in the many oak barrels ran out that I realized that a lot of time had passed due to rain.

“So…help this friend named Elisias a little?”

“Yeah…ugh! Ugh… well… you too are black in this area! He’s pretty strong, right? I have 10 years of adventure experience.”

The snacks and alcohol mixed together made my stomach bloated, and when I was about to hiccup, I covered my mouth for a moment.

Despite his appearance, La Boille was lying with his head down on the table, his face already flushed, and Elisias was silently lowering her head and crossing her arms.

“Um…okay, let’s say that’s true, but was I really that famous?”

Ilicia smiles and takes a sip of beer.

“What are you?”

Ilicia asked me while speaking with smiling eyes. It was only then that I realized that I was not in my right mind.

As soon as I realized the meaning behind the sly smile, the awkwardness disappeared.

“After living here for over 10 years, I didn’t even know that this store dealt with monster remains, and I knew most of their faces?”

“…”

I remained tense, swallowing saliva that tasted like alcohol.

If you give a strange, incomprehensible answer to a fairly sharp question, and it arouses suspicion or caution, you will be in trouble.

“But…what is certain is…you are not a familiar face”

Illisha smiled meaningfully, shrugged her shoulders, and continued speaking.

“Well, let’s say there are a lot of people who live here and I can’t remember them one by one, but you know me…and I don’t know you?”

It’s strange even when I think about it.

I know information that Illisha does not know, and although she does not know me, I know about Illisha.

“In the first place, this is my regular restaurant and Illysha, you are such a famous person…”

“Me?”

“So, your story, which is highly popular, naturally flows to us as well? Since I don’t know that, I can’t say I’m an information dealer…”

Nod your head, smile, and naturally lie.

In fact, since her popularity is high, the owner of the potion store is probably close to Illisha and is giving her away at a low price.

“I’m a bit embarrassed to receive compliments…”

Illisha smiled and waved her hands as if she was embarrassed, but her caution did not seem to disappear.

I looked into Ilicia’s eyes and she did not avoid my eyes, as if she was fighting back.

“Hmm…”

Illisha strokes her chin and scans my expression with narrow eyes.

“I…Eeeee!! behave shamefully! Don’t talk to anyone but me!”

Elisias interrupted me by tearing at my body with a blushing face and rolling eyes. At that action, Ilicia laughed and took another sip of beer.

“Whatever, doubting the benefactor won’t help, okay… Instead, I need to check what level of ability he has, so let’s complete one request together”

“Request?”

“Hmm! Is this your first request? I’ll do well, so look forward to it…”

Elisias raises his glass to the sky with an excited face and pours it back into his mouth as if he were making a toast to himself. But then he slams his head on the table and curls up.

“Ugh…”

With a sigh filled with worry, Illisha laughed cheerfully and let out a small breath.

“Well, since it’s Kazas Alham… I’m asking you to be nice to me?”

“Hmm…Hmm…I still have more…”

Elisias is muttering in her sleep with her face pressed against the table with a bright red face.

She must have been sleeping quite soundly, so I put the blanket she had taken off and placed it on her shoulders again.

“So, is that request…”

To come to my senses, I slapped myself on the cheek, and Ilicia, surprised by this foolish action, looked at me with wide eyes.

“No, no, what is that request?”

“Ah… It’s not that big of a deal, there was a colony of orcs in the southern forest, and we’re targeting that area, so we just have to deal with the remnants around us as we feel like we’re latecomers.”

“That shouldn’t be difficult.”

Illisha laughs at my answer.

“Do you feel confident in battle? It doesn’t look like that.”

“Of course, I play the role of a supporter who provides support from behind, and the ones who will fight in the main battle will be Raboil, you, and Elysias.”

As I bitterly passed it over, Ilicia patted my shoulder.

“It’s okay, it’s okay! Everyone has their own role to play, right? Little one, why are you trying to help Elisias here? In some ways, we are just like strangers.”

I chuckled at the question coming from my increasingly blurry vision, wondering if I was getting drunk again.

“I just…well…I want you to be a little happy…”

As I finished speaking, my eyelids felt heavy and heavy.

When I closed my eyes for the last time, my entire vision became as black as night.

When you feel a faint pain as if you hit your head on the table and the world feels dizzy.

“Uh…?”

When I opened my eyes to see how long I had collapsed, Elisias and Ilicia were gone, and only La Boil was curled up in front of the table.

I quickly got up from my seat, headed to the counter, approached Uncle Guile, and he handed me water.

“The sister who came with that healthy-looking sister went to the bathroom outside in the back, so don’t worry too much, she didn’t run away.”

“Ah…I see…”

While saying this, I gulp down the water that Uncle Guille gave me.

“By the way, we’ve only known each other for a little while, but are you already calling me by your nickname?”

When Uncle Guile asked while wiping his glass, I shook my head.

“Nickname? Was there such a thing?”

His question aroused my curiosity, and Uncle Gail looked at me strangely and wiped the moisture off his hands.

“That silver-haired girl was looking for you while drunk, saying Harry, Harry, but that’s not your name, is it?”

I couldn’t help but be surprised by those words.

If you think about it, it was a simple thing.

If the name of the muscular man who sleeps with his head on the table, unable to come to his senses and is no different from Extra 1, is La Boil Gran Sanche.

The owner of the body I am staying in is also an extra, but his name will exist.

I wanted to ask Uncle Guile about the name of this body right away, but I couldn’t find out anything even if I heard the name from the extra, so I closed my mouth again.

“Uh…uh, something like that.”

I nodded and decided to just agree with what the man said.

As we were chatting, the door behind me opened and Illisha came in. When she saw me, she slapped me on the back.

The power almost made everything I was eating come up, but I managed to stuff it back down my throat.

“Uh, what is it? Elisias, didn’t you come in first?”

While calming down, Illisha wiped the moisture off her hands and looked around.

“Huh? Didn’t we go to the bathroom together?”

Illisha is embarrassed by my question.

“We went together, but Elisias would have said he was there first?”

At those words, I got up from my seat and ran out of the store.

This is Kazas Alham, a place where security is so bad that unpleasant things happen in the dark alleys.

It’s a place where bad things happen even when you’re sober, but if you’re so drunk late at night that you can’t even control yourself,

“Damn…nothing will happen…?”

I start running around the city and looking into all the alleyways.

There was no way to know where Elisias had gone, but there was no time to rest.

I don’t know how many times I’ve walked through the alleys, but I’ve witnessed scenes that I can’t explain in words.

There are men fighting with alcohol bottles, and there are men holding daggers grabbing passers-by by the collar and robbing them.

Among them, a woman with torn clothes was seen crying among the fallen men.

“The fallen guys…?”

I stopped running and approached the woman.

“Hey, I’m really sorry for being so sudden, but have you ever seen a guy with silver hair and red eyes wearing some fancy clothes?”

“Yes?…Oh, I saw it…He just went to the right alley, and he saved me…”

Without even listening to the end, I ran again at full speed and turned into the alley to the right.

“Hey! Elysias!!”

Why was the feeling of uneasiness never wrong? It seemed as if Elisias had been grabbed by someone and was confronting me, and the first thing I did was scream because I felt anxious.

“Ugh…let go, you ruthless!”

Fortunately, there is only one person.

The man she was confronting seemed to have no intention of releasing Elisias, and she was unable to easily escape from his grasp, perhaps because of her strength.

“Ah, Harry! What is this man…”

Feeling a bit cruel, I bit my lip and slowly approached the man.

“Um, hey…I don’t know what’s going on…Maybe we can talk…”

“Crrr…rrr? Kiyak?”

The man answered in unintelligible words, and I slightly distanced myself from the strange, discordant voice.

The man must have finally sensed my popularity and turned his gaze towards me.

Red, bloodshot eyes, blood vessels in the temples and neck, and abnormally enlarged muscles.

He looks like a zombie, but the difference is that the man is alive.

At times, he starts behaving like a crazy person, laughing unpleasantly, crying again, and repeatedly hitting his head with one hand.

“Elysias…you poor girl…feed me some sweet potatoes…I’m dying…”

“Well…I was about to go back after saving a woman when suddenly someone came from behind…”

Elisias started to grimace as if her neck was being held and she was in pain.

First, I calmly looked around, trying to resolve the issue through conversation.

At that time, the crazy man looked at me and laughed like crazy, dragged Elisias and held her hostage like he was holding a hostage in a movie, and laughed at her as if making fun of her.

“kekekekekekekeke…kehehehe…”

He sticks out his dirty tongue and licks Elisias’ cheek.

“Hi! More, you dirty bastard! What are you doing!”

“You crazy bastard!”

When I saw that, I went crazy for a moment and ran towards the crazy man.

“Wait! Harry, on this man’s waist -”

“Wow!”

As if he had been waiting, the man pulled out a dagger from his waist and swung it at me.

I can feel hot liquid flowing from my right cheek.

When I touched the hot spot, my fingertips turned red.

I found out it was blood coming from me.

The first blood I encounter after coming from this world.

“Harry! I’m fine, so run away!”

The fear of knives and blood made my legs shake and began to remind me of the feelings I had forgotten until now, thinking it was just a joke.

My heart is pounding like crazy, and I am worried that it might explode.

Horror, fear, death. In front of those emotions, I momentarily became weak.

This weakness proves that I cannot protect the woman in front of me.

I realized again that I was not the cool main character like in the weak article I read today, but an infinitely weak extra.