episode_0026

“Egg… I’m dying, I’m dying…”

As soon as I opened my eyes, I felt intense pain. The pain I felt in my back and thighs was indescribable.

Since I didn’t even think about getting up, I decided to observe the person lying next to me rather than getting up.

“Are you awake?”

Next to me, as expected, Arjen was observing me with a blanket covered up to his nose.

“Ugh….”

Arjen seemed very shy and did not hug her like usual. Well, since something like that happened yesterday, it would be even more strange to act like nothing happened.

“Fuck you!”

Of course, I didn’t have anything to say, so I tried to raise my screaming body. I was still afraid to recall yesterday’s events right now.

It would have been difficult if Arjen had changed his mind and said he wanted to possess me once more.

“Ugh… I guess I slept for a really long time.”

I checked my watch and saw that it was well past the time I would normally eat lunch.

“You must have been hungry, you should have eaten breakfast first… Oh, now that I think about it, I ate not too long ago.”

I stopped talking. The reason Arjen ate three full meals with me was because he didn’t eat cannibalism out of concern for me.

Since it had just been a while since he killed an elf, Arjen didn’t need to eat for a while.

Of course, I was hungry because I was a fuel-efficient person who needed to eat at least one meal a day to survive.

“Hihi, I already made a meal.”

Although he may have been controlling an automatic doll, he had to control something complicated like a meal himself, so it was safe to say that it was actually homemade cooking. If you look closely, he is truly a first class bride.

As long as they don’t do something ridiculous like yesterday.

“Uh… Now that I think about it, what did the hero do?”

As I was lamenting the situation of humans who have to eat regularly, I suddenly thought of a fellow human being, a warrior.

As it was the center of all the events that happened yesterday, it felt too late to recall it now, but Arjen went one step further.

“Huh? Come to think of it, I caught the hero yesterday.”

Not only did they capture her, but they even raped her under the pretext of her life. ‘Arzen you used my body’.

At that time, I also took the initiative to mix things up with the hero in order to educate Arjen and let everything happen, but now that I think about it, I feel quite sorry for the hero.

“I lost my mind yesterday… Shouldn’t Eugene know?”

“No, I was also treated harshly by Luv after that…”

Arjen did not share any memories of when Rube came forward. I, too, was sucked in by Luv until the very end, even the little bit of energy I had left yesterday, so in the end, neither of us knew anything.

“I need to check before eating.”

Bob can’t run away because he doesn’t have feet, but a hero has feet so he can run away.

Actually, it didn’t really matter if I ran away. No matter what the process was, I decided to sacrifice my body in exchange for saving my life, and since I carried out the task safely, I had to keep my promise.

The problem is that I took the holy sword and hid it. I don’t know if a warrior can be treated well outside without a holy sword.

But there was no need to worry about that. When I went to the food warehouse, I saw that the warrior was sitting upright and silently observing his position.

“Huh? You didn’t run away?”

It appears that Rube was not restrained, so he was not shackled.

Of course, considering that the last time I left him alone for a while, almost all of the chains were broken, it wouldn’t have made much of a difference even if he had been restrained.

“…I promised that my life would be spared if I listened to his request, and I did an excellent job of fulfilling that request. So there is no reason to run away. Because the dragon’s language has weight.”

The voice that cried like a pig in heat yesterday gave off a calm and confident atmosphere today, and the strange gap made me feel excited for some reason.

I made a light joke to shake off those negative feelings.

“Haha. Although he performed brilliantly, he looked quite disheveled.”

“Ugh…! Well, that’s not me! Forget about yesterday!”

It was said as a joke, but the warrior must have been so shocked that he denied what happened yesterday.

“If I had to forget, I would, but I don’t know if I could forget you.”

“Ugh… This is the first time in my life that I’ve been hit so hard by a human with a sword…”

The analogy was novel. That’s right, the cock is a long stick, so if it were a sword, it would be a sword. As the atmosphere was about to flow into a skit, Arjen intervened.

“By the way, I would like you to leave as soon as possible. I don’t want to be seen as a withdrawn dragon that keeps intruders alive for a long time.”

If you were to criticize someone who had sex with you yesterday, it was a harsh remark of your own. It seemed that possession didn’t really give a damn.

It was different from me, who retreated significantly from the warrior after having sex once.

“I also wanted to go out as soon as I opened my eyes… but if I continue like this, it will be quite difficult.”

As expected, it was about the Holy Sword. What would the world think if a warrior who was planning to attack the Dragon’s Lair came back with all four limbs intact, with only the holy sword missing?

It would be a relief to be labeled a defeated warrior or an incompetent warrior. There might be rumors going around that he was a hero who had colluded with a dragon because he came back without a single wound.

“Can I get the holy sword back?”

The warrior’s voice as he opened his mouth was different from the first time. You probably know how ridiculous the request is right now.

The content of the transaction is ultimately life. And of course, the holy sword was not pledged with his life.

The hero who spoke and Arjen and I, who heard the words, knew that fact, so it was inevitable that the hero would feel intimidated like that.

I was waiting for a harsh rejection to come out of Arjen’s mouth. But what Arjen said was completely beyond my expectations.

“Why are you asking me to do that?”

“……What?”

“Huh?”

Both the hero and I looked at Arjen with blank expressions. Arjen looked back and forth between me and the hero, then pouted his mouth and said.

“No. Well, it’s the basic common sense of a dragon to claim that everything in my rare is mine…”

It’s basic common sense.

“How do I claim ownership of something I can’t even touch?”

Now that I think about it, it was like that. The Holy Sword is clearly a holy relic of God that only a warrior can hold.

I do not believe in the existence of God, and the God who is presumed to be the owner of the holy sword also seems to be deviating from the law because he does not know of my existence from another world.

“If you want the Holy Sword back, you have to beg Eugene. It was Eugene who hid the holy sword in the first place.”

The hero who heard Arzen’s words hurriedly turned to me.

“……What are you looking at?”

I tried to ignore those sad gazes.

No, well… Arjen obviously started it, but it is true that I also voluntarily took on the body of a hero. If asked to apologize for that, I was willing to apologize a hundred times.

However, when it comes to the Holy Sword, it is a different story. Only a warrior could handle the holy sword, and the holy sword was an item that could harm Arjen.

As someone who clearly watched the scene with my own two eyes, I had no intention of returning the ‘Holy Sword’ to the ‘Hero’ even after waking up from death.

How is that any different from increasing the risk of Arjen dying by my own hands?

The warrior, who seemed to have sensed my inner thoughts, spoke in a confident voice.

“I swear that I will never point the holy sword at you and the owner of this rare again. No matter what happens.”

“I’m sorry, but I don’t believe you.”

Humans can lie. No, it’s not something you can do, but you actively use it. I am also human, so I understand. No matter what tactic the other person uses, as long as they belong to the category of human beings, the weight of their words is the same.

“I am a warrior… I don’t speak lightly like a criminal!”

“Really? I’m sorry, but I come from a world where the higher a person is, the more they feel free to lie.”

Well, unless there is a setting such as that the hero cannot lie due to God’s oath, I cannot return the holy sword no matter how poor the hero’s situation is.

I only had sex with the hero once, based on Arjen’s wishes, but I will always think and act based on Arjen.

“…Can’t it be done somehow?”

The seriousness disappeared from the warrior’s tone. Instead, the earnestness increased.

“Unless there is a contract that must be kept, words alone are not enough.”

“Huh? There is something like that.”

“What? There is?”

I looked at Arzen when he suddenly said something. Arjen, who had a shocked expression as all of a sudden all attention was focused on him, cleared his throat once and continued speaking.

“It’s a dragon’s oath. With the power of Yongeon, you can make a contract with a non-dragon that has the same weight as Yongeon.”

It was a world view that was extremely comfortable to think that such a good situation existed.

“Ha, I will do it. I will swear with that oath, please…!”

Now that the words had been spoken, it was difficult to refuse them any longer.

Well, I am not subject to the restrictions or attacks of the Holy Sword, and I am not a hero myself and cannot use the Holy Sword, so it was okay for me to return it as long as it did not cause any harm to Arjen.

” Since a dragon’s oath is a type of contract and transaction, the principle is equivalent exchange with the same value. Do you know what I mean?”

The warrior bit his lower lip as he heard Arzen’s words. It meant that the oath to ‘not attack’ in return for the return of the ‘Holy Sword’, a holy relic of God, was not enough.

“Just once, no matter what happens, please help us once.”

Arjen added a condition there. The warrior blinked his eyes. It was an unspoken question as to whether that would really happen.

“However, ‘even if it means violating the duty of a warrior.’”

The warrior was a living, breathing utilitarianism. This is a human perspective, and the warrior’s duty boils down to the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

The moment it is violated, the hero faces death. This was the decisive reason why the tip of the sword of the warriors, who until now had been stubborn when peace came, was not directed at humanity.

The flaw was that the way he heard this story was through a pillow talk from Rube after he was in a fight from above, but in the end, Arjen ended up mortgaging the hero’s life.

Of course, the warrior had no choice. If you don’t retrieve the holy sword here, you will eventually face death.

Sure enough, the warrior’s head nodded.