episode_0031

“… Quickly.”

Kylon was reaching out to me, urging me to hand over my bag.

When I saw that, I broke into a cold sweat and wondered how this could have happened.

It seemed like the reason was that I was caught carrying a heavy bag while going to the bathroom.

And above all, the problem was that there were no empty bottles in the room.

Who carries an empty bottle with them to the bathroom?

It was Kailon’s fault for trying to force his way into my room in the first place. No, if you already half figured it out and came in just to be sure, I can’t say anything.

Of course, it was also a problem that I acted too hastily, but I still didn’t want to get caught right away. I’ve just finished washing up, so I’m feeling refreshed and in a perfect mood, but I wanted to avoid getting scolded here.

“… … .”

I tightly gripped the bag I was carrying on one side.

Inside was a potion bottle filled with my blood, and at the same time a knife I borrowed from the innkeeper. There were stockings and a garter belt, but that wasn’t what was important right now.

Biting his lip and lowering his head, Kylon sighed deeply. Then, with his shoulders drooping, he walked towards me and grabbed my arm, which was holding the bag.

“How did you do it? Do you have any hidden knives?”

It seemed like I grabbed it lightly, but my arm was so thin that it looked like it could break at any moment, and in comparison, Kailon’s was not only sturdy, but had the body of a man with the strength of a warrior, so the pain was clearly visible.

“Oh, no… Ah, it hurts.”

Even though I frowned and tried to pull my hand away, he didn’t let go of my arm as if to tell me not to run away, and instead pushed my body to sit on the bed and looked down at me frighteningly.

“Why do you keep doing that? I told you not to do it. Just like you wanted, I had sex with you again yesterday, but why are you so greedy that you want to do it again?”

What I wanted from him was to move toward an ending that might be the key to escaping from this place.

However, no matter how much I asked for it, all he had to do was eat heroines to gain strength and go around and go on adventures to strengthen the holy sword. It made me wonder if there was an element he wouldn’t like.

To be honest, it’s different from the game. Even if you’re not the heroine right away, if you make eye contact, you can have sex with a woman passing by. Isn’t Kylon’s position now?

But I couldn’t understand why he was saying that as if he did it because I told him to.

Aren’t you actually enjoying sex? Why did I do that in the first place?

I couldn’t understand why he was trying to suppress my actions by blaming me for the problem when I could just enjoy life like I always did and then my strength would naturally increase.

So I opened my mouth as if complaining to him.

“Having sex with pretty girls is something you enjoy, so why do you make me do it? Just, why are you bringing me up when you can reach the ending on your own if you just enjoy it?”

However, Kailon may have had his own reasons, but when he heard what I said, he let out a laugh as if he was dumbfounded.

“Ha, hey, you… Right now, the only kid from the same place as me is hurting himself in the next room, so can I shake my back in favor? No matter how crazy you are about sex, this isn’t right.”

“… … .”

When I heard that, I couldn’t help but feel like he was paying attention to that kind of thing.

As I remained silent and felt Kailon’s murderous gaze, he immediately pushed me away, reached into my bag, and pulled it out arbitrarily.

“If this is why you asked for the bag, give it back to me. From now on, your luggage will be managed as inventory.”

You shouldn’t do that. If I can’t make a potion because my luggage is taken care of, I won’t be able to do anything after that.

Not having a knife to draw the blood or a bottle to hold it meant that my place was gone, so I shook my head and desperately clutched my bag.

“Oh, no. Me, I have no use for anything other than this.”

I wanted to go home. That’s why he stayed next to the hero.

So no matter who he had sex with, I had no intention of stopping him. It shouldn’t have been stopped in the first place.

So I kept my mouth shut, and when he enjoyed colors, I welcomed him, and when he envied me, I envied him. I didn’t object to it.

But that wasn’t enough. The saint in the game would have been able to pray and heal on her own, but since I couldn’t do that, I could feel my place gradually disappearing.

Do you need a saint since she can’t heal you? It was clear that the question would arise.

Therefore, I worked as a shuttle carrying substitute products called potions and distributing them to and fro.

If the hero replaces that too, what am I supposed to do?

There was no need to protect her, but since she was a saint, it would be a burden to have to protect her at least in name.

However, in the meantime, if the saintly woman who was protecting her so diligently did not do anything, it was clear that the heroines who were with Kailon would start complaining somewhere right now.

So, ultimately, I guess I will be excluded from this party.

That fear never went away and only tormented me.

I was looking for my usefulness to the point where it was almost obsessive. And that was this.

However, as if Kailon didn’t know how I felt, he pulled the bag’s strap so strongly that it tore, and the bag with the broken strap just ran into Kailon’s hands, ignoring my resistance.

Kailon, who took the bag, looked at it here and there and then clicked his tongue.

“Hey, if this happens again, what should I say?”

“… … .”

What was in his hand was a potion.

A potion made with my red blood that does not harden even when exposed to oxygen.

I just wanted to give myself a reason to be at this party.

He was taking my place because he didn’t want me to get hurt.

Because he is a warrior and at the same time because he has the power, he stands proudly.

How desperately I am obsessed with it.

They just dismissed it as a simple act of self-harm and told me not to do it.

Kailon looked at it quietly, sighed, then opened the inventory and started putting things inside.

“Ah, ah… ”

If this is the case, I can’t even share it.

If that happens, I’ll just be someone who makes potions in the safe zone, so I have to stay away from Kylon.

Then I won’t be able to escape that pain.

Five bottles disappeared from the bag. And it entered Kylon’s inventory using subspace.

So, my emotions, which I could not bear to see, exploded, and without realizing it, I screamed and ran towards Kylon.

“No. I said no. Ugh. Don’t take my place… !”

Kailon, embarrassed by my sudden behavior, lightly pushed me onto the bed, and my body flew onto the soft bed and fell down.

It didn’t hurt, but the fact that I was so weak and flew away made me feel miserable.

I’m blue.

As he lay helplessly looking up at Kailon, he couldn’t hide his embarrassment and even took the knife out of his bag and put it in his inventory.

“Why, why are you doing this, who is saying that they took your place?”

“Kylon, you are taking it away… ”

The one who took my place was none other than Kylon.

Kylon keeps taking the knife from me as a favor, as a favor to me, as a favor, and under the excuse that he doesn’t want me to get hurt, or that he doesn’t want me to get hurt.

My usefulness lies only in my blood.

“ Even if I pray, I can’t see any effect, so why do I keep blocking the days when I want to show my worth, even if it means using blood… If you take it and share it with me, what will I do if I hear people telling me to go somewhere safe and make a potion? !

Then I’m just going to have to scratch my body all this time!? If I take all the knives and can’t even make potions, I’m no different from a citizen who just wants to be protected, so if I keep doing this, I’ll be kicked out of the party… ”

I crouched down and scratched my neck out of anxiety.

With Kylon in front, I was starting to feel anxious.

The fear that I might be abandoned by him at any moment may have been because even if he did not abandon me, I could see what would happen to me later if I voluntarily left the party to gain the favorability of the heroines.

So I scratched my neck with my hand. I could feel the constant tightening around my throat, to the point where even breathing was difficult right now.

Then Kylon grabbed my arm and said as if he was going to make it clear to me.

“Even if you say that, I won’t leave you behind, so just stay still… ! Why do I keep getting so upset that I can’t do something? Just, I’m just going to take you with me, so don’t think about anything else.”

“Ha, but the other kids!”

“Ignore what other kids say! If I hear that, I’ll say something too… !”

no. That’s not what I want.

“No… ”

So, nothing can be achieved.

If you reduce the likability of the heroines, you will become distant from the ending.

If the heroines’ likeability was dropping because of me, it would have been better for me to leave the party.

Otherwise, I will be trapped in this world for the rest of my life.

So I spoke with tears in my eyes, even the hand that was scratching my neck was blocked.

A way for me to not have to leave this party or lower the likeability of the heroines.

The reason why I can proudly exist at this party.

“… Just give me the knife. Then everything is solved. In that way… ”

But Kylon heard me and shook his head.

“You can’t do it. Follow me.”

As soon as I said those words, my body started shaking.

I was startled by the feeling of floating in my body in an instant, so I opened my eyes wide and looked at him.

“Put it down… ”

“I’m going out, so be quiet.”

After saying that, Kailon took me out and burst into the room he and Linda were in.

I, who had become inexplicably mute after coming out, heard Linda’s surprised voice.

“Kylon is here… ! Ah, saint… ?”

I just closed my eyes and took a shaky breath.

I’m going to turn around… .