68 – Bare Hugs

The mating scene of toads I saw in a documentary one day came to mind.

The male, who has reached the spawning season, climbs on top of the female he likes and hugs the female’s abdomen tightly to induce spawning.

At this time, if a male she doesn’t like climbs up on her back, the female struggles with all her might to try to drop the male.

Because of this, sometimes a male who wants to continue spawning will cling to the back of a resisting female with all his might.

At this time, it is said that there are frequent cases where the male hugs the female too tightly and suffocates.

”Hero… Please let this go…”

”No! I will never let go!”

I would like to take this opportunity to convey my condolences to the female toads who must have died countless times due to the male toad’s romantic bear hug.

I try to crawl towards the door with all my strength.

The hero who blocks my ephemeral resistance by hugging my waist from behind.

The standard of power felt from the waist was so powerful that it was hard to believe that it belonged to a single human being.

For example, it felt like a thick rope tied around a huge old tree was tightly tied around my waist.

It was a moment when I keenly sympathized with the helplessness of wild animals who were caught in a trap and were only waiting for death.

”If you really want to go! I want you to slit my neck right here and go!”

A majestic sound reminiscent of a rugby player in front of the goal.

The warrior’s desperate voice, never heard even once inside the dungeon, which might be cut off at any moment, echoed loudly in the cramped room.

After the day when all party members, including the hero, were caught up in a dungeon disaster that occurred out of nowhere.

It was inevitable that the entire party of warriors, who had to maintain their best condition until the blessing ceremony, commuted secretly from the monastery for a while and recuperated.

After our first meeting, when the buttons were off, the hero who showed great hostility to the saintess, and interfered in every way with the saintess’ care work, which I was in charge of, was a completely unexpected ordeal.

Lately, I have had to face each turn with a new pattern that I have never seen before added to a somewhat familiar danmaku game.

”I heard it all from Apis! The priest coming and going to the throne room! Just the two of us with the saintess! Biting and sucking each other! You’re going to do something you can’t bear to show others! It’s been said that men and women in enclosed spaces do that!”

No, there’s nothing this woman can’t say to a child.

Even though I couldn’t stop the hero’s runaway, the atrocities of my big-eared colleague who helped without notice made my heart blaze with hot anger.

”Warrior. There seems to be some misunderstanding, but the saintess and I are only related to the saintess and the guardian priest. There wasn’t even a speck of dust for the warrior to worry about. I can swear to God I’ve never approached the saintess with vulgar intentions. So, please let go of this hand.”

”Even if the priest has no intention of doing that! The saintess doesn’t know!”

A poignant word from the warrior, who accurately grasped the pulse of the incident, stopped my thinking.

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that those words accurately penetrated the saintess’ nature and the current treatment of me.

”There is no woman in this world who does not have a crush on a man with an alluring beauty like the bride! Even I am desperately suppressing my surging desire right now!”

”uh····.”

A chilly goose bump ran down his spine,

The nostalgic days when I could pass off those embarrassing rave reviews as a pointless joke flashed across my retina like a billboard on the subway.

I don’t know if it was before.

Now, it’s been a long time since I’ve realized that she has an unusual feeling for me.

It was because he had even made a firm resolution to himself just the other day that he would no longer turn away from those feelings and confidently face them.

Aside from the fact that that resolution is on the verge of crumbling like the shallow determination of an office worker who cut off PT at the gym on New Year’s Day.

”Bee, Big Team! It’s outside! Please help me!”

”····”

”Don’t pretend it’s not there! Standing on the lookout outside the door! You can see it through the shadow under the crack in the door!?”

”····!”

Udangtang.

Right after that, I heard the sound of something huge tossing and turning outside the door.

The answer to my agonizing entreaties was still elusive.

You coward!

The sound of my heart, filled with a sense of betrayal, echoed earnestly in my thoughts.

That trivial noise was soon completely buried in the warrior’s strong voice.

”It’s no use! I’ve told VicTim not to let even one ant enter this room!”

”ha····. ”

Before I had time to feel lamentation at the waste of human resources using the system’s best tanker as the gatekeeper of his private room.

Eventually, with the same posture as when I was tightly tied around my waist, the warrior-nim uttered words with a clear expression of regret.

”Despicable! I also want to bite and suck in a cramped space with the bride!”

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Judging from the way he spoke, it seemed that the hero was interpreting Apis’ ‘biting and sucking’ as an act of a man and a woman playing together.

The usual appearance of being stoic in everything is nowhere to be found.

Although the hero’s childlike behavior of honestly expressing and insisting on what he wanted was quite embarrassing.

At this moment, blaming the hero himself was absurd.

In return for what you’ve been ignoring and ignoring all this time.

An occasional pat on the head, or a brief hug.

Besides, I was the fool who encouraged her desire to do anything else she wanted to do.

”Yo, hero…”

”In fact, I don’t even want to receive that blessing from him! Even if you don’t rely on such an unknown power! I can do just fine! My trustworthy colleagues! Furthermore! Because you have a bride! The reason I said I would attend the conferment ceremony was because there was an earnest request from the priest! I only reluctantly agreed!”

It was a sight that felt so strange to me to see the hero showing such clear hostility toward a specific person.

A saint who tries hard not to forget his attitude of tolerance even towards the bad people who have no choice but to come across even if he hates it when he is engaged in a rough adventurer job.

Because the person I knew was the kind of person I fell in love with that made me feel somewhat foolish.

”I hate him! Every time he tries to entangle himself with the priest! In my mind, a dark turbid current meanders without rest! This is the first time I’ve ever felt this way! Every now and then, whenever a love affair occurs, I think I can now understand why the wives grab a cleaver and run amok!”

The power that binds my body seemed to be stronger than before, but it was just that my breathing became slightly more difficult.

His body wasn’t so tight that it left marks on his skin or broke his bones.

And that meant that she still had some reason left.

”Moreover, he sometimes even flaunts the priest’s body to me whenever he makes eye contact with me, as if it were his!”

”That, that’s…”

However, unlike the situation on the side of the body that maintained the addition and subtraction of rational power, the voice was gradually gaining more and more passionate momentum as time went on.

”Seo, when did the saintess say that? Obviously, the hero must have misunderstood.”

”I’m not mistaken!”

I tried to come up with a defense, but

In fact, I also knew very well that the hero’s feelings were not her misunderstanding.

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Just as the hero looked at the saintess with disapproval, it seemed obvious that the saintess also disapproved of the hero.

That was the case even if we looked at the case just a few days ago.

yes. That was around the time I had just finished taking care of the saintess for the evening.

The warrior who came to greet me after I had finished my day’s work, waving cheerfully.

The saintess, who had been watching her movements, suddenly pulled her into my arms and rubbed her face against my neck.

‘····huhuh.’

I still get chills when I try to recall what happened back then.

Like a cunning cat looking down from a tree on top of a big dog who is savagely roaring on the ground.

When I first saw the saintess’ ferocious expression as if she was threatening the hero that my body belonged to her while being held in my arms, I was so shocked that I forgot to breathe for a moment.

‘····’

‘Hey, stop! Hero!’

Right after that, I successfully stopped the warrior who was slowly closing the distance to the saintess while waving her hands without saying a word.

It is safe to say that it was a miracle that the series of events were brought to an end without bloodshed.

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Just a story from now on, the hero’s unfocused pupils at that time were terrifying enough to remind me of a dragon whose eggs were stolen, and even now it appears in my dreams from time to time.

”What on earth am I going to do, are you going to let go of this hand…”

It was then, in desperation, that I asked such a painful question.

”The one you rejected last time… I would like you to…”

The hero-sama responded to my words with a hesitant tone, reminiscent of a girl handing a love letter to her first love, which was in complete contrast to her cheerful attitude until now.