40 – speed-4

“Forgive me for being late…”

When the saintess holding a staff entered, everyone’s eyes were focused on her.

“…What is it, Celia? Are you blind?”

A white patch was covering her eyes.

“Ha, that… no. It’s still uncomfortable, but if you’re forced to float it, you should be able to float it.”

After hearing her words, Farseer was able to breathe a sigh of relief.

“I wondered… Well, if that’s the case.”

Farseer wasn’t the only person waiting for Celia.

Eleanor was lying on a cot that tilted slightly so that she could stand up a little, and Nerwen stood in the corner with her bow recovered.

It was the first time that all four of them gathered together when it was not an official event after defeating the demon king.

“Are you here, saintess. Let’s start a conversation soon.”

However, even though people of that class were gathered together, they could not stand up to the authority of an old man here.

It wasn’t even the fancy dress that she always wore. The shock I received before didn’t all go away.

The muscles he built up when he was young disappeared with time. Even now, my body is shaking, and my eyes are full of fatigue.

But no one could ignore him standing upright here.

“As the emperor, I will ask.”

His desire to share responsibility for his mistakes was no different from the others.

Of course. Among the ways to express it, the way he was familiar with was anger, not resignation or resentment.

“A saint, a wizard, an archer, and…”

There was a little bit of tenderness in his eyes, but even that love couldn’t cover the anger now.

“My daughter, Eleanor. All of you. What have you done to him?”

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“Don’t back down! Get in line! There, adventurers are the same. There is no time to leisurely gather!”

The commander-in-chief shouted as if crying, but the people around me were already excitedly harvesting the spoils.

“Is that okay?”

-Of course it’s not possible… But isn’t adventurers going to fight with soldiers like this every day? doing things that make money.

My hand must have been left, so I ran to where the soldiers were still fighting.

“Kwaaagh!”

“Oh, that’s noisy.”

When he raised his sword and struck it down, the orc was easily cut down.

It was kind of like that.

When cutting wood, the woodcutter does not feel threatened by the wood. Of course, it is necessary to be careful of safety accidents such as being crushed by cut trees, but basically it is just physical labor.

Even before gaining the power of a warrior, I had to deal with one or two orcs with my own hands. Of course, archers and wizards helped, but I needed to endure at least one or two monsters they spilled.

I needed the money right away, but I should be able to get a place to sleep.

“The right wing has been sorted out. Just hold on a little longer!”

Although he was good at gathering, he had no ability to distinguish which parts were valuable. That was the magician’s job.

I could have noticed and found the parts that other adventurers took, but I didn’t want to be among those who had already rushed to the corpse like a swarm of bees.

“Force!”

The unit commander glanced around to see if more adventurers were coming, but they seemed unwilling to come.

In the first place, the place entrusted to them was the right wing, so they wouldn’t be in a position to brush them off if they didn’t help more.

I sluggishly raised my sword again and slashed the orc with soulless swordplay.

– Isn’t it thrilling? Stand in the middle of the battlefield and be a hero!

“Bored…”

I didn’t expect that I would come up with these thoughts, but the stimulation was lacking.

Compared to the sword wielded by the hero, this one was more like a scarecrow than a fight opponent.

– So, what are you thinking?

“I’m looking for the phoenix, but…”

Legends of the phoenix appeared here and there, but most of them focused on the fact that the phoenix ‘appeared.’ There was no data describing its habitat or behavior.

A phoenix appeared to a famous elementalist, or a phoenix appeared to a good knight who was dying in the rain and shared warmth.

“You don’t know either?”

– Well, you know. how is it First of all, I’ve seen the phoenix a few times… But, the habitat? I’ve never seen them roaming around in groups.

“It’s daunting right now.”

In the end, getting help from the emperor was the easiest and fastest way.

However, performing a ritual once prepared is different from preparing the ingredients from scratch.

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Judging by the emperor’s attitude, he could have gathered the ingredients surprisingly smoothly, but he didn’t know how long it would take.

There was no clear deadline of one month, so my return could have been pushed to a lower priority due to various circumstances.

“There is no need to chase further! Orcs run away!”

The unit commander urgently called me. I hurriedly walked back to where the other soldiers were.

– Wow, trance! The achievement of the sword is not far away!

“I was just having a conversation with you. Usually this means I wasn’t paying attention.”

My body was decently tidy, but I couldn’t help it that the blood and flesh of the orcs were smeared here and there.

“You fought bravely. It’s kind of hard to say this in front of adventurers… but they lacked reliability compared to their skills. I’ll recommend you, so why don’t you join the Imperial Army?”

“No. Never.”

After lightly rejecting his offer, I trudged back to the adventurers.

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“At first, I really thought he was upset because I couldn’t keep my promise.”

Deep within the Emperor’s body, excitement and anger were seething.

Although the cold rationality was still restraining the emotion, passing it by the throat.

“It deserves to be angry. If a month has passed since the deadline, people might be a little angry.

The four women all stared at each other with their mouths tightly shut.

“I wasn’t happy either. A month isn’t such a long time, isn’t it an appropriate time to say goodbye to the comrades I’ve been with and look back on my achievements? I wondered if it was something that should be criticized that much.”

“sorry…”

The saintess bowed her head first.

“By the way, he hates this world more than I could have imagined. Let Jim explain it to you.”

“Is that really your truth?”

With an uncomfortable face, Farseer fiddled with the magic marble in his hand.

“Then, was the marriage story I heard just a rumor?

The emperor gritted his teeth. To rob others of information, he too had to reveal his shame and desires.

“I don’t need power. The important thing is lineage.”

“That’s even weirder. Why did you think the princess would mix with Enerel when she wasn’t specifically ordered?”

“…statistics.”

“under?”

Parseer, who had been furious at the nonsense, pondered the meaning of the words for a moment.

It took a little over three years to defeat the Demon King. And this was an unusually short time.

It usually takes 8 years, sometimes 15 years. The feat of a warrior was long, tedious, and difficult to achieve.

Because of the protection of the goddess, there is no easy death, and fortunately there has been no case of a hero completely failing.

However, there were plenty of warriors who lost in battle and had to live with amnesia for several years, and warriors who were betrayed by their colleagues and had to waste time until they found new ones.

“My best friend is someone who likes warriors more than anyone else. When I asked him to organize his plans, he didn’t even consider it work.”

The age of the warriors also differed greatly from person to person. There were times when a child barely over the age of ten was summoned as a hero, but there were also times when an adult over thirty was summoned as a hero.

Of course, there was no opportunity to make a lover during the journey, and the only people I had to see were the party members I had to see every time.

There is a sense of camaraderie because we overcame hardships and adversity together, and there are many opportunities to see each other’s disheveled sides, whether we like it or not.

Unless the appearance of one side was extremely ugly, or even if it was ugly, a relationship with the opposite s*x would be created somehow.

“Even so, why did you think that she would be that hard-headed girl? At least when you were young, there was a thing called cuteness, but that friend is a bit…”

“You’re a woman with a rather large age gap, so I thought that even if it couldn’t be helped, all the other women would be embraced by him. Of course, this is also a statistic.”

The empire has a long history. The history of warriors was also long. To the extent that it is possible to pattern it to some extent and figure out the next hero’s move and result.

“A madman…”

Farseer gritted his teeth at the emperor’s ridicule for openly treating him as an old man.

“Are you satisfied with the answer?”

“You’re an idiot, but I couldn’t have been satisfied with such a flimsy plan. If you need his lineage somehow, a more complex plan…”

“No, that’s all! Even if the princess and he weren’t married until after the trip, I thought he’d stay here if I promised him honor, a woman, and a comfortable life!”

However, the situation was more dire than expected. The journey did not end successfully.

“Now it’s your turn to speak. What have you done?”

The eyes of the swaying women focused on the lying Eleanor.

“…it was training. It was necessary.”

“To the extent that that good man trembles so much?”

Eleanor lowered her head.

“I know. I made a mistake. He didn’t have to do his duty, and I considered him ‘responsible’. As a member of the warriors’ party, as a warrior.”

“…Really, with a slap to death.”

Celia snorted. Eleanor cried out in indignation.

“That’s… that’s what I was training when I was 15!”