48 – Scar-2

“So, where is your next destination?”

“Since there is a village nearby, I should rest there.”

The silver-haired maid was following me on her journey, wearing a light and comfortable improved maid uniform.

“Aren’t you tired of carrying your luggage?”

“…because it’s not heavy.”

The amount of luggage required for the trip was not small, and even if the number of people decreased, the amount did not decrease significantly.

“It’s okay if I listen instead…”

“I do not care.”

However, it wasn’t to the extent that he couldn’t lift it with the strength of a warrior.

The burden, which seemed so difficult and heavy, now felt as light as cotton wool.

At least this much, I heard some resentment that it wouldn’t have been okay to carry this instead of me during the journey, but the weight wasn’t the problem.

This safe journey, led by the elves on the polished road, was no different from a walk compared to the journey the party of warriors had left.

In the eradication of the demon lord, you never know when the enemy will attack. When passing through the desert, giant worms attacked from under the ground, and the demon king’s assassins took advantage of a surprise attack.

If such a burden had been hung on the back of the warrior who had to run first, the party would have been wiped out two or three times.

Nothing was unnecessary.

“Why don’t you leave it to that wicked elf?”

“I don’t have anything valuable, but I need it right now. What if I run away with it?”

He was following Nerwen right now, but he did not stop being suspicious.

Her behavior was inconsistent. What the hell was that smell and what kind of emotions did she feel?

Even if she was really desperate and desperate, there was no way I could prove it.

He didn’t look good at lying, but he could have fooled me if he had been determined and tried to trick me from start to finish.

You have to think that you can betray me at any time.

“after…”

I didn’t want to continue this topic. When I think of the warrior party members, negative thoughts continue.

“Come to think of it, what should I call you? You can’t just call me a maid all the time.”

She was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and slurred.

“Ceres. My name is Ceres.”

She was the one who accidentally went on a trip with me, but I didn’t know too much about her.

If a normal person really wanted to go on a trip with me, I wouldn’t have cared about that person.

However, she was hiding something. According to common sense, there was no way that a maid working in the imperial palace could join a noble family in the blink of an eye.

Of course, the maids of the imperial palace were not mere commoners, but were chosen from nobles of at least a certain level. Still, there was no way he could do something like this against the Empire.

Her voice is strangely familiar, and the atmosphere resembles someone I’ve known, but I don’t think it’s her, so it’s just frustrating.

“Let’s eat, Bob!”

I haven’t tried it a few times, but somehow the maid’s meal was pretty good.

On the trip with the warrior party, I was the one on duty to eat. At first, an experienced warrior prepared a meal, but it was thwarted by the fierce resistance of the saintess and wizard.

Fundamentally, he was a person who did not understand why rice should be delicious.

Even while cooking a bland and disgusting stew, I thought, ‘Isn’t that enough because you can make a meal using fire, water, time and tools?’

Ironically, by the end of the adventure we all came to understand her words.

There was neither the time to light a fire to send the scent up, nor the luxury of evaporating drinking water. There was no time to sit in one place and watch the pot for tens of minutes, no, there was no space to carry a small pot in the first place.

“Well…”

Actually, I wasn’t hungry. It must have been time for me to be exhausted and hungry, but I didn’t feel anything wrong with my body.

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Judging from her expression, she seems to be simply swarming, but she may actually be feeling hunger.

“I wanted to go to that village within today.”

“Hehe? Fast, fast! If you want to travel that fast, you should have brought a wagon!”

“…expensive.”

Thinking about it, I regret it a bit. Shouldn’t it have been that he should have brought a means of transportation by talking to a nobleman or an emperor in moderation?

“Do you know how to drive a carriage?”

“Of course I know!”

“Yeah. I don’t know.”

However, wagons are bound to become consumables in the end. I don’t know how far I’ll have to go right now, but I won’t be able to drag the wagon with the world tree right now.

A horse would be a little better, but I don’t know how to ride a horse, and I don’t have the ability to take care of other creatures other than myself in an emergency.

In the end, I had to turn around and walk on my own two feet.

“In case of this, I’ll put a seat near the top with a mercenary escort or something…”

“It’s not like I didn’t think about it… I don’t want to wait for the upper ranks who don’t know when they’ll come out. It’s not like there’s a big difference in speed.”

“You’re overestimating the human step!”

Wait, I stopped walking.

If my predictions are correct, I don’t think Ceres will struggle in a place like this. However, that may be my mistake.

It may be that she is overburdened with tasks, just like I was neglected and alienated at a party full of superhumans.

“Then get some rest.”

“Okay. Uh… eh, eh? What are you trying to do?”

Ceres avoided my hand and took a step back.

“What are you doing, are you trying to hug me?”

“Shh, did you mean to rest? What kind of trip were you on!”

“No, why all of a sudden…”

“Was it anger, revenge, no need, love affair? The sun hasn’t set yet and this place is in the middle of the street!”

I scratched my head for a moment as I watched Seris spit out words like a rapid-fire gun with tears welling up in her eyes.

“No matter how much a maid has an obligation to serve, it’s not right now…”

“What are you talking about? I can’t lift you because I have luggage on my back. I have to hold you from now on.”

“Yes Yes?”

After scratching my head for a while, I realized that my words could be interpreted in an ambiguous way.

“Um… I’m sorry. I meant, literally, to hold you and keep walking.”

“Uh, how could that conversation just happen like that? He told me to take a break!”

Celis held out her finger and shouted in disbelief.

“At the hero’s party, when they were resting, someone else would carry them in their arms or carry them on their backs. If they stopped when they were supposed to, they would die.”

“Did resting mean that… what kind of adventure did you go on…”

After slightly relaxing her body, Celis leaned into my arms. I casually scanned her legs.

It was a black and white maid outfit, but the skirt was cut to the right size so it wasn’t too long or heavy, and black stockings covered her body.

“Oh, the gaze right now! Something insidious! Oh, if you touch it…”

“Shall I drop you off?”

“Okay, I made a mistake! Please don’t throw it away!”

Let’s touch the ankle without being too awkward, it’s pretty realistically swollen. The limp muscles were also quite convincingly tired.

“You’re good at women… Have you ever hugged a lot?”

“… All my party members have hugged me a few times.”

“really?”

“During the battle. If I was in a coma or incapacitated, I was the only person in reserve.”

If one fell out due to a failed strategy, they had to leave quickly before the party was annihilated. He used to run away holding a saintess who had collapsed from exhaustion while using recovery magic.

“I’ve been hugged a lot too.”

The person with the weakest body would have been the saint, but of course I was next.

If you get caught in a surprise attack by miscellaneous monsters or get caught up in the attack of a giant monster that shakes the ground and lose consciousness, the battle will stop anyway. Because they couldn’t let me die.

Because of this, I had to stop several times in front of a giant monster. The cold gaze that someone else sent me at that time is a memory I don’t want to recall anymore.

My eyes met with the maid. What if this person is truly an ordinary person who is not hiding any powers and just wants to follow me on my adventures?

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“Really like this… are you okay?”

“If you don’t like it, focus on your studies. If you want to help me, do what I told you to do.”

Farseer changed the structure of the huge laboratory with a few gestures, preparing for a new task.

“There are recent controversies, and we may need to explain right away…”

“The Emperor and Eleanor barely manage to break through this. And, if they fall, we just run away.”

But to the little wizard, political events were literally trivial.

Originally, it is a wizard who is locked in his own world.

The failure of the return of the hero was not meaningful enough for her, who had just committed a huge mistake, to be concerned about.

For him, you have to do what you can. Immediately halting all research on eternal life, she moved the organization for a new purpose.

“And, this last ingredient… is it really okay?”

“Don’t get caught. I collect them because I need them.”

And she was prepared to give up meaningless things.

“As much as possible. There’s nothing strange about summoning demons from Hell. No, you have to collect enough to make yourself a demon just by making them.”

The wizard trembled with fear. Farseer was a mage free from ethics, but even considering that, this was an act that crossed the line.

“Wait, Enerel. I’ll prepare it before it’s too late.”