Chapter 267 – I’m Not the First.

Every time the warrior saw me, he smiled like an idiot and approached me. As I approached, he stroked my hair and at the same time pulled out a candy bead from his pocket.

He always laughed, but there were days when he cried.

It was only after I grew up that I realized that. His height, which was small enough to barely touch the warrior’s stomach, had grown to the bottom of his chin, and his chest, which had barely been able to hold a lump, was in a state of gentle curves.

The first time he saw the hero’s tears was when he climbed a mountain with soldiers to wipe out bandits. The soldiers, including me, took charge of the banditry in the fortress, and he, who was the first to go out, planned to go to the rear and deal with the remnants.

Right before he came alive, the inside of the living room was full of bloody and burnt smells. Due to the sudden attack, the bandits lost consciousness and wandered around, dying at the hands of their allies.

“Ah, baby! Come on! Come!!”

One of the bandits beckoned to me and called me. He pretended to be kind, but smiled. It was clear that he had something in his hand hidden behind his back.

“…”

Even knowing that, I dropped his one-handed sword and quietly walked towards him.

“Haha! You stupid bitch! Do you want to come!”

Slap!

When I came right in front of me, the man grabbed me by the collar. I turned to look at the soldiers and moved my hand behind his back.

“Ooh, if you move, I’ll kill you!”

Suddenly, I felt cold metal around my neck. As expected, it seemed that he was holding a dagger-like weapon in his hidden hand.

So the bandit put a knife to my neck and shouted to the soldiers.

“Nobody move! If you move, this kid will die!”

At those words, the soldiers quietly lowered their spears and swords. But there was no emotion of concern in their eyes. It was just the reassurance of being able to rest for a while in the hostage situation.

The bandit read the look in his eyes and shouted in bewilderment.

“What, what! You guys! Doesn’t it matter if he kills you?!”

Sting!

Suddenly, a stabbing pain in the neck arose. It felt as if the blade on my neck had ripped through my skin.

I haven’t been hurt once since attacking a living plant. However, it was very nerve-wracking to be hurt in a hostage situation that was deliberately taken.

“…”

I took out the small dagger I had hidden in my waistband. Holding the blade pointed downward, he stabbed the man in the side in quick succession.

Hooked! Hooked! Hooked! Hooked! Hooked! Hooked! Hooked!

“Uh! Oh, oh oh oh!”

Blood spurting from the fragile skin squeezed between my palm and the handle of the knife. At that time, the man forgot to kill me and was leaning on my body.

“Heh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh… !”

A dying sigh leaked from the mouth of the bandit who leaned his head on my shoulder. The filthy smell from there was enough to make him feel uncomfortable.

“…”

A light brush on his shoulder dropped the leaning man’s body. His blood drained considerably, and he lay helplessly on his back on the dirt floor.

“… ! … !”

Perhaps he didn’t have the strength to scream, but the bandit tried to say something while munching his mouth. But I didn’t really care what it meant. There was nothing more useless than listening to someone who was about to die.

“Oh really.”

“Damn it, that ignorant bitch.”

“I want to rest a little.”

The grumblings of the soldiers could be heard from the front. As I watched in silence, they glared at me and left to kill the bandits in hiding.

“…”

I looked down at the man again. He lay on the floor covered in his blood with his mouth open like an idiot.

Now my time to rest is over. I had to move on to my next goal. At this time, the blood on the palm of the hand bothered me.

I stretched out my dagger-raised hand and looked down. The dark red blood coagulated with the silver handle, hardened and became gooey. If he kept doing this, he could swing his sword and miss it.

He switched the knife to his other hand and rubbed the bloody hand on his pants, wiping it roughly. At this time, a chuckle was heard from behind.

Iron, iron

Footsteps dressed in armor that seemed to be slightly limp. It was different from usual, but I could tell who the owner of these footsteps was.

“What is it, Siegfried-sama?”

Calling my name, I turned around. There was still a warrior there. The silver glittering armor was covered in blood, and the one-handed sword he had at the time of departure was bare.

“Oh, Sera, Sera… !”

Even in the midst of sparks swirling around and turning the night sky red, the hero’s white face was not stained.

He raised his hand as if asking for something. His hand was shaking so much that the sound of the joints of his armor colliding could be heard from here.

He asked with a pale face, even though he was frightened inappropriately for his title as a hero.

“Gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa, are you okay? Uh? You, you, you, you, you, are you okay?”

“Yes, it is fine.”

“Really? Uh, where are you, injured?”

Asking that, the warrior approached me. Then, even after wiping it once, he found my hand covered in blood.

“You, you you you your hands! Hand! So-on!”

Suddenly he saw my hand and rushed at it. He knelt down in front of me and wrapped his trembling hand around my hand.

“Gwa, are you okay? Are you hurt? Uh where? Where? Are your hands hurt? Uh?”

It seemed like a lie to have been so frightened earlier. I told the truth to be relieved of such a look.

“It’s okay, Siegfried-sama.”

“Uh, huh?”

“It is not my blood.”

“… Huh?!”

Only then did the hero discover the corpse behind me. I was so surprised that I sat down on the floor and looked up at me with eyes that looked like they were going to cry.

“Yes, you are the main, porridge, porridge,”

I cut him off because I didn’t think it would end even after the battle was over for him to finish talking.

“Yes, I killed him.”

“Really?”

“Yes that’s right.”

“Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah… !”

He started crying at my answer. He didn’t stop there, he grabbed my hand with both hands as if he thought it was salvation.

“Ah, uh, what should I do, uh uh, what should I do… ! I-I want to go home! Oh, mom… ! Mom, me, me, what should I do, mommy… !”

He didn’t look like a warrior at all. From the blood on his armor, it was clear that he too had been a murderer. However, the soldiers who wiped out the remnants over there looked more like heroes when they were crying like this.

“Ahhh! Mama ah! Mamaaaaa!”

It was annoying. I didn’t want to see him cry anymore. The more he looked, the more his heart throbbed, and this sensation bothered him more than the tingling neck.

“…”

I suddenly remembered him stroking my hair. I stroked his black hair that leaned against me to stop crying.

Squeak, squeak

Her hair clumps in her palms because of the blood. It didn’t feel like it, but it had an effect.

“Ahhh… ! Ah, uh, mom, mom… ! Sniff!”

Gradually his cries subsided. And when his sticky blood completely hardened, he stopped crying too.

“Wait, black! Go, thank you, Sera.”

After thanking me, he slowly rose from his seat. He apologized to me with his pale face stained with tears and runny nose.

“M-I’m sorry. Heck, you, too, must have been the first. A little bit rude, right?”

Honestly, he was right. It was only fools to cry in peace when the battle wasn’t even over.

Contrary to my thoughts, however, I shook my head.

“No, Siegfried. It’s okay.”

“No. Sorry. I, I wasn’t mature enough.”

“It’s okay. You don’t have to be mature. Siegfried-sama can stay as is.”

“Uh?”

“… Sorry. It was a mistake.”

It was strange. It was the first time I had ever felt this way before. Words I hadn’t even thought of came out of my mouth. It felt like someone else was controlling my mouth.

“Hero! You are a warrior!”

At this time, a soldier called Siegfried from afar. A man’s head was held in his hand as he called out loudly.

“I took the supply and demand of the boss here! I think you can just step back!”

“Ah, ah, okay!”

Siegfried answered in a slightly trembling voice, and then he shouted loudly to the people around him.

“The Subjugation Captain orders! Those who can move support the injured! Gather at the entrance of the sanchae!”

Then, shouts of knowing were heard from here and there.

“Sera, Sarah.”

He called me He held my blood-curdled hand tightly and pointed to the entrance of the living room.

“Shall we go too?”

“Yes, I understand.”

“But you know…”

“Tell me.”

“I’m sorry… Can I hold your hand?”

“It’s okay.”

“Thank you, Sarah.”

“It’s nothing.”

So I and Siegfried took his hand and headed towards the entrance alive. The soldiers looked at them curiously as they walked side by side, but they didn’t feel like letting go.

“…”

Suddenly, I wanted to look around. I glanced to the right, where Siegfried was, the way I had learned to hide when training.

Ah.

In an instant, my mind turned white. Siegfried’s face, covered in tears and mucus, reflected the flickering light. The usual smiling face and the now crying face overlapped and tightened my heart.

It was the first sensation I experienced today. Unexpected words came out of his mouth, and his heart pounded hard enough that he wanted to feel it again and again.

In the midst of this, I remembered Siegfried’s words I had heard earlier. He suddenly wanted to know about me and called him.

“Siegfried”

“Yes?”

“I am not the first.”

“What?”

“It is a murder word. Not the first time.”

“Okay? … Sniff”

I shouldn’t have said it.