Chapter 50 – Hermes

The request I received decided to leave immediately.

I had enough rest so far, so I decided to leave right away.

The adventurers’ branch warned me over and over again, emphasizing that it was dangerous to go beyond that, asking for only scouting.

Still, he was able to receive this request because he was recognized as a C-class adventurer as a hero. I thought we would pack our things and leave right away, but the hero said he had somewhere to go and took us with him.

“Where are you going?”

“This is… The Magic Engineering branch?”

The labyrinthine city of Hermes is not called a city with complicated roads for nothing. As a result, each area was in a divided form, but the place we were going to now was the Magic Engineering branch.

So, it means that he has come to a branch that is developing magic and science together. It is characterized by a completely different appearance of the city from other districts.

So.. Should I say it feels like a combination of steampunk and cyberpunk? I think it could be called fantasy punk..?

I think it would be most appropriate to say that it is cyberpunk mixed with magic. Apparently, the mercenary called in cyberpunk would be an adventurer here. It is said that most adventurers who use magic engineering technology visit this place.

Why did you come here?

Since none of us use magic engineering, there was no reason to come here.

Cecilia and Ruril also thought so, and asked the hero why he had come here.

“There is one thing I want to request.”

The hero said that and looked at me.

If you just say that there is something you want to request, we won’t be able to understand it. I thought so and tilted my head towards the hero, but Cecilia and Ruril didn’t seem to think so.

He was making the same expression he used to look at me and the hero at the same time.

They’re usually pretty, but…

I don’t know why he’s making that face… I still don’t quite understand, but Cecilia and Ruril didn’t seem to be like that. Ruril listened to the explanation from the hero and said that it was a really good method.

Don’t bully me again…

It was really sad that I couldn’t respond and couldn’t ask questions because I was in a position where I couldn’t listen.

Anyway, the place we headed to was the forge. It’s safe to say that the horse is a blacksmith, but the blacksmiths here are actually technicians.

The warrior looked around and moved to a blacksmith’s shop without hesitation. Since he informed all of us that he is a regressor, he has no hesitation in his actions.

That was nice to see.

He asked me to wait outside for a while, so I sat in a chair and waited, so I came out right away as if I had already completed the request. While entrusting the request roughly, he handed over the paper he had for explanation and came out with a request.

It’s over quickly, so that’s good for me.

I was scratching my head.

Then, what’s left is to go buy things you need to prepare before leaving to solve the request.

There was nothing to worry about.

From now on, the place we are going to is the poison swamp, so the first thing we need to do is to buy protective gear to avoid getting poisoned and then take the antidote.

The reason why I kept saying it was a dangerous place from before is because it is an area full of poison.

Of course, it’s not to the extent that the body melts just by touching it.

It is essential to use high-heeled shoes that are used for adventures, as dokdo in a swamp can be quite dangerous if you touch bare skin. It’s a low-heeled shoe, so it’s a big deal if the poison gets inside the shoe.

For the same reason, bare skin should be avoided as much as possible.

And to explain the second dangerous reason, we have said before that the place we are going to is the most dangerous place.

How about the most dangerous place in Yagem?

I believe that you will be able to fully understand even if I do not explain. Anyway, there is a simple dangerous poison, but it’s a poison that is worse than the aphrodisiac that plagued me and the hero quite a lot.

Like a 19-year-old game, there is a description that when the heroines touch the poison, their clothes slowly begin to melt.

In fact, even in modeling, the clothes slowly melt.

Anyway, that’s enough to call it poison.

What are the effects of the weak medicine?

I didn’t ingest it, I just smelled it, but it had that much effect. But more than that, an aphrodisiac that has the level of efficacy that can be called poison?

It’s not just a game for nothing.

It’s not for nothing that I said it was a very dangerous place. Yesterday, just smelling the aphrodisiac and masturbating while imagining the hero, or lying on the bed and masturbating while smelling the smell of the hero.

Since I had done something that I would never have done as a normal person, I couldn’t help but soften my guard against the weak. I didn’t want to imagine what would happen if I went and got poisoned by the poison.

Of course, we had a saintess who could solve any abnormal condition in an instant, but I was still uneasy. It would be like if Cecilia gets the poison and the person who can cure it disappears altogether…

You will have to be as careful as possible.

I heard that if it’s a drug-level drug, it’s even addictive, but I don’t know if this will be okay.

If it was the purification of a saint, it would be possible to purify cleanly without leaving any addictions, but… Even in the game, if the saintess purifies it when a status ailment occurs, it disappears without leaving any debuffs.

I’ll be careful not to get caught as much as possible, but I don’t know that it’s a world thing.. Come to think of it, I have to find and deal with the demon army during reconnaissance, so it will be a more difficult request than normal reconnaissance.

At first, the hero wanted to go alone, so I was offended and asked to go with him, but now that I think about it, I can understand why the hero wanted to go alone.

In the setting in the game, what would happen when this request was made?

From the standpoint of knowing what kind of poison the poisons were there, of course, he wouldn’t want his comrades to go there, so what the hero said earlier wasn’t so strange.

You have to be careful not to get poisoned as much as possible.

Still, if you were going to stand out against Cecilia, I would hit you instead.

It’s not a poison that melts the body just by being hit, it’s just that the aphrodisiac effect intensifies and the clothes melt, so you should be able to endure that much.

Maybe..

Above all, if I was poisoned, Cecilia could fix it, but if Cecilia were poisoned, the party would fall apart.

Of course, in preparation for such an event, I bought an antidote and took it with me, but… Rather than the antidote, Cecilia’s own purification was much more effective.

Whichever suits me would be the most ideal.

I wonder if Ruril should be hit instead of me, but I can’t force others to hit me instead..

I gulped.

“Before, it seems that it was very difficult to walk for a long time..”

When I, who had been out of breath even after a short walk, showed me that I wasn’t struggling at all, Cecilia looked at me curiously and said,

Of course, I was in a position to not listen to Cecilia, so I just walked quietly, but the hero who heard Cecilia’s question answered instead of me.

“It’s like putting a spell on her body.”

“Is there any magic that improves physical strength?”

“I’m not sure about that because I’m not a wizard, but maybe there’s no magic like that. I think I just lightened my body.”

He said he doesn’t know anything about magic, but seeing how he correctly grasps the magic I used, it seems that Hero Jjambab isn’t going anywhere.

Cecilia, who seemed to be thinking about something for a while, came to me as if she had made up her mind. Even if she couldn’t hear her words, she could feel the presence, so she turned her head to look at Cecilia.

What are you trying to do…

While I was vigilant thinking so, Cecilia reached out her arm to me. Before long, I put on a puzzled expression at the feeling of floating that gradually felt in my body.

It lifted me up

Cecilia too

“Wow, it’s so light?!”

It was natural.

It’s because I’ve put a light weight magic on my body.

I never expected that Cecilia would pick me up as soon as she approached, so I struggled with her body while being picked up by Cecilia.

But Cecilia, as if she had no intention of letting go, began to lift me up and put me down with a smile on her face.

No.

This crazy

I know what this is

It’s high, high, isn’t this…?!

“Puff..”

“Three, Cecilia…?! Then what if Rumia gets mad?!”

“Ehehehe!”

Even at the bewildered hero’s words, Cecilia only laughed incoherently, and her hand holding me didn’t stop.

…

It wasn’t a bad feeling.

It was comfortable too.

“…”

“Cute..”

The hero looked at me with a complicated expression, and Ruril looked at me with a cute expression.

Are you jealous..?

…

I can’t, I’ll have to get out soon.

Suddenly, I slammed the wind magic into Cecilia’s hair.

As Cecilia’s deathbed echoed, my body regained freedom.

“Hing..”

Don’t watch me even if I cry