Chapter 94 – Escape (3)

“… Are you really going to leave?”

Seeing her trying not to shed tears made her feel heavy.

I looked at her and slowly nodded her head.

“… Breathe…”

In the end, it made her shed tears once again.

But she couldn’t help it.

If we don’t defeat the Demon King together with the Hero, the world will turn into chaos…

If I don’t move, the future for her and her unborn child will be miserable.

“Huh…, Big…”

I felt so bad for her as she was shaking her shoulders and shedding tears, so I went up to her and hugged her.

She came into my arms and hugged me tightly and cried.

“Go, don’t go… ! Stay with me…, Ooh, my baby!, Now, just a little while… Wow, it’ll be out in a little while…”

Because she hugged me so tightly, her beautifully protruding lower abdomen was slightly touching her body.

I felt a tap, tap, touch reaction as if responding to the mother’s sad tears.

Even though it was a child born by mistake, I wanted to raise it prettily as if it were a child I had created with the woman I loved.

However, I had to leave.

I couldn’t bring myself to say that I had to leave soon, so I just gently stroked her hair as she cried in my arms.

Because she liked me stroking her hair.

Out of her sorrow, she wanted to hug her as tightly as she could, but she could only hug her gently out of fear that the child in her stomach would be scared.

But that didn’t last long.

When I turned my head at the sound of knocking, the hero who had been waiting outside came into the house.

The warrior looked at her in his arms and shook her head as if to listen.

“… “Enough.”

Then, I flinched a little when I saw her eyes staring at me, but she nodded slightly and took me away from her arms and said,

“… Now, I really have to go.”

She looked back and forth between the warrior who was staring at me disapprovingly at the door, and then she became very startled and clung to me and cried.

“Oh, no!! Don’t go, please!! Lord, I’m going to die…, To the devil, we will all die! Please, stay with me, don’t abandon me!!”

She seems to have forgotten that she is carrying a child and uses all her power to block me.

The hero frowned as if he was dissatisfied with her and then slowly approached her as if he wanted to say something.

I had to choose one of the two.

As I approached, I glanced at the hero and stopped her, hugged her tightly as she clung to me, and whispered in her ear.

“… Eris.”

One day, the name she abandoned.

When I was called by my old name, Eris, who was hanging on, opened her eyes and looked at me.

She met her eyes with a trembling gaze, and as if she read my mind, her tears once again poured out.

I gently wiped the tears streaming down her face and whispered.

“… I am safe because the hero will protect me… I’ll be back soon, my baby… “Please take care of me.”

He gently lowered her head and lightly kissed her pursed lips before turning away from her face.

I smiled at Eris, who was still crying and looking at me, with her favorite smile.

Even as she was crying, the corners of her mouth were trembling, and as if something suddenly occurred to her, she shook me off and spoke in a hurry.

“Now, just a moment! “Please wait a moment!”

It was difficult to move due to the heavy stomach, so I moved quickly and headed to the second floor.

While Eris went up to the second floor, she glanced at the hero behind her.

As she stood crookedly with her arms crossed and glared at me, I asked her to wait a moment and gave me a wink as I waited for Eris to come down.

Eris came down, holding her lower abdomen as if her stomach was heavy, and handed me something while panting.

“Ha…, This, this…, Take it!”

What she gave me was an amulet made from her brown thread.

… Huh?

… When I looked closely, it wasn’t a thread.

For some reason, I kept fiddling with her familiar touch, and Eris said with a slight smile.

“… Always think of me as being by your side…”

It turned out that Eris’s fair brown hair was used instead of her thread.

She didn’t show any trace of magic treatment.

She was deeply moved and hugged Eris once again, whispering her love.

“Kuh, khuh…” .”

At that time, she came to her senses again when her hero cleared his throat as if to announce his presence, and she left her village, being seen off by Eris.

Before we could leave the village entrance, someone appeared and caught us.

He was the village chief who looked after Eris and me when we were younger than we are now.

“… Are you leaving already?”

“… “I’ll be back for a bit.”

The village chief cleared his throat awkwardly and let out a dying sound.

“Cold, cold…, Oh my…, I’m getting old, so I don’t think I’ll last long… Wow…”

As I was looking at him with a slight smile, the village chief came up to me and put a small pouch in my hand and said.

“… “I’m lending you this. Be sure to pay it back.”

The village chief, who had looked after Eris and me like a father when we ran away from the city when we were young, sneaked into the village without even saying hello, as he always did.

… Now, it’s really time to leave town.

I smiled and said to Eris, who was crying again while looking at me.

“… “I’ll be back.”

Eris looked at me pitifully, then wiped away the tears from her eyes and returned her greeting with a bright smile.

“… Have a safe trip, … I’ll wait…”

So, I left the village with the hero.

A few decades later…

While stroking Hera’s purple hair as she played in my arms, an old memory suddenly came to mind.

The memories of Eris, who was once my lover and my precious childhood friend…

… Eris, are you doing well?

Even though she couldn’t return to the village, she was a strong woman, so she must be doing well.

One day, I lost the amulet made from her hair and completely forgot about it.

I thought as I looked at Hera rubbing her face in my arms.

… Should I ask you to show me one time?

It was difficult for me to look at the earth with my godhood, so I decided to ask Hera.

After a long negotiation with Hera, she was finally given a hole through which she could see the ground in exchange for a deep kiss and a tickle on her ear.

It was an old memory, so it was vague, but I clearly remembered the name of the unusual village.

A village built by the village chief who was active as a bard of charm in the previous generation’s hero party.

A town where Glory Comes.

Although it had been a long time since I left the village, the location was good and the village was quite strong, so I thought it would still be alive and well.

In a situation where there is no devil, how serious would it be if a problem were to arise?

However, even after washing my eyes and searching, I could not see the village.

I tried to recall as much as I could and searched all the locations where the village could be located, but I couldn’t even find a snout.

… Where did it go?

Since I didn’t want to stick my head in the hole and get out, Hera came over and pulled me in and said.

“What on earth are you looking for? You’re still doing that! Just say it! “I’ll find everything!”

Hera finally pulled her head out of her hole.

I kissed Hera’s face and whispered.

“… Thank you.”

She explained about her village to Hera, who told her to tell her if she felt better.

“Oh, there…, The town that the bard built?”

Hera also seemed to know what she was doing, and I felt strange about her.

After all, the goddess knows everything.

Hera placed her finger on her chin and thought deeply, and as if it occurred to her for a moment, she blurted out.

“It’s gone?”

“… Huh?”

As I unconsciously reacted to Hera’s words, she continued speaking.

“I heard that a hero suddenly attacked and killed everyone? That’s why you didn’t receive godhood.”

A person with power approaching that of a god can receive godhood.

However, people who have committed great sins cannot receive godhood.

After narrowly defeating the Demon King by striking him in the back, I wondered what would happen if the hero was deified, but I thought it was fortunate that he was not deified.

However, the reason she did not receive her deity…

“Massacre is a serious crime. Killing people when it is not even a war is something a god cannot even dream of…”

…
Her hair turned white.

*

My eyes opened brightly.

I must have been quite tired, so I fell asleep before I knew it and fell into a deep sleep without any dreams.

I gently lifted my head from where it was leaning against the window and smoothed out my pressed hair.

The bus wasn’t moving, and when I looked out the window, there were a lot of cars lined up.

When I looked at the window opposite my seat, the seat was empty, as the woman who was riding it had also gotten off.

I slowly stretched my head and looked at the name written on the building.

[Seonsan Rest Area]

We had already arrived at the rest area.

I grabbed my phone and wallet, got off the bus, and stretched out, when one thing occurred to me.

… I turned off my cell phone.

I quietly put it in my pocket and checked the departure time written on the front of the bus.

… Departure in 10 minutes.

Since I had about 10 minutes to spare, I walked toward the building thinking I could have some rest area food for the first time in a while.

Jiyeon Lee didn’t really like the food at the rest area, and while she was watching the Shining Boys, she recalled the memories she sometimes ate and wondered what to eat.

As she casually walked around looking, an egg caught her eye.

The moment I ordered a small size and looked around, a woman ordered egg potatoes.

Even though she looked like she was quite tall, her plain black hair that was neatly cut short made her look androgynous.

She was the woman sitting across from me.

She stood at a distance from me and waited for her order.

I continued to think meaninglessly about what it would be like if that person had become a model, and then I approached the sales counter when I heard that there were eggs.

Suddenly, the tall woman standing next to me took her food at the same time as I did.

The food I took without thinking was too much for the small size I ordered.

I glanced to the side.

Just by looking at it, I could see a woman holding a much smaller amount than me.

I approached the woman who was standing still and carefully spoke to her.

“… Excuse me…”

“… Yes.”

Her voice was a bit low for a woman, making her seem even more androgynous.

“… “It seems like the food we ordered was changed.”

“… Ah.”

She seemed to have realized that her food had come out wrong, and after looking at the food in her hands, she gently handed her dish to her.

After she got her proper bowl, she bought another small snack and returned to the bus.

As she sat down, she glanced at the seat across from her.

The woman who was sitting down had already finished eating the potatoes and wasn’t holding anything.

… Was I starving? ?

I sat down, picked up a slightly cooled potato, popped it into my mouth, and chewed it.

… It’s delicious since it’s been a while since I’ve had it.

When I looked out the window, the sun was already setting.

There is not much time left until we arrive in Busan.