Chapter 486 – Western Room -2-

Roman left the capital and returned to his hometown, Edelman.

I had a lot of fun doing silver level requests in the capital, but I couldn’t bear the loneliness.

A considerable amount of time, perhaps two or three months, has already passed since the day I returned like that.

Even though the living base itself may be inconvenient compared to the capital, I thought that my hometown was the best because I didn’t have to worry about anything.

Roman eventually decided to follow his parents’ wishes and take over Edelman’s swordsmanship guild. He went around with Alice and earned an outstanding gold rating at a young age, so he had no shortage.

I was planning to retire from my job as an adventurer and live a life of influence at Edelman.

I was living so smoothly.

Was it yesterday? The day I walked around my hometown and took pictures of my eyes as usual. The news that shook the capital reached Edelman.

There is a rumor that the famous Five Knights of the Empire, Count Dritna, and the church’s saintess had a deep relationship with the platinum adventurer Roman.

The story doesn’t end there.

It ended with the provocative news that many women with beauty comparable to the two were involved.

‘What about Alice?’

As soon as Roman heard the news, the image of the platinum-haired man coming out of Alice’s room came to Roman’s mind.

Will Alice be caught in the middle of that major scandal? Or was she abandoned by that man?

Could it be that I was seduced by a mean man one night? I wonder if he was even dating in the first place.

‘Would a man living in barracks like that take responsibility for a woman?’

Complex. Thinking of the man with the same name, Roman gossiped in his mind and chewed on whatever he felt like.

I envy the man who is associated with beautiful women, but at the same time, I expect something negative.

Various delusions swirled around Roman’s mind.

Perhaps because of that influence, I even had a dream of Alice crying and returning to her hometown to find herself.

I was barely able to look away, but my thoughts about Alice were rekindled by the news from the capital.

I was going through those days.

‘Uh, is that…?’

Roman, who was sitting at the café’s outdoor table, suddenly stood up.

A flimsy chair fell over and fell on the stone floor, and even drinks spilled on the table.

“You were surprised. What’s wrong?”

“What, has our gold-level adventurer spotted an enemy?”

After the story that satisfies the women’s delusion about the capital, the story of an adventurer that ordinary people will never experience in their lives.

When the story suddenly stopped at a point where it was about to become interesting, the people sitting in the room burst into laughter.

“Hey! Can’t you hear me?”

“Roman!”

I ignored the grumpy voices around me. I didn’t even answer because I was concentrating.

Roman’s gaze was focused entirely on one place. Immediately I became convinced.

‘Alice?!’

Unique, free-spirited clothing, dark blonde hair, dark skin that looks like it has been breathing in sunlight, and short stature.

I could tell for sure who it was just by looking at the back of the person walking down the busy street.

I had just heard rumors about a platinum adventurer, and I felt like meeting him in my hometown was fate.

Did he have a precognitive dream?

Roman’s hand held the sword out of habit, and his steps moved against reason.

– Live well on your own. If you run into each other at the guild or dorm, just say hello. If you avoid it on purpose, it’s just annoying and tiring to worry about each other, right?

The last words I heard from Alice.

She did not forget a single word of what she heard then. It’s as clear as just before.

Even though I can’t say that the relationship ended well, I don’t think the connection was completely broken.

‘First, let’s say hello and get on with it…’

How can first love be so strong? How can the human heart be so treacherous?

– As a result, Alice is safe and not seriously injured, so I’ll end it like this. Be thankful that you too are someone’s child and that, as a parent, I know the importance of children.

The abdomen and face hit by Dorian upon returning to Edelman.

Even though I felt a tingling sensation in the area long after I was completely cured.

Roman wanted to restore their old relationship, so he called Alice without even thinking about who he was with.

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“Roman…?”

Roman, who was expressing his affection for Alice by touching her cheek, could tell.

Even if it is the same name, this is absolutely not what you call yourself.

It was not a simple matter of where the gaze was directed to distinguish them, but the temperature difference in their voices was so stark that it was clear that they were calling for someone with the same name.

‘That’s right, there was a guy like that. Was it the same level as Alice?’

Thanks to this, Roman also remembered the other person. When I look at my shallow and sloppy skills, I vaguely remember them.

In a way, he is the guy who made the first connection between himself and Alice.

‘There are women around me and I am living well.’

Even if your skills are at the bottom of the gold level, gold is gold.

Now, even if it’s blue gold, the level itself is gold even if the gap with Alice’s skill level is great. There will be no problem living comfortably in a small town like this.

“Alice! Are you going to come back to Edelman for good?”

Roman, who was trying to continue speaking, stopped.

The harmful effects of the habit of trying to perceive the surroundings only through mana and presence. He was finally able to visually recognize the being that was attached to Alice.

‘···?’

Something was different from what I saw at the Adventurer’s Guild. Even though it was right in front of me, it seemed like it would disappear from sight if I didn’t concentrate. No information can be read.

Her mouth was bitten by anxiety.

But there was no silence. The women who followed Roman opened their mouths when they saw Alice.

“Paha! You’re really Alice, right?”

“I heard you went to the capital? Who is the man next to you?”

Alice looked away from her childhood friend and looked at the women on her left and right.

“Go up, see…”

Those powerful women are not nobles.

However, in the countryside, the daughters of the Edelman region’s Yuji (有志) are no different from nobles.

It was a boring relationship with Alice.

-Sigh! Shock!

On behalf of Alice, who quietly cited her name and frowned.

Thero reared her tail and fluttered her buds, showing hostility to the women opposite her.

Roman asked, gently stroking Alice’s head her, as he could sense something just by looking at her lover’s expression her.

“Shall I clean it up?”

Even Roman, seeing it for the first time, can easily tell that there is no goodwill in those bitches’ eyes.

My hasty guess was that they were people who belonged to the group of women who had ostracized Alice.

“Roman. As I said, Alice. “I am not a weak woman.”

Alice took a step forward, showing that she would solve it on her own.

In that case, Roman’s job is decided.

She only supports and supports with all her she might her lovers who voluntarily break off bad relationships and try to overcome trauma.

“It’s okay to do anything here. I’ll take care of the rest.”

In the stagnant and rotten countryside, many common senses were distorted and hardened as if they were the correct answer, and one of them was the unfavorable perception of people of different races and mixed blood.

Because I know how hard her parents worked to settle in Edelman with that perception.

No matter what I heard, I endured it for the sake of her parents.

But it’s different now.

She did not want to show that she was being treated poorly in front of her lover and had to endure it.

The moment she does that, not only will it end up hurting her, but it will also be a huge hurt to Roman.

“It looks like you met a man in a foreign country. You’re not hiding that you have lizard blood, right?”

“Look at that expression. I’m going to hit someone.”

It was Roman who was caught in the middle who felt a sense of crisis due to the women giggling and scratching Alice on either side of her.

‘You have to shut up…!’

If Alice is still Platinum’s lover, this is not something she can just laugh it off like she used to. Edelman’s survival is at stake.

“Now, wait a minute!”

The moment Roman, who realized this, came to his senses and came up to stop Bona.

“Quiet.”

“!”

Another Roman stiffened at Roman’s words. Live a life that focuses only on yourself. My body didn’t move as if I was tied up by a huge snake.

My breathing stopped, and it seemed like my heart would stop soon.

– Terra.

As Alice approached the women, she summoned her golden cube into the air and floated it.

“What is that…?”

“Roman! Why are you staying quiet?! Stop that crazy bitch!”

When the women walked back, making questioning voices about the situation being different from before, Alice grinned and picked out the fragments of her cube.

Quick! The cube pieces shattered under Alice’s fingers, creating her magic circle.

– Petrification.

Hwaaaaahhh───!!!

A gust of gray ash blew through the downtown area.

The colorless smoke that fell on the target finished its work in an instant and soared into the sky and dispersed.

As the petrification smoke disappears, the result revealed is the essence of detailed mana manipulation.

Alice selected only the women’s hair, eyebrows, and flashy clothing and hardened them into stone.

“Oh, lizard bitch! Release this right now…!!!”

“Aaaaah!!!”

A loud scream echoed through the downtown area. Alice sighed as everyone around her looked at her.

“Eomsal… Did you leave the body as is?”

If they had used magic without controlling their strength, their internal organs would have been turned into stone, turning them into stone statues that were nothing more than decorations.

But Alice liked it better this way. I hope that today will be remembered as a nightmare for Orla and Bona.

Crispy. Pasasak.

When the long-awaited wind blew, the women’s hair and eyebrows began to crumble and scatter like stone dust.

The women trapped in the hard clothes could not do anything and watched each other screaming at the top of their lungs.

‘Oh, the woman is bald…’

Roman, who was watching quietly, was impressed.

In that case, the hair roots would have turned to stone and the entire scalp would have died. Depending on the individual, it may be a punishment as strong as death.

‘Even if I go all the way to the capital to fix it, it’ll be at least Atra.’

If it weren’t for a few really skilled high-ranking priests, I don’t know if I would be able to do much.

There is a golden time for treatment in the first place, so those women will have to live bald and without eyebrows for the rest of their lives.

Jeez. Jeez. Jeopuk.

After inserting her cube, Alice approached her frozen childhood friend and opened her mouth.

“I’m getting married soon. If I remember, I’ll send you a wedding invitation.”

“Ah…?”

Of course I won’t be sending out wedding invitations. It simply means not to be flirtatious.

There’s no way you’d invite someone who makes an impression just by looking at them at a happy place.

“What, my old friend is getting married. Congratulations? I’m thinking about having at least five kids. It’ll be cute, right?”

“···.”

Roman’s eyes turned to the person with the same name behind Alice. The beast-like man delivered a warning with his silent mouth filled with deadly intent.

If this becomes a problem, Edelman is someone who will be easy to erase.

“Huh? Wow, that sounds cute! Chu, congratulations!”

Crying and eating mustard itself.

Alice knew it was a reluctant congratulation, but she was satisfied with her attitude, so she smiled and patted her childhood friend on the shoulder.

“Thank you. I’m going on a date, so please take care of Ola and Bona!”

I just watched blankly as my childhood friend disappeared somewhere with a happy expression on the man’s arms.

She felt like she had been stabbed in the heart.

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And when the sun sets.

Alice is holding Roman’s hand.

She knocked on the wooden door and raised her voice.

Thud. Thud. Boom.

“Mom! Dad! I’m here!”