Chapter 42 – 42. Compression

People grow through suffering. Ludwig’s death was a huge stress, but at the same time it was an experience to overcome after losing someone important.

‘Because I can’t be sad forever…….’

A week has passed since Ludwig died.
I didn’t miss training today.
Since the day he died, he hasn’t missed a single day of training.

“Whoa…….”

Breathe in the fresh morning air and return to the cabin. At the entrance was Evangeline, standing in the morning dew.

Standing in a daze, she noticed me approaching, drove away her daze energy, and hurriedly ran.

“John! Good work!”
“No… Master, you don’t have to be like this in the morning?”
“It’s okay! Is it something I want to do?”

After Ludwig’s death, and after learning that I had killed him myself—Master began to take care of me in a strange way.

It wasn’t enough to do all the chores I was in charge of, so I waited for me to return from training from early in the morning.

What if you come back after training? I went straight to the bathroom to wash off my sweat, and Master prepared breakfast.

They looked like a married couple. I hunt outside, and Evangeline helps at home…….

‘If it’s like this, it won’t work….’

You cannot accept Master’s favor in this way. I am her disciple, and I am a body that must support her.

If Master feels that my presence isn’t very useful–if she realizes that I’m not very useful to her…… He couldn’t stay here just because he could love her.

‘A man should act like a man… I can’t play without doing anything.’

This was human instinct and nature.
Keeping my woman and working hard.
You can’t get anything unless you do your duty.

* * *

“Haaaaa…… Then I’ll go to bed now, so wake me up around lunchtime…….”

“Yes, good night.”

Master Evangeline sleeps a lot in the morning. If you said you woke up at dawn for a guy like me, you were the type who had to make up for that much sleep.

In other words, this moment meant that it was time to be free from Master. I thought I would be of help to Master.

Then I had to make use of this time. A time free from Master’s interference.

‘Shall we go?’

I left the cabin with all the weapons I had bought in the city. Margaret asked where she was going, but she replied that she would go for a walk, and went deep inside.

By the time I felt that I had entered properly——I whistled. Soon after, the bush shakes and a large wolf jumps out of it.

“Bruise-!”
“Hati.”

Fenrir’s daughter, Hati, appeared. Like the daughter of Fenrir, the size of a house, Hati also continued to grow in size.

Looking at Hati, who was only a small car, I imagined a future in which this child would become the size of a house.

At that time, I wondered if she would be able to speak human words like her father, Fenrir.

“Let’s go.”
“King!”

I climbed onto Hati’s back, grabbed Hati’s mane, and watched her run through the woods.

Just like knights ride horses, I also rode Hati when hunting monsters. Hati, who was searching for the location of the monster with her sense of smell, soon found it and ran to it.

“Kwaang-!”
─Sad love-!?

Anaconda, tongue wagging, is taken aback when she sees Hati suddenly rushing at her. However, like a beast accustomed to surprise and assassination, it reacts immediately and snaps its body.

The anaconda, which evaded the body swiftly, threw itself to weave Hati, but unfortunately, the plan did not succeed.

I was on top of Hati. As if the division of labor between humans and wolves was unexpected, the anaconda didn’t notice me riding on Hati.

“Get lost!”

The secret technique he learned from Ludwig, when he swung his sword with a movement that accelerated from 0 to 100 in an instant, the anaconda’s body, which failed to respond, was cut in half.

I continued to swing my sword at the dismembered body.

No animal survives the splitting of the upper and lower halves, but not all of them. Confirmation was essential.

“…… Hati, eat.”
“Purr-.”

After chopping up the corpse to make it easy to eat, I patted Hati’s head and signaled that it was okay to eat.

Staring at the minced meat in front of her, Hati gleefully began to chew and swallow the anaconda’s carcass.

It was a monster that could be paid a high price if you saved the skin and cut the meat to sell it, but there was no route to sell it.

‘It was a monster that adventurers couldn’t even dream of catching, and the army only caught it, right?’

Its hard scales easily deflected arrows and blades, and it was too large and agile to hit with a sledgehammer.

A lot of monsters whose movements are bound by shadows or chains, and can only be defeated by beating them for a very long time. Even that, the meat and hides become very muddy, so intact meat and hides are sold at a very high price.

‘If I bring something like that to the adventurer’s guild and sell it, it’ll get suspicious.’

It is a world where witches exist. A witch who becomes a crime just by worshiping her. If an ordinary adventurer caught a monster that he would never have been able to catch alone, it was obvious that he would be accused of being a witch follower with the help of a witch, rather than assuming that a historical adventurer had appeared.

And no matter how much I was, I didn’t want to be accused of being a witch follower. If I get wanted by the church, wanted badges with my face on them will go around all over the country.

“Have you eaten?”
“Bruise!”
“Then let’s go. I need to clean up quickly.”

I thought of Master, who was now enjoying a nap in the cabin. All I can do for her who is struggling for me is to do what she has to do.

And- there wasn’t much he could do on her behalf, where most of her daily routine was magic research. At best, it was just controlling the number of monsters so that there would not be too many monsters in the monster forest.

Fortunately, I was confident about this. Isn’t that what he had been doing even before he started studying under Ludwig? Now, having received professional training from him, he was not afraid of any monsters.

-Sharrly-.
“…… Hati.”

And then, a giant monster that appeared to be the anaconda’s mother appeared. If Fenrir was the size of a house, this monster was the size of a train.

At first glance, it seems to be bigger than Fenrir, and it is an overwhelming majesty that makes you feel that you will never be able to win.

I shouted as I grabbed Hati by the scruff of her neck.

“Bounce—!”

* * *

“Ugh…… Yohaaan…….”

Evangeline opened her eyes, saying the name of her pupil. I must have been dreaming of something, but I can’t quite remember what it was.

What is certain is that it was probably a dream in which John appeared. Recalling the face of her cute pupil, Evangeline smiled brightly and straightened up.

Although his sleep pattern was twisted in order to help the student, he did not resent the student or anything like that. I’m doing everything because I want to….

‘Where, what is our Yohan doing? ….’

Evangeline got up from bed and immediately turned on the crystal ball to see what her pupil was doing. My student was sitting in the living room, stirring something.

Zooming in to see something, Evangeline realized that John was injured, and that someone invisible was tending to the injury.

[Ouch… ! There, can’t you be a little more careful?]
[Yes? If so, ask your master?]
[… ] … That’s a little bit for Master. So to speak, this. Please keep it a secret.]

Even though my precious disciple was injured, the blood gushed to the top, but the fact that the disciple was trying to hide the fact that he was hurt was similarly excruciating.

Evangeline staggered, feeling incomprehensible dizziness, then sat down on her bed and recalled what she had just seen.

‘John, why is he trying to hide his injuries from me?’

When something goes wrong, people try to find the reason and solution in their previous memories. So did the witch.

She remembered the fact that she had applied medicine to John every time he was hurt, and that he had salivated a few minor cuts.

From some romance fantasies I’ve read recently, it reminds me of a villainous girl who avoids contact with her fiancé. The villain girls were extremely reluctant to contact someone they didn’t like deeply.

‘No way…… Did you hate me?’

Evangeline scratched my face with both hands in frustration. Going crazy Just speculating that he might be hated by Yohan makes me want to rip this face off.

A moment later for the blood to flow from the nail into her face, Evangeline ran out of the room with a face dripping with blood.

The moment her door bursts open, Johann, startsled, looks back at her – and when he sees her face, he is more surprised than he was before.

“S-Master!? Are you okay!?”
“John.”
“No, the scars on my face…….”
“Are you hurt?”
“Master is hurt!”
“No, not me.”

Took- Evangeline pointed to the bandages wrapped around John’s arm and body. Seeing this, John hesitated and nodded cautiously.

Seeing him nod, Evangeline asked him, feeling her stomach burn.

“Why, why did you hide it from me?”

“…… Are you hiding it?”

“Until now, you asked me to bandage you. Why did you ask Margaret to do it for you today? Huh? Did you hate me? I hate being touched by people like me…….”

“It can’t be! Because Master is sleeping—”

“Did you ask Margaret for just that reason?”

Evangeline’s eyes are getting darker and darker. She spread her magic in all directions and found Margaret. After that, he began to crush her with his magical power.

As soon as he heard Margaret squeak, Johann, realizing that Evangeline had done something, immediately grabbed Evangeline by the shoulder her.

Then, without a word, he licked her face.

“──!?!?”

The disciple’s soft tongue licks his face. I didn’t even wash my face her when I got up, but when I was worried that my face might get my tongue dirty—— John, who had licked her face her, cautiously dropped off and looked at her.

Johann, with blood smeared on his lips, snared at her.

“What does that matter? Master’s injury is more important…… Look! What are you going to do if your pretty face gets reddened? … !”

“…… Yohan, I- didn’t you hate me?”

“Yes? Master. He told me to read some strange books. Why do I hate Master? Do you think you could do this to someone you hate?”

“…… Ugh, that’s right.”

“It’s okay, take medicine quickly—”

“Hey, no drugs!”

Evangeline catches Yohan heading to the warehouse to find the medicine. Then, after roughly wiping off my bloody wound with the hem of my clothes, the scar clearly pointed out.

“Chi, apply saliva and you’ll get better… ” … Ahead of time-!”

As if my tongue was paralyzed, I couldn’t pronounce it properly.
Evangeline looked up at John anxiously, resentful of her numb tongue her at such an important situation.

John smiled slightly and did as she said. Again, his tongue licks her cheek her. It wouldn’t be able to sterilize properly, let alone recover, but it was good enough nonetheless.

“Ehe, eh heh heh…….”

Whereas Evangeline was laughing so stupidly, Margaret was dying.

‘Quickly release me, crazy bitch—!!’

The pressure Evangeline had put on Margaret was still holding her back her.