Chapter 1 – Exile
An inn with a lively atmosphere with many people drinking and drinking.
Inside the room on the second floor of the inn, a situation completely opposite to the exciting atmosphere was taking place.
There were three women and one man in the room.
“What?”
Man.
Kalt couldn’t believe what he had just heard and asked again.
“What did you just say?”
A woman with green eyes, with a side tail of orange hair hanging to the right, faces Kalt, who asks a question.
Hero Maybelle spoke to Kalt again.
“Are you deaf? Get out of my party.”
Kalt sighed and scratched her head roughly as she realized she hadn’t heard anything wrong.
“Hey, Maybelle. What’s wrong? What’s not right for you this time? Are you so upset that I nagged you not to leave any carrots?”
“Who do you think would say something like that? What are you looking at me for?”
“Then… Then why are you doing this? Why are you suddenly asking me to leave?”
In response to Kalt’s question, suppressing the emotions bubbling inside her as much as possible, Maybelle crossed her arms and said.
“That’s right, Kalt. I don’t need you in my party anymore. Up until now, I still had you as a childhood friend, so I included you, but… Honestly, I think I should stop doing that now.”
“… What?”
When Kalt heard Maybelle’s words, he was so shocked that he felt as if her iron club had hit him hard on the head.
“What kind of bullshit is that? You don’t need me? I’ve been waiting for you all this time…”
While Kalt was speaking, she looked back and forth between the two people who were not objecting to Maybelle’s words.
‘Ha, you mean the same thing as Maybelle?’
“How much have I cared for you before you say something like that?”
“At first.”
The wizard next to Maybelle.
A robed woman with long green wavy hair and light blue eyes. Ianna opened her mouth.
“Of course, I am grateful for the advice and miscellaneous tasks you give me in the beginning. But… This party can run without a problem even if you don’t do anything, right?”
“…”
Kalt was dumbfounded and speechless after hearing the words coming out of the mouths of the other party members.
Maybelle, who interpreted it differently, snorted.
“Hmph, it’s true, so I guess I can’t even refute it.”
Then there is one remaining person.
A woman dressed as a nun with long golden hair and yellow eyes opened her mouth.
“Khalt, I know very well that you have contributed to our party so far. However, we are a warrior party. We cannot take you with us forever. You are not good enough to follow in battle anymore. It is a pity. “
“…”
Chin! And Kalt grabbed the back of her neck.
“Do you feel like your future is bleak because they suddenly tell you to leave? Yes, especially, I will give you all the rewards from the monsters you caught today.”
“There’s nothing to be that shocked. But you still have some level of skill, right? How about joining a fairly normal party?”
“Or how about finding a job in peace? Kalt’s cooking isn’t bad, right? I’m sure any inn or restaurant will accept it. You’ve built up your stamina by going with us, so wouldn’t it be easy?”
Kalt was so angry that he could feel the blood vessels in his temples thickening due to high blood pressure.
Rather than saying that he had no skills, the patronizing words he was spewing out were more absurd and absurd, and he felt like he was holding his head and falling down.
I thought of all the things I had contributed to the party so far.
I remembered the time I used to clean up after parties.
I remembered the work I had done as a member of the party.
Was he on the verge of dying from a fire?
As everything passed by so quickly, Kalt desperately held back the feeling that he was going to collapse even more.
Yeah, it’s probably because you don’t like something that you’re throwing a tantrum.
It’s not the first time that Maybelle has been so angry and angry.
This bitch has been a tomboy and troublemaker since she was young.
It’s crazy that the other two people also agree with Maybelle’s wishes this time.
Kalt said with as much anger as possible.
“I’ll pretend I didn’t hear that nonsense you just said. Everyone, stop and go to sleep.”
Kalt snorted at her as she turned around and tried to leave the room.
“Look at you trying to escape reality. Still don’t understand the situation?”
“Kalt? It’s ugly to hold a woman’s skirt and let it hang too much, isn’t it?”
“Rather, it might be better for Kalt to get away from dangerous places and live safely, right?”
At that moment, Kalt heard something snapping in her head.
‘I went through all that trouble for these bitches?’
Kalt had sworn to repay the kindness of his parents, who are now in heaven, who raised him with love and care.
Let’s live a good life.
Let’s live as kindly as possible.
No matter who says shit, I watch as much as I can.
Even if my co-worker gets angry, I try to calm him down as much as I can.
Let’s endure as much as possible even if we hear swearing.
With that mindset, Kalt has lived until now.
He followed his childhood friend Maybelle into the warrior party, recruited her two companions, and endured her hardships.
But now that bond of patience has been completely broken.
“Yeah, you damn bitches.”
Kalt immediately turned around and spat at the three people.
“If you want me to leave, I will leave.”
“B, you damn bitch? Kalt! What did you just say!”
“No matter how upset you are, isn’t that a bit harsh to say?”
“Kalt, you use such vulgar words. I’m disappointed.”
‘I was the one to disappoint, you damn bitches!’
“I’m going out, so I’ll have to take back what I gave you.”
“Are you telling me to vomit up the food you made?”
“I didn’t receive anything from Kalt other than food?”
“Khalt? What are you asking for?”
‘These two bitches are really…’
There’s so much I’ve done so far.
It made Kalt even more angry that the ungrateful bitches in front of him couldn’t even think about anything other than food.
Kalt said, spreading his hands towards the three.
“Hypnosis for you.”
Before the three people could react to Kalt’s words, a peculiar energy emanated from Kalt’s hand.
The three people’s eyes lost focus, and they stood still as if in a daze.
Kalt spoke to those three people.
“Any hypnosis applied to you will disappear. When you wake up, forget what happened for 10 seconds.”
With those words, Kalt left the room, and only three people remained in the room.
After a while, the three people came to their senses at the same time.
“Huh? What? Where did he go? When did he leave?”
“I guess I listened to the advice and didn’t hold on to the hem of my skirt.”
“I guess you must have been very shocked. Still, this will be better for both Kalt and us. I don’t know now, but as time goes by, Kalt will realize that we made the right decision.”
They had not yet noticed the change and had no doubt that they were right.
Meanwhile.
Kalt entered his room at his inn and lay down on the bed, staring blankly at the ceiling.
“Haa…”
There was just a sigh.
Even though she tried so hard to do well.
The bitches to whom he had shown such good will try to abandon him without even knowing the grace.
If what he did was incompetent, he wouldn’t have been so angry.
‘I was the one who made those poor people do their jobs in the first place.’
Those damn bitches who didn’t know the grace thought that what they received was just a meal.
I felt like all the hardships I had gone through so far were meaningless.
The oath to live a good life with the thought of repaying a favor to my parents who had passed away felt empty.
No, at least I wondered if I had to keep my oath so honestly and foolishly that it would cause me so much pain.
“Fuck, yes. Why have I been so stupid until now?”
It is good to live a good life.
Because it’s stupid to make unnecessary enemies.
Still.
“I can live on my own for a little while, right?”
Once he said it out loud, Kalt felt relieved.
“Yeah, that works. Ha, fuck. Why didn’t I think of that before?”
I still want to keep the vow I made to my parents.
But even so, Kalt thought again that he had been living too rigidly and inflexibly up until now.
“There’s no way my parents would want me to be this shit, right?”
It is said that the greatest filial piety toward parents is the happiness of their children.
If so, hasn’t he been unfilial all along?
It is right to show my son that he is happy, even if only to end the unfilial piety he has committed so far.
Kalt decided to think so.
As I changed my thoughts, the world that had been so dark and heated just now began to look clearer.
However, perhaps because of the anger and stress I felt just now, my eyes were still hot, my head was pounding, and I was tired.
‘Let’s sleep first.’
Thinking that he would feel better after sleeping, Kalt closed his eyes and went to sleep.
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The next evening, Kalt opened his eyes.
Perhaps due to fatigue caused by excessive stress, Kalt had been sleeping for a day.
By the time I woke up, feeling a bit dazed and washing my face, the ship was sending out signals.
Kalt left the inn and stopped by a nearby restaurant to order food and drinks.
I filled my hungry stomach with food and drank alcohol.
“Big~.”
Any remaining daze disappeared in an instant.
Then, when you want to enjoy your meal.
“Stop doing this, Mr. Dread.”
“Why are you doing this when you like it too? Huh?”
I heard a voice that was annoying to my ears.
‘That bastard is doing that again.’
It was the vanguard of another hero party that had recently come to this village and was setting up shop.
Seeing that there were no heroes or other members in sight, he was alone in the store, flirting with a woman.
Kalt has seen Dredd flirting with or flirting with female employees a few times.
They were just a little annoying, but I thought they didn’t go too far, so I passed on them.
This time he grabbed her wrist and didn’t let go.
Jenna, who can be said to be the store’s signature lady, panicked and tried to remove Dread’s hand, but the slender woman’s strength was not enough to remove the muscular man’s hand.
“Joe, please let go, Mr. Dread.”
“Stop bouncing around, okay? It’s time to be honest, right? You don’t like it, right?”
“What on earth are you talking about… Wow!
Dread massaged Jenna’s butt for a moment.
“She shakes her ass like this. In fact, she knows she’s seducing her.”
“Don’t do this! Please, someone help me!”
She was not one to readily respond to Jenna’s request.
Not only were they intimidated by the Dread’s bulky body, but they also knew that they were no match for them, as they had heard rumors that the warrior party that the Dread belonged to had defeated several monsters.
Jenna was devastated when she saw that no one was waking up.
As it was, he became anxious and scared, not knowing what would happen to him in Dread’s hands.
‘Ha, the food really tastes bad.’
It was right then.
Kalt stood up and approached Jenna and Dredd.
“Hey, stop talking bullshit and leave it alone.”
“What! Someone is disturbing me… Huh? Who is this?”
When Dread saw Kalt’s face while trying to temper her, she raised the corners of her mouth and gave a mocking grin.
“You’re the bastard at Maybelle’s party, aren’t you?”
“… What?”
Words came out of Dredd’s mouth that threw Kalt’s mood, which had improved at least, straight into the trash can.