Chapter 24 – Widow Rodeo (1)
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“What, there is no Kalt?”
Maybelle’s party, who returned from her request, asked about Kalt’s whereabouts to see if the people they had recruited from the guild had gathered.
“Yes. Right after you leave the village to request the request…”
Maybelle didn’t know that she would leave town right after Kalt left her party.
She thought that even if Maybelle left, if it was the Kalt she knew, she would either find a new party in this town, or stay until they came and ask again.
Ianna shrugged her shoulders after hearing the news.
“Didn’t you just listen to our advice and leave?”
Marti smiled brightly.
“Kalt, who has always been strong in his opinion, is like this… I think this withdrawal has been better medicine than I thought. I hope that Kalt can spend peaceful days.”
“Tsk, I was going to ask you to make me some medicine.”
While hunting down her monsters this time, Maybelle felt something strange about her own body.
The more she hunted monsters, the more she started to sweat, and her heart beat faster.
As he defeated monsters quickly, befitting his name as the fastest hero, the symptoms were short-lived.
Maybelle was unhappy that she was still showing symptoms.
When I was feeling low, Kalt noticed right away and gave me a tonic.
If I just give it to them, they complain that it doesn’t taste good, so I made the tonic as sweet as possible.
Maybelle remembered that when she took the medicine, her body felt warm and her energy improved.
Meanwhile, the receptionist facing Maybelle’s party was embarrassed.
‘What, didn’t we break up because of a fight and a passionate fight?’
There was no connection between her appearance when Kalt came to the guild and the appearance of Maybelle’s party in front of her now.
Looking at Kalt’s reaction, it seems like she broke up in the worst way, and when she looks at Maybelle’s party now, it feels like a party member left for no serious reason.
But that didn’t stop the receptionist from asking about it.
From experience, in cases like this, there’s no way you’ll get any good results from needlessly asking or interfering.
“Well, it can’t be helped if Kalt left. But was there anyone who wanted to join our party?”
“Yes, there was.”
The fastest Hero Maybelle Party is currently in full swing.
There were people who wanted to join the party and seize the opportunity to make a name for themselves.
“First of all, these three people applied.”
Recruitment conditions given by Maybelle Party before leaving for the request.
That was the person who would be in charge of the vanguard.
Twin swordsman Tx.
Heavy armor warrior Rodrik.
Mutuga Dinyo.
These three people posted their names on the recruitment notice to become new members of the Maybelle Party.
“Tx, Roderick, Dinyo. Yes, it’s a name I’ve heard before.”
“How will you meet? Are you going to meet each person one by one or all at once?”
“Hmm~ I’d like to meet them one by one. If we meet them all at once anyway, we won’t be able to know what they’re like right away. In the end, I have to make a request at least once to check their skills.”
Maybelle turned around and asked Ian and Marti.
“Is that okay?”
“Then.”
“I agree with it too.”
“Okay. Who would you like to meet first?”
“TX.”
“Then, I will tell Mr. TX to come to the guild tomorrow morning.”
“Yes, please take care of me.”
After completing their business, Maybelle’s party left the guild.
As soon as Maybelle left the guild, she stretched.
“Ugh~ Let’s quickly go to the restaurant and eat.”
While walking towards the restaurant.
“It hurts!”
Maybelle Party found the child crying in pain.
Her knees were slightly bruised, and her nose was bleeding, so it was thought that she had stumbled and fallen forward while walking.
Sister at Maybelle Party.
Marti approached the crying child.
There is an injured child, so she can use her divine power to heal it.
‘Now there is no Kalt to say anything.’
Above all, she felt liberated that she could freely do what her Kalt had scolded her for and stopped her from doing. Marti knelt down and brought her child to eye level.
“You must have fallen. Does it hurt a lot?”
“Aaaaah! It hurts!”
“Okay, just stay a little while. My sister will treat you.”
Marti prayed and used divine power to bless the child with healing.
Basic recovery blessing heal.
White light surrounds the child.
The scratch on her knee disappeared completely, and the nosebleeds from her nose stopped.
“It doesn’t hurt anymore, right?”
“Oh, it’s real!”
The child was amazed by her pain after receiving the blessing of her recovery.
“Should I be careful from now on?”
Marti stroked her child’s head and then wiped the blood from her nose with her hand.
“Thank you!”
The child was grateful and ran somewhere.
Looking at the back of her child, Marti felt proud.
‘Why did Kalt really stop such a good thing? Now there is no Kalt nagging me. In the future, it would be nice to extend a healing hand to more injured people.’
Marti looked at her hands for a moment, thinking about her future.
Her own hands covered in her child’s nose bleed.
“…!”
Martí’s heart responded with a pounding heart.
The thought of wanting to do something about the child’s blood on her hands filled Marti’s mind right now.
Marti hurriedly took her handkerchief from the pocket on her thigh and wiped the blood from her hand.
“Ha, ha, ha, ha.”
Only after cleaning off the blood did her suddenly racing heart return to normal.
‘This can’t be… Oh, no. That can’t be possible. I should have already recovered…’
Marti has experienced many similar sensations in the past.
The problem that bothered her so much.
It was similar to how she once felt when she was experiencing problems that prevented her from growing further and was not accepted by other parties.
‘Probably not. It’s much weaker than it was then. That’s right. I was just a little surprised to see blood on her hands. I’m sure it will.’
Marti hurriedly put the blood-stained handkerchief into his thigh pocket.
‘That can’t be possible. There’s no way it could happen again now…’
“Marti, what are you doing? Come quickly.”
I heard Maybelle’s voice calling me.
“Ah! I’m sorry, Maybelle!”
“I’m sorry. I was watching everything too, right?”
“You were watching everything?”
“Okay. Treating the child who fell. Let’s go faster than that. I’m hungry.”
On the surface, Marti’s behavior was not problematic.
I just stood still and wiped the blood from her hand with a handkerchief.
“Yes, yes. That’s right.”
Marti followed Mabel and Ianna back toward her restaurant.
She holds in her mind her uneasiness that has not yet been clearly revealed.
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Late afternoon, before dinner.
Aria said she had something to say and called Nellie and Scarlett into her room.
“What is it? Are you going to talk about it?”
At Scarlett’s question, Arya took a deep breath and spoke to her dear companions.
“Actually… I decided to receive psychological counseling from Mr. Kalt starting today.”
“What?”
“Really?”
The two people were surprised with their eyes wide open at the sudden declaration.
“Then did you really say that? And that too?”
“Yes. To solve the problem, you need to know Mr. Kalt properly. Besides, you are a colleague, so you need to know Mr. Kalt, right?”
“… What was he like?”
Scarlett asked seriously.
For Scarlett, Aria is also her precious companion.
When she heard about Arya’s problem, she was worried that Kalt might have reacted rudely.
“Thank you for your concern, Scarlett. Mr. Kalt listened to my story, took it seriously… And said he would do his best to resolve the issue.”
“… Okay.”
“As expected, Mr. Kalt is kind~. Actually, I sparred with Mr. Kalt today too.”
“What? You sparred with that guy? Weren’t you there to watch him train?”
“Are you okay, Nellis? Mr. Kalt is better than Nellis…”
“Yes. Watching you train, I really knew that you were much stronger than me. Plus, I saw you practice swinging the Mana Blade while drawing it out? It really, really felt like I was watching a work of art!”
“No, it’s okay for that man to swing a sword. He said he sparred. Don’t change the story.”
“I’m sorry. Well… We sparred, but we couldn’t do it for a long time. Mr. Kalt only defended at first, and later he adjusted the speed so that I could block as well…”
“Did you get caught?”
“No! I didn’t get caught! Mr. Kalt just saw my condition and said he seemed tired, so we stopped sparring.”
“Nellis, why did we spar?”
“Well~ Mr. Kalt said that pure swordsmanship skills are important to draw the Mana Blade. I couldn’t refuse when he said he would check my skills…”
“Ugh.”
Sensing that Scarlett was trying to nag her, Nellis immediately changed the subject.
“What Aria wanted to say is more important than what I said! Aria! So, how was the psychological counseling? Do you think it was effective?”
“I’m not sure because today is my first time. Still… I want to do my best.”
“What did that man say during the consultation?”
Aria said she would begin her consultation right away and told Nellis and Scarlett what Kalt had said to her.
“Wow… I’m touched! Should I think like that when I fight? When this fight is over, everyone will have fun…!”
“Shut up! If you say something, it’s more than just embarrassing, it’s embarrassing!”
Nellis pouted her lips at Scarlett, who was slapping her own forearm.
“Ah, why~.”
Seeing her like that, Aria smiled happily.
‘To see this sight. Is it so. Not for something grand like world peace, but for time with precious colleagues…’
As Aria saw the sight that Kalt had highlighted before her eyes, she became even more determined to overcome and solve her own problems.