Chapter 31 – Secret Story.

“Lapon! Lapon!!”

An urgent voice rang out in an old shout. The owner of that clear and beautiful voice was none other than Laurencia.

“Where are you?! Rapon!!!”

“Oh my. This old man is still deaf, so speak quietly.”

What appeared before her was a strange figure. Despite her skinny figure, her tall shadow trudged forward, tapping her shoulder with a spear as long as her height.

“Really! Why are you showing up now? Rapon!”

“Ah, you too should be over 3000 years old. Can’t an old man even rest in his own home?”

As the man called Lafon clicked his tongue and spoke, Laurencea touched her forehead as if she was in pain.

“I was probably just drinking again!”

“Kakaka! This was caught!”

“Why don’t you get rid of that bottle and hide it?”

“No way! This is the first human drink I’ve had in a while!”

Laurencea sighed and shook her head when she saw Lafon, who had heard her nagging, hide a bottle of alcohol in his hand that was not even the size of her palm as if it was precious.

“Ha, I really don’t understand what it tastes like.”

“So you’re young. Would you like a drink too?”

“Hmph! I don’t need it! And I’m 900 years old too! How long are you going to treat me like a child?!”

“Kakakaka! It’s young when you think about it.”

Bong! Lapon opens the bottle by tapping the bottle cap with the tip of her finger and makes the rice cakes.

“Puh-ha! This is the taste! I like it because humans develop quickly. The taste is new every time I fall asleep and wake up.”

As Laurencia watched him with a sullen expression as he enjoyed drinking, he soon opened his mouth.

“So what’s going on? He said he didn’t want to listen to the old man’s nagging, so why did he come by himself?”

“Ah! That’s right! I forgot!”

She then thought of her business, shook her head, and spoke with a stern expression.

“Targon is dead.”

“… What is it?”

After hearing Laurencia’s story, Lafon also looks at her in surprise and strokes her chin.

“Huh, that kid. I thought it would last at least 2000 years without any problems. I can’t believe it can only last 500 years.”

With a clink, he casually threw the liquor bottle he was holding nearby and started heading somewhere.

“I don’t think it’s a story worth talking about here. Did you tell the others?”

“Kamal and Cetron are not together yet. I thought there might be some way for you.”

“Kakakakaka! Are you relying on me?”

“What is the will!”

Even though Laurencia grumbled, Lafon smiled happily and sat down on the large rocking chair in the room she arrived in.

“So how did that kid die? At least he wasn’t the current hero?”

“That’s right. There’s nothing like being a bitch like that.”

Then, Laurencea nodded her head as he asked her seriously, as if asking when she had laughed.

“Hmm, you obviously said you were going to eliminate the hero… Was there a strong person among his colleagues that we don’t know about?”

“Ha, you didn’t tell Lafon, right?”

Laurencia spoke of what had happened so far, even though she had an uncomfortable look on her face. She learned that she had sent an incubus to cut off her hero and failed, and she was intrigued by it and found out that she was a gold-level adventurer.

Laurencia, who was interested because she was a man, tried to take the initiative herself, but decided to work with Targon, who had a similar goal, but she failed and Targon, who fought the adventurer, was defeated.

“Huh, you’re saying that a gold-level adventurer wasn’t just able to resist your temptation, he also killed Targon?”

“Ugh, that’s right.”

Lorencia frowned at his words, but agreed. This is why she didn’t want to talk about it. It became known that she, a succubus queen, was unable to seduce men.

However, since it was too big of a problem to not mention Targon’s death, Laurencia had no choice but to come to talk to Lafon, who was most likely to listen to her story.

“We better inform the others quickly. Balt! Copen!”

When Lafon shouted loudly, two girls slowly appeared from the shadows.

“Balt.”

“Copen, you’re here.”

“Yeah, yeah. That’s amazing.”

He patted their heads and spoke.

“You must come immediately and tell Kamal and Cetron that Targon is dead.”

“Yes.”

“Okay.”

Laurencia asked as she watched them disappear into the shadows again at Lafon’s command.

“So what do you plan to do?”

“Hmm, what’s certain is that it’s difficult to consider him an ordinary gold-level adventurer.”

It is also true that Laurencia’s temptation did not work, but by the time she defeated Targon, she was by no means someone who could be ignored as a gold-level adventurer.

“By the way. Have you finished what I asked you to do earlier?”

“… What happened?”

“Yekki. You bastard! Didn’t you always tell Chang Gwan to release his men to get information?!”

“Wow!! There’s no need to hit me!?”

Kyaang! Laurencea, who had hit her head with the pole he had lightly struck, was rubbing her head with both hands with tears in her eyes, but Lafon already seemed uninterested.

“Hmm, then there will be a setback.”

“Profit! When did I say I didn’t do it? I already released it a long time ago!”

It was thanks to using it that we were able to find out the identity of this hero and his companions, which were originally kept a complete secret even among humans.

Lafon said that no matter how loud a man is, if he creates the right situation in front of a beautiful woman, his mouth will become lighter.

“That’s a good thing. Then there must be a plan prepared in case the job fails, right?”

“That’s right.”

Laurencia used her subordinates to secretly recruit adventurers who could be used in case Incubus failed to eliminate the hero and his companions. Because of her whimsy, things have gone wrong, so she hasn’t been able to take advantage of anything.

“But at most he is a gold level adventurer. What can he do?”

“Wasn’t it just a Gold-level adventurer who rejected your temptation and defeated Targon?”

“Is she like that?! And stop talking about it! It’s annoying, isn’t it?”

When Laurencea got on her nerves when Tiaran reminded her to throw her fists, Lafon chuckled and continued.

“Kakakakat! So, aren’t you saying we should use it? If you are not an ordinary adventurer, we should first find out what the difference is compared to an ordinary adventurer.”

Squeaking, he moved the rocking chair, stretched out his hand, picked up another drink from the large table, and drank it in one go.

“Gulp! Gulp! And didn’t I always tell you that the most dangerous thing to humans is…”

“You’re not a demon, but a human being? I’ve heard it so hard!”

Laurence complained that she was making incomprehensible noises every time, and sat down on the relatively small chair that had been prepared for her.

“Kakaka! Now, why don’t we stop talking about work and have a drink together?”

“Just give me orange juice instead of that.”

“Ah, you don’t know the true taste.”

“Hmph, because drinking alcohol doesn’t make you an adult, right?”

Lafon thought as she watched Laurencia drinking the orange juice she had given her and putting her piece of wood into her fireplace.

‘Anyway, Targon has fallen. This is it. I thought there would finally be a showdown because the hero didn’t ripen in time.’

Among the five evil stars, he was the one who had been assisting the Demon King for the longest time, so as soon as he heard the information that the hero was immature, he hinted to Laurencia.

‘Goddess. Is this your plan? If not that too…’

Lafon sipped the rest of her drink, thinking about what Laurence would do.

“Ah, I feel like my insides are being pulled.”

“Oof, why on earth are you riding something like that?!”

The carriage led by Gold Pucker was so fast that Tiaran’s group was able to return to the territory quickly, but Asta and Lucia were realizing what it was like to be upset.

“Tsk, tsk, this is why they are newbies.”

“This has nothing to do with this?!”

The speed at which the Gold Pucker horse ran was obviously strange, but the idea of ​​having fun riding something like that was ridiculous.

“It doesn’t matter. Adventurers looking to make some money use this carriage at least once.”

“… Is that true?”

“Of course, once you get to gold level, it’s even rarer to not ride it, right?”

Lucia thought while even Asta looked tired.

‘Are all adventurers above Gold level monsters like this?!’

I thought that maybe the Adventurer’s Guild was a more dangerous group than I thought, but then I shook my head.

‘No. Tiaran is probably undervalued because he doesn’t have Maka.’

The reason I was able to be sure of that was because I defeated Targon. Targon often killed not only troops but also platinum-level adventurers.

Nevertheless, since it was not enough to just ride a carriage led by a Gold Pucker, Lucia could not help but think that a Gold-level adventurer was stronger than expected when she let Tiaran go as a Gold-level adventurer instead of a Platinum-level adventurer.

Anyway, when I came back, I was walking to their accommodation.

“Huh? Why are you doing that?”

When Tia Ran suddenly turned around and asked Asta’s hand grabbing the hem of her clothes, she hesitated and opened her mouth.

“Reina, are you okay?”

“Oh, is that because of that?”

Perhaps because she had sex with Reina yesterday, Asta still seemed to care about her.

“You just want me to leave it as a memory.”

“But…”

Tia Ran asked Raina how her engagement came about, but she was told that her parents’ work was so closely related to the village chief’s work that she could not break off the engagement at will.

“Because not everything in this world happens the way you want.”

He just patted Asta’s listless head.