Chapter 44 – It Was All a Comedy.

“Well, I was wrong! I was wrong. Please stop now!”

Trixie cried and screamed with her messed up face. That’s right, because Tiaran, who has now returned to her quarters, has hung her over the pot where her oil is boiling.

“Ugh, does it have to go this far?”

As Crusha looked at her and spoke with a reluctant expression, Trixie asked earnestly with quivering lips.

“Krusha! I’m sorry! I, I couldn’t help it! They threatened me too!”

“… Why don’t you just drop it?”

“Hey!?”

Seeing as she was losing any sympathy she had, it seemed like it was wrong to come to her senses.

‘Well, if I were sane, I wouldn’t have walked around like a gypsy.’

Tiaran confirmed that preparations for her interrogation were complete and spoke.

“Even though the pot is small, it’s just the right size to fry your head in. What if I don’t say the right thing when asked?”

“Ah, okay! I’ll tell everyone! I’ll talk!”

Trixie seemed to feel the heat as he untied the rope that hung her and got close to her pot, quickly nodding her head. The information I learned that way was quite diverse.

“Well, they said they were targeting Lady Erpojanette.”

“Why me…?”

It was already expected, but Lucia was the target.

“Can’t you figure out something?”

“Even if I were to point it out, there’s nothing in particular.”

Tia Ran asked Lucia, but she shook her head.

“There are none! Erpojanette is a prestigious dukedom! Can you be sure that such a noble family has no enemies? This is why a noble lady is!”

“Even so, I don’t understand why they’re targeting me.”

Even when Trixie shouted, Lucia looked even more incomprehensible.

“I’m the youngest of three siblings at most? And I even left home because I decided to be with Asta.”

Since she was already relatively free from major issues such as power issues or engagement within the family, it was strange that even those who had a grudge against Erpojanette would go out of their way to target her.

“Probably not.”

“Yes? But.”

“The cause-and-effect relationship is a bit different. Even if you left your family’s work, didn’t you become a newbie’s party member?”

“Still, it’s strange. Right now, Anise and I are just adventurers…”

Lucia stopped speaking as if she had noticed something, and Anis, who was quietly listening to her story, also seemed to notice the reason and her expression hardened.

“The information that we are a hero party leaked out somewhere.”

“How did you know that? This is something that only some nobles or at least the guild branch leader would know… Hiya?!”

“Calm down, rookie.”

Lucia spoke while glaring at her Trixie, but when Tia Ran her fingers across the back of her neck, she let out a strangely strange scream and flinched.

‘Oh, is the nape of your neck sensitive?’

“Woah, muumu, what are you doing?!”

“It’s a literal story. Calm down. Just because he’s that guy doesn’t mean he knows everything. He’s a gypsy, so he probably thought he was an outcast.”

“Ugh!”

Seeing Trixie biting her lip as if she had been struck by his words, Lucia let out a sigh and avoided looking at her with her red face.

“Well, if that’s the case, you can stop me normally! Ugh.”

“I’m curious about the reaction?”

“Don’t think of people like toys!”

“Oh, wasn’t it?”

“Is that rude?!”

In the end, she let out a tired sigh, as if all her strength had been drained from her fight with Tiaran.

“It’s not that strange for information to leak out. The more people know, the more it will be revealed at some point.”

Even if Anise hides her identity with a ring right now, there will definitely be people who recognize the identity of the Holy Sword.

“And there are many people who want to join the hero party. You don’t know why, right?”

“… Because with fame comes power.”

In fact, it is known that most royal or noble families have a significant number of descendants of those who inherited the blood of old warriors or were part of their party.

Because there were so many random people trying to join the hero’s party, the hero party kept it a secret for a long time and acted as adventurers.

This is because the hero can see it with his own eyes and choose party members more effectively. In any case, the existence of the hero was bound to be revealed someday.

“For those in the know, it seems like Erpojanette has taken over Hero’s place in the party. I guess that’s why she’s chosen.”

“Whew, that’s right.”

Lucia also seemed to be convinced by his words. Because people’s greed and jealousy for power are not easy. Meanwhile, Anis was watching the oil boiling under Trixie and asked curiously.

“But what happens if you fry someone?”

“I wonder what will happen. It will be delicious fried food.”

“Asta! Don’t be curious about such strange things! You don’t even have to answer!!”

“Ugh, you haven’t tried it, have you?”

Lucia and Krusha were startled by their conversation.

“Well, maybe I’ll get a chance now, right?”

“Hey!!”

“So, if you don’t want it to be the dinner menu instead of the chicken you saved for today, just buy it all?”

“Okay! I’ll tell you everything, so please!”

Tiaran chatted with them and threatened Trixie to extract more information.

‘Erpojanetra. No matter how much I think about it, it feels somewhat familiar.’

Tiaran thought deeply as he looked at the night sky that came not long after. This was because the feeling of déjà vu or discomfort that she thought had lessened as she was with newbies began to feel more severe these days.

‘Is it because of Anise? No, it seems like that, but it feels a little different.’

Moreover, it was even more incomprehensible because the people he felt uncomfortable with were not only Anis, but also Lucia and Crusha.

‘What on earth is strange? Won.’

I was looking at the sky where the moon had risen and thinking about finding the starting point of this feeling of discomfort.

“You are here.”

“Are you a rookie?”

Lucia, dressed in pajamas, came up to the rooftop of the lodging he was staying in.

“Do you have any concerns?”

“What are you worried about? It’s just that I have something to think about.”

“Normally, those things are called worries.”

She sat down next to Tia Ran’s story.

“So what’s going on?”

“Ugh! You don’t necessarily have to come up to the rooftop because something’s going on, right?”

He looked at Lucia’s face for a moment. While looking at her dark blue hair, eyes of the same color, and pure white skin shining brightly in the moonlight, my eyes inadvertently fell on her enormous breasts that created a deep valley.

“Uh, where are you looking!?”

“A big mountain peak?”

“Oh, I see. It won’t be!! This pervert!”

“Ha ha! I pervert!”

“That’s why it’s so confident!”

Lucia glanced at him sheepishly, but then she burst into laughter.

“Puh, I still envy that side of you.”

“Do you look like a pervert?”

“I’m talking about a confident point! A confident point!!”

Tiaran shrugged her shoulders when he saw her blushing and shouting as if she was embarrassed. Haha, Lucia let out a tired breath and stared at him.

“How can I do that?”

“Well, I don’t know. I’m just being honest with myself.”

“… Honest. La.”

Lucia looked at the night sky, muttering as if she was thinking about his story. Tiaran didn’t bother to interrupt those thoughts and stayed still.

“I still don’t know… What is this hand?”

Coming out of her thoughts, she smiled bitterly, but then noticed something about her and glared at him with her pointed eyes. That’s because Tiaran was leaning over her shoulder and wiggling her fingers exaggeratedly next to Lucia’s chest.

“Manner hands?”

“Eeeee! You pervert! Low quality! Slut! It’s the worst!!!”

Finally, she boomed! She seemed to scream with her bursting face and then jump up and stomp her feet as she left the rooftop.

“Thank you, idiot.”

Tiaran did not miss the whisper of Lucia, who was leaning against her rooftop door and muttering softly. She would know it too. If she had intended to touch it in the first place, she would have done so long ago.

“Well, that’s it for today…”

For a moment he remembered. A word that combines the keywords of Duke Erpojanet and Lucia, Anis and Crusha, Targon and monsters.

“Landesia electricity?”

That was the name of a game in Tiaran’s past life. If there was a problem, it was the subtitle ‘The Warrior Being Humiliated’ that appeared in small print under the title.

“… Eroge, you say?”

Yes, after over 30 years had passed since Tiaran lived in this world, he realized that the world he had been living in was an eroge.

An RPG-style night game full of scenes where the hero and the party go on adventures and are humiliated by both monsters and people.

If you ask why I’m only remembering that now, it’s a very simple reason.

‘How many games have I played!’

The fact that I came up with it in the first place was nothing short of a miracle. Even though he played some games, he was a light user who didn’t delve too deeply into his hobby and just watched until the end.

However, one thing that clearly comes to mind is that Tiaran herself never joined the hero party. Not only did a person like him never appear in the first place.

‘Originally, the gold level adventurer recommended by the guild leader was Ketan, not me…’

What I remember about this game was that it had a unique system that allowed you to select party members other than the two main characters. You are first given the opportunity to choose a companion, and among them is the option to receive a recommendation from the guild leader.

If you receive a recommendation, they will introduce you to a gold-level adventurer named Ketan. There are many people who choose it because it is superior to other options in terms of stats and abilities, but this was a trap.

‘Ugh, I don’t like it. Why are you doing this?’

‘Ugh, uh, why you?’

Obviously, an event occurs where the adventurer who was carrying the character until the beginning suddenly betrays the main character and the group while they are asleep by giving them medicine and kidnapping them to a remote place.

Haha! Is it your fault for naively believing in me? This was my purpose from the beginning!’

Omitted below. It ends with a CG with the title “Adventurer’s Slave End.” Of course, as expected, the names of the two main characters were Anis and Lucia.

“I never thought it would turn out like this.”

He looked back on the past years and thought. It was probably natural for people to look at him strangely.

‘Somehow, I now understand why I was the only bastard in the world who had the idea of ​​killing a giant female monster by exploding it from inside the body.’

From the beginning, this world was more about breeding monsters than about defeating them.