Chapter 79 – Another Hero.

In the end, after completing the contract through Lucia’s mediation, what I learned was that Illyana’s main job was an intelligence business.

“This pet café itself was for information purposes…”

Lucia heard the story and checked the inside of the store with a confused expression. As the saying goes, this store was ostensibly a café where you could bring your pet, but at the same time, it also provided private rooms, so many people had secret conversations there.

“I was just selling information by overhearing that story.”

“It is as he said.”

It is said that thanks to this, he was able to find out secret stories that others did not know, which was a great help in his intelligence work.

“Hmm, is the information coming and going from places like this useful?”

As Lucia continues to speak doubtfully, Illyana clicks her tongue.

“There are quite a few customers who want a place like this.”

Just by bringing a pet in, you can avoid a lot of suspicion, so there are more people using it that way.

“More than anything, wasn’t that what you also came hoping for?”

“””Ah.”””

They immediately looked at Tiaran. Come to think of it, wasn’t it he who brought them here?

“But I didn’t know that in a place where secrecy was considered the most important, the ingredients for Bosintang would get in my way.”

“Kaaien! Well, didn’t that matter already end with a contract with Maka?!”

Illyana noticed Tiaran’s actions of secretly showing the knife, the fur on her ears and tail standing on end, and making a whining noise.

“Well, it’s good to have information.”

“Kaheng.”

Illyana let out a relieved sigh only after he sheathed her knife.

“I have a quick question. What are these animals?”

Meanwhile, she said, pointing to the animals that Crusha stuck to Tiaran’s side and couldn’t let go.

“Are you going to bring everyone with you?”

“Not everything.”

She smiled strangely as she looked at the animals clinging to Tiaran and spread her fan to cover her mouth.

“Oh.”

“Animals…?”

At the same time, all the animals that were clinging to Tiaran disappeared. As if nothing had happened from the beginning.

“I am raising a few animals as a hobby, but in between them, I am adding animals made using my mother’s marker.”

Even if she didn’t go in directly, she could easily overhear the story through the animals, but if the story seemed really important or interesting, she preferred to hear it directly.

“So you were caught by Tiaran?”

“Kkiing, it’s literally true.”

“Don’t worry! If she wasn’t there, she would have come straight in to catch me!”

“I never worried about that! Doesn’t that mean nothing has changed in the end?!”

Sigh, Illyana eventually lost all of her energy and stretched out on the small desk like a shriveled puppy, with big, pointy ears hanging down.

“Then what is the reason it is so specific to Tiaran? Is it no different from just an animal?”

In response to Krusha’s following question, Illyana perked up her ears and slowly raised her body. She covered the corner of her mouth with her fan and squinted her eyes as she glanced at them.

“Hmm, let me tell you in advance, the original woman’s Maka has the characteristic of ’embodiment’.”

“Why all of a sudden?”

Since a big secret has already been revealed, does this mean it’s okay? For a moment, the girls were puzzled by Illyana’s explanation of Maka’s power, which she tries to hide.

“The animals are the mother’s marker, embodying the hearts of her guests.”

“That’s what it was, right?”

Krusha seemed to be convinced, but then she stiffened. And the same goes for Anis and Lucia.

In other words, regardless of whether the animals followed Tiaran well or not, it meant that the animals that embodied their hearts had always been attached to him.

“Hehe, it is said that females usually follow males, but this is the first time I have seen them fawning so excitedly.”

And Illyana’s words were the final blow.

“””…”””

Seeing them frozen and unable to say anything, Illyana chuckled and then looked at Tiaran.

“But it’s strange. I made it so that the original woman’s marker is applied to all customers who enter the store. It doesn’t work on you.”

“Hmm, so there wasn’t an animal I liked?”

“Hmm, have you figured that out already?”

Even though she had already exhausted all her resources, she was complaining because she felt really ripped off.

“You were actually naked.”

“Well, that was for survival, right?!”

Illyana had already begged Tiaran for her life and had a record of revealing even her most private parts as a woman. She blushed and crossed her legs, glancing at her Tiaran, as if her embarrassment was rising.

“Wait a minute. Does that mean you also read the man’s mind earlier?”

Lucia’s mood changed as she spoke as if she had suddenly realized something. As everyone’s eyes focused on Illyana, she shook her head.

“Unfortunately, my Maka is only an implementation and not mind reading.”

“But didn’t you say that you create animals by embodying your mind?”

Then, she asked Anis if it was possible because she read minds.

“The principle is different. The original woman’s Maka does not manifest by reading the mind, but rather guesses the other person’s mind by embodying it.”

“Rather than knowing the shape and making a mold, you look at the shape that comes out of the mold and see the shape.”

“That’s accurate.”

This meant that even if you implemented it directly, you could only know the other person’s mind indirectly.

“Is that because of what the man’s animal was?”

“That’s right, the animals just hated that guy.”

Even ordinary animals.

“Actually, it seemed too dangerous, so we didn’t release it there on purpose.”

Illyana frowned and put her hands into her wide sleeves.

“Sssss.”

“… Snake?”

What escaped from there was a large snake with impressive pitch-black scales that could be described as bizarre. The guy who got out of Illyana’s sleeve was quietly looking at them, and the moment his eyes landed on Anise.

“Kisha…!”

“This guy!”

When Illyana waved her hand away, her form collapsed and scattered in the air like her ink was released into the water.

“Don’t you think it looks dangerous just by looking at it?”

Their faces hardened when they saw the snake rushing towards Anis. I couldn’t understand the detailed meaning, but I could sense that it was by no means a favor.

“Then goodbye.”

“See you next time! Lucky day!”

“Don’t call me that!!”

The accommodation we returned to after parting ways with Illyana.

“I’m thinking of setting up a counseling center on the rooftop.”

“Yeah, that might be good.”

Today again, Tiaran looked up at the starry sky from the rooftop and spoke nonsensically to Anise, who came and sat next to him. In fact, she seemed to want that too.

“Why did you do that to Illyana earlier?”

“I knew your secret.”

“But Tia Ran knew she was there, right?”

“Right?”

In fact, that store was one of the few places he remembered accurately in ‘Landesia Biography’. Perhaps because it is a store that embodies the hearts of party members in the form of animals, it plays a role in finding out the favorability of the town.

‘The drawback was that if I went in too often, an event where I would be raped by someone suddenly occurred.’

I remember that there were a lot of pitfalls because the subtitle wasn’t quite what it was.

“As expected, it was done on purpose.”

“Thank goodness I noticed.”

“Yeah, if it was a normal Tiaran, I wouldn’t have done it so badly.”

Anise was taken aback by the fact that Tiaran was really going to cook Illyana, but she suddenly remembered what he had said.

“Tiaran said it was more important to make friends than to make enemies. Is that why you did that?”

She realized that Tia Ran had set herself up as a villain in order to make Anis her friend, who was not his friend.

“What do you think is the most important thing for a warrior?”

“Defeating the devil?”

“It’s too simple. I told you just now.”

“… Are you making friends?”

When Anis tilted her head as if she didn’t understand even after speaking directly, he smiled and patted her head.

“The hero’s journey is not just about defeating the devil. It is a journey of making friends.”

“I don’t know.”

“It doesn’t matter if you don’t know. It’s something you have to feel with your heart rather than your head.”

“With my heart…”

Anise put her hand on my chest with a complicated face, but all I could hear was the usual heartbeat. Although it was a little fast.

“If the only purpose of a hero’s existence is to defeat the devil, wouldn’t it be so bleak?”

Because a hero is not a simple weapon like a holy sword.

“…”

Anise watched Tiaran staring in an unknown direction and opened his helm slightly.

“Huh? Why suddenly…”

Side! I lightly kissed his exposed cheek.

“Thank you.”

When Her Tiaran looked at her, Her Anis smiled brightly with her red face and whispered those words before quickly leaving her rooftop.

“Thank you.”

He got up from his seat with a smile that no one could tell at the fresh look of his appearance that finally looked his age.

“Hey. Looks like something happened again.”

He clicked his tongue as he noticed three pillars rising outside the manor in the distance. The pitch-black pillars that swallowed up even the moonlight were clearly visible even in the dark of the night.