Do Heroes Need Welfare Too? - Chapter 110

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Chapter 110

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After solving the incident together with Kyrillos, he acted as if the Demon King’s Castle was his own home.

Adam no longer even pretended to chase him away.

Though he found it just as bothersome, he seemed to have opened his heart a little.

What had changed most significantly between them was how they addressed each other.

Even I had only recently started calling him by his name, but after learning Adam’s name, Kyrillos called it without hesitation.

“How does it feel to receive an earldom, Adam! You’re so grateful, right? You want to show the territory you received first to your dear friend Kyrillos, don’t you?”

“No.”

“Ah, right. The Maid is here. Then you want to show me second, right?”

“I said no.”

Adam pushed away Kyrillos, who kept clinging to his side, with his arm.

However, considering it just a minor tantrum, he stuck to him even more like a leech.

“Oh come on, all the Nobles already know how close Adam and I are anyway! They ask me about Adam all day long, you know? Honestly, they’d been curious about Adam for a while, but their pride was hurt at the thought of Nobles speaking to a Commoner, so they couldn’t bring themselves to talk to him. Now that he’s received a noble title, they’re like unrestrained rascals—oh my! I don’t know who the real rascal is.”

Even while joking around, Kyrillos couldn’t hide his pride, just like when he had talked about his grandfather.

If I were Kyrillos, I would probably brag about Adam in all directions too, so I fully understood his feelings.

“So how does it feel to become a Nobleman?”

“Nothing has particularly changed.”

“You can’t even enjoy your popularity… Then shall I recommend a Noblewoman for you? Thanks to my old man, Adam’s standing among the Nobles is rising.”

Kyrillos spoke with inner satisfaction.

Even though he called him a viper-like old man, he admired and respected his grandfather. He also subtly conveyed to Adam that the Duke of Evant’s support had been helpful to him.

However, Adam still looked annoyed.

“It’s unnecessary.”

“Why? Adam, now that you’ve received a fine earldom, there are many people who will seriously calculate their chances in the marriage market.”

Kyrillos was frighteningly passionate toward someone who said he didn’t want it.

Surely Adam was expressing his dislike quite obviously through his expression.

“Just tell me your ideal type secretly.”

“I said it’s unnecessary.”

I listened to their conversation with great interest.

“Why? Why? Why is it unnecessary?”

“I only need that person!”

Finally, Adam, unable to bear it any longer, shouted loudly.

I squeezed my eyes shut.

I had expected that Kyrillos, who pestered him without knowing limits, would get scolded by him someday.

However, Kyrillos asked in an even more bewildered voice.

“That person? …Not the Maid?”

Since this was a story I was curious about too, I nodded my head.

Your Deity is curious about who that person is.

‘Nooo!’

I was trying to listen secretly!

I clenched the innocent Sacred Relic tightly in my fist.

But what was even more surprising was Adam’s reaction.

Instead of looking into empty space as usual, he skillfully surveyed his surroundings.

Then he approached the place where I was hiding.

“Ah, Iberis?”

Like magic, Adam’s agitated face relaxed completely.

“…Hehe. Hello, Adam. Good afternoon.”

I stretched my crouched legs and rubbed the back of my neck.

‘Did he realize I was listening secretly?’

When I glanced at Adam furtively, he seemed unaware.

I quietly let out a sigh of relief.

Kyrillos, who had been sitting on the Sofa, also just lifted his head to greet me.

“Hello, Maid. Could you please persuade this stubborn Adam too? Oh really. He’s just a Hero, not even someone from the Temple, yet he acts like he’ll remain chaste for life—”

“Shut up, Kyril.”

“I’m scared, Hero.”

Kyrillos spoke disgustingly with a face that looked neither scared nor afraid at all.

He had the expression of someone holding back laughter, while Adam glared at him fiercely.

Even so, Adam’s anger had absolutely no effect on Kyrillos.

“Maid… Right now, the Hero who should protect the weak and furthermore guard a peaceful world is oppressing me. Please save me.”

Having apparently decided to target someone else for teasing, Kyrillos lightly grabbed my sleeve as he spoke.

He held only the hem of my clothes with his thumb and index finger, careful not to touch my skin, while watching Adam’s reaction.

The touch was so delicate, like handling something dirty, that it only dampened my mood.

“Kyrillos must have done something wrong.”

“I was just trying to lightly recommend someone!”

“Eve, you don’t really need to listen. Talking to him leads to troublesome things, so let’s just leave Kyril alone and go.”

“Maid, I’m wronged.”

Unable to watch any longer, when Kyrillos pretended to cry with fake “boo-hoo” sounds, I decided to be fooled and pretended to take his side once.

“It’s good to have friends.”

“Are you going to send me to someone I don’t know? Eve, you can’t just abandon a dog you picked up.”

“When did I ever abandon you, Hero!”

At least dogs listen well, but how could Adam, who talks back to every word I say, be a puppy I’m raising?

Adam’s face, calling himself a dog, was shamelessly unmoved.

“You’re trying to abandon me now. To Kyrillos.”

Kyrillos burst into laughter behind us, but pretended not to hear.

“Kyrillos is Adam’s friend!”

“That’s right, Adam. Listen well to Kyril.”

“…Don’t copy Eve’s way of speaking.”

“Puhaha!”

Finally, Kyrillos burst into laughter, holding his stomach on the Sofa.

‘The teasing… means they’re close friends after all.’

Visiting a place where an uncomfortable person stays every other day, or throwing funny jokes around, must be because they’re close.

Adam finds him bothersome but gets along well with him right away.

The problem is that Adam keeps falling for his pranks.

Adam finally gave Kyrillos a solid whack on the back.

Kyrillos, who hadn’t expected to get hit, grabbed his struck back with a question mark on his face, then burst into giggles again.

‘…They are close friends, right?’

I seriously wondered if I should scrap the “Make Friends for Adam” project even now.

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A guest arrived at the Demon King’s Castle not many days later.

It was Iselda, with her rose-like red hair tied back.

Iselda entered slowly, as if examining the interior of the Demon King’s Castle.

Potato was the first to discover her.

After circling around her nervously, Potato confirmed that Iselda had no intention of attacking and immediately ran to me.

“Iselda!”

Only then noticing Iselda’s visit, I ran to her happily.

Adam also seemed to welcome her inwardly when he spotted her.

‘Did he just try to hide thinking it was Kyrillos?’

Iselda is better than Kyrillos.

In many ways…

Thinking that if Kyrillos heard this, he would grab me and whine for an hour, I looked back at Iselda.

“Have you been well?”

“Yes, of course.”

Iselda smiled with her eyes curving as she gently stroked my head. The sensation felt so good that I rubbed my head against her hand.

Ah, beautiful women are indeed righteous.

Seeing her after so long makes it even better.

However, Adam interrupted our happy time together like a spoilsport.

“What happened to Erwin?”

I gaped at Adam who jumped straight to the main point without any preamble.

Iselda brushed off such a reaction as if it were nothing.

“Right, I figured you’d be curious about Erwin, so I came.”

The area under Iselda’s eyes was slightly dark.

Her face showed she had many worries.

It seemed she had heard some not-so-good news regarding Erwin.

“Just as you said, Erwin was in the Imperial Palace from birth until he escaped.”

Delmin, who had been working as a mercenary, entered the Imperial Palace after accepting a commission while pregnant with Erwin, and never came out again.

She must have secretly given birth to Erwin and raised him in hiding.

However, the precarious tightrope walk of eight years came to an end on the day the Demon King died and the Hero’s status rose, when an Imperial Guard came down and discovered him.

“Perhaps that child’s mother…”

Iselda bit her lips as if in anguish.

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