Do Heroes Need Welfare Too? - Chapter 112

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Chapter 112

I checked on Adam over her shoulder.

The closer Iselda came to me, the more Adam’s expression hardened.

And when she removed her hand from my shoulder, his expression returned to normal again.

Iselda giggled, asking if I could see that.

I couldn’t laugh and fell into a small shock.

‘Is he already being wary of friends?’

It could be telling me not to touch her since she’s his friend.

I carefully removed Iselda’s arm that had been wrapped around my neck and took a step back.

‘Right, I won’t touch your friend.’

Then Adam’s face relaxed considerably.

Since Iselda also saw that series of actions, she burst into hearty laughter beside us.

Adam looked satisfied regardless.

Iselda said she was really busy now and had to go, then left.

Left alone with Adam, I looked at him. Then our eyes met immediately.

As if he hadn’t expected me to look at him, his eyes that had briefly widened closed gently as he smiled with his eyes.

“…!”

Without realizing it, I blatantly avoided his face.

I wished he would just talk to me, but only Adam’s piercing gaze looking at me stuck to the side of my face.

His words had noticeably decreased since earlier.

This was the complete opposite of his usual behavior of following behind me and talking to me.

Adam’s changed attitude wasn’t limited to just this.

Lately, the number of times he talked to God alone each morning had decreased, and now whenever he saw me, he would talk to me instead.

It seemed he had grown tired of talking to God who never answered.

So maybe he was targeting me, who automatically responds when pressed.

Strangely, I felt like I had won.

Though I wasn’t sure who was fighting whom.

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‘Since when was it?’

That Adam stopped initiating conversations with God.

It had been a long time since I’d seen Adam muttering to himself while looking at empty space.

Since my thoughts might be transmitted to him, rather than waiting for messages that never came, I chose to deactivate the Sacred Relic’s synchronization.

No, it wasn’t that nothing came at all.

Your Hero is looking at you.

Your Hero is smiling at you with his eyes.

‘Adam is just being normally kind. He can smile when our eyes meet! Let’s not assign strange meanings to things.’

Still, I couldn’t help being curious about Adam’s thoughts.

It bothered me too much to just let it pass.

‘What are you thinking about, Hero?’

I followed behind Adam just like he had been doing to me these past few days.

Unlike me who had belatedly noticed his behavior, Adam turned his head to meet my eyes as soon as I started following him.

And then he continued on his way again.

His attitude of ‘follow me if you want to follow’ made me feel competitive.

‘I’ll make Adam feel pressured too!’

I followed behind Adam all day long.

Having nothing to do, I took out the notebook where I used to write my Adam observation diary.

As I took out the black fountain pen from my pocket, I fell into a strange sentiment.

“Aren’t you curious about what I’m doing, Adam?”

I asked purely on impulse.

Of course, I had hastily made up the excuse that it was drawing before, but no one would truly believe my chicken scratch drawings.

“Well. What Eve does doesn’t harm me, does it?”

Hmm, that’s true.

Receiving Adam’s excessive trust almost made me want to cry.

Our Adam has changed.

Now he trusts me no matter what I do.

‘No, this isn’t it!’

Hadn’t I followed him to make Adam feel troubled in various ways?

Instead, I couldn’t help but get caught up in his pace.

I hurriedly came to my senses and put the notebook away. Since I hadn’t used the notebook for a long time anyway, as I flipped through it from the beginning, I felt for a moment that his attitude had definitely changed to a strange degree.

‘No, I shouldn’t be moved by that. I need to shake Adam up!’

I tried to erase the thought that from earlier, it seemed like only I was showing my true feelings while just intending to do something.

Today is the day I chase after Adam.

To drain someone’s soul, being a question mark killer was the best.

“Hero, where are you going?”

“What’s your favorite food, Hero?”

“What do you usually do when you rest, Hero?”

“Hero, do you still have the drawing I gave you? You must have burned it, right? Since there can’t be two Adams in the world, we need to get rid of one quickly or the future will be dangerous.”

“Eve.”

“Yes!”

When Adam, who had been answering my questions one by one, called my name, I looked at him with anticipation.

How about it, isn’t it burdensome?

Now you won’t do this kind of thing to me anymore, right?

Hurry up and tell me to stop as if you’re annoyed!

At that moment, I’ll attack by reciting everything he had done to me.

I waited eagerly for his lips to open, recalling the contents of my Death Note—no, Adam observation diary.

“I’m happy that Eve is so interested in me.”

“…What?”

I was completely deflated.

I had pressured him with questions to an uncomfortable degree, and he said he was happy about it? Really?

“Is that something to be happy about?”

“Yes. Eve has been busy lately.”

As he said, I had been busy.

Various things had piled up overlapping each other, leaving me no time to see Adam.

Even now, the only reason we could have this conversation was because Adam had been following me around, putting aside his own work wherever I went.

To the point where it felt strange for Adam not to be by my side in just a few days.

“I wish you would do more like before….”

Adam confessed with genuine regret.

At his words, I realized belatedly.

‘But isn’t this similar to what I used to do?’

It wasn’t a situation that would be bothersome to Adam in the first place.

To Adam, this was already like daily life.

As if recalling those times, Adam chuckled.

Also, hadn’t he given me a fountain pen as a gift, telling me to observe and write well?

‘Then this time I’ll definitely complete the Adam observation diary.’

It was time to restart the observation that had stopped because my soul had been drained by other problems.

For objectivity, I had already activated the Sacred Relic.

Adam wasn’t thinking about anything in particular, just smiling and walking with some distance between us.

I followed him around like a duckling imprinted on its mother duck.

Adam went outside the Demon King’s Castle.

I followed him out as well.

The messages were also quiet, so I didn’t even know Adam’s destination.

There was no point in bombarding him with questions since I knew Adam wouldn’t budge, so there was no need to waste my energy.

I persistently followed him until Adam would be the first to ask how far I was going to follow.

And Adam opened his mouth only after the village entrance came into view.

Only when people came into sight did Adam finally turn around.

“Since we’ve come this far, it would be a shame not to go have some fun, don’t you think?”

“…Hero. You did this on purpose, didn’t you?”

Adam smiled prettily without answering.

Even though I deliberately called him ‘Hero’ instead of his name, this time he didn’t deliberately put on a disappointed expression and just smiled contentedly.

The tips of Adam’s hair looked slightly yellowish with the sunset behind him.

…Now that his hair looks yellow, he really does look exactly like Judith.

“Of course.”

Slowly taking my hand, Adam walked in step with me. It was a considerably slower pace than before.

Come to think of it, even a little while ago it was different from the speed Adam usually traveled alone.

All this time, Adam had been walking at a pace I could keep up with.

Feeling like I had been played by Adam’s hands again, I grumbled.

“Hero, your pranks have increased.”

“I’m always sincere with Eve. When will Eve realize that…”

“…”

Adam lowered his head and tucked my hair that was blowing around in the wind behind my ear.

Because of the suddenly close view, I unconsciously stepped backward.

“Ah.”

Adam stretched out his arm and wrapped it around my waist.

He embraced me so I couldn’t move backward.

Was ’embraced’ the right expression? He didn’t pull me into his arms, but my ears turned red as if I had been subjected to something even worse.

I couldn’t bear to look at Adam, so I covered my face with my hands.

I could hear Adam chuckling from above my head.

“…Why are you laughing.”

It was such a small voice that even a passing ant would mock it.

Even that was a voice I had to struggle to produce.

Adam burst into even louder laughter, apparently finding something amusing.

“I don’t know! Adam can figure it out himself!”

“Ah, so now you’re calling me by my name again?”

“No!”

I let out a shriek and ran down toward the village.

Look at me getting teased by Adam so obediently again.

I clenched my fist tightly and steeled my resolve.

Of course, since we had come to the village this time too, I toured the village with Adam…

But the feeling of being fooled by his innocent face didn’t fade.

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