Do Heroes Need Welfare Too? - Chapter 114

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Chapter 114

“Ah, Maid!”

Kyrillos spotted me through the slightly more open door gap and raised his hand as if delighted to see me.

Adam harshly swatted his arm away.

“Please tell us clearly, Maid.”

Kyrillos, who had unnecessarily good hearing, lifted his body that had been entangled with Adam and approached me to speak.

“Being told I resemble someone isn’t an insult, right? It’s a compliment, right? Honestly, looks like mine aren’t common, you know?”

“Uh, um…”

No. I correct myself.

It wasn’t that Adam was being rigid and only telling Kyrillos the truth.

Seeing his shameless face showing he wasn’t hurt at all despite being continuously rejected by Adam, I absolutely didn’t want to give him the answer he wanted.

“It’s not common.”

At my words, Kyrillos made an annoying expression as if saying ‘I knew it.’

However, it was still too early to be pleased.

“But it’s common in the Demon King’s Castle.”

This place alone exists above different laws than the Empire.

First of all, Kyrillos.

He was so confident in his appearance that his self-assurance about his face could pierce the sky.

I knew well that he was indeed handsome.

Though he was wasting that beauty by spending all day in the Demon King’s Castle chatting about trivial things with Adam.

Second, though I didn’t want to admit it, there was also Abracxas.

With his dark ashen hair and red eyes, his demonic nature made me feel chills when looking at him for long periods.

That might have been because of his unrealistically handsome appearance.

Occasionally when I teased him saying “Oh, beauty,” Abracxas would shriek asking what I was talking about, but his expression wasn’t exactly displeased either.

‘And lastly…’

I glanced toward Adam.

When Adam’s eyes met mine, he smiled prettily.

I blatantly turned my head away as my heart felt like it might be in danger, but I had to acknowledge what needed acknowledging.

Just look at Adam who had settled in the Demon King’s Castle!

His face was absolutely not common either, and if I had truly been an ordinary Village Girl 1, I would have fallen for his face alone and even made future plans.

And about two children.

One should resemble Adam, and one should resemble me…

‘This isn’t right!’

My imagination had spread in a strange direction.

I coughed deliberately, trying to erase the fantasies in my head as I spoke.

“First, look at Adam. Is this a common face? He’s probably rarer than you, Kyrillos?”

I had the illusion of a huge lightning bolt striking behind Kyrillos.

Kyrillos came to a strange realization: ‘So that’s why the Maid looked at me like a shiny stone…!’

“Hmm, then the Maid’s taste in appearance must be the Hero?”

Suddenly Kyrillos brought up something out of the blue.

I nodded without hesitation.

Adam was handsome, pretty.

The word ‘pure’ suited him well.

Though he sometimes acted as sensitive as delicate glass that required careful handling, lately he acted soft like tofu around me.

The others were indeed beauties that made my jaw drop, but if I had to choose my preference, it was undoubtedly Adam.

At my quick answer without hesitation, Kyrillos looked dazed for a moment, then raised the corners of his mouth like a mischievous child and grinned.

“I’ll work hard too.”

“Why would you, Kyrillos?”

“Well, I have to win you over first to seduce the Hero!”

No, so why are you.

However, Kyrillos handed me the cookies he had brought while grinning.

I could see a familiar bakery logo on the packaging.

I had wondered why he bought so many of these cookies, but it was definitely Kyrillos’s preference.

Even calling it a bribe to win me over, his own taste was what mattered.

“Thank you. But please have plenty yourself, Kyrillos.”

“Then I won’t refuse.”

As if it was just courtesy, Kyrillos quickly retrieved the cookie and put it in his own mouth.

“Since you’re a nobleman, Kyrillos, couldn’t you bring the baker who makes these cookies to your family? Why do you go all the way to the capital to buy them with such difficulty?”

“There’s value in that effort. Hmm, and there’s nothing else to do, and staying at the mansion just means listening to grandfather’s nagging.”

“Is that so?”

Listening quietly to his story, my intuition sparked and something occurred to me.

I secretly covered my mouth with my hand and whispered in Adam’s ear.

He squinted one eye as if it tickled.

“I suddenly have this thought.”

“What is it?”

“I have a feeling that the baker at that bakery Kyrillos always buys from… is a woman.”

Adam showed a slightly surprised expression.

“…That’s correct.”

Oh, right? Really?

My intuition was telling me so.

Kyrillos is a nobleman, so there’s no reason he’d need to go all the way to a bakery in the capital to buy cookies, right?

And when rumors spread about him and me, he was the one who jumped up most to go around correcting them.

Having caught Kyrillos’s weakness to tease him with, I let out an evil smile.

Kyrillos, you’ve been hiding it well until now.

More than that, I didn’t expect Adam to know too.

He was surprisingly quick-witted.

He knew well the unspoken feelings and pasts that Iselda and Kyrillos hadn’t mentioned.

Of course, both were famous figures, but…

‘Adam looked into them because he wanted to become friends!’

Mm-hmm, that was a good direction.

“But did you know such details?”

“Hmm?”

Was that something I shouldn’t know?

I looked up at him as if asking what he meant.

Interpreting my innocent expression, he nodded as if understanding.

“Ah, it was just general deduction.”

“Yes. If he goes through the trouble of continuously visiting a bakery… I thought it might be someone Kyrillos likes. Wouldn’t everyone know?”

“Usually they don’t.”

“Really?”

“Yes. Because no one thinks a ducal heir would end up with her.”

Adam’s words were calm, but there were thorns hidden in them.

No, no one else knew, but those words hurt me.

The commoner Hero received recognition for killing the Demon King and was granted an earldom. He also received a territory of modest but adequate size, so he had entered the ranks of nobility.

‘Then to other people’s eyes, we would look completely mismatched too.’

Adam, who received the earldom, had gained credentials that would put him at the top tier in the marriage market, as Kyrillos said.

Even as a commoner, several people had shown interest, but now there was even more enticing reason.

“…I see.”

My mood inexplicably became low, so I answered in a small voice.

“Eve? What’s wrong?”

When I suddenly lowered my head, Adam gently held my cheek to meet my gaze. He was consistently kind and good-hearted. The person who should receive such kindness wouldn’t be me, but a pretty noblewoman.

At that moment, Kyrillos interjected with an innocent-sounding voice.

“So the maid doesn’t restrict the Hero, right?”

“Ah, yes…”

Feeling guilty because of my earlier thoughts, I nodded absentmindedly.

“Then it would be fine to arrange a meeting between Adam and my younger sister, wouldn’t it? Right?”

“A meeting?”

“Friends, just friends.”

Kyrillos said with a bright smile.

If it’s just friends… that should be fine.

It was actually a good situation.

“For now, at first. They’ll meet as good friends for now.”

“…!”

At first? Then does that mean there’s more after that?

‘No way…’

Could it be that when he mentioned introducing a noblewoman to Adam before, he was trying to bring him into his family as a member?

I turned to look at Adam with a pale expression. I’m not sure why I did that.

But fortunately, Adam had an uncomfortable look on his face.

The emotion wasn’t directed at me, but toward Kyrillos.

Thanks to that, I could calm my sinking heart and speak to Kyrillos as if nothing was wrong.

“Why? There’s no need for you to go to such trouble, Kyrillos…”

“Because the House of Evant isn’t bad.”

Kyrillos shrugged as if that was really all there was to it.

“Isn’t that right, maid?”

Why does he keep asking me?

Suddenly singled out, I froze in confusion.

‘It’s as if he knows about the feelings I’m denying…’

Kyrillos, who had been quietly watching that scene, only wore a sly smile.

Like someone who had been caught, I said to Adam because of Kyrillos’s attitude.

“…Let’s go!”

“Eve?”

Adam’s eyes widened as he called my name.

But once my mouth opened, it was now beyond my control.

“The House of Evant is a prestigious family. It’s a good opportunity, Hero.”

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