Do Heroes Need Welfare Too? - Chapter 149

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Part 2, Chapter 16

Our Potato, I wonder if he’s doing well? Thinking of Potato who took the initiative to teach the monsters, I regretted not treating him better.

“Still, going to the Demon King’s Castle is not allowed.”

“I haven’t even said I want to go yet… But why? Nothing happened to the Demon King’s Castle where I stayed just fine 3 years ago.”

“Something might happen.”

“I’m not the Hero, so what bold human would live in the Demon King’s Castle where the Demon King used to live?”

Humans couldn’t possibly threaten me.

And I fiddled with the relic.

I also steadily learned the method of using holy power that Meriel taught me. I practiced diligently even in the room when Adam wasn’t there.

“There’s always that one-in-a-million chance.”

“But the threats that would arise from me being at the mansion would eventually occur outside as well.”

Adam’s safe haven was nice, but I couldn’t stay within it forever.

“Even the Emperor is dead, so what is Adam so afraid of?”

“…”

Once again, Adam kept his mouth shut.

In the end, there’s nothing he can tell me, is that it?

“That’s overprotection, Adam!”

“I want to keep Eve within my boundaries like this. Can’t you stay as you have been until now?”

Adam blocks my eyes and ears.

However, if I wanted it, he would tell me even the information he wanted.

But if things continue like this, I won’t be able to do anything.

I understood Adam’s worries well too.

How could I pretend not to know when his trembling was transmitted through his hands like this?

“But Adam, there are things in this world that don’t go according to one’s wishes.”

I said while stretching Adam’s cheek with my finger.

Adam remained still without even frowning.

“Eve has never gone according to my wishes even once…”

Adam muttered self-deprecatingly.

“It has never been easy.”

…Was it that bad?

But the time to stay as Adam wanted while knowing nothing had passed.

Everything was for Adam’s sake.

I need to know what dangerous things he’s doing so I can stop him. He had a tendency to treat his body carelessly, so I had to be even more careful.

I covered my face with my hand so Adam couldn’t see and grinned wickedly.

“Adam will have to endure it. Staying still isn’t my hobby, you know.”

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The owner of Grace Mansion was a relatively gentle person.

It would be rude to even compare him with the violent masters who flaunted their noble authority that she had experienced so far.

People initially called Marian a fool for applying to the mansion of a commoner Hero, but she didn’t have many choices.

For Marian, who was young, had no letter of recommendation, and wasn’t of good birth, anywhere she could work was fine.

So she applied to be a maid at Grace Mansion, which had no master.

It seemed like this place would hire her.

Fortunately, her wish came true.

But it was increasingly full of strange things.

If she had been promoted from commoner to nobility, she would have lived luxuriously in the mansion.

But the owner of the mansion was completely absent without any news.

So she became even more curious about the master who didn’t return.

‘This is such a nice place, so why is the Hero staying at the Demon King’s Castle?’

Did he hide something good in the Demon King’s Castle? If not, there would be no reason to refuse the count’s domain and live in the scary Demon King’s Castle.

The mansion given to the Hero who defeated the Demon King and solved the great incident in the capital was very large, as if conscious of public opinion.

However, the mansion without a proper manager was quiet, and Marian liked this mansion.

Even though the Hero wasn’t returning now, she began to cultivate the mansion so that if he returned one day, he would like it more than the Demon King’s Castle.

And the butler, who looked favorably upon her loyalty, promoted her to head maid.

It was a high position that a commoner maid could never dare to covet.

Although it wasn’t ordered by the Hero, Marian came to feel great gratitude toward him.

And then that incident happened.

The truth was that the commoner Hero was the son of the deceased Former Emperor, and the Emperor had been continuously committing illegal acts!

And with the people’s support, the rebellion succeeded.

What was unexpected was that Judith, not the Hero, sat on the Emperor’s throne.

While some understood it as natural that he, who had been the Prince from the beginning, ascended to the throne, there were also those who doubted his qualifications.

They were displeased that the Prince had seized the throne even though there was a legitimate imperial successor and even a Hero who had saved the Empire from the Demon King.

This showed how much the Hero had done for the people of the Empire.

Thanks to this, the way people looked at her had also changed recently.

Many envied her, and some harbored jealousy and envy toward her ability to be by Adam’s side.

This was even more so since there was no one beside the Hero who was of marriageable age.

They said it was impossible not to like him since he was so beautiful that he didn’t seem human and had an appearance that was beyond approach.

Marian thought it was foolish talk.

‘I’ve never seen someone who looked so inhuman in the world.’

It wasn’t because Adam was an outstanding handsome man, or because he was someone with increasingly captivating charm.

People who looked at Adam from afar might have been deceived by his beautiful exterior.

However, Marian’s position, having watched him closest, was different.

He didn’t seem human.

He didn’t express emotions.

He seemed like someone who was just breathing because he was alive.

He was like a bird whose wings had been cut and had forgotten how to fly from being only in a cage.

The time he showed the most human-like signs was when he was with someone else.

“Don’t stay nearby because having someone around when I work is bothersome.”

The Hero was more sensitive than expected.

He got irritated if he saw even a little bit of people. He didn’t allow anyone to stay by his side.

Although he forcibly suppressed his sensitive nature, he was like a sharp piece of glass.

He didn’t want it either, but if someone approached, they would inevitably get hurt.

However, recently such behavior had decreased significantly.

Didn’t she see him smile gently last time!

Seeing that sight, Marian could understand those who harbored feelings for the Hero with his intact exterior.

Who could be the one making the Hero smile like that?

She was curious, but Marian didn’t ask.

There were three rules to follow at Grace Mansion.

First, be quiet within the mansion.

Second, don’t show yourself to anyone except servants before the Hero calls.

Marian liked her current life, so she didn’t want to ruin things with petty curiosity.

And a few days later, one more rule was added to the mansion.

Unlike the previous two that Marian had led in announcing, this was directly instructed by the Hero himself.

The content was a bit puzzling, but Marian warned the other servants.

Third, if Lord Iberis comes out of the room, don’t show yourself and immediately inform the Hero.

However, even Marian, who was warning the servants, didn’t know Iberis’s appearance.

When he had first arrived at the mansion, he was buried in Adam’s arms, so she had seen nothing except pink hair.

And since then, that person had been quiet.

Except for going out to the temple with the Hero, he hadn’t even come out of the room.

Anyway, it seemed there would be no occasion to recall the mansion’s third rule.

Just then, pink hair fluttered in her field of vision.

‘That person….’

But why is the Hero’s lover outside?

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