Do Heroes Need Welfare Too? - Chapter 182

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Part 2, Chapter 49

He was wrapping the wound on his arm with bandages. It seemed to be an old wound, as scabs had already half-formed.

“Adam, you’re badly hurt! Why didn’t you tell me!”

I rushed to Adam, who was sitting leaning against the wall.

I grabbed his hand to heal him with divine power. Then Adam quickly tried to pull his hand away.

However, the Relic’s reaction was faster. It repelled Adam’s hand that had touched mine.

‘…Huh?’

When I tried to use divine power, it caused a rejection reaction.

There haven’t been many people the Relic has rejected so far.

Abracxas, Abaddon, and…. Aphene, who is the Demon King.

‘As expected, the curse still remains.’

Perhaps due to the aftermath of meeting Lawrence, now even contact while holding the Relic was difficult.

Whether it was because of me having complete divine power and Adam having demonic energy from being cursed.

I gritted my teeth.

He was wounded, but we couldn’t go to the Temple.

If I entrusted Adam, who still had traces of the Demon King’s curse—demonic energy—to the High Priests, the Temple would surely be turned upside down.

I brought the first aid kit with a pale face.

Inside were medicinal herbs I had made whenever I was bored in the past.

“Eve….”

“I know.”

I took off the necklace made from the Relic and threw it far away.

The divine power within myself hadn’t disappeared, though there was a faint rejection reaction.

However, it was bearable.

I wrapped his arm round and round with bandages. The wound was healing.

Judging by the timing, it was definitely a wound he got at the Temple.

“So why didn’t you tell me?”

“…I thought you’d worry.”

“So you hid it?”

I asked back as if dumbfounded.

“I’ve become a body that can no longer receive divine power, so I didn’t want to make Eve worry by telling you unnecessarily.”

“I told you everything.”

From the fact that I was a deity, to the existence of the Quest. I confessed everything to Adam without hiding anything.

But the more I did so, the more Adam hid things.

Adam seemed to have nothing to say and kept his mouth tightly shut.

It seemed like no amount of coaxing or threatening would make him listen.

“Do you really not trust me that much?”

I finally couldn’t hold back and blurted it out.

Then Adam opened his mouth that he had been keeping tightly closed.

“Eve is the one who…. doesn’t trust me. You overexert yourself using divine power for my sake.”

“That was something unavoidable….”

“You even coughed up blood.”

I was speechless at Adam’s words.

Still, I had recovered long ago.

Even if I coughed up blood, it was only at that time, and I was in a much better position than the wounded Adam.

“That’s why I saved you. I hate being helpless and only being saved without being able to do anything.”

And if I did it, Adam might hurt less.

I didn’t always want to just receive help from him either. There was no reason for him to make sacrifices to save me.

If one person was going to be in pain, it was better to divide it between two and split it in half.

“I’m used to pain. But….”

Adam, who was always confident and feared nothing, was afraid.

“I don’t want to lose someone I love anymore. I can never get used to that.”

Tears welled up at his vulnerable appearance.

I hung my head low.

“Eve….”

Adam called my name as if flustered.

It was when he leaned forward to comfort me.

I didn’t miss that opportunity and clenched my fist tightly to hit his abdomen.

Adam clutched his stomach after being hit by the sudden attack.

“Ugh, hitting a patient….”

“What kind of stupid thing to say! You’re used to it so it’s okay. What’s okay about it?”

“Anyway, I’m….”

“Adam is not okay at all.”

I answered firmly.

I thought I should hit him once, but after hearing what he said, twice seemed fine too.

‘Well, it was always like this.’

Even when hurt, he could just apply medicine or heal with divine power.

So he would deliberately push himself and then heal with divine power.

I wonder if the memory from that time stuck firmly.

It was when I was about to fall into inescapable guilt again.

Adam grabbed my arm and rested his forehead on it.

“It doesn’t seem to hurt when Eve is next to me.”

Adam said, lightly leaning his head on my shoulder.

He didn’t put any force into it, so only his fine hair brushed against my collarbone and fell away.

At his cheeky tone, I threw the bandage I was holding at him.

Anyway, I had already treated the major wound, so my treatment wouldn’t be needed anymore!

He probably doesn’t know how shocked I was to see the bandage soaked with blood.

That’s why he’s smiling so carefree like that.

“Is it okay to treat a patient like this? I’m hurt.”

“What kind of patient are you when you said with your own mouth that you’re fine?”

I let out a small sigh.

“Tell me when it hurts. There’s no way it doesn’t hurt.”

No matter how used to pain he had become, the wound wasn’t small. Even if it was smaller than the wounds he got when he set out to subjugate the Demon King.

If it were an ordinary person, or at least if Kyrillos had been hurt, it would have been a wound that would have made him grab his arm and roll around on the floor.

Why does he look like it doesn’t hurt at all?

I didn’t think he was lying.

I just felt sorry for Adam, who grew up in an environment where pain was familiar.

“Adam doesn’t need to fight so hard alone. I’ll always be by your side. Trust a former deity.”

I said, winking.

Then Adam smiled gently.

His expression became much more relaxed than the one he had just made.

“Really?”

“Of course. I want to stay by Adam’s side. So please tell me about anything I can help with.”

If before I watched Adam from a third person’s perspective, now I could be by his side.

What good is being a deity? Being next to Adam is the best!

I rolled up my sleeves and sparkled my eyes as if I would do everything Adam asked.

What should I do first? Should I loosen the bandages on his arm that I had wrapped thickly as punishment?

“Then my arm hurts, so please feed me.”

And I was left speechless by the shameless and confident request that followed.

Wasn’t he moving just fine until a moment ago?

“It’s hard to even move my arm because of the pain.”

This liar! If your left arm is hurt, you can just use your right arm!

‘Someone who wields a sword well with both hands?’

Adam clutched his left arm and whimpered like a pitiful puppy.

However, I looked at him with suspicious eyes.

But Adam really seemed to be in pain as he clutched his left arm and spoke.

‘…Is he really in pain?’

Even though I was looking at him with suspicious eyes, Adam was shameless.

Still, I was the one who told Adam to tell me everything.

However, I had no choice but to obediently follow his request.

‘I can’t help it.’

When he talked about pain with that innocent face, my body inevitably moved first.

I never expected Adam to honestly say he was really in pain.

I was glad he was telling the truth now, at least.

But why did it seem like he was holding back laughter the whole time?

“You’re really in pain, right?”

“Really.”

Adam lifted up his bandaged left arm to show me as he spoke.

“But you seem to be holding it up just fine right now?”

“That can’t be.”

Adam folded his arms demurely as he spoke.

‘I feel like I’m being fooled somehow.’

Still, my hand feeding Adam didn’t stop.

I feel like I lost somehow.

Adam was grinning broadly.

Right, it’s good when a patient eats well and smiles.

However, Adam was secretly covering his smiling face with his hand.

“You’re not in pain after all, are you?”

“Ah, you caught me. What should I do when Eve’s medicine works so well?”

Adam chuckled sheepishly.

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