Do Heroes Need Welfare Too? - Chapter 20

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Episode 20

Abracxas made a confused expression at Adam’s cryptic words.

However, Adam wasn’t the kind type. He roughly released his grip from his collar and leisurely left the room.

Left alone, Abracxas rubbed his neck.

If he had truly laid hands on a human properly, it would have been enough grip strength to break a neck without even drawing a sword.

“Damn it, I couldn’t even use my ability on the Hero once… But he doesn’t really know my ability, does he?”

Abracxas’s ability was to enchant people with his voice and musical instruments.

So whenever he was bored, he would make those who entered the Demon King’s Castle kill each other or drive them mad.

What he did to Iberis was merely a prank. He just enchanted her a little to make her spill information she knew.

‘I even deliberately acted drunk and brought two glasses to play the part.’

However, just by seeing Iberis unable to keep her wits about her, Adam quickly grabbed his throat as if he had discovered evidence that Abracxas had used his ability.

As if he intended to strangle him to prevent him from speaking if he tried any funny business.

Abracxas’s ability could only be used through his voice.

Even though there was no way he could know his ability.

‘It’s really strange, I tell you.’

Unlike previous Heroes, that Hero approached the Demon King’s Castle in a strange way.

Normally, if demonic beasts were stationed around the Demon King’s Castle, the standard approach would be to kill them and enter, but he even endured the humiliation of entering the castle through a dog hole to avoid the demonic beasts.

‘That’s why we discovered the Hero’s approach so late.’

Abracxas could assert with certainty that not only himself but even the Demon King, that person, wouldn’t have known that a Hero would enter the Demon King’s Castle alone without a single companion.

In any case, it meant he had never confronted Abracxas, who guarded the main gate near the demonic beasts.

When he noticed the entire situation was when the Hero came out of the hall dragging the Demon King’s corpse.

Not wanting to die, Abracxas immediately surrendered and was bound by a damn oath to the Hero.

‘No matter how I think about it, it’s strange…’

How on earth did he know?

The oath itself was unnatural to begin with.

What Hero makes an oath with a demon instead of killing them? It would be easier to just kill them in that time.

“Adam, no, the Hero… is really, really kind, you know? I’ve tried hundreds of times again, but acts of rebellion can be counted on one hand…”

‘That human keeps saying strange things too.’

She just muttered incomprehensible words and fell asleep.

Thanks to that, his plan to extract the Hero’s weaknesses or past through the human failed.

“There’s nothing I can do right now anyway.”

Until that great person returns.

His red eyes, illuminated by moonlight streaming through the window crack, displayed a chillingly sharp aura.

* * *

“I’m sorry.”

“For what?”

As soon as I woke up, I went to find Adam’s study.

Unlike other times when he was busy looking for useful information in books whether I came in or not, Adam was sitting at a neat desk waiting for me.

As if he knew I would come, Adam smiled and spoke without the slightest change in expression.

Normally I would have been enchanted by his picture-perfect beautiful face, but right now he was scarier than a demon from hell.

The moment I saw his face, an apology came out automatically.

I honestly don’t remember at all what I did wrong, but it was certain that I had done something wrong.

I couldn’t even look him straight in the eye and fixed my gaze on the wall.

The unique patterns carved on the wall were quite elegant.

“…Um, drinking alcohol?”

“And?”

“…”

Was there more?

I racked my brain hard.

“Did I… act drunk?”

I think I vaguely saw Adam’s face when my mind wasn’t fully intact due to the alcohol.

Adam smiled at my cautiously spoken words.

“That’s part of it. And?”

“I don’t know! Waaah!”

I was about to slam my forehead to the floor. Well, I tried to, but Adam’s hand came between before it could touch the floor.

As a result, my forehead was fine, but Adam’s hand turned red from hitting the floor.

“I’m sorry for that too!”

How dare I do such a thing to his precious body! But Adam waved his hand saying it was fine.

“Did you perhaps have any conversation with him?”

“Uuuum…”

At Adam’s question, I held my aching head and fell into thought.

My memory seemed to be completely cut off after entering the room and Abracxas whispering something.

I tried to retrace my memories while groaning, but I don’t remember saying anything… strange.

‘And if I had said something strange, Abracxas wouldn’t be this quiet.’

When I glanced at Adam’s appearance, it seemed like there was no conflict with him either.

“I don’t think I said anything particular.”

Adam let out a sigh of relief.

He also muttered quietly, “I thought so.”

“No matter how friendly he acts toward you, don’t forget that he’s a demon. He’s a dangerous guy.”

“I’ll be careful…”

Even if Abracxas was a power level measurer, a demon was still a demon. I understood his concern.

But thinking about it, I had something to say about Abracxas.

Among the things he said just before my memory cut off, there was something that bothered me.

I, who had left the room, burst open the door again.

I seemed to have forgotten about showing him my disgraceful behavior and looked confident.

“But Hero!”

“…”

That was until I encountered the Hero with his shirt off.

Somehow I felt déjà vu. I think I experienced a similar situation before.

After boldly throwing open Adam’s door, what I encountered was his chest visible through his unbuttoned shirt as he was changing clothes.

I widened my eyes at the scene unfolding before me and stopped all movement.

His tightly woven muscles captured my gaze. Since it was a sight I couldn’t normally see due to the loose shirts he often wore, I couldn’t take my eyes off it.

Various scars remained on his compactly built muscles.

“Eek!”

A light blanket came flying from somewhere and landed precisely on my face.

Only then coming to my senses, I removed the blanket, turned around, and shouted.

“I-I didn’t see anything!”

“It seems like you saw quite a lot.”

“Well…”

Actually, I saw it. My dynamic visual acuity, which was merely that of Village Girl 1, awakened as if it had momentarily become Mongolian eyesight.

‘Disappear, you demon.’

I shook my head vigorously to dispel the afterimages floating in my mind.

Then, somehow feeling awkward and finding it difficult to look at his eyes, I looked into the air and muttered quietly.

“Probably not? It’s late, but shall I help you get dressed?”

“Eve…”

Adam didn’t add any more words.

He just called my name as I stood there blankly, enchanted by him.

“Yes?”

I answered habitually without even coming to my senses.

The moment I met his golden eyes, I snapped back to reality.

It was more stimulating than drinking several bottles of alcohol.

In that instant, Adam, who had changed his clothes, pushed my back and gently ushered me outside.

“You don’t want to see more, do you? You’ve been acting strange since last time.”

“Of, of course!”

At his words, I shot out of the room like an arrow.

Only after slamming the door shut did I realize he had said that to tease me, and I felt wronged.

‘Adam has become strange!’

He didn’t used to enjoy teasing people this much! Is this some newly invented method of chasing people away?

After leaving the room, I immediately pressed my forehead.

“Ugh…”

My head started aching from how much I had drunk.

I forced my unsteady legs to move and went outside. Having come out in the late afternoon, the bright sunlight of the sun already high in the sky gently warmed me.

“This hangover is killing me…”

But soon after, when Adam’s body that I had seen earlier came to mind, my face rapidly turned red.

‘No. Don’t think about it!’

This is all because my head hurts.

I sat down in the flower bed where medicinal herbs were planted and picked one herb that was good for hangovers.

Since it was an herb grown without pesticides, I just brushed off the dirt lightly and put it in my mouth.

‘For a hangover, it hurts too much. My stomach feels strangely queasy.’

I spent a long time blankly chewing on grass like that. Potato, who had been wandering around the forest, must have noticed my presence and came running over in one bound to lie down next to me.

I gave some herbs to the growling Potato’s mouth as well, but after chewing a few times, he was startled by the bitter taste and spat it out with a “ptui.” Then, wanting to get rid of that bitter taste immediately, he wiped his tongue with his front paw.

“Sorry. You were staring, so I thought you wanted to eat some too.”

He kept staring at my face, so I thought he was curious about the herbs. However, Potato looked me over thoroughly as if observing, then lowered his head again and pressed it to the ground.

Just then, I heard familiar footsteps.

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