Do Heroes Need Welfare Too? - Chapter 62

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Chapter 62

It was a slow, not at all quick touch.

Iberis held her breath and looked at him.

Adam’s hand reached her delicate neck. At the chillingly cold sensation of his hand, Iberis shrank her neck.

However, feeling a strange sense of unease, she didn’t avoid his touch.

At that moment, Adam’s hand touched the Sacred Relic.

Crack-!

A recoil so strong that even Iberis could feel it occurred.

Adam’s hand was repelled by that force.

In an instant, his focus returned.

Meeting his clear golden eyes, she could finally realize the déjà vu she had just felt.

‘Just now, weren’t Adam’s eyes red?’

However, the moment she realized that fact, Adam, who had come to his senses, covered his mouth with his hand and quickly went outside.

Iberis, who had been blankly watching that series of events, finally grasped the situation when wind came through the open door and followed after him to find him.

“Adam!”

Outside, late autumn’s heavy rain was pouring down.

It was rain that had been making the Demon King’s Castle gloomy for several days.

Where could he be going in this weather? She couldn’t help but worry.

Iberis went around looking for places he might have gone.

However, she couldn’t see Adam, let alone any trace of him.

Could he have really gone outside the Demon King’s Castle in this weather?

Then, from one side of the completely dark Demon King’s Castle, a black object moved.

It was Potato, who had been brought inside the Demon King’s Castle to avoid the rain.

Iberis looked at Potato’s red eyes that were slowly opening, lowered her gaze, and asked.

“…Potato. Did you happen to see the Hero?”

“…”

Potato crouched down low. With his ears folded to the sides, he was being wary of his surroundings.

His ears twitched toward any direction where even the slightest sound could be heard.

Potato, with dilated pupils, was afraid of something.

As she petted Potato’s head to calm him down, Potato, who had been hesitating, opened his mouth.

“It would be better not to meet the Hero right now.”

It was Potato’s voice that she had heard after a long time.

Since he liked to act spoiled toward Iberis, this was only the second time she had heard his proper voice.

It was dangerous enough for him to open his mouth and give a warning.

‘What is?’

Potato specifically pointed out the Hero and told her not to meet him.

If there was someone Potato would be afraid of, it would probably only be the Hero.

However, until now, Potato had treated even the Hero, who was his natural enemy, gently.

Since he wasn’t someone who would harm her, Potato had quickly opened his heart as well.

But that same Potato was in a state of being frightened by something.

“Did you see the Hero?”

“…”

“You did see him…”

“…”

Even when asked the question again, Potato kept his mouth tightly shut.

However, sometimes silence could be an answer.

“Can’t you just tell me where he went? I’ll just watch from the side. There’s something… I’m a bit worried about.”

Potato, who had been quietly closing his eyes, silently got up.

And he took the lead as if telling her to follow.

Crash!

Lightning flashed outside, followed by thunder that filled the sky.

When she flinched, Potato, who had been walking ahead, rubbed his body against Iberis’s legs. Potato’s warm fur tickled her legs.

“Thank you, Potato.”

Iberis reached out and stroked his back.

It wasn’t just Iberis who was extremely tense, as Potato’s stiff back softly relaxed under her touch.

Potato boldly went outside.

He didn’t care that rain was pouring down and lightning was occasionally striking.

Iberis also hurriedly grabbed an umbrella and went outside.

Worried about Potato wandering around below, she tried to cover his face with the umbrella, but Potato, finding it uncomfortable, jumped right out of the umbrella’s range.

“Wait a minute-!”

Potato, who had run like an arrow, was looking down at somewhere.

‘This place is…’

It was a place connected to the underground of the Demon King’s Castle.

Strangely, the Demon King’s Castle had something underground as well.

She hadn’t noticed that fact, but Ben had said that when you hit the floor, it sounds hollow inside.

However, Abracxas had jumped up and said there was nothing inside, so don’t even think about going down, and since there probably wouldn’t be much to see, she had forgotten about it.

Going down, there was a small glass window where you could see inside from outside.

Looking inside, there was a statue depicting a small god.

Adam was kneeling in front of that statue.

Inside, Adam was crying.

She thought he would have gotten wet from the rain, but his clothes and hair weren’t wet at all.

At first, Adam’s face was so peaceful that she thought she had seen wrong.

If it weren’t for the two streams of tears flowing down his cheeks from his eyes, she could have returned to her room as if nothing had happened.

However, at that sight, Iberis couldn’t move her feet as if nails had been driven into them.

It felt like she was looking at someone’s reverse scale.

She should immediately turn her head and pretend not to know, but she couldn’t bring herself to do so.

She could feel Potato’s gaze, but she didn’t turn her eyes away.

Adam soon frowned and was shouting something.

Nothing could be heard, blocked by the sound of rain.

As if shouting what he wanted to say, as if wailing.

She couldn’t understand whether he wanted to cry or express his complaints.

The hand that had been fidgeting with the Sacred Relic soon dropped.

Because she couldn’t bear to directly hear his feelings right now.

Iberis leaned her back against the wall and sat quietly.

Her clothes became damply soaked, but she sat quietly.

Her body quickly became cold, but Potato placed his face on her gathered knees with a thud.

His shameless behavior brought a small laugh.

Iberis sat there for a long time.

Because she knew how heartbreaking it was to cry alone, Iberis couldn’t bring herself to leave that spot.

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It was when she was tossing and turning, unable to sleep, perhaps because of the scene she had witnessed until dawn.

Through the slightly open window, mixed with the sound of rain, the neighing of a horse could be heard.

‘What’s that sound?’

Lighting a candle and looking out the window, she saw a silhouette in the shadows of the dark dawn.

‘The Hero?’

The one wearing a black robe and getting drenched in the heavy rain was definitely Adam.

He was calming down a horse.

I wrapped a shawl around myself and quickly went down the stairs.

“Hero!”

“…Ah, Eve. Weren’t you sleeping?”

I called out to stop Adam, who was just about to depart.

Seeing me come out without even an umbrella, he looked flustered and took off his robe to cover my head.

In an instant, his clothes and hair began getting soaked.

I tried to return the robe to him, but he tied it tightly so I couldn’t take it off.

“It’s raining heavily. Don’t get wet and hurry back inside.”

Adam acted like he wouldn’t turn back.

Was this such an urgent matter that he had to move at this dawn hour? But the ground was muddy from the rain that had been pouring since evening.

If he rode his horse and the hooves got stuck in the mud, causing him to fall, there would be no one to help him at this dawn hour.

As an individual, Adam was stronger than anyone, but in the face of natural disasters, he was just a powerless human.

I urgently tried to dissuade him.

Whatever it was, I intended to make him go out after the rain stopped.

The rainwater dripping down his chin overlapped with his sobbing appearance from just a few hours ago, making it even more so.

But I couldn’t bring myself to ask.

“Hero, where on earth are you going at this hour?”

“It would be better if you didn’t know. Don’t worry and go to sleep, Eve. I’ll be back before sunrise.”

“…”

He draws the line again this time.

Adam was gentle with me, but he showed no compromise to those who crossed the line.

Rather than falling out of his favor, it was better to step back this time.

“Alright. Be careful.”

On the outside, he acts like a docile sheep, but inside, there’s no telling what he’s thinking.

So I decided to use a cheat key.

After seeing the Hero off, I immediately stood in the 2nd Floor Corridor where I could clearly see the Forest in front of the Demon King’s Castle and watched the Hero.

‘This can’t be helped.’

Beginning synchronization.

The thoughts you think intensely will descend as divine oracle.

‘Tell me honestly where you’re going, Hero!’

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