Do Heroes Need Welfare Too? - Chapter 92

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Chapter 92

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My concerns eventually became reality.

“…Yes. I underestimated the Evant Marquis.”

“People who see me for the first time all say that. I seem to be quite a consistent person.”

“…”

Sorry, but Kyrillos, that’s probably not a compliment.

Don’t make such a proud face.

That’s not it.

“Ah, this is a gift.”

This time, Kyrillos came with a cake studded with several large strawberries and handed me the box.

Adam openly showed his discomfort.

The longer Kyrillos’s visits continued, the more uncomfortable Adam became.

I was sorry that Kyrillos was working so hard to bribe me, but I decided to take Adam’s side.

Stress – 65%

What was surprising was that despite showing annoyance, his stress didn’t rise at all.

‘As expected, Adam only dislikes him in words, right?’

It seemed like he was secretly enjoying his visits now.

But Adam still didn’t seem to realize this.

I briefly scolded Kyrillos.

“Lord Kyrillos. Please don’t bring things like this anymore.”

“Why not?”

Because you keep visiting the Demon King’s Castle every time with the excuse of letting me taste delicious desserts.

However, I was at a loss for words seeing Kyrillos’s face that looked genuinely hurt.

‘No, Meriel too, why are they looking at me like that?’

They say you can’t even spit on Meriel’s smiling face.

Kyrillos’s sad expression had a similar effect.

Unable to tell him the truth, I closed my eyes tightly and shouted loudly.

“At this rate, I’ll get plump and round and end up rolling around the Demon King’s Castle!”

He should be targeting Adam, so I don’t know why he’s targeting me.

Kyrillos always brought food and fed it to me, not Adam.

In the end, I spoke on Adam’s behalf.

Adam had already told him several times to stop coming, but had given up because Kyrillos wouldn’t listen at all.

Only then did Kyrillos relax his serious expression.

“Ah, so that’s the problem?”

His eyes sparkled.

He finally looked like he understood why he was being turned away.

‘Did he really understand?’

I suddenly felt an ominous feeling.

And that feeling wasn’t wrong.

Kyrillos, who took my words to bring something else literally, continued visiting the Demon King’s Castle with a proud face.

From then on, he brought teddy bears, expensive necklaces with large gems embedded in them…

He even brought a ring that fit perfectly on my left ring finger, but that ring flew out the window by Adam’s hand before I could even try it on.

Wait, how did he know my size?

Thanks to this, rumors spread that the Duke of Evant’s heir had gotten a lover.

“An even bigger problem arose! That wasn’t the problem in the first place!”

“It’s difficult. The way to win the maid’s heart is…”

Still not knowing his mistake, Kyrillos pondered with a serious face.

No, can’t you feel Adam glaring at you with a terrifying aura from behind?

“So why are you giving me gifts? Usually, if you want to be friends with the Hero, wouldn’t you give them to the Hero?”

“This is a secret…”

Kyrillos mentioned a secret and gestured.

Without realizing it, I swallowed and brought my ear close.

Then I grabbed my ear and screamed at the sudden puff of wind.

“Lord Kyrillos!”

I finally raised my voice at him.

I held my ear and calmed my pounding heart.

No, what kind of behavior is this all of a sudden?

Please respect personal space.

I had to calm my twice-startled heart because of Adam who suddenly rushed toward me.

“Ah, Adam, why?”

He looked disapprovingly at the ear that Kyrillos’s breath had touched, then took out a handkerchief and vigorously wiped my ear.

“Maybe we should wash it with water…”

“That’s not necessary!”

I was just surprised by the sudden action, but I wasn’t upset or anything. I knew his playful attitude well enough.

However, Adam still looked displeased.

Meanwhile, only Kyrillos, who had suddenly dropped a bombshell, still had a calm expression.

“Well~ I thought it would be easier to become friends with the Hero if I made the maid my ally first.”

“It’s not necessary. I can give Eve everything she needs.”

At those words, Kyrillos’s eyes widened as he looked at me.

…Adam was the one who spoke, so why are you looking at me?

I pointed at myself with my finger in confusion.

Kyrillos clapped his hands with an “Aha.”

“As expected, my eyes were accurate.”

Then he nodded repeatedly, acting like someone who had completely misunderstood.

“I understand. If the Hero says that much, I won’t give the maid any more gifts…”

Is it just my imagination that I’m getting more anxious now that he’s backing down so obediently?

“But…”

Kyrillos anxiously added one more thing.

“If the maid doesn’t like the Hero’s gifts, I can keep giving them, right?”

“That won’t happen.”

Adam looked down at Kyrillos and said.

Excuse me, I told you to become friends, but now you’re having a power struggle?

“I don’t mind…”

“The maid should stay quiet.”

So now I’m the shrimp whose back gets broken in a whale fight?

I’m not grateful at all, so why don’t you two hug it out and become friends.

However, I sighed at the increasingly heated atmosphere.

Right, kids grow up by fighting.

Although Kyrillos and Adam couldn’t objectively be called kids, I tried my best to think positively.

But I changed my mind the next day…

“Adam, what did you buy?”

I asked, looking at the small box in his hand.

Adam seemed not to have noticed me approaching and was startled, hiding the box.

“It’s nothing.”

“Really?”

When I asked again, perhaps judging that hiding it was hopeless, Adam slowly brought his hidden hand forward.

“Actually…”

Adam hesitantly handed me the box.

When I opened the palm-sized rectangular box, there was a beautifully packaged fountain pen inside.

Adam was too embarrassed to meet my eyes. It was just a fountain pen, after all.

But as if embarrassment was contagious, my face also turned red.

“You kept writing something while looking at me…”

“Huh!”

At Adam’s following words, I jumped in surprise.

‘How did he know? I thought I was being careful.’

I hoped he hadn’t seen the ‘Adam Observation Journal’ in my room.

“I, I wasn’t really writing anything while looking at you, Hero.”

“Then were you drawing pictures?”

“…Yes! It was a drawing.”

I quickly went along with his words.

But Adam’s reaction wasn’t what I expected.

“Then I’d like to see it too.”

“What?!”

The small lie had snowballed out of control.

I broke out in a cold sweat.

Draw Adam all of a sudden?

But Adam seemed determined to see the drawing I had been working on, so I embarrassedly appeased him by saying I’d draw him properly again.

In the end, I found myself sitting face to face with Adam in the room, holding a small piece of paper.

Adam, sitting in a chair a little distance from me, looked intrigued as if he hadn’t expected me to actually draw him.

Or was he enjoying this?

“Don’t look at me!”

“Understood.”

Adam turned his face to the side and stared blankly into space.

How could he have such a perfect face even just sitting still?

It was such a shame there were no cameras in this place.

I was thinking about asking Kyrillos to ransack all the magical devices in the Mage Tower before I finally escaped from my wandering thoughts.

Was this what a masterpiece was?

This scene right now was like a single masterpiece painting.

‘Adam has really long eyelashes.’

He lowered his silver eyelashes, the same color as his hair, at an angle. His hair, catching the light coming through the window, created the illusion that it was glowing on its own.

What I could never get used to was undoubtedly his face.

I thought I had gotten used to it after spending time with him until now.

I was wrong.

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