Chapter 2
2 – bullying (2)
Yoris also helped out.
“Mr Maru. Everyone has partings. In the end, you should never show an ugly appearance. Take it as hard as I did. I’m sorry too, but what can I do? We have to accept the will of the hero and Natalie.”
“It’s out of the blue, fuck you! Why are you guys deciding? Without consulting me a word!”
“How dare you?”
Natalie looked up with a sneer.
Lucy also let out a mocking laugh.
“Mut dog, can you be a hero?”
It was the same with Yoris.
“We all gathered after seeing the hero.”
“No, I mean… !”
Maru lowered his head.
“done. no, nothing.”
He didn’t open his mouth any longer.
I just made a gloomy expression for such a long time and fell asleep around dawn.
And when I woke up the next day, none of my comrades were left.
“Things without loyalty.”
Maru grumbled and began to organize the surroundings.
He did not leave the camp for a long time even after packing up his things.
‘Maybe Keira will come back. we are lovers I will leave without saying a word… ‘
I waited anxiously all day, but in vain.
My girlfriend didn’t come back until sunset.
As it was about to get dark, he hurried out of the woods.
I was thinking of going to the lord’s city that Kiera had visited yesterday.
My steps were lighter than usual because my colleagues, no, previous colleagues, each took their own luggage.
Because he was always the porter, he carried a mountain of luggage.
Thanks to this, I even got a disability that slightly bent my neck and back.
“What if Kiera and I cross paths… ?”
That night.
Maru arrived in Midos, a city ruled by the Duke of Toledo.
He headed first to the Duke’s house, and he heard news of Kiera from the guard guarding the front gate.
“The warriors all left this morning.”
“In the morning… ? Then, haven’t you heard that Keira-sama is going?”
“How do I know that? It stinks, so get out of here! oh the smell You haven’t washed in days.”
Afterwards, Maru wandered around the city until late at night and found the cheapest inn.
narrow room.
About ten men were snoring and sleeping.
I squeezed into it and lay down on my side like a shrimp, hugging my luggage.
It was difficult because it was narrow, but I spent the night with a glimmer of hope.
“Even the people at the gates didn’t see Kiera leave, so she must still be in the city. Let’s do our best to find it.”
the next morning.
Maru, who was hungry, went around looking for cheap restaurants.
The money he earned in the meantime was used to buy Keira’s equipment, so he didn’t have much.
“It’s a big city, so prices are no joke. But I haven’t eaten a single meal since yesterday. Even if you can’t eat lunch or dinner today, you must eat breakfast… ”
Then, inadvertently, in front of a high-class restaurant I passed by, I ran into old colleagues who had just finished eating.
“Natalie? Lucy? Mr. Yoris? Why are the three of you together? and… ”
Maru looked at the back of his old colleagues, who were clearly embarrassed.
She hides behind her colleagues and stands with her face down. She has short silver hair.
Maru’s face brightened.
“Kiera! I miss you! You’ve been looking for me too!”
While Maru ran happily carrying a large backpack on his back, Kiera quickly whispered to his colleagues in front of him.
“What happened? Why is that person here? Are you going to do it this way?”
Natalie clicked her tongue.
“I thought he would understand moderately if he was smarter than me, but he lives a tiring life.”
Lloris laughed.
“The day before yesterday, there really was no context. I should have said that Kiera had left for another city so that we might cross paths.”
Lucy yawned.
“Kiera, let’s just be honest and let it go.”
“I don’t even want to talk anymore.”
“Kiera!”
As Maru drew closer, Kiera quickly raised her hand.
“Mmm, stop!”
“Kiera… ?”
“Don’t come any closer.”
“Don’t come closer? why?”
Kiera put her hand on her chest for a moment, then raised her head and walked forward as if determined.
“I am going home.”
“What? Hometown?”
“If you wait at home, I’ll go back after everything is over.”
“What are you talking about all of a sudden? Didn’t we decide to catch the demon king together? But are you going to travel alone?”
Lucy intervened.
“You usually pretend to be smart, but why are you so careless? You are no longer our colleague. I was kicked out.”
“Do not be ridiculous!”
Maru was confused and looked back on the past.
A party atmosphere that is cold only to yourself.
Even Kiera, whom he trusted, looked cold.
I already knew.
That someday this day will come.
It just makes me dizzy when I shut up.
Even without lengthy explanations, he could roughly understand why they were trying to kick him out.
I’m sure he wants to earn even a penny by kicking out the unhelpful porter.
Ahh.
Kiera’s voice sounded slightly trembling.
“We are going to join the Duke of Toledo’s army with the best of them and head to the Kingdom of Basilite. There is no place for Maru there. Only people with abilities have seats. therefore… ”
“Shut up!”
When Maru glared at her, Kiera flinched and avoided her gaze.
“Did you insult me by breaking up the party with the intention of ostracizing me? all?”
Maru burst out laughing.
“You only learned cowardice from a warrior subject, Natalie. Don’t call me a warrior anywhere, it’s embarrassing. You’re a brat with no loyalty, no honor, no shit!”
“This pig… !”
“Leave me fooling around.”
Kiera stopped Natalie from drawing her sword.
Maru continued to raise his voice to his colleagues.
“Yoris! You don’t even deserve to serve God! You despicable priest!”
“Heaven… Please give me patience so that I can put up with this insult today.”
“Lucy! You’re always like this, so what the fuck. I did as I was doing. nothing to say fuck It would be nice to have trouble with others.”
“I look at you specially this time. If you insult me again, I’ll kill you, mutt.”
“It was hard for me to go out with you too. I’ll leave quietly, so stay silent while we’re leaving!”
Maru turned his head around.
“Kiera! How can you do this? We’ve been together since we were in our teens! I bet everything on you, how could this be!”
“… … .”
Keira closed her eyes and listened quietly.
As if to say what is inside, do your best.
As if telling them to shake off and leave quickly.
That appearance angered Maru even more.
“I recognized you from a year ago when you didn’t refuse dances offered by men! I always took a back seat and only hung out with princes, sons of aristocrats, sons of wealthy merchants, and it was so hectic! You must have wanted to break up with me and get someone else right?”
It seems to have provoked Keira.
She opened her eyes and slapped the floor on the cheek.
slap!
“Watch out!”
Maru touched his sore cheek and giggled.
“Did you get stabbed at least? uh?”
Kiera immediately used one of the hero’s abilities, the heart-speaking proverb.
Only Maru could hear her voice of resentment.
-You didn’t have anything better than them! And so weak! You can’t make me shine right now! I want to go higher than other warriors! I want to receive full material support from the nobles! When I told them that they had a lover, it felt like they all took a step back as if they had promised! That doesn’t mean I’m going to dedicate myself to them. I wanted to make it easier to use!
After all, this is it.
Was this her true intention?
It was bittersweet.
“I didn’t know you were such an ambitious woman.”
– It’s natural for a warrior to seek greater power. Even in order not to be killed by the demon king.
“… … .”
It was rather easy to give up because she declared that it was over.
In the meantime, I’ve been hurt in the party, and I didn’t think I wanted to hold on to it like an idiot.
Because of love and duty, I couldn’t say anything, but maybe Maru himself was the first to want to escape from the current situation.
“I already knew it a few weeks ago. broke up. I put on a mask and tried to protect our love, but you don’t seem to have any intention of trying. All right, I’ll leave the baggage alone.”
Maru carried the backpack with one hand and waved to everyone while stepping back.
“Let’s never see each other again. Even if we meet, we will pretend not to know.”
Natalie laughed.
“That is what I am going to say. If you pretend to know even a little bit, I will break your head right on the spot.”
Lucy laughed too.
“I think he will be caught by bandits on his way home and searched for.”
Lloris also waved his hand brightly toward the floor.
“I will not go far.”
Keira didn’t say anything.
His expression seemed lighthearted, as if a hump had been removed.
***
“This money is not enough. The dish is very expensive. Not even nobles can afford it.”
“Was it that expensive? Then bring me any deer dish. it’s cheap I really want to eat today.”
“Well. They say they don’t have money, so I’m thinking of making stew with the organs I was about to throw away. Would that be all right?”
“Yes, please give me that.”
“Ugh, you have a good stomach.”
A fine dining restaurant in town.
Maru sat in the corner and quietly ate the stew the waiter brought.
He didn’t say or think anything throughout the meal.
There was nothing to look elsewhere.
I just stared at the plate and ate the stew made with deer intestines in silence.
‘The things that made me happy are now hell. I will never date a lover or a colleague again. I won’t trust people in the future.’
After eating, I left the restaurant and headed as far as I could.
While walking aimlessly, I happened to notice people gathered in one square.
A female minstrel was singing while surrounded by people.
As I inadvertently approached, a beautiful voice pierced my ears clearly.
In which kingdom lived a brave queen
In her youth the queen was very powerful and her armies were so fearsome that they shook the world.
One day she lost her husband in an assassin’s attack
The queen lost the will to live and eventually cut herself off from the world.
The cheerful and lively queen has become a different person
I haven’t come out of the castle for years
I locked myself in sadness and loneliness
The queen often talked to herself clutching her chest
If there were children between him, it would have been less difficult.
The sigh carried by the wind reached the sky
On the day when the night wind blew like a knife, there stood a boy with jet-black hair on top of the castle.
The queen approached the strange boy and spoke to him
The more I talked to the boy, the more I felt maternal love.
Won’t you live in my castle I’m the queen of this country and I can do anything you want
I’ll be a good mother
Maru quickly covered his ears.
“after.”
He hurriedly moved.
I made my way through the crowd and moved quickly to a farther and farther place.
The minstrel’s gaze continued to watch his back as he receded further and further.