I’m Not Doing This With A Friend

I was so thrilled, the moment I was talking to the medicinal herbs, I heard an urgent voice behind me.

"It's dangerous, Leen!"

Before I could understand the exact meaning of the words I heard, something burst out with a roar. Dark red blood splashed everywhere.

It happened in an instant.

I rolled my eyes and looked around to figure out the situation.

The body of a monster that was shattered to pieces that it became hard to recognize even its original form. And Carsion whose eyes were round wide open in surprise.

Carsion, who moved in front of me in the blink of an eye, suddenly hugged me tightly.

The scent of his body comes in through the tip of my nose.

Pure, like uncontaminated water. But at the same time, it was a dense scent that seemed stuck somewhere.

Was there a scent that goes better with him than this?

"…are you hurt anywhere, Leen?"

I was taken by his mind-blowing body scent and finally came to my senses after hearing his trembling voice.

Is he crazy?

I removed Carsion's arm that was holding me tightly.

Carsion whose hand fell helplessly from my touch stared at my face with embarrassment.

"Leen's face…"

He seemed to be referring to a drop of blood on my cheek.

I quickly wiped the drop of blood off with the back of my hand.

That's because Carsion lifted the sleeve of his school uniform like he was going to wipe the blood off of my face.

Trying to wipe the blood off with a white school uniform shirt. The blood of the monster won't come off easily.

How stupid are you?

"Caon, why are you here?"

"Why did Leen come here alone?"

He rarely looked angry at me.

I felt embarrassed for a moment, and when I realized that he was worried about me, my heart softened.

I used my thumb to press out his narrowed brow, as I had done before. But his brow didn't straighten out as quickly as before.

"Caon. Why do you keep looking like that? Do you think I came here without any countermeasures?"

Carsion looked down at me and shut his mouth firmly. He seemed to have a lot to say, but he didn't say anything.

"I applied a monster repellent. I made it after improving the old one, so it's twice as good as the existing one."

I jabbed at the body of a shattered monster.

"The monster wouldn't have attacked me if you hadn't come out."

On my chin gesture, Carsion's face turned his head and saw the body of the monster.

Suddenly he began to cast a magic spell on the dead body.

When even the traces of the fragmented corpse were no longer visible, he stopped casting spells. A huge pit was dug in the place where the corpse of the monster was located.

"I couldn't believe you saw such a horrible thing in front of your eyes. I'm sorry Leen."

Hey. That's more terrible.

I was about to say something, but I saw Carsion's proud face and turned around abruptly.

"I don't care about the corpse of the monster, so there's no need to worry."

"But Leen should only see good things."

I tilted my head with an excited expression on my face.

"For example?"

"…My face?"

Ha? This was unexpected boldness from him again.

I smiled and put my face close to him.

Carsion steps back as if he was embarrassed. But I didn't care and got as close as he went back.

"Huh? So you don't mind if I look at you like this all day?"

"You, you're so…Oh, no, more than that!"

Carsion shouted, looking in the distance with a heated face.

Whenever he makes eye contact with me, his reaction seems like something would explode.

"Did you come here believing in just a mother repellent? Of course, you should have called me, Leen, if it weren't for the other group members, Leen."

"As I said before, it's okay because it's not just a repellent, I've applied my own improved monster repellent. I brought a poison needle to throw at the monster."

"But…"

"You don't trust the monster repellent I made?"

His eyes widened as if surprised that I would think of him that way. He hurriedly looks down at me.

"It's not like that!"

As if expected, he had the taste of teasing.

I shrugged lightly before his expression was more distorted.

"I know. I was just kidding. More than that, tell me now. How did you get to know this place?"

He dilly-dallied down blinking with his long eyelashes.

"…Actually, you said you had a group assignment today, so I was only going to check if there was a male student in your group."

"But?"

"But one person came and left quickly, and the other didn't come. In the end, I was worried that Leen was going to climb the mountain alone…"

The tail of the Carsion's eyes drooped sullenly.

"I'm sorry if I offended you."

Oh, you're such a good boy.

I slowly reached out and stroked his pink hair.

"It's okay, so relax, Caon."

I already feel sorry just by looking at your face.

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With Carsion, I was busy gathering herbs, unaware that he was next to me.

I didn't expect much because it was a mountain behind the school, but there were more precious herbs than I thought, so I didn't have time to sit still and rest even for a minute.

In addition to solving the assignment, my herbal collection seemed to increase even further.

Even the discovery of the Dao tranto plant almost made me scream with joy.

The thought of coming back here next time and collecting all of them makes me feel reassured.

Oh, I'm so happy.

I couldn't hide the smile that automatically bloomed on my face as I dug up herbs.

After a long time, something drips on my face.