I’m a Hero, but I Gave Up Saving the World

68 – The Elf Queen’s First Kiss

Here’s how to burn a witch in Aurelia.

First of all, before the execution, the soldiers beat the witch to such an extent that her whole body is bruised, making her unable to use magic.

The exhausted witch is tied to a high pole and straw is placed under it.

When the straw is lit, people gather nearby to drink, dance, and party.

Then, when the flames start to attack the witch’s body by the time her drunkenness rises and her physical strength drops, everyone sits comfortably around her and listens to the dying witch’s screams, falling into the afterglow of the finale.

The reason why burning at the stake is long is to enjoy the party in the meantime.

According to the original plans of the great sage and Carlos, this was the timing when Beatrice’s body would begin to burn as the festival ended.

“-Sigh… Sigh… hot… water… Sigh… Sigh… It’s getting really dangerous… There, Faust. Can you please drop me off?”

The saintess’ feet had been charred and she had already lost her senses, and her thighs and knees were being roasted in the flames.

After a few minutes, the upper body would be consumed by the flames.

that’s what burns

The sweat that flowed from Beatrice’s body was like juice flowing from her skin itself.

“You asked, Beatrice. Why should I?”

“Sigh… Sigh… okay. There’s no reason for you to save me. It doesn’t matter if I die in a fire or not… like… You are good as you are… I hope it doesn’t change the way it is.”

It was sincere, not sarcastic.

However, Faust frowned and looked up at Beatrice as if he had spotted some kind of psychopath.

“Did your brain burn before your legs? Beatrice.”

“Sigh… No matter what you say… You have a right to… Whoa… Whoa… uh, of course… Coke!! this, like this… Even if you appreciate the moment I become a small body, it is your heart. But personally, I wouldn’t recommend it.”

“Oh, are you finally starting to beg for your life? Listen to it.”

Only now do you come to your senses.

I pretended to be aloof for no reason, so I wanted something, but in the end, I wanted to talk about asking for help.

Faust folded his arms as if he was having fun at last, and went into viewing mode.

I was already looking forward to how servile Beatrice would turn out.

“I, it was the people who really hated you that set me on fire. Even the moment you set fire to the straw, the soldiers gossip about you. Don’t you want your revenge to be tainted by those guys?”

“What do you mean?”

“Don’t you want to kill me with your own hands, Faust? If I die now, the ones who killed me were the nameless soldiers and… And then you become King Carlos or Minerva the great sage. I’m worried that I won’t feel a sense of accomplishment that I’ve completed my revenge… ”

“what? What you’re concerned about is your own life. Beatrice has improved her trickery skills.”

“Sigh… Sigh… I keep trying to lose consciousness… Faust… If you want to kill me please… with your hands… kill me… ”

They make excuses like this, but in the end, they are asking for help from the flames, in the end.

Beatrice… At one time, I was a lover and even lived together, but one day, I suddenly had a misunderstanding and unilaterally broke up with the woman who harassed me and took the lead in lowering my reputation.

Why is the woman who used to get annoyed at me saying that she despises me but is so compliant today?

Oh, that’s right.

Is it because you want to live?

Like Tiffania, in the end, her life is precious, so she puts her whole body into acting.

If that’s the case, it would be a shame to let Beatrice die here, as Beatrice said.

I’ll dig into his true nature a bit more and then let him die in agony.

“Misha, turn off the lights and drop Beatrice off.”

“Yes?! I hate it, master!!”

“Eh?”

you don’t like it?

Did the word “no” come out of Misha’s mouth just now?

Have you ever been like this To say you dislike my order outright.

“Did I hear you wrong, Misha? He told me to turn off the lights and save Beatrice.”

“I said I didn’t like it, Master!!”

“under?”

Misha is making a really disgusted expression.

Of course, seeing the cold sweat running down my cheeks, it seems that this confrontation with me is burdensome, but I have to express my disapproval even with that burden.

“I don’t like… I didn’t know you hated following my orders so much Misha.”

“That’s not like that, Master! Misha is unconditionally on the side of the owner, but as much as that woman!”

Misha shouted, pointing her finger at the blazing Beatrice.

“I must kill you here!! This time, I’m asking you to do as Misha said, master… ”

After expressing her opinion, Misha shudders.

I lower my head at 45 degrees and try to check my expression while glancing at it.

If you’re worried that I might be angry, don’t do something that will make you angry.

“… Why is the normally obedient guy suddenly reaching out? Just do as you are told.”

“Oooh… !!”

Misha puffed out her cheeks and gave a resentful look.

When I didn’t lose and responded with a snowball fight, he blushed and averted his gaze, and this time he glared at Beatrice as if he were going to hate her to death.

“Annoying woman… Misha says that she has hated that woman since the old days. From the first time we met… ”

—For Misha Greenwood, meeting Faust was happiness and salvation after a thousand years.

The fact that someone saved me is enough to make me a lifelong benefactor, but if that person is a handsome and young man, how could I not fall in love.

Misha loved Faust from the beginning.

I wanted to stand next to him. He wanted to be his partner, possibly his lover.

However, at the academy, Misha had no choice but to be satisfied with her position as Faust’s pupil.

This is because his lover, Veronica Beatrice, always stuck by his side like a chewing gum.

The first time I noticed Beatrice’s existence was when I went to Faust’s office to submit a report.

When I knocked, there was no response, so I opened the door and encountered a scene where they were engaged in a passionate act of affection.

Beatrice, who was sitting at her work desk and had her tongue in her boyfriend’s mouth, let out a puzzled voice as she tidied up her disheveled hair.

“oh. Hey, are you a student? Faust. What should I do?”

“Oh wait wait, he’s a guy I know. It’s Misha… What is it?”

“I’m here to submit a report… master.”

Mischa stared into Veronica’s face, fascinated.

It was pretty. Pretty.

Looking at her face strangely twisted the five organs.

On the contrary, Beatrice looked at Misha and smiled rather cutely.

As if he doesn’t even consider himself a competitor at all.

“master? Ah~ are you the elf that Faust picked up?”

pick it up? It wasn’t picked up, it was salvation.

“Wow~ It’s the first time I’ve seen an elf up close like this. Even though I’ve seen caged elves from a distance at the zoo when I was a kid. Can I touch your ear?”

“… no… ”

“Soft and soft~”

Beatrice played with her pointy ears like a doll.

It was a mistake made by not knowing that an elf’s ear is a very sensitive part that is treated as an erogenous zone.

“no… !!”

“oh. Why?”

Misha removed Beatrice’s arm and ran away crying.

“I really hate that girl… I want to kill you!!!”

Back in her room, Misha hugged the pillow and cried all day.

What made the perception of Beatrice even worse was the incident that occurred on the birthday of the goddess Irene.

On that day, the biggest holiday in Aurelia, it’s like Christmas on Earth. All work at the academy is stopped and everyone spends a good time with their families and lovers.

Misha, who has no family, mustered up the courage to ask Faust out on a date.

While wandering around looking for a guy he likes, he suddenly found a hand gesture calling him and followed him. Beatrice, smiling with a smile, was waiting for him.

“Hey Misha. Will you do one favor of mine?”

“… What is it?”

“Bring this to Faust.”

Beatrice handed over a letter sealed with a heart-shaped seal.

“what it this?”

“It’s an invitation♡ I’m going to spend the night with Faust in my room.”

“… Why don’t you bring it yourself?”

“Ah~ Isn’t it a bit embarrassing if a woman did it first? Please, Misha! Are you Faust’s best disciple?”

“… … … … ”

I couldn’t come up with a good reason why I should refuse.

At the time, Beatrice was a faculty member at the academy and was Faust’s lover.

It was not unusual for Misha, a student, to run errands.

In the end, Mischa found Faust in a mixed mood, wanting to commit suicide, and delivered the invitation.

After reading the letter, Faust expressed his gratitude with a slight embarrassment.

“Why did Beatrice make you do this errand? Anyway, thanks Misha. Oh, it’s already evening. I must go quickly.”

“Misha and… !!!”

On the day when the sesame seeds of the lovers spilled, Misha held Faust with a trembling voice as he was about to leave for his girlfriend’s room.

The proud Elf Queen’s hand trembled.

“Can’t you stay with Misha?! master… !”

“uh… ? with you?”

Faust scratched the back of his head as if in trouble.

“Why… ? Do you have something to do with me?”

“It’s more than business… I want to be with you.”

“Then I’ll set aside time tomorrow. I already have an appointment today.”

“Tomorrow has no meaning!! today… That today is a special day… Misha is… Today with the owner… I want to be with you… ”

“Misha.”

“Yeah, Misha is much, much more than that girl, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe… ”

I knew.

Faust is human and already has a girlfriend. She also has a very beautiful girlfriend.

He was of a different race, a slave, and he knew that he had no place to intervene, as he was only a disciple.

Still, Misha desperately tried to convey her feelings while holding the hem of the school uniform that Faust had bought as a commemoration of her entrance.

Faust, too, noticed the serious atmosphere and was listening intently.

“master! In fact, from the beginning, I loved the master… !!”

Know.

That the odds of success are extremely low.

Still, if I could turn his heart to me even just a little bit, if I could make him hesitate for a moment in his steps toward Beatrice, if he would see me as a woman… This confession was worth making.

“I liked… !!”

“Oh my goodness. Were you here? Faust. And Misha was here too? Were you running errands for me?”

—But, of course, at that crucial moment, Beatrice made a disgusted face.

If I had come a little later, something might have changed.

“Hey Beatrice. Can you leave for a second? We were talking about something serious… ”

“Ah, is that it? That’s what I asked Misha to tell me. Now that I’m here, you don’t need Misha, right?”

Beatrice chased after Faust, who pulled her neck back, and managed to kiss their lips.

“Come on, let’s go to my room. Let’s spend lovers’ time~”

“Um… Mi, Misha. Sorry, see you later.”

The two disappear arm in arm.

Beatrice forcibly dragged Faust, who was watching the apprentice’s expression while looking back with worried eyes.

“… … … … .”

Misha, who was left alone, muttered to herself with a terrifying expression that seemed like it would explode if touched.

“… give it back… Give me back my master… ”

From that day on, the person she hated the most in Mischa’s life was fixed as Veronica Beatrice.

Over the course of a thousand years, he passed through countless vicious human slavers, but he hated Veronica more than anyone else.

That pure crystal-like hatred was still vividly alive.

“-I do not like it! I do not like it! I hate it! No matter how much my master commands me to save Beatrice, I absolutely do not want to obey!! never! never! I absolutely hate it!!!”

“My true… ”

Misha Greenwood cried out, kicking on the ground like a child.

Faust, seeing Misha for the first time who couldn’t control his emotions, felt the need to calm down a little.

“Calm down Misha.”

“I hate it, I hate it!! Misha hates Beatrice! Even the master who likes Beatrice hates it!! Misha is—!!”

side.

“-what?”

So, I kissed Misha on the lips.

“When did I say I liked Beatrice? Everyone has a past. What matters is the present. You are my favorite woman right now.”

“Hoeh?”

Misha’s face melted in an instant.

With an expression full of happiness, with no room for anger.

His pointy ears drooped down and his cheeks were all reddish.

Misha, not daring to be angry now, was looking up at Faust’s handsome face with heart-shaped eyes.

“Then do as I say, Misha… What is the answer?”

“Ah, I see, Master… ♡”

Misha answered with a bewildered expression.