The Porter Is Not Interested in the Hero Party

65 – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1)

The diversionary operation, in which two commanders jumped in, failed, and the Demon King’s army suffered a fatal blow. We couldn’t push the front line further by the demon army with all our strength, but it seemed difficult for the demon army to regain its prestige again unless there was something special.

Commander Greta’s head roamed around the battlefield, breaking the morale of the demons, and another commander who attempted a diversion operation was found as a disastrous corpse pierced by a branch in the valley. According to Cayberes, he was also said to be a lewd man on a par with Damon and called a cavalry genius.

After the second great phase, what came down to us was the order to rest. Because both sides sacrificed so much, the frontlines were being replaced in a form close to a truce with a tacit agreement. We were scheduled to return to the capital from the forefront, take a break for a few days in the capital, and move according to the strategy of the upper management.

“Seeing that you said to return to the capital, you must be saying to thoroughly replenish supplies and take a break. It’s going to be a really tough operation from now on.”

The carriage to the capital was rattling.

The hero spoke to me without looking me in the eye.

I felt a bit sad when the hero who would have said it with a smile on a regular basis was suddenly acting face-to-face. Looking back at me and the hero, Lena said.

“Now we have to enter a real dangerous zone. I’ve heard rumors here and there, but Greta and another commander died, and the morale of the front units actually dropped. All the magic stones have turned into corpses, and everywhere you go, the white corpses of the empire’s citizens are strewn about?”

Ashuria looked at me and said.

“There’s no way the demons would bury it, and we… … . There’s no way the military will bury it, so it’s a complicated problem. The body… … . There is a risk of corruption.”

“It is a matter of full understanding. From my point of view, it’s regrettable that I can’t bury people from my hometown, but realistically, I can’t do that now.”

In this case, I had to express my opinion clearly first. If every time I saw a corpse I made an awkward face or frowned and ruined the party atmosphere, it would make me feel a little better, but I couldn’t accomplish the great thing.

Lena nodded at my words and added:

“right. Well, because we have our limits. mister. So, what if instead of that, how about we take the lead and build a large tomb after the war? Also put up a very large tombstone.”

“You mean like the war memorial in the capital?”

Lena nodded at Ashuria’s question.

“right. it. like that.”

At the word war memorial stone, the warrior looked at me with a strange expression. Then, as I tried to make eye contact, he turned his head away again and pretended to be nothing. It was frustrating because I couldn’t figure out why the warrior was doing this today.

There is no need to react like this just because a man with good limbs looks like a girl.

So I told Lena.

“I think that would be good too. Since we can’t bury them, we should at least honor them.”

Ashria nodded wordlessly, then looked back at me. Her expression gave off a sense of wonder rather than any affection or special emotion.

“What is on my face? Ashuria.”

One side turned their heads every time they saw me, and the other side threw a mysterious gaze at me, so I had no choice but to throw out a word.

Ashria blinked at my words, then turned her head. Miele, who was eating the bread, looked at her eyes and said,

“what? What did I do wrong?”

Lena stroked Millet’s hair, and the hero said to Ashuria.

“what’s the matter? Ashria.”

“It was just that, suddenly, I thought of my grandfather. In my grandfather’s time, there was a fierce war between empires and kingdoms. My grandfather, who went out as a conscript, died leaving my grandmother behind, and his name has taken up a space on the memorial stone.”

I nodded. Indeed, there was a war between the kingdom and the empire. It seemed that they had fought quite fiercely over territory, but all the records were buried in Sato and discolored so that they could not be found.

“As a native of the Empire, I have nothing to say. We would have learned about war differently.”

The Empire marked this war as a just war to regain territory. That value, which I had never doubted, would throw a question into my heart whenever I saw the memorial stone in the capital of the kingdom. Ashria nodded at my answer and continued.

“It’s not a story I threw out to resent you. I’m not particularly curious about how the Empire taught them about that war. It’s just that I think so. That you, from the Empire, and I, from the Kingdom, will forget the history of the past and move forward together. It is very strange.”

“Isn’t that what history is like? He is such a nasty bastard that he sometimes twists the world and creates irony.”

Who would have known that a guy who used to live as a knight in the empire would work as a porter at a warrior’s party. Even if someone had told me in the past, I wouldn’t have believed it. Seeing my smile, Lena said.

“What are you going to do when you go to the capital?”

“There are rumors in the capital, so I plan to stay quiet. When I heard it, it wasn’t even a fuss. When you return to the capital, you will be handcuffed.”

“Well? What rumors?”

Millet listened to me and tilted her head. I said to Miles.

“Aren’t there those rumors? To seduce widows and attack them, or to coax demons into bed with three tongues.”

Most of the things actually happened, so it seemed like he had a medal in his own way, so his lips hung on his ears, but it was polite to pretend that it wasn’t.

Millet blinked and pointed at the hero and said,

“I heard that all of that was spread by the hero?”

“yes?”

The hero was so surprised that he couldn’t even ask back out loud. He pointed at himself once with an expression of not understanding what he had heard, then looked back at me and the people around me. Then, he looked at Millet again and said.

“Me, me?”

Millet nodded and said.

“yes. The hero revealed his womanhood, seduced Caybereth and even had a bed with him, and played with Damon with a few words.”

“Ahahahahaha!”

Lena raised her voice coolly and laughed. The hero looked at Millet with an absurd expression, then glared at me again. I didn’t know what expression to make, so I turned my head away and averted my gaze.

Ashuria said to Millet with a puzzled face.

“Uh, where did you hear that rumor?”

“Someone gave me the capital weekly magazine. look.”

Millet held out a weekly newspaper that was circulating in the capital. Judging by the headline, it was a popular and widespread newspaper. It was a weekly newspaper that collected gossip from all kinds of places, from border towns to coastal villages, but since it was at war, it seemed that it also collected gossip about warriors active on the front lines.

[A warrior’s secret hobby?

Interesting rumors about a hero fighting at the forefront of the war against the demons are a hot topic.

According to the news from the border town, whenever a hero visits a village,

To seduce beautiful women with sweet words and have s*x with them.

The recently converted Demon General Caybereth was also seduced with this dragonfly technique.

There are rumors that he converted, so gossip about the hero is amplifying.]

The hero’s hand holding the newspaper trembled like a motor. I didn’t know what to say to the hero, so I struggled with my hands and tried to comfort him.

“Oh that… … . warrior… … ? So, I… … . I didn’t mean to do this… … .”

“Oh, no… ! me, i… ! To live clean and like a warrior… ! That… … ! ah… ! eww… !”

The warrior, who dyed his face red and chose his words, couldn’t overcome his embarrassment and shame and hugged his knees again and dug into the corner. In the meantime, Lena couldn’t stop laughing while wiping away her tears, and Millet watched Lena laugh and started laughing along with her.

“Ah, you should laugh at this! Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha!”

“Ahahahaha!”

“I do not know… … .”

The hero was surrendering to the shaking of the slope with his head wrapped around his head. As I was, I had to stay still, receiving Ashuria’s pitiful gaze and the resentful eyes shining between the warrior’s knees.

The road to the capital was especially far today.

*******

From the camp of the Demon King’s Army, a demonic soldier came running in a hurry. The newly appointed Asmodian commander flicked his curly mustache and spoke to the soldiers.

“Why are you in such a hurry? I am not running away.”

The demon soldier caught his breath and handed out a magazine to the commander. The commander glanced at the cover of the magazine and said.

“What is this?”

“According to the information obtained by our spy, the hero is actually a guy who doesn’t like women! Bam’s technique is terrifying, so it’s used to convert Kiberes as well!”

The commander listened to the soldier’s words and started reading the weekly magazine. He raised his eyebrows and exclaimed, pointing to the portrait of a warrior hanging on the blackboard in admiration.

“Also.”

He flicked his beard and added a word.

“Did I? Because that contemplation is a big thing.”