52 – Exile

Returning to the barracks, I called the commanders of each country and explained everything that had happened.

For reference, while Count Rocelli talked about the last incident of Iluen, there were loud and small voices coming out from the barracks and criticism of the three women poured out.

The commanders here are in charge of the troops dispatched to the kingdom of Horon from countries in the north.

Their mission is to stop the invasion of the demon king army first, but more important than that is to save at least one soldier as much as possible and take them back.

Each soldier…

For individuals, they are family and neighbors, but from the kingdom’s point of view, each of them was the national strength of the country, so their heavy responsibility always weighed on their shoulders.

But…

He didn’t die in an unavoidable battle…

The fact that such damage occurred as the operation was broken due to the ignorance of the former warrior party,

Their resentment… Furthermore, the resentment of the kingdoms had to be received by all three women from the former warrior party.

“Why did Count Rochelli look at this situation!? Shouldn’t we have stopped them from stepping out!?”

Sometimes the sparks were also directed to the manager of this garrison, Count Rochelli of the Kingdom of Horon…

“The Count did everything he could to stop them yesterday. Rather, if it’s my fault, it’s my fault for letting them do that in the first place, so please tell me what to say.”

“…..”

When I stood in the middle and covered the count, no one tried to talk about the responsibility battle anymore in the situation where I, the hero, also stepped in.

Anyway, it seemed like there was no need to say anything because the person who would be responsible for this battle had been decided.

“This is not like this! Shouldn’t we go to the place where they are staying and hold them accountable!?”

In the end, the commander, unable to hold back his anger, stood up from his seat and shouted,

At his cry, the conference hall was buzzing here and there, and commanders were forming sympathy.

“That’s right!! Let’s go! Do you know where I am staying!!”

“Right! Let’s go!!”

The commanders were all getting up and going out of the barracks,

Still, those who were afraid of reprisal against the Eritre Empire, the Great War, and the Elf Kingdom were flocking around me and looking at me, hoping that I would step forward.

“I will go and talk. Since everyone has their country’s position, wouldn’t it be better for me to go and speak?”

“Then we should be thankful!”

The commanders shouted with one voice as if they were waiting for my words, and after hearing everyone’s answers, I left the barracks and took the lead.

And…

Shuaaa…

After leaving the barracks, everyone was mesmerized by the small raindrops falling from the sky…

The rain, which was thought to be ordinary, soaked the wounded sitting on the ground,

The wounds of those rain-soaked victims were recovering remarkably quickly.

“Holy Lady! Thank you!!”

“Thank you for saving me!”

Some of the recovered soldiers were even cheering and thanking the saintess…

Of course, the commanders mistook it for a saint from the party of former warriors and headed to the place where the soldiers were gathered.

“That person is…”

But contrary to their misunderstanding, the one the soldiers were cheering for was Lucia, a half-elf with blue hair and pointy ears.

Lucia, who borrowed the power of Elaim, the water spirit king, to make healing rain fall, bowed her head despite the cheers of the soldiers, perhaps embarrassed.

“Oh my God… That was a saintess…”

A commanding officer said that even though I knew the truth, I didn’t bother to tell it.

The commanders, who were still worried about going to the saintess, the head of the Great War, and misunderstood Lucia for the saintess, eased their worries.

The word that there is a saintess in the new hero’s party also means that the former saintess Emilia has retired.

*****

“Huh? Is it raining outside?”

Lydia, who had been drinking wine for a while, was watching with her chin resting on the raindrops falling outside her window.

“Haa~ How romantic would it be if I was drinking wine with Carlos at a time like this…”

She wasn’t trying to tease the two women, but was really simply telling her wishes, but Lydia kept her half-opened eyes from her window.

Uncomfortable to hear at this, Emilia and Illuen were about to say something, but they also fell into the emotion and watched her with Lydia on her chin.

“When it rains like this, I want to drink the black tea that Carlos made.”

“Right.”

“Right. Is it only tea? It reminds me of the desserts I used to make whenever I was homeless..”

“Come to think of it, was Carlos surprisingly family-friendly? If you ask me to cook, cook for me. If you want me to do the laundry, do the laundry too. You never made us wash the dishes, did you?”

The three women looked out the window at the rain and were soaked in happiness as they reminisced about their memories with the hero of the past.

From the warrior’s point of view, it was a hellish daily life.

When he was homeless, he took care of all three women, and the next day, he went straight into battle without being able to rest properly.

“If we have a warriors party again, shall we ask Carlos to make tea and pancakes again?”

“Oh! That’s good!”

At the time when the three women were turning the happy circuit…

The inn door opened and they heard a familiar voice…

“Here you are.”

The three women turned their heads toward the door at the same time as if they were salting,

There, the hero Carlos, whom the girls had been waiting for so long, was coming in wet with rain.

“Kalos!!”

Almost three women got up from their seats at the same time and approached the hero,

The hero didn’t like their approach very much.

“Kalos, how did you get here? And why did the rain hit me like this?”

“Right. Carlos. Come on. It’s warm here, so warm yourself up.”

Emilia and Lydia tried to drag Carlos into a warm seat next to each other, but

The hero was glaring at them with a cold gaze that did not budge.

“Why… Why…? Carlos…?”

It was only then that Emilia noticed something unusual and asked in a trembling voice,

Lindia, who finally grasped the atmosphere, let go of the hero’s hand and stepped back.

“I heard you came to the entrance of the valley today…?”

“Huh? Uh… That’s…”

Emilia was taken aback by the cold stare of the hero she wished hadn’t come to her, so she stuttered her words, and in the end she couldn’t speak properly.

Lydia was afraid to ask herself, so she stepped back and avoided the hero’s gaze.

“Do you know how many people have lost their lives because of you?”

“That’s… I’m only doing this to get rid of the undead… Because Lydia here is throwing magic at nothing…”

Emilia’s attack, which was exchanging toasts because she was on a team just before, was a party of the same warriors. Lydia looked at her with her surprised face,

She was amazed at how her eyes, which had gained weight since her recent birth, were as wide as they were in their prime.

“You… You… You… What are you talking about!! You…you also shot magic!!”

Lydia screamed her whale at her Emilia,

In an instant, the eyes of the people at the inn turned to the hero and the three women.

“That… That’s… Lydia, you shot the magic first, so I thought it was okay so I shot it.”

“Kalos! Don’t believe Emilia’s words. That b*tch used the biggest magic there! If that b*tch hadn’t cast that much magic, the undead wouldn’t have scattered!”

Lydia eventually came up to the hero and held her hand, and as if she was innocent, she spoke of what Emilia had done,

Emilia, who hadn’t heard of her, approached her warrior and took hold of her remaining arm and took it into her own arms, and she countered him.

“You can’t believe that, do you? Carlos? I couldn’t have done that. I am an expert on undead hunting more than anyone else, so there’s no way I could make such a rudimentary mistake, right?”

Desperate Emilia insisted on her own innocence, but her holy magic that the hero saw today was very powerful.

“Perhaps the name of that holy magic was… Sacred Meteor, right?”

“…!!?”

The hero had seen the huge magic he saw today three years ago.

Because it is the most powerful magic among the divine magic that Emilia uses, and it was the magic she always boasted to the brave…

“I’m sorry. Carlos. I told them not to do that, but they didn’t listen to me… I should have stopped them a little more…”

Following Lydia who screamed loudly and Emilia who was blatantly lying, Illuen took out her words as if he had nothing to do with this incident…

“What are you talking about! Iluen! You were the one who tried to take out the spirits and blow them away in the first place!”

“My… When will I!? I just took out the spirits, didn’t I use magic like you did?”

After Lydia, Iluen and Emilia started fighting again, and the inn was getting noisy again.

The innkeeper, who knew who the girls were, was at a loss in a situation where he could neither stop nor do anything about it.

In contrast, the warrior who had been quietly closing his eyes and deep in thought opened his eyes as if he had made a promise to something and opened his mouth…

“The reason I came here is no different…”

“???”

The three women, who had been fighting noisily, heard the voice of a quiet warrior,

He stopped fighting and focused on what was coming out of his mouth.

“There was something I couldn’t say to you three years ago, so I came here even now.”

“What do you mean? If that’s the case, you shouldn’t have told me beforehand!”

Anyway, Lydia and Illuen, realizing that they were wrong, smiled, but

She couldn’t help but smile as she was overcome with anxiety as much as Emilia, who knew the hero well.

“I’ve been thinking about it until now…”

“Yes!”

“I want you to leave my party. All three of you.”

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