130 – Vow

“What…?”

Immediately after hearing what I said.

A bewildered expression appeared on Sonia’s face.

“Are you kidding me right now?! If you don’t like it, just say no! Don’t make people stupid by telling such ridiculous lies!”

Contrary to my wishes, there was no such thing as a situation where I believed in myself.

“Miss Sonia…”

“Do you know how I feel right now…? I barely mustered up the courage to confess, but you didn’t say anything!”

Maybe it’s because the answer wasn’t what I expected.

Her voice rose even higher.

“Then it suddenly appeared and shook people’s hearts again. What is this…”

Then the voice immediately dwindled.

The sobs that had stopped for a while continued again.

“…”

A situation in which resentment and affection for me are mixed, revealing various emotions.

The girl she knew as her confident country girl was crying in front of her, shaking her shoulders.

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Saying that he never thought someone would like him this much was no excuse.

Her current situation was the result of her own ignorance.

Damn it.

He cautiously approached her and wrapped her hands around her face.

A rough and hard texture that can be felt in the gripped hand.

Her hands, which had become very rough while she hadn’t seen them, seemed to prove her efforts.

Let’s push her hand away while suppressing her heart that hurts even more.

“Leave this…!”

Sonia resists my touch.

But that timid defiance was absurd considering her strength.

“…Don’t look.”

Then she put her hands away and her eyes met her smudged makeup and tears.

When I thought of her dressing up to meet me, I felt sorry for some reason.

Sonia startled as I grabbed her face and ran her thumbs around her eyes.

When her face was caught and she couldn’t turn her head, her lost eyes wandered around and finally looked at one place.

I caught her wet gaze and opened her mouth.

“You asked me if I knew how it felt. Now I think I do.”

Then came the small sound of her breathing in.

Step by step, one by one.

It’s your turn to give her answers to the questions she asked.

“I’m saying this because I know. Miss Sonia took so much courage to tell me.”

“…”

She never answered me, but that’s okay.

I could feel her rough breathing gradually stabilizing through her face.

“It might be a bit long. Will you listen to it though?”

She asked her for her consent, and she nodded her head as if possessed.

She confided in her her story about me.

The world I lived in and the stories related to the warrior party after coming to this place.

Finally, the reason why I couldn’t answer her confession.

Sonia, who at first listened with her eyes filled with feeble suspicion, had her eyes wide open and her mouth open by the end of her story.

“Nonsense…”

“It’s hard to believe, but it’s all true.”

“Then what happened in the village at that time…”

She nodded quietly at her question.

Thinking she needed to organize her thoughts, she let go of her hand that was holding her face, and she put on a regretful expression.

“…But you surely didn’t run away then, did you?”

The sincere atmosphere was shattered when the question was asked as if he was really curious.

The atmosphere was nice, but why are you pouring cold water on it?

“Hans told me that you, carrying a lot of things on your back, went out of town and chased after you, but then you ostracized him and ran away.”

Hans You stupid bastard.

The time when I thought of the answer to that while rolling my head.

“It’s okay.”

This time she held my face and met her gaze.

“Because I think it’s cooler to run away and then fight than to fight and then run away.”

“Ah, yes what…”

After returning as usual, something should be conscious. Sonia’s every word and action came as a fatal blow.

Was I such an easy guy?

“So.”

A question that flew in while doubt about oneself bloomed.

“Do you want to go back…?”

Sonia looks at me and asks with anxious eyes.

“If I could go back, I probably would. This place is so different from where I used to live…”

“I see…”

She seemed very disappointed, but after hearing her story, she didn’t get angry like before.

“And there are precious people there too.”

“An important person…?”

She asked back, shocked by her in a strange place, not the part about going back.

“The teachers I mentioned earlier.”

“That’s right. I…”

I don’t know what the hell she was thinking, but she let out a sigh of relief.

“By the way…”

Seemingly calming down a bit, she opened her mouth.

“So. Do you like me or hate me?”

She recites the escape lines she did during the day.

I thought she moved on to serious talk, minus all the playfulness.

“That’s nice…”

“How about as a woman, not as a friend?”

Sonia brings the sensitive subject that she is afraid to face to the surface.

As her eyes lost their way, she put her hand on her face and forced them to meet her eyes.

“How is it?”

Yes. This is Sonia

The way you cried earlier, I must have seen something in vain.

“How should I say, it’s too much for me…”

“Don’t go round and round, talk clearly. To the extent I can understand.”

A porter she never dreamed of that Sonia, who woke up after her hair, would press her again.

Eventually, he succumbed to the absurd reality.

“I wasn’t sure if I could like it…. Wouldn’t it be rude to approach with this kind of heart….”

“I see.”

As she expressed her sincerity, she put on an expression of regret.

Then she thought about something for a while and then opened her mouth.

“You know what?”

“…What?”

“A knight can swear an oath to only one person in his lifetime.”

What is it? Why are you suddenly making an oath?

“…Why is that all of a sudden?”

“Curious?”

A feeling of uneasiness overtook her as she raised one of her eyebrows.

“No. I don’t want to know.”

“It’s too late.”

Chuck.

She knelt down like her lightning bolt with one knee raised as if my opinion didn’t matter.

“Na Sonia Heartbringer, risking her honor and her life, I swear eternal loyalty to you.”

With her left hand clenched into a fist and her straight right hand on the ground near her heart, Sonia uttered incomprehensible words.

While we were in a daze at the oath that ended in an instant without mutual dialogue. She brushed her knees and stood up.

“You are now my lord. You are the lord I must protect with my life.”

What is he saying now?

“No, why are you doing that to me?!”

“That’s my promise.”

“I never agreed?”

“It’s okay. It’s over with what I swore.”

Originally, were vows made unilaterally like this? Wasn’t it the one who swore?

While she was distracted by her unheard-of logic, she spoke to her.

“Then why do you keep showing respect to me? Have you seen how the lord shows respect to his knights?”

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen a knight speak ill of his lord.”

“Don’t keep blaming me, I’m just telling you not to.”

“…”

“Hey.”

“Yes, that…”

“Yes?”

“Please take a look. This is not something that comes out right away…”

“Yeah well, we can fix it in the future.”

While the porter sticks out his tongue at the relationship between Gap and Gap, which is just a façade.

Seeing his face mixed with trouble and embarrassment, she smiled.

‘I must have wanted to keep that expression.’

It’s obvious what seniors will say when they hear it.

Strangely, looking at that figure, I felt that my efforts were not in vain.

The moment she realized why she became a knight, another goal arose for her.

‘I’ll change it so you don’t want to go back.’

“Poohyot.”

Let the porter raise his head at the laughter that erupted involuntarily.

Awesome.

There was no reason, but it was Sonia who erased her laughter because she was embarrassed.

“By the way. What are we going to do now?”

“Yes?”

“Time is running out waiting for you.”

“I didn’t wait for Miss Sonia to go…”

Awesome.

“It was my fault for making you wait.”

He looked around him, trying to find a place to spend his time right away, but there were no open shops around.

It was at that time when the porter’s expression darkened in the gloomy reality.

“Remember? You asked me to stay with you today.”

“Is that so…? But the time…”

“The day isn’t over yet. So…”

Sonia, unable to let go of her fingers, opened her mouth.

“Sleep at my house today…”

Even the dark night sky was not enough to hide her flushed cheeks.

***

Around the time Sonia savored the porter’s 25-year-old lips at the theater.

“Because that villager wants to see you…!”

Talia rages as if the label of the alcohol she was about to open on an important day was ripped off.

At least her title as Archmage holds her in her place, but next to her, her elf is a little different.

“It’s not dangerous, it’s just to stun you. This is what I’m asking for.”

-Whee….

Reina tries to keep the two apart by asking the spirit.

After the play was over, I chased after the two, soothing my burning stomach.

My stomach burned when I saw them sitting on a bench and talking.

-I like you.

In the end, they face the sight of even confessing and go crazy.

‘Please decline…. You’re not good at that!’

‘If I had conveyed my feelings first….’

Fortunately, the porter did not answer, and as soon as Sonia got up and went somewhere, she sang for joy inside.

Although she was a bit like that when she sat still and let out a sigh, Talia thought that if she stayed by her side and comforted her in the current situation, she would win his favor.

‘It can’t be helped~. After all, he said that it would be fine if it wasn’t for me.’

But she wasn’t alone in thinking that.

“Huh?”

“Huh?”

Their gazes, which moved simultaneously, intertwined in the air.

“What are you going to do now?”

“Then what are you trying to do?”

That’s how the quarrel started.

While the girls are arguing.

The porter got up and went to look for Sonia.

They found out about it belatedly and regretted it for a while, but they realized that their common enemy had left and began to be conscious of each other.

Talia can follow her courier’s location with her spells, but it is only natural for her that Reina, who is next to her, follows her.

‘Chit. Anyway, it’s a hindrance.’

‘At least I can’t let it go your way.’

Even after that, the battle between Talia, who tried to slip away at an opportunity, and Reina, who didn’t want to miss it, continued.

In the end, Talia and Raina unintentionally end up spending time together until dark.

“I’m back…”

“I’m back…”

The two returned to the dorm like that.

“You came? That’s unexpected. The two of you came in together.”

The hero who was eating dinner alone on the first floor greeted them.

“Don’t even say that. I’m dying of exhaustion because this dwarf is interfering with everything. By the way, what about the porter?”

It was Talia who was thinking of breaking into the bedroom tonight because she was embarrassed that she didn’t see me when she came.

“You haven’t come back yet?”

“What…?”

Contrary to her own expectations that she would have returned, the fact that she was absent immediately brought to mind the worst-case scenario.

“No way…”

And the same goes for Raina.

Late night.

A woman who was with a man she never returned.

The saying that the ground hardens after the rain came to mind.

– Knocked out.

The girls looked back with anticipation at the sound of the door opening.

“I’m back.”

“What is it, she’s a saint…”

“Haa…”

“Why, why do you…?”

A saintess who is taken aback by her colleagues’ sincere cold treatment.

“What should I do…! Then that b*tch…”

“Am I going to be destroyed by humans in the end…”

The hero opened his mouth to the two who looked nervous somewhere.

“I heard you’re going to see a friend. I’ll see if he’ll sleep there. What are you so worried about?”

He was a warrior who added that it was not good to keep him from going anywhere.

“Hero… Why don’t you think that friend is a woman?”

“…What?”

Seeing such a hero, Talia said in frustration.

“With the town of Florence, the girl I met when I came to the Empire before! She’s with the porter now!”

Only then did the hero figure out what was going on.

While her face went white.

‘Why does that matter… ?’

Only the saintess tilted her head and wondered.

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