CH 39

Novice Hero is a stepping stone

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When I returned to the boarding house with a heavy feeling after eating a slap from Manon, Amanda-san and the others asked me what happened at the dinner table, probably because I had a very depressed face.

"Mom, you don't have to ask, I'm sure Manon hates him for trying to do ecchi things."

"No, Meisa-chan, I'm a gentleman, so I won't do that."

"Then what happened, if you have such a depressing face, the food will be unpleasant, please explain?"

"Uh ... actually ..."

Dodging the pursuit of the dekoboko sisters, Manon invited me to climb the ramparts, but when we were pressured by the atmosphere that was too pink and retreated, I was teased by Beatrice and Manon left angrily. When that happened, I was laughed at.

I couldn't say that Beatrice kissed me.

"It's no longer funny. It's awkward to meet Manon tomorrow."

"Ahaha, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but isn't it Manon-chan's misunderstanding?"

"That's right, I just received a request to treat Beatrice."

When I said that, everyone's laughter stopped.

"Kent, what do you mean by treatment?"

"Oh? Didn't I tell you I can use light attribute magic?"

"What! Lie! You're so cheeky despite being just Kent!"

"Eh? Eh? What do you mean?"

Amanda-san and Meisa-chan heard about my identity, but Meline-san hasn't heard it, so it seems like she can't understand what I'm saying.

So, I talked about being summoned from another world and being able to use magic.

"I heard from Donovan-san that it was only a job from Klaus-san, but did you really treat Beatrice-chan?"

"Hmm ... well, for the time being."

Amanda-san seems to be surprised because she didn't know that I could use light attribute healing magic.

"But wait a minute, Beatrice-chan should naturally be treated by a healer, right? Why is Kent treating her?"

Well, Meline-san's question is natural.

It's not that the lord's daughter can't get a satisfactory treatment, so if you think about it normally, I shouldn't have a turn.

"Um ... it seems that the healer threw in the towel, and he bet on his last possibility ...?"

"Ehhh ..."

Being a healer seems to be a job that requires experience, and you wouldn't think a child like me can do it.

It's hard to imagine a situation where a healer would give up.

"So what was Beatrice-chan's illness?"

"It was rot disease."

"Eeeeeeeee!"

Wow, all three are so surprised they can't stand up.

By the way, rot disease usually can't be cured.

"Kent, is that really the true story?"

"Yes, I don't have to lie anymore ... Oh, but I wonder if it's better not to stand out ... Don't tell anyone else ..."

Spawning Mount Fluffy in the guild's training ground ... Using attack magic without chanting ... Getting kissed by Beatrice in the eyes of the public ... If I don't stand out now, it won't make much sense. I think it'll happen, but I don't have to try to make myself stand out.

"Mom, I think this Kent is a fake ..."

"This kid, what nonsense are you ... no, even if you say such a thing ..."

"No, Amanda-san, don't hesitate to deny it."

Well, I wonder what it is, it's uncomfortable to get a reproachful gaze from three people.

"I see ... Kent isn't just kind, he's a child who can do it, so Manon-chan ..."

"Gunuu ... So cheeky despite being just Kent ..."

"Nufufu, even if it looks like that, I'm pretty good, Meisa-chan."

"Kii ... You're just Kent, cheeky, cheeky, but Manon-chan rejected you!"

"Guha ... that's right ..."

"Ah, you'll have to meet tomorrow and talk properly, come, come, eat quickly, it's not like you can do anything about it right now."

I'm depressed when I think about tomorrow, but right now I can't do anything about it, so I'll concentrate on eating.

Well, I'm already eating, I'm eating.

Tonight's menu is korhi beans and chicken soup.

Korhi beans are large beans with a size of about 5 cm and can be stored for a long time when dried.

These dried korhi beans are simmered in chicken soup, and the beans themselves are voluminous, so the soup alone will make them swell.

"Look, you don't need to eat in such a hurry, you won't be able to taste it, right? It's like you're swallowing without tasting it."

"That's not the case, I'm properly enjoying the taste while eating ..."

"What's wrong? Did something strange get mixed in?"

"Yes! That's right, you have to taste it!"

I had an idea spring into my head.

"Huh? What are you saying, this kid, are you that opposed to my taste?"

"No, it's not that, I found the answer to what I've been thinking about for a long time, thank you Amanda-san."

"Hmm ... I don't know what it is, but I hope it solved your problem."

"Yes, I can get revenge with this ...

After dinner, let's set up a strategy and put it into action tonight.

"Mom, Kent has a bad face ..."

"Kent, you aren't trying to get revenge on Beatrice, right?"

"Eh, no, the person to take revenge on is the villainous princess of Resenburg."

"What are you going to do to get revenge on the princess?"

"Ah ... I'm not going to hurt her or kill her it's just harrassment, even if I say revenge."

"Is that true?"

"Yes, of course, don't worry."

"Well, that's fine, but ... don't do anything too dangerous."

"Yes, I know."

After dinner, I returned to my room and asked Fred and Basten, who had been scouting, to return.

[ Tonight, I will fight back against Camilla! ]

[ Huh, have you finally decided to violate her? ]

[ No, I won't violate her, I just want to give her a little mental damage. ]

[ What kind of strategy ...? I want to know ... ]

[ Tell me, Kent-sama. ]

[ Simply give sleeping medicine to Camilla and harass her while she sleeps. ]

[ Are you going to drag her naked and hang her from the roof? ]

[ No, Reinhardt, I won't do such a radical thing. ]

[ But how do you get her to take the medicine ...? ]

[ Throw it directly into her stomach. ]

The bitterness of the medicine was a major bottleneck in using the sleeping medicine.

However, if you think about it, you can go anywhere in the shadows.

You can just throw the medicine into their stomach, just as I did the other day, in Lastock's medical office, when I massaged the heart of the child in cardiac arrest directly.

If this is the case, they will be put to sleep without feeling the bitterness.

[ I see, you thought about it. ]

[ Didn't you? ]

[ Camilla drinks a nightcap every night ... that's the chance ... ]

[ Yeah, let's set it up at that time. ]

After a brief meeting, we moved to Lastock's garrison.

Since today is rest day, the knights are also given the day off, so there is no training for my classmates.

Before carrying out my revenge on Camilla, I looked into the room to take care of the chairman, and the Novice Hero was there.

Celia is behind the Novice Hero, and Erna is behind the chairman.

"I don't know how Asakawa-san feels, but as long as I have this bracelet, I have to obey."

"Takayama-kun can use such great magic, but why don't you appeal for better treatment?"

"No, I'm not saying I did nothing, I've appealed for improved treatment many times, but I was just told that the treatment of the ones who can't do it is natural ..."

"It's too terrible to do that, seven people are dead, Kokubu-kun, Funayama-kun, Nitta-kun, Furuta-kun, Yagi-kun, Kobayashi-san, Sakurai-san, all of them wouldn't die if they were in Japan as they should be."

"That's ... yes, but I'm doing what I can do."

You're definitely doing what you can, you're doing something erotic with Ceila, who was offered freely.

Pluck it all off! You should just go bald, Ero Hero.

"I ... I will accompany you in the next battle ..."

"Wh ... What are you talking about, if something happens to Asakawa-san, everyone's treatment will be even worse."

"Still, if I go, maybe the knights of Resenburg will really try to fight."

"Maybe so ..."

"What about Takayama?"

"Huh, me? I am ..."

"Are you not going to be in the actual battle? Won't you protect everyone?"

"Well, I want to protect everyone ... but only if I'm told to go, I can't force them to let me participate."

After all, you're full of energy to not go, this Novice!

[ Hey, Reinhardt, if it's Takayama's magic, can he beat an orc? ]

[ That's right, that Hero's fire magic is likely to defeat them. ]

[ If he goes to the actual battle, he will be a force, right? ]

[ That's right, but whether he can demonstrate the power he does during training ... ]

[ Then, he has to go into the actual battle, right? ]

[ That's right. ]

However, Takayama, the Novice Hero, keeps talking about this and that to the chairman while refusing to say whether or not he will go into the actual battle.

"Anyway, I want Asakawa-san to cooperate with Resenburg a little more for everyone."

"I can't do that, if you want me to cooperate, the first thing to do is to change the treatment."

"Huh ... you're stubborn ... anyway, I gave you some advice."

Even if you say advice, it is simply for the show of having given advice, and the chairman didn't consider a single word of it.

With Celia in tow, the Novice Hero left, and after seeing them off, the chairman sighed deeply.

After all that, he never said which side he was on.

The chairman instructed Erna to prepare her a bath.

[ Kent-sama, what are you going to do? ]

[ Eh? What am I going to do ...? ]

[ Are you going to watch over the bathing? ]

[ No, no, no ... I don't think it's necessary ... Oy. ]

Reinhardt, what are you trying to say, asking me if I'm going to watch, Though I definitely want to watch ... Hey.

[ Kent-sama ... useful ... ]

[ That's right, Kent-sama is doing his best. There is no punishment if it is useful. ]

[ No, no, what are Fred and Basten saying ... ]

As I thought, are knights and the athletic clubs affiliated? All three of them are encouraging me to peek.

[ Kent-sama, it seems that the caretaker will also take a bath. ]

[ Conversation while taking a bath ... you should listen ... ]

[ That caretaker had a pretty conflicted face ... ]

Certainly, Erna had wrinkles between her eyebrows the whole time during the conversation with the Novice Hero.

It is necessary to listen to their conversation while taking a bath, isn't it?

Yeah, I have no choice but to know what their conversation is like.

Obviously, when she moves to the dressing room, the chairman will take off her clothes without hesitation.

The two people, who took off everything they wore, faced each other in the bathroom.

With the armor of clothing taken off, it seems that the air is charged with a tingling sensation, with a sense of urgency between the two.

"Saint-sama, are you serious?"

"I will definitely accompany them to the next battle."

"It's too dangerous, please reconsider."

"I don't want to ..."

Well, the chairman who knows that it is a rescue operation at the time of the actual battle won't reconsider.

For Erna, on the other hand, she thinks the actual battle equals death, so please reconsider.

However, she can't tell Erna about the rescue operation, and it's a frustrating relationship.

The chairman then washed her body and hair with the help of Erna, and after the chairman soaked in the bath again, Erna washed her body, but both remained silent.

Normally, I would be fascinated by various places, but I couldn't take my eyes off the facial expressions of the two because of the tense air.

In the end, both of them remained silent and the bath time was over.

Hafu ... It was too stimulating for me.

After this, when Erna goes to report to Camilla, I will take care of the chairman, but I wonder if I can look her in the face properly.

Erna spoke to the chairman, who returned to the living room, while preparing a cold drink.

"Why don't you reconsider?"

"I'm sorry ..."

Erna sighed a little in response to the chairman's blunt reply.

After half a drink, the chairman headed to the bedroom.

After cleaning up the drink glass, Erna enters her own room and looks at the chairman through the peephole.

Surprisingly, there is not just one peephole, but multiple peepholes that are difficult to find from the chairman's side.

At first, Erna seems to peek from the most difficult place to find, and while confirming the position of the chairman, she chooses a place that is easy to see.

The chairman who entered the bedroom seems to be writing something at the desk after she put on a bathrobe.

From our position, we can't see the text, but it's probably a diary.

Occasionally, she stops writing in her diary and shows a figure of sadness with putting her hand on her cheek and sighing, I want to hug her quickly.

"Mama ... Papa ..."

Uuh ... I'm sorry, I got carried away.

I was sure she was thinking about me ... I believed such a thing.

That's right, she wants to meet her family that is back in Japan.

The chairman, who returned the diary to the drawer of the desk, took off her bathrobe, hung it on the back of the chair, and gently wiped her eyes with her nightgown's sleeves and went to bed.

After observing the chairman who went to bed for a while, Erna watched the situation from the peephole, and when she left her room with silent footsteps, she quietly left the living room and went out to the corridor.

[ Fred, keep watch, and let me know before Erna comes back. ]

[ OK ... I'll check on Camilla ... ]

After asking Fred to monitor Erna, I spoke to the chairman.

"Yu, Yuika ..."

"Kent ... where? Oh!"

When I came out of the shadow of the bed, the chairman hugged me.

She buried her face in my neck and put strength into her arms.

"I'm sorry, the lord of Volzard asked me to do a job, so I couldn't come for a while."

"I was worried that something had happened ..."

"Sorry, but dont worry, Volzard is much safer than here."

"Yeah ... I'm still worried, no one will help me if Kent is gone ..."

"I'm worried that Yuika is overwhelmed ..."

"I'm sorry, I think I have to do it ... because otherwise everyone ..."

That's right, the chairman said that she couldn't help but do it, but taking care of everyone is too much.

"Okay, then I'll support Yuika, so you don't overdo it."

"Kent ... but then Kent ..."

"Let's decide the time, lunch break and about 4 o'clock in the evening, yes, you pretend to take a nap, and then I will cast healing magic from the shadows."

"Kent ... Thank you ... I love you ..."

The chairman will leave her head to me so that she can be pampered.

Kuu ... I have already decided to take her home in the next actual battle.

"A while ago, Takayama-kun came ... he told me to stop rebelling."

"Is that so?"

I've heard most of the story, but if she finds out, she would notice that I was peeking during bath time, so let's blur it.

"Yeah, he brought the maid girl ... So I told him, I'm going to the next battle, so Takayama-kun should go with me and protect everyone."

"What did Takayama say?"

"If he was told to go, he would obey ... because, it's the worst ..."

"It's okay, because even if there's no Takayama, I'll protect everyone ... I'll rescue everyone."

"Yeah ... I'm waiting ..."

Fuhaha, Novice Hero, please be my stepping stone.

"Yuika ... I'm thinking of launching a counterattack against Camilla tonight."

"Eh ... counterattack?"

"Yeah, I can only harass her, but I think I can damage her a little."

"Really? What are you going to do?"

"Hmm ... that's still a secret."

"Eh ... Kent's mean ..."

"I'll tell you if it works."

"Yeah, it's a promise ..."

The chairman and I entwined our little fingers and squeezed.

[ Kent-sama ... the caretaker is back ... ]

[ Roger that! ]

"Yuika, I'm going because Erna is back."

"Yes ..."

The chairman kissed my cheek as I was about to dive into the shadows.

Well then, is it time to fight back against Camilla?