Chapter 106 Breaking Character

"Is this everyone in your group?" Looking at the old people and kids, Nikol couldn't help but wonder how they survived up to now.

There were only three of four young girls in this group, it was almost like a group consisting of kids and elderly people.

"Yes," The one who answered his question was none other than Treiya, she quickly cleaned herself and came back as Nikol ordered.

She couldn't even look straight at him, with how guilty, she felt.

"Good, Lydia take them and ask our girls to protect them, tell them not to harm any of these girls but keep your eyes on them,"

Even though Nikol had faith in Treiya right now, he didn't believe every dark elf in this group, especially young ones who had the stamina and strength to harm them.

"Fine, let's go back now, Usha and Eva must be waiting for you," Lydia gave a slight smile while leaving the cave without any objections.

Alva kept skinning the wolves with the help of Emily as it was a waste to leave this high-quality meat without using them. Her experience as a hunter came in handy for this.

"Treiya," Right after Lydia and the other girls left the cave, Treiya also got ready to leave as soon as she can, but suddenly Nikol stooped her holding her hand tightly.

"What was that?"

It wasn't a long question, Nikol's voice didn't even have anger. He was just surprised to see her wetting herself in fear despite her fighting so many elves when they first met her.

"You could have been killed if I didn't protect you, what happened to you?"

Treiya looked conflicted, she didn't know how to answer him. She couldn't tell him how much of a coward she is. Treiya was afraid that Nikol will abandon her since she was such a useless girl that freeze at the most important time.

"It's nothing, I just froze there, I'm sorry for your injury, and I will definitely make it up to you someday," She wanted to end this topic, as her heart was filled with regret and nervousness, but Nikol had no intention of dropping it.

"Don't lie, tell me, are you afraid to fight? I saw your eyes when the monsters tried to attack you, you were crying and your face was full of fear,"

Realising that she cannot get out of this without telling the truth, she decided to open up with Nikol.

"Yes, I'm afraid, even since I was small, I didn't want to fight with monsters or people, I just wanted to be a maid to our queen but," She paused for a moment.

"I was forced by my mother to become a warrior because no maid will be able to become a noble in our ranks,"

"So she was a noble?" Curious about her past, Nikol questioned with his ears perking up to listen to her story.

"My mother was the right hand of our previous queen, that's why I was forced by her to become a warrior to support Ressha and maintain my noble position,"

Nikol had a rough idea of where this is going. He felt strange knowing that even in this world, parents pushing their dreams on children is a thing.

"So you learned to fight but still you are not brave and you have no interest in fighting,"

"Yes, Ressha was the only one who supported me, she said I don't have to fight for her sake, she was a good friend to me," Suddenly tears started to fall from Treiya's eyes with her hands trying to wipe her face to not show this disgraceful look to Nikol.

*Sigh

"I understand, if you don't want to fight you don't have to, I will help you to rescue your queen so don't cry and next time, don't try to act tough and put your life in danger, if you don't have anyone to depend on, just tell me, I'll give you my shoulder," Touching her face and helping her to wipe her tears off, Nikol patted her head a little before leaving.

"Oh yes, next time bring an extra pair of panties, if you're going pee yourself," Hearing his words, Trieya felt so embarrassed that she wanted to hide in a deep hole and never come out.

"Don't - don't tease me," With her voice trembling, she quickly answered Nikol only to see him smiling at her.

At that moment, she couldn't explain how but she felt her heart fulfilling the same way, Treiya felt when she was with Ressha. But it felt different for some reason.

"His smile is beautiful," Carefully looking at Nikol's face, she muttered to herself while following Nikol to leave their previous not-so-clean home.

"Our next destination is a human city, everyone let's go,"

***

With this familiar scent of meat burning throughout the city, everything about this place felt familiar to Nikol and others as well as they felt fulfilled seeing their real home.

"We are here after so long," Nikol said with a smile looking at the wall, which cannot even be compared to the elven wall by how mediocre and broken it is.

"Oh someone is coming in this direction, no it's two, they are coming at full speed,"

Everyone noticed the two shadows which looked quite familiar. With how fast they were it's rather easy to guess these two individuals should be powerful.

"Woah, Nikol they are coming at you directly," Lydia couldn't even finish her sentence, suddenly two pairs of huge boobs swallowed Nikol's head with how fast they hugged him.

"Nikooool!"

"It's good to see you, kid,"

These two individuals were none other than Usha and Eva but even Alva and Emily felt rather strange seeing their strict and proper mothers being like this.

"Sister, let him breathe you're crushing his face," Lydia quickly interfered before things got out of hand. Nikol felt lucky to have two beautiful women like this welcome him from his long journey but if he had to die drowning in his breast right after he returned, it felt like such a waste.

​ "We missed you, I missed you so much, Nikol," Usha kept caressing her face with Nikol's face breaking her character of a proper and strict leader. She didn't even care about others observing her as she wanted to show her accumulated affection to his beloved lover.

Normally a mother should greet their children before anyone else, but Usha completely ignored Alva who didn't really care about Usha's attention. If Usha prioritised someone else except Nikol over her, she might feel sad but right now she couldn't be happier seeing her mother breaking her character for Nikol.

"Usha, what happened to you? This isn't like you," Nikol was happy to see both Usha and Eva after a long time but he clearly noticed how different both of them were.

"You know what? I realized something when you're not here, that is-"

"Without you in this city, I can't live here anymore so next time I won't let you go anywhere, if you're going somewhere please take me too,"

Alva, Emily and Lydia looked at everything with second-hand embarrassment. They couldn't even look at this scene in front of them as it reminded them of how they acted when they are with Nikol.

"No way, that cool and proper Usha being like this, he really is a lady killer," Eva who was observing the scene in front of them talked with her attention fully on the couple between them.

"You're one to talk, sister, look at your face and between your legs before talking about others," With Lydia's words, everyone easily noticed the wet patch between Eva's legs.

"Shut up, when did you learn to talk back to me? Looks like my sister needs some punishment," As soon as she said those words, Eva quickly hid her precious place with her hands while threatening her sister.

It took Nikol a lot of time to calm down everyone, as soon as he entered the city everyone surrounded him from kids to elderly people.

Some even bravely molested him in public touching his whole body like he was some kind of an idol. Lucky for him, Nikol was able to stay safe from kids and grannies, as he didn't want to deal with those two parties.

He saw a lot of familiar faces among this crowd including girls who used to hunt with him, and maids who used to cook for him, also Rebecca was there happily waving at him.

But this happiness didn't last long as the dark elves from Treiya's group appeared out of nowhere. The whole city went silent as their eyes were completely focused on them. Most of them were confused about why would Nikol's group bring these enemies into the city.

It was hard for Nikol to convince Usha and Eva but with so much effort and support from Lydia, he was able to get permission for Treiya and her group to stay in the city for a short time.

"We'll discuss about details later, but you should relax for now,"

With those words, everyone took a quick bath including dirty dark elves who were full of mud and blood from injuries.

Nikol didn't even bother to hide anything even in the bath, right now he felt more comfortable when he is naked than trying to cover up. It was the result of continuously mating for months without even caring about anything.

Later that night, everyone gathered at the dinner table to discuss things. It was a big table in front of the town square with many other small ones surrounding them filled with girls from the city who wanted to celebrate Lydia and Nikol's group victory.