CH 88

After ordering from the waitress, I look around again.

All the customers are enjoying conversation with their partners. There is no single customer. There are no eyes watching us, and it’s reasonably noisy. I can barely hear the voices of the people sitting next to me.

[What did you think of what I just said?]

[To be honest, I’m glad it’s still her.]

I carry on a conversation, fudging important words so that others can’t understand what I’m saying.

[Is that so?]

[Yes. She’s not interested in living people, so I don’t think she’ll be nervous.]

The church’s so-called “Clergy” all have magical powers and can use restorative magic. In addition, if you are a Bishop and a person of high status, you should be able to use highly difficult recovery magic such as Area Heal.

Even though specialize in healing humans, but you’re not interested in the living.

This alone shows that you are warped in many ways.

Well, it’s easy to understand where she’s attached to, so it’s easy to control her. If you think about it, as Sophie said, you only need to be careful of the visible landmines, which is certainly a relief.

[Lars–san seems to be more difficult than that. I think I’ll be done for the day, but we’ll be together for a while, right?]

[You will be. Well, I’ll just do my best to keep you satisfied.]

[Fufufu. I’ll be fine if you do your best, Lars–san.]

What is it? What is that mysterious trust?

What did I do to make you think that?

[You look strange, don’t you?]

[Yeah, I have no idea.]

Since I came to Yang, what I do hasn’t changed. As usual, I fought the demons, won, and survived. That’s all.

[You should evaluate the results of your work a little more. When that thing suddenly appeared and I realized that my magic couldn’t help it, I was in despair. How helpless I was! But Lars–san shattered that. I don’t even know how to describe how I felt at that moment, it was the first time in my life that I was moved.]

The explanation doesn’t ring a bell, but she seems to really believe it.

She was looking at me with feverish, moist eyes.

Do you think I’m a Knight who saved a caged Princess from her first crisis?

[To be frank, that’s a bit much. I only fought because I had a chance to win at that time. If I hadn’t, I would have run away even if I had to carry Sophie.]

When you know you can’t win, you immediately run away.

I was expecting that such longing would disappear when I saw her like that, but I got an unexpected response.

[It’s just reckless to fight when you have no chance of winning. I think it’s natural to run away in order to live and protect yourself, and even if you choose to run away, it doesn’t diminish the value of what you’ve done.]

No rebuttal is allowed. You can’t say anything if you’re pressed with such a powerful face. Will words alone be enough to change a dreaming maiden? I don’t feel like I can win any more than I did when I met the dungeon master.

I decided to end the conversation because I felt that continuing this topic would lead to a barren argument.

[Maybe you’re right. Well, whatever the facts are, I’m going to continue to try my best to take it easy.]

[……, you do push yourself.]

You’re going to have to take it easy on yourself.

She looked as pretty as a girl of her age in front of the delicious food.

To finish the earlier topic, I decided to start eating.