“Alrightyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! What about thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat! Hey Frey! I think I’ve hunted about 300 bodies of orcs now!? Etto, what I mean is, how much was it!?”
【Lord! It’s about 30 million! 】
“Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice!!!! Now we can pay back the full amount of the estate loooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannn!!!”
【Ah, Lord! I a pet! I want a pet!】
“Oh! I’ll buy as many lions and pandas, as you want!”
While listening to the exchanges of such boy and his companion, Ilia hardened with her mouth open.
She can’t understand what was happening.
It wasn’t a situation that is comprehensible.
The boy was as old as Ilia.
…… No, perhaps a little younger.
By such a boy, Illia was saved.
She thought she was the side that protects, but she was rescued by an opposite sex.
…… It may be simple, but that alone, made Ilia’s heart throb by this boy.
I want to ask this young man, many things.
Why are you so strong.
What is that magic sword.
What is your favorite food.
…… No, first of all, I should thank him for his help.
But, how should I thank you.
Her thoughts are so messed up, that she can’t decide what to say.
“Gobo, goho, goho”
Anyhow, when she tried to speak something, Ilia couldn’t make a good voice, probably because her lungs were damaged.
She thrusted her knees as she collapses, and the boy supported her.
“O,oi. Are you okay? Wait a minute, right now a potion …… I just finished using all the potions some time ago. …… Then, there’s only the elixir. Alright ––––”
【–––– No, wait, Lord. Then, I will heal her. It is impossible for me to revive the dead as expected, but I can heal this kind of wound. …… Miss, be quiet. It will hurt a little, but you won’t die. 】
Then, with such a mysterious voice echoing in her head, Ilia’s consciousness disappeared.
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When she woke up, Ilia was in bed.
On a white room, with a white ceiling.
She quickly realized that she was in a hospital somewhere.
“Tha,that’s right! That boy!”
As she tries to get her body up forcibly, she feels a slight pain in her whole body.
“Tsu!?”
But that’s only it.
Her broken bones and other things that was cracked have been restored.
Perhaps, that magic sword did something to me.
“Ah, Ilia! Good! You woke up!”
Then, with a wet towel in her right hand, Anri came.
Ilia asked from such Anri about the boy.
“Anri, what happened after that!? That boy!? What happened to that boy!?”
“Se, settle down! I’ll talk! I’ll tell you everything!”
Ilia tried to get up from bed, but she was stopped by Anri.
Ilia slowly puts her wake-up body down in bed.
Once Anri, exhaled a big sigh, she explained what happened while Ilia was sleeping.
“–––– Well, I feel that it’s generally like this.”
“…………”
To summarize Anri’s story.
First of all, all the orcs seem to have been cleaned up by the boy.
Those orcs, all by himself.
As she thought, he was on the top of the top.
Next, regarding the injured individuals, it seems that all of them survived safely with the potion that the boy had.
Of course, some of them have died like Bail who had his whole body eaten, but the boy revived everyone, including Bail.
If she wasn’t been involved in this case, she couldn’t believe this story at all.
“……Is that so. As I thought, that boy was able to do it. So, where is he?”
“Ah…… yeah. That thing, I wonder.”
Ilia tilts her head to Anri, who said those words with difficulty.
That boy, showed us this much great effort.
By this time, I’m sure that he was invited to the royal palace as a special treatment.
I would love to meet him and talk.
When she thought about such a thing, Anri awkwardly scratched her cheek and said.
“…… Ilia, that’s. Actually, after that, various things happened, and they got angry and left the city.”
“Wha,what was that!?”
“Ca, calm down! There’s a good reason for this!”
When Ilia tried to get up from the bed, Anri stopped her desperately again.
And Anri, with difficulty of saying, started telling why they went home angrily.
Anri’s story wasn’t that complicated.
Here’s her story.
First of all, Anri tells them a lie.
A big lie that if he doesn’t cut a part of the body of the defeated orc, he won’t get a reward.
And even more, Anri herself falsified their achievements to the management.
Naturally, the management side believed in Anri’s statement, which is more credible than the boy and the others, and then they got angry and left the city without getting a fair reward.
“Anri! Why did you do that!”
Due to her irritation, Ilia hit the bed hard.
It’s not something you do to a lifesaver.
She thought so, but.
“Wa,wait! Calm down at once! Keep your cool! –––– Cause think about it! The boy has that much power!? That boy was strong enough to kill those orcs instantly, which Ilia had trouble with! Not just that boy. That Yumina and Leafa child, are also pretty strong! And he can even revive the dead, a divine work that even the saint in the White Country can never do! If such a tremendous power is known to the upper management of this country or other countries, that person will definitely be used by them!”
In Anri’s words, Ilia decided to calm down temporarily.
“Certainly…… that’s true if you tell me so.”
If this matter is known, they will definitely be taken advantage of.
…… No, it’s not just the country.
That is, they can also be targeted by dangerous beings like that who do not care about human life at all.
Thinking about it, Anri’s actions may have been correct.
However, wasn’t it okay at least give them money?
That’s a justifiable compensation.
She thought so, but.
“That’s absolutely not good. …… I’d like to, give it to him if I can, but if a lot of money moves suddenly, they will definitely get a foot to it. There are a lot of people who are getting suspicious lately, and perhaps, some of them had already approach the heart of the matter. That’s why I’m sorry, even if its Ilia’s request, I can’t hear you with this.”
Anri looks straight ahead on her way.
In other words, it’s her own way of repaying that boy.
However Ilia, had only one point to worry about.
“…… But Anri, are you okay with that? They are the people who can easily defeat those orcs, right? If we are resented by such people, that is, isn’t that like the country’s demise?”
Yes, they who defeated those orcs, were the absolute strongest.
For her actions that can be resented by such people, Ilia got anxious and she couldn’t help it.
However, it seems that she was too worried about it.
On the evidence of that, Anri turned her smiling face to Ilia.
She doesn’t have any worries like that. Such appearance ––––
“…………”
However, no matter how long the time pass, Anri’s smile remained intact.
Such a mysterious feeling, that time seems to have stopped only around Anri.
In that situation, blood draws back from Ilia’s body.
“A,Anri. You, no way……!”
“I didn’t think that……!”
“You big idiot……!”
It was Anri’s bad habit.
If she focuses on one thing, she can’t see anything else.
Undoubtedly at such degree, it was obvious that they might do something.
Ilia held her head.
“–––– Then, why don’t we chase after them right now.”
Then, Amanda entered the hospital room.
“Amanda!”
She had heard that she was revived by the boy’s power, but as expected, she couldn’t believe it unless she saw her herself.
Relieved that Amanda was safe, Ilia naturally smiles.
Soon, however, her expression switched completely to something serious.
“You said to chase after them…… but it’s not that easy.”
Ilia is a hero who represents this country.
There is a mountain of work, and Ilia doesn’t have that much freedom.
In fact, in the last few years, Ilia has not been given a day off also called a vacation.
“I thought you’d say that, so I got you this.”
Amanda then spreads a piece of paper towards her.
To put it simply, what was written there was to give Ilia a year off.
“Ho,how did you get this?”
“Ah just now, that Reina fella got horribly angry about this matter. It appears that she has talked directly to her father. Well, this time it seems that the above investigation is insufficient, and that person is also reconsidering on that. If they hurt Ilia’s temper here, I guess they’ve determined that the loss would be great. Wha-at, let’s just think that it’s a long vacation, and have fun together.”
“Eh? Amanda, you’re going too?”
“That obvious. He, overpowered the orc who even defeated Ilia, right? By all means as a warrior, I would like to ask him for a bout. …… Moreover, the seed of a strong man, I definitely want to reserve that.”
“Wha,wha,wha ––––“
“Wha?”
“What are you saying! Tha,that seed! It’s filthy! That’s dirty!”
“What the. Is Ilia not good at talking about things like this?”
Amanda shifts her gaze to Anri.
“…… Well, it’s Ilia. She has nothing to do with that kind of topic because she was a perfectly-walled person, or someone on the side of defending rather than being protected.”
“Fumu. If so, this discussion is something like my one-step lead huh.”
“–––– Oh ho ho ho ho hotu! What was that!”
Then, Reina came into the sickbed this time.
“I have been given a hundred techniques from my mother to bone* a man! Amanda! I will never lose to you this time!” (TN: I don’t know what that means ヾ(•ω•`)o)
As to whether this was a befitting response, Reina seems to have set her goal to beat Amanda.
“Ohya, that’s intense.”
“That’s filthy! I will absolutely never permit such a thing! In the name of a hero, I will absolutely never allow such a thing!”