「Even though I said I would guide them around Uruk….」
The three people and one animal behind us had disappeared before I realized it.
I didn’t know when they disappeared, but I discovered it considerably late.
With this, I was disqualified as a guide.
「Did Kurou-sama notice it?」
「Of course. Who do you think I am.」
This was the first time I was this bitter about this person who carelessly said that.
I pouted and glared darkly at Kurou-sama.
「Then why didn’t you not stop them!」
「You’re the guide. Not me. It’s you who was engrossed in the conversation who was wrong. …rather than that, can’t you change the way you call me.」
It’s not that I didn’t realize that he was changing the topic, but I tilted my head in confusion, wondering what was so strange about it.
No matter how I thought about it, I didn’t feel that addressing him by “Kurou-sama” was strange.
Seeing that, Kurou-sama sighed.
Certainly, back when I didn’t know anything.
I had been following Kurou-sama around everywhere, calling him “Kurou”, but it was no longer possible to address Kurou-sama who was known as the beastman hero and was a part of the former hero’s party without any honorifics.
Perhaps he understood my feelings, as Kurou-sama narrowed his eyes.
「What is the relationship between you and I.」
「Um, the person who named me and the child who was given a name, right?」
I was told that Kurou-sama had given me my name, not my parents.
I didn’t know its origin, but Kurou-sama borrowed part of the name of someone he respected.
Who that person was, I still did not know.
In those days, I did not realize what an honor it was, and I had only thought of Kurou-sama as an ojisan who lived next door.
「Where in the world would there be a child who would attach a ‘-sama- to the person who gave them their name.」
「Right here….」
, I wanted to ask, but the words were stuck in my throat and did not come out.
The things that I wanted to say spilled from my mouth in fragments, turning incoherent.
Kurou-sama was still a bachelor, oddly enough, but he had a beautiful face.
If not for the sour look that perpetually graced his face, wouldn’t he have had one or two wives.
In other words, what I wanted to say was, such a man’s smile along with the skinship was truly destructive.
「Oi, are you ok.」
When I came back to my senses, Kurou-sama had the usual unreadable look on his face, and he had already removed his hand from my head.
When I shook my head at Kurou-sama who had a wonderful look on his face, telling him that I was fine, he acknowledged it and continued to walk.
I caught up with Kurou-sama who quickly walked ahead while wondering if it was a dream, and when I raised my head, his lips were drawing an arc, as if remembering what happened just now.
「It wasn’t a dream….」
「What did you say?」
Flustered, I shook my head at Kurou-sama who looked down at me when I dumbfoundedly muttered that.
「No! Nothing at all! …by the way, where are we going?」
His stride was confident, as if he had a destination in mind and was not aimlessly wandering around.
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Since this was a complicated maze-like city, even I did not know where we were going.
「I’ll tell you when we get there.」
「At that time, I will already know, won’t I!? It’s just that telling me is troublesome!」