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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: shyan
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“The Hero…? What about the Hero?”
Elias spoke with a voice full of deep questioning.
In response, Elisia cautiously asked, feeling that her mother’s reaction was a bit, no, a lot different than she’d expected.
“Why…? Aren’t you saying that the person Mama likes is the Hero…? Or was I wrong?”
“That’s not it at all?”
“…Huh?”
Elias gave a firm answer to Elisia’s question, which was filled with doubt.
In response, Elisia felt a hollowness, as if her mind had gone completely blank for a moment, and she couldn’t think for a while.
And after a short time…
Elisia began to gather her wits, as if a light that had gone out had been relit.
Immediately after, she looked at her mother Elias, who had a questioning expression on her face, and began to ask again in a trembling voice, confirming the situation.
“S-So… really… it’s really not true, is it? The person Mom likes… the person who might even become my dad… isn’t the Hero… is that right?”
“That’s not it. Hero… he’s not my type, and more than anything, he’s human, you know? Even if I acknowledge him as a fellow species because he’s been moving alongside us, I don’t think he’s someone I could have a serious relationship with.”
“Ah…”
If she thought about it, the two of them had genuinely tried to kill each other, and Elias had basically disliked humans from the start.
As such, Elisia had found it even harder to believe when she first learned that Elias was in love with the Hero,
But now that she thought about it, the whole thing was based on a false premise from the start.
‘Come to think of it… It was weird if you think about it… How could Mama be with the Hero…’
As she realized that everything was her misunderstanding, Elisia felt like she wanted to crawl into a hole in the ground.
That’s because the more she thought about it, the more ashamed she felt of what she had done so far.
‘Ah… No, seriously… How could I have misunderstood like this? That the Hero might be in that kind of relationship with Mama… No matter how I think about it, it really doesn’t make sense, does it?’
Elisia felt the urge to roll around on the floor if she could, now that her brain filter had disappeared and she could finally see her absurd actions.
At that moment, new questions suddenly popped into her head again.
One of them was, if that’s the case, then who was the person the Hero confessed to back then?
And the other was…
“So… Mama? Th-Then who is it? Who on earth is that person Mama is thinking about marrying…”
“Ah… Th-That…”
Elias started to blush as much as she had just now at Elisia’s sudden question.
And immediately after…
“Ugh!…”
“Mama?”
The next moment, Elias let out a slightly awkward groan and collapsed to the floor.
Elisia felt a little like she wanted to ask about the situation since she had been talking fine until just now, but soon she had no choice but to give up on that idea.
In reality, the injuries on Elias’s body caused by Elisia’s attacks were definitely not something to be taken lightly, and more than anything, this injury was simply caused by her misunderstanding.
Now that her mother was hurt because of her mistake, it would be funny to argue about it.
More than anything, now that it was revealed that her mother’s partner wasn’t the Hero, Elisia thought it was a bit much to force her mother to talk about someone she didn’t want to talk about.
‘Well, Mama will tell me when she thinks it’s a good time. I’m curious who it is, to be honest…’
With that, Elisia organized her thoughts and slowly came down from the arena.
Immediately after, Elisia began to hear a voice declaring her victory, although it felt a bit forced.
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“…Haa…”
Elias moved along the hallway, dragging her injured body.
She frowned slightly in pain, as she had taken a considerable amount of damage, although it wasn’t a fatal wound.
‘It hurts more than I thought… But I’m glad that my daughter has grown so much…’
With that, Elias felt a sense of joy in her heart, separate from the pain that made her whole body throb, and took one step at a time.
At that moment…
The person she had been expecting began to appear before her eyes.
“So you ended up getting eliminated in the main tournament again? You were boasting that you would win this time, but it turned out like this again. It seems like you and Narsil will never be connected.”
“Tch…”
Samson spoke in a voice as arrogant as ever.
In response, Elias clicked her tongue softly and said to him with a frustrated expression.
“It’s already been 200 years, hasn’t it? Back then, when I lost to you in the finals, I thought I would be able to win without much difficulty next time… But in the end, it’s been this long.”
With that, Elias slowly leaned her body against the wall.
Immediately after, Samson stood next to her and said in a calm voice.
“To be honest, I didn’t know back then either. That we would become this kind of relationship…”
“Back then, I was still a married woman. Even after he left, I really didn’t think that my next partner would be you…”
The usual prickly tone was still there,
Nevertheless, at this moment, the two people were showing a subtle yet solid feeling between them, like a roughly intertwined wooden house.
And after a short time, Samson carefully reached out and lightly pulled Elias’s body, which was next to him, closer.
“…It hurts.”
“You can’t be a commander if you can’t handle this much.”
“Isn’t that just for you, not for the commander?”
“Then should I let you go?”
“…It’s not that, but…”
Elias replied in a resigned voice.
With those words,
The two remained silent, leaning against each other for a while.
In that place where no one was watching.
While having a quiet time just for the two of them…
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Elisia returned to the waiting room after the match.
Unlike when she went up to the arena with a determined look on her face just now,
At this moment, she was making a blank expression as if she had just had an epiphany.
“Heeh…”
“…Um… Elisia? Is something wrong? Why do you look like that…”
“…Huh?… No… It’s nothing… Just… leave me alone for a bit.”
“Ah… Okay…”
Elisia answered my question with a look that was truly empty.
Looking at her like this, I knew that something had definitely happened, but I felt that I shouldn’t recklessly worry about it, so I decided to leave her alone for now.
‘Well… I’ll listen to the details after she feels better, and for now, I should prepare for the next match first.’
With that thought, my gaze turned to the person who had just finished cleaning their weapon and was slowly getting up.
An unidentified being wearing red armor.
Immediately after, he started to move towards the passage leading to the arena… and while watching him like this,
I also put on the greatsword that I had finished maintaining, and then approached the red armor.
“Looking forward to our match.”
My action of greeting him with a relatively light heart.
And, in response to my action, the red armor immediately stopped in place and slowly turned his gaze towards me.
Then, as if responding to my greeting, he nodded lightly and walked forward without saying a word.
Looking at him like this, I thought that my opponent this time seemed to be a very taciturn person in many ways, and started to move towards the arena, following him for now.
And after a short time,
Me and the red armor stood side by side, facing each other.
Then, I stared at the opponent in front of me with the greatsword in my hand, and in response to my action, the red armor also drew his long sword and prepared for battle.
‘I thought so when I greeted him earlier, but I guess he doesn’t want to talk.’
A completely opposite feeling from Elisia’s match, which had been focused on conversation just before.
With that thought, I infused magic power into the greatsword and prepared an attack on the red armor in front of me.
At that moment…
“!”
“Huh?”
The next moment, I felt an unusual presence.
Immediately after, my gaze and the red armor’s gaze turned to one place almost simultaneously.
And…
Kwaaang!!!
The next moment, a loud explosion was suddenly heard.
The gazes of almost everyone in that place, including me and the red armor, turned to that place due to the loud noise coming from the outskirts of the arena.
But then…
“Kkyaaak!!”
“T-There’s an intruder here!”
A noisy voice was suddenly heard from the opposite side of the explosion.
In response, I realized that something serious had happened and quickly headed to the VIP room where the Demon King was located.
“Damn it! Your Majesty”
At that moment…
“Huh?”
The next moment, I suddenly felt someone grabbing my wrist.
In response, I turned my gaze to that side and immediately knew who the owner of this hand was.
It was the red armor who was my opponent.
But…
“Wait a moment. I’m here, Hero.”
“…!?”
Called it!!! Then again it was kinda obvious that Elias would be with Samson as he’s the only named character for the males so far