Black Haired King

"Absolutely! I took my seat and waited for you, but you didn't come at all!

"He said it was really bad. Hey, I've concentrated on taking care of my sword."

Now I'm pissed off at Ares in the dining room. The reason, of course, is that even after the promised time, I didn't go to the dining room and Ares did something to pick me up.

I am silently pissed off because I am completely at fault with this matter. Mr. Mel and May are pissed off. Look at me. I'm laughing at Couscous. Lopo eats vegetables unrelated.

"Well, I'll forgive you this time. I won't forgive you next time."

"Oh, I'm sorry. Let's eat more than that. It'll get cold."

I look at the food in front of me and say. This is the dish that Mr. Gray, Mel's husband and May's father, cooked for me.

An assortment of salads, oak steak, bread in soup. They all smell delicious. Oak meat smells good too.

Even when I was at Mr. Mistrea's house, every time I hunted, I lined up at the table, but this is pretty tasty. I treasure it as a preserved food because there's so much I can take from one bottle.

"Absolutely. But it's a warm dish. Do you want to eat before it cools? We can talk later."

From then on, I concentrated on reducing the amount of food in front of me. All Ares had to say with his chest stretched and it was all delicious. I was just wondering.

"... Aren't you too late to eat, Ares?

Ares is half as slow to eat. Nothing. I'm not going to say how fast someone else eats, but it's still too late. Eat a steak the size of a sip I can eat for about 4 minutes. I remember my sister telling me to eat my mouth wide open.

"And you don't have a choice. I've been eating like this."

"Hmm. Really? Well, I'll wait, so eat slowly."

If that's what you've been saying, you can't help it. I don't care because I'm not eating dirty.

"Shh, I'm sorry, Redius. Eat fast somehow! Gee ho ho!"

"So, are you okay!?

Ares fell apart because she couldn't make it and tried to eat in a hurry. When I rubbed your back a little, it calmed you down, but you did something a little wrong.

"Ha, ha, ah, thank you, for rubbing my back. I'm calm."

"Oh, oh."

... Is this guy really a guy? When she thanked me with tears, I looked cuter than the women around me. My breath is colorful.... Are my eyes going crazy because of the loneliness away from Mr. Helena?

"What's going on?

"Yes, no, it's nothing. You don't have to panic. Eat slowly."

"Yeah, thanks"

Huh, a little suspicious, but you managed to mislead me. If there's a rumor that you were in love with a man, you won't be able to walk outside. Then Ares finishes dinner after nearly half an hour.

"... I'm so sorry. Took me a while to eat."

"Don't be so depressed. You're telling me you don't care.

Ares regrets keeping me waiting for quite some time. Nothing. I don't give a shit. On the other hand, now that I've kept you waiting, I think about it, but I can't tell you because I'm so depressed.

"But..."

"Stop it now! All we have to do then is repeat the same story in extension. I thought you wanted to talk to me about something more than that.

Still, Ares tries to apologize, so she's forced to end the story. Otherwise, I'm really going to keep talking about my meal.

"Right. I can't use my time for this. Quick, but what I want to talk to you about is I need you to help me."

"Help Ares?

Apart from his depressed expression earlier, Ares speaks with a very serious face. Sounds very important.

"Oh. My parents are in Wang Capital, but my mother got sick. The name of the illness is Stone Skin Disease. It is a disease named for the fact that the skin of the creature is hardening as if it were stone. Kids, it's a sudden illness, regardless of adulthood, and if you don't heal quickly, your whole body will become hard as a stone and you will die."

Yeah. Is there such a disease? That's a disgusting disease, too. I can't believe my whole body is dying like a stone. Ares says that stoned places can no longer be moved, and from there the pain runs. Besides, you think the pain increases as the progression progresses?

"In order to heal, we need a certain warcraft poison."

"A warcraft?

"Yeah. B-rank Cocatrice is a warcraft. His body had a poison called petrified poison, and when he was exposed to it, his body turned to stone. To cure it, Cocatrice's poison works, and the poisoned medicine seems to be effective against stone dermatosis. But like I said, B-rank. Ordinary adventurers and soldiers. Then you can't take them down. That's why they rarely come out."

"So you think I'll find out for myself?

"... yeah. Cocatrice looks like he's in the middle of this Devil's Mountain, and I heard in the Adventurer's Guild that people from B and A ranks come hunting occasionally"

"Then why don't you make a request for the collection of that cocatrice petrified poison?

When I asked him what was best, Ares shook his head to the side. Why not?

"... I don't have time."

"Time?"

"Stone dermatosis is also said to be a 5 month disease under another name, and the whole body turns to stone is 5 months regardless of the child or adult. So 5 month sickness. My mother developed it two months ago. A month to come here. It's been another month since I've been looking for someone who's going to take my request. If I skip my way home, I've only got two more months."

"So, there's no one else to take the request anymore, so you want to go hunting for Cocatrice yourself?

"No. I know that's tough on boulders, too. So I've been looking for an adventurer here lately who might come with me. And today."

"Were you tangled up"

Ares nods at my words. That must have been bad luck or something.

"So what you want me to do..."

"I know you already know, but I need you to help me crusade Cocatrice"

He says it with a serious look without taking his gaze off my eyes. But...

"But I have dark hair. I can't magically cover you, and I can only use my sword. I don't think that's gonna help."

I was going to analyze it very seriously and say it, but Ares laughed at the words. What the hell.

"No, I'm sorry. 'Cause there's no one to look at that battle and insult Redius because he has dark hair. I also thought it would be dangerous for you, the brunette, to come in at first, but you knocked those three out without even hanging them on your teeth.

They said it was up there in the C-ranks, but you took it down easily. I'm asking you to be so strong. "

Hmm. What shall I do? I'm not on a journey to say I'm in a hurry. I hope the army gets to King's Capital by the deadline. Besides, Ares seems to be the end point in the end.

Oh, I wanted to ask you to do this, so you were shouting surprises when I took the inn. And when you said I'd be out in a minute, you said you'd be depressed.

"Of course I wouldn't say free. Now I only have two large gold coins that I was going to use for a favor, but I can thank you for something else when I get back to Wang Du. You can give me this big gold coin as an advance."

That's what I said, Ares, putting a big gold coin in front of me.... I don't have a choice.

"Okay. I can help you if you want."

"Ho, true!?

"Oh."

"Really, really!?

"Oh."

"Yay! Thanks, Redius!!

That's what Ares said and hugged me. Hey!

"Oh, Ares, hey!?

"... Wow! Oh, I'm sorry! I'm so happy."

As I pushed my shoulders apart, Ares returned to her original seat with her face bright red. But I don't even know what that feels like. So...

"I don't know if I can defeat it until I see it, but I'll do it. Let's take it down and help Ares' mother."

"Yeah!!

Thus, Ares and I were supposed to throw a party.