The Immortal Demon King and the Impaired Hero

Night after a few days since the Thelms defense. Most of the evacuated residents returned, and the city was wrapped in more vigour and festive mood than usual.

Food and liquor are sold all over the city, and the liquor store is full everywhere. Even though the sun is already setting, the city is just a noise pushing back the book of the night.

The cause of this festivities is, of course, the fact that they protected Terms from the demonic invasion a few days ago.

It is a celebration of the valiant men who fought resolutely despite overwhelming power differences and defeated Thelmus, and an event planned to celebrate the achievements of the demons who had left the invasion on the side that had been ravaged until now. But behind it also means mourning those who scattered in the battle.

To name one of the noisiest places in the festive state of Termus, it's...

"Be my Thelmus hero!"

"" "" "" Cheers!! "" ""

The sound of meeting glasses echoes in the Tavern, which is co-located within the Adventurer's Alliance. The spare drinking of the adventurers took place in the building.

It is one girl whose drinking is directed at her. It's Evening Incense scratching her head to hide the lights while making her face as red as her red hair.

"Ugh, what Isaiyoi said has become a reality..."

To the dozens of adventurers who praise themselves, Yuka looks to the other side with a distant eye as to how this happened.

Telmus' hero Evening Incense is screwed up by a tough guy or a woman who gathers to see something cute. Lilith watches her smile from her corner seat like that. In its opposite seat, Isaiyoi holds a high degree of liquor.

"So, are you satisfied to see Evening Incense being molested?"

"It feels like a lot more."

If Isaiyoi asks, Lilith answers the eating mood with a smile that just shines. Is it because this festive mood hit me more tense than usual, or the booze momentum? Either way, if you get tangled up, it's no different.

"I never really thought we'd be celebrating..."

Turn the ice at the bottom of the glass and Isaiyoi stares at Lilith half-eyed. He only glances at his shoulders without knowing.

After the battle had ended, the human side had often shrugged off. Until a few moments ago, an opponent who was interested in serious killing each other suddenly turned his back and began to lose. Speaking of which, I can't help it.

Blurry Evening Incense appeared there to defy the flow of demons. The soldiers were wary that it was the demons at first, but Lilith's persuasion of Edgar turned the response into a true and reverse cheer.

I don't know what Lilith testified to at that time, but she must have blown something. Everyone began to celebrate Evening Incense as a hero by peddling Lilith's words.

There were probably some thoughts there as well. For example, you wanted a clear hero at the end of a battle that ended halfway?

Either way, Isaiyoi's joke is really no longer a joke. Yuka was taken up as a hero who guarded Thelmus without understanding catching up, and became an adventurer at the present time. And the stock continues to rise without knowing the ceiling.

When Isaiyoi looks at Evening Incense as a bitter mixture of laughter that is up to his torso at some point,

"Oh, yeah, yeah. Yuka, I hear you're ranking up to A-rank at once on this achievement."

Isaiyoi snorts slightly surprised by the fact that he was told in such a casual tone that he also talks to the public, but quickly snorts small enough to be convinced.

What Yuka did is a feat of protecting one city in a tangible way. It is not rank E at all. Therefore, ranking up is not a strange story, but rather there will be problems externally if we do not raise them.

Therefore Isaiyoi did not deny otherwise, and yes, he simply did not hesitate to return it.

Lilith narrows her eyes dissatisfied with such a careless reply from him.

"That's not how I thought you'd react. I thought you said you didn't want to stand out like the first time."

"Not now, as for Evening Incense"

Isaiyoi expected that any more times would come than Evening Incense had already begun to receive attention before this one. So there is no complaining about Isaiyoi. Until I rather hoped for this development.

Lilith frowned slightly at Isaiyoi, who placed an empty glass in a calm manner.

I don't know what you're thinking, Isaiyoi.

Until earlier, the boisterous attitude lurks the ringing, and Lilith turns her skeptical eyes to Isaiyoi.

"I initially thought I cared about you by the time you were overprotective. But I've changed my mind about this one."

There is an insurance that blames Isaiyoi on his eyes.

"You sent her off to a battlefield so dangerous that her life could easily be crushed. Though it turns out to be hailed as a hero who protected the city, it's really a theory of results. If I made a mistake, she could have lost her life. And yet you sent her away."

Yuka said she hit Isaiyoi and ran to the battlefield, but that's obviously the result of Isaiyoi being invited because he lost his hand. Otherwise, because Isaiyoi, who doesn't even show a gap in this place right now, can't be beaten by Evening Incense.

That is synonymous with Isaiyoi deliberately sending out evening incense of his own free will. Initially, it's an inconsistency that I don't think anyone has even hit a play to make Lilith's fans turn their backs on me.

There are other strange things about it. For example, Isaiyoi's whereabouts after Yuka beat him up.

When the war was over and almost began to cool down, Lilith asked adventurers and acquaintances if they had seen Isaiyoi on the battlefield. But no one has seen him alone, and if you ask him, he has fainted for a long time.

It's a lie, Lilith said instantly. It's weird how many people with as many arms as Isaiyoi have been stunned for a whole day no matter how hard they hit them. It would be all the more so if I went to take it from myself.

Then where the hell was he in the middle of the fight?

The truth was fighting the dragon over Lilith and the others, but we can't talk about it. Isaiyoi vomited the lie that he was bitter but unconscious. Lilith blamed me for that, to this day.

"I told you a month ago I wouldn't pry, but I can't look any further at the boulders. Who the hell are you people?

To Lilith, who sharpens her eyes if she does not forgive falsehood, Isaiyoi glances at this and Evening Incense. With that gaze Lilith also sees Evening Incense.

Fun and noisy evening incense with girills and interactive adventurers. That sight, surrounded and needed by so many people, is what Isaiyoi wants.

"Hey Lilith. For you, what's Yuka?

"Suddenly what..."

Lilith flaunts her face suspiciously, without any context, but is pressured by Isaiyoi's serious expression.

Lilith cruised slightly and eventually said, resolutely.

"To me, she's an irreplaceable, important person who wants to protect me no matter what I turn into."

In the past month Lilith was attracted to a girl named Yuka, and even admired her strong enemies for not cowering and fighting.

I want to fight side by side with her. I want to be her sword and protect her. Those emotions are swirling through Lilith's mind today.

I decided Evening Incense that my heart as a sleeping knight in Lilith was enough for me to fulfill the promise I had made with the girl who was once Lord. From the time she was helped on the battlefield, a girl named Yukaka became so irreplaceable to Lilith.

Lilith therefore asks Isaiyoi. What is the man in front of you thinking and how does that affect Evening Incense? And if his actions lead to the consequences of harming Evening Incense, then...

Isaiyoi nodded one satisfactorily at Lilith's confession, similar to the unmistakable proclamation,

"Right. Then do me one favor -"

said Isaiyoi with a masochistic grin somewhere.

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Lilith stared sharply at Isaiyoi's back as she stood up and went to Yuka, who was being messed up.

The hustle and bustle of the tavern can be heard far away. To the point of such an illusion, Lilith was now stunned.

Isaiyoi questioned him and told him exactly what he thought of Evening Incense. It was one favor to return the result.

"- Whatever happens, be on Sunset's (...) side."

There was nothing else strange about it as a word. But the atmosphere of Isaiyoi, who said it, was felt to have a darkness as deep as the fallen, which was unthinkable from time to time, and thus unable to see the bottom.

Lilith was bewildered by Isaiyoi's unprecedented attitude.

A powerful man with an adult atmosphere somewhere for his age. Then a mysterious boy with circumstances that no one else can tell him. That was Lilith's people-rating of Isaiyoi.

But something's different. The brush tongue was hard to exhaust, and there was chigginess. It seemed inconsistent, but all of that behavior seemed to be trying to grasp just one result. Lilith doesn't understand what that desired future is.

Only one thing, in the darkness of chaotic Isaiyoi. Only this is certain that he really cares about Evening Incense. That's all I know.

That's all I know now. But if one day I could find out all about them, Lilith wished for Isaiyoi's hindsight as she left the guild in charge of Evening Incense.

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Falling back and forth unconscious after being drunk by the hands of the ill-riding adults, Yukata fell asleep on the bed of the inn, and Isaiyoi removed her shoulder strength when she finally calmed down.

Spread long red hair on the sheets and evening incense to sleep in regular sleep. She hung a blanket like that so she wouldn't catch a cold, and Isaiyoi took a step back to sit in the next bed...

"- Where are you going..."

The robe was grabbed by a thin hand, stretched out of a gap in the blanket.

"Don't go..."

Evening incense comes pleading with moist eyes for the upper hand. The figure is like a child who is afraid to be alone, and Isaiyoi sits on Evening Incense's bed if he has no choice.

Gently stroke Sunset's hair still holding the hem of the robe apart. As gentle and merciful as laying a bedridden child to sleep.

That's how for a while, Yuka began to get back to sleep with a relieved look.

Isaiyoi checked it and tried to get up, but he realized that he remained grabbed by the robe and leaked a small sigh.

Is it bad to wake him up, or he whines in his mouth and Isaiyoi looks down at the face of the evening incense that falls asleep.

"Ugh... I can't eat anymore no..."

"This guy..."

Isaiyoi couldn't help but smile at Beta's bedtime words. Again, the rating I gave you previously as a foodie didn't seem wrong.

When I think about what the hell I'm eating in my dreams, my unexpectedly calm sleeping face clouds.

"- Pfft..."

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A drop of tears dripped from the shovel and stained the sheet.

Isaiyoi stares heavily at Evening Incense's unconscious whining, slightly before opening his eyes. With a strong determination in his eyes.

"Whatever it is, I'll just let Evening Incense go home. Even if we turn everything against our enemies..."

Powerful, then slightly insane. Close disappeared into the void without anyone asking.