The Hero Who Returned From Death Quits - Chapter 228



EP10. The Falling Twilight

Beatrice sat me down in the living room and poured me some tea. I thought to myself,

‘Fuck, this is fucked.’

What the hell kind of courage did I have to say something like that? I couldn’t raise my head because of the overwhelming sense of guilt.

As I was regretting the past when I had said stupid things to myself, Beatrice looked at me and asked.

“…What did those words mean?”

“Uh… I don’t know what was going on. You started talking nonsense as soon as we met. Asking me to forget you… I guess that won’t work.”

As soon as she did that, Beatrice let out a laugh and lowered her face for a while, shaking her body. Yes, laugh, laugh.

As if she noticed my gaze, she laughed quietly for a while before looking at me and opening her mouth.

“Do you think it’ll work? Just tell me what you meant. I was really flustered because you asked me that out of the blue.”

… I have to explain it to him directly? I felt dizzy. I couldn’t even figure out what I was thinking in the past.

“Uh, no, ah, um, wait, that’s…”

A thousand words were spinning around in my head, making my brain dizzy. I felt like I couldn’t breathe.

I had to seriously worry for a moment whether this feeling I was feeling right now was the feeling of being on the verge of death. Didn’t time seem to pass a little slowly for a moment? Well, time does seem to pass slowly. The chair I’m sitting on feels like a bed of thorns.

But I couldn’t back down now. Beatrice had already told me that, and given her personality, she would never allow me to say anything else until I had at least given her the answer to that question.

“that is?”

Beatrice looked at me with those piercing, sky-blue eyes.

I moved my lips several times and finally pulled them away, feeling like I was going to cry.

“After defeating the Demon King of Arrogance, there were a lot of things that made my relationship with my other comrades change drastically.”

Upon hearing that, Beatrice narrowed her eyes and asked me.

“To put it simply?”

She pressured me to tell her what I did with my own mouth. I closed my eyes tightly. I thought the world was a flower garden, but it felt like I was stung by a bee. The price for one wrong move was this terrible.

“… did.”

“yes?”

Beatrice looked at me with blank eyes. I could not help but feel like crying.

“Uh… So, if I understand correctly, you had a physical relationship with all of your colleagues except me?”

“…Yeah. So, I didn’t know how to treat you, so I came running here in a hurry… I did that a lot.”

Beatrice leaned back in her chair and said.

“Yeah, it was the worst. What kind of man would say something like that? That’s the kind of behavior a total hooligan would say.”

“Lovelace…”

I wanted to say something, but I couldn’t say anything because I had nothing to say about my recent behavior. Beatrice continued talking with an angry expression.

“Why, since you did it with all your other colleagues, did you come here because you thought you wanted to do it with me too?”

“No, that’s not it….”

But I think I was thinking that way, deep down. Beatrice had not only seduced me, but had also left me with hints about her actions after the war. Even so, if I thought she was inconsiderate, it was obvious how she would feel.

“And, did you think I would let it go if I did it with someone else first?”

“…?”

I looked at Beatrice.

“You promised me last time, but you ended up having a relationship with someone else before me, the person you promised me to? You have no integrity.”

“…sorry.”

Even if I had a hundred mouths, I had nothing to say. Of course, after things were resolved with her, if you said you would do it next time, and then heard that you had enjoyed yourself with other people in the meantime, anyone would react like that.

“You’re sorry? How can I believe that?”

“…Okay. What should I do?”

Beatrice looked at me with a sour expression. I looked at her and said, feeling that she wanted something.

“…If there’s anything you want, I’ll do it.”

“I want to… Well, I don’t really have any thoughts…”

Failure? I felt my mouth go dry. I lowered my head. Because of that, I couldn’t see Beatrice’s face, but I thought I knew what kind of expression she had.

At that moment, the door to the living room suddenly opened.

“Saint! Are you there?”

Beatrice asked the priest who had suddenly entered with a stiff face.

“Yes, why are you doing that?”

The voice was a little irritated. The priest glanced at me and whispered something into Beatrice’s ear.

After the priest left, I looked at Beatrice and asked her.

“What happened?”

Beatrice let her hair down and said.

“It was nothing special. They asked me to appear at an event that wasn’t that important, or something… Man, it seems like everyone thinks I’m some kind of amazing person.”

“…He’s a great person.”

Beatrice smiled when she heard that. Then she spoke to me with a voice full of complicated emotions.

“Well, it’s not that great. I just live the way people want me to. Of course, it’s fun to help people. But… well, even so, I feel like people’s expectations are a little heavy. Since I’m not great, I try to look great.”

Beatrice said that and smiled at me.

“Oh. Okay. Now I remember what to order.”

When I saw her smile, I shivered with anxiety.

“…What, what are you trying to make me do?”

“Well, I guess it’s something I absolutely need right now.”

“Is it really necessary?”

Beatrice whispered in my ear with a mischievous smile.

…

“…Is this really true?”

“So what, no one will say anything?”

I looked at Beatrice. Beatrice was smiling brightly, holding me in a princess-like position.

“Okay, let’s go.”

“No… Is it okay for me to just go like this without saying anything?”

When Beatrice heard that, she looked at me and said:

“Huh? What do you mean? I was kidnapped by you last night, why would I need to talk?”

“no…”

“Phew, I’m just kidding. I wrote on the note that you shouldn’t look for it, so it won’t matter.”

“That would be nice, but…”

I looked up at the sky while holding her.

“Wow- the night sky is really pretty-”

Beatrice said so, but to me it just seemed infinitely dark.

“Hey, relax. If you show that you’re upset like this, I don’t know what I’ll do.”

I sighed inwardly. How did this happen? I never would have imagined that Beatrice’s request to me was to travel abroad.

… No, if you think about it, it’s not that strange. If you think back on her erased memories, she had been tired of her title as a saint in the past and had longed for freedom.

‘…But if you’re going to say let’s go on a trip together like this, isn’t it to the point where you can say you won’t see each other’s faces?’

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I don’t know what she was thinking right now to drag me into this situation, but at least it didn’t seem like the worst case scenario.

I shook my head as I thought about that. The cool night breeze continued to blow toward me.

“…Okay, let’s go.”

Only then did I smile. I smiled brightly. Yes, what else is important? Just spending time together like this makes us happy.

…

Grandis watched Ainzel and Beatrice from the air. From what she heard, it seemed like the two of them were planning to go on a trip to a foreign country.

“…under.”

She frowned. She was annoyed that she hadn’t been able to have her first experience with Ainzel. But when she felt like some b*stard was taking him away, her mood couldn’t help but plummet.

He has nothing left for himself but him, and he dares.

After defeating the Demon King, she changed the political structure of the Demons in the Middle-Earth. She unified the Demons, who had advanced civilization but were actually barbaric in their level of consciousness, and laid the foundation for them to grow into a proper single nation-state, preventing them from causing wars any longer. And this was the sight she saw during her busy time.

Her face hardened, but she eventually turned her head away.

“…Just this once, I’ll give in.”

Anyway, in the end, she will be the one who stays by his side.