The Hero Who Returned From Death Quits - Chapter 230



EP10. The Falling Twilight

Beatrice stood in the middle of the inn, covered in blood. The floor was covered in blood, but there was not a single drop of blood on it, which made it feel strange. I examined the corpses before examining Beatrice.

The sight of a corpse with all traces of the upper body gone, only the lower body remaining, its internal organs strewn about, was enough to make one realize what had happened.

Beatrice, who realized that the food was drugged, did this to those who had been drugged. I realized this and approached Beatrice.

“are you okay?”

I expressed my concern. As soon as she saw me, she greeted me with a bright face and said,

“Yes, it’s okay.”

Well, it didn’t really matter since such medicine wouldn’t have any effect in the first place. I looked at her with eyes filled with relief. However, something strange about her caught my eye.

“…Your face is red.”

If the medicine had been expelled from the body, the body’s condition would have returned to normal, but why was it still red? It wasn’t to the point of being extremely red, but I thought that as I looked at her cheeks, which were slightly redder than usual.

Maybe he drank another glass of beer earlier and that’s why he became like this? The medicine wasn’t that strong for that to be the case. The black fog of the Black Ocean, one of the three major disasters on the continent, or now the only disaster, would have to be enough to cause significant damage to someone who had reached the realm, but it was strange that he became like this simply because he took too much medicine.

Then Beatrice slowly approached me. Her shoes made a sound as they hit the puddle of blood. When she was completely close to me, she spoke with a red face.

“…I haven’t deciphered it yet.”

“…what?”

There is no way she could not detoxify it. Since the nature of divine power is to purify, restore, and protect, it would be too easy to purify poison. Therefore, it was most likely that she was not intentionally detoxifying it.

But why? Why would you have something like a weakling inside your body? No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t understand it, so I looked at her and asked.

“Why haven’t you deciphered it yet?”

Then Beatrice shushed and brought her index finger to her lips.

“It’s a secret.”

As I looked at her smiling face, which was slightly flushed and had a pleasant glow as she spoke, I had no intention of pursuing her further. So I said this to her.

“…What should I do now?”

Beatrice spoke in a calm voice.

“Hmm, first of all, I should call the security guard here and tell them what happened. There might be chaos.”

I sighed at her words and approached the guard, telling him what had happened, and he followed me with a half-doubtful expression.

And it was natural for the guards to be shocked when they saw the scene.

“Now, here’s the drug they were going to use. I’m really surprised that something like this could happen right in the middle of the capital.”

Beatrice said calmly. And then she added with a faint smile.

“Then, is it okay for us, the victims, to leave it at that and go?”

One of the guards panicked and pointed his spear at Beatrice, shouting:

“Don’t make me laugh! How can I just let this happen!”

Then, the person who appeared to be the leader lowered the window and tried to stop them.

“…No, that’s fine. Just send it.”

“However, we cannot allow such an unpleasant incident to continue during the festival period when we should be paying the most attention!”

The captain looked at the guard and spoke.

“I’m telling you to just let it go because this is the time when we need to be most careful. The circumstances are clear, and we are partly responsible for this incident in the capital, so it would be better to stop causing friction and conduct our own separate investigations.”

“…!”

The guard lowered his arms after hearing that. It seemed that he realized that Beatrice and I were not people who could do anything good. I gave them a quick greeting and left the building with Beatrice.

“…Well, the memories I was trying to enjoy are now a mess. What should I do now? Should I go to another inn and eat?”

Beatrice shook her head. She seemed to not like it very much. Instead, she whispered in my ear.

“I guess the beer has already completely ruined my mood, so let’s just go to another hotel and get a room and rest. I’m starting to get tired.”

Fatigue could be cured by using divine power, but she told me to rest. I let it go, thinking that maybe I didn’t really want to use divine power.

To avoid any problems, we booked a room in a fairly large inn this time and went into a room on the second floor.

“Whew, this room isn’t too bad.”

“Because I got the best room.”

She laughed, haha.

“That’s true. Anyway, it’s not bad, is it?”

Her face was still flushed red as she spoke. I asked her.

“…You, Miya… Haven’t purified the medicine yet?”

She smiled at me and answered coolly.

“Yes. I haven’t purified it yet.”

I looked at her carefully. Not only was her face red, but her breathing was also a little ragged.

“…Why aren’t you purifying it?”

Beatrice looked at me and said.

“I said it was a secret.”

Beatrice, who was looking at me with a strange look as she said that, burst into laughter and spoke with tears in her eyes.

“Okay, I’ll answer you.”

I waited for her answer with some tension. She came over to me, put her hand on my shoulder, and spoke into my ear.

“I wanted to set the mood.”

Mood? I stuttered for a moment, unable to understand what she was saying. Beatrice looked at me and took off her outer garment.

Then she put my hand into her underwear. It felt incredibly clammy.

“…the atmosphere for this.”

I felt my face flush and stood there blankly. Beatrice naturally led me to the bed and took off my outerwear one layer at a time.

“Actually, I also really like you… I wanted to do something like this, but my opposite s*x is too strong and I can’t get into the mood. So… yeah, I needed an excuse.”

It was hard to believe that such a small amount of weakness could have such an effect on Beatrice. So I looked at her with an expression of disbelief, and she smiled and said,

“Actually, more than the elixir… I wanted to do this with you, so I kept the elixir inside my body without purifying it… I kept realizing it…”

I felt excited and took off my clothes. Then, she, completely naked, lay down on the bed and pulled me towards her, so that Beatrice ended up lying on top of my naked body.

I told her excitedly.

“…Is it okay for a saint to act this lewdly?”

Then Beatrice smiled seductively and whispered in my ear.

“…What do you mean? I just… am like this because of my weakness… and I am just being overwhelmed.”

I didn’t say anything more. There was no need for that. There was no need for foreplay either. Her body was already so aroused that it didn’t even need that.

…and I was just as excited as she was.

…

The next day, she and I were finally able to enjoy the festival beer properly. She continued to drink beer, intoxicated by the atmosphere among the noisy people.

“…You, are you thinking about your drinking capacity when you drink?”

Beatrice spoke with her eyes already half-open.

“…Huh?”

Oh, I made a mistake. I was able to finish the calculation in no time.

I lifted her up. In the meantime, she was drunk and couldn’t understand the situation, so she kept slurring. After we went into the room, we both spent another wild night, both drunk.

After several days of feasting and wild nights, the festival finally came to an end with the King himself taking the lead. Beatrice looked at the sight and said:

“…It’s wonderful, this festival.”

I looked at her and said.

“Yeah, that was cool. I liked it too.”

Beatrice smiled brightly.

“So what should we do now? Should we go look for other places?”

Beatrice shook her head and said.

“No, it doesn’t matter because I have already gained unforgettable memories for the rest of my life. Now it’s time to return to being a saint.”

“…okay.”

She and I watched the fireworks explode until the end of the festival.