I Became a Hero Traveling With Saint Mesgaki

Chapter 20 – Warrior, don’t get too excited when you see me~♡ It’s insidious♡

Chapter 20

We were heading to Lancaster City to pick up Chloe.

Even on the way, the saintess brought aggro of monsters with strange behavior, and I did not stop training to defeat them. It felt like Chloe had gotten used to the eccentricity of the saintess by now.

It was the same today. When I saw the saintess throwing a pebble at a group of kobolds passing by, I thought she was a real crazy b*tch.

-Asshole~♡ Heocheop, a dog stoned with a crossbow♡ Did you come here when you were angry~♡ Are you afraid you can’t come? Kyahahahaha♡

…I heard that kobolds look pitiful. Were there even kobolds who were stoned to death?

Anyway, after clearing out the kobolds and trudging along, the sky was turning red.

“Oh…”

The sunset is so pretty. But when the sun sets, it means that it will soon be evening. It’s hard to go further when it’s completely dark.

Is it camping today? Slowly I miss my bed.

As I was walking with that thought in mind, I turned my head and saw a landscape of buildings huddled together on the left.

A building?…Why is the building at the foot of a mountain like that…

“Huh?”

It’s a village! Why don’t we have to camp out?

“Saintess, there is a village over there!”

“I know, warrior. Did you find it now? You lack observational skills~♡ Stupid♡”

If you knew, tell me, b*tch.

“…Holy Lady, it’s getting late. Wouldn’t it be better to stay overnight in that village?”

“Hmm…That might be better. For some reason, the brave warrior gave a useful opinion~♡”

…What a f*cking b*tch.

How do you even know the word ‘negative’? Isn’t the author’s anachronism straight?

“Let’s go and ask, and if that doesn’t work, let’s go camping~♡”

“Yes.”

“Yeah…”

Chloe’s voice seemed tired from walking for a long time. Well, it’s exhausting to suddenly make a kid learning magic walk for a long time.

“Are you okay, Chloe?”

“Yes, I am fine.”

You are strong. Since he is short, his stride is narrow, so it must have been harder to follow him, but he doesn’t complain.

“The town is very quiet.”

“I think it’s because it’s dinner.”

When we arrived at the village, we first looked for an inn. Since the village was not large, there was no specialized inn, but fortunately there was a restaurant that doubled as an inn.

“How many rooms do you need?”

“One is enough.”

“Ha, one!?”

I was used to having only one room, so I didn’t mind, but Chloe was rather surprised.

“That, the hero is still a man…”

Don’t worry, Chloe. I’m not interested in the little body.

“It’s okay, Chloe. The hero doesn’t have the courage to do that~♡ I’m a virgin♡”

“…Eh.”

…What’s your reaction, Chloe?

“You are an adult, aren’t you…?”

“I’m 17~♡ But I’m still a virgin♡ I’m a cherry boy♡”

“…That’s right. Then it’s safe.”

Heh heh, these funny guys. I want to kill them all

Since everyone was tired, we wanted to eat and sleep quickly, so we sat in the restaurant and waited for the food to be served.

“Hello.”

Then an old man spoke to us. Are you a guest here?

“Yes, hello. But who are you?”

“Hmmm, I am Gregorio, the chief of this village.”

Your name is five letters long.

“What is the village chief doing to us?”

“…Aren’t you the hero?”

…How did you know? Did you come to me knowing who I was from the beginning?

Looking at the village chief with a suspicious look, he lowered his head slightly and said.

“I heard that you were active in the Habsburgs. The gray-haired hero defeated the troll… I guessed that it was the hero because he had white hair and carried such a white greatsword.”

Looks like the news has spread. Well, it’s been a while since I caught a troll.

“…Um, is that so? So what are you doing?”

“…Could you do something for this lowly old man?”

Please?

“I refuse.”

The saintess answered instead of me. She was extremely wary of the village chief. The saintess coldly shot at her village chief.

“I don’t know what your intentions are, but the hero doesn’t accept requests from individuals. Do you know that in the first place, warriors exist to fulfill private requests?”

“Can you please listen to me?”

The village chief spoke in a desperate voice.

Did you really see something happen?

“Holy Lady, let’s just listen. You can listen and decide.”

“…Thank you, hero.”

“So is something going on?”

“That is…”

The village chief had a serious expression on his face and his voice trembled slightly. As if you are afraid of something.

And the words that came out of the village chief’s mouth were a bit shocking.

“…Actually, our village is ruled by ogres.”

“Yes?”

“A group of ogres that appeared a year ago are threatening the safety of our village at certain times, demanding offerings and offerings of maidens. We have no way to overcome the ogre horde, so we have no choice but to pay tribute and a maiden every month.”

“…Is that true?”

To be honest, I didn’t have much faith. What kind of ogre isn’t a fairy tale goblin, why is he asking for a tribute? You can just beat the villagers to death and take them away.

But the village chief nodded as if he wasn’t lying. Just thinking about the ogre made him tremble as if scared, adding credibility to the village chief’s words.

‘Really?’

However, the saintess and Chloe seemed to have different ideas from me.

“…Ha, what the hell are you doing?”

“Honestly, it’s hard to believe…”

The village chief was surprised at the reaction of the two and waved his hand.

“It’s a trick, it doesn’t make sense! I really did not lie, saintess!”

“Let’s say the ogre threatened the village. Then why didn’t you inform the outside world? It’s not that the Imperial forces can’t just deal with the ogre horde. If I went to the nearest city and informed the security forces, it would have been resolved long ago.”

…That’s right. An ogre wouldn’t be able to defeat a country’s army.

Chloe also contributed to the opinion of the saintess.

“If I couldn’t make it to the city, I could have contacted the adventurer’s guild.”

“…Yes, I know. Both of you are right. But I couldn’t.”

“What are you talking about?”

Sure. When all three of us looked at the village chief with questions, he fell to his knees.

“I really tried to do all the things you said! But when I tried to leave the village, the ogre caught me and killed me right away.”

“What about correspondence?”

“…The correspondence was the same. Because it’s such a remote village, the postman doesn’t come regularly, so I have to send someone else, but when someone goes outside, the ogre immediately… Heck, it’s not all lies, believe me!”

“…Even assuming that all of your facts are true, there is something strange about it. There was no threat when we entered this town.”

As the saintess said. If the village chief’s words were true, there’s no way the ogre would have left us strangers trying to enter the village.

Do you have any doubts?

However, the village chief’s answer shocked all three of us.

“…The women who came with the hero are the reason.”

“…Yes?”

“The ogres wanted those two as virgins for this time. Both of them are said to be very beautiful… So…”

…Are you surprised?

“Then you were with an ogre just a moment ago?”

At the saintess’ question, the village chief salivated and nodded her head.

“So even if the warriors try to leave town tomorrow, they will run into an ogre who wants to sacrifice you two. So I dare to ask you to show mercy and subdue the ogres.”

…If the village chief’s words are true, will all the villagers die if we don’t go?

“Boss, is everything the village chief said true?”

“…Yes?…Yes, it is. Her customers are also cut off because of the ogre, so it’s hard to put glue on her mouth. Oh.”

“…Hmm.”

The restaurant owner also supported the village chief’s words.

Ow… I don’t know how strong it is. Are you stronger than a troll?

“What should I do, saintess?”

“…If you think about it normally, it won’t matter if you ignore it and go.”

It’s cool.

At the saintess’ calm words, the village chief prayed and said,

“Yo, hero, saintess, please!”

“…But a hero is something that shouldn’t be like that. I’ll give you a blessing, so fighting an ogre at this point would be a good experience.”

…Fighting after all.

If you’re going to do this, why are you being so cold-hearted? Because it’s so special

Apart from my doubts, the village chief’s expression suddenly brightened.

“Thank you! Thank you!”

“It’s okay, now get up, chief.”

#

I wanted to improve my skills without a blessing, but after the battle with the troll, Abel has grown greatly. In particular, the ability to read battles has increased dramatically.

It was seen in Estelle’s eyes as she watched the Lizardmen’s battle. Perhaps if you battle the ogre, something else will grow. With such anticipation, Estelle was willing to accept the job.

However, if he accepted it too easily, he deliberately maintained a calm attitude, fearing that he would ask Abel again in the future.

‘Because of the hero’s personality, if I ask like this again, he might become weak and accept it~&’

Estel asked the village chief, who expressed her gratitude over and over again.

“You said the ogre wanted us as a tribute, right?”

“Yes?…Yes, it is. Still, we will prepare tribute from the women of our village.”

“No, they said they wanted us.”

Estel turned to Chloe.

“Chloe, can you help me a little?”

“Of course I should help!…But what are you going to do?”

When her Chloe tilted her head, Estelle kindly explained to her.

“We should disguise it as a tribute. And the hero is taking us to approach the ogre. Disguised as porters.”

Estel said to the village chief.

“That’s why Chief, could you please prepare?”

“Yes, yes! We will prepare it perfectly!”

#

Two days have passed since I decided to deceive the village chief and the ogre. The village chief came to visit us secretly last night and informed us that today was the day we were to pay tribute to the ogres.

So the saintess and Chloe left early in the morning to prepare camouflage with the villagers, and I was handed a shabby outfit and hat by the village chief.

“To disguise yourself as a porter, you will have to look like one of our villagers.”

“I guess so.”

I can’t wear this over armor, so I took off the armor and put on shabby clothes. Are you more comfortable than you think?

…I wondered why it felt familiar, but this body was originally a country boy. So it was familiar.

“Where do I hide the holy sword?”

“Hide it among the offerings. Wearing a sword will make you look suspicious.”

“That would be nice.”

Are the saint and Chloe ready yet?

“The saintess and her companions are going to be put on the cart right away. The warrior is leaving too.”

“Oh, is that so?”

You must have noticed what you’re thinking. I followed the village head outside and headed to the entrance of the village. As I was walking, I saw a place where there were many knives hanging, so I asked.

“Is that a slaughterhouse?”

“Oh, yes. We catch cows, pigs and chickens and sell them outside. It’s our village’s main source of income…Although we can’t do that anymore because of the ogres.”

“That’s right.”

We need to defeat the ogre soon.

The cart at the entrance of the village was loaded with offerings.

“Do you pay this much?”

“Aren’t ogres big? In addition, they appear in groups and make many demands.”

“Um.”

Most of the offerings were food. Starting with meat, rice, wheat, wine, and beer were loaded with food that humans originally needed to eat.

They are very vicious people taking food from others.

“By the way, when are you and Chloe coming?”

“It looks like it will take a little preparation. If you wait a moment…”

“Hero~♡”

Come here. I turned my head and looked behind where the voice came from.

…What is that?

“…Chief, what is that again…”

“This is the taste of ogres. They liked to wear clothes like that when offering a virgin. I’m sorry, I made my companions look stupid like that…”

“…Heh heh.”

Ogres…Kill your taste.

In a word, the clothes the saintess and Chloe wore…Yes, they were like dancers.

Except for the chest and lower body, the white skin of the whole body was exposed, and even a veil covering the lower part was worn. Then there are the fancy ornaments.

The original version of the saintess or Chloe is pretty and suits her, but Chloe gives off a hint of a crime.

…Police man, I didn’t do anything.

Chloe, dressed in a dance costume, was extremely shy.

“This is too embarrassing… Isn’t it too much exposure…”

“Chloe, you are doing well. Be more shy. Because we have to play a virgin who is forced to be sold.”

“I don’t think the saintess is ashamed of that…?”

“I am confident in my body~♡”

The saintess looked at me for a moment and drew an arc with the corner of her eye. And she calls me with a cheeky smile that comes along.

“Hero~♡”

…To say something else.

“…Yes.”

“Don’t get too excited when you see us~♡ Then the hero is no different from an ogre♡”

“I wasn’t excited…”

“Chloe, the hero is looking at you with insidious eyes~♡ Be insidious♡”

“Eh, hero! Don’t look!!”

“I didn’t see it!!!”

…It feels like Chloe is getting more and more involved in the saintess’s pace.