I Became a Retired Warrior Who Suffered NTR in the Novel

70 – Barbarian Village

Former Queen Andrea…

I know it well because I also heard the name and the circumstances of this side while doing heroic activities.

After her husband died, a fight for the throne broke out among the children, which spread to civil war.

The kingdom was occupied in the name of maintaining order by the Fjord Empire, which was worse than

.

She was a misfortune queen who lost her husband and children in an instant and had to send her daughter Irene to her empire as her hostage.

Do you know that?

She knows that even in the empire, she recognized her title as queen and gave her the same amount of respect.

“Hero, thank you so much for accepting my ugly daughter as a party… For coming to help like this.”

“Thank you. Since the Demon King’s army invaded, of course they had to come.”

Of course, at first I came to end the civil war in the Principality of Alsmeyer for Irene, but…

As long as Necromancers and Undead are discovered and the Four Heavenly Kings, Balak, are here, at least because of Kir’s heart,

Now, the work of the Principality of Alsmeyer has completely turned into my mission.

“Mom, why didn’t you contact me until this point?”

“You have to help the hero save the world… What is the importance of this principality…”

“It’s not important. It’s my hometown…”

Irene must have been saddened by her queen’s words, where her usual bluntness went and her slightly raised voice brought emotion into her voice.

“When the hell did this start? The fact that the aide, Crawl, became so active…”

“Not long after the former demon king died, your brother’s condition became strange, and from then on, that Kroll managed all the affairs of the principality.”

“Then when did you come here?”

“It’s been about two years. Aide Kroll didn’t cover any means to attract you, so I escaped here with the help of the barbarian warriors.”

The queen pointed at the large barbarian warriors standing beside her.

As everyone’s eyes turned to them at the gesture of the queen, she nodded slightly and they also focused on the queen’s words.

“Even so… Why did I… In advance…”

Irene thought it was strange that she kept blurring the end of her words, but she shed one or two hot tears, which did not fit her name of cold-blooded Irene.

“Irene, you shouldn’t cry like that right now. Do you know how many people are being held in that palace right now?”

At first, the Queen’s voice, which I thought was not similar to Irene’s because of her mild voice, gradually turned colder.

Although it was only for a brief moment, Irene was seen.

“Even though it has now degenerated into a principality, a vassal state of the empire, you still have an obligation to take care of the people of this principality.”

This time, not only Irene, but also Gilbert, who was next to her, spoke her words,

With the two of them saying nothing, the queen’s gaze turned to me.

“Hero, I’m sorry for asking you this in the first meeting.”

The Queen suddenly bowed her head once to me and went on with her words.

“Please drive out that aide, Kroll, and save our people who are being held in the palace. I don’t have anything right now, but please.”

“Don’t do that. Of course it’s something I have to do, but if you do that, I’m rather uncomfortable. And…”

“…?”

“Irene’s work is indispensable and precious to me. It’s something you have to do, so don’t do it too much.”

I brought this up to reassure everyone here, including the queen…

Suddenly, Irene blushed and found it strange that she couldn’t stay still.

“Precious?”

Kir’s cold voice came to me as I was looking around, not knowing what the situation was….

“Ah! That… That’s it! That’s not what I meant… I meant a valued colleague…”

I had to break out in a cold sweat to clear up the misunderstanding between Irene, who turned her head away from me with her face blushing, and the queen, who was looking at me with strange eyes.

After that, there was only silence in the house, and the queen seemed to be paying attention to Irene, but…

I was barely able to start a conversation again because of the girls from the barbarian village bringing in warm soup.

“Hero, are you hungry? I didn’t prepare anything, but I did my best to prepare it here, so please don’t misunderstand.”

After listening to the queen’s words, I looked at the food that came in and saw soup with lots of meat on it and bread that came in pieces that were easy to eat.

I travel a lot, so I was sensitive to food like this, but from the point of view of the person serving it, it didn’t look like it was uncomfortable.

“Wow.. This soup is really good? What kind of meat is this? It’s so delicious that it melts in your mouth without being chewy!”

Lucia, who usually doesn’t like her meat very much, ate her soup first, and then she smiled and said her words to reassure the queen,

Me and Kir also followed her and ate her soup and opened her mouth.

“Wow… It’s true… It’s hard to eat such juicy meat even in the royal palace.”

“…..”

The queen and Gilbert watched in silence at the exclamations that followed Lucia and me, but

Irene’s eyes were wet.

*

Since ancient times, the barbarian people who have lived only in the cold frozen region of the northern part of the continent seemed to be northerners like Irene,

I don’t resemble men at all, starting with my body shape.

The barbarians, who could not do farming or other work because of the winter that took up most of the year, made a living mainly by hunting,

When the number of prey decreases, he accepts a request from the Adventurer’s Guild and becomes a full-time job hunting monsters.

Maybe that’s why these barbarian warriors were all muscular, carrying huge axes the size of a woman, showing their bravery.

If you see him wearing a fur armor and walking around like that even on this cold day with a blizzard…

“Hero, why did you come out when it’s cold?”

“Ah… I can’t sleep.”

As I was out of the house and warming up at the campfire, Gilbert came up to me and started talking to me.

“Aren’t you cold while sleeping? Would you like some more heating?”

“Ah… No. It came out because it was too hot.”

Perhaps it was to treat guests, but the heating was so hot that it was impossible to sleep inside the house.

Luciana, who suffers from cold a lot,

I like Kir, who originally lived in a hot area, but…

“Ah! Would you like a cup of tea?”

Irene’s younger brother, Gilbert, seemed so different from his older sister when he put emotion into every word he spoke…

Gilbert, who brought tea in a small wooden mug, held it out to me and stood by the campfire to warm up together.

“You are very different from my older sister.”

“Yes? Ah… hahahaha… I’ve heard it often lately.”

“You mean…?”

“Yes. It wasn’t like that when I was younger.”

I wasn’t like that when I was younger…

At Gilbert’s words, I imagined Irene’s childhood in my head, and put together a face that was smiling like Lucia or angry like Kir.

Irene’s face didn’t come out at all.

“You can’t believe it, right?”

“Yes…”

“Even I don’t know when my older sister laughed.”

Come to think of it, I’ve seen Irene’s mad laugh when she fights, but I’ve never seen her sincere smile.

Maybe…

The death of her father, who was a king,

A fight between her brothers to kill and kill each other in a fight for the throne..

And I wonder if the fall of the kingdom was the cause that took away her laughter.

“How is your sister at the warrior party?”

“Well… It’s no different from how I look now.”

“I see…”

Gilbert seemed to ask with hope that Irene would be different at the party, but

I told the truth without any lies.

At my words, Gilbert drank the tea from the cup with a small smile as if he had expected it.

“Both my mother and I were very worried about her sister’s appearance, but maybe it was because she saw her sister’s different appearance today… My mother felt a lot better.”

“A different look?”

I thought about it after hearing Gilbert’s words, but none of Irene’s faces I saw today seemed special.

“I never thought she would see her sister’s shy face…”

“Ah…”

Sometimes, when I go there, alone with a grave face, blushing her face slightly…

It was different for them…

“This is my opinion… She thinks that her sister might like the hero…”

“Yes!?”

“Didn’t you know?”

I wonder if it’s Kirna Lucia…

Irene likes me?

Of course…

Although I’ve seen her mean face or her shy look from time to time…

I never thought that she would like me.

“Ah… No way. hahahaha.”

I waved my hand at Gilbert and said that it wasn’t what he thought.

Hearing my words, Gilbert smiled, raising the corner of his mouth even more than accepting it.

“Then what do you think, warrior? My sister?”

“What… It’s Irene…”

It’s Irene…

A typical northern beauty…

She had silver hair that looked like white frost, and her skin was so white that her eyes looked so white and soft that it was hard to tell them apart.

Adding to that, her maturity made me wonder if I would have dared to have a conversation with her if I hadn’t been a hero.

“She is too beautiful and strong for me.”

“Really?”

“hahahaha. Yes.”

“Then you are not saying you hate it!”

“Yes?”

A conversation that seems to be going strangely…

I just meant it in the simple sense of a woman who was too good for me,

How did Gilbert understand it, he was saying something different from what I thought.