I Became a Retired Warrior Who Suffered NTR in the Novel

72 – Bait

The Four Heavenly Kings, Seir, who was lying on the floor, was unable to get up from his seat due to the warrior’s holy sword aimed at his neck. He was staring at him with fear-filled eyes.

“Now… Wait!! My… listen to me!!”

As soon as the blade of the Holy Sword touched his throat, Sayr was startled and waved both of his hands, shouting to stop the Holy Sword from approaching.

“Do you have anything to say before you die?”

“I’ll give you the information worth my life! Help me!”

“Information?”

“Yes!!”

The hero looked at Irene next to him as he aimed at Sayr’s neck, and she nodded as if he were telling Sayre to listen to what he had to say.

“Yes. Tell me where You know what happens if it’s not so hot, right?”

“Muh… Of course!”

Even if Seir, the Four Heavenly Kings, rises from his seat again, even if he says less than cheesy information, the surrounding necromancers have already died from Kir’s dagger,

Those many undead were lost and lost their way and were incapacitated by the barbarian’s axe.

“Four…Four Heavenly Kings, Ballach… have headed for the Barbarian Village!”

“What?”

“The reason we attacked the warrior party yesterday was to find out the location of the barbarian village! So…”

Sayre didn’t even finish talking, but Irene headed for the village, and Kir followed behind her.

“So?”

“I’m going to ask the Queen about the location of the sword…”

Shook!!!

The hero, who had roughly heard Seir, slashed his arm with the holy sword…

“Keuuu!!!!”

Sayre screamed in pain as his arm was severed by the holy sword,

The hero kicked away his severed arm without blinking an eye.

“As promised, I will spare your life.”

The hero thought of killing him like this, but

For now, the priority is to go to the Barbarian Village and stop the Four Heavenly Kings, Balak.

Instead of paying for his life with one of his arms, he followed Irene and Kir to the barbarian village.

*****

Lucia, who remained in the village, wondered if there might be injured among the villagers who escaped from the palace.

The bandages and herbs needed for her treatment were prepared, and Gilbert was also waiting for her villagers to return to help her by her side.

“Lucia, do you think you need more herbs?”

“Yes. Just having that is enough.”

Gilbert asked Lucia if there might be a shortage while preparing the herbs that grow in this area.

No matter how light or severe, all injuries could be treated with the power of Lucia’s spirit, so a large amount was not needed.

“Hey… Miss Lucia?”

“Yes?”

“I have something to look at.”

“Yes. Please speak.”

Gilbert stopped what he was doing for a moment, looked around him, and started asking Lucia in a small voice.

“How is your relationship with my sister and the warrior?”

“Yes?”

At Gilbert’s words, Lucia stopped what she was doing and looked at him, unable to hide her embarrassed expression.

“As I watched from the side, it seems that my sister is interested in the hero, and the hero doesn’t seem to hate it either…”

“That… Well…”

In the end, Lucia avoids Gilbert’s eyes and avoids her answer.

Gilbert approached her with the gaze she averted without notice and spoke again.

“Does the warrior have a fiancée or a lover? If you are the hero, there must be someone who has had marriage talks…”

“…..”

Lucia climbed up her throat to tell Gilbert something of hers, but

She didn’t have the courage to speak, so she had to endure it.

“That… But that… Why…?”

“Ah~ If there is no marriage talk yet, I wondered what my older sister would be like.”

“Yes!!? Ah… No!”

“Yes? Why?”

Lucia shouted at Gilbert’s words, but when she asked why, her face blushed at his words and she couldn’t bear to speak.

“Enemy!!!!”

The silence that flowed between the two ended with the voice of a villager resounding through the entire village.

After that, people’s screams could be heard at the entrance of the village, and when Gilbert and Lucia arrived, they saw the aide Kroll and several corpses near him.

“True.. Seeing things like this, humans don’t understand… Why do they run after knowing they’re going to die?”

Aide Kroll grumbled and kicked the corpses around him one after another, and Gilbert, furious at this, rushed first.

Quad Deuk!!

Gilbert, who uses the same ice magic as his older sister Irene, summons blocks of ice from all directions to attack.

Its speed was slower than that of Irene, so Crawl could easily dodge it.

“Sheesh… do you think you can catch me at that speed?”

Gilbert, who had already competed once before, couldn’t think of the next attack in advance because of his fear when he saw his aide Kroll lightly avoiding his attack.

Instead of…

Aide Krall drew his sword to counter the attack…

“Those who use magic so annoyingly should be put to death in the pasture…”

Boom!!!!

His sword, which he struck hard while talking, was lodged in the ground.

Gilbert barely got out of the spot and prepared the next magic right away.

Kwaduk! Quadruped!!

The white cold air that flowed from Gilbert’s hands began to freeze the surrounding ground, and the place where the aide Krall was standing also froze slowly, froze his ankles.

Thinking that his legs were tied, Gilbert summoned a huge block of ice in his hand and slammed it down.

But…

aaah!!

Aide Kroll’s sword cut the huge block of ice in half, then attacked Gilbert.

Kang!!! Bang!!!!

After reading Kroll’s attack in advance, Gilbert blocked himself with his sword, but he couldn’t block the impact and flew away.

Now, all the villagers who were near Krall had run away, and only Lucia was standing at a distance, making eye contact with him.

“Is the half-elf next?”

The gaze of the aide holding the sword, Kroll, looked at the next target, Lucia, from head to toe, and knew her true identity.

“From what I heard, it is said that he is an Elementalist… What is so dangerous about this half-elf… Seir-sama is making such a big fuss…”

Aide Kroll knew that Lucia was a spirit sage in the warrior party, but he didn’t even know that she was summoning her elemental king, so he spoke in a dismissive tone,

At this, Lucia was preparing to call her Elaime right away, even as she stepped back.

“Do not throw away your life for nothing, open the way. It’s not even a fistful of a half-elf.”

In spite of the threatening remarks made by her aide Kroll, Lucia did not give in and kept her position, glaring at him.

“Poetry… I hate it!”

“As expected, half-elves don’t know how precious their lives are because they have human blood mixed in.”

“I have to defend this village until the hero comes. Wouldn’t it be better for you to run away before the hero comes back?”

“What? Warrior? Ha ha ha ha ha,”

At Lucia’s words, Aide Kroll’s neutral voice echoed throughout the village, and he began to laugh out loud.

“A hero would never come. Wouldn’t it be better to lose hope?”

Aide Kroll said that the hero would not come and slowly approached Lucia, holding a sword in his right hand.

“That… what…”

“Literally… Now, don’t waste your time unnecessarily and run away. Anyway, my business is with Queen Andrea…”

“Then I can’t get out of the way even more!”

“You must really want to die…”

“Wouldn’t it be okay? [Ellaim]”

Feeling that Kroll’s steps were getting faster, Lucia summoned Elaim on the spot…

After a while…

A shape of water appeared between Lucia and Krall, and Elaim with the same blue hair as Lucia appeared and glared at Krall fiercely.

“Eh… Elaim!!?”

Surprised by the name that flowed out of Lucia’s mouth, Krall backed away from him without realizing it.

I couldn’t keep my mouth shut even once until the shape of water appeared and became Elim.

“Damn it… Stupid Seir bastard…”

Aide Krall was glaring at Elaim and cursing Seir for giving him false information.

It was because Seir only told him that he was an ordinary elemental lord, and the story of the elemental king was not brought up at all.

“Heh… Without a coward… You’re an asshole… Are you going to stand up to me?”

“That… It’s not that…”

Contrary to the previous situation, this time Elaim slowly approached the aide, Krall.

He was backing up and securing his retreat.

He thought that even if he couldn’t win the fight against the spirit king, he would be able to escape.

I was frustrated again by the one who appeared next…

“Yo… Hero!!?”

By now, the hero Seir, the Four Heavenly King, should be holding on to and the rest of his party members appeared, leaving Krall stranded.

“Surely… Seir…”

No matter how much Seir was weaker than himself, he knew he would be able to hold on to a certain extent, even if he couldn’t defeat the hero since he was the Four Heavenly Kings of the Demon King’s army.

However, the hero and his party members who appeared just now didn’t have a speck of dust on their bodies because they didn’t appear sooner than expected.

“Seir… You traitor…”

A conclusion he can draw from this situation…

Either the Four Heavenly Kings, Seir, betrayed you,

The other one came to the conclusion that he didn’t fight the warrior on purpose to feed himself, and swear words came out.

“Hero, leave that person to me.”

Standing next to the hero, Irene, who was watching the Four Heavenly Kings, Balak, who manipulated her principality and killed many people with the mask of her aide Kroll, stood in the way of the hero.

With every step she took towards Balach, cold air like steam gushed out from the ground, freezing everything she touched.