My childhood friend the hero was genuinely angry

6 – The Hero’s Childhood Friend (6)

I had my own gratitude to Alprada Kingdom.

Of course, I couldn’t help but feel grateful to the Alprada Kingdom, who treated me like a sinner after being banished from the empire.

If they hadn’t accepted me, I might have wandered around without a place, so naturally, it was my psychology to want to repay that kind of kingdom.

‘I used magic to call rain, but…’

So I made it rain. It was nothing special to give back a little for what I received.

However, that insignificant incident spread so quickly in an instant.

The king of the kingdom of Alprada, the commoner, everyone, regardless of what they said, found out that I made it rain.

“Oh… Mr. Xerath. Thank you very much. Thanks to you, this farming has been successful.”

“Eat this at least. I would like to express my gratitude to Xerath.”

Since then, the commoners of the kingdom have each started to come to me and give me things.

He gave me delicious food while shedding tears with a very happy expression.

I expressed my gratitude over and over again for solving the unavoidable problem of drought.

“Lord Xerath…! Thank you very much. As the king of this country, I would like to repay you greatly.”

And the King also thanked me greatly.

He wanted to somehow reward me for solving the biggest problem as the king of this country.

The image of the king smiling as if he was very satisfied while holding my hand was quite impressive, and a bit burdensome.

‘Hmm… I did get a house and farmland…’

Anyway, as a result, I was able to get a suitable farmland and house as a prize.

Slightly modest house and small farmland. Originally, the king said that he would give a wider and more fertile territory and a splendid house used by nobles, but it was quite burdensome to receive that much, so he stubbornly refused.

‘I feel like I’m being treated too much…?’

But he still sends me expensive gifts every day. Looking at the presents that come with me every day, it seems that I am treated fairly in this kingdom.

Yesterday and today, he was giving me all sorts of things, such as high-quality silk and hard-to-find magic books.

But I’m sending these gifts back to the honest recipients. To be honest, I don’t know if I deserve to be treated like this.

‘I’m not that great of a person…? Compared to the other warrior party members, it’s not that great…’

That’s right, now I was a criminal who was banished from the empire. Of course, it was a body that couldn’t be treated like that.

Also, among the 4 members of the warrior party, I was only the weakest party member.

All the party members of the other warriors’ party, even to me who are members of the same warriors’ party, are all monsters.

They are considerable experts in the field of combat, and they are humans who have been active on numerous battlefields.

No matter how you think about it, compared to them, I was just a wizard who knew how to do a little trick. He’s just a smart wizard who knows how to do some tricks.

Of course, it was superior to other ordinary wizards, but it was not comparable to the group called the Warriors Party.

Even with the same warrior party members, there is a significant difference in strength between them and me.

‘The other party members are much more amazing.’

In fact, isn’t it a problem that can be figured out with a little thought?

Working hard to save the world from demons is great, not just knowing how to make it rain.

If you don’t defeat the demons, people will definitely die, but even if it doesn’t rain, you’ll just starve a little. I think the value is definitely different.

“I don’t know why I’m being treated like that…”

I think so, but strangely, I am treated much better than other party members wherever I go.

It didn’t happen once or twice, it always happened while traveling around the continent, but I don’t know why.

Sometimes even rumors say that ‘the most useless person in the warriors’ party is the wizard Xeras’, so why am I being treated well?

I wondered if the reason was because I was the only man in the party, but I guess that’s not the case.

It was a really unanswerable question, and I, as always, decided not to think about it any further.

“Anyway, shall we start farming normally?”

If I think about it, I will not think about things that will make my head hurt, and I will do what I have to do now.

Since I got farmland like this after a long time, I think I’ll just have to live normally farming from now on.

I packed up my plow and headed for the farmland I was given.

# # #

Among the rumors floating around, there is a rumor like this. There was a rumor that ‘the most useless person in the warrior’s party is the wizard Xerath’.

I don’t know where the hell this rumor started, but anyone who has actually met the warrior party can’t help but know how absurd this rumor is.

‘As expected, the wizard of the warrior party…’

The King of Alprada Kingdom knew from the beginning that such rumors were nonsense. And he knew what a great wizard he was.

When the warrior party of the past came to their kingdom, Xerath was a very special talent. Even within the group called the Warriors Party, his value was far superior to that of other Warriors Party members.

Of course, if you were purely considering strength, a man named Xerath might be weaker than other warriors’ parties, as rumored, but his true value lay elsewhere.

‘The actual leader of the warrior party, Xerath.’

Xerath was an excellent wizard, but he didn’t just know how to use magic.

He was a strategist who knew all kinds of strategies and tactics, and also a tactician who used unusual magic that no one else could. He was, and he was, a tactician who knew how to use what he had.

He was a hero who used what was available in any situation, created variables with ingenious magic even in unfavorable troop fights, and overturned the battlefield by leading an outnumbered party of warriors and troops.

Because of this, it is said that Xerath has never lost a fight against demons. He was a man of morale achievement who always won every battle.

Some people even said that the real leader of the warrior party was not the warrior Chloe, but the wizard Xerath.

You may think that this is a bit exaggerated, but it was absolutely not nonsense when you see that Chloe, who was a hero and no one else, obediently followed Xerath’s words.

‘I never thought it would even rain.’

So the king of the Alprada kingdom naturally knew that Xerath, the wizard of the warrior party, was excellent.

So, I thought that if I accepted him into the kingdom, he would surely become a great talent who would bring benefits to the kingdom, but I far exceeded my expectations.

Now, I made it rain. How could a single wizard even control the climate? Making it rain, this was never something an ordinary wizard could do.

No, I am sure that there is only Xerath on the continent who can do such a thing. It was something only he could do.

‘I really want to make him my son-in-law…’

The more I think about it, the more I am surprised. Xerath must have been a far greater person than he thought. That’s why he was so happy as a monarch.

I was so happy to have such a great talent come to my own country and not to another country.

If he succeeds in marrying his daughter, Lucy, then he must have achieved great results as a father to a daughter as the ruler of a country.

“Lucy. How was he?”

“As Your Majesty said, you are truly a great wizard.”

“Okay. But I’m not asking that. I wonder if you like him.”

“…”

“It doesn’t matter if you say no. My father wants you to marry him, but I’m not going to force you if you don’t like it… You have your own life.”

But the king wanted to make Xerath his son-in-law, so he had no intention of forcing Lucy.

The king doesn’t want them to be married even though they don’t even love each other. Even if it’s like that, love is important in the end. If you don’t love, you have no choice but to break up again.

If that happens, only bad endings await. The road to such an end is something he would never do to his own daughter, and even to Xerath, the gracious wizard who saved the kingdom, he couldn’t do it either.

Because of this, he was the king who respected Lucy’s opinion first and foremost.

“Well… You can force it. I don’t hate it.”

But it seemed like I wouldn’t have to worry about that.

She now turns her head around and says she doesn’t care. Her expression is like that of a girl in love.

Seeing Lucy blushing slightly thinking of Xeras makes me happy as her father.

“Okay. Then let’s hurry up and proceed. This time I will banish you from the castle, so go to Xerath’s house and live together.”

In the end, there was nothing to worry about. The King will fully connect Lucy and Xerath.

I came up with a plan for him. It was a rather far-fetched plan to banish the princess and let her live in Xerath’s house, but he knew very well that such a far-fetched plan worked well to connect love.

“… Yes, I understand, Your Majesty.”

And for Lucy, this strategy must be a good strategy in its own way.

Lucy answered the king with a slight smile.

The exiled princess, Lucy, went straight to her house where Xerath was staying.