My childhood friend the hero was genuinely angry

7 – The Hero’s Childhood Friend (7)

I was living peacefully farming, but one day, Princess Lucy suddenly came to visit me.

Princess Lucy tells me that she ran away from the royal castle after a big fight with the king. She asked me to live with her in this house.

I can still vividly remember her tears welling up in her eyes, saying that if I didn’t accept her, she would have nowhere to go and might sleep on the street.

For that reason, I had no choice but to accept it. Because the princess of a country could not be put to sleep on the street. From the beginning, there was no choice but to accept it.

‘What’s all this nonsense…?’

But to be honest, I didn’t know that this was forced. If you think about it for a bit, you know that this, of course, makes no sense from common sense.

It doesn’t even make sense that the king and the princess suddenly had a fight in the first place, and it also makes no sense that the princess came to my house right after the fight.

No matter how you think about it, this was unmistakably far-fetched. It was the king’s ploy to attach me and the princess.

‘Is that the purpose?’

Then why did the king force me to marry the princess?

At first, I couldn’t answer the question properly, but at this point, I couldn’t help but know what the king’s purpose was.

The king’s purpose of keeping the princess under the same roof must be to wish for ‘something’ to happen.

Of course, it was not a hypothesis that could be confirmed yet. I don’t know if the king’s purpose was different, but there is a possibility, but for now, the hypothesis I thought of was the most likely. The King is probably trying to make me his son-in-law.

‘I really don’t understand…’

And the more I thought about it, the more I couldn’t understand it.

Of course, I can roughly guess why they want to recruit me. Although I was banished, I am still a man with the status of being a magician of the warrior party.

Of course he’s much better than most wizards. The purpose of recruiting talent as a monarch is understandable.

But, it’s different now. Right now, I am just a criminal banished from the Empire.

‘Am I worth that much? No matter how I look at it, it doesn’t seem like it…?’

I think the loss from receiving me is much greater than the benefit from receiving me.

In many ways, I couldn’t help but doubt whether accepting me would benefit the kingdom of Alprada.

If a situation arises where the kingdom suffers damage because of me, I will have no choice but to be very sorry.

‘Also, dating or getting married right now, no matter how much I think about it.’

And even if that wasn’t the case, I had no intention of dating or marrying anyone right now.

How long has it been since he quit the warriors party and became a criminal expelled from the empire, dating and marrying a princess he met for the first time recently and leading a life like that? After settling down a little more and recognizing people, I think dating is what you have to do.

So, right now, I had no intention of being in a romantic relationship with the princess. It was too much luxury for me now.

‘Oh, what should I really do…?’

For that reason, I even thought about expelling the princess, but I couldn’t.

“Would you like something to eat? Mr. Xerath…?”

“Yes… Thank you, I will eat well.”

A week has already passed since Princess Lucy came into our house.

Still, as long as we live in the same house, we are getting rice every now and then.

Meanwhile, Princess Lucy helped her with the housework, wearing clothes worn by young women instead of fancy dresses.

I do the farming outside, and Princess Lucy helps her with the housework inside.

The delicious rice always served by Princess Lucy when returning from farming was a real delicacy.

I don’t know where the princess learned to cook, but she really has a talent for cooking.

To be honest, it’s only been a week and I hate to imagine life without her.

Because of that, the option of kicking them out has become impossible now.

‘It looks like a newlywed couple…’

Really, I ended up looking like a newlywed couple. Perhaps, if someone saw us right now, they would think that we are a shy newly married parakeet.

I felt ashamed of that fact, but on the other hand, I felt a little good.

‘A wife like Lucy…?’

How nice would it be to have a wife like that? As I stare at Lucy thinking about her, her face makes her blush.

Even though she wears ordinary woman’s clothes, her beauty that is not hidden really shines through. How could she look like an old-fashioned aristocrat even when she was dressed like a woman? Her white skin and pretty appearance, she always shines even when I see her.

‘When you think about it, she’s a really great woman.’

In addition to his considerable cooking skills, he also has excellent family skills. It would not be an exaggeration to say that her appearance is a wise mother and wife.

In addition, the status of being a member of the royal family cannot be ignored. She is proud of her noble blood, a member of the royal family of a country. If I were to marry, she would want to marry a woman like Princess Lucy.

Not just me, but many men on the continent would want a woman like her as their wife.

‘It must be a piece of cake for a guy like me.’

Of course, I don’t think there’s any way that Princess Lucy and I will ever get along.

If you think about it even a little bit, there’s no way a beautiful and high-ranking person like Princess Lucy would like something like me, right? Until recently, he must have been a good man as a magician of the warriors party, but now he is just an unemployed and ordinary farmer.

In addition, I must be a man who is treated as a criminal in the Empire, but Lucy may have bad feelings towards me.

‘If Princess Lucy likes me, how nice would she be?’

I have a small wish that doesn’t seem to come true.

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‘Xerath is a much better person than I thought.’

Princess Lucy of the kingdom of Alprada, she couldn’t properly evaluate the value of a man named Xerath until recently.

Rumors abound that he is a great wizard, but since I haven’t seen his value in person, I honestly couldn’t help but think that he wouldn’t be that great.

So, I was just comparing him to other wizards and trying to evaluate him based solely on my own standards of whether he was that great of a person.

However, it was only then that he realized that the value of this man was immeasurably higher when he saw the rain falling directly.

If you have that kind of ability, it’s clear that the rumors you hear in the world aren’t just rumors.

No, rather, the possibility that such rumors were not exaggerated but understated could not be ignored.

As much as that, the performance Xerath showed was absolutely ridiculous.

‘This is the man I really want to marry.’

It was only natural that I had to look good for him. Recruiting him will surely bring prosperity and peace to the kingdom of Alprada.

However, Lucy’s current thoughts were not so rigid.

Lucy was cautious that she could do things like arranged marriages for the sake of the kingdom’s development, but the feelings she felt for Xerath were not just for the kingdom’s future.

To be honest, Lucy had already fallen in love with a man named Xerath not in terms of ability, but in terms of humanity.

‘The more we spend together, the more caring we feel.’

A person with great power is definitely great. However, a person who is greater than that is a person who possesses great strength and yet has an upright personality.

Originally, the more powerful people are, the more ugly instincts come out. No matter how good a person is, I have seen countless people who change suddenly the moment they gain power.

But the man Xerath was far from that kind of person. Even though he had the power to make it rain, he was a man who was worried that he would get caught in the rain.

Lucy fell in love with Xerath at once.

In addition, Xerath’s appearance was very outstanding, and he was such a great wizard that I had no choice but to fall in love with him even more.

‘Anytime Xerath says…’

So, he was Lucy who always wanted to be with Xerath.

Having already been possessed by a man named Xerath, I want to confess my feelings to Xerath right now.

I want to welcome Jeras as her husband soon.

‘But don’t fret.’

But she knows that shouldn’t be the case.

In the first place, as the saying goes, the more you try to chase love, the farther away you are. It’s not good to rush. Besides, in her eyes now, it seemed that Xerath didn’t want to be in her relationship now.

It’s not like she didn’t like herself, but she gave off the impression that she wasn’t very interested in her relationship. In this situation, it is clear that if she pushes herself, she will surely burden him.

Thinking of him, I didn’t want to do that. He didn’t want to hurt him with his selfish thoughts.

‘I’ll be waiting for you to call me someday.’

So I should wait quietly for Xerath to choose me. I don’t know when that will be, but Lucy has no doubt that Xerath will call her.

No doubt Xerath will call him. So, in preparation for that time, she intends to serve Zelas diligently by serving him delicious meals or doing housework to help him diligently.

Thinking that was the look of a proper girl who loves a man, Lucy took a look at Xerath and smiled.