For a second I questioned if my ears have been enjoying with me.

Nevertheless, there was no apparent change in Frillite’s expression, which meant she was telling the reality.

I needed to shout out loud, ‘Even when it’s the mid-point of the plot, degree 60 is just too excessive!’

However occupied with it once more, not like the opposite Heroes who acted with their events, she acted on their lonesome.

So, all of the expertise factors reaped have been monopolized by her alone, there was nobody to share with. However, even contemplating that, 60 was nonetheless too excessive.

“What the hell had you been doing, Frillite? Stage 60, significantly?”

“Did not I let you know earlier than? I’ve been busy subjugating monsters since childhood. The degrees I raised within the course of simply got here out to be so excessive.”

“Monster subjugations, uh? Then it’s essential to have consumed plenty of beast cores.”

“I ate all of the cores of the monsters I killed. Apart from that, I additionally ate what my father gave me… I assume I might say that I did devour greater than the others.”

Frillite spoke nonchalantly.

Is that this the majesty of the golden spoon…?

‘We backbenchers are nonetheless paddling, when you, the topper had already begun finding out forward of time..?’

Possibly the rationale Cloud turned a poor punk was not due to his lack of means, however as a result of he was merely a mud spoon?

If Cloud had been the son of a well-off noble household like her, he may need grown right into a full-fledged noble Hero.

‘That is why some individuals say, life’s shit.’

It was time to ask Frillite about her skills, after all, whereas feeling the impermanence of life.

When, a cavalryman using on a horse got here from the opposite facet of the forest and joined the military formation.

He bought off his horse shortly and glided down, operating straight to the lord’s barracks and knowledgeable loudly.

“Rely Lykel! Miss Hero! One other Hero is arriving!”

Ho?

I checked out Frillite with eyes questioning what that meant. She tilted her head implying that she did not understand it herself.

We circled and went again to the lord’s barracks, and we bought to listen to extra particulars as we bought nearer.

“Is that true? You imply, Hero Lorian is coming?”

“Certainly, my lord! He stated he would come by the point the preparations on our facet will get completed!”

…At this level, it appears it’s going to turn out to be a Heroes’ gathering session.

* * *

When Frillite heard that Lorian and his occasion members have been coming, she stopped heading into the woods by herself. It was higher to cooperate with the Lorian to subjugate the ogre.

As a result of performing in a gaggle somewhat than herself can cut back the danger in some ways.

However, I used to be deeply troubled after I heard about Lorian’s arrival.

Ought to I depart earlier than Lorian arrives?

Or ought to I keep and try for the ogre’s glyph?

After a lot deliberation, I select the ogre’s glyph.

I’ll earn extra returns from the ogre’s glyph than the danger concerned from exposing myself earlier and getting tailed by Lorian.

To ensure that Lorian to set a tail on me, he must no less than go to a metropolis and speak to his cronies, however so long as I transfer shortly earlier than that, it will not be too harmful.

If I do not cease at a city or a metropolis within the center and run all over the forest and inhabited terrains, how are you going to seek out me then?

Tenting is a bit annoying, but it surely’s unavoidable to get advantages.

“There he comes.”

Frillite spoke.

I seemed within the course during which she was pointing together with her chin. Eight figures have been coming from a distance using on horses.

The horses’ pace slowed down slightly, and so they stopped precisely in entrance of Rely Lykel, who had got here out to satisfy them.

“Goodness, Hero Lorian. It’s an honor to satisfy you want this.”

“I’m additionally honored to satisfy Rely Lykel, whom I’ve solely heard of by means of rumors. You look loads higher with a beard than I used to be instructed.”

The good-looking, lengthy brown-haired man who was within the lead bought off his horse, replied.

Wait, lengthy hair?

“Did Lorian develop his hair?”

“I feel so.”

“You suppose so? You have not appear him within the center?”

“As a result of there was nothing to satisfy for, so I did not. The final time I noticed him was on the Imperial Social Banquet such as you.”

“Is that so?”

It was after we have been having a foolish dialog, Lorian together with his occasion members and Rely Lykel handed by means of the assembled troopers.

Lorian was strolling on his method, chatting with Rely Lykel. Earlier than lengthy, Lorian’s eyes caught Frillite.

“Frillite? Why are you right here…”

Upon discovering Frillite, he seemed as if he had obtained a pleasant shock. That expression was distorted as quickly as he noticed me standing subsequent to Frillite.

“Cloud? Why are you right here…”

Similar phrases, totally different feeling. I do know, proper?

Possibly some discriminating emotions between a noble and a commoner as a result of he’s a royalty?

Rattling Lorian, why be so meanish.

“Ah, that’s James, Frillite-sama’s pal… um? Did you simply say Cloud?”

The Rely, who was about to introduce me, listened to Lorian and doubted his ears once more.

There was no want to cover now, so I nodded and prolonged my hand.

“I am Cloud, the Hero of the Kingdom of Prona.”

“Ah, sure… However that, you stated, Frillite-sama’s pal, till only a second in the past…”

“Pal factor just isn’t flawed. It is simply that his title just isn’t James.”

“Oh, I see.”

As a substitute of asking me why I hid my id, the Rely held my hand warmly.

A man with good technique of communication, I needed to remark.

It was after I was shaking my arms with the Rely.

“Cloud..?”

I heard a well-recognized voice and turned my head.

The one that known as my title was a girl I knew effectively.

A cute lady with lengthy black hair tied in two.

A sorceress sporting a big witch hat and holding a big wood workers in her proper hand.

Cloud’s former occasion member.

It was Eri.

It has been a very long time since I noticed her.

At the very least, it looks as if yesterday when she hit Cloud’s ass with a cane to come back right down to eat.

‘However why is she sporting the identical equipments as earlier than?’

Is not it time for her to have increased degree ones?

I considered it for a second after which erased it from my course of thought. It is not well mannered to guage about different’s private affairs in entrance of them, particularly after we have been assembly after a very long time.

I smiled and waved my hand.

“Eri, it’s been some time. How have you ever been doing?”

Eri’s eyes fluttered.

* * *

Eri Oller.

The second daughter of Duke Oller, a household with a robust affect within the Kingdom of Prona, born with a promising expertise, with nice expertise for magic.

A correct genius, different’s say that she will be able to be taught a magic spell by giving only a single look on the spellbook.

A woman with a mouth so tough that it could actually’t be extra venomous.

And so on, and so on.

These are the general public opinion of her.

However they’re all solely half proper.

It’s true that Eri is the second daughter of Duke Oller. However her mom was only a commoner maid working for the household. It’s true that she has inherited the blood of noblemen, however solely half.

As a consequence of which, she grew up dealing with all kinds of ridicule and contempt from her brothers and sisters.

It’s true that Eri has a expertise for magic, but it surely’s an excessive amount of of an exaggeration to say that she will be able to be taught magic from only a single look.

All the issues that Eri has achieved at present have been all results of her laborious work and energy.

It is also true that Eri has a tough mouth.

Nevertheless it’s not as a result of she’s poisonous from coronary heart.

Eri, who has been on the mercy of her household for a very long time has developed a way of delusion of hurt, briefly she has turned type of paranoid. The roughness of her mouth is extra of a protection mechanism to guard her coronary heart from her paranoid ideas.

Eri had no true household by her facet, neither she thought she is going to, solely magic as her shut companion, she had lived as much as that time, and he or she thought she at all times will.

If it hadn’t been for the King’s orders to come back to the palace, her life would have been like that.

When she arrived on the palace, she met a boy with out figuring out something concerning the state of affairs.

-Howdy..?

Eri is a noble girl, even when solely half. Modest handsomeness will not even catch her eye. Nevertheless, the boy in entrance of her was in a league of his personal.

He was such a good-looking man that even she felt her breath taken away for a second.

She noticed him for the primary time there.

-Excuse me…?

-Who’s so ignorant, so daring to speak to me, hmph?

However her tongue did not soften within the least.

Due to the paranoid ideas that webbed her thoughts.

A good-looking man like him should be a nobleman. He is being pleasant to me now, however that is not going to final lengthy. If he finds out the place I’m from, he’ll snicker at me from inside, even when he would not present it on the surface.

Good issues weren’t meant to occur to her.

So, from the very starting, she spit out harsh phrases. Hoping that he would get away from her on his personal, like all people else. However the boy wasn’t like that.

He simply smiled awkwardly and scratched his head.

-Um… I am slightly clumsy. By the best way, did I do one thing flawed? If that’s the case, I apologize. I by no means meant to make you are feeling unhealthy.

-…W, What?

That was Eri and Cloud’s first assembly.

After that, she realized that he was a Hero from the king’s mouth who appeared solely slightly later.

Along with the truth that she was chosen because the Hero’s companion.

When she heard about it, Eri’s coronary heart swelled with hope.

Her household, till now had not acknowledged her for any of her achievements.

However what if she contributes tremendously in the direction of defeating the Demon King as a member of the Hero’s Get together?

Would not she, with all she was, be then acknowledged by her detached household for such an enormous achievement?

Eri had such hopes, and he or she set out on a journey to defeat the Demon King as a companion of the Hero.

The journey was extra arduous than she had thought. It was solely pure for her to camp on the laborious floor as a substitute of mendacity on a gentle mattress, and he or she was usually unable to clean for days. For her who had lived as a half noble, these have been some horrible days.

However just for some time.

Little by little, she started to really feel the happiness hidden in it. As time went on, her shut companions took a liking to her.

They acknowledged and revered her even when Eri did nothing particular type any perspective.

Eri felt that snug feeling for the primary time together with her companions.

And it was all because of Cloud who was capable of make her really feel that method.

At first of the journey.

When even Ophelia or Neria could not get near her due to her haughty persona, it was Cloud who saved coming to her.

Irrespective of how harsh the phrases have been, he by no means misplaced his pure smile.

He did not even look upset when she grudgingly hit him on the pinnacle together with her wood workers.

He was such a foolishly good particular person.

To place it bluntly, he was like a pushover, however due to him, she was capable of open her coronary heart to others.

Due to which, she was capable of relax her mood, which might pierce proper by means of individuals’s coronary heart to the purpose of frivolously scratching them.

Years handed like that…

And a sense of impatience had bloomed in Eri’s chest.

She had solely wasted years of time, however she hadn’t grown up in energy. It is not that she hadn’t grown up in any respect, however these did not met her requirements by any margin.

The rationale was easy.

It was as a result of Cloud was weak.

When he was first chosen as a Hero, he was simply an abnormal boy.

He was a weak boy who had by no means realized about sword, had no prior data, and had by no means killed.

Due to this, a lot of the journey was spent on him rising up mentally.

Eri might solely sigh deeply, feeling that she had wasted her golden years. She hadn’t even observed it in these years.

Cloud was like a candy poison.

It is enjoyable and joyful to be with him, however should you preserve staying with him, you’ll get ruined collectively sometime.

In that method, she would lose the prospect of being acknowledged by her household, that she had been in search of since beginning.

As her coronary heart was gnawed by such impatience and concern, Eri met Lorian.

Not as good-looking as Cloud, however good-looking sufficient.

The background of the inheritor to the Kingdom of Carta.

Along with excellent abilities and expertise.

Apart from his face, he was far superior to Cloud in each method.

Such a person confirmed his affection for her.

She refused at first.

She spit out harsh phrases, confirmed flat disagreement.

However Lorian did not hand over. He smiled at her as gently as Cloud, and approached her as patiently as Cloud, in the meantime exhibiting beneficiant affection for her.

Little by little, she started to check Cloud with Lorian, it will definitely bought to the purpose the place she ended up finally weighing the 2 of them.

In fact, the size leaned in the direction of Lorian.

As a result of each time he confirmed her a Cloud-like picture, she bought that certainty.

She felt that confidence, that if she follows him, she is going to be capable to catch each a nice journey with a pleasant companion, and a contented future.

Eri took Lorian’s hand to have her all the pieces.

Because of this—

She misplaced all the pieces.

“Eri, it’s been some time. How have you ever been doing?”

Cloud, whom she had not seen in a very long time, welcomed her with a smile that was no totally different from earlier than.

Eri additionally tried to greet him with a smile, however she could not.

As a result of she had lengthy misplaced her smile.

“Very long time no see.”

Barely squeezing out her voice, she lowered her head to keep away from Cloud’s gaze.

She hadn’t seen him in a very long time, she should not have greeted him like that….

However, she felt so hollowed that she could not even act to her needs.