What the Hero Wanted Was Me

Chapter 5

Chapter 5

A faint scent continued to emanate from the burning white roses.

The scent slowly took over Lenny’s body and made him sleep comfortably.

The problem was that burning white roses had a hallucinogenic effect and was slightly addictive. If I went to bed without scent, I didn’t feel like I had a good night’s sleep.

It could have been seen as a kind of drug, but Lenny, who was in a different world, always thinking about peace, raising the princess, and having trouble sleeping, had no choice but to rely on the scent.

Lenny burned the incense even at the risk of being caught. He had already been using it for years and had become addicted to it, so he didn’t feel like he slept properly without the scent.

‘Where is this…’

A certain place began to appear before Lenny’s eyes.

Obviously this was a familiar space to me.

However, it was burning and there were many broken parts, so I moved on, hoping it wasn’t the place I thought it was.

The colorfully shining flowers were all withered, and the tidy roads were all destroyed.

Traces of someone using magic remained everywhere, and the sound grew louder as we approached the place.

ㅡ Boom!

All the buildings I remember were destroyed by magic, and at that moment a woman appeared in front of me.

“…”

A lot of rocks floated around her, and I knew what magic was. Because I saw it in the novel.

A villain that appears in the middle of the novel. The existence of a witch destroyed the imperial castle and approached me.

‘I have to run away.’

Leaving behind her broken imperial castle, I quickly ran away from her without looking back at her as much as I could.

ㅡ hehehehe…

I was out of breath and my legs were shaking, but I continued running toward the place I wanted to return to without stopping.

However, the place could not be reached after all.

Because it was too far for me.

•••

“Run away…”

Eren sneaked into the room and heard Lennie talking in his sleep.

Lenny kept muttering to run away, and whenever he spoke, the warrior’s heart continued to feel like it was falling.

“Are you really sleeping?

‘Oh, I won’t wake up for a while.’

Since the holy sword saw through Lenny’s condition, it knew when he would wake up.

“Let me know if you try to break, okay?”

ㅡ Jump!

Eren dug into the empty seat of her bed and lay down next to Lenny.

It was the perfect location to see Lenny’s sleeping face closest to him.

‘Anyway, I’m terribly addicted.’

At this level, he would have been using it for several years. It was a holy sword that I didn’t know until then what pushed Lenny into the white rose.

“Run…Run away…”

“What do you see and tell me to run away…”

Eren lay down on the bed and looked at Lennie’s face, who was shouting to run away, she said.

What keeps bothering you? Eren wanted to know that, and she wanted to relieve it.

Lenny’s burden.

“Did I do something wrong…”

She felt guilty at the thought that she had brought him back to the mansion.

“But, it was too much for me to do everything I was told and not get a word of praise, sir. You can think of this as a reward for all the work you’ve done, right?”

Eren knew very well that he was greedy for her, and this was the first greed and complaint in her life.

“Seonggeom, can you look into your past?”

The holy sword was a sword that could pierce anything, and it was a word used in the past as well.

‘No, it’s impossible for that man.’

She didn’t know what it was, except Lenny.

It was impossible to see his past, no matter how holy the sword was.

What the heck did he know, he had a great repulsive force against the past, and he had no way to know what he did in the past with the Holy Sword.

‘One thing is for sure, something happened in his past.’

When Eren heard that, she squeezed the hand of the distressed Lenny.

“…You’re warm”

Eren held that hand for a while.

The temperature of the two hands held tightly was transmitted, and at this moment, the body temperature of the two was maintained at the same temperature.

They were the only ones in the room, and Lenny no longer had bad hallucinations. On days when scented candles were burning, only warmth remained in the seat next to Lenny when someone came and went.

•••

It was lunch time.

The warrior party sat in the restaurant and ate a meal to their satisfaction.

“Today’s vegetables are fresher than usual~”

Vegetarian Ciana said as she ate her salad. Isn’t it contradictory to eat vegetables when you love nature? As for the elves, I wondered if Nambul was passive.

The saintess and the wizard were also eating without saying anything. When she didn’t have a chef, the saintess who couldn’t eat spicy food made a mess of herself by eating food with lots of spices, so today’s mealtime was going very peacefully.

“Butler Lenny, please set aside some time in the afternoon.”

“Yes?”

“Everyone wants to see the city center. Let’s go together.”

The companions are Laysha and Siana. The wizard disappeared from the seat when he finished eating.

“I will prepare the coachman.”

Since the mansion was located on the outskirts of the city, a carriage was essential when going to the center to buy goods.

That’s why they bought a wagon and hired a coachman to make transportation for the mansion. However, there was still a lot of money left, so I could afford it. It was to feel again the greatness of the saintess who had spent so much of her money.

I looked at the items I needed to buy today, looked at the map to see how efficient it would be to go around the store, made a plan, and walked towards the carriage.

‘No problem.’

The wagon was in good order and showed no defects. Checking the wagon’s condition was a habit he had developed because he was by Arya’s side, who had many enemies in the imperial castle.

“Today, please take care of me.”

I greeted the coachman and waited for them to come out.

After a while, the warriors and their companions came out, and their costumes seemed to show their own characteristics.

The saintess was wearing a white habit and she was wearing a necklace with a green jewel that went well with her yellow hair.

I thought it was a gem that survived the last gem refund fight.

Elf was a free-spirited elf at first glance. The outfit was just that of an elf. A dress that shows a lot of skin.

“What.. What are you looking at, human..!”

But she wasn’t confident. Rather, she seemed ashamed of her dress.

She wondered if wearing thin was an elf’s pride, so she decided to just move on.

Eren wore a white shirt and pants under her, so her outfit itself was plain, but she created a different atmosphere with her height and the holy sword at her waist.

It was a situation where everyone arrived in front of the wagon and climbed into the wagon in order, and it was the situation where I had to get on last.

“Get on, sir”

Eren was tapping the empty seat next to her with the palm of her hand.

She couldn’t help but smell a familiar scent from me sitting next to her.

‘This smell…’

The scent of that flower…?

I carefully turned my head and sniffed the wagon so that no one would notice.

“What’s up?”

When I turned my head, I knew for sure.

This smell was the scent of Eren.

She was looking at me like a familiar white rose with a charming smile.

“Hmm..?”

Only the elves, who had a more developed sense of smell than others, noticed the subtle differences between them.

‘Why does it smell the same..?’

It was the moment when Shiina’s seeds of doubt sprouted.

The wagon’s wheels continued to roll until they arrived at their first destination, the bakery.

The reason I stopped by the bakery was because of the service of the saintess. She says she stops by every few days to give bread to the orphanage children who can’t get their meals on time.

Aside from her eyes on money, she was Laysha, a saint herself.

That’s how we arrived at the orphanage and did the activity of distributing bread to the children.

“Let go of this..!”

Siana was enjoying the situation playing with her children.

“Hey..! Don’t touch my ears..!”

Isn’t it? She may have been being bullied.

After the activities at the orphanage ended, the wagon rolled on to its next destination.

ㅡ Rumbling!

“Ah..Sorry..”

There was a bend in the road, and the carriage wobbled quite a bit. Every time that happened, the hero leaned against me, as if his strength was focused on me.

‘This is crazy..’

Addicted to the white rose, I didn’t hate her body clinging to me. Rather, it was a moment when I thought I wanted to smell more.

“Huh..?”

Even a saint, no matter how insensitive, could notice this situation. Eren, who did not move even when the demon lord attacked, leans on the man, pushed by the power of her carriage?

‘There is something wrong with the warrior’s body..!’

Laysha knew nothing about her relationship with the opposite s*x.

While we were busy smelling the scent of white roses in the swaying carriage, our party arrived at our final destination.

“There will be a banquet in the imperial castle in 4 days.”

I had to match their banquet dresses.

The banquet at the imperial castle meant that the time for reunion had arrived.

A reunion with my former master, Arya.