What the Hero Wanted Was Me

Episode 9

Chapter 9.

With me on the terrace, I headed to the central area, the center of conversation in the banquet hall.

After completing today’s goal, I headed to the Central Area because I needed to gather information about what happened to the Empire.

It was a world where peace was not easily reached by defeating the demon king and preventing the princess from going mad.

‘You have to figure out the incident before it happens.’

That’s because a large number of people can be prevented from dying and there will be no regrets.

‘I’d rather not know anything.’

They did not stop even though they knew that a large amount of human casualties would occur, so they were making such an effort because they were no different from murderers.

Peace in the world with the butler of the important person.

It was difficult to do both at once, and it was a heavy burden on my shoulders, so I tried to hit one, but that was not allowed.

But what can I do? It was a law that there should be people like me in the world.

ㅡThat butler is over there…

ㅡThat person is the reward for that rumor..?

When I arrived at the central district, it seemed that I was hearing words about me one after another. Everything they said was telling me to listen.

“Please apologize!”

In the central area, someone shouted loudly.

Wanting to know what had happened, I went to the scene of the incident and saw familiar silhouettes.

‘Laysha and Siana?’

It was Laysha who shouted in anger, and the 2nd Prince Hendrick was standing there.

The 2nd Prince Hendrick was not very smart, so he belonged to the lower line of succession, and the public called him the crazy prince.

“Isn’t that wrong? Elves have a past of being slaves. Or is it the truth?”

Rumor has it that the elf of the warrior party was a slave.

The prince was arguing with the main character of the banquet, the elf Shiana of the warrior party.

Since she was a saint and an elf relatively unfamiliar with social circles, it seemed that she was quarreling with the 2nd Prince Hendrick.

“Leave that much, Prince Hendrick.”

“Tsk, isn’t that the former butler of the princess? Cheeky”

Looking at the condition of the saintess and the elf, they didn’t look very good. Shiana, who was full of her usual confidence, didn’t even say a word to her, and Laysha, who wrapped her around her, her body trembling slightly.

It was clearly my fault for leaving them alone. The social world was not an easy place.

“It doesn’t fit the place. Prince.”

“It’s arrogant not to be the princess’s butler anymore. You dared to talk to me.”

Hendrick was an opponent he could not communicate with. While hiding Laysha and Cyana behind my back and confronting Hendrick, an unexpected savior appeared.

“Why are you crowding?”

It was Sera, the wizard of the warrior party, who appeared and said as if she did not understand the situation.

“Hmm…”

Sera was going through the process of understanding the current situation. Excluding emotions, only the facts of the place.

Looking at the sound of conversations and the atmosphere around us, it seemed like a conclusion was quickly drawn.

“Hey, is that the 2nd Prince Hendrick?”

“That’s right…”

There was a strange force hidden in her voice as she spoke indifferently.

“Now, the prince has discriminated against the race of elves and slandered today’s main character, the hero’s party. This is an obvious fact, and can we take it as a sign that the imperial family is hostile to the hero?”

“Ah… No, that’s…”

Sera picked up the reason and facts of this incident and further put pressure on the prince.

2Nd Prince Hendrick hesitated as if he was embarrassed, but it was a strategy that didn’t work at all for Sera.

“The answer?”

“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean it that way.”

After apologizing, the prince ran off to somewhere saying he had something to do.

Thanks to Sera, the incident ended quickly, and since the banquet was no longer possible, they decided to leave the imperial castle in search of the warrior surrounded by people at the banquet hall.

It was unfortunate that we couldn’t get any information, but the protection of the warrior party came first, so we got on a wagon and headed for the mansion.

“Nobles are the same. They only know themselves and don’t care about others.”

Ley Sha seemed to have deepened her old feelings for her nobility.

“…”

In Siana’s case, it seemed that the shock was great. As she got into the carriage and headed for the mansion, she said nothing and just looked out the window.

Seeing the depressed girls made me feel bad too. Even if they had an accident, they looked better than usual.

Fortunately, Eren seemed to be in a good mood.

ㅡ swoop

She didn’t look in my direction at all, perhaps because she was embarrassed by her behavior earlier, but I could see that her ears were turning red, so I knew that she was embarrassed.

And the most problematic thing for me was something else.

“…”

It was because of the actions of Sera, the sorceress, who was staring at me with purple eyes.

I was deprived of my emotions and my least favorite object, Sarah, was staring at me all the time.

‘What did I do wrong…?’

I wanted to ask Sarah a question, but I decided to hold back. Because she had to avoid talking to her.

‘You shouldn’t be attached to it.’

There was something I couldn’t stop even if I knew the story behind it.

A witch of slaughter with no emotion, the villain that appears in the middle of the novel.

That was Sera’s true identity.

•••

After returning to her mansion, Shiana went to her room without a word and lay down on her bed.

‘All humans are the same.’

Siana’s thoughts of thinking that everyone but her friends were pretentious and calculating grew deeper.

‘Still, he was different’

Leni, who hid Laysha and me behind her back, thought that she was different from other humans. For a while, that thought came to mind again of what had happened at the banquet hall.

‘There are rumors that she lived as a slave. Is it true?’

That was what the idiot called the prince said. Siana felt it again there.

Words that were divination with pure malice.

She was once very close to being captured and sold into slavery by an elven slaver.

That place was called the grave of the elves.

Human men who beat their elves like they would kill them for not obeying. Sianna had no powers, so she could do nothing but watch the scene, and her memories were etched deep in her heart.

‘Oh..Don’t come…!’

Then one day, those who called me ‘a good product’ and didn’t touch me approached me.

What they were holding in their hands was a branding tool. I felt it in their gaze at that moment. He does not see himself as a life, and his eyes are full of pure malice.

‘Poetry.. I hate it..!’

I didn’t want to be stigmatized, so I struggled to pass the time. It was one of the best things of my life.

ㅡQuaang!

At that moment, a hole appeared in the wall and a young girl appeared. A girl who looks the same age as me. It was Eren.

‘It’s not too late.’

After Eren said that, she mercilessly defeated men who became adults. She saved all the elves in the prison and asked me to follow her.

How can I say no here?

It was the current situation that I arrived holding Eren’s hand.

However, elves were still discriminated against and not protected.

Right now, people around the world would be suffering.

I was grateful to Eren for saving me, but the current situation was different.

The reward for subduing the demon lord could have been used for bigger things.

Such an opportunity, Eren was blinded by her love and used it on a human man.

Without even a word of discussion with us. Of course, it was true that Eren had a lot of credit for defeating the demon king, but this was not right.

ㅡKikiiik..

Shea I knew that even if she told Eren, nothing would change.

‘But it’s not like it’s not.’

Using personal feelings as a reward was an act that a hero should not do.

It was late at night and she was all about to go to sleep, but Ciana knew what Eren was doing.

ㅡ smart

“Eren, I know you’re there. Come out and talk to me for a second.”

It was easy to guess that Eren was in her room as the butler’s room always smelled of fragrance.

“If it doesn’t come out, I will go in. One, two”

ㅡKikiiik..

The door opened and Eren came out, her face turning red.

“…Since when did you know…?”

“From before, that’s not the point, Eren. Let’s change places first.”

Since the butler might wake up, Eren and I decided to go outside and talk in the garden.

“I’ll tell you directly. Do you like butlers?”

“…Yes”

Seeing Eren’s face as red as a tomato, Sia didn’t know what to say.

‘What else is this guy’s reaction, like a girl..’

She obviously went to visit her to get angry, but because of Eren’s girlish reaction, her heart was weakened and she was Shiana who couldn’t get angry.

“Ehh… Since when?”

“As soon as I first saw you…”

“So you spent the reward on the man?”

“…Yeah”

Shiana felt her head pounding.

It would have been nice if she had been more confident and she could have been angry.

‘What are you so shy about?’

This was an embarrassing reaction even to be angry.

“Why did you get better?”

“That’s…”

She obviously went to visit him to get angry, but in the end, it was Shiana who gave Eren love counseling.