While pondering what to do about the situation, he felt a sense of emptiness as he watched rilda suddenly charge in without thinking.
Crash!!!
…She didn’t even use the open terrace door but instead broke through the window. Seeing this, Ryu involuntarily closed her eyes, feeling dizzy.
“……”
Naturally, Giral, who was watching from the side, felt the sa way.
Of course, both Giral and Ryu had been listening to Kim Hyunwoo from a distance.
They heard him talking about gathering all the forr heroes of Lartania and asking about rilda’s whereabouts, though they didn’t know why.
To be precise, before he could even ask where rilda was, she had already broken through the window and entered, leaving no ti for proper conversation. In this situation, the two could only shut their eyes tightly.
Of course, they weren’t the only ones feeling bewildered.
“…rilda?”
Kim Hyunwoo, who had been talking, also looked at rilda in shock as she crashed through the window.
“……”
Adria, who knew rilda was on the other side of the hill, also couldn’t have imagined she would break through the window just as her na was ntioned, especially before the conversation had even ended.
And above all.
“…Master! I-I’m here…now.”
Unable to hold back, she broke through the window, but as soon as she realized what she had done, her face turned pale with embarrassnt, leaving rilda equally flustered.
Ironically, the culprit behind all this, rilda, felt her mind go blank as she saw Kim Hyunwoo’s dumbfounded expression.
“Uh, ah, I an, it’s just-”
She began to ramble incoherently, then realized she had just broken through the window.
“Uh, uh, I’m sorry, Master…I was in such a hurry that I made a mistake, yes.”
She then lifted the cross-shaped window fra that had remained intact despite the glass shattering, carefully placing it back where she had broken it.
…Of course, trying to fix the cross-shaped window fra was pointless, and even if she managed to reattach it, the shattered glass made it ineffective. However, in her panic, she diligently tried to fit the fra back in place.
Thud-! Crack-!
As soon as she let go of the fra after setting it in place, it fell right through the window. Kim Hyunwoo and Adria could only watch in disbelief.
And then.
“S-sorry…Master, please don’t abandon …”
“Uh, uh…?”
…rilda suddenly began crying in a panic, so Kim Hyunwoo had to force his mind to start working again.
In the end, Kim Hyunwoo quickly sent Adria away and spent a long ti calming down rilda, who was crying uncontrollably by the broken window.
“…Are you feeling better now?”
“Thank you, Master…I’m okay now.”
Kim Hyunwoo, noticing that rilda’s face had turned red as she realized what she had done, sat down awkwardly in front of her.
“……”
Silence.
Kim Hyunwoo felt a strange sense that etings with the forr heroes of Lartania always seed to end up like this. He looked at rilda, whose face was now bright red, and thought absentmindedly.
‘She’s pretty.’
rilda was indeed beautiful.
Ten years ago, Kim Hyunwoo might have lost in the gacha, but he had chosen this hero because of her looks, which perfectly matched his tastes.
As he recalled this, Kim Hyunwoo also rembered just how powerful the restrictions placed on him had been.
“Um, Master.”
rilda spoke.
“Yes, go ahead.”
Kim Hyunwoo spoke comfortably.
rilda hesitated for a mont, glancing around nervously, then spoke.
“I’m sorry…”
“For what?”
“For breaking the window…”
Kim Hyunwoo noticed how her ears drooped as she glanced at the window, clearly disheartened, and he wondered if she had always had this personality.
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[The 'Beast King' is angry because you did not give her a gift!]
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‘Hmm…’
Although he had never actually spoken with her, he recalled the notifications that constantly tornted him in the ga, reminding him that her personality was anything but weak. So he spoke.
“It’s no big deal. We can just replace the window.”
“R-really…?”
Though her mood seed to improve a bit, Kim Hyunwoo noticed her ears hadn’t perked up yet and wondered where to start.
‘Originally, I planned to bring up the recruitnt topic as soon as I t rilda.’
But at that mont, rilda looked utterly defeated.
In other words, it didn’t seem like the right ti to discuss recruitnt, so Kim Hyunwoo hesitated.
“Um, Master…”
“Yes, what is it?”
“I heard you were looking for …”
“Oh, now that you ntion it…”
Kim Hyunwoo thought for a mont, then asked curiously.
“How did you know?”
“Ah, well…you see…”
rilda glanced around nervously.
“Speak freely. I’m not going to do anything.”
Kim Hyunwoo, feeling sorry for her as her ears drooped, spoke, and she glanced around with her red eyes before speaking.
“I heard it…from outside.”
“…From outside…?”
“Over there, on the hill…”
Kim Hyunwoo followed rilda’s gaze and saw the cliff that overlooked the territory from the hill.
“You heard it from there?”
“Yes.”
“You have good ears.”
Kim Hyunwoo comnted, impressed.
“So you just happened to overhear it while passing by?”
“No, that’s not it.”
“Then?”
“…I was up there.”
“You were there? When?”
rilda hesitated, her red eyes darting around, before stamring out a response.
“I-it’s been…over half a year now…”
“…Huh?”
“No, actually…if you calculate it exactly, it’s been about nine months…”
Kim Hyunwoo calmly calculated the months in his head and then stared blankly.
After all, nine months was exactly how long it had been since he first fell into the world of Arteil.
“…So from the very beginning?”
“Yes…”
“Why?”
Kim Hyunwoo asked, unable to understand.
After all, there was no reason for rilda to sit up there for nine months watching Lartania.
Even if her feelings were the sa as before, sitting there for nine months would have been incredibly difficult.
Seeing Kim Hyunwoo’s puzzled expression, rilda cautiously continued.
“…I wanted to co back…but I couldn’t…”
“……”
“So…”
As she spoke, rilda suddenly grabbed Kim Hyunwoo’s hand.
“M-Master…! Please take back…just once more…! Okay? I’ve grown up now, I won’t ask for gifts anymore…!”
She began to speak.
“Even on my birthday, I don’t need a gift…! Just being by your side is enough for …!”
She continued.
“I won’t say anything if you give gifts to other heroes…! I won’t even show it…! So, okay…? Just once…”
She kept pleading.
“Can’t you take back, just this once?”
Tears had welled up in rilda’s eyes, which had seed calm monts before.
Her ears were folded back, and her tail drooped, reflecting her feelings.
Seeing her like this, Kim Hyunwoo felt his guilt multiply several tis over and involuntarily closed his eyes, feeling dizzy.
It was the sa with Charyll; Kim Hyunwoo had never wanted them to suffer like this.
At the sa ti, Kim Hyunwoo realized that he had been thinking of this world from an overly omniscient perspective.
And he realized that this sense was slowly fading as he re-recruited the forr heroes one by one.
Therefore.
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“…Don’t worry, even if I can’t always give you gifts, I’ll make sure to get you sothing on your birthday.”
“…!”
With those words, Kim Hyunwoo accepted her into the Lartania territory.
As he smiled at rilda, whose expression had brightened and was now wagging her tail like a happy puppy, Kim Hyunwoo asked,
“Oh, by the way, rilda. Do you know where the Crimson Dragon is?”
“I know!”
“Really? Where?”
“Adria?”
“Adria? …The leader of the Tienus rchant Group? The one who was here earlier?”
“Yes! That dragon is sharing a body with that woman!”
“…???”
Soon, Kim Hyunwoo couldn’t help but make a puzzled expression.
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