Reborn as the Princess' Knight (GL)-Chapter 174 Hero Meeting (VI).
Chapter 72: Hero Meeting (VI).
Kein's POV
While the memories of our past times settled it made me feel like wanting to visit those two. Their home being in [Sprivanto] maybe we could take a quick visit. After this whole ordeal I'll be taking Rose out of the country, we deserve a honeymoon.
Rose motioned me to look at Avery who was still spouting off things to herself while pouring her- I'm not sure how many coffee cups she's had.
"I really don't like her. Believe me I can totally beat her if I wanted to but she's too annoying so that's why I suggested finding another dragon." She rolls her eyes for a moment and then yells.
"There's no other reason for it and we just have the usual relationship of hero versus demon lord- fight to the death!" (Avery) she raises her hands up as if she's trying to prove something to Rose and I, sadly it's not working.
"Yeah sure... you hate the demon lord." I take a look at the map again, not needing it anymore. I decided to fold it and keep it in my [Storage Ring].
Thanks to Avery's mumbling of her tales, we have a clear place on where to go and that would be in the demon kingdom where its lord lays itself in a dungeon for her castle. The usual story for a summoned hero plot, but now- "If that's the case thanks to your information you've laid out, we're going to change our course and set it on the demon country."
Avery blinked and stopped talking after hearing my words. "But- I mean- we really can't find another dragon to torment and take its heart out? I mean come on- the demon lord is my business I'm not ready to like-"
"And we're running out of time." I tell Avery with a serious look; time being lost is a serious thing.
Princess Cecilia's life will literally rest on our hands, if she dies perhaps the kingdom will lose a really important link to... well everything.
And the only one I could picture being queen is her, no one else would be perfect.
Rose would rather spend her time out of the castle blending in with the common folk, the youngest princess is already sorting out her life by being a professional writer and she's very successful.
Princess Cecilia was the only one who showed interest in ruling, diplomacy, alliance making and even knew how to deal with things or even... people she would consider as a threat. The girl has no mercy to those she considers an enemy.
Which is why I am not fit to be by her side.
Our differences will clash, many arguments and one thing I don't like is secrets.
She's full of them.
"Apologies, Miss Williams. My sister is in need of a cure as fast as possible because she doesn't have enough time yet. We have estimated that with the help of the newly formed medicine, a few more months... perhaps even less." (Rose) sounds a bit dreadful, clearly it wasn't good news.
I'm not sure what to do. We see the hero having some sort of attachment towards the demon lord that she wasn't willing to admit, I'm sorry but I'm going to be taking advantage of it. As long as she hasn't realized that her love is blooming, I will keep agreeing that she hates the demon lord, thus it will be her duty to one day slay her.
"Please, Avery. I'm asking for the sake of the first princess." I kneeled taking out my holy sword, the tip of it was placed onto the ground as I held the metal handle. A knight bowing who's that they were either thankful or they were begging for aid. "Help us. If not for my sake, be it for the princess, if not then the kingdom."
Avery stares at me in confusion, a moment of her expression turned conflicted and even hesitated on answering, opening her mouth and then closing it again. "W-Well... I guess we could try. Be warned you- are not really equipped for the demon lands."
"You'll be needing better armor fit for the environment, your old armor from your escort before would be too much, you'll be out fainting before we could even set foot inside the dungeon." (Avery) explains, I've read about the demon area that were books from here and hopefully some of them weren't bullshit.
"What's the environment like in the land of the demons?" I asked, sounding a little excited and even Avery looked forward to teaching me more there is to know. After all, I don't go outside the country very often.
"Oh, it's very hot. It's a very dessert theme area, you know so also pack lots of water we'll be riding a ghamala, which is like a camel but- it has like wyvern heads so it's pretty cool."
"I'll have Alfred pack all of the things that will be necessary for our trip, you can give me a list on what I need to pack." I tell her to take out my sketchbook, get to an empty page and let her borrow a pencil.
"A new quest with a friend!" (Avery) takes the pencil in her hands and begins listing all the things that I will need for the adventure. "Speaking of which we'll need to stop by [Sprivanto] or more like we'll be making our way to that place first, because the road to the demon area is just past that."
"If we have time, I can visit a friend that will act as our support." (Avery) explains, and if we need to go through [Sprivanto]- maybe the hero friend she has will be there. The one from the timeline of WWII. "If we also want to really beat the demon lord, we'll be needing a healer and Kein you will be our defense line, absorbing spells that will be coming our way- so that just means-"
Avery looks at Rose who was sitting awfully silent at the couch.
"O-Oh err... me?" (Rose) slowly points at herself, and Avery nods.
"Yes, your highness we're in desperate need of a healer so why don't you join us? You can keep watch of your girlfriend if she dares look at another girl while you're gone." (Avery) laughs jokingly but I wasn't laughing at her because I didn't find it funny, so I took out my pencil and threw it in her direction.
"Whoah there!" (Avery) sees the pencil coming at her at a very fast speed, and with her reaction time she managed to catch it by just using two of her fingers.
How unfair.
"You're too overpowered!"
"I'm not-! I got all of these skills from training my ass off and taking adventurer commissions! You should see the training regimen I had over the year- and how many goblin caves I had to burn just to get some extra exp." (Avery) bites her finger looking rather traumatized recalling the memory.
"Do you know how goblin babies cry... when they're burned- you never hear them in games but here... You carry the weight of murder..." she asks me to look so dead inside.
I guess it's the cons of being isekai to a life full of adventure. It'll have twice the dreadful act you have to commit because you were needed to kill something they can't.
"Okay that's enough of that talk, I take it all back your ways of grinding exp to level up is scary." I shivered. I wasn't expecting a random thing out of her mouth like goblin exp grinding.
I wonder what else she's done that's- this extreme?
"But anyways enough about goblin talk, how about it your highness? Want to come along on a fun adventure to the demon lands?" (Avery) offers her hand to shake but the princess refuses giving a sad smile.
"Apologies once more... but I cannot leave. I am bound to the kingdom as long as my sister is unwell. If I dare leave, I would be... betraying her and I wouldn't want that for my eldest sister." (Rose) answers and Avery stares at me in guilt for even asking.
"Oh, that's alright we can just go and pick up a healer on the way."
"Actually, if we go to [Sprivanto]- I have a friend who has experience in healing others because she worked at the church. If we visit, we can ask her to come along with us. After all, she probably wouldn't refuse a request from little old me." I chuckled, the healer I have in mind was big sister Gisela who I'm not sure if she would actually say yes- I mean she already has a family to take care of.
"If your friend is also not free, we shouldn't worry because healers are always available at the adventurer's guild for temporary hire until you finish the commission anyways." (Avery) smiles confidently as if she's done this so many times that she's ever so used to it. "Now we probably just need a healer that's willing to venture to the very lowest level of the dungeon, where the demon lord is... Ahaha..."
Oh right, that would be our main reason.
"Not to fret-! Even if there is no healer willing to carry our backs, we will stack ourselves with lots... and lots of mana recovery potions and healing potions." (Avery) takes out a chunk full of bottles full of weird glowing blue and red liquid looking so proud of her potion collection. 𝗳𝐫𝘦e𝘸𝗲𝚋𝓃𝚘v𝘦𝘭.𝑐𝒐m
"Behold my stash of potions. I've been saving these up for a very special occasion which is- I don't know but I guess that's today!"
Rose stares at the bundle of potions that was on the table looking concerned. She covers her mouth looking worried. "As a healer... I do not recommend drinking this ever so often because the effects will be less effective if your intake is more than it should normally be."
"You're right your highness- taking too much of these will really take a toll on our body but I have the hero power to protect me from that. I'll just treat it like how I treat my coffee." (Avery)
I slightly raised my hand remembering something important. "Ah you guys will be the only one needing a healer. Magic doesn't work on me, remember?"
"Hold on- does items like mana recovery potions work on you?" (Avery) asks looking a bit surprised and I shrug. I never had a good reason to drink those- besides I hear from Natasha they taste horrible.
However, since the topic was brought to light why not give it a try?
"I actually haven't tried... it. I mean if it's something made out of magic it probably won't work on me since the effects will just go on the sword, but we can test it out."
Avery eyes me with excitement having another experiment to try with me. She was very disappointed that I couldn't use her [Scan] skill like she and the heroes have just because I was reincarnated.
"Oh! If that's the case, you need to get hurt. How about a little spar, reincarnated one?"
