The Former Hero Began To Be Re-Evaluated

8 – The Second Hero (7)

‘He wants a request from me…’

Thinking objectively, I am a person of quite high value in this world.

Although he was expelled from the empire, he was still a former warrior.

Wouldn’t a former warrior be much more capable than an S-class adventurer?

In that sense, it made some sense that this girl was asking me for a request.

It won’t be easy to find someone like me anywhere.

If there was something I had to solve, the best means to solve it was me.

“Well, if you want a request, I can listen to it.”

However, the fact that I was competent meant that hiring me was bound to be expensive.

I spoke bluntly to Lia who asked me for a request.

She knows that I am a full-time warrior, so I won’t say that she doesn’t know my value.

I could accept the request if I wanted. Because there was no particular reason to refuse.

However, I wanted a reasonable price commensurate with my value.

“But do you have money? I’ll tell you in advance, I don’t plan on accepting requests for a small amount of money.”

There’s no way a kid like this has money…?

But the important thing is that no matter how I looked at it, the girl in front of me didn’t seem to have the money to hire me.

I don’t know what Lia looks like, but the clothes she was wearing were shabby clothes borrowed from her nun uniform.

Besides, didn’t Leah say she was an orphan?

I couldn’t even imagine that an orphan in a town like this who was in care of a convent would have enough money to hire me.

If I and Lia were close friends or something like that, I might be able to do a request for a small amount of money, but we weren’t in that kind of relationship.

At best, we met yesterday and talked a little bit, right?

In this relationship, the relationship was purely financial.

Because of this, I actually tried to refuse Lia’s request.

“Of course. The compensation for hiring a warrior is already prepared.”

But, contrary to my expectations, Lia responded with a confident expression.

No… The repairs are already prepared…? How?

I honestly didn’t understand what Leah said, but she didn’t think Leah was lying.

“What is that?”

Do you have anything great?

I had some expectations about what kind of compensation she was talking about.

“You can do whatever you want with my body.”

And then I heard something truly absurd.

Placing her hand on her own chest, Leah spoke confidently.

What we are seeing now is that compensation.

“…?”

I had no choice but to remain dumbfounded.

Was it your body that was called conservative…?

“Why are you a conservative? Even if you call yourself a conservative, there’s nothing you can do in the first place?”

The compensation suggested by Lia was the body. Even thinking about it again, I found it quite absurd.

What does a guy with no blood on his head say…

Furthermore, the body was not actually attractive.

Although Lia objectively looked pretty cute, that was only her appearance.

She was about 14 or 15 years old at most, and she had a body shape that suited that figure, but it was definitely not a body shape that a typical man would like.

Of course, some men with perverted tastes might be fascinated by Lia’s current body.

[Laughing] They’ll laugh and accept it like a pig in heat. There were quite a few people like that on the planet I lived on.

But, I don’t have that kind of taste.

Because of this, I had no choice but to react quite coldly to Lia.

“hehehe. You don’t know something.”

But Lia responded to my reaction as if she knew one thing and did not know the other.

“Even though I’m not that old so I’m still in poor shape, I’m sure it’ll be great later on. You can eat it as you like, whether you want to eat it or boil it.”

“What is the basis for saying that?”

“My mother had huge breasts.”

He said that his future self would lose tremendously and asked him to wait until then.

What is he really saying…

Taak.

“Ah…”

In the end, I had no choice but to hit Lia on the forehead.

It’s not like you’re joking around by calling me…

I was a fool to listen seriously to this little girl’s story.

Suddenly, at night, Lia looked at me with resentment, with tears welling up in her eyes.

I said to Lia with a sigh.

“Stop talking nonsense and go study.”

# # #

“Now let’s start again.”

Through camping, the warrior party got enough rest.

Now that my body and mind have fully recovered, I should move on to find the Demon King Castle again.

The warrior party led by the Herald prepared to set off again to find the Demon King’s Castle.

‘Ha…’

However, there were also people who did not fully recover.

The person who was already sighing as if he was tired was the warrior Herald.

Yesterday, Herald had to do all the camping preparations by himself.

From cooking rice to pitching a tent, he did everything by himself.

Because the party members had no idea how to do such things.

And it was the same today.

Herald did everything by himself, from waking up in the morning to cooking to retrieving the tent.

Of course, the Herald, who took care of everything yesterday and today, was bound to be tired even before he left.

Although he was a warrior, he was also an old man over 60 years old.

Doing this kind of chore was quite physically demanding.

‘Why on earth did warrior Lee Han-su take these people with him?’

Why does he, a warrior, have to lose his strength already because of these things?

To be honest, the Herald’s dissatisfaction has reached its peak now.

I don’t have to express it in words, but I feel like there are all these party members.

The party members did not know how to do any of the basic things.

Besides, I didn’t even have the will to do it.

Even though Herald worked hard on his own, no one offered to help him.

It was an attitude of taking for granted what a warrior does.

Of course, the Herald could not help but be angry.

I came here to this party as a warrior, not as a porter or maid.

When I saw the party members not treating the warrior as a hero, I felt like I wanted to say something.

‘Okay… Let’s not get too emotional. That means he must be very good at fighting.’

However, the Herald did not bother to say anything to them, and the reason was simple.

In the end, these party members were the party members that former warrior Lee Han-su had been accompanying for a year.

Even if you can’t do the basic things, it will definitely help you in the most important battles.

That was a story guaranteed by a former warrior.

If you think about common sense, what would be the reason for taking party members who can’t even eat or pitch a tent?

It must have tremendous power.

With those thoughts in mind, Herald held back and continued exploring the demon world.

As the Herald searched while suppressing his anger, he found something blocking the path of the warrior party.

“Wow… That’s a really big plant.”

“It’s a plant-type monster called Nepenthes.”

A man-eating monster boasting a gigantic size.

It was a monster that looked dangerous at first glance.

“It looks kind of scary.”

“But there’s no need to worry. I guess it won’t attack unless you touch it.”

Of course, since it was a plant-type monster, it wasn’t that dangerous or anything like that.

As the party members said, plant-type monsters do not touch them first, except for a very few.

In this case, all you had to do was ignore the monster and go back the other way.

Although it was a monster, there was no reason to touch it.

Perhaps this is why former warrior Lee Han-soo did not bother to kill Nepenthes here.

‘It just worked out well.’

However, Herald’s thoughts were a little different. Herald intended to fight this monster.

“Let’s all warm up and fight that monster.”

“What? With that monster? Do I really have to fight it?”

It was a Herald who drew his sword and prepared to face the monster.

And the party members who saw the Herald were a little embarrassed.

Why do I have to fight against a monster that is sitting still?

The party members questioned the Herald as if they did not understand anything.

“It would be a good idea to get along with each other before going to the Demon King.”

Shouldn’t we take a look at the skills of our party members?

The reason Herald wanted to fight was because he wanted to see the strength of the party members.

Herald had always wanted to see the skills of his party members even before he became a hero.

It’s just that I didn’t have the opportunity to see it.

When an opportunity like this comes, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to test your skills.

The plant-type monster called Nepenthes was the perfect opponent.

“I see. I understand.”

The party members nodded and raised their weapons, saying they understood the Herald’s argument.

‘Let’s see how strong you are.’

The battle will begin now.

The Herald decided to find out for themselves how great their skills were that Lee Han-soo brought them along.