What the Hero Wanted Was Me - Chapter 40



Chapter 40

Chapter 40.

Now, an hour after Lenny was kidnapped, the warriors read the remnants of magic and arrived at a certain place.

“This is…”

It was an ordinary street where people usually walked, and Siana remembered this place.

A fortune teller.

The place I was talking about with Lenny just a few hours ago was telling me he was here.

‘Here’s the butler.’

Cianna was about to rush into her fortune teller’s bar to save Lenny.

“Wait, don’t go in.”

Sera stopped Siana in an urgent situation.

Why the hell?

Shiana looked at Sera who had blocked her in an emergency situation with her frustrated eyes, but she was convinced by Sera’s words that followed.

“How do I know what’s inside. If the kidnappers find out we’re here, they might harm the butler.”

Sera’s point was valid.

He was a kidnapper who didn’t even try to erase his traces, as if he was clearly telling them to come find him.

I didn’t know what was done to such a place, and going into a fortune teller’s bar unprepared was tantamount to committing suicide.

“Calm down, do you think you’re the only one in a hurry?”

“..Sorry”

Shiana, unlike her usual self, quickly admitted her faults and began to listen to her.

‘…I can hear it.’

The sounds of the world were heard in Shiana’s ears while she was concentrating.

A child complaining about side dishes in a nearby house, a cat crying in an alleyway.

With just a little concentration, Sianna could hear every sound nearby.

‘..The sound of the wind’

Then, the sound of the wind coming from her divination bar was heard in Shiana’s ears.

A cold wind blowing from below to above.

“Underground…?”

Shiana exclaimed as she grasped that there was a fortune teller somewhere in the tavern.

“There’s a basement”

When she looked at the strength and amount of the wind, she could tell that the basement was a fairly large space.

But she wasn’t sure Lenny was there, so Cianna began to focus more.

The sound of insects flapping their wings, the sound of newspapers being swept away by the wind, the sound of a window opening somewhere.

Siana could hear more sounds the more she concentrated, but the more she concentrated, the more pain she felt.

She was suffering from overloading her ears because she couldn’t make out the sounds she wanted to hear.

‘I have to endure…’

A grating twitched in Cianna’s ears as she put all her focus into saving her Lenny.

ㅡ Huuk, Fang!

Something was cutting through the air, making the sound of the wind.

The sound was making a loud noise as if it had bumped into something at the end.

It was an alien sound to hear in her city center, so Shiana dug deep into it.

Syana heard a familiar voice along with intermittent sounds.

ㅡ Lord..Don’t die…?

“Crazy..”

A trembling voice, the fortuneteller was punching someone.

There was no way he didn’t know who the target was.

“…What’s going on…?”

Seeing Sianna with her infinitely serious expression for the first time, Laysha cautiously asked her.

What kind of sound did you hear so you would react like that?

She could guess all of her except for Laysha who was there.

“No way..? No..?”

Shiana was Eren who wanted to believe what she heard wrong.

But Eren was convinced because her expression seemed to answer instead.

‘Don’t kill lightly’

Eren walked away with the intent to kill the fortuneteller.

“There are no traps”

Sera, who used her detection magic to check whether there was a magic trap in the divination tavern, started following Eren into the divination tavern.

‘I’m going to kill you, it’ll only hurt the butler’

Neither of them had any intention of killing the fortuneteller gracefully.

Cianna, who vividly heard Lenny hit someone, walked away from her shock.

‘I’m sorry, butler… I’m sorry…’

She thought of Lenny, who was being kidnapped and beaten because of her, so Shiana couldn’t get out of her swamp of deep regret.

She thinks everything is her fault. I found a door in the corner of her fortune teller.

“…Let’s go”

ㅡKikiiik.

When the door opened, what was visible was a staircase heading down.

I couldn’t tell if the stairs were quite deep because they had a dark light.

“Move as quietly as possible”

Sarah cautioned again, as she didn’t know what she would do to Lenny if the kidnapper found out they had entered.

So the warrior party started down the stairs covered with deep darkness.

•••

‘It hurts so badly’

ㅡ

I spat the irritating blood from my mouth onto the floor.

I was a fortuneteller who kept coming to talk to me whenever I had free time, so I was attacked quite a bit when I refuted his words.

Isn’t it wrong if I don’t tell you?

That wasn’t it.

‘Why…Why are you ignoring me…?’

If I didn’t answer, I was a fortuneteller who would hit me harder for ignoring me, so I had to speak up unconditionally.

‘Even if you’re right, it’s better to be cool inside’

I thought that it would be correct even if I didn’t answer anyway, so even if the method I chose was correct, I would say something.

At least, this method was less unfair and I could endure it, but I felt that I was getting tired as a human being.

‘How much time has passed?’

It felt like it had been about 2 hours since my sense of time was not perfect because the fist was stuck in my face and my brain was ringing.

This hellish time has been too long for me.

A beating that comes out every now and then, fear of a fist approaching while blind.

I called out to the warrior party in my heart many times, but it was lonely not to hear an answer.

What did I do wrong?

I just fell into another world and moved and lived for peace.

‘Goddess, isn’t it too much..?”

It is said that people seek God before they die, but I resented the goddess for giving up half of her life.

A change occurred to the fortune teller, as if there was no word telling me to die.

“Uh…Uh…?”

He was making hurried footsteps as if he had seen something.

‘Did you come to rescue me?’

Then you had to secretly rescue me without being caught by the fortuneteller.

The fortune teller was planning to kill me in front of the warrior party, so if they had arrived, I would have already died.

“You…You don’t move for a second… I’m waiting…”

Isn’t this a warrior’s party?

The fortuneteller told me to stay still and walked towards somewhere.

I didn’t have the strength to move anyway, so I had no choice but to stay still.

But where did he suddenly go?

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A little bit of hope swelled in my heart because I couldn’t leave me unless something happened.

Maybe the arrival of the warriors’ party diverted the attention of the fortuneteller?

My happiness circuit was running vigorously, but that was only for a moment.

ㅡ bruises, bruises.

Seeing the sound of footsteps walking toward me, I thought the fortune teller had returned.

That’s right.

The hope that had been burning for a while was dissipated.

The footsteps stopped in front of me, and I began to anticipate what the fortuneteller would do next.

“What are you doing, don’t hit me”

I learned that the only time he stood in front of me was when he hit me, I clenched my teeth and waited for the fist to come.

“…What?”

However, no matter how much time passed, the fists flying at me did not exist.

What’s going on?

I could definitely feel the presence of people in front of me.

The person who approached me with footsteps.

His scent didn’t smell like a fortune teller’s.

‘I’m not a fortuneteller.’

Then who is it?

Siana?

Sera?

Eren?

Or Laysha?

It was a scent I had smelled before, but it was impossible to identify who it was.

“Who’s there?”

“…”

Aren’t they them?

Even though I spoke, that person just stood in front of me without answering.

“Answer me, are you Siana?”

“…”

Since there was no reply, it wasn’t Siana.

After that, I called out the names of Eren, Sera, and Eren, but no answer came, only the faint sound of breathing and the presence of people.

“What are you doing..!”

The being had his hand on the eyepatch covering my eye.

What are you doing?

After a few minutes, as the man removed his hand from the patch, a popping sound began to come from somewhere.

ㅡ Kwakwang!!

I didn’t know what the situation was, but I guessed.

‘I came to save me’

It was noisy, but somehow the warriors came to save me.

Are you glad?

The person in front didn’t do anything to me, as if he had no intention of hurting me.

ㅡ bruises, bruises.

Perhaps I felt someone running toward me, and I heard the sound of the person with the familiar scent running away.

‘What..?’

Without doing anything, the being hid itself from my presence.

Then I heard a familiar voice.

“J.. Butler..!”

With Sera’s urgent voice, Eren’s shocked voice could be heard from behind.

“I… Such a crazy guy…!”

Perhaps seeing the scars on my face, Eren said to the fortune teller in a voice filled with anger.

“You can’t die in peace”

“Who… Who… Dies…?”

The fortune teller’s voice was more trembling than before.

It was the fortune teller’s failure to leave me as a hostage.

‘Lived…’

When I was relieved that I had been rescued, the fortune teller exclaimed in a trembling voice as if denying it.

“It’s not me who dies…”

The fortuneteller had no intention of helping Lenny live.

“Elf.. Look closely.. Look at fate.. Disappearing..”

Dirty elves.

A despicable race that abandoned me because I had a partner of fate.

I thought that if someone of that fate died, he would come back to me.

The elf she loved herself followed her destined counterpart.

Leave myself alone.

The fortune teller looked at Reki, scratching his arm as if itching.

“Did I… Just… Leave you…?”

The blindfold covering Lenny’s eyes began to glow.

“Ah..Ah..!!”

Seeing the light, Shiana screamed in her despair.