What the Hero Wanted Was Me - Chapter 44



Chapter 44

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Chapter 44.

“J..Calm down, Aria-sama..”

I was desperately trying to stop Arya from putting a needle in my leg.

It felt like Arya’s will to insert her syringe tightly into her hand was conveyed.

“No, the injection must be right..?”

Aria’s blue eyes, which were slowly approaching me, were showing the depths of the sea.

The deep sea with no end in sight.

An unknown injection was gradually approaching me.

“Don’t… Say it with words, Aria-sama!”

“It’s a blessing from the saintess. Lenny, be patient..?”

What is a blessing?

The black liquid in the syringe never looked like a blessing.

It makes more sense to say it’s a de-buff.

It was the moment when I realized that the saintess used de-buffs instead of buffs, but that wasn’t the point.

“Let’s be quiet.. Let’s get an injection..?”

No matter how blessed I was to keep my body balanced, my body lying in bed for a year couldn’t be perfect.

‘How strong…!’

I tried to block it with all my might, but after realizing that my strength was not enough, I decided to use another method.

“Aria-sama..! Why would I run away..! I won’t run away even if I don’t get an injection..!”

Huh?

It worked.

Arya stopped her momentarily giving her power to her hands and looked at me.

Her bloody blue eyes looked deep into mine.

“…You’re not going out…?”

“Of course..! Where am I going to leave Aria-sama behind..!”

“…”

Has it worked?

Arya listened to my answer and she stared blankly at me.

I moved the syringe she was holding in her hand to move it away from my thigh.

“Get rid of the dangerous stuff…”

I carefully held Arya’s hand and slowly drew her distance from me.

‘Be careful…’

I didn’t know when Arya would change again, so I moved her hand while making eye contact with her as much as possible.

I didn’t know when the beast in the confrontation would attack again.

“This is Lenny.. Please trust me, Arya.”

“Lenny…?”

What’s wrong with my name, her aria’s attitude has changed.

Arya opened her blank eyes and looked at me with kind eyes.

“I always trust Lenny..”

But I can’t believe Lenny’s legs.

‘What nonsense…’

Arya stretched out her sophistry, then put strength in her hand and moved quickly.

Because of the discomfort in one of her eyes, I missed Aria’s movement.

ㅡPoo-wook!

I didn’t feel any pain in my thigh, but the needle was stuck deep.

ㅡ Saaa..

The effect of the injection seemed to be quite good, seeing as there was no feeling in the lower body, which had been a little bit of strength until now.

“You can stay still for the rest of your life… I’ll do everything for you…”

The ferocious beast-like aria just now disappeared and was whispering in my arms.

A considerable obsession with me.

Aria using force to tie me up.

It was an aria that changed considerably in one year.

‘Does that mean she can’t move her legs?’

That must mean her Aria’s mental state is not good, so I couldn’t just hate that Aria.

“I’m sorry…”

In my arms, she shed tears as if she felt guilty for her actions.

Although what she did could not be justified, she gave me special meaning.

How hard did she come to this state because she was kind and tender while I was gone?

It must have been very difficult.

“Nice..Nice..”

“Huh…I’m sorry…”

Her The only thing I could do for her was to stroke her hair.

•••

After standing like that for a while, Aria stopped crying and she seemed to have calmed down, but her rough breathing seemed to return to its original state.

“Don’t go anywhere”

Arya stopped her tears and hugged me tighter.

“Where am I going?”

My leg was injected and I couldn’t move it anyway, so I decided to obediently meet her request.

I plan on escaping somehow later.

I had to know the news before the other kids got mad.

I can’t ask Arya…

Once I set the goal of curing Arya’s condition first, then a signal came from my stomach.

ㅡ growling..

A sign that you are hungry.

For about a year, my stomach was empty because I had been maintaining the balance of the saintess’s body with her blessing.

“Are you hungry Lenny?”

“Yes..”

Because it was attached to me, the sound must have been louder to Arya.

I was a bit ashamed of that fact, but the instinct to be hungry took precedence.

“I…I’ll cook and bring it to you..!”

“…Yes?”

Aria cooks…?

That wasn’t much.

It’s kind of hard to say this, but Arya’s cooking skills were terrible.

About 4 years ago, Aria prepared her cake for my birthday.

It was a cake covered in white whipped cream that seemed fine on the outside.

‘Lenny! Did I do well…!?’

Aria, smiling brightly, was satisfied with the dishes she made.

To live up to Aria’s expectations, I cut her cake and took a bite of her.

‘…How is it? Delicious..?’

As I tasted the cake in my mouth and was rolling my tongue, I had one thought.

Arya didn’t taste it.

The texture of the cake was like a sponge submerged in water, and the fresh cream strangely tasted like plain water.

‘…’

Beside her was Arya, looking at me with her expectant eyes, and I had only one answer.

‘Lenny.. What are you doing..!’

Destroy the evidence.

I ate it all up and had to lie about how good the cake was.

At that time, I hurriedly put the sponges in my mouth without realizing what was going into my stomach.

‘It’s delicious…’

I smiled broadly and said Arya’s food was delicious.

“Lenny likes my cooking, doesn’t she?”

“…Sure.”

Maybe it was because of my wrong choice at that time, but after a year, the meals I ate became dishes made by Aria.

“Stay still here? I’ll get you some food!”

I can’t move anyway.

I swallowed those words and waved her hand to Arya as she left the door.

ㅡ Rumbling!

“..Did you go?”

Did Arya leave? The moment I thought about her, there was a loud noise coming from the door.

ㅡ A clap.

ㅡ Drrureuk.

ㅡClick.

“No way…”

Aren’t those sounds all locks?

Aria left the room and several sounds started coming from the door.

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“…Isn’t it.”

I tried hard to deny the reality, but the answer was already in my head.

That sound is the sound of a lock.

There seemed to be no way to escape this room without being caught by Arya.

Why the hell did they lock it up like that?

It didn’t make sense to me.

Is that why I don’t like going out?

‘At that level, rather than protecting me, I’m at the level of hiding myself…’

That door was more than I was afraid to go out, it was clear that something was preventing it from entering.

From the inside, it looked like it was made of wood, but seeing that Aria used quite a bit of force when opening the door, it seemed that the outside was made of a fairly heavy material.

There is no window, but the room is clean and free of dust.

A well-organized desk and bed.

It was a part where I could see how diligently Arya nursed me.

After about 10 minutes, there was the sound of a lock unlocking and Aria opened her door and came in.

“Oh.. Are you here?”

Arya brought a tray.

There were rice porridge and utensils with steam in bloom.

‘Do I have to eat that..?’

ㅡ growling..

My stomach was crying as if I had no choice.

“Now, the special porridge I cooked!”

It was Aria who put the tray on my lap as I was lying on the bed.

The shape of the porridge in the bowl was quite decent.

‘Is it okay this time…?’

It doesn’t look too bad, does it?

With that thought in mind, Arya took a spoon from her tray and started scooping out spoons.

“Lenny, ah ha”

The spoon Arya brought to my mouth was full of porridge that looked good to eat.

“I will eat with my own hands”

Do I really need to feed him?

My hands are fine, so I expressed my will to Arya that I would use her hands to eat.

“…No”

“Yes?”

“Lenny’s hand hurts, doesn’t it?”

It moves well…?

As proof, I swung her arm around Arya and showed her that she was fine.

“…It hurts…?”

Then Arya’s eyes became the same as before.

That look in her eyes as she tries to get an injection.

If you say it’s okay and move from here again…?

‘Will I put an injection in my arm?’

Aria in her current state seemed to have a good chance.

“Suddenly, her arm hurts..”

“hehehe… I’ll feed you!”

Satisfied with my answer, Aria blew the wind and cooled the hot porridge.

Arya had become a scary presence as she learned to gaslight in the year between.

“Follow me, ah”

“Oh…”

Reluctantly, I opened her mouth and became a baby bird eating food from the mother bird.

‘Squeeze…’

Isn’t porridge a healthy food? It was Aria’s special porridge with a taste that changed the common sense of my cooking.

The grains of rice are served separately, the vegetables are not harmonized at all, and the porridge tastes like the sea, perhaps because a lot of salt was added.

Aria was looking at me waiting for the evaluation of her cooking.

“How is it, is it delicious?”

“…”

Should I tell you the truth?

The problem wasn’t just today.

Tomorrow and the next day too.

Because cooking has always been Arya’s thing.

Let’s tell the truth.

It was the moment I turned her head to her to tell her aria her truth, even for her own health.

“…Doesn’t it taste good?”

It was an atmosphere I had felt before.

What will happen if I tell the truth here.

‘Won’t it paralyze the senses?’

I quickly acclimatized.

“It tastes good.”

“Isn’t it?”

“Yes..”

So I ate all the porridge that smelled like the sea.

It was a cooking skill that did not change even after a year.