The Blessed Hero – Journey around the sacred grounds – The town of Hember 27

Half a month has passed since Lloyd and Finn met five new adventurers.

Compared to the time when they didn’t know what to do, they were able to get the job done, and with the funds for the trip accumulated, they decided to leave the city on the next scheduled carriage.

For Lloyd, he’s happy that they’ve become independent people, and since the time they met, he’s  been aware that they’ll be parting soon. He feel sorry and sad for him, but he has no intention of holding him back.

Yes, if Lloyd was alone────

(What should I do……)

Lloyd grieves as he catches a glimpse of his partner who works hard with her juniors.

At first glance, Finn looks as normal as ever, but from the perspective of Lloyd, who has been with him for many years, he was dangerously lackluster.

If he is left alone, he will surely make a big mistake.

And he knows the cause.

He has to think about is how to solve it.

(I wonder why I’m bothered by the condition of a middle aged man…)

Even now, he has been working hard day after day, night after day, to receive requests that were almost obsessed with it. I don’t want more seeds of trouble…

Lloyd held his aching head, but he still didn’t want to abandon his partner.

(Atonement… it’s not suitable for a guy like him…)

As a person who knew the reason why he stopped falling in love, and was at least partly involved in it, he couldn’t keep Finn’s ignorance of him from being positive about love in any way.

Nonetheless, since he knew that his feelings would not come true, his thoughts turned to “How to make him give up?” — The problem was that Finn himself realized that his own love would not come true. It means that he can’t control his own feelings.

If he doesn’t realize that the person in question is in a barren love, he’ll end up confronting the reality, but if the person in question just realizes everything and can’t sort out his feelings—

(A parting is necessary huh)

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On the last night Arthur and his friends spend in Hember, having finished interviewing Lelia and the customer who bought her, Finn waits in her room for the next visitor, his eyes wandering impatiently.

How many days have passed since he persuaded his juniors to become prostitutes? The girls, who decided to take turns taking customers by now, have already completed their duties and have steadily accumulated achievements as prostitutes. Finn was getting used to those days too—yes, except from her.

It’s Mei — he can’t keep his cool when he thinks she’s being held by another man.

From the first day he laid his body on her, he had nothing to do with her, definitely not as her lover.

On the contrary, he was the one who encouraged them to become prostitutes. He has no right to be offended, let alone jealous.

But even knowing that, Finn was still unable to control his chaotic mind.

Is it because of Mei’s feeble, clinging figure?

Or did he overlap the woman he couldn’t reach with the person she once loved—

However, no matter how disturbed he is, He can’t just throw out interviewing her for work.

If anything should happen to them here, Arthur wouldn’t forgive him, and more than that, he wouldn’t be able to forgive himself.

(I’m sure I’ve done this many times before… just get used to it.)

As he tells himself so, he takes deep breaths to quiet his shattered mind and shift his thoughts in a different direction.

Usually, Finn, Lloyd, and Kikka find a man to assign to them, but for some reason, Lloyd decides on his own this time, and Finn doesn’t even know who it is.

He didn’t want to think about who Mei was having sex with.

Arthur wouldn’t notice his condition, but if it was Lloyd, there’s no way he wouldn’t notice that Finn was out of shape.

And if it goes on for too long, he’s sure to get involved. And today would be that time.

(I’m pathetic…)

Finn ridicules himself for bothering his companions all the way.

I guess Lloyd’s plot isn’t just for his own benefit.

He probably won’t reveal his true feelings even if he asks himself, but it’s probably a past────

(No)

Lloyd’s motives should not be considered.

It’s how he puts a line on his feelings.

No matter what Lloyd thinks or does, as long as he cuts off his feelings for Mei, that’s it.

While I was thinking about such things, a knock sounded announcing the arrival of a guest.

Calmly, as usual, I opened the door over and over again in my mind, and there was no man there, and Mei was standing alone, her gaze drifting as if he wasn’t there.

Finn, who thought that Lloyd was going to do something for sure, couldn’t swallow it and ended up showing his stupid side.

“Ah, uh… Mei-chan alone?”

“…Yesterday Lloyd told me not to take any customers.”

“is that so……”

He should have decided to put a line on her feelings, but he is relieved to hear that Mei isn’t being held by another man.

Feeling pity for himself, he frantically searches for words, but he can’t speak as usual.

And Mei, looking down and averting her gaze, repeatedly opened and closed her mouth to try to spin her words.

“For the time being, let’s go inside.”

Finn, unable to endure the silence, avoids her gaze and invites her to her room.

They naturally sat side by side on the bed, but an awkward silence enveloped the room without opening their mouths.

How did he usually talk to people?–Mei broke the silence first when Finn couldn’t even understand such an obvious thing.

“Message from Lloyd…”

“For me?”

“Yes,” don’t be spoiled “”

“… Ha! What the heck is that?”

He wondered what Lloyd’s aim was, but nothing happened.

He is being told that he should do something on hIS own.

(that’s true I guess)

The idea that Lloyd is going to do something is ultimately Finn’s self-indulgence that he wants someone to do something about him.

Realizing the sweetness of his self-confidence, Finn smiles once in a while, then tightens his expression and turns to face Mei.

“Mei-chan—Mei, I like you.”

Unlike his usual relaxed expression, Mei raised her face and stared straight back at Finn.

“……yes”

“I know that you have a lover, and even if you don’t have one, you won’t be able to date me.

Even though he was young and naive, Finn was in a good mood.

He’s shoddy and unprofessional, and he can’t help but think that he should have done this from the beginning, even though he know it’s only now that he thinks so.

And Mei, who must have continued to have complicated feelings like Finn, loosened her expression upon hearing his confession.

“Thank you. Your confession… I’m honestly happy because it’s my first time… Yeah, I’m happy.”

“But it’s useless, isn’t it?”

“If you were as good and sincere as Arthur, I might have thought about it.”

“Haha, that’s impossible. Especially sincerity.”

When Finn jokingly replies, Mei smiles carefree

There was no oppressive atmosphere there.

“Is that the first time I’ve talked to Mei-chan like this?”

“Yeah… maybe so. It’s mainly because of your sexual harassment.”

“I’m sorry”

As soon as we got to know each other, he set his sights on Mei and started messing around with her. .

Half-jokingly, half-truthfully, Mei’s hand was placed on Finn’s lowered head.

Finn’s hair is stroked with thin, supple fingers, even though the traces of her remain.

“While at it, tell me about you guys.”

It was the most gentle and warm voice Finn had ever heard.

Finn tightened his slovenly loose face and smiled with his usual elusive, complacent smile.

“Fine. In exchange, tell me about Mei-chan.”

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