That Man’s 101st Bad Ending

Can you hug me…?-1

“Looks like you’re done talking. How was it?”

As I left the room and left Verod, Adrian stuck out his head as if he had waited.

I always think about it, but it was a movement that was not like a blind woman.

However, Adrian is a saint. There are things that can only be done with divine power, and you can see things that ordinary people cannot see.

I thought about it for a while when asked how it was, but it was embarrassing to say it directly to Adrian.

I know that she has feelings close to friendship for me, but it’s not enough to be called a lover.

Needless to say, I was warned that if I touched it wrong, I would be seriously hurt.

“I didn’t say anything. He just asked a little bit about me.”

“Sir Berod is a bit suspicious, though. But it seems you haven’t yelled at me like you used to.”

Looking at Adrian, who smiled happily, he smiled awkwardly.

I didn’t yell at him, but I was pressed by his aura the whole time I was in that room.

Get angry if I tell you this. I was a little curious to see Adrian getting angry, but I nodded in affirmation.

He considers Berod like his father, so there would be no need to say bad things about such a person.

However, he wanted to avoid frequently encountering Verod.

It’s the same with the paladins here, and unlike the priests, I think it takes quite a bit of time to gain their support.

Since Berod was on the other side of the door right now, I lightly grabbed Adrian’s arm and hurried my steps.

“Huh?”

“Let’s go together for a while. Shouldn’t we finish talking about what we were talking about earlier?”

I feel a bit rushed, but I think Adrian will understand.

If I talk with Berod for a long time… In many ways, I think my impression of Paladin will deteriorate.

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Adrian chose the rooftop instead of the room for the conversation.

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Just like when I first came to the Wall Tower before, a cool breeze blew past my cheeks.

I liked this wind.

The wind is cold and dry, refreshing the heart for some reason, without any sign of rain.

Now that the end of winter has arrived and the weather is cold,

Putting the coat on Adrian’s shoulder, he naturally approached the side.

“I always seem to wear thin clothes. Is it because the holy power is warm?”

“Ah… it’s not like that. Because it’s like a habit.”

“No one likes Adrian when he has a cold. You care a little.”

If she catches a cold while we’re together, maybe her gaze towards me will get worse.

There are things like that, but it was also a problem that I felt uncomfortable in thin clothes.

After covering the clothes for a while, Adrian looked at me and replied with a soft smile.

“Isn’t Robert cold? Maybe it’s because it’s warmer here compared to the North.”

“I think there is such a thing. It must be much colder there.”

“What is the North like? I heard that it snows a lot, but I’ve never been there.”

Speaking of the North… the first thing that comes to mind is Adele’s face.

Of course. Because whenever I think of the North, she’s the first thing I think of.

They have a very close relationship, and recently, haven’t they been struggling in many ways to devise a way to prevent Adele’s death?

Other than that, I couldn’t think of anything else, but then I suddenly remembered the bell that had rang announcing the New Year.

It’s not in the center, so maybe it’s a characteristic of the north.

“There was a large piece of paper. It rang while announcing the new year.”

“Ah, if you are in the north, you must be referring to the New Moon Bell. I have never heard of it.”

“I think that left a deep impression on me. Apparently, I was very busy while I was in the North.”

Adrian, who tilted his head when he said he was busy, looked at me with a startled, stiff expression.

A white light leaked out of the cloak I covered, and then it stretched out to me and began to envelop my entire body.

Adrian let out a small sigh for a moment, even wondering at the warmth covering him.

“I always think about it, but every time I see it, it seems like he comes back hurt.”

“…I couldn’t help it this time. Wasn’t Her Highness in danger?”

“Nevertheless. There are more scars left. Come here.”

As I slowly approached the somewhat stern tone, Adrian frowned and reached out his hand toward my chest.

The divine power that had spread throughout the body was gathered together, and a slight tingling sensation was felt in the wound.

“Stay still. Because it erases wounds that have not healed.”

“You don’t have to…”

“It’s because I’m not okay. If I come here injured like this, I feel uncomfortable for no reason.”

With a bashful laugh, Adrian raised his head toward my eyes and added.

“Are you okay now?”

“…yes, that’s fine.”

I felt uncomfortable whenever I faced such pure kindness that had no selfish intentions.

From the very beginning, I had the idea that I could use the connection with the saintess, so it seemed that all of my turbidity could be read by that clarity.

Mirajen was my ex-lover, and Adele went through a similar phase.

However, Adrian was different.

In my life before, I had never encountered anything strange,

And isn’t it the first time in this life that I’ve made friends, including the ones I didn’t put a high priority on.

It was the first time I met this type of woman, so there were many awkward things about Adrian.

For example, when I see you laughing like this, I can’t think of how to respond.

All I could do was smile lightly and respond somehow.

As if the moonlight had stained it, the blonde hair flowed in the wind and turned pure white.

When it overlaps with the dark night sky, it was like looking at the Milky Way.

Like an afterimage of the cloudy moonlight, my gaze moved as if I was possessed for a moment by the breaking pure white light.

“Mirajen was very worried. I heard you didn’t wake up for three days.”

“It was because of my lack of stamina. I wasn’t seriously hurt.”

“If the average person faints for three days, how exhausted is that? So I also prayed. So that Robert can get up as quickly as possible.”

She folded her hands and smiled a little, blushing slightly as if she was a little embarrassed by what she said.

I thought Mirazen would have told Adrian, but it seems that he said more than I thought.

I was a little embarrassed to hear from others that I had passed out for three days.

It would have been unimaginable if it was just like the past to faint after fighting a foreign race.

“Thanks to you, I think I woke up early. By the way, didn’t you tell me about the South earlier?”

“Oh, that’s right. Did you bring me here to finish talking about it?”

“I know you’re going with me, but I don’t know the details yet.”

Adrian, who drool for a while and pondered, continued to speak slowly. It was a voice that reminded me of something.

“I will probably stay in the South for a month or a month and a half. There is also a move near the Temple of the Moon, but this time I’m going to seriously look at the problem with the southern mage.”

“It could be a little dangerous.”

“If it was dangerous, I would not have accompanied Robert. This is more of a tour than just researching and catching hard evidence.”

“It’s tourism…not bad, I don’t think.”

If you consider the free time you will have in the name of tourism, it is better to move for this purpose.

I could have time to move alone, and above all, securing artifacts was one of my purposes.

It might be a problem to avoid the church’s surveillance network and take the artifact, but I was also confident in stealth.

Adrian seemed to have quite a few expectations for this trip south.

It’s probably because it’s the first time I’ve been out this far for a long time, but it seemed like I quite liked being with me.

I don’t know where I like it so much.

I didn’t do much with her, it’s just that she read me.

As I stared at him like that, I suddenly saw Adrian’s flowing hair hanging down his cheek.

Carefully grab the hair from the tips of your lips and into your mouth, and brush it down the back of your cheek.

Adrian didn’t say anything because it was such a natural action, but at the moment, even I wanted to be sorry, so I hurriedly removed my hand.

“Ah…sorry. I can see the hair, so I don’t know.”

“Joe, I’m a little surprised. I never thought I’d be able to reach…”

As Miragen always did when she did that, she naturally reached out to Adrian as well.

When I smiled and apologized, Adrian, who looked in the direction where my hand had fallen for a moment, pursed his lips slightly.

“…Did you do that to Mirazen too?”

I was puzzled by the slightly dark voice, but I tilted my head at the sudden mention of Mirazen’s name.

It was not the context in which Miragen’s name would come out.

By the time I was about to ask again, Adrian smiled and shook his head and replied that it was nothing.

“Still, I think you have changed a lot since last time. Looking at Robert now, I’m glad he doesn’t look as dark as he used to.”

“Is that so? I don’t think anything has changed.”

“no. A little more…what can I say. I’d rather say it looks warm. Rather than being dark and cold like before, I think it’s a bit warmer.”

Adrian said that when you look at me, it’s like seeing a dead person.

As if I were a person who wanted death right away, I was worried about my desolate heart.

didn’t you say that It was true that I felt much more comfortable after going to the North.

But the word that it looks warm, well. It was not easy to understand.

“Usually, this happens when you feel at ease or have love. Have you ever found someone you like?”

“…not like that.”

“Hmm. I thought it wouldn’t be strange if Robert already had a lover.”

“There was.”

It was a word that reminded me of Miragen.

A life that was a lover in the previous episode, but now extinguished by my death.

Even though her emotions were worn out by repeating those many lives, it was thanks to the relationship between Mirazen and Adele that she was able to live as a human being.

However, wasn’t this life living thinking it was the last?

The feeling of liking someone is just a luxury, so I didn’t want to have romance anymore.

So, I tried to keep the distance as much as possible.

While maintaining a certain amount of friendship, so that each other’s hearts do not continue.

Even if I suddenly disappear one day, I won’t remember it.

Adrian, who shook his shoulders startled at the word that there was, looked at me intently.

The corners of his lips, which had been smiling bashfully, seemed to be slightly distorted.

With a darkened face, I spoke cautiously to the woman who was staring at me like that.

“But no more. No more, probably not.”

“is that so.”

As he muttered, Adrian’s hand touched my chest,

In the ensuing silence, they had been touching each other for a long time.

By the time you hear the heartbeat beating at a steady pace. Adrian looked at me again and murmured softly.

“…It’s cold.”

Suddenly the wind blew. Instead of the slightly cool wind, it seemed like a cold, chilly wind was blowing as if digging into the flesh.

Nevertheless, Adrian, who still touched me, just stared at me without saying anything.

Does cold mean wind?

Or did I speak of my heart?

Even though I vaguely noticed the answer to that, I thought I wanted to avoid the answer a little.