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7.
A child born as an only daughter in an ordinary family.
Yu Min-ah was an ordinary girl who could be easily seen anywhere. She loved games and reading, and she was an ordinary child who didn’t stand out to others.
But around the time I reached my third year of middle school.
The peaceful daily life was broken.
Suddenly I started being bullied.
What was even more absurd was that there was no specific reason for the bullying.
“Hey, is it really okay to do this?”
“are you okay. “Because I can’t do anything anyway.”
“that’s right. Also, it has no presence.”
“Even if I jump right away, no one will know?”
The perpetrators giggle and mock.
Unable to bear it, she eventually asked her teacher for help. She’s being bullied in class. please help me
However, the answer that came back was indifferent.
“It can be like that when you hang out with friends. “The teachers have all grown up that way.”
A short word from the teacher.
The bullying so far has become just a prank.
Afterwards, it became known that he had sought help from his teacher, and the bullying became more severe. So she informed her family this time.
But the reaction was the same.
“You must have done something wrong.”
“Are you afraid I’m going to harass you for no reason?”
And that moment.
Yoo Min-ah’s world was shattered.
The reality is that no matter how much you cry out for help, no one helps you. So she ended up giving up everything and locked herself in her room alone.
For the first few months, I felt like a wreck.
Trapped by my past of being bullied, I lived every day like a nightmare. She developed panic disorder and social phobia.
How long has it been like that?
I came across a game by chance.
『Arsene Continent Biography』
A game that no one has ever cleared.
I was curious about this fact.
However, this was just curiosity, and the real reason I started playing the game was something else.
It was because of the introductory text.
『We need your help to stop the abyss that will cover the world. Please save the world from destruction.』
Ordinary content with nothing special.
However, my attention was especially taken by the request for help. Afterwards, she accessed Arsene Continental Electric as if possessed by something.
Additionally, the moment I found out that the game was a single-player virtual reality game, any remaining fears quickly disappeared.
Single player meant that the only player in the game was herself.
Afterwards, she spent three years immersed in the game. Change began as I lived the lives of numerous characters and became immersed in their stories.
My timid and timid personality gradually improved, and I gradually became more confident as I understood the game’s background, settings, and story.
But the essence has not changed.
I realized this while struggling with the abyss and unable to overcome the recurring nightmare of the past.
That he is still a coward.
“This is me in the original world.”
After finishing the long story.
A short silence filled the hall.
Ulan closed his mouth, and Noah sighed lightly and asked back.
“It’s really pathetic, isn’t it?”
He didn’t face the abyss to save the world like other warriors, but gave up everything and locked himself in a room just because of bullying.
How pathetic would it look to Ulan?
Noah laughed self-deprecatingly.
“So I often think about this. “I wonder what it would have been like if a more capable player had come instead of an incompetent coward like me.”
Then wouldn’t it have been of more help to Ulan and the other warriors? The moment when I suddenly had that thought and a bitter expression on my face.
Ulan suddenly spoke up.
“Wrong.”
“… … yes?”
“You are not a coward.”
A word spoken as if asserting.
Ulan soon expressed his thoughts.
“You faced malice and sought to overcome it. “Attempting to fight back is not something a coward can do.”
Noah’s eyes widened slightly.
Honestly, I was a little surprised.
I never thought I would hear such an answer from Ulan.
“And you are not incompetent. “You can tell just by looking at the negotiations we had with Marquis Gorfant.”
At the time of negotiations over the inclusion of Ulan.
She used flashy words to gain the upper hand over Seorik, and soon made huge gains. This was impossible for Ulan.
“Well, that was possible because I lived as the Marquis of Gorfant. Even if it’s not me, anyone can do it… … .”
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“No, this is impossible if you are a coward.”
Ulan flatly denied it.
“More than anything, if you were truly a coward, you wouldn’t have regained your composure so quickly after facing Theoric’s Auror.”
“that… … .”
“It’s not just that. “Thanks to what you told me, I knew that Ibella was suffering.”
Until Noah told me.
Ulan knew nothing.
I didn’t know that there was a conflict surrounding Ibella, Himel, and Count Deorg, and I didn’t even know that Himel had been threatening Ibella.
“If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t have known why Ibella wanted to withdraw from the mock battle.”
There was another incident in which Noah helped.
The Abyss Cultist attack incident.
Through her prophecy, Ulan realized that something unusual was going to happen, and thanks to that, he was able to save Delia.
“In our last life, we defeated one of the Lords of the Abyss with the help of the Fang Brigade. “This wouldn’t have been possible without you.”
After giving a clear answer.
Bright red eyes stared at Noah.
“So, tell me clearly right now.”
“Let me tell you, what… … .”
“The reason I recognized you as a teammate is not because you are a player. “It’s because I decided that I could trust you and have my back.”
Noah’s eyes wavered.
On the other hand, Ulan’s expression remained the same.
“Even if a capable player came, there is no guarantee that he would be better than you.”
“That means… … ?”
“Noah.”
After stopping my trembling voice.
Ulan looked at her calmly. Eyes that do not show the slightest tremor. Then he spoke in a voice filled with firm determination.
“There is nothing that can replace you.”
“… … !”
“You are a colleague I recognize. So, if you need help, please ask for help at any time.”
Beings who fill in each other’s shortcomings.
That’s what colleagues are like. Ulan also planned to tell Noah if he needed help.
Faced with a shaking expression as if in agitation.
Ulan answered with force.
“I will be happy to help you.”
The one word she wanted to hear the most.
The moment I heard that they would help me.
Noah bit his lip without realizing it. At the same time, his fists were clenched tightly.
“… … .”
Lips trembling increasingly thinly. At the same time, a certain feeling rose up in my heart.
An unfamiliar feeling that I have never felt before.
So I tried to suppress my emotions.
For some reason, I felt like crying. But I couldn’t stop my vision from turning hazy.
“uh? Why, why is this happening? why… … .”
I don’t know why I’m crying.
No, that’s a lie. Actually, I knew it.
It was the first time I’ve heard someone help so willingly even after knowing the whole truth.
“Black! Ugh.”
The voice that was searching for a reason soon turned into crying mixed with tears.
Even if I tried, I couldn’t.
Feeling like the anxiety that had been building up was disappearing like melting snow, Noah burst into tears as if shaking off the sadness he had stored in his heart.
After a long time like that.
As the tears gradually stopped and the crying subsided, Ulan, who had been silently staying by my side, spoke up.
“Are you feeling better now?”
“… … Yes, thanks to Ulan.”
Noah nodded gently.
With a tightly hushed voice.
After a while, she looked at Ulan, wiping the corners of her red eyes with the back of her hand.
“Thank you, Ulan.”
A soft smile bloomed at the corner of my mouth.
She spoke with honest emotion.
“You told me that you were a colleague, and that if you asked for help, you would help me.”
“I was just stating the obvious.”
“It didn’t come naturally to me.”
After wiping the remaining dew from the corners of my eyes.
I kissed my lips again.
“So, I promise too.”
“promise?”
“Yes, I have a new goal.”
Noah nodded. She then looked at him with a very serious expression.
“Ulan.”
And with his hand on his chest.
I blurted out the decision that had just occurred to me.
“I want to save you.”
A word I never thought of.
Is that why? This time, Ulan’s eyes widened a little. Facing these changes, Noah continued speaking softly.
“Just like Ulan, I will help you escape your certain fate.”
“you… … .”
“No matter what happens, definitely.”
Noah’s eyes shined with determination.
A voice filled with strong will.
Irago, who was sobbing just a moment ago, looked incredibly strong.
“After all, you are not a coward.”
Ulan grinned.
Like I saw her properly. Then she nodded her head willingly.
“i get it. “I trust you.”
“Yes, please believe me.”
After answering, Noah also smiled brightly.
The long story is over.
When Noah seemed to have calmed down considerably, Ulan immediately stood up. I went back to the sofa and tried to sleep.
But then.
A small hand grabbed his arm.
“Noah?”
“Sleep here, not the sofa.”
“But it would be uncomfortable…” … .”
“It’s because I’m still scared.”
There is no need to ask what is scary.
Maybe you’re afraid of having another nightmare.
“You told me earlier to let me know if you need help, right? So please stay by my side.”
It looks like he is immediately using what he just said.
Ulan chuckled. Meanwhile, when no answer came back, Noah asked anxiously.
“… … No?”
“No way.”
It’s as simple as being by my side.
Also, the bed was more comfortable than the sofa, so Ulan willingly lay down next to Noah.
After some time has passed.
“You know, Ulan.”
Noah spoke again.
It was with a slightly drowsy voice.
“Do you remember the day you left the meadow?”
“Of course I remember.”
“You slept in the same bed back then as you do now, right? “When I stayed in a village of vagabonds.”
“It was like that.”
I remembered once again how I had subdued robbers who had attacked for silver coins and handed them over to the security guard to raise travel expenses.
“That’s the promise Ulan made back then.”
Noah suddenly hesitates.
She continued to wiggle her fingers and pulled the blanket up to her face. She then muttered in a voice as small as a mosquito.
“You don’t have to protect it anymore.”
“A promise?”
“Ugh, should I say that out loud?”
“I really don’t know.”
It didn’t look like he was lying.
Noah sighed at that simple response. Then, still half covering her face with the blanket, she whispered quietly.
“I’m only going to say this once, so listen carefully.”
“Listen.”
“no! “You don’t have to listen too carefully.”
“… … “What are you going to do with me?”
Noah cleared his throat when he asked in an absurd tone that he was going back and forth like this.
“Hmm! Ulan said that.”
“what?”
“Even if you share the same bed with me, you will never do anything foolish to me.”
“Ah, that was it.”
A memory I had forgotten for a while came back.
Noah nodded as if he remembered something, and Noah’s face brightened. But that was only for a moment, and she pulled up the blanket again.
“Uh, that’s what I’m saying anyway.”
The pure white ears turned red.
Eyes that became strangely moist. After Noah finished answering, she glanced at him with her mouth tightly closed.
With some unknown sense of anticipation.
Ulan, on the other hand, tilted his head.
“But that’s not a promise.”
“yes? What do you mean it’s not a promise… … .”
“I was just being honest.”
“What?”
“I said the same thing back then, but you are far from worthy of receiving my seed.”
Noah closed his mouth.
A face as hard as a stone statue. Whether he knew this or not, Ulan gave an answer.
“So I didn’t touch it.”
That’s the whole reason.
When Ulan closed his mouth, the room was instantly filled with heavy silence. After a while, Noah said as if it was absurd.
“… … “There are so many things I want to say, but let me ask you this first.”
Narrow eyes.
She asked straight away.
“What am I so lacking in?”
“Everything from head to toe.”
“… … .”
I was speechless again.
This is because of the answer without any hesitation.
But after a moment of silence, Noah suddenly threw off the blanket and got up. Then he shouted as if refuting Ulan’s words.
“Well, that is! It’s because Ulan didn’t look closely. If you look at it closely, you’ll find that I’m surprisingly… … !”
“There’s nothing to look at in detail.”
“Oh really!”
After nervously messing up my hair.
Noah sighed.
“Phew, yes. “I’ll admit it.”
Actually, she knew it too.
If you think about the girls next to Ulan right now, they would be no match for him.
But Noah was not intimidated.
“It may be a bit lacking right now. But I’m still in the growth phase, so someday, as time goes by, I’ll be like Ibella or Laurea… … .”
At that time, I spoke confidently as if I was declaring war.
Suddenly, Ulan burst into laughter.
“That’s a funny joke.”
“No, I’m not kidding!”
“This one was pretty funny.”
“No!”
Noah gets angry with a red face.
Seeing her fuming, Ulan burst into laughter again. After that, the conversation did not stop, and the night in the capital city came to an end.
8.
The next day, Sunday.
As the sun rose in the sky, the two woke up much later than usual.
That would be natural. Because we talked until dawn, we fell asleep late.
And one more thing.
There was something different from usual.
“Why are you so far away?”
The gap between the two people.
Of course, it wasn’t to the point where we usually walked closely together, but it was still close enough.
On the other hand, not now. Just looking at the distance right now, we were five steps away.
“… … “It feels awkward for some reason.”
“what?”
“That happened yesterday.”
“I’m fine, don’t worry.”
“No, I’m not okay.”
I never thought I would shed tears.
Noah fanned himself with his hand. For some reason, her face felt hot.
‘still… … .’
I was happy inside.
Being recognized as a colleague. And he was glad that he said he would help at any time.
Noah laughed bitterly.
“What is the schedule for today?”
Meanwhile, right after leaving the room.
When Ulan suddenly asked about today’s schedule, Noah was taken out of his thoughts. Then he said the plan he had thought of yesterday.
“Well, the departure time is a little late, but we will proceed as scheduled. Oh, and I also bought the ingredients needed to treat Delia’s younger brother.”
Noah revealed his schedule.
But Ulan looked somehow dissatisfied. Like you don’t like the schedule.
“huh? Is there a problem?”
“there is.”
“Which one is it?”
“I missed my meal.”
As soon as he finished answering.
A loud noise was heard. A loud sound like thunder. It’s a sound from Ulan’s stomach.
Noah burst out laughing.
“Of course I have to eat.”
“Well, that’s it.”
Problem solved.
The expression returned to its original state. So the two headed to the restaurant on the first floor of the hotel. It was to finish the meal and carry out the schedule.
Some time later, after arriving at the destination.
Just as I was about to open the door and go inside.
“oh! “I see you again in a place like this.”
Suddenly, a familiar voice was heard from behind.
The voice continues as if walking on a snow-covered road. Ulan reflexively turned his head, and soon his opponent spoke again.
“Hehe, it’s been a while.”
The person who laughs insincerely.
At that time, someone suddenly blocked the other person’s path.
A female knight who exudes strong alertness.
However, Ulan did not care about her.
“you… … .”
“How have you been?”
A person who is protected by a female knight.
A girl with snow-white hair and red eyes smiled brightly. And when Noah saw her belatedly, her eyes widened.
“… … !”
It was worth it.
The girl is one of the seven heroes. A person who served as a bard for the warrior party.
Because it was Perticia.
Chapter 36. second outing
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