What the Hero Wanted Was Me

Episode 7

Episode 7.

On the day of the banquet. People in the mansion were moving busily.

Since the hero of the day was a warrior party, he had to prepare more than usual and take a long time to dress up.

“There, go to the wizard.”

I also had to attend the banquet, so I was dressing up and giving orders to the maids. It was difficult for me to do both at once.

“Move! Is the saintess ready yet?”

“Just put on the accessories and you’re done!”

“When the saintess is ready, she should go to Sianna and help the people there.”

I was doing the perfect butler’s job, buttoning up my suit and telling them what the situation was and what their next move would be.

‘It’s over.’

I finished my preparations for the banquet by tossing my hair up in pomade, wearing a suit and spraying perfume.

Men did not take long to prepare for a banquet.

The warrior party took quite a long time. Compared to me, an hour was more preparation, and it was worth it.

“Everyone is beautiful”

ㅡ clap clap clap

I helped them dress up for a long time, and everyone who watched applauded them. Originally, they could be called pretty, but now the track is different.

Those who usually go without makeup have lived hearing that they are pretty even to others. But today I was going to hear that it was beautiful.

“I’m embarrassed..?”

Saint Ley Sha took off her habitual habit and wore a pale golden dress. She wore a dress that matched her blonde hair and hazel eyes, and around her neck was a necklace of emerald jewels.

Today’s Laysha could be called a goddess, not a saint, if you add her exaggeration.

“What.. What are you looking at, human..!”

Siana was wearing a white, understated dress today, different from her usual free-spirited outfit. Her light green hair and green eyes went well with her dress, and rather this restrained outfit made her look like her.

“…”

The hero, Eren, was staring at me. Unusually, she wore a black dress that matched her hair color. The crimson color in the middle of her dress matched well with her eye color, and she gave off an alluring vibe.

‘Why did the scent become thicker?’

She smelled more like white roses today, but Lenny had no way of knowing.

ㅡ Ttogak Ttogak.

We hear the sound of shoes on the stairs and the last person we are waiting for is coming down.

Her name is Sarah Letinoa. She, a wizard of the warrior party and one of the important characters in the original story, was coming down the stairs.

“Everybody’s been waiting.”

She said she was sorry and seemed unapologetic to her as she apologized. But she didn’t have a single person who would take her anger out on her.

With pale purple hair and purple eyes, Sera was an emotionless being.

To put it bluntly, it would be possible to describe her as having lost her emotions. She was a living being deprived of her emotions as a research slave of the Mage Tower.

I, including the warrior party, know that she has such a past, so I was never upset about her being late.

“Then, since everyone has arrived, let’s go.”

I ordered a larger wagon than usual in preparation for today, so it was easy for 5 people to ride.

After all the girls boarded, the carriage immediately started running towards the imperial castle.

“…”

As Shiana stared at Eren, who was sitting next to me, she questioned me.

‘What happened?’

Shiana had her eyes full of doubts. She didn’t appear to have fought, and she seemed eager to ask questions.

“I can see the imperial castle over there!”

It was Laysha who broke the silence and spoke innocently.

She said while looking at the Imperial Castle through the carriage window.

The fact that the imperial castle was starting to appear meant arrival soon, and I had to regroup. So as not to make a mistake.

‘Aria.’

I had to pay more attention than usual today to figure out her condition and prevent the incident from happening.

All the more because I had many ‘enemies’ in Hwangseong.

•••

“The warrior party and one other person are entering now!!”

Since the banquet started before we arrived, the banquet hall was already crowded with people. Seeing that even aristocrats, who were not often seen in social circles, appeared, I realized the popularity of the warrior party.

“Oh, aren’t you warriors~?”

From the moment they entered the banquet hall, they were looking for a gap. It’s time to talk to the warrior party. It was an aristocratic woman who entered as soon as the gap was glimpsed.

“Ah..Yes..Hello..”

It was Laysha who couldn’t respond properly as if she was embarrassed because it was her first time in that situation. It was obvious that if he continued to do so, he would become prey for the noble wives.

“We just arrived and you’re tired, ma’am.”

I quickly led them to a room in the banquet hall. It was to inform the dangers of the social world.

“You have to be careful today. The main character of the party will be severely checked.”

I told them what to do and what not to do.

“It is to pass the words of the nobles roughly, not to look clumsy, not to accept what is given to them, and not to react sensitively.”

If you remember these four things, even a novice in the social world could survive.

These were the words I asked for because I would act separately from them.

So we began to act separately and I began to move cautiously toward my goal.

There were nobles who recognized me while passing by, but I was busy moving because I couldn’t afford to listen to them.

‘I found it.’

Princess Arya was sitting in the seat of the imperial family. Seeing her for the first time in a while, she seemed to have lost a lot of weight and her mood had changed.

He seemed bored, as if he didn’t like something, and he couldn’t find any energy.

‘That’s an aria..?’

I could tell her with confidence that I raised her well. Until I saw her today’s her. Her blue eyes had long since lost their luster.

It was Lenny who felt unfamiliar with Aria, who was staring at the banquet hall with her empty eyes.

“It looks like everyone has gathered, so let’s start the banquet in earnest.”

At that moment, the emperor started shouting, announcing the start of the banquet.

“The warriors went through a difficult journey and grew up, and in the end they accomplished the feat of defeating the demon king. Their achievements will be recorded in history and will be a great help to our empire in the future. I hope you enjoy today, warriors. I send my sincere thanks.”

ㅡ Wow!!

As soon as the emperor’s words were finished, the nobles cheered at his words, and I, who was in the front seat to watch Arya, began to be swept away by their crowd.

ㅡ Gap.

I was able to find peace again by the person who took me by the hand while I was wandering among the crowd and moved me to a deserted place. The owner of that hand was someone I knew better than anyone else.

“It’s been a while, Princess Aria.”

“…Long time no see Lenny.”

I definitely felt it when I saw it up close. That her mood has changed a lot. On the bad side.

We stood still without speaking. I wondered if I should say hello, but I didn’t. It was because he knew the answer without asking Arya.

We spent a lot of time together, enough to know without saying it.

‘Is it because I didn’t exist?’

During the period of about a month since I disappeared from her side, she was very weak.

She seemed to be raising thorns like a hedgehog that had lost her owner.

What would have happened if she left her like this and escaped her empire? My guess is that the original story might have started.

‘In her original work, how did she go crazy?’

I don’t remember that even that kind of content came out. Since the story just started as a mad princess, nothing about Arya’s past has been revealed.

“Lenny, I worked hard while you were gone.”

“I read the documents and worked, and I scolded the kids who quarreled.”

Arya started telling me the story she had been talking about. She was able to hear about the many things she had been through, how she worked through it even when she fell asleep, how she saw the mistakes of her maid-in-waiting.

“Good job Princess.”

I did what she wanted. Her silvery white hair, which he hadn’t touched in a long time, seemed to be very damaged.

“You worked hard.”

“…Ugh”

Arya’s answer, while receiving her hair being stroked, seemed to be filled with water. It was the moment when Aria’s loneliness, which she had been walking alone for about a month, was filled.

Her prickly heart was brought back to her senses, and it was only because of Lenny.

‘As expected, I can’t do without Lenny.’

I feel joy and sadness at Lenny’s words. Lenny didn’t know it, but Arya’s world was filled with Lenny’s color.

While enjoying Lenny’s touch, her familiar scent seemed to pierce Aria’s nose.

‘This scent is Lenny’s..’

But Lenny was in front of me, so the direction of her scent was different.

‘Then who…’

At that moment, Arya saw the warrior Eren approaching her.

Eren walks with her familiar scent that she knows.