The Hero Was Embarrassed
The Hero was embarrassed.
"S-so, you want me to go to the capital with Ghetto?"
"Yeah."
"Haa... suddenly saying something like that... how am I supposed to decide... haang."
"...You don't want to?"
"No, it's not that I don't want to... ahht!"
In the forest near the village, I was standing behind Lina, who was gripping a thick tree trunk, thrusting my hips vigorously.
I was soothing my cock, still raging from anger over the saintess, deep inside Lina's pussy.
A few minutes earlier, my request to Lina had been simple.
"I want to."
"What?"
"...I want to do it with you, right now."
Lina gave me a baffled look at my words, but in the end, she couldn't refuse the request.
Or rather, she might have been hoping for it too—because the moment she lifted her skirt, I could see her panties were already soaked.
"Aa... haeut! Yes, Hero... your cock."
Maybe because being the Hero felt special to her, Lina repeated the word several times as I pounded into her.
And so, while fucking Lina, I made one more request of her.
It was simply whether she had any thoughts about living in the capital with old man Ghetto.
Of course, not just Lina alone, but her father too.
"Oh, right. Will your dad object?"
"Haht... not at all, ah, there. Haeng."
Lina answered like that even as she shook her hips to take my cock deeper.
Surprised by the unexpected response, I grabbed her waist, pulled my cock out slightly, and asked again.
"Why? Didn't your dad dislike me?"
"Ah, that's... haang... before you, became the Hero, hweuk! Ah, n-now he says to get along with you no matter what... haaa... yes, ahheung!"
I smiled as I listened to Lina's voice, a jumbled mix of moans and answers.
At any rate, it seemed she wasn't completely against going.
Of course, I didn't know yet how her father would take it, but I wanted to take Lina along somehow.
The village was pretty remote, but soon enough, the Demon King's army would appear all over the continent.
A village without a single proper soldier had no chance of surviving an invasion, and if Lina stayed here, she wouldn't last long before death caught up.
Plus, Ghetto was getting on in years, so it seemed better for him to be with Lina or her father rather than alone.
"Here it comes."
"Ung, give it to me."
I gripped Lina's ass tightly and said that against her back.
Lina shook her hips wildly in response, milking my semen out of me.
A refreshing sense of release came as my cum flooded her pussy, and when I pulled out, it overflowed from her hole and trickled down.
I chuckled as I watched Lina hurriedly dress herself.
It was because I'd never imagined getting entangled with her like this.
"What?"
"Nothing, just... 'cause it's nice."
"...Jeez, you playboy."
Lina puffed out her cheeks and pretended to be mad at my words.
She probably didn't know.
Just as she was my first, she was mine too.
"Oh, so... going to the capital, is that decided?"
"What? It's only been a few minutes since I asked... Well, since you asked so nicely, we'll go, but I gotta talk to Dad first..."
"But earlier you said it's fine 'cause I'm the Hero?"
"Th-that's true, but... leaving my hometown and all."
Lina answered my question with an uncertain expression, like she wasn't fully convinced herself.
Thinking about it, maybe I was being too casual.
For a drifter like me, it was different, but most people in this village had roots here going back generations.
"Hahat! The capital, you say? And you're even covering living expenses?"
"...Yes."
But contrary to Lina's expectations, her father accepted my proposal all too easily.
I felt a bit flustered by the unexpected reaction, but it wasn't a bad situation.
Of course, it was true he'd never thought much of me before, but that was something I could understand and move past.
"Aah, if you're going that far, there's no reason not to go. For the Hero to care so much about our little Lina—I'm truly touched."
"Dad!"
In the end, Lina, unable to stand her father anymore, stepped in to stop him.
"So, when do we leave?"
"What'd you hear? Allen said you can leave with Ghetto!"
"Aah, right. Man, from saving our girl from those Perril bastards before, to now—I'm always in your debt. Must be fate or something, huh? Hahaha!"
"You too, kid. You've received the Hero's grace, so you gotta repay it somehow, right?"
I chuckled at Lina's father, who was making a huge fuss.
I could roughly guess why he was acting so overly dramatic, almost cringey, unlike his usual self.
'Well, he's already repaying it plenty.'
I curled my lips as I watched Lina blush at her father's unexpected behavior.
Being with her really was pretty enjoyable.
"No."
Lina's father had been easy to convince, but I ran into an unexpected obstacle.
Old man Ghetto, the one I valued most, refused to move to the capital.
"Why?"
"What move at my age? No one I know there. Forget it."
"It's dangerous here."
I said that with a frustrated expression to the stubborn old man.
But Ghetto just brushed it off with talk like "how much longer am I gonna live anyway?"
"Aargh, seriously. Quit being so stubborn! If you're here, I'll be too worried to do anything!"
"...Worried my ass! I lived fine here without you."
The old man scowled and shot back at my words.
Damn, nothing was ever easy with him.
"Old man, you're my only family."
"What?"
"So don't make me worry and come to the capital. Please."
Only after I whined like that did the old man finally reveal his true feelings.
"Haa, if I stay here, you'll always have a place to come back to, right?"
I silently stared at him after his words.
An old man running a little grocery store in a remote village, but he wasn't foolish.
He'd realized that if he went to the capital, he could become my weakness.
I sighed deeply at the old man who only spoke his true heart at the very end.
"Old man. Didn't I tell you?"
"What?"
"I'm pretty strong. No one can control me, nothing can be my weakness. If those bastards pull any childish crap, I'll just destroy the damn world. Don't worry about useless shit."
"You lunatic. Aren't you embarrassed saying cringey crap like that?"
The old man clicked his tongue at my words.
My face burned for a moment, but it wasn't a lie.
In the end, he nodded reluctantly at my threat to destroy the world.
"Allen."
"Yeah, old man?"
"...My fingers won't uncurl. Too cringey."
Of course, he seemed half-joking in deciding to go to the capital.
And his teasing didn't end there.
When he heard Lina's family was coming too, Ghetto perked up and bombarded me with questions.
"So, what about that Lina girl?"
"What about her?"
"Calling her over every day and doing who-knows-what. A real man sows his seed, he takes responsibility. Right? I'd like to see some grandkids in my old age."
I stared at him with a stiff expression.
I'd only mentioned Lina's family coming along—how did he know I'd sown my seed?
"...H-how do you know?"
"Girl hairs all over the house—only an idiot wouldn't notice."
My face turned beet red at his words.
My mental fortitude, tempered by the long war with the Demon King.
My emotions, dulled by regression.
None of it held up against family discovering my most private affairs.
"Perfect timing, you punk."
"Ah! It's not like that!"
I was twenty. No, including my pre-regression life, over forty.
But getting caught by family in something so intimate was mortifying.
'He's asleep.'
That night, after confirming the old man was asleep in bed, I quietly stepped outside.
I'd wrapped up convincing Ghetto and Lina, but there was one more thing to handle.
'Better to cleanly eliminate any potential threats.'
I thought that as I dashed through the empty village streets.
My destination was Perril's gang's hideout.
I had to leave with the saintess tomorrow anyway, and Ghetto and Lina would stay in the village a bit longer.
Of course, I'd already stomped them once before, so maybe Perril's crew wouldn't cause trouble.
'Humans don't change easily.'
After seeing too much of the world's filth in my previous life, I wasn't about to bet my loved ones on that slim chance.
Once outside the village, I headed straight for Perril's hideout.
It used to be a cabin for the village woodcutters, but at some point, they claimed it as their own, and no one else approached.
'Looks like they're inside.'
I saw light leaking from the cabin window, so I crept up silently.
The moment I crouched under the window, voices from inside Perril's crew started drifting out.
"You guys crazy?"
"What?"
"That guy's the Hero! The saintess and Holy Knights are here too!"
I smirked bitterly, realizing they were talking about me.
"So what? Who's saying we hit 'em while he's here? I asked one of those Holy Knights earlier—they're leaving tomorrow."
"Who? Allen?"
"Allen, the saintess, and the Holy Knights."
I started focusing intently on their oddly flowing conversation.
Perril's voice confirmed they knew I was leaving, and one of his lackeys yelled that he was crazy.
"Haa, what if he comes back for revenge?"
"Bullshit. Now that he's a Hero, he won't give a damn about this village. He was a drifter anyway."
"Yeah. A big-shot Hero bothering with small fry like us?"
'As expected...'
I frowned slightly at their words from inside.
From the conversation, it seemed they planned something nasty once I left.
'If I save the world, even trash like them survives?'
Doubt crept in about fighting the Demon King again just to save scum like that.
But I couldn't abandon Ghetto or Lina because of them.
At least, fortunately, one of them was trying to talk Perril out of his dogshit plan.
"So what about you? Don't wanna fuck that Lina bitch?"
In that instant, Perril's voice from the cabin made something inside me snap.