The Hero is Disappointed in You – Chapter 66

Ch 66: The Hero Doesn’t Stop Training

“Let’s depart.”

Karen hardened her expression as she watched the Hero and the dwarves finish their departure preparations.

The reason being, the Hero was riding a horse that she didn’t know where he got from, and the other dwarves were also riding horses.

Of course, there was a horse prepared for Karen, but the problem was that she, who came from the Magic Tower, had no opportunity to learn how to ride.

“There isn’t… a carriage?”

Karen asked the Hero with a troubled expression, and the answer came from the dwarves.

“Is she crazy? Huh? Why are you looking for a carriage after you broke it?”

“Right. Is that ugly Bitch’s head empty too?”

Karen was annoyed by the dwarves’ curses, but she didn’t have anything to say because what they were saying wasn’t exactly wrong.

It was a situation where arguing with the dwarves wouldn’t lead to any answers anyway.

Karen reluctantly asked Zenoa, the person in charge of the territory who had come out to see them off in person.

“The carriage…”

“There is nothing I can lend to you.”

Zenoa, who had been looking at the Hero with affectionate and pitiful eyes until just now, answered Karen in a cold tone as if she had never done so.

“I know you don’t have good feelings towards me, but this is a matter for the Imperial Palace. As the person in charge of the territory, you should naturally cooperate…”

“Even if I wanted to cooperate, they say the carriage can’t withstand the journey to the Dwarf City?”

Zenoa interrupted Karen and said that, and Karen started to feel slightly irritated by Zenoa’s attitude.

If she knew that the carriage couldn’t withstand it, she should have said so from the beginning.

Zenoa’s appearance of saying that fact belatedly could only be seen as annoying.

At that moment when Karen was having a staring contest with Zenoa, the Hero’s voice was heard.

“Karen, is there a problem?”

“…I have never ridden a horse before.”

Karen said that to the Hero, blushing slightly.

In fact, for Karen, it was the first time in her life that she confessed to someone that she couldn’t do something.

She tended to learn everything quickly, and thanks to that, she was full of confidence.

“Ah, is that so?”

Karen trembled for a moment at the sight of the Hero smiling at her.

She was trying hard to shake off yesterday’s memories, but the sight of the Hero sitting on the horse, smiling and looking down at her, brought back that pain.

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‘Does pain also become familiar?’

In fact, Karen couldn’t forget the sight of the Hero breaking his own fingers in front of her eyes.

Everything she had used as experimental materials without much thought until now must have felt terrible pain, but Karen had never empathized with that pain even once.

The reason being, Karen had never felt proper pain even once in her life.

At most, the pain she felt was only a headache from reading books for too long, or a cut on her fingertip from a new book that caused bleeding.

But Karen, who experienced proper pain for the first time, felt a shock as if the world was turned upside down.

No, to be exact, it was a shock that turned her insides upside down.

The pain that started from her abdomen spread throughout her body, and it was difficult to even breathe properly.

Her brilliant head didn’t even work properly, and disgusting things flowed back and poured out of her mouth, which should have been swallowing food.

‘How can that become familiar?’

It was bearable somehow once or twice, but the pain became more and more severe as it went on.

No, to be exact, she didn’t endure it either.

At first, she could get hit because she was ignorant of the pain, but after realizing how painful it was, she felt like her stomach hurt even before getting hit.

After the pain was imprinted on her body like that, Karen finally realized what the struggles of the beings she had used as test subjects until now meant.

And the first emotion she felt after realizing that meaning was disgust.

All sorts of insects and monsters in the laboratory whose bodies were cut and wriggling.

All of them were struggling to survive, and Karen had cut their flesh with a blank face.

At that time, what were their feelings?

Karen felt goosebumps all over her body just thinking about it.

Come to think of it, it wasn’t just something that happened in the lab.

The first thing Karen did as soon as she met the Hero was to try to cut off his arm.

“So….”

Karen, who had thought that far, could finally understand why the Hero had treated her that way.

In fact, Karen had felt fear towards him during the sparring with the Hero.

The Hero was clearly talking with a smile, but his eyes weren’t smiling at all.

The moment she met those empty eyes, Karen thought that the Hero might really kill her.

To make excuses, that was why Karen ran away from the Hero crying.

“Haa… I’ll have to keep moving with him in the future.”

Karen sighed and covered her face with both hands.

She was ashamed of throwing up so pathetically in front of the Hero, and of running away in fear, but what made her more troubled than that was the fear.

“Hmm….”

Karen, recalling the Hero’s empty eyes, let out a short groan.

Come to think of it, she had been feeling a little damp inside her pants since earlier.

Karen, who had quietly gotten up from her seat, looked around and slowly started to take off her pants.

Since it was her room anyway, there was no one watching, but Karen’s actions were quite cautious.

Karen, who took off her pants and lowered her underwear to check, could confirm that the lower part of her underwear was wet.

‘Did I pee…?’

Karen’s face turned white as she looked at her wet underwear.

She wondered if she had lost control of her bladder because she was scared of the Hero.

In an instant, Karen’s face, which had turned white, turned red.

But Karen, who couldn’t admit that she had peed, slowly brought her nose to her wet underwear.

‘Huh?’

But contrary to expectations, it didn’t smell like urine.

Karen, who was curious, started to touch the wet part of her underwear with her finger, and soon she could confirm a slippery liquid different from urine.

‘What is this?’

Karen Cross.

It was the moment she faced her vaginal fluid for the first time.

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“What are you thinking so hard about, Karen?”

Flounder.

Karen flinched at the Hero’s words calling her, and looked at him.

Even though she was trying to deny it with her head, the pain left on her body and the fear of it began to slowly dominate Karen’s brain.

‘Answer. If you don’t, you might get hit again.’

“Ah, nothing.”

Karen reflexively answered the Hero, and the Hero nodded at her words.

“Really? You didn’t think anything?”

“Y-yes.”

Karen answered that again, looking at the Hero who was asking her with a blank face.

Karen wasn’t in her right mind to the point where she didn’t even know what she was answering.

“So, you can’t ride a horse?”

“…That’s right.”

Karen nodded again and answered at the Hero’s words.

The Hero didn’t seem that angry right now, and it wasn’t wrong that she couldn’t ride a horse.

Of course, it was Karen who broke the carriage, but that had long disappeared from her mind.

‘Maybe, he’ll tell me to ride in the back or something?’

Karen thought that as she looked at the Hero.

If he wasn’t going to abandon her, there was nothing else that came to her mind other than that method.

She didn’t like riding behind a scary human, but Karen was preparing to nod at the Hero’s words.

“I see. You Bitch broke the carriage, but you can’t ride a horse. Very good.”

“Huh?”

“That’s great. Karen. I needed training anyway, so let’s train on this occasion.”

Karen’s excellent brain couldn’t easily understand the Hero’s words.

Even though he was clearly speaking in the Imperial language, she couldn’t understand what he was saying at all.

“Run, Karen.”

“What?”

“Run after the horse.”

“…Do, do you think that makes sense? How can a person run after a horse?”

“Yes! Think of yourself as a horse and run, Karen. Nothing is impossible in the world.”

“Th, then let me use magic at least.”

Karen shouted that with a flustered expression at the Hero’s request.

Of course, if she used flying magic, she might be able to catch up with the horse’s speed to some extent.

The problem was that flying magic required a high degree of concentration.

No matter how great Karen was, the limit to flying in the sky with a human body was only a few hours at most.

“Impossible. You can’t build stamina with magic. Just run.”

“…Don’t say ridiculous things. I’m a magician.”

“Basic stamina is important for magicians too. Stamina is national power!”

Karen looked at the Hero with an unfair expression.

She thought he was an opponent who couldn’t communicate at all, but when she saw him clenching his fist slightly, she didn’t have the courage to refuse.

“Then think of it as training and follow as much as you can.”

The Hero said that as if he was done with his business, and started to drive the horse ahead first.

The dwarves glanced at Karen with a look that said she deserved it, and drove their horses behind the Hero.

“I misunderstood. You’re quite skilled at handling bitches?”

Behind the disappearing Hero and dwarves, someone’s voice was heard saying that to the Hero.

What made Karen even more crazy was that Zenoa had been staring at her with an envious expression since earlier.

‘I’m crazy. There’s no one normal here.’

Karen thought that with a crying face, but in fact, she wasn’t normal either.