The Hero is Standing in My Way - Chapter 29

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“Not there but on the other side. You misunderstood me.”

“Ah, yes.”

Siegfried pointed to my opposite cheek, so I quickly nodded and patted my other cheek.

“It’s below there. I’ll take it off for you.” Killian came closer and said.

I was frustrated as no matter how much I swept my cheek, I couldn’t get my hair out. I neared my face towards Killian asking him to do it instead. That was then that Siegfried kicked Killian’s shin out of the blue.

“Who are you putting your hands?”

“You’re being tough.”

Killian laughed awkwardly. That was true, but Killian deserved the rough treatment from Siegfried.

“I can’t help it. I have no choice but to take it off.”

What can’t you help? I wanted to ask that question for a moment but I just quietly turned my head towards Siegfried. My mouth would only hurt if I told him that. I slightly lowered my eyes as I waited for him to come closer. Having said that, Siegfried hesitate as if he was wondering if it would be too early to touch my face.

I mean, why are you hesitating now?

I pulled the hem of his sleeve signaling him to quickly do it. Siegfried then reached out to me. A rough, manly hand that didn’t match his pretty face at all. I wouldn’t have known about it, but his hand that was on my face was trembling. Is pulling off some hair makes someone nervous? He was also pressing on my shoulders.

“……done.” Siegfried said as he finally took off my golden hair behind my ear. I could feel the calluses on his fingertips as his hand lightly brushed my cheeks.

Normally, how long must someone hold a sword to have callused hands like this?

I looked down on his hands that suddenly fell down and muttered as if I was possessed with something, “You really have beautiful hands….”

Siegfried was speechless. He was always like that whenever I said that something about him is pretty.

“Your Highness must be sick of me talking like this.”

“…You’re really something.” Siegfried opened his lips, avoiding my gaze. He swiped the back of his neck, looking only at the distant mountains.

“So I didn’t misunderstood you?”

Then he suddenly poked my face. He touched my nose from the tip of my pointed, blade-like nose, then fell.

“It’s just an honest impression. You always have something to say when I’m doing something or even when I don’t do anything.”

What on earth does he want me to do? I shrugged my shoulders. Siegfried touched his red-tinted ear before he knew it.

“What can I do if you’re like this?”

“Wow, don’t blame someone else like a joke.”

Siegfried was interrupted by Killian, who had been staring at him with a pout on his mouth.

“I don’t think I should be here. I will go first.”

“You only knew that now? How will you live in the future if you don’t have that insight?”

Siegfried clicked his tongue lightly while Killian smiled awkwardly and shook his head. At this rate, we would lose our party, so I grabbed Siegfried’s hand.

“We have to go too.”

A siren’s cry was already heard from somewhere. It seemed like we have arrived at the habitat of the Siren while they were having a squabble. I let go of Siegfried’s hand and drew out my sword.

“Your Highness, I heard that you will have hallucinations once you were possessed by the Sirens. Be careful, as you will immediately fall into a hypnotic state if you weren’t.”

“Don’t worry.”

Siegfried nodded calmly. By the time he arrived at the border of the habitat, he had a very serious expression on his face. Having made the chubby Killian take the lead first, we entered the habitat.

The dazzling blue sea stretched out endlessly. The sirens were sitting on top of large and small rocks and singing, and then, as if feeling our presence, a Siren with a bird’s body began to inflate its wings.

“Kiiiiik! Kyaaaaah!”

“That song now….” I’ve always thought that I was the only one who would frown to this song, but Siegfried was frowning too, as if we have the same thought.

“But did you say that if you listen to it, you will be charmed?” I said looking around.

The monster crows that had been hiding between the rocks were coming out.

“Go over there! Catch them!”

Abbysion, who was at the forefront, shouted. Several knights, including him, put their swords in and held their bows. When I saw how they were pulling the bowstring, I ran forward in earnest. Gotta kill them all. That way, I can eat the grapes of Corte.

“Ariel! Run!”

It was after stabbing a Siren on its head crawling at a frightening speed that I turned my back as I heard Abbysion’s shout. The claws of the Siren in the form of a bird flashed sharply. I immediately cut off its wings then grabbed its ankle and threw it around.

“Kiiiiiiiiiiik!”

“Haa, no way…”

The servant who had been struggling to block the attack of the monster crow opened his mouth blankly. The crow he was dealing with was hit in the back of a siren I threw and fell out. I raised the seed and wiped the blood off my cheek.

Has anyone been fascinated by their singing voice yet?

I was the only one who was not hypnotized by the Siren and was able to observe the situation. Of course, I won’t be worried about Abbysion, so let’s see how is Milliard doing, who participated in the subjugation this year for the first time. I walked as I slashed the neck of the Siren that flew, blocking my view. As I expected, several knights who were still unfamiliar with the monsters were skeptical about what to do. About every three or two of them were crawling up on the rocks with sullen faces as if they had already been charmed by the sound of the song.

I raised my hand and struck them in the back of their necks, knocking them out. And threw a dagger at the siren who was singing.

“Kiiiiiiik!”

The Siren writhe in agony as it rolled down from the rock.

Ah, my dagger! Why would you fall into the sea!

Killian, who had experience subjugating monsters, was flying around like Abbysion. Well then, I won’t be worried about him either. It wasn’t that Killian didn’t matter. What’s important was where and what was Siegfried doing right now. Where is he that I can’t see him?

I suddenly felt a strange sense of déjà vu again as I was looking around. A strange conviction crossed my mind that Siegfried must have been hypnotized by the Siren. This may not be a feeling of disorientation, but it maybe a part that came to my mind because I have already read the novel.

‘I thought I didn’t know that much detail, but it’s strange.’

I was already wandering around looking for Siegfried, swinging my sword. It would be nice if it was just my guess, but for some reason I kept wanting to check if he was okay. I was able to discover Siegfried only after dealing with two monsters at the same time. He was wiping the blue blood on his sword from killing the monster crow.

“Kiiiik!”

A voice was heard from afar. Siegfried lifted his chin slightly and frowned as if his ears were sore. That was then – what I was afraid of happened just as it was. Siegfried’s eyes lost focus in an instant, then dropped his sword and looked at the Siren beckoning him to come forward.

Though I expected something like this to happen, it was going exactly the same scene that crossed my mind.

“Kiiiiiiik! Kweeek!”

Are you really the one who said that I call that a song? Well, it was his first time so I can fully understand it.

While subjugating monsters, Siegfried in the novel formed a bond with the aristocrats with quite good skills. Their relationship continues, and some of them even left together with him to prevent a conflict with the Eastern Front. So if Siegfried is in danger like now, one of them has to reach out and help him….

The nobles were all occupied dealing with the Sirens who flocked around them. If I leave him like that, won’t the Siren be able to take Siegfried to the sea…?

It doesn’t really matter since I can’t remember how the novel will develop in the first place. I grabbed Siegfried by the shoulder and stood him up.

Slap! But Siegfried was already hypnotized so he slapped my hand violently.

….this hurts a little.

I wish he just had that shy expression when his hand happened to brush on my cheek.

“Your Highness! Please come to your senses!”

I grabbed Siegfried’s shoulder again, but he tried to strike my hand again. His dark sunken purple eyes were directed towards the singing Siren.

This, could it be that I finally got another chance? In fact, I was a little disappointed that I didn’t get to slap him in the cheek when he fainted, that time Killian kidnapped him. It wasn’t because I have strange fetishes or something. I think that if everyone is reborn in a novel, there will be at least one or two things they wanted to do.

However, one of the things I wanted to do was to try slapping the male lead. I don’t know why, I just wanted to do it for once. And now, it seemed like an opportunity has come to me.

“Please excuse this!”

Siegfried struggled to get out of my grasp as I pressed harder on his shoulder. Then I turned him around so he was facing me. His gaze was still on the singing Siren. I raised my hand in the sky.

Slaaap!

Ah, but did I hit him too hard? A red handprint ran down on his cheeks as white as snow.

(T/N: I mean, why would you even want to slap the male lead if you don’t have strange fetishes? Hahaha I was laughing while I was translating this chapter XD )