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Returnee Hassan
133 ? Returnee Hassan #1
A yellow flag symbolizing Sodomora was hung on the top of Mount Valdes.
It seemed that there were several undead, skeleton mages, and death knights within the mountain lair that were powerful enough to rival the Silver Tier adventurers.
It is said that he was not able to exert much force against the 2,000 regular Sodomora troops, including armed soldiers and magicians.
As expected, a formally organized army is really strong. In fact, in human history, most problems can be solved by pushing through with quantity.
What a large workforce cannot do can be solved by adding more people, and what a large workforce cannot do can be solved by adding even more people.
If you are short on personnel, you can bring in personnel from outside.
In fact, it was said that the external adventurer team brought in by the Sardici family was the most active in the mountain occupation.
They are said to have been made up of warriors, martial artists, magicians and monks, and they even raided a mountain fortress and captured the magician Anxious.
A well-balanced adventurer party comprised entirely of Silver Tier members.
My swollen eyes start to sting as I feel like something is coming to mind.
“I’m back!”
“Get back! Get the supplies!”
But the sense of foreboding soon flew away into the bright morning sky as the procession busily prepared to return. It was time to get out of this horrible mud pit and go home.
Sval, you survived after all.
Now that I think about it, I wonder how I survived in that pile of skeletons. If there’s going to be a war in the future, I should just run away.
In the war, I really felt that life and death depended on luck for a common citizen like me. This time, I was really lucky to survive, but I also knew for sure that I didn’t know what would happen next.
Honestly, I think that having combat experience once in your life is more than enough.
Anyway, leaving the regular army to finish up various tasks, we, the advance party full of wounded, set out on our way back to the city.
“Ugh, it hurts so bad. I have to go to the treatment center right away when I get back.”
“Still, it’s fortunate that he’s alive. Hans…”
There were groans of pain here and there, and I saw many faces that had disappeared, but despite all that, the way back was lighter and more at ease than when I started.
“Dorgo. Citizenship is granted. Hero of improvement. Marry a native woman.”
Dorgo, this kid is alive.
When I heard Sandman Dorgo’s voice, I turned my head and saw the face of Hunter Jack, a blond man with a large bow on his back.
“Hehe, the reward will be quite good. I guess I can drink some alcohol at the underground bar for a while.”
Judging from the skeleton joints hanging from their waists, which appear to be loot, it seems like they’ve been active in some place I don’t know about.
I guess it’s safe to say that most of the weaklings died and only the relatively strong ones survived. If that’s the case, then I guess I can consider myself to be quite strong since I somehow survived.
It may seem like there are a lot of things to worry about, but for now, let’s just let them all go and be happy with this life.
“Wow-, over there, here it comes!”
It seems like a messenger or something brought the news first.
At the west gate of Sodomora, our starting point and destination, decorations of fragrant flower petals and long red cloths fluttered in the wind.
“It’s a procession of improvement!”
As if they had been waiting, children and young women put garlands of flowers around people’s necks and smiled, revealing their white teeth.
Then Hunter Jack said a word to him.
“I’ve lived my life without paying any money and yet I’ve been welcomed by people all over the place.”
“Dorgo. Looking for a wife.”
Although I was quite tired, it didn’t feel so bad to have someone warmly welcoming my return.
While many people were waving at me.
I move my eyes busily, searching for a face I know.
Since her pink hair is considered unique even in this world, I thought it would be easy to find her, but surprisingly, it wasn’t easy to find Luna’s face in this crowded line of people.
Even though I tilt my head here and there, wondering if Luna might find me first even if I can’t find her, Luna’s face is nowhere to be found.
What on earth is going on?
Feeling puzzled, I quickly skipped the various after-parties and ran to the cabin.
A two-story cabin, small if it’s small, and large if it’s large.
As I opened the door to the first floor that now looked cozy and stepped inside, the first thing that greeted me was the air that was quite dusty, as if it had not been ventilated.
Woof woof!
What followed was a loud barking sound, like a dog barking. Looking at the legs crawling up from inside the jar, I thought it was probably Luna’s pet wolf spider barking.
Woof woof!
“It’s nice to see you again too, kid.”
Hyoong-.
“Yeah, yeah-.”
After the strange experience of talking to a spider, I slowly went up to the second floor. Then, on the second floor, I saw a round, puffy blanket.
“Luna, I’m home!”
Swish.
Inside the blanket he was wriggling under.
Soon, pink hair, a white face, and emerald eyes seemed to emerge from within, and soon tears began to fall from the eyes that had grown as big as a bell.
“Hatsan-!”
“Yes, it’s me!”
“Hotsan!”
Luna got up from her seat and ran towards me. She then slammed into my stomach with all her might and started rubbing my face.
“Hassan, Hassan is back!”
“Yeah, yeah.”
“Are you hurt anywhere? Are your arms and legs okay? What about your fingers? Huh? Hassan, why, why do you have two arms…!”
“I originally had two arms. I’m not hurt anywhere. My face is a little swollen though.”
Luna lifted her head from her stomach and looked up at me at my question.
I cried so much that my body was swollen and stained here and there, but I still desperately rolled around in that horrible mud to look at this face.
And when I realized that those struggles were not in vain, I finally felt a sense of relief, whether relief or relief, filling me from the tips of my toes to just below my chest.
“Why didn’t you come out to greet me? I was worried because I was looking for your face but it wasn’t there.”
Luna said to my question.
“If Hassan wasn’t in the lineup, I felt like I would just collapse, so I just stayed home….”
That seems to be the case.
Anyway, I was glad to see her face again. But Luna started crying so sadly as if I was dying, so I ended up being embarrassed.
“Hey, why are you crying like this? I came back safely. If someone saw me, they’d think I was dead.”
“I don’t know, just come out!”
“At Ideopa, they say that if you send someone off with tears, you will have bad luck.”
“It’s okay to greet someone instead of seeing them off!”
Luna buried her face in my stomach and cried all day long, as if she was pouring out everything she had not been able to cry about during our breakup.
As I scratched Luna’s back to soothe her, I suddenly imagined what would have happened if I hadn’t come back.
Luna couldn’t even go out to greet the return procession because she was afraid that her face would be missing.
Was Luna curled up in her blanket like this, waiting for me until I knocked on the door? Was it only after a few days that she realized I couldn’t come back?
It’s a very sad story. Of course, that didn’t happen.
This is also a story that could happen in the future.
Now we shouldn’t get involved in anything like a real war.
In this way, Hassan, unexpectedly, became a pacifist in this other world. The war that he actually experienced was neither cool nor beautiful like the heroic tales in the story, so it was only natural.
Because there is only waiting there.
Then, I suddenly thought of other Hassans who had participated in this war. Many uncivilized people who had participated in the war like me. But who ultimately did not return.
They too may have people waiting for them back home, their own Luna.
What emotions are those countless Lunas feeling and what faces are they making right now?
My dull mind couldn’t even think of it.
So I decided to just focus on the warmth in front of me and hugged Luna’s thin waist even tighter as I spoke.
“I’m really back.”
Luna answers to that.
“Welcome, Hassan.”
* * *
After washing my body clean in the bathhouse, I felt refreshed and like a new person.
It felt like the mud, blood, and sweat that had covered my body, along with the death that had been right before my eyes, had been washed away.
“Hassan, you have more wounds on your body….”
I returned home and lay face down on the floor. Luna, who was looking at my naked upper body, muttered in a small voice.
Soon Luna took out something sticky and ointment-like and started applying it all over my back, arms, and calves.
“Ugh-.”
But it was more bitter and painful than I thought. I wonder if it has an antiseptic ingredient that kills the bacteria in the wound?
“Ugh, it really hurts. What on earth are you putting on it? Is it even effective?”
“Oh, I applied it wrong. This is not it.”
“… No, what?”
“Sorry… This is a spicy seasoning. I’ll apply another medicine right away!”
Luna was still a bit awkward when I returned from the war. Perhaps, if Luna and I were to connect well, it would be a task I would have to carry for the rest of my life.
Still, Luna helped me a lot in this war.
Is it Moros?
I thought of the giant I had met on the battlefield.
A strange giant who came back to life despite having his head cut off.
From what Anxious says, it seems like the being inhabiting his body is Moros, the son of the primordial night.
The Night of the Beginning is probably Nox, so Nox’s son is Luna’s brother. It’s unlikely to be a younger brother, so it’s probably an older brother.
And I have a feeling that for some reason, that older brother mistook me for his younger sister Luna. That must be why he let me go. Even though I don’t have much brain power, I can tell that much.
But why did you mistake me for Luna?
Maybe it was because he was always stuck with Luna that Karma was kind of stinky, or maybe it was the ridiculous warpaint Luna had put on his face that helped.
That’s all I can infer.
I never thought Luna would have a brother.
“Luna, what would it be like if you had a brother?”
I asked Luna, who was rubbing ointment on my back.
“Brother?”
“okay.”
“I don’t know!”
“Oh, I see.”
It’s not usually an answer you’ll get right away if you ask.
At that moment, Luna hit my back with her palm.
“Now that the back is all done, turn it over.”
“I can do the front.”
“Hassan, you’re tired. I’ll do it! Today is your return day, so get some rest!”
Snap, snap.
I ended up showing the front of my naked upper body to Luna because she started hitting my back as if she was beating a drum with her palm.
We had already shown each other our naked bodies a few times, but since I was shy and not very good at speaking, it felt awkward to show my naked upper body in front of Luna like this.
“Oh, there are a lot of wounds in the front too…!”
It could be because of the mood, but Luna also seemed to feel embarrassed.
Luna, who grew up surrounded by women, didn’t seem to have much exposure to men’s bodies.
Swish, swish.
Luna, who had applied the medicine to her own hands, began to stroke my sides and stomach with her sticky hands. It made me feel ticklish and I couldn’t help but burst out laughing.
“Phew.”
“Why, why are you laughing?”
“No, it tickles.”
“… Really? Does Hassan feel ticklish too?”
“Isn’t that the case for everyone?”
“Your body is so hard, I thought you wouldn’t feel anything even if I poked you-.”
Luna, who presses my stomach after raising her finger.
My stomach, which has been very active since I came into this world, was firm and without flab, so it was hard, just like Luna said.
Luna, perhaps feeling a strange sensation at how different it was from her own soft body, soon began stroking my stomach and sides with her palm.
Slurp, slurp.
It was quite ticklish though.
I didn’t say anything because it felt quite good to feel the soft, slender hands of a girl.
“It feels weird because it’s bumpy.”
“Oh, really?”
“But… I don’t think I’m in a bad mood. Ah, anyway, it’s over now! I’ve applied the front too! Now let’s go to sleep!”
Luna wiped her hands on the cloth hanging on the wall and then lay down next to me. I could feel Luna’s soft breasts touching my arm through the thin cloth, and I felt the blood rush down to me.
Now that I think about it, I thought there must be a lot of them piling up because I haven’t been able to take them out on my own these days.
I was really exhausted from rolling around in the battlefield and from the aftereffects of taking elixirs, but Juji was still as strong as if he was from another world.
So that’s why children are born even during war.
What should I do? Now that I’m conscious, I don’t think I’ll be able to sleep until I really take a step back. When Luna falls asleep, should I sneak a peck on her and sleep with her? I’m thinking about that.
Swish.
Luna, who was lying facing me, pressed her body closer to mine.
I could vividly feel Luna’s breath on my shoulder and her calf wrapped around my thigh.
Could it be that I was feeling separation anxiety because I was apart? Maybe that’s why I’m clinging to him even more today as a reaction. I was about to think that was why I was doing that.
Swish, swish.
Something moved from my chest, down my stomach, through my lower abdomen, and down my lower body.
“… What, what is it!?”
I was so shocked by the unexpected event that I trembled. I felt the fatigue and sleepiness that had been weighing on me disappear.
It was definitely a warm palm touching the swollen thing on my lower body.
“… Ha, Hassan, you must have had a hard time. I will comfort you…”
The palm of his hand digs into my pants.
The strong scent of mentha wafted over me and I became dizzy.
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