Chapter 721 - Interconnected Past
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"Have! Have!" She said adorably, as Hector blushed a bit, as he held the flower bracelet and put it on his right arm.
"T-Thanks… Are you still hungry?" He wondered.
"Wakugrakh…" She said. "Hungy…"
"Here… You can have these, they're very tasty and everyone eat them in the village." Said Hector while smiling, as the girl grabbed some oranges the boy offered to her.
"Owange!" She said.
"Indeed! They're oranges! You know the name?" He asked.
"Ye…s!" She said with difficulty.
The girl began to devour the oranges without peeling them, but Hector taught her how to peel it and eat it by pieces.
"Like this, see? It is pretty easy when you figure it out." He said with a smile.
"Wooow…" She said, eating it without the bitter peel was indeed better and refreshing.
"Hehe, grakuhaku!" She said.
"What? You're happy now?" Said Hector with a smile.
"Waah!" She said cutely, as she suddenly hugged Hector.
"E-Eh? W-Why are you hugging me?" Hector found himself slightly flabbergasted, as the girl slowly coiled her long tail around his leg.
"Mooch!"
And then, without even expecting it, the girl gave him a small kiss with the tip of her lizard-like head, it didn't really had lips, but she tried doing what humans did when they showed affection to one another.
"E-Eeeh?!" Hector cried in surprise. In those times, he could never find a girlfriend unlike his friends, and out of nowhere an exotic lizardman girl kissed him because he gave her some oranges!
"Fwend? Fween?" She asked adorably, asking if he wanted to be her friend…
"F-Friends? S-Sure…" Said Hector while averting his gaze from her adorable face, although he couldn't resist to pet her head.
"You know?" He asked, as the girl tilted her head while listening to him. "People in the village say that lizardmen are savages, but you're actually pretty cute!"
"Cwute?" She asked confused.
"I-It's when… someone is nice and adorable." He said
"Adora… Uwah…" The girl suddenly realized she was being way too close with him out of nowhere, moving away from the boy shily.
"Sowy…" She cried.
"Don't worry…" He said while petting her head. "Hey! Wanna catch bugs?"
"Bagu? Oway!"
Hector smiled while looking into the moon atop the sky, as he remembered those years he spent meeting a cute lizardman girl almost every day after lunch inside the border of the jungle. He recalled those days with a smile as he sighed.
However, it has been around 6 years since the last time he met her… Due to the increasing conflict against the lizardmen, it seems that she stopped coming to the border as much, and one day she stopped coming to their usual place. In that time, Hector felt heartbroken, especially because that silly and weird girl had already made him fall for her only to not ever come to tell him goodbye…
"Sigh… Oh man, I want booze… I am going to literally cry." Sighed Hector, as Brace looked at him while raising an eyebrow.
"Remembering that girl again? Man, that was six years ago, just forget it already…" Sighed his friend.
"You can say that because you already got your wife and even two kids! I don't have a single thing…" Cried Hector.
"Aren't you like the most talented of the village? Also you're literally about to hit Rank 2 because you train so goddamn much." Sighed his friend.
"T-That's because I literally don't have anything else to do! If I had my cute lizardman wife, I wouldn't have time to go around killing monsters to kill time so much!!!" He cried.
"SIGH… Just get another girl." Said his friend.
"As if it were so easy!" He sighed. "Nobody cares about a soldier, and the girls that live in the village are way too young man, what? You want me to marry your sister who is like 13 or something? literally everybody above 18 is already married…"
"Hahaha! I have told you to marry my sister all this time…" Laughed his friend. "You can just wait until she ages."
"Dude that's gross! I am not a groomer…" Sighed Hector. "Unless I find a girl my age, I guess I'll stay forever… forever alone."
"Man that's depressing, nobody cares if you wait for a girl to grow up or something…" Sighed his friend.
"Just shut up, will you? I am not inviting you a beer if you act so disrespectful with your friend!" Said Hector.
"Hahaha, okay "boss"…" Laughed Brace.
What Hector had no idea of was that he had small, blue-colored slimes stuck to his armor since the second day Drake got into this town, and he had left them with him to spy on what the soldiers always spoke or saw, although he didn't cared much about their conversations, Drake couldn't help but feel intrigue about what sort of girl this guy was talking about.
If she was found in the border, couldn't she be a Pastoralist? It might worth a shot to ask them whenever he got the time. Although Hector said he wanted a girl near his age, he just wanted that lizardman girl, he had already developed too strong of an attachment with her, after all he spent roughly five years meeting her almost every day, he was also sure the girl liked him, so it always made him wonder what forced her to go away from his life…
"Sigh… Miminga… I miss you…" He sighed, resisting his manly tears as he glanced at the moonlight.
Yep, that confirms it, he was indeed talking about somebody from the Pastoralist Tribe, but what surprised Drake was that… it was Miminga, the daughter of the chief!
Buy why did Miminga left him?
"Seriously, you're such a corny guy." Sighed his friend. "Eh? What's that?"
However, before the conversation could continue, the two soldiers watched from the distance as a mass of something fell from the sky.
SPLAAASH!
"Aagh, watch out!"
"W-What is that?!"
Hector and his friend quickly moved away, as what fell from the sky looked like a mass of black slime, some sort of strange, bizarre slime…
"GrUuUUooOOOoooOOooOoooOoohhh…!"
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