Chapter 63: Farewell
“Hmm...”
Hestia, who had been firing off increasingly dangerous questions, finally gave up in a sulky huff when I exercised my right to remain silent and stormed out of the room. An awkward tension began to settle over the conference hall.
‘...Well, I should probably honor that request.’
Even if she’d one-sidedly asked me to keep the Holy Kingdom’s people occupied, I actually did have a few things I needed to ask them.
“Excuse me, members of the Holy Kingdom?”
“Eek!”
“Wh-What is it?”
As expected, when I stepped toward the delegation—who were already eyeing me warily while preparing to leave—their reactions were full of suspicion and dread.
“Haha, you’d think you were looking at a Demon King, not a Hero.”
“......”
“...You know I’m joking, right?”
Honestly, I still wasn’t used to all this, but I was officially a Hero now, wasn’t I?