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Chapter 2

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The Hero was sitting on a dining chair while looking around restlessly and curiously around the interior of the cave that I had made entirely by myself.

“So this is where you live! Well now that I’ve found out where your hideout is, I will be able to come and punish you whenever you do something bad! Also, can I come visit you once in a while?”

“I’m not going to do anything bad and please don’t come visit me.”

I lit up the fire on the stove to heat up the kettle in the kitchen that was adjoined to the dining room part of my abode.

“What?! We’ve been friends for two weeks already! Isn’t it about time for us to visit each other’s house?!”

When did we become friends? Or maybe this is what being friends is? I don’t really know since I almost never had any true friendship with anyone.

“I don’t really get it but after you’ve finished drinking your tea, please go back home.”

If he kept coming back like this, I wouldn’t be able to enjoy eating my meat. There was no way I could keep getting the meat from the Hero like today after all.

“Gununu… What a cruel orc you are… Do you like being alone? I thought orcs live in a pack but you’re always alone and judging from the looks of it, it seems you’re the only one living here.”

“It’s not that I like being alone. I was exiled from the village because I’m a half-orc.”

“So you’re a mix but so what? I’m also a mix of elf and there’s no problem with it.”

“Hmm… I think people don’t hate half-human half-elf because they are strong but half-human half-orc are weak so that’s why people hate us.”

No matter how hard I trained, I couldn’t get as big or as strong as an orc. I wasn’t as smart as a human either. I could barely read and write simple things after studying hard. My appearance was somewhere in the middle between an orc and a human. I had the face of an orc but frail built like a human.

For a human, I looked just like an ugly orc because of my pointy ears and dark green skin. My feelings were close to that of a human so I even thought of my own face as ugly. On the other hand, the Hero’s golden hair and green eyes looked very beautiful to me.

“But to be exiled… Aren’t they just too cruel?”

“Well, this treatment is actually on the better side. Orcs multiply by raping and mating with creature weaker than them so it’s actually safer for me to be exiled. The ones that got raped, whether they’re male or female, the orc baby in their belly will be born by eating and tearing the belly of the host. Usually the blood of the host wouldn’t get mixed with the baby orc so a halflings like me are a rare occurrence although the potential of being born as a halflings is there.”

“What?! So you’re living in a place like this in order to not get attacked by other orcs?! Are you alright?”

“I told you I was exiled.”

“But still, that doesn’t mean there’s no pervert coming and following you around! You’re cute so I’m sure there are some orcs who have set their target on you already! Don’t you think I should quickly come and live together here with you so I can protect you?!”

“No. Just drink this and leave after you’re done.”

What’s up with this person? He keeps on saying weird things.

I handed the Hero a cup of normal tea and at the same time, I was having a cup of medicinal tea.

“What’s up with your tea? It smells different from mine. Could it be, you put a paralyzing drug in my tea?! And then you’re planning on raping and doing all kinds of dirty things to me when I’m unable to move?! You damned cowardly orc!!”

The Hero said so after taking a mouthful of the tea I had served. I guess he must be thirsty.

“The one I served you is just ordinary tea. Mine is the drug one. It’s a medicinal tea to suppress my lust. Orcs are creatures with strong lust and although I’m half-human, it’s still hard for me to go on without this medicine. I need to drink this medicinal tea twice a day. One in the morning and one in the afternoon.”

Maybe because compared to humans, I had a better sense of smell and compared to orcs, I was more clever hence why I could somehow understand the effect of this herb just by smelling it. It was due to this that I was able to make medicine that I wanted. It was nothing to be proud about though since a human could make a better medicine than I.

“………..I see. Hm… Thanks. Thank you for the drink too. I’ve never had such a delicious tea before. Let me borrow your kitchen so I can wash the cup.”

“Oh, it’s alright. I’ll do it.”

“No, just keep on drinking your medicinal tea. Otherwise, I’m going to get assaulted for real by you.”

And so, the Hero left after he quickly washed the cup.

Delicious tea, he said. Fufu~ The one I served to the Hero was a herbal tea that I had concocted myself. This is the first time I’ve served that tea to someone else but fufu~ He said it was delicious.

That night, I made a steak using the fresh meat that I hadn’t gotten to enjoy for a long while. I hoped tomorrow the one that got caught by my trap would be a rabbit instead of the Hero again. But, if the Hero got caught in my trap again, I guess I could serve him the tea I made myself again.

I guess that is also good enough?

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T/N: Ahhhh the orc MC is so pure and ahhhh! I want to befriend him and drink his tea and tell him IT IS VERY DELICIOUS TOO!