Chapter 6 : Romance suddenly! First Meeting

Translated by X-treme

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When Rolf returned home, he found Lilia crying. She was crying so hard that she didn’t even notice Rolf coming into the room, and her face was messy with tears.

Rolf was heartbroken to see Lilia crying like that. I’m going to be able to talk to you gently to scare you as little as possible.

“Lilia?”

The next moment Lilia pushed me down with great force.

Rolf is stunned to be suddenly mounted.

“What?”

The same shampoo scent as his own, wet hair, bare skin, and bathrobe……dizzy with the situation that seemed to blow away his reason, Rolf endured. I don’t know how many times I’ve been there, but I suffered for now.

“Rolf……this……”

Lilia, while crying, offered me a light blue ribbon.

Rolf finally made up his mind.

“I’m sorry for not telling you.”

—Three years ago, when Rolf was still a fledgling adventurer.

At the time, Rolf was already a promising newcomer who had completed numerous requests and was quickly emerging as a rising star. Even though he was a solo player, he had a 100% completion rate of requests. He was beginning to gain confidence in himself as an adventurer.

One day, in a country town not far from the King’s Capital, I was asked to take down goblins leaving the village. There were about 30 of them. Even though there were many of them, they were still goblins. I made the mistake of assuming that I could exterminate them on my own.

After easily defeating the goblins, Rolf discovered a goblin den in a forest near the village and went in alone. However, an A-ranked demon, the Goblin King, was waiting for him. At the time, Rolf was a 14-year-old C-ranked adventurer, and he managed to defeat the Goblin King. He managed to defeat the Goblin King, but he was mortally wounded.

To make matters worse, I was unable to move properly due to a broken leg. As the sun went down, I was losing body heat and strength at an alarming rate.

So, to conserve his body heat and strength, Rolf beastified as small as possible, hunkered down, and waited for the dawn to break. In the morning, when he fell into a slumber from the pain and fatigue caused by his injuries, it was Lilia who picked up Rolf.

When I opened my eyes, I found myself in a house I had never seen before. Dark brown, round, and large eyes were at me, staring anxiously.

Seeing that Rolf was awake, Lilia came rubbing her cheek against his face, crying.

“Thank God! Cats! Great! You’re awake! I was worried. Did a demon get you? It was a serious injury. It’s all right now. You’re safe here. I’m going to protect you.”

(Thank goodness……)

I was relieved and, at the same time, lost consciousness again.

It is said that Lilia found Rolf and immediately ran into the church and spent her allowance to cast a recovery spell on him. If it hadn’t been for that, Rolf might have been killed. After making sure that both of his legs were intact, Rolf thanked Lilia from the bottom of his heart.

Lilia continued to put her hand on Rolf’s leg every day after that.

“Get rid of the pain!”

And then she performs a spell. The wounds had healed entirely, but Lilia never let Rolf go for a moment and took care of him. The days passed by in a blink of an eye, as calm as a lie.

The heart was warm. It was soothing. I was completely in love with her. After six months, it was hard to get away from Lilia’s side, to the point where I thought it wouldn’t be so bad to live with her as it was. At the time, Rolf was enjoying his life as a commuter cat. He usually worked as an adventurer and visited Lilia’s house whenever he had time.

All the while, though, Rolf was in the form of a little beast.

Lilia wrapped a light blue ribbon around Rolf’s neck and put a plaque with her address and name on it, hoping that someone would bring him back if he got hurt again. I was happy to be told that it was mine.

One day, a special request from the guild came in for a job to slay a demon on an expedition. There were days when I couldn’t say no, and I couldn’t return to Lilia’s house. Despite my distraction, the task of defeating the monsters didn’t go as planned, and it ended up taking me more than a month to fulfill the request.

When I finally got home to Lilia’s house, I found it empty. It seems that the whole family had moved out while Rolf was away.

There was nothing left for Rolf to do. However, the ribbon that Lilia gave me seemed to be the only special thing that connected the two of us.

And on that day, three years later, Rolf met Lilia again. The girl scurried around in the Adventurer’s Guild, looking heartbroken. That dark brown, round, big-eyed girl. I knew at first glance that it was Lilia.

Rolf was so happy that he couldn’t help but call out to her.

“Lilia!”

However, Lilia returned a surprisingly cold glare.

“Eh, who is it? Have we ever met before?”

I was utterly heartbroken, even though it was evident that she didn’t understand because she only knew how I looked in my beastly form. Rolf was mistakenly thought to be a cat.

Thus was born Rolf, who was in love with Lilia but couldn’t be honest with her and messed with her.

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