Is this Hero for Real?

cter in this world, he was sure of himself as long as he could find a diamond in the rough.

[A certain god of wind watches intently.]

[A certain evil god suggests a simple bet.]

[A certain immature god of dice agrees on the bet.]

[A certain god…]

Did the gods care at all that he gave up being a ‘Hero’?

Amidst all the divinities watching him, Oh Hanwoo busied himself looking at the slaves.

Nothing to see for the handsome boys…

Obviously nothing for the handsome men as well…

But it wasn’t easy for him to find a female slave that fit his standards and preference.

“Oh? Look, it’s Oh Hanwoo.”

“You’re…”

Two boys walked straight towards Oh Hanwoo as soon as they found him.

“Are you here to buy a slave, too?” One boy amiably asked. 

“Yeah… pretty much.”

“Haha! We thought the same.
You left with money because you didn’t like the training, right?”

“It’s a secret.”

It seemed the boy didn’t know that he didn’t get trained at all since his first day.

The boy was acting friendly for the moment, but that meant he didn’t care about him.

That’s why Oh Hanwoo gave a sharp answer.

“Relax.
We’re in the same situation, we gotta stick together.
Oh! I’ll give you some useful information.”

“Useful information?”

“That old guy over there is the man in charge.
If he finds out you’re a Hero, he’ll show you all the high-end slaves that aren’t on display.”

“Do you have a death wish?”

There was a warning on the contract that calling yourself a Hero meant a death sentence.

The boy waved dismissively.

“Of course not.
But there’s nothing you can do if others peep at your status window, right?”

“Huh?”

“Your Hero’s Blessing will be exposed on its own, do you really need to call yourself one? It’s a contract loophole.”

“…I see.”

Just realizing you could peep at others’ status windows, Oh Hanwoo pretended to be calm.

“What slave are you going to get?”

“It’s a secret?”

“Oh really? I have a rough guess…”

“Is the man behind you yours? What a unique preference.”

The man looked like a bandit leader.

His aura was overwhelmingly intimidating, but it had to be all fake.
This was a fantasy world.

The status window was the only truth.

“…Haha! Let’s see who you get.”

“Sure.
Watch me.”

‘I’ll make you crazy jealous!’

“Come to the inn closest to the city East Gate if you wanna show off your slave.
We’ll be waiting there.”

“Alright.”

Oh Hanwoo ran straight to the man in charge of the slave market the boy told him about.

 

***

 

The luxurious inn was more state of the art than most hotels on Earth.

A slime living in a big cauldron in the corner of the room was cleaning and doing the laundry on its own!

And it cleaned my body, too.

I didn’t need to bathe.
All I had to do was lay down near the cauldron and the slime would come and eat up all the dirt and grime.

‘This slime… I want it.’

“…don’t even think about stealing it.
Slime as well trained and smart as this one are extremely expensive.”

“How expensive?”

“Worth their weight in gold.”

“Damn.”

I poked the trained slime with my fingertips.

Jiggle jiggle?

It jiggled side to side as if to ask me what was up.

“Heh~”

Maybe it was just in my head, but was the texture on the slime a bit different than normal…?

Knock knock.

“The clothes you ordered are here.”

The demon slightly opened the door as soon as he heard the soft knocking and gave the worker a small tip for the pile of clothes.

Why would he do that?

“Kogmo.
Didn’t you say we were going to go to a store in person later?”

“Change of plans.
It’s rude to make them wait when you’re staying in this inn for free.”

“You mean the ladies?”

 

“Don’t tell me you didn’t even memorize the ladies’ names.”

“Uh… no.”

“You’re ruder than a demon! At least memorize the names of the ladies who paid for your expensive room.”

“You’re rude!”

How could he call me ruder than a demon?!

It was true I approached them for that intent, but I didn’t think we’d stay together for that long after being stuck in that carriage all day.

Instead, the mercenaries that I had actually tried bonding with were gone…

How upsetting.

“Just hurry up and change.
Gentlemen must wait before their ladies are finished getting ready.”

“…”

“What?”

“I don’t know how you’re still not married.”

“Are you enjoying making fun of me?! Do you really not know?”

I knew he couldn’t get married because he was too weak, he told me himself.

That’s not what I was asking.

“Why don’t you marry a human?”

“…”

“Don’t cry.”

“That’s the worst! How far are you going with this?! Do you seriously marry your pet animal?”

“Of course I don’t.”

“Then shut up.
If I was going to marry a human, I wouldn’t have risked my life to leave my hometown.”

“Alright.”

After getting changed, we waited for Ladies A and B to come to the inn lobby.

…They were taking forever.

Demon Kogmos was lightening up the mood, surrounded by ladies who worked at the inn.

“Hoho!”

“Oh my!”

And he still thinks of humans as pet animals?

I wished him divine punishment.

[A certain god looks displeased at the full wolf.]

“I completely agree with you, god… oh, they’re here.”

“Wow!”

“Woow…”

Ladies A and B walked down the stairs, waving towards us with the eyes of every man in the lobby facing them.

“%#$.”

“% #$?”

Demon Kogmos, who came back next to me, greeted them respectfully with a bow.

“Don’t worry about us.
We just arrived as well.”

‘Wrong, you demon!’

We had waited forever. 

“Tell them we want to eat first.”

“…We haven’t had a proper meal yet due to our long travels, would you like to dine first? I know a place you ladies would like.”

“$#.
%$, Kang Hansoo #$ %.”

“$.
@#$ $#, Kang Hansoo $ %$ #@.”

The ladies each said something while mentioning my name.

‘What about me?’

The demon was giving me a weird look.

“What?”

“…They said they’d like to dine, but they want to go to where you wanna go first.”

“Ooh!”

Leave the judgment to the demon who sees human ladies as pet animals!

“Humans or demons all go for the powerful… damn this world!”

“Kogmo! Let’s eat first!”

I was starting to like this fantasy world a little more.