Volume 2 - CH 6

Act 2-6: Indescribable Feeling(Side: Anna Graz)

Anna Graz was strolling alone in Barse city. With dropped shoulders, she heaved a deep sigh as if to express her mood.

The reason for her depression was Rose’s statement; Rose said that the infamous incompetent, the biggest apostate in this world—Kai Heineman, had abilities far higher than her.

At first, Anna couldn’t stomach Rose’s remark.

However, the Graz family came from an old lineage of paladin families that had served the royalties of the Amelia kingdom for generations. Even though Anna’s pedigree was the lowest amongst the other nobles with permanent pedigrees, she was allowed to serve Rose mainly due to the Graz’s family reputation. Moreover, since they were close in age, Anna and Rose were raised as foster siblings. Although they quarreled almost every day, Anna had never felt so depressed like this before.

The biggest factor contributing to her depression was the incompetent of the Heineman knight house, Kai Heineman.

Kai Heineman’s gift was 【The Most Incompetent in this World】.

Gift was a special talent given by the Holy Warrior God, Ares, the chief god of the Amelia kingdom to mankind. For that reason, it was only natural for the quality of the gift to be judged as an advantage. If the quality of the gift was high, it could be interpreted that the owner of the gift was loved by Ares. On the contrary, the owner of a trash gift was considered someone hated by Ares.

Such an evaluation was used for many aspects of one’s life in the Amelia kingdom, such as marriage, relationships, and employment.

Especially in the house where Anna came from, the Graz family, which was the paladin family. This teaching had been ingrained in Anna’s mind in her childhood.

According to the teaching of her family, 【The Most Incompetent in this World】 equaled to the person most hated by Ares. In short, it was an apostate born into this world without any advantage over others, the weakest human.

Rose had a kind nature. She never mistreated even the apostates born with the trash gift and was willing to help him despite him being nothing more than a harmful insect to Rose.

However, Rose’s gift was the saint, a gift bestowed to those loved the most by Ares. Rose’s existence was so sacred that Anna thought that even a contact with the apostate was a besmirch to Rose’s very existence, an act that could invite God’s wrath. And her job as a paladin was to prevent that.

That was Anna’s mission. Or that was how it was supposed to be. Yet, no matter how much she thought about it, Anna couldn’t think of Kai Heineman as such a filthy existence. Naturally, the fact that he saved her from the disgusting knight who had almost r*ped her also supported that thought.

However, she still couldn’t forgive him for his disrespect and abusive speech toward Rose. Normally speaking, Kai Heineman should be someone Anna hated the most, even if that hatred was somewhat reduced since he had saved her.

Yet, Anna strangely felt relieved just by staying by Kai’s side. Yes, she felt relieved. And Anna couldn’t forgive herself for feeling that way. After all, doing that might make it look like she also despised Rose, the person she served.

That was why she always tried to avoid Kai now. She felt that there was no problem with that since Rose might be understanding.

(Really! What I’m doing right now…)

Anna didn’t want to meet Kai. That’s why she had gone on a stroll on Barse City’s main street by herself. She felt miserable due to the incomprehensible, child-like emotions inside her.

Suddenly, she heard a man’s voice.

「WALK QUICKLY!」

「M-My apologies…」

When she looked in the direction from where the voice came from, she saw a man in black clothes whipping a silver-haired beast girl.

Yes, the beast girl was a member of the beastman tribe. That girl might have been kidnapped by shameless soldiers during the turmoil and sold as a slave.

Anna hated slaves from the bottom of her heart. To be exact, she hated slavery; the concept of trafficking a being with wisdom like livestock disgusted her to the point of puking. And it wasn’t just the slavery system. Anna felt that many things that were common sense in the Amelia kingdom were repulsive. That was why she was desperately trying to match the behavior of many people around her. However, her attempts ended up in failure. She still couldn’t bring herself to get used to the repulsive common sense in the Amelia kingdom. It had reached the point where she felt like she was ill-suited to be a paladin.

As a paladin, she felt that if she overlooked such a matter, it would come back and torment her later.

Soon, Anna’s stress had reached a critical point after quarreling with the slave trader and her hand already grabbed the hilt of her sword. Suddenly, Kai Heineman appeared and settled the matter with ease.

Kai ended up promising to buy the silver-haired beastgirl slave for two million oars within twenty days. Anna saw Kai buy a slave. Seeing the person she hated doing something she hated should have made her hate him even more, but upon thinking carefully, she realized that it was the only choice they had. Rather, she felt that she should thank him for solving her problem without causing trouble for others. However, Anna’s personality prevented her from doing that.

The first time she had seen, she felt irritated just by seeing his pushover personality. But, ever since that fateful night, she realized that Kai’s attitude and even his speech had turned 180 degrees. Now, he acted as if he was the one who owned the place.

Contrary to her first impression of him, Anna realized that she never was irritated or felt any repulsive feelings toward the current him. It was as if the person called Anna had already become broken since what happened on that night.

On the way back to the inn where Rose was waiting for them, Kai suddenly stopped for a moment and raised his face a bit as if he had recalled something. He then turned around toward Anna.

「One more thing, Anna. Good job on trying to help that beastgirl.」

He spoke while flashing his usual daring smile.

Although it was the first time Kai called her by name instead of something like “Dumb girl” or “Red-haired,” and also the first time he praised her, Anna felt extremely delighted for some reason.

「Hurry up! Rose-sama has been waiting for us!」

Anna did her best to hold back from showing a sloven smile to Kai and quickly walked till she was ahead of him.
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