Chapter 102: Frustration

Perseus POV

"So the heroes want me to leave the rest of the so called culprits to them?...Fine, I'll let them do it, but I'll give them till 2 weeks before summer solstice as their deadline."

"Phew, I was ready to go on for another hour." Mark breathed a sigh of relief "You're more cooperative than the rumor say."

Of course I left the influence of the eastern church and the lord of the yellow rose out of this, the heroes will definitely never go after them unless they were more directly involve instead of commanding others to do it, so I'll take that myself.

"I'm feeling good, I beat the heroes, I've proved myself and made people fear me...and it's almost new years, so I'm in a good mood."

"You should pray and offer some gift at one of our goddess' shrine for her help." Mark replied "Without her, we won't even consider to remove your criminal record. Besides, why can't you just kill them elsewhere instead of after the wonderful play, I was there and it was one of the best performance I've attended."

"Really? You were there?"

"Yeah, of course." he nodded "My experience was slightly ruined by you and some people were even traumatized by it, there's this famous rookie at the play too, her voice was bright and beautiful, not just that, her dance was graceful as well."

"Oh, who was it?"

Lilith's performance was praised a lot before and afterwards, a goddess does do it different, I guess, she got decent minutes and made full use of it, she even tried this tactic of talking with nobles to try to get me jealous which didn't work since I just ignored it completely.

"No, it was this young girl, Persia Bellerose." Mark answered

Huh?

Ruka and Leilah then tried to contain their snicker after they heard the answer.

"I'd be honest, she was very beautiful, I heard from a friend who said it was almost love on first sight for him." he said as my eyebrow twitched "Though her performance wasn't perfect, it was great enough to be sought after, my father is trying to find her to hire for a private performance."

Oi, I want a harem of women, not men. What the hell? I don't even look that pretty in my woman form, and besides, my disguise is the same age as me, why isn't anyone stopping this love on first sight thing?! That's an underaged person right there.

And the 2 rose guardians are not helping with their openly holding back of laughter in the background. Leilah, get your jealous thing going already, don't join in this shit.

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"Hahaha, I can't believe this, you're actually popular as a woman while actually being- Hah, oh man." Ruka laughed once we were left alone

"Are you actually pouting? That's cute." Leilah giggled and poke my cheek "Don't worry, I love you no matter what."

"Love is a bit of a strong word."

"Do you want an early engagement to prove it? I can be the one who propose." Leilah offered

"No thank you, anyway, Ruka wipe that smile of your face, we should head home and rest a bit since we're gonna be helping out with the new years preparations of the village."

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3rd Person POV

In a healer's room, all the heroes were laid down on beds to recover after thy are healed and now are just waited upon to wake up, their physical bodies are fine, but concerns about mental trauma is definitely brought up.

"Damn it, that was beyond humiliating." Sarah cursed as she got up "We didn't even stand a chance."

"This was why I told all of you not to listen to that stupid request." Laker responded

He was assigned to watch over them since he wasn't really needed in their negotiations since he can be bias.

"I love my grandson, but you all use that fact to undermine my authority and went against me." Laker then cross his arm "You overconfident after some small win, your tactics all fell apart and none of you ever thought that he'll use you al against each other, my people are the strongest people after the heroes and the saints.

"A village with the strength equal to a nation, yet no one ever listened to me, treat this interaction as a lesson, as he said, do not walk into a lion's den, and you did it while thinking yourselves as the greatest, you will grow to be the greatest, but as of now, you will lose even if you can turn back time."

"That's fair." Sarah sighs "He didn't even use the powers of the roses to win, this is nothing but humiliating. He is younger than us, and if he wanted to kill us, he would, well, we'll need a lot more experience if we want to beat the demon lord."

"Use this failure to learn." Laker advised "You are the leader, be like him, don't fight with just magic and physical body and rely on them, fight with your brains as well, you're the leader, your tactics and leadership skills are needed to win."

Frustration was what Sarah felt, her life was very boring before she came here, she always sought something better and being summoned was one of the best thing that happened to her, she missed her family of course, but...her life is better here.

She is finally needed and people finally have positive expectations of her, so she plans to never waste it and grow strong enough to be the hero that liberate the world.

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Perseus POV

"Hey Vince, what are ya reading?"

"Um, this book on battle tactics." he answered nervously

"Isn't that a bit too advance for you? You don't even like reading that much."

"I'm trying to get stronger, people will always come after us and I want to learn to defend myself."

"You're too young to worry about all that crap, come on, let's go check on our parents, you don't need all this crap, this family only needs one fighter and I'll take that role. You can stay home and enjoy yourself."