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When life gives you lemons, you're expected to deal with the sourness. But when it comes to the Red Hero, what would he do?
Squeeze those lemons dry until it's very last drop and serve the glass of sweetened lemonade to his wife.
At least, that's what would make her forgive him for ignoring his beloved.
. . .
"Sss- Ouch."
"Don't move! It's uncommon for you to take my hit face on this time. What's with you?"
My lovely wife sighs quietly while she was applying medicine for my poor cheek that was hit by the frying pan of hers. Yep. Her strength got better after she married me.
What have I done to deserve her torture?
Oh right. . .plenty of things.
But they were all from the past.
"Can't your husband think about our future?"
"Since when does the Red Hero think about such things now?"
"Because we have yet to have a child."
When I said that, her face immediately went red and she almost gave me another bruise on the other side of my cheek. If I haven't been holding a glass of lemonade in front of her before then, my poor face would've been pitiful.
"Even married, you still have the time to be cocky."
"Well of course. Isn't that my charm only for you? The one I love? The one I married?"
The one I chose to love happened to be a cute tsundere at best.
After she took the lemonade and finished the treatment, I went on to gather my basic necessities into a brown bag that ties around my waist. Oh and I shouldn't forget about my wedding ring just in case, since today was the first time in a year that I have to leave the Ancient Plains and my wife at home in order to hunt down the remains of the Dark Enigma that still lingers in the world.
I don't want to leave her unprotected and alone. . .
But a man has to be a hero for his beloved.
Who wouldn't want to be their lover's hero?
"Ace."
I turned around to the sound of her lovely voice as I went out through the door. There she was with her hesitant expression, truly wanting me to stay and not leave.
I understood.
I don't need to be like a hero for her.
Because I already was a hero in her eyes.
"Life is sour like lemons, my love. But because I have you, my sweet sugar, I can do anything."
Once I step out the door, a whole new world is waiting. The world with only me and my wife in it will soon change.
"Still as poetic as ever," she shook her head, "But I will wait for you. No matter how long it takes for you to get your ass back home."
I smiled at that last part of her words. I'm already sure she'll be dragging my ass back home once everything's over.
But there's still something I want to leave behind for her.
Something she truly won't forget.
Even if she has to use me as a target dummy for that reason.