"Hi, Callix," I didn't know how to behave in front of the man who was holding my hand right now.
"How? since the drug worked on you, the curse doesn't eat you anymore, does it?"
"Why?"Callix asked in a low and limited voice.
"why what?"
"you saved me? you didn't kill me?"
"ah, if that... uhukkk uhukkk," now it's my turn to spit out a lot of blood from my mouth.
Thanks to the mana I had stored and compacted in my pocket, I survived easily from that mad Adolf but, I was still wounded and the poison arrow was beyond me. The poison is starting to spread all over my body now.
"You okay? can you hear me? Hey, what happened to you?"my vision is blurred, my head is buzzing, callix's voice cannot be heard clearly in my hearing. My body is getting weaker, which I have exhausted to protect my heart. I now have no magic to neutralize the poison in my body. damn it.
Just a matter of time, I finally collapsed unconscious.
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"Yo," I don't know how long I've been asleep, the first time I opened my eyes, there was a figure of a man who kept looking at me over my face.
"Eh?"It took me a while to realize that right now I was using that man's thigh as a cushion for my head.
"You okay?"the man asked with his expressionless face.
Shouldn't he be the one doing it? why did I fall asleep on his lap? I changed my position to sit. A moment later I saw a lot of blood spots on my clothes and the memory of a few moments ago appeared again.
I sat cross-legged in front of him. He kept quiet about my behavior.
"You okay?"I asked back, without answering the question first.
"What's wrong with you?"the man asked back without answering my question.
Hyde who saw us throwing questions at each other without giving answers growled, Ash who usually hid himself also appeared on my shoulder, out of nowhere he was. It seems like they're upset about the no-answer situation right now.
"ekhem, Here Comes the prince," I looked at him seriously, " I will help you defeat the Demon King."
Silent for a moment, the man was silent. I don't know what he was thinking, but his face looked a little surprised.
"How do you know?"
"You could say, I'm not affected by the regression you did. You know, because you're constantly regressing, I'm having a hard time living a calm and happy life with my two twin sisters, you know! If I hadn't continued to regress with you maybe I would have been in distant lands, across continents, having a happy life with my loved ones."
The man was silent, his head bowed, "sorry. You must be having a hard time because of me, huh? But, how can you be unaffected?"
"I don't know. Therefore, let's cooperate with me. It's hard to do it alone, right? You need the right partner, and I think I'm the one."My right hand reached out to shake his hand.
"May I know the reason?"Callix is still expressionless looking at my hand.
"I'm strong, I'm not affected by your regression, and I know a little more than you about the future."
"How so?"
"It's a secret. I'll tell you when you can remember everything and escape the curse completely."I smirked, this man doesn't seem to remember my statement some time ago. That's good.
"All right. So, what's the deal?"Finally... the moment I've been waiting for has arrived.
Callix returned my handshake. Our agreement was formed today.
"I helped you take off your curse and defeat the demon king and then you have to help me by giving me a small territory to live in and farm. How?"
"Isn't that too biased? You don't want to ask for anything else?"
"You want to take care of me and supply me with a lot of gold coins? if I obey my ego, I just want to be lazy while living comfortably, but surely you wouldn't want to keep someone like me, right?"
"Strange. All right, I agree."Callix turned her face away, I shrugged. The important thing is that the deal is done.
"Then, what should we do now?"
"Create strategies and teams."