Chapter 72 (2/2)

“No response is a little bit sad too, though.”

Lapis didn’t really look sad at all, but Loren changed the subject.

“What happened to the job?”

Their job was being exam proctors.

He knew that they didn’t fail, but if one were to ask if it was a success, Loren couldn’t really say so either.

The exam itself had become messed up, but they weren’t the ones who caused it.

They were unrelated and not responsible for the student named Al trying to seize Volf’s fortune, but Loren wasn’t sure if they did proper jobs as proctors.

“The school considered the job a success. Klaus said that the princ.i.p.al promised they would.”

Lapis threw the paper back onto the stool, took the plate with the fruit on top of it, and cut the fruit into six pieces.

After taking one and giving the rest to Loren, she threw it into her mouth and started chewing delightfully.

“It would’ve been something to protest about if it was considered a failure. Most of the things that happened weren’t even because of us.”

As Lapis said after she swallowed, Loren asked her another thing, while looking at the plate of fruit in his hands.

“What about the revived evil G.o.d?”

“It’s already been reported to the princ.i.p.al and the adventurer’s guild. All the questioning tired me out.”

There were no doc.u.ments or legends about the evil G.o.d of sloth, and even the princ.i.p.al who was a descendant of Volf, didn’t hear anything from his predecessors.

The box that it was sealed was within the records of all the items in the floor, but it was recorded that it was an unknown object and was treated obscurely.

“Thinking about him is a waste of time. No one knows where he went. He called himself an evil G.o.d, so there’s no way he left any tracks, either.”

“Was he…demon kind?”

The eyes of the revived evil G.o.d were purple.

In this world, the only ones with purple eyes were demons.

“I’m not sure.”

“His features were indeed so, but he is a being that was sealed hundreds of years ago. It’s hard to tell if he’s a demon just by the color of his eyes. If I go home, maybe I could find some records about him…”

Keeping in the urge to ask what kind of home she came from, Loren asked her another thing.

“What about your arm?”

“This?”

Lapis swung her left arm.

It didn’t look any different, but Lapis looked at it with a satisfied smile.

“It’s finally flesh and bone. Only this arm, though.”

“Congratulation, I guess?”

“Thank you. I hope we can keep this up and get my whole body back.”

After saying that, Lapis’ expression suddenly turned into a serious one, surprising Loren, and put her arms on the bed, putting his face closer to his.

“So Loren, do you have anything to say to me?”

He couldn’t think straight as she looked right at him from such a close distance, and almost opened his mouth, but he willed himself to calm down and close it.

It wasn’t like he didn’t know what she wanted him to tell her.

He had let Shayna, who was inside him, use her powers as a No Life King to its fullest to survive the slime’s attack.

There was no way Lapis wouldn’t notice it, but Loren wanted more time before talking about it.

But her expression was too serious to not say anything, so after thinking as fast as he could, the one answer he arrived at reached his lips.

“Sorry for making you carry me all the way to the hospital every time, Lapis. Thank you.”

When Loren said that with a meek expression on his face, although her face reddened at his unexpected reply, Lapis still puffed out her cheeks in dissatisfaction.

“Is that not what you were looking for?”

Loren played dumb, knowing that it wasn’t the answer Lapis wanted, but after a long sigh, she pulled away from Loren, scratching her head.

“It’s fine. I’ll be satisfied with that for now.”

As he knew she meant she will wait until he was ready to talk about it, Loren nodded back at her.

“Thanks.”

Even if she knew, she would play dumb until he told her.

Loren slowly closed his eyes, grateful for Lapis’ kindness.

He still needed a few days to recover completely and needed to recover his lost strength, and he started feeling tired and sleepy from talking too long.

“Rest well for now. Let’s go find another job once you’re feeling well.”

He felt Lapis stand up.

She seemed to have guessed that Loren was falling asleep, as his eyes closed, and decided to leave the room.

“Oh, I’ll take the hospital bills and payment for my divine arts from your rewards, okay?”

“Doesn’t seem like there’ll be much left.”

As Loren sighed, guessing that her payment would be more expensive than the hospital bills, he felt Lapis let out a small giggle.

“I hope we will succeed on our next job and make some money.”

She then said good night, and Loren felt her presence disappear from the room.

As his eyes continued to remain closed, Loren felt worried if such a job will ever come his way, but he yielded himself to his drowsiness and started falling into a deep sleep.