The Return of the World's Destructive Hero
Chapter 19: Medicinal Plants
In the afternoon there were two young men who came out of the gate to look for medicinal plants in the forest and meadow. The forest that was rumored to be strange one week ago showed no signs of any monsters, is now back to normal.
"Hey, how's the shape of the medicinal plant we're going to look for?" Satoru was curious about the plant they were going to look for in the afternoon.
"Ah, etto. his plants have wide leaves with hard stems" Haruna tells the traits of the plants they will be looking for.
At that time Satoru saw a plant that has the same characteristics as what was mentioned by Haruna just now. "Like this one?" Satoru pointed at the plant.
"No, that's a poisonous plant. If you eat it, you can have diarrhea for two whole days" Haruna explained about the plants Satoru showed.
"Eeehh!?" Satoru was shocked to hear something quite creepy.
"Haha..." Haruna gave a small laugh at the look on Satoru's face that was shocked. "Hey, Satoru-san is an adventurer, right?" The girl asked after seeing the plate on the necklace right on Satoru's neck.
"Yes..is something wrong?" Satoru asked in wonder to Haruna.
"No, it's just that adventurers usually have knowledge of medicinal plants" Haruna said.
Satoru understood what Haruna said. "Y~ yes... that is, it's just that I was always taught to fight and fight so that never knew about medicinal plants and others" Satoru turned his face while looking at a similar plant.
"What is that?" Satoru pointed to plants that were almost similar.
"Ah, right! that's the plant!" Haruna looks happy when he finds the medicinal plant.
Seemed such a sweet smile as the girl took the medicinal plant carefully so as not to damage it. "Look! I've picked it!" Haruna showed the plant to Satoru excitedly.
"A~ ah, yes..." Satoru replied to the girl awkwardly as he saw that the girl's face was very close to him.
"ah! true too! Haruna-san, can you give me the difference between them? that way I might be able to help look for him as well" Satoru instantly turned his gaze towards the poisonous plant earlier.
Haruna picked the plant and showed the difference to Satoru. "Look, poisonous plants have stems that are darker in color to look like purple, while this medicinal plant looks fresher with a bright green color" Haruna explained the differences in the plants.
"Yes, I get it..." Satoru also walked in search of medicinal plants. When he found her, he immediately called Haruna. "Haruna-san! what is this right?"
"Right, it's a medicinal plant" Haruna replied after looking at the plant that Satoru had found.
Just as Satoru was about to pull out the plant, Haruna stopped him by holding the man's hand tightly. "Don't! if you do it like that his plants will be damaged"
The girl took out a scissors and showed Satoru a way to harvest the medicinal plants. His face was so close that Satoru could smell the sweet smell of the girl.
Her fragrance...does she wear an expensive perfume...?
"Satoru-san?" Haruna looked at Satoru in surprise.
"Ah, sorry I was daydreaming earlier. Is this how it works?" Satoru awoke from his daydream when his name was called and immediately moved his hand to harvest the medicinal plant.
"Yes, that's the way it is" The girl seemed to smile happily as she discussed the matter of medicinal plants.
"I'll look over there, if there's anything just call me" Satoru pointed the other way to look for medicinal herbs.
Shit, I won't be able to hold myself back if I get that close...
It is true that I often do good to all the women I meet. But I never had a special relationship with them.
I just did what my grandfather taught me...
"Fiuh~ I think this is enough. Is Haruna-san done too?" Satoru muttered after collecting many medicinal herbs and stuffing them into his dimension sac.
"Yahoo!!!!" Just then came the sound of Haruna shouting from within the forest.
"Haruna-san!!?" Satoru immediately ran towards Haruna's place after hearing the screams.
There are 5 green wolves surrounding Haruna. As one of them leapt at Haruna, Satoru quickly threw his sword and managed to hit the wolf.
"Are you okay?" Said Satoru standing in front of Haruna while pulling his sword from the body of the wolf that was hit by the toss just now.
"Stay still behind me, it'll be over soon..." Satoru moved very quickly and managed to defeat the remaining wolves.
Swinging his sword to remove the bloodstains attached to Satoru sheathed his sword. "Did they hurt you?" Satoru asked softly while extending his hand.
The girl immediately got up to her feet and hugged Satoru tightly. "A~ I'm so scared.. I thought I was going to die..."
Satoru returned Haruna's embrace and gently rubbed her hair. "What's wrong, I'm here. Sorry for making you see something scary..."
After being relieved the girl let go of her embrace and lowered her head "Te~ thanks Satoru-san..."
"No need to think about it, we should go home now that it's getting dark" Satoru said with a smile on his face.
The two of them returned back to the city, when they reached Satoru stopped by the adventurer guild first to sell the materials from the green wolf. Afterwards he invited Haruna to a night grave at a diner close to his house.
"Hey, Haruna-san do you want to have dinner with me?" Satoru invites Haruna.
"What can? but you've helped me a few times.I feel bad about it..." Said Haruna who felt bad because she was always helped.
"What's wrong, you know you need to think about it. I help you not to get rewarded or thank you, but because I really want to do it, so you don't need to feel bad" Satoru said with a sincere smile.
Haruna accepted the dinner invitation. While at the diner after the food ordered arrived at the table, Haruna asked something that stuck in her mind all this time.
"Hey... Satoru..." He said nervously.
"What is Haruna-san?" Asked Satoru in surprise.
"Why are nobles like you so good to commoners like me?" Haruna showed a face that was so astonished by Satoru's attitude.
"Lordinate? who?" Satoru asked back about it.
"You..."
At that time Satoru only realized about his name which has a surname. "Ahh. I haven't told you yet. I'm not a noble" loh"
"Eh? but you have a surname, right?"
"Etto. Well, so where I come from everyone has a surname. Whether it's an official of the state or a commoner, everyone has a surname" Satoru explained the surname he had to Haruna.
"Be~ is so well..." Haruna was quite surprised to hear that and raised the teacup and drank it.
That night the friendship between them began to form.