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ds him! Please!”

Adofu says that with some excitement in his voice as he points at Hagen.
He even seems to be losing his composure.
Did they have a really close relationship?

“He was supposed to have died after failing to subdue an evil dragon! Irushia’s testimony, it’s- I thought Hagen had been killed by Irushia’s hand long ago.
However, there must’ve been some kind of slip-up and Irushia missed something!”

Translator`s Note

Oh, that so? But, what does that have to do with anything?

“If Hagen is alive, then we can drag out all of Irushia’s lies, one after another.
He’ll go mad from all the base accusations that he can’t lie his way through or distort! His words, everything, will have no consistency! If that happens, then not even the church would be able to protect him!”

Wait, Seriously? You’re telling me that bald loser over there is actually that important? I’m glad that we managed to come across him.
If anything was different then I expect we would’ve easily missed him.
If you had told me, then I would have put some serious effort into searching for him.
No… Adofu had no doubt in his mind that Hagen was dead.
There’s no way he would’ve even thought to ask.

I’m sure that Adofu, who said that he was an escaped, condemned criminal, won’t be able to reach the crowd alone.
So it’s great that we now have a new witness here.
Looks like there’s still some hope.

“I don’t know how he let Hagen slip, let alone leaving a mistake like this unfixed for all this time, but this is an opportunity that we won’t have again.”

That… certainly is something to be worried about.
If Hagen’s existence is able to completely flip the situation around, then why was such a man left unchecked and out here in the open? If all the stories I’ve heard about that hero from Adofu are true, then I don’t think he’d be the type of man to shy away from killing people to silence them.

I think that it might be a trap, but I don’t have enough information to make that call.
However, strange things like this sometimes just happen and can’t be resolved through conjecture alone.
Because Adofu, who knows much more about the situation than me, is happy to show no restraint, It might be better if I don’t harbor any more doubts.
For now, I’ll just be on alert.

I promptly switch course and decide to head for Hagen.

As I draw near, I can see that his horse has been seriously injured and is lying on the sand.
The part of the horse’s hind leg near the hip area had been gouged out and is bleeding profusely.
It was probably done in by a monster.
Hagen had fallen to his knees and was placing his hand near the injury, shedding tears.

“Mariaa! C’mon, Mariaaa!”

I thought he was with someone else, but I fear it’s probably just the horse.
Didn’t that horse abandon its one-time master and run away? …Though, Hagen doesn’t seem to care about something like that.
That’s unexpectedly gentlemanly of him.
Maria also turns an envious gaze on such a master.

“[[Rest]], [[Rest]]! God damnit!!”

Light emits from Hagen’s hand, healing the horse’s injuries.
However, the wound doesn’t close up.

Anyhow, should we try contacting him? Once I get close enough to him, I let out one of my usual attention-grabbing roars.

“GyaaaAAGH!!!”

Hagen looks over his shoulder at me, stands up, and begins screaming while running away, suddenly abandoning his horse.
As for the horse… she looks on intensely at Hagen’s back with a dumbfounded expression plastered across her face.

Yep… you two are reeeally made for each other.