Chapter 102 (1/2)

Volume 2

The Simple Job of Only Perishing to the Hero Volume 3 Chapter 15

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The night that the dinner party ended and all of the invitees had left the castle.

On the balcony of the royal villa that was assigned as Luuty’s place to stay, the figures of two women were there.

They were Fainell and Luuty.

The two, who were completely recognized as friends even by those around them, sat facing each other at the table.

On the table, there were two wine glasses, and one bottle.

「……You know, Luuty. I had always imagined, about what kind of country, you guy’s country was like.」

Turning here eyes to the outside scenery, Fainell muttered that.

While gazing at the view of the moon and the stars which would never be seen in the Dark Continent, Fainell took a glass into her hand.

What she remembered, was the figures of the Hero’s group that she had fought several times in the Dark Continent.

The serious and often scolding, yet clumsy Human Great Sage, Teria.

The free and uncontrolled, yet possessed a strong sense of duty in the strangest places tiger Beastman, Juno.

The always annoying half-Metalio, half-Human, Duke.

The prim faced and most rambunctious Sylphid, Luuty.

And then, the one said to be summoned from another world, the Hero Ryuuya.

He was unconventional, stupid, perverted, strangely stubborn, and limitlessly sweet to women.

Furthermore, he hated twisted things. And he couldn’t ignore those that were suffering.

And although the companions that surrounded Ryuuya would say this and that about him, they believed in Ryuuya from the bottom of their hearts.

No, it looked like they even loved him.

And it seemed like the Hero Ryuuya had tried to sincerely answer those feelings.

Well……unexpectedly, he had proposed to Fainell on their first meeting though.

Of course, it goes without saying that she answered him with an electric shock.

At that time, she thought of him as merely an idiot with no faithfulness, but she came to realize later that he was an idiot that would pierce through hopelessness.

In any case, the Hero Ryuuya’s party was a group of 「companions」 where various races gathered and laughed with him at the center.

「……That the place that you all lived in was a place where various races lived on good terms with each other. That is what I had thought.」

Luuty didn’t answer her, and simply quietly turned her gaze to Fainell.

Fainell also didn’t speak any more than that.

Taking a sip of wine, she washed it down her throat, and gazed at the starry sky just like that.

「……You must have been disappointed.」

「Only if I were to speak honestly. For me, when mankind is spoken about, it’s about you guys.」

Fainell shrugged her shoulders at Luuty who made a wry smile.

「However, there is something that I still don’t understand.」

「Something you don’t understand……you say?」

「It’s about Ryuuya. Did that guy, ever properly receive my Volsaber even once?」

Volsaber was Fainell’s unique magic, and Fainell’s certain kill technique that clad her arms in blades of electricity.

If one were to receive it directly, they would turn into ash without even leaving behind any bones.

However, that wasn’t the case with Ryuuya.

Although he would become tattered, he stood up from it.

At that time, she thought that it was because of the Hero’s abilities.

「……He shouldn’t have been able to stand up. It isn’t something that can somehow dealt with using grit. At that time, that guy stood up with something other than idealism.」

The Hero got up any number of times.

That is how mankind narrated it.

That was by no means a metaphor, because as long as his heart didn’t break, the Hero would crawl back up from the depths of death any number of times.

Fainell had actually seen that.

「……I also, don’t understand it.」

No matter what the setting was, Ryuuya would stand up, hold his ground, and support and guide the hearts of his companions which looked like they would break.

Or maybe that might be an ability of the Hero, but they could no longer know now.

「……I see.」

After Fainell said that, she concentrated on her glass.

Luuty wouldn’t lie in a setting like this.

They got along well enough for her to understand that much.

「……The Hero, huh.」

Hearing Fainell’s words, Luuty also ruminated on those words.

The Demon King Vermudol had gone out onto the center stage.

Advocating friendship and forming a treaty with the Jiol Forest Kingdom, he created the image of being a Demon King that could be talked to, and made them have a premonition of a new age.

If they could reconcile with the Mazoku, then half of the world’s problems would disappear.

However, would there be people that believe in that……that was a different story.

In actuality, when the treaty of friendship was proposed, there was a disturbance, and a lot of casualties such as the Jiol Forest Kingdom’s generals and Imperial Guard knights had come from it.