If there was a hero in another country, does that mean that Iska is not a hero? ⊠Well, the main character is not necessarily the hero.
To be honest, I was a little relieved, because if Iska had been chosen as a hero and told to fight for the country and the world, I would have had to fight the country.
Is it possible to get around a situation like this if you have knowledge of the game?
âŠI wonder whatâs for dinner tonight (for the second time).
When I got home and opened the door and went inside, Nina and Stella jumped at me.
âWelcome home oto-san!â
âWelcome home daddyâ
âIâm home. Have you been good kids?â
This alone is enough to make a dayâs worth of fatigue go away.
âWelcome back, Gray-san. Iâll carry your bags. âŠThereâs something the two of them want to show you today. Right, Nina, Stella-chan?â
Ariamel said that and looked at the two of them. Nina and Stella ran to the living room after fidgeting, and came back with something in their hands.
âYou know, Oto-sanâŠâŠ and, uh, thisâ
âPapa, here you goâ
They presented me with a portrait of myself. The lines were messed up, and I couldnât tell what they had drawn because they had tried to correct it so many times. At the bottom of the drawing, there were two words written in dirty letters that Ariamel must have taught them: âDadâ and âPa-paâ.
âŠâŠâŠâŠâŠâŠâŠâŠâŠâŠâŠâŠeh.
What is this? A present from angels?
For the time being, Iâll just go buy a picture frame with water, fire, and impact resistant protection magic.
ââŠGray-san, are you all rightâŠ?â
âAh? What are you talking about? Why ⊠itâs totally okay ⊠itâs decided. Iâm a BâŠB class adventurer, I can afford it (unintelligible).â
HereâŠyou are so naiveâŠto try to upset me with something like this.
âOto-sanâŠ?â
âPapa⊠arenât you happy?â
They look anxious.
aaaaaaahhhh⊠What should I do?!
âI⊠no, Iâm really⊠happy. Thank you.â
Instinctively, I hug the two of them.
SomehowâŠsomehow I managed not to cryâŠ
But after this, it was ultimately no good, as Ratz belatedly and shyly brought out a painted picture of a cat, a dog, and me.
Nina, Stella, and Ratz hug back.
âGray-san⊠Here you go.â
I was saved by Iska who brought me a handkerchief⊠Fio and Ariamel came to call me when I managed to recover.
âDinnerâs ready, letâs all eat together, shall we?â
âWash your hands, everyone, and Gray-san!â
I wish these children a peaceful and happy life⊠No, I will make them happy. Absolutely.
I will be a wonderful father.
I vowed once again.
During dinner with everyone, I suddenly remembered the story of the hero that was told to Emilia and the others. Was there any connection between Iska, the main character in the original story, and the hero?
ââŠ? Whatâs wrong, do I have something on my face?â
âNo⊠nothingâ
I donât know, I must have been looking at Iska without realizing it.
ââââââââââ
(Third-party perspective)
There were two people in the burning cathedral.
One is a young man with black hair. Eyes dyed with hatred, despair, and revenge. In his hand, he holds a red-tinted sword.
The other is a young man with blond hair. His eyes were just blank and didnât reflect anything.
A young man with black hair is looking down at the young man with blond hair who is bleeding from his chest and collapsing.
ââŠI have a questionâ
The dark-haired young man opens his mouth.
âAre you the one who killed the girl named âŻâŻâŻâŻâŠ âŻâŻâŻâŻâŻ four years ago?â
At those words, the eyes of the young man with blond hair flicker slightly.
ââŠâŠ why is that such a âjust answer.â
The blonde-haired young manâs words are interrupted by the dark-haired young man.
â⊠notâŠâ
ââŠâ
âI⊠didnât kill.â
âI see.â
Hearing those words, the black-haired young man wiped off the blood on his sword, put it back in its sheath, turned his back on the fallen blond-haired young man, and began to walk away.
The blond young man who was left behind stared at the crumbling ceiling and thought back to four years ago when he had just been asked the question.
A scrawny, skinny girl in tattered clothes who was introduced to me as a saint. Her hair was falling out in places, her face and body were covered in bruises⊠and she had dark, cloudy eyes like the young man I saw earlier.
Nobles and priests who laugh amiably while talking about something unpleasant.
Suddenly a girl shouts
âAhaha hahaha haïŒAhaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha! Die! Die, all of you! Curse you! Suffer and suffer and suffer and die!â
The girl cursed, snatched the sword from the waist of the dumbfounded soldier next to her and put it in her own chestâŠ
I couldnât stop it. I had no right to stop it.
I⊠I didnât want to become a hero.
I just wanted to live a quiet life with everyone else.