Chapter 110

The time to stay in the city of an unknown empire was not very long. It was thanks to Esmue’s personal guards who managed to break through the heavy rain to find the base of the Demon King’s army and destroy it in one day.

I couldn’t get any additional information right away, but it was on the way to return to the capital crossing portals and gates when I heard from Esmuer that the number of prisoners captured alive was worth looking forward to.

While showing off to Asillie the appearance of changing into the Levien family uniform that Ragnis had prepared again, the eyes of the people around us naturally fell upon us as we moved under the strict guard of Esmuier’s bodyguards, who had returned to the city. Eh paid no attention to that gaze and spoke as usual.

“Unless the technology of the demons has developed to a level beyond imagination, it is believed that they came in hiding through the sea.”

The seas of this world are more dangerous than the land.

I’m an inland person, so I’ve never seen the sea myself, but looking at the information I’ve come across while reading various books during my time with the Ogatorf family, it’s dangerous enough that I don’t want to go to the sea.

If you tell passers-by about the current story right now, it is dangerous enough to regard it as crazy rather than taking it seriously. No matter how much the demons have superior physical abilities than humans, drowning to death is the same thing.

Normally, I would have reacted similarly, but this time I had a place to guess, so I could seriously relate to Esmuer’s words.

“It could have entered the gap in Mandeli Harbor.”

Since I have many eyes to see, I answered with respect, and all three women were looking at me in amazement.

“Hmm? Surprisingly, you’re on the bright side of information.”

“Yeah. I didn’t think you would know.”

“I had the chance to hear about it by chance recently.”

I never thought that a conversation with the kind Garrun would be useful here. In mourning his death, if I see the sex offender Dantel again, I will have to beat him one more time regardless of the reason.

“Anyway, normally, I would have thought it was a really ridiculous story, but like you said, this time it’s a story with a possibility. It seems that the return was planned to be at the gate.”

As soon as I entered, Esmuer and the guards guessed that the academy’s gate had been destroyed by the same method as the gate that remained after returning to the Demonic Territory. It is said that the gate made due to the raid of the SS was able to be fully preserved, so it will be revealed after some time.

“Your credit this time is so great that no one can say anything about it. I want to give you a title right away, but unfortunately, you are a citizen of Itsiel, so it’s a difficult situation right now.”

I don’t know if it’s a formality and procedure or something else, but it is said that one of the conditions that did not put a brake on Esmuier’s rapid movement was the delivery of my recruits.

Ragnis explained to me as I tilted my head, wondering what kind of bizarre condition it was, even though I was a citizen of Itthel in the first place.

“It wasn’t enough that you defeated the hero at the academy and killed the young lion of Rudra, but you are the one who even stopped the princess’s kidnapping attempt. Even from the point of view of the empire, you might be criticized for being impudent diplomatically, but you can’t choose to unilaterally assign a title and accept it as an imperial citizen.” There is no situation.”

At the same time, Ragnis’ glance at Esmue seemed to contain other reasons that he had not been able to mention because it was a public setting.

Those were things I could easily guess. If Esmuer’s character had such an opportunity, he would have tried it right away.

“Um. It’s too bad.”

Zeke listened to the story even though he was taken aback when I suddenly gave him personal information about him.

“Anyway, if you ever feel that way, you have to run away without looking back. It’s your pride and nothing.”

“No, but how did you kill your brother?”

“I can’t tell you that because it’s a trade secret. Don’t look at it that way, right?

If I say I know how to use magic like the demons, it’s obvious that more shitty things will happen than good things. Even though he was a reincarnated person like the hero, it was something that Zeke couldn’t say yet.

Fortunately, Zeke didn’t bother to ask further, he understood and moved on to another topic.

“Rather than that...he heard about it from Esmuer.”

“I don’t like it when a man tantalizes me. What?”

“Ac. I was uncooperative with the Empire.”

I wanted to keep bothering him by looking at him like this, so he was talking about a story from the last meal.

“Is that why you’re acting so stuffy? If you feel sorry for yourself, start training hard from now on. That’s enough in two months, you’ll be able to fly right away.”

“...Is that really all? Are you okay?”

“Didn’t Esmuer tell you? Ragnis and I never really expected anything from a hero. We didn’t expect anything, but what does the hero do or play?”

The reason why I guessed alone before visiting the empire for the first time and was furious with myself was purely the deep anger that came from the fact that there might be beings taking advantage of this pan-national crisis situation for self-interest.

And I was angry under the assumption that the hero was a person from this world. It was a situation that had nothing to do with Zeke and the Empire.

“When the hero received the oracle as a hero... was it when I was 12 years old? I keep getting confused about when. Anyway, it was around that time, but the time when my village was burned was when I was 8 years old. If I had to argue with you, it would have been four years before I got older. Shouldn’t we argue with the god who chose the young hero as a hero?”

Of course, others won’t think so. They might go into a fit when they hear that the hero has wasted years of his time.

But that’s no different even if the hero worked hard and was strong. Being a hero doesn’t mean defending the continent alone, so someone is bound to die somewhere without a hero.

Even if heroes in fairy tales or warriors in fantasy actually exist, they are, after all, real.

Nothing is perfect in reality. Even God wasn’t perfect, so he chose a guy like Zeke as a hero.

“Of course, most people wouldn’t think so, but we don’t care about that, so just do what you normally do. If you go to the battlefield in earnest, you’ll have to face people’s resentment more directly than that, but what is that already?”

“...thanks.”

“It’s really sick.”

I hit the shoulder with a fist because it was so disgusting to do something that didn’t suit him, but Zeke smiled while covering the area where he was hit.