chapter 28
28 – Childhood Friend Hero’s Journey (1) – Collapse
Seven years have passed since Nera broke up with Alan, and a lot has changed in that time.
Nerah, who is no longer immature and now a full-fledged saint, and Alan, who is no longer a fledgling next-generation hero, but a real hero.
As 7 years is not a short time, the boys and girls have grown a lot.
And after they changed, they had a chance to meet by chance.
It was planned to meet Nera as a saint and Alan as a warrior under the name of a warrior’s party, a warrior’s party.
Nera was overjoyed to hear the news.
‘I’ll be able to meet Alan… Again.’
Because she was really looking forward to meeting Allan, she was also curious about what kind of person he would have grown up to be.
She also wanted to show her changed self after 7 years.
And since she owed Alan 7 years ago, she naturally wanted to pay it back.
So in a lot of ways, Nera wanted to meet Alan, but…
In fact, there was one reason far more important than those reasons.
It was that Nera was in love with Allan.
‘… My heart is pounding…’
After Alan left, she thought of him all the time.
She was Alan, who at first felt like just a nasty little boy.
In fact, after Ner Ah was saved by Allan, she learned Allan’s true intentions, so she really saw many sides to her Allan.
She felt that Alan was a kind person.
She pretends to be cold on the outside, but on the inside she cares for her.
With that heart… Nera fell in love with her seven years ago, and that continues to this day.
So today I decided to meet Alan.
Nera had no choice but to hope.
As she travels, she gets to know Alan… She was the one who imagined such a rosy future a little bit.
But.
‘Nera. A long time.’
‘This is Alan. Long time no see. But who is the person next to you?’
Alan meets again after 7 years.
She’s already…
‘Hello. I am Alan’s fiancée, Raina.’
There was another woman.
A woman with brilliant golden hair.
She has a pretty cute impression, and this woman with a bold impression introduced herself as Alan’s fiancee.
‘There must have been a fiancée…’
When she heard that, to be honest… Nera couldn’t help but feel a little frustrated. She
As someone who likes Alan herself… She’s had her crush for 7 years.
She said it wasn’t easy for her to accept that he already had other crushes.
To be honest…
Now, at this moment, I felt like I wanted to stage a love affair.
Couldn’t she somehow squeeze herself into this chasm?
I thought for a moment.
Because the feelings I developed during the 7 years were by no means small.
But…
‘I see… Please take good care of me. Lina…’
She didn’t.
Then Alan will surely be in trouble.
And the two looked really good from the side.
Meanwhile, she seemed to have no room for herself, so she had no choice.
I have no choice but to give up…
And I have no choice but to ask for a blessing.
This is Nera’s story so far.
But…
“Tell me. What happened?”
Now back in reality, Raina didn’t know anything about him and she was arguing with herself like this.
She gave up Alan with a certain mind, but Raina kicked Alan too easily.
Besides, until I came to this point, unlike my past self, I didn’t do any self-reflection.
That look… So.
It was disgusting.
It was like seeing my past self.
If this is the case, what on earth did he give up for?
What on earth would you become if you were pushed by such a woman?
It was so unfair that I felt like going crazy.
‘I still believed…’
She is the woman Allan chose even after he left. She believed
She expected it to be different from her past self.
And I followed her because she seemed to have something in terms of being a hero.
Because she was a woman full of confidence.
But in the end, Rina had nothing.
She was just an ignorant kid.
“… That’s all right. Raina. We’re done here.”
Because she just said goodbye like this.
She didn’t want to be in a place like this, and she had no reason to follow Rina.
Nerah turned her body around, and she left.
“What?
Of course, Raina caught Nera.
She wasn’t Lina who would casually let a party member go out.
But, unfortunately, Nera’s determination was too strong.
“Take care of that. This party is doomed anyway. Ever since you abandoned Alan.”
After all, Raina can’t do anything herself.
She was just her little boy who knew she was great.
And I don’t know how to admit it.
There was only one thing I could say to Laina.
“You shouldn’t have done that to Alan.”
After she said that, Nera left this place like that.
“Hey. Wait. Wait…!”
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“It’s really this guy and that guy.”
And after Nera completely left, only the hero, Raina, was left behind.
Raina vented her anger by kicking a pebble next to her.
Since Nera was invisible, she has been very angry.
As a result, there is nothing left in the party of warriors other than themselves.
Annoyance came up as I thought of the departed colleagues.
Three died, one was let go, and one went voluntarily.
There was no one left around her.
It was no different from the complete collapse of the warrior party.
Of course, in this situation, Raina had no choice but to curse at the warrior party.
“Really… There are only guys I don’t like.”
She thought there was one reason why the warrior party lost to the devil.
That was because the warrior party was weak.
Of course, the Demon King was much stronger than expected, but the weakness of her warrior party stood out to her more than that.
To be honest, Raina herself fought against the demon king to some extent.
What did the party members do?
Elina died without using a single spell properly.
Andros died in vain while fighting and ran away in fear.
Miner failed in the raid and was brutally captured.
Also, Nera wasn’t particularly active.
Laina felt that their ability was too insufficient.
With stronger party members, this would never have happened…
Also, Nera is also very spectacle.
He didn’t do anything wrong.
Rainah herself is much stronger than Alan and is a great warrior.
The way he was praising him was really ugly.
In the end, there was not a single decent human being in the warrior party.
She
Because she herself failed.
“Damn it…!”
Thinking back, this fact made me very angry.
He challenged the demon king and became a defeated hero.
From her point of view, this was no different than a huge insult.
She was very angry because she was a Raina who wanted to leave her name in history as the strongest hero.
Why the hell did this happen?
Rina also began to think about this situation.
Where did she end up in such a miserable situation?
Regarding that part, Raina thought about it, and she finally got an answer.
“Come to think of it, didn’t Alan gather the party members?”
Her answer was simple.
All of this was because of Alan, her former fiancé and the tank of the warrior’s party.
Alan organized the current party, and she herself inherited it.
This happened because he gathered these trashy party members in the first place.
If I had gathered more proper party members, if I had gathered stronger party members, this would never have happened.
It was all because of Alan, who had given party members roughly.
“That doesn’t really help… f*ck.”
Because of that, Raina couldn’t help but be very angry right now. She
She tried to organize a warriors party with such party members, she said that she herself suffered greatly because of his foolish behavior.
I wanted to ask Alan right away.
“No…”
However, I managed to contain my anger.
The important thing right now is to subjugate the demon lord.
She is now a hero who has not been able to subdue the demon lord, so nothing is more important than subjugating the demon lord.
Because of this, Raina took a deep breath and regained her composure. She
She and she refined her will again.
“Yeah. It’s just been good at this point. I’m just making a party of warriors by selecting party members.”
She just decided to keep things a little simpler.
I’m angry that it just happened like this, but in the end there was no problem.
This problem became a problem because Alan selected party members. Then, if she failed because of Alan’s selection of party members, it would be a problem if Rina herself chose good party members.
And this time, I had to firmly subdue the demon lord.
If you think about it, it’s a very simple problem.
There was no particular problem.
“Alan will gather excellent party members who are incomparable to the ones you picked.”
Raina regained her energy.
Because she wasn’t the one who would be frustrated with her just because she didn’t have Alan.
In addition, the world is wide and there are many people.
There are quite a few talented and strong people among them.
“Do you think I need help like Alan?”
Nerah’s last words, the words that Alan couldn’t do that.
Raina didn’t admit that at all.
Now it was my turn to prove it.
As a proof of that, all you have to do is gather excellent party members and subdue the demon lord this time.
Thinking so, Raina moved her steps.
“Well… There are people who come to mind.”
I thought about who to recruit for a while, but there was one person that just came to my mind.
A man who was a member of Alan’s party when he was a warrior in the past.
I don’t know why, but Alan is the guy who imprisoned him in the dungeon, but he’s definitely a guy with one skill.
His name is Mark.
Raina intends to recruit that person.