I’m a Hero, but I Gave Up Saving the World

89 – Crazy Serena

“Ugh… ! What does it smell like… !!”

I plugged my nose at the unbearable stench.

The cause of the odor is obvious.

“Listen, Mom. His Majesty the King said that he would give you a noble title for your contribution to protecting the holy sword this time. Isn’t that great? I told you. That one day I’ll be able to get my noble life back. We don’t have to live in hiding anymore. You don’t have to get hit by a stone on the street, you don’t have to worry about getting killed, and again… What else? Anyway, we’re fine now.”

“… Hey Dyna.”

“I told you, Faust. Serena is crazy.”

There was no exaggeration in Dyna’s words.

Serena was talking to the already decomposed corpse across the table with a broken leg.

Dozens of flies roared around the corpse, and the eyeballs became nests for wriggling maggots.

Is that corpse that must have been dead for a long time, Serena’s mother?

The end of the woman who was the Duchess was truly miserable.

“Your relationship with the hero? Just like my mother said, I’m treating the warrior with respect. Now I’m so close that it’s not an exaggeration to say that I’m his best friend? How did you capture the heart of the warrior? You know the man called Faust I was talking about last time? The guy who was summoned from another world with the hero-sama. The hero hated that guy so much that I took the lead in harassing Faust. I got some points for that~”

It’s like listening to something very old.

Guy Serena… Is your mind split because you can’t accept that your mother died?

So it feels like my memory has returned to the days when I was at least alive.

“yes? The hero is dead, what are you going to do? Ah~ Maybe that guy named Faust will become the new hero? Because that guy is the hero’s spare… ”

Serena’s one-person play does not intend to stop.

“uh? Why, why, mom? Why is your face so dark? What do you plan to do next? Yes, yes, go back to the nobility and be happy with your mother… uh? He hated the new hero, so he wouldn’t even be given the title of nobility… ? Ask Faust to forgive you… ? for a moment… Could he ever forgive me… !”

Serena clutched her head in pain and groaned.

“Ah… ! ruined… Since the age of the hero is young, I thought he would live for the next 30 to 40 years, so I went all-in to him, but who would have known that he would die so quickly… Will you forgive me for saying Faust is crazy?! I bullied you the most viciously, but ah… ! Are things so twisted ah… what to do mom… What should I do? Ahh… Fucked, really fucked… aaa!!! aaa!!! Ugh!!”

Unable to overcome the extreme stress, Serena fainted as her eyes rolled over.

With foam at the mouth.

It feels like watching a play.

“Huh… Whoa… Serena is… I keep going back to the past alone like that, repeating nonsense and passing out over and over again. You haven’t spoken to me for a few days.”

Dina covered her mouth and cried while watching her fainting friend.

“Why are you acting with Serena?”

“The day before Beatrice was burned at the stake, I was curious about Serena’s current situation, so I visited her. Serena’s mom is being lynched by gangsters. By the time I arrived, he had already stopped breathing. I feel sorry for Serena, who is crying like crazy while hugging her mother’s corpse, and I can’t leave her alone, so I’m following her.”

“I see.”

“Perhaps Serena is running away from the past because the reality is too painful. He always reconstructs his memories of the good times. I even went back to before my brother betrayed me and acted like an aristocrat. However, even if the point of return was different, the point of end of the delusion was always the same. When the moment of failure approaches in trying to be forgiven by you, it seems that Serena’s brain can’t accept reality and explodes.”

Dyna looked up at me with teary eyes and asked.

“Please, Faust… Please help Serena come back to reality. At this rate, that guy will get sick and die a violent death while talking nonsense in this unsanitary dump. There’s no one else to save him but you… ”

I looked up and down Serena’s entire body, who had fainted with her neck bent backwards.

The Serena I remember was a woman who had a lot of lingering attachments to the fact that she was once the daughter of a duke, and was stubborn enough to maintain her appearance at that time.

Her hair, make-up, and dress code were flawlessly perfect, so she still looked like a nobleman on the outside.

But now, Serena was barely wearing a pair of black lingerie, and even that was frayed and ripped, and her hair was bristling with no idea when it was washed, her nails that had been covered with manicure were all chipped, and there were scars and stains all over her body. It was like a beggar.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen an example that shows that I’m out of my mind so clearly.

“Please, Faust! please! Faust!! Faust!!!”

Dina suddenly knelt down and began to ejaculate.

“There is only you, Faust! Faust! Faust!!”

“green onion… Pow… S… crack… ?”

It was Serena, not me, who responded first to the thief’s earnest request.

“Faust… ? Faust is here… there is?”

Serena, who came to her senses while shaking slowly, looked around and found me.

“Faust!!!”

A high-pitched soprano voice that I often heard in the past.

A ferocious and uncivilized face.

Serena strides forward, looking the same as she did years ago.

Dyna, who sensed something strange, tried to stop me, but Serena was already patting my body with her fingers and arguing.

“Hey, you stupid bastard! What’s the matter with a bastard who should be in the stable?”

“Three, Serena. Please don’t. Wake.”

“Sigh? what are you talking about What are you saying not to do?”

Distraught, Serena slapped me on the cheek and smirked, as if she would rather not understand her worried friend.

“Did you not hear what the warrior said? You said you would reward the guy who tortures Faust as brutally as possible! Besides, the king actually participated in harassing Faust. This bastard is bullying now.”

“Serena please… Ahh… It’s a big deal, really… ”

“? what’s wrong with dyna? Why are you shaking your body like this? What are you afraid of? Faust You bastard is a piece of shit? Can I show you?”

Serena got into a clumsy boxing stance and started feeding a one-two to my stomach.

one two.

one two.

Dyna, unable to hear the thud, covered her ears and sat down.

“Don’t be scared, Dyna? This kid can’t resist no matter how beaten he is. The hero and His Highness both turned into enemies. There’s not a single person left in the world who’ll take the side of this buzzard. Is it okay to bother you? If you can kill a guy like this and win the favor of the hero, it’s a dog’s gain. is not it?”

There are two reasons why I keep quiet.

Because the first one doesn’t hurt at all.

Now that my body durability has grown to that of the dragon king, Serena’s punches, which I couldn’t even eat properly, were not as bad as a fly landing on me, so I didn’t feel itchy.

The second reason is that this situation, which faithfully reproduces the past as if riding a time machine, was amazing.

Memories fade someday.

Even things that were painful enough to die will be vaguely forgotten with the passage of time, roughly saying, “It was so painful at that time.”

But now, Serena was presenting exactly how I was bullied, like an answer sheet.

yes… Serena used to hit and tease me senselessly like this.

To get points from Kwak Dong-soo.

“Hey idiot! Why are you so silent today? As usual, it’s time to whine, “What did I do wrong?” No… ”

“—That’s exactly what being a human not worth killing is like.”

The counter punch, aimed precisely at the temple, landed.

“Kwueeek!!”

Serena let out a strange scream as she spun around in the air and slammed to the ground.

“W-what are you doing! I think you can do this to me without incident!”

“Don’t worry about yourself, Serena.”

I grabbed the spot where I had been hit and kicked the lower jaw of Serena, who was widening her eyes like a wildcat, with my instep.

“Ugh!”

“Thank you, Serena. For reminding me of my fading anger.”

“Let’s try it! How dare you attack the magician of the warriors party?”

Serena was not the parachute that Kwak Dong-soo liked simply because of flattery and flattery.

As much as she inherited the same bloodline as the rare genius wizard Gerena, she was also a wizard born with considerable talent.

So it’s not unreasonable to be so confident.

In the past, I probably wouldn’t have beaten Serena in a one-on-one fight.

However, now I am not the buzzard that Serena remembers, but a monster that has absorbed the power of the Fire Dragon King.

As a result, Serena was beaten so badly that all of her teeth were pulled out and her nasal bone was broken.

“Ahh… ahhh… what is this… why me… You, to a buzzard like you… ”

“Are you still not right?”

“Keugh… You are this baby… wait and see I’ll tell the hero and the king to give you a taste of hell. I will make you feel what real bullying is.”

Even after being bloody, Serena still provoked me vigorously.

It wasn’t worth answering any more, so I just killed him and went to help Irene, but Dina urged her friend with a horny voice.

“Please do something, Serena! Come back to reality! Kwak Dong-soo is dead! King Carlos is dead too! There is no one to help you!”

“… Sigh… ? what is that… ”

Serena’s eyes lose focus.

“You’re crazy because your only mother died! No matter how hard it is, you have to wake up now! Don’t live in the past, accept the reality please! Admit the reality!!!”

“… hyeon… line… ”

Serena looked alternately at the garbage around her, at the corpse being eaten by maggots, and at her friend shedding bitter tears.

“Sigh… ”

I looked at the sky as if it were empty and sighed, and finally checked my expression.

“Faust… Will you kill me… ?”

“yes.”

I replied with one word to Serena, who was trembling with a servile expression.

Of course, I had no intention of forgiving him from the beginning.

Today is the day Serena’s life ends.