I’m Not a Hero Like You

109 – 36. Every breath I take.

I heard a sound that could never be heard in nature.

Thanks to that, Ases woke up earlier than usual and focused on the sounds and sounds of people outside the cabin.

Minnes had gone out, albeit shallowly, and was fully aware that he was out and talking to someone.

And if you add in the smell that emanates from it, it wasn’t that difficult to guess.

If you look at sleep, it was only for a short period of time that I slept soundly, and the rest of the time, I closed my eyes in a way that I was half awake.

No matter how genius you are, the battlefield doesn’t take such circumstances into account.

Relaxation and body care are essential to maintaining power.

And if it’s an ability, it’s an ability to control the high and low of sleep.

The ding-ding sound is combined with the reverberation to become a performance. It becomes music

‘If this is a skill, then it’s a trick.’

When did you become such a skilled performer?

I can’t get used to it no matter how many times I listen to it.

… It might not be because each song is different.

After leaving the cabin, the sound becomes clearer.

The scorched pot was sitting empty next to the bonfire, and the intensity of the blazing fire gradually reached its end, leaving only dim light.

There, as the fog fades and the sunlight breaks through, it becomes a little clearer.

The figure of Kariel playing the guitar while sitting on a tree she had laid down as a chair was newer than when she had seen her before, and her physical condition looked much better.

First of all, perhaps because of the fact that her skinny body has managed to gain some weight, she doesn’t look as pitiful as before.

At first glance, she seemed to be taking a break, sitting with her left leg stretched out and her right leg crossed, playing with her instrument resting on top.

No, that would be correct.

“When are you going back?”

“… ….”

She watched the situation while standing, and when the question seemed to be lengthy, Kariel replied, lowering the sound of her playing.

“Sometimes.”

“Sometimes?”

“Because the bottom preparations are over.”

“Then?”

“Now that I’ve built up my inner strength, I need to fill in other things from now on.”

For example, it’s time to build a body.

No, wasn’t that the case until now?

It’s all the same process.

If only it had been the process of throwing away useless things and emptying them.

From now on, the only thing left to do is fill it up.

In other words, that was the story.

“Are all your questions resolved?”

When Ashes asked, Mines only nodded softly at her head.

“Then goodbye?”

“No…. Not yet.”

“Why?”

“… ….”

Then Mines asks about something he hadn’t asked before, even though he’d been curious about it.

“Asses, why are you staying here?”

When Mines asked, turning her gaze to Kariel for a moment.

Asses said it was nothing special.

“Because I decided to do that a long time ago.”

“Once upon a time?”

Very young.

Even though I was a child to myself.

Thrown to the continent as if banished from her motherland at the age of only 11, she managed to find a place to settle down thanks to her mother’s letter of introduction.

Even that was short-lived.

“After wandering around like that, I met this girl, and after being recognized for her skills, I thought she had a status, so I ended up escorting her child.”

That was when I was only 12 years old.

Kariel Before she was less than 10 years old, she was traveling back and forth in other countries.

During his visit to the kingdom of Metran, he learned that she was rapidly emerging as a powerful person who did not match her age.

After that, she came to accompany me several times, and she came to a position where she made promises of this and that.

“I realized once again that I couldn’t be satisfied with myself.”

Even at the time when she was in her home country, she already showed her bottomless potential, to the extent that she was already a child.

The fact that at such a young age she was subjected to trials by the fairy of the lake, and the fact that she passed those trials… In a way, she can be said to be unprecedented.

However.

She refused the sword given by the fairy of the lake.

She rejected all the requests that the fairy of the lake had made.

The result was the banishment order from the country, along with the curse imposed by the fairy of the lake.

It is not permanent banishment.

If you want to go back even now, you can go back anytime.

Well then, it will be used for the purpose of arranged marriage.

I got into this situation by refusing to let anyone dictate, manipulate, or mortgage my life.

… Crawl back into the cage, into the cage, saying that you will return to your hometown now?

Isn’t that impossible?

“I felt I had to improve her skills. Because the only thing I can be treated by someone is my skills after all.”

Because it is personality, it is too late at the very least to determine character, character, and dignity.

It is said that acting is possible on the surface, but in order for it to have meaning, all of it has meaning only when there is a foundation or backing.

However, for the purpose of an arranged marriage, if you use your blood to appeal to your political charm, what is the meaning of that?

If your father brings you an irresistibly attractive companion, at least as a warrior and knight, even if your future is dead, Asserat en Draig. His position as a member of the royal family would have been well established.

Anything like Kariel would satisfy that condition.

Because it’s a being called the lineage of brilliance.

… However.

You calculated and thought about that? What if you tried to approach it?

About half?

“So I completely changed my thinking.”

What if it wasn’t a companion, but a companion or master-servant relationship?

What if you could achieve a relationship in a realm that no one can touch?

“I had already abandoned the idea of returning to my hometown, and I needed a place to settle down. I had roughly decided that in the Empire, under him. Just looking at it, it was promising at the time.”

However, in order to be respected and treated, you need the ability to match it.

No one shows respect for useless things. Unless you’re quite the nerd.

It would be better if I left it alone and threw it away.

So.

Asses realized the need to grow even more.

Just then, I came into contact with Gazef, one of the nine heroes.

Even this was the result of Kariel’s help.

And Gazef told me about the powerful people who exist all over the continent, including the lake dragon and the relief knights.

First of all, Ashes received the Dragon God Sword straight away.

There was no need to learn the throwing god style, she already had the qualifications to learn it.

Recognizing that, the lake dragon directly instructed Ases for just ten days.

After that, she used to devote herself to training alone for more than half a year.

Occasionally, Gazef became an opponent for sparring and made up for the lack of practical training.

Aces, who was confident in his skills to a certain extent, used to scan the surroundings in moderation in order to join Kariel and to see and learn the skills of talented people who were everywhere on the way.

Then, when conflicts or large or small battles broke out, I used to participate as a mercenary and make a great contribution.

Even in the monster subjugation battle, this was no exception.

Then I met a man who was a member of the relief knights at the time and called the first sword.

He had never learned the swordsmanship unique to the relief knights from him, but after a week or so he was able to follow it roughly.

But in the crucial part, he was unable to copy anything.

He said that he would let me know when he officially became a member of the relief team, so he said he was ready to go.

Unexpectedly, after that, I wandered here and there with him for a few weeks, focusing on learning skills.

After that.

It was good that he had learned the dragon sword and the sword of the unknown relief knights, aka Grand Deus swordsmanship.

I couldn’t find anything further than that.

He wanted to find out that it was the sword of the Sword Master, but he couldn’t see it, as if it wasn’t meant to be.

Then, I heard the news that Kariel had returned to the Empire.

I heard the news right before I entered the country of the elves, so I turned around from there.

He thought about heading to the Empire here, but for later, he wandered around and focused on combat training and growth.

Has it been about 5 years like that?

Throughout the empire, rumors of Kariel becoming an idiot were leaking in secretly.

… Like she’s a broken genius.

“I thought it was better. Me at that time.”

“… Why?”

“The more desperate the situation, the more valuable my help will be.”

That’s why she set up a mercenary group in earnest.

It’s impossible alone, but if you build up your forces, you’ll be sure to become a strong force.

So, if you become an existence that can be used when you need to add strength.

Your position will be permanently preserved until the day you die.

At the time, she judged that.

I didn’t have time to find out what Kariel was like in the Empire.

She thought, though, that if she had the brilliance I had seen before, she must have had a reason for inducing rumors like that to spread.

“It was a huge illusion.”

Here.

On the journey to the Valley of the Lake Dragon and the Forest of the Lake Dragon, Ases managed to grasp the truth of his situation.

Memory disorders.

He has few talents, but his family and surroundings force him to do more.

“But he was more talented at dealing with people than a warrior. If you put it badly, you’re good at plotting, and if you put it goodly, you’re good at politics? That doesn’t mean he couldn’t handle the sword at all. It’s strange.”

Can’t handle mana?

This must have been the most lethal part.

However, this can be replaced with tools.

… What was the problem

More than that, why did he become ‘unable’ to handle mana?

As for the Kariel Athes knew, she wasn’t a mana misfit or incompetent.

This is what Kariel says, and she thinks it’s some kind of aftereffect from the time she almost died, but she’s only guessing, but she’s probably right.

The most serious is memory impairment.

And to the extent that talent has disappeared, knowingly and unknowingly, in every way?

In the aftermath of death, even the talents and talents you originally had disappear? Isn’t that a bit odd?

“So, does Ases-sama intend to continue chasing Kariel?”

“Don’t you think you’re already hooked up enough? After all, I have a relationship with the relief knights, and I became the person who made him escape, so will there be any children who will believe that I am only talking about cancer, saying that I have nothing to do with him later?”

“… ….”

The most serious rumor about Kariel is that he may be related to the Demon King.

At first, I thought that rumors spread because he was simply the one who inherited the legacy of the Great Demon King, freed the heir, or got involved.

However, when I looked closely, it was different from that.

Not the demon king as the heirs of the legacy.

As for the rumors related to the demon king related to Kariel.

It was because he had something to do with the ‘Golden Beast’.

“Then, as rumored, is it really related to the golden beast?”

As if Mines had lost his mind then, he asked Kariel.

“It is not a false story.”

Kariel calmly put that fact into her mouth.

“That’s not necessarily the right word.”

Then, for some reason, Kariel snorted at her and stared into the air for a moment.

As he stroked the strings with his fingers again, a soft tone came out with vibration.

“… ….”

If you look closely.

This is also the reason why Mines wants to stay here.

Whether or not it was true didn’t matter to Minnes.

The only thing that matters is that he seemed desperate for help.

Actually, he was such a powerful person that he could even neutralize himself for a moment.

In this world, there were absolute things that couldn’t be helped with just such skills.

He was currently on the verge of being ostracized from the world, whether intentionally or not.

“So, since when?”

Let Ases say something incomprehensible.

Kariel answered, putting her guitar down.

“Whenever. Every breath you take. Every moment I open my eyes.”

What does it mean?

I only found out later.

After that, with Kariel holding the same ordinary iron sword as she had seen before, she continued her movement training.

That’s amazing.

… Until the moment the sun went down, there was no rest or pause.

However, the movements taken are very slow and monotonous.

It didn’t look difficult at all just by watching.

Sweat flowed all over his body as if it were raining, and white steam gushed out ceaselessly, like fog rising.

He was always like that except at meals.

Thanks to the top he took off, I was able to closely observe how his skinny upper body was changing day by day.

When he fell asleep, he would go back to the cave or disappear.

Hunting was done by Ases and Mines in turns.

Because of the increased number of mouths to eat, the frequency of hunting also increased, but Kariel, who returned, tended to eat things very wildly, close to gluttony.

Even so, she never gained weight or gained weight.

Nevertheless, the skinny body gradually began to find a human-like shape.

In less than a week, the boy grew up a bit and grew up again.

He had transformed into a boy who looked much healthier than before.

“… ….”

And when he was resting, he always played with his guitar.

That way, before ten days had just passed.

“Um, over there….”

A girl with tanned skin and a stocky body, silvery blue hair and fairy-like green eyes.

Aris Thetis, Kariel, attracted by her guitar playing, asked her halfway to her bewitched face.

“Me, me too… can i learn? Oh, I am very impressed… The sound of that music keeps lingering in my head, so….”

Of course.

“…… If you want to.”

Kariel didn’t hesitate.