I’m Not a Hero Like You

111 – 36. Every breath.(3)

The first time he witnessed it, Minnes knew right away that it wasn’t human.

Of course, he was clearly different from a human just by looking at his appearance.

The stone family.

Or the Stone Man.

In the way that humans resemble lizards, humans have defined it.

The stone tribe. In other words, from the Lizardmen’s point of view, they belonged to the side that saw humans as similar to them.

Their history is long.

There were even speculations that it might have shared a history with dragons and dragons.

It’s just that they didn’t build up a civilization or history as concretely as modern humans, and that their history continued at least 10,000 years ago was historically proven by dragons, so no one can deny this.

For example, they are part of those who are referred to as the primitive races.

Like those elves.

However, the being in front of me didn’t look like a simple lizardman.

The shape of the face is more elongated than that of a lizard, so I have no choice but to say that it was quite close to a dragon.

She had never seen a dragon or dragons in person, but she also had vague memories of seeing them in her children’s books or her drawings.

She was very much like it.

So he must be more like a dragon than a stone man.

And, if you met Yongin in a place like this, it would be one of two things.

Yongin, one of the few tribes living in the Valley of the Lake Dragon.

Or.

Like a lake dragon disguised as a dragon.

“What is the old man here for?”

While he was frozen like that, he hesitated, not knowing how to react.

Asses stepped forward, leaning on Minnes shoulder, pretending to know him.

“I just went there to look after the children.”

“Oh, is that so?”

Ashes replied insincerely.

“How is he?”

“It’s consistent.”

Here, he’s talking about Kariel.

“Your lady is much better than when she first came. Aren’t your hands and feet cold now? Seeing that he hasn’t caught the cold, he seems to have improved his self-control.”

“… ….”

This is an accurate insight.

In fact, Mines, who was able to control his powers to some extent, became less sensitive to the cold than before.

No, to be sure, the concept of her coldness has long since lost its meaning to her.

After a while, he recommended to Ases.

“Walk a little.”

“As you get older, you must have changed emotionally.”

The horse reacted sarcastically, but the body meekly headed to his side.

“The lady too.”

At his call, Mines reluctantly followed.

“As you might have guessed, I am the owner of this area. It’s strange that there is an owner in a normal land, but obsession with territory and possessiveness are instincts that you don’t have to do.”

“Don’t talk nonsense, right? It has been called Lake Dragon Valley for hundreds of years. What does that mean?”

Even though the words that came out of Aseth’s mouth were crooked, a respectful attitude naturally came out.

“Exactly. In order for me to keep this position, I had no choice but to claim myself as the owner. For some reason, the greedy ones didn’t leave empty land.”

Yongin calmly explained.

“I am the dragon of the lake, the watchman of the thousand-year-old sea, the owner of the lake wider than the sky, and the guide of the white snowy mountains….”

“Lancerus. That’s the name of this geeky dragon. If it’s hard to pronounce, you can call them Lance or Lance, but you can call them after getting permission from the old man.”

Asses cut off his words, he blurted out his name.

“Do something stupid.”

Yongin widened his bright yellow eyes as if he was very dissatisfied.

It was quite unusual that the blue skin was half flushed and turned purple.

“Do you think your ears will rot to hear all of that?”

“Even though each and every one of them reflects our time and history. What is the loss?”

“Because I don’t care?”

The two continued to chat like that, as if they were fighting a war of nerves.

“So, how are you? Are you getting the hang of it?”

“Okay. I’m not really interested in things like enlightenment or inspiration.”

“… Talent and ambition are at odds, so even heaven is indifferent. If you were noble and pure, your stomach would be stronger than it is now.”

“The times are strange. You said that too If I had been born 30 years later, the continent would have been placed under my feet.”

“It was like that then.”

“How are you?”

At those words, Yongin and Lansrus fell silent.

“Are you still unable to predict victory or defeat from the Sword Saint or something?”

“Because that is off-topic. However, in recent years, it has become possible to be sure. Only….”

“Just?”

“He must have appeared somewhere in this world.”

“What do you mean by that?”

“Life is something that goes around and around. He will be reborn and one day face swords with me. For the world would not yet let him go.”

“Are you saying he was reincarnated?”

“Maybe.”

Even as he spoke, Yongin somehow seemed to radiate longing.

“Then, isn’t it something to be happy about and find?”

“Unfortunately, it is across the continent from us. It is not to be found here, and it is an area beyond our reach.”

“… So what if he dies? A reunion is impossible, right? Then how are you going to win or lose?”

“That must also be fate.”

“How frustrating.”

Ashes clicked his tongue.

“So, I don’t think we called to talk about that. What is it?”

“Aces. From your observations, why do you think he was able to undertake such training?”

“How do I know that? Kariel is not a genius either, but he was a person who could be called a genius enough to do this early on. So….”

“Why do you bother talking about deceiving yourself?”

The bright yellow eyes cast a sad look.

“From my point of view, there is no such thing as talent. No, there may have been, but not anymore.”

“Why are you so sure?”

“Because I can see that with my eyes. Different from you Among the Balaur who roam here in the West Continent, no one has better knowledge than me in terms of sword, craft, and martial arts. With that eye and insight, I can assure you, even if there was a genius level talent in the past, it is not anymore. Even this would be a very special case.”

“There used to be? Why and how does the talent you have no disappear?”

“I don’t know. So it’s an unusual case.”

It’s an ambiguous ending.

“But look now. That has long since crossed the line.”

“Grandeus could see the future. And looking at what is going on now, I see that he inherited that arrangement.”

“So. Do you think it became stronger by taking someone else’s money in an instant?”

“You’re not completely wrong, are you?”

“There are many things in the world that cannot be eaten even if given.”

Lancerus, the lake dragon, raised his index finger and pointed at a distant place with his sharp, outstretched claws.

Because there was a white snowy mountain that towered high in the sky.

“Do you think you can get that for giving?”

“… It is impossible.”

“That is the case with him now.”

“You’re talking hard again.”

Athes scratched his head.

“In the end, receiving is also an ability, does that mean?”

“I’m not saying it’s wrong, but it’s wrong. That thing itself is suspicious and strange.”

And what you can afford.

The situation itself, where he took it as his own.

“There will be a guide. Unless there is a leader, that is not something you can get even if you want to.”

“So you want to say that Kariel didn’t do it alone, but that there is someone helping with this?”

“Yes. Whether it’s a teacher, a senior, or a guide. Because it has it, it must mean that it can move forward without hesitation.”

“So what?”

“… You misunderstood me.”

Asses immediately denied it.

“No, I understand the point. You mean you’re interested in the way Kariel taught, no matter who taught her?”

“Yes.”

“But I had no idea until I heard that from you. Do you know what this means? It means that what I have seen and felt cannot be of any inspiration or help to you.”

“… ….”

Eventually.

Lancerus is the secret of Kariel’s growth process and method.

More than Kariel’s attitude itself, her intense training and pure heart.

The one who taught me the way he believed and how he could do it this far.

Lancerus was asking exactly that.

“Some say I am a relief knight or something, but to be honest, Kariel is not a member of the relief team. The relief knights are unilaterally flirting.”

“Have I told you this before?”

For a moment there, as if to change the subject, Ranthruth changed the subject.

“Even the golden beast did not invade us. Therefore, it must be the truth that the world knows that this area was safe, right?”

“Sure? Is it not?”

“Yes. Exactly the opposite.”

The golden beast came to me before.

And that.

“He taught me.”

“… I beg your pardon?”

“The reason why I accepted you and gathered disciples is in a way the result of being influenced by their words.”

Don’t shut yourself up and live in your own world.

Because it’s like that, you can’t beat the Sword Saint.

“I couldn’t quite figure out what those words meant, but I followed them in order to make a breakthrough.”

Of course, as a condition, as long as the Demon King’s army doesn’t invade his own dignity, he won’t use his hands arbitrarily.

So even at that time, he quietly helped to protect his territory.

“And to be clear, the past few decades of nurturing you has led to greater growth than I have practiced for 100 years alone. I only recently found out why this is so.”

“I’m curious. You speak in such a way that even a being like you is still lacking in enlightenment.”

“No matter how high the top of the mountain is, everything is under the sky.”

Then, after clearing his throat, Lanthrus spoke in a heavy voice, as if telling a secret that was not a secret.

“Trees do not eat their own fruit.”

“Huh? What kind of buzzing noise are you talking about?”

“Just listen.”

Rancerus, who shot Ases as if he was offended by his interruption, continued his speech.

“Flowers do not spread fragrance for themselves.”

Neither the sun nor the moon emits light to illuminate itself.

“And over there. That too.”

Lancerus points to a distant place as if crossing a forest.

What is there, what is it pointing to?

Mines noticed right away.

“A lake is not filled with water to fill one’s barn. He’s not filling up to drink his water.”

“…… ?”

Asses had a look in his eyes that he did not understand.

Mines immediately understood.

“Everything, what you just said… Did you say that it was for someone else, not for me?”

“What do you mean?”

Why can’t that clever Ases understand this simple statement?

“Yes. In the end, it is you and the animals and plants that live around you that use the water of the filled lake. You and the animals around you eat the fruit that comes out of the tree.”

“What? So what? You want us to make something and give birth to be cheap?”

“Aces. You said you went from place to place to help Kariel and polished yourself, right? However, even if it was inefficient for the future reputation, you acted with a focus on goodness and justice?”

“Yes. For the future Kariel also talked to me that way, and I decided at the time that it was right.”

“Exactly.”

“…… ?”

What the hell is this old man trying to say?

“It’s invisible, but everything we do is being counted. Action, thought, will, consciousness. Even the consequences it triggers.”

“… ….”

At those words, Minnes was speechless.

In terms of religious doctrine, it was a story I heard all the time.

Live kindly. Then you will be blessed

If you do evil, you will definitely pay the price.

You will reap what you sow.

As you sow.

I will reap.

“To understand this, let alone the fact that the demon king who would plunge the world into catastrophe understood this, I couldn’t understand at all.”

“Do you understand what I mean?”

Asses looked at Mines and asked.

“Cause and Retribution.”

“Huh?”

“You brought it on yourself. You are nothing like that. You wished it You asked for it.”

“Why are you like this all of a sudden?”

“As you give, you receive.”

Lance Ruth looked at Mines and nodded his head.

The fact that his torn eyes are drawing an arc is not at all to blame.

“The old philosophers of Crick said that phenomena have objective causality independent of the will or consciousness of the intelligent body?”

What is the source?

Starting with the quest for this, various philosophical and magical schools diverged.

The starting point and the root was simple.

What is the source?

Those who wanted to find or implement this in the form of material paid attention to natural objects.

At first it was fire and water.

And I paid attention to their changes and all kinds of phenomena and results derived from those changes.

“Everything that exists has a good reason, and the cause of the causes, the highest root, is God. And there are those who make a conclusion. The simple ignorant logic that if you don’t know, God did it, also originated from this.”

“Old man. You know how much I hate philosophy and buzz, right?”

“What do you think is the reason and basis for Kariel to become like that?”

“That… What, I don’t know?”

“What strikes me as strange is that Kariel reached this far and gained such power with that premise.”

Though it could be wrapped in the name of an ordeal.

“That means I was born with that qualification.”

But just because you deserve it.

Achieving that is another matter.

“They are qualified to learn the Dragon God Sword, but if they don’t reach this point, they’ll learn it and won’t even have room to learn it. Until the moment you die. What if Rurik and Aristetis were qualified, but Mayer didn’t bring them?”

“… Would you just live happily with your situation? Or even if you are dissatisfied, how?”

“Let’s move on to Kariel’s story. Then, when Kariel is qualified, what he has done so far, and even when he came here to get the results and sort it out. For whoever led him this far?”

“… ….”

On the surface, it was Ashes himself who led Kariel here.

However, if I apply the old man’s words a little.

… After all, the good things Kariel did in the past? Linear?

Through that, the bond between himself and Kariel was connected.

In the end, that cause and effect? Anyway, because of that, he himself, Kariel, was guided here.

This is neither coincidental nor inevitable.

However, it is both coincidental and inevitable.

You get what you give?

I couldn’t understand why Mines said that.

‘Sure.’

In that sense.

Think again.

Before connecting with herself, Kariel had to leave her own country and come to her own country for some reason. She

Why was she so determined?

Where and from whom did you learn Grandeus’ swordsmanship before that?

Though it was a very simple problem when you think about it.

… Why have you never seriously thought about it?

Of course Kariel herself did it because she had some intentions, she said.

Because he’s a great guy.

By the way, who gave up thinking about being great as an excuse?

Let’s go back to the beginning.

You, Kariel.

…… How the hell did you learn the sword of Grandeus?

In addition, the swordsmanship of Grandeus, which even the Rescue Knights do not know. How do you know the origin and principle?

Who the hell told him that?

And.

How are you still able to push forward with so much confidence, a practice that no one has taught you, and so honest?

“That sounds ridiculous.”

What was considered casual suddenly began to be reflected in the realm of the impossible.

And even accepting it all casually.

Now, for some reason, I started to get goosebumps.

—-

“… ….”

Again, it lies here.

I know that this is space.

But it’s not real.

How far is the image.

It’s just a landscape someone made.

“It’s not long.”

And there.

Someone with a dark appearance.

He was welcoming me again.

“Is that so?”

“Yes.”

In his hand, a sword, but not a sword, was gripped by something dark in shape.

“What I know and what you know will probably be separate things from now on.”

“… ….”

“Knowing the future is, in a way, cruel.”

Because he broke the law, he had to pay a fair price for it.

However, if it leads to reasonable results.

Even this is like a wave that fluctuates for a moment in the great flow of nature, like a foam created by the waves.

A brief moment of shaking. Variable. It must be like dragon trim.

“However, since I can neither give birth to nor create descendants, I had no choice but to promise my future in this way.”

“A piece of trash.”

The golden girl in the distance sneered at her.

“I’m sorry.”

This is not communication.

It’s a one-sided explanation, it’s a sermon, it’s a torogo, it’s like a complaint.

However, the dark figure reacted towards the golden girl as if even he had heard it.

“Still, I just did my job. It must have been said hundreds of times already.”

“… ….”

The golden girl waved her hand in disapproval.

And Kariel watching over it.

“So this is the last time in Dalian?”

“Yes.”

It was a dark figure, and answered plainly.

“From now on, start pioneering yourself.”

He raises his vertical sword.

It’s very familiar, to the point where I get tired of it.

But now I’ve become more proficient than just breathing, so I can’t feel any discomfort or even hesitation.

As if closing and opening your eyes.

To the point where I couldn’t bear to recognize that the eyelids were being lifted.

It’s something I’ve really gotten used to.

At some point, this side was raising the sword in the same way as that one.

Non-number expression.

Yes.

This was Para.

The meaning is to prepare, prepare.

Did you say it was?

“… ….”

It was really simple.