My childhood friend the hero was genuinely angry

2 – Hero’s Childhood Friend (2)

In the end, I had to face the fate of being banished from the Empire. I had to leave the empire within today, and I couldn’t enter the empire again.

To be honest, I had no regrets either. In the first place, I’m not from an empire, and I didn’t really want to be in an empire where people were busy.

My feeling of being expelled and leaving now, I didn’t feel particularly bad, I was rather refreshed.

‘Hmm… Shall we start right away?’

The deadline to leave the empire is today, but since there was nowhere to stop in particular, I decided to leave immediately.

After leaving the capital, I immediately set out to leave this empire.

“Zerath. Shall we talk on the way…?”

“Huh…? Amira?”

But then Amira came to visit me. She is Amira who suddenly appears from the side and blocks my path.

She seemed to want to have a conversation.

“What story?”

“Just talking about this and that. But he was a colleague.”

I wanted to talk about something important, but it didn’t seem like that.

The feeling of sadness I felt on Amira’s face. The Amira I knew definitely had a lot of affection.

Since I’m leaving, it must be a little regretful. It seems like he just wanted to talk because he was sad to let go.

“What. Good.”

There is no need to be so busy, and I don’t think it would be bad to walk slowly and talk to Amira for a while.

So Amira stood next to me. Then, Amira and I walked side by side.

“Xerath…But are you really going? To be honest, you know it’s far-fetched…”

As we were walking like that, Amira started talking to me as if she was a little sad.

Anyway, she didn’t seem to understand that I was leaving.

Since she also watched the process of me being kicked out from the sidelines, of course she couldn’t help but feel hurt.

“Well, even if I know it’s forced, is there any way not to go?”

But, I’m just calm. Because this kind of political strife always happened in the empire.

In the first place, I entered the warrior party in the empire, but I was prepared to be kicked out. When I first saw me, I couldn’t help but think so when I saw the expression of the nobles of the empire.

That’s because it’s been 3 years. It was later than expected, but the result was the same as I expected.

“Isn’t it okay to just ask the princess? Shall I ask?”

“You know that doesn’t make any sense. Don’t worry too much about it.”

So I dried Amira in moderation. In the first place, they weren’t the people who would listen to what Amira said.

Also, since I wasn’t hurt at all, it really didn’t matter at all.

“That’s the case… But it’s because I’m missing something. We’ve been together for three years, but I’m leaving so suddenly.”

“Well, when there is a meeting, there is a parting. When there is a parting, there is also a meeting. I am not going to die.

And I was never going to die or anything like that. It was nothing more than just quitting the warrior party and leaving the empire.

So maybe we can meet again someday. There was no need to be too sad. There will be no eternal separation as long as we are on this continent.

As long as we live, we will meet again someday. I comforted her thinking so.

“…”

Amira kept silent for a moment at my words.

Amira thought about it for a moment before she uttered her words, a little surprised.

“Should I just follow you?”

“Huh…?”

“I just wanted to quit the warrior party and follow you.”

The look of Amira contemplating whether to follow me, does she regret that I am leaving?

Anyway, I can feel the regret of breaking up.

“Would you like to follow me…?”

I thought for a moment about Amira’s words. To be honest, I wasn’t too happy to break up with a colleague with whom I’d been eating together for three years.

Even if it was Amira, she thought it wouldn’t be a bad idea to accompany me on the way.

With her, she could be a good friend in many ways. You will never be bored on the road.

“By the way, didn’t you participate in the warrior party as the representative of the elven village? I don’t think that would work.”

“… I guess so.”

But, of course, that wasn’t the case. Amira has always been the representative of the elven village.

For her to defeat the warrior party and follow me, it was like taking responsibility for the entire elven village.

Of course, that shouldn’t have happened. The power of the empire on the continent is overwhelming. At most, a small elven village could not violate the Empire.

That’s why I had no choice but to stop her, and Amira didn’t say anything more. She wouldn’t even know how stupid her own words were.

“You’ve already arrived. Thank you so much. Amira.”

“Yes…”

“Goodbye then.”

“Yeah…! I’ll go play next time I get a chance.”

I saw the castle gate before I knew it. Now, if you pass through that gate, there will be no more coming to the empire.

It was time to say goodbye. I smiled brightly at Amira as I shook her hand, and Amira also shook her hand. She didn’t smile brightly, but she said goodbye properly.

When she and her were completely distant, I arrived at the gate.

And just about to get out of the gate.

“This is Xeras, the wizard of the warrior party…!”

Suddenly seeing me, one of the guards in front of the gate started screaming.

And at that sound, the guards scattered throughout the Empire gathered here all at once.

Guards of about 20 people, they started to surround me.

“Hmm…? What? Imperial guards? Why are you like this?”

I was honestly embarrassed by this situation. Have I committed some strange crime? I thought so.

Of course I’d never committed a crime like that, but I couldn’t help but feel uneasy when I was surrounded by guards like this.

Are you trying to fight me? I had an idea, and I took up my staff and prepared for battle.

But it doesn’t seem like that. The guards didn’t point their spears at me. He stared at me with the spear on the floor. Then he raised one hand.

“Attention everyone!!!! Salute to Xeras of the Warriors Party for all your hard work!!!”

Then he raised his hand and saluted me. It was a formal and moderate salute.

I didn’t know why they were doing this salute. I was confused as to why he was doing this all of a sudden.

However, I soon found out. The reason they saluted me was gratitude.

“Thank you for protecting the empire until now.”

“Xerath. Our family you saved. We will never be able to repay that favor.”

“Xerath, you are the benefactor of the empire and of us.”

It was the guards who gave me thanks while saluting.

I definitely have memories of fighting alongside them. When the Four Heavenly Kings invaded the empire, they fought together.

Perhaps the guards saluted me like that.

“Heh heh…”

But, well, I was just working as a magician in a warrior’s party for a green salary.

I didn’t help for free, so I wonder if I should be thanked like this.

If you become a wizard of the warriors party, the money you receive is, of course, enormous, but I just did my job for the money.

In addition, if you are a wizard of the warriors party, you can get items that ordinary wizards cannot get, and a very thick line is engraved in my career.

Also, if I were a hero, I was just a person who assisted the hero.

Is there any reason to be thanked this much? I think so.

When I laughed out loud because of that, it didn’t end here. This time, citizens of the Empire came running towards me from afar.

“Oh… I heard the news. Xerath. I won’t forget that you saved us.”

“You must be hungry on the way. Have some of these before you go. Our bread is very delicious.”

“Wizard oppa…! No matter where I go, I won’t forget it. Thank you for always taking care of me.”

They thanked me by bombarding me with gifts. There were quite a variety of gifts, including salted jerky, candy, and strange souvenirs.

As I gave these gifts, the citizens each expressed their gratitude to me. Some of them cried while giving gifts. He thanked me with tears in his eyes.

There were no such expensive gifts, but all of them were gifts full of sincerity.

“Well, why do all these things…”

To be honest, I am not very happy with this gift.

Because if I received this much gift, I had to call a carriage instead, which was more financially detrimental. The cost of using a wagon is also not insignificant.

Wouldn’t it be better to buy something like this again at that cost? I would like to call this a creation loss.

“Thank you.”

Well, but I had no intention of not taking it with me.

Even though receiving this is a loss, it feels good, so I’ll just accept it.