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53 – The Broken Fanatic Hero

“I’m going crazy!!”

Prince Freud screamed, holding his head.

The voice was full of anger, disappointment, and desperation.

“Is this report true?!”

“Yes…Yes! The hero has now returned to the castle and is locked in his room and not coming out.”

“…What about the others?”

“They’re trying to persuade the hero to come out somehow…”

The crown prince sat down in his seat and sighed.

The hero Kenji, it was nice to even persuade him to give him the position of next emperor.

As if he was clearly attracted by the reward, he trained steadily.

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Perhaps it was because of his ability to grow as a warrior, and he grew rapidly as he received steady training.

Not even a few days have passed, but he has already demonstrated skills that can overwhelm quite a few knights alone.

How satisfied was he when he heard the news?

As soon as the hero grew enough to fight, the crown prince immediately dispatched him.

This was because the Demon King’s army, which had completely engulfed the eastern part of the empire, began to advance again.

There was no time to delay.

That was a mistake.

In his first sortie, the hero Kenji suffered a crushing defeat.

Of course, there was the problem that the hero Kenji had a critical lack of actual combat experience, but his luck was also quite bad.

Because the opponent he encountered on the battlefield was Big Bull of Black Iron, one of the Four Heavenly Kings of the Demon King’s Army.

“Ha! I’m not interested in novices!! Just like this…”

“hahahahaha!! He’s a strong kid!!”

“It’s the Four Heavenly Kings!! The Four Heavenly Kings Big Bull has appeared!!”

A demon with large horns on its head, rough beard, and strong, rough muscles.

As the Big Bull of Black Iron appeared, the voices of soldiers sighing could be heard nearby.

Hero Kenji didn’t care about the reactions of those around him and confidently stepped forward.

Significant knights in the imperial palace were already unable to withstand him.

He was able to defeat quite a few of the demon king’s army with just a few sword strikes.

Even if he is the Four Heavenly Kings of the Demon Lord’s army, he is not his enemy.

He truly thought so.

“Get out of the way! Big!! Don’t block the path of the hero!!”

That’s probably why he was able to attack Big Bull, the Four Heavenly Kings, without hesitation, even when he forced countless imperial soldiers and knights to retreat.

Kenji, the hero, bravely rushes towards the enemy commander, as if he were truly the hero in the story.

But it wasn’t courage.

It was said to be formidable.

“hahahaha! What a laughable attack!!”

“What…What…?!”

The hero’s bold swing did not inflict a single wound on the body of the Four Heavenly Kings, Big Bull.

It’s not like he blocked it with his own weapon or something like that.

Even though he received the warrior’s sword with his bare body, there was not a single scratch on his body.

Big Bull of Black Iron. As the name suggests, the sword was deflected with a body like steel.

“Are you calling yourself a hero with that level of skill? That’s funny, kid!!”

“Ugh?!”

The Big Bull charges with its massive body holding a huge weapon.

The hero Kenji, who had been confidently confronting the Four Heavenly Kings just a moment ago, was completely intimidated as his own attack had been bounced off once.

“hahahaha!! Take it!!”

“Ugh…Ugh?!”

“Hero?!”

Unable to withstand the harsh attack of the Four Heavenly Kings, Big Bull, the hero Kenji is thrown out.

As he lost consciousness and was thrown away, his fellow girls ran over to catch him.

While his comrades desperately tried to block Big Bull’s attack, those in the rear retreated, taking the warrior with them.

The hero’s first battle ended in a crushing defeat.

Fortunately, none of the comrades died, but those who were blocking the Big Bull were seriously injured, and there were many casualties among the soldiers.

There can be both victory and defeat on the battlefield.

No matter how brave he is, he can still be defeated.

In addition, since it was the first real battle, the country’s leading figures, colleagues, and even Prince Freud understood that defeat itself was inevitable.

However, the problem was not defeat.

The problem was the warrior who experienced defeat.

This was the first time the hero Kenji had experienced defeat on a real battlefield, and he was broken.

He was so frightened by the battlefield itself that he locked himself in the room prepared in the imperial palace and did not want to come out.

Even though his comrades who fought with him tried to persuade him, it was useless.

When Prince Freud initially said he would not come forward, he went to see him and tried to persuade him, but he could not even see his face.

“Damn it!!”

The crown prince cursed.

After spending a lot of time and even attracting fanatics who were ostracized as cultists, I was completely upset because the summoned hero was not functioning properly.

“…The strength of a hero lies in the speed of his growth. Even if he suffers repeated defeats, he uses that as nourishment to become stronger.”

Next to the grumbling crown prince, Princess Anies opened her mouth and spoke.

“Hero Hans also suffered defeats at first, but as he went on, he began to sound victory. Hero Kenji must also have the same potential…”

“But there’s nothing he can do when he loses the will to fight like that!!”

“Yes… Of course…”

Princess Anyes was also frustrated.

Like the warrior Hans, the hero Kenji was expected to grow beyond defeat and defeat the devil’s army.

But the warrior Hans and the warrior Kenji were different.

If the warrior Hans experienced defeat, felt resentful, and jumped back into the battlefield to seek revenge, the warrior Kenji suffered defeat and became scared.

Even if they are the same hero, they are different people.

Trying to treat them with the same standards may have been the root of the problem.

“Anyway, keep persuading the hero Kenji to go to the battlefield again!!”

At the crown prince’s order, the subjects had to do their best to hide their sh*t-chewing expressions.

“Hero! Please come out! Please at least show your face!!”

In front of the warrior’s visit within the imperial palace.

A girl shouted as she knocked on her door.

But there was no voice coming back from inside that door.

How long was the confrontation?

Eventually, the girl had to sigh and leave her room.

“…Ugh, what on earth is this…”

Her name is Celicia Dexion.

She is the daughter of the Count Dexion family, a prestigious noble family of the Empire. As she belongs to the Count Dexion family, a knightly family, she has been trained as a knight since childhood.

She was educated by her family, and she graduated from the prestigious academy’s knight department, making her an elite of the elite who took an elite course.

What happened while she was studying hard was the invasion of none other than her, the Demon King’s army.

She tried to go to the battlefield right away, but no matter how much she was trained as a knight, there was no way she would be allowed to go to the battlefield as she was still a young student.

But she was still young and was not convinced, so she left her academy without her adults knowing and hid alone in the area where the battle was said to be taking place.

And she got to experience a real battlefield.

The terrifying power of demons, dying lives, blood and madness of battlefield…

She panicked in a real battlefield she had never experienced before.

“Hee…Hee?!”

Of course, she was discovered by demon soldiers.

The demon soldiers recognized her as a soldier with her sword drawn and attacked her, and with her own accumulated skills, Selicia was somehow able to break through.

But her battlefield was too fast for her as she was still a child.

She was immediately surrounded, captured, and driven to the brink of death, but it was her warrior party that saved her.

The warrior Hans, the princess Anies, the saint Ciella, and the sorcerer Alessa.

They appeared, destroyed her demon army, and saved her.

“Are you okay?”

“Ah… That… That…”

“You’re still a child, right? What are you doing in a place like this?”

The hero was very strong.

The image of a hero who instantly disintegrates the demon soldiers and supports them was imprinted in Selicia’s impression for a long time.

The movements, the swordsmanship, and the movements all remained in Celicia’s mind.

She came to admire the warrior party. She

She wanted to become a strong, cool, and great person like the warrior party one day.

So, when the Demon King’s army invaded again and a new hero was summoned, she was asked to recruit people to fight with him, and she was the first to volunteer.

She believed that she, like the warrior party, could become a hero who would drive out demons and save people.

“I am Kenji, the hero! Just trust me and follow me!!”

The new hero was a little different from what he had thought, but he was still a hero.

Befitting a warrior, her skills, which were initially inferior to those of Selicia, quickly grew to the point where they were on par or even better.

“Hero? Tomorrow is the day you go to the battlefield. What are you doing here…?”

“Huh? Celicia, how about you too? I’m thinking of going out to play with these kids from now on…”

“……”

Although his personality had some flaws, he still had the strong strength of a warrior.

So, it was true that he thought it would be okay, a little complacent.

But what is this now?

With one defeat, the hero was completely defeated.

Many of his comrades who fought together fought hard against Big Bull, the Four Heavenly Kings of the Demon Lord’s Army, and fell into critical condition in order to save the hero and send him away.

“…That kind of thing is a hero…”

Isn’t a warrior, simply in the dictionary sense, a person with courage?

Nevertheless, is it okay to call someone who was so defeated in a single defeat a hero?

Thoughts like that made me sigh every time.

“Oh, aren’t you Celicia?”

“Uh…So…You were definitely Miss Iola… Right?”

“Uhuhu, yes.”

As Selicia was walking through the imperial palace, leaving the hero’s room behind, she encountered a woman named Iola, a fellow hero.

The class was Mage, and she was quite capable of handling various types of cursed black magic.

“Are you coming back from the hero’s room? How was it?”

“Well…You still don’t want to come out of the room.”

“I see…”

Celicia felt uncomfortable with this woman named Iola.

No, it wasn’t that my personality didn’t match or anything like that.

Selicia has basically been through a lot of social life, so she was able to overcome some of the things that didn’t fit her personality.

The problem is that this woman is a member of a fanatic religion that is designated as a xie jiao.

I heard that she also has a fairly high status.

For Selicia, a devout believer of the Goddess Church, this was someone who could not help but feel uncomfortable.

“Hmm… I guess there’s nothing we can do…”

“…Hey, Mr. Iola…? What’s going on?”

“No, don’t worry, I’ll go try to persuade the hero too.”

“Oh, yes…”

Iola takes light steps and heads towards the warrior’s room through the path she came from.

Looking at her back, a somewhat uneasy feeling came over Selicia.