Tale of the Fake Hero

Only Noblemtl

Season 3: Episode 105

The hero I saw and learned, the end of ‘Black Summer’ (10)

Admiring a warrior is like revealing ignorance of having never stood on a battlefield.

unawares.

Because I didn’t see it.

An abyss that distorts providence, rots, destroys, and collapses all that exists.

– Your name is Lucasel, which means ‘one who praises grace.’

The era I was born in was December 24th, year 495, in the 4th generation of the Universal Century.

Yeah, it was the Universal Century.

Among the countless worlds of creation, the level of civilization of the world to which belonged was uniquely unique.

Can you say I was ‘born’?

After being created in a test tube as the most suitable body for the Psalm of Incarnation, he had to compete against some machine to prove his worth.

I had to win to survive.

I have gained the right to live.

It is not that we live because we are born, but in order to live, we must first prove our worth.

My companion was Yonniulan.

It wasn’t just a simple sword. It was the first gift I received from the Creator after I was born. It was a friend who understood my heart.

It was the most precious treasure in life.

As soon as I was born, I was thrown into the storm of the Great Abyss struggle.

It was our mission to purify the worlds that had been corrupted by the Master of the Abyss, Yotos Yole Yotiatos.

The people of the world were weak.

They were so weak that they couldn’t even resist a single abyssal straggler who would fall by the thousands with a single swing of the Yonyulan, and they died by the dozens.

I felt sorry for him when I saw that.

That is why I believed without a doubt that my power was a noble duty, a mission given to me to save the powerless and the weak.

I was three years old at that time.

At an age when people around the world crawl on their hands and feet to find their parents and cry if their parents don’t hug them.

How can you be so weak?

How can it be so pitiful?

When I was seven, a little girl the same age as me, Segyemin, said she wanted to be like an angel.

It was ridiculous. It was not the same.

As he spoke, his eyes sparkling brightly, it was unpleasant to see. You say you want to come to the battlefield when this is not a fight that you guys can handle?

I wanted to say it in reverse.

I want to be like you guys.

Because I’m weak, in a world where someone naturally fights for me, I want to do what I want, start a family, and travel somewhere with my parents.

I just wanted to live a normal life.

But a normal life could not exist on top of my fate, which was designed from birth to fight and to die fighting.

But I wasn’t lonely.

It wasn’t that painful.

Because I wasn’t alone on that road. Besides Yoniulan, I had three other destined companions.

Alcaeus was like a father to me.

Kaduel was a brilliant older brother.

Even though Surviel was my senior, she felt like a younger sister to me.

They are a handful of my life.

It was my only family.

It was the driving force in life that allowed me not to lose my humanity during the 150 years of struggle that followed.

Just like this… … .

Let’s end the war like this…

Dreaming of a life with family became a part of everyday life. Kaduel and Surviel had a clear purpose and a dream.

Of course, that was just a dream.

Before the final war began on the home planet of Yotos Yole Yotiatos, Baladon, in the year 635 of the 4th generation of the Universal Century.

It wasn’t terrible from the start.

At first, I was so happy that I could jump for joy because I had a younger sibling.

Eldia Kata (05), Enuel.

He didn’t show his expression and didn’t speak much, so he wasn’t cute at all, but he was my first little brother.

Enuel was strong, incredibly strong.

We have received more fragments of creation than the four of us combined, and the power of the most powerful of the seven chapters of creation, the Psalm of Declaration, is at its core… … .

In his first appearance, he defeated Shu’Yulkula, one of Yotos’ top aides.

I was happy.

I was glad that the guy was strong.

When the boy received praise from the Lords of Light, he felt happy and confident.

All of Eldia is alive.

I am confident that we will see the end of this war.

However, the situation gradually became more urgent, and the strategies of the Lords of Light became more urgent. As the army was divided, they had to carry out multiple fronts simultaneously.

In the process, Surviel died.

It was a battle with the Bug Lord, and he died himself to save Enuel and me, causing an explosion of light.

The relic was a picture book.

Just as I had dreamed of, the future was drawn with all of Eldia holding hands and smiling.

It wasn’t just the death of a simple colleague.

We’ve been fighting together for 150 years.

Someone who has been with me since birth has disappeared. Someone who I could share 150 years of journey with and reminisce about has disappeared.

It felt like a part of my life, something precious in my life, had been ripped away. It was a moment when an important part of a dream I had been drawing my whole life was torn away.

– I heard that the Lights are going on an expedition to the West. They say that they are taking volunteers because their troops are dwindling.

– I am so weak… I think the Archangels, Lucaella, will take care of it.

– Yes, they will fight for you.

When we finished the battle against the Bug Lord and were preparing for the next operation, I heard such a conversation.

He was laughing.

He said it with a smile.

Is it natural for someone to fight for themselves and die in the fight?

For the first time, I felt disgusted.

For the first time, I felt contempt.

These are no longer objects to be protected, and they are beginning to be seen as scum who have no power but lack responsibility and will.

– Is it really right for us to fight for such things? Why are we fighting?

Enuel did not answer.

It was clear that he disagreed with what I was saying, but he didn’t specifically ask for my agreement.

Because Enuel is a newborn baby who has not yet established even the simple creed of life.

– Captain.

– I’m glad to see you alive again.

– Thanks to Surviel… … .

But it was still bearable.

Because there was someone left to share Surviel’s sorrow.

There were still two more beings left who had accumulated over 150 years of time together. That’s what I thought, but in the next battle, Kaduel died.

– Go. Be their beacon so that light can shine on the lowest places of this world.

When Kaduel died, the Lords of Light were forced to retreat from the planet and gather their strength.

Then what about Surviel? What about Kaduel?

Are we not living beings, expendable commodities that can only be reassembled from the fragments of creation and the nucleus of the Psalms?

– I never decided to withdraw, Lucasel. I would never let those children’s sacrifices be in vain. After all, you opened the way.

But Tercia, only Tercia, understood my heart… … That’s why I was able to go to the final battlefield.

– Don’t die, Captain.

If you die too, I will truly be alone.

Enuel is a lovely younger brother.

However, he was someone who could not share the memories of 150 years together. The only one who could do so was Alcaeus.

– You too. But if that is the place where you should die, then you should die. Lucas, we are firewood. We are not fire. Do you understand? Firewood exists to protect fire.

I was astonished to hear those words, that sophistry.

I didn’t want to be born… … .

I never asked to be born as firewood, and I never wanted to be born as firewood.

– Sir, so in the end, are we born to die?

Even at this moment, even after the other two died, is it really necessary for me to hear such words?

Did you know my pain?

Did you know my sadness?

Did you know my worries?

Alcaeus grabbed my shoulder firmly and said in a fatherly tone of admonition:

– No, I was born to protect the fire of this world. To live more nobly than anyone else and die more grandly than anyone else. Don’t forget that, Lucas.

No matter how well you package it, no matter how many cool words you put into it, isn’t it just death?

Without trying anything.

Isn’t it a dog’s death, dying while fighting for trash that is not worth protecting and not experiencing any joy?

I didn’t want to die like that.

Yeah, I didn’t want to let you die.

The fight between Emperor Ashron, the strongest of the , and his chief retainer, Gong An-gong (公黫公) Beshansidug, was fierce.

Enuel was in danger of dying.

I could have saved Enuel if I had just slightly changed the angle of death, but I also knew that it would mean I would be killed instead.

So that’s what I did.

I was proud of myself for being able to do it without any hesitation, just like Carduel and Surviel had done.

– Enuel… … You weren’t born to die. Isn’t that too sad? Hehe.

And above all, I was happy.

I thought this guy had absolutely no emotions… …but he cries with this kind of face, I thought.

I thought, why are you crying so sadly? I thought, why are you thinking of me so preciously?

– So don’t die. Live till the end, and when it’s all over, will you pour a drink on my grave? … Then, I’ll know if everything is really over… … .

That may be why he could die laughing. But Enuel never came to pour him a drink.

Lastly, it was said that he died in the battle to subdue the Spider Lord.

The one who came was the Black Sun Karenden, who could not give him peace at the moment and ordered him to guard the territory until Eldia Omech (06) appeared.

– Jotiatos Yole Jotiatos fled with mortal wounds, but the war was not over.

They said there was a lack of production power.

They also said that there were no production facilities.

– Could you wait a little longer? Until we are ready to end this war… … .

Since all of the fragments of creation currently in our possession must be used to train Eldia Omech, we were sealed inside a lump of iron and sent as guardians of our respective facilities.

I fell into a long sleep there.

Later, when Karenden needs us… …that is, for the era when Eldia Omech will appear.

I thought about it in my sleep.

What is it? What on earth was it? Our lives, our fights, were they judged useless, or were they thrown away like old shoes? What on earth was our fight and loyalty?

now…….

Right now, while we are like this… … .

How are the weak living, who think that it is natural for us to fight and die while fighting?

Are you smiling?

Are you laughing?

This is something that cannot be forgiven or tolerated. We are the ones who deserve to laugh more than anyone else, but those who have no such qualifications live in peace and laugh?

We had a dream too.

We had a life too.

We also had things we wanted to achieve and enjoy. There was not a single Eldia member who wanted to die fighting.

– If you hate the Creator so much, what if you become God?

Into that torment of resentment, hatred and complaints came the bastard.

Yotos, the master of the abyss.

Yotos needed a confidant who could move around this land at the moment, and I needed the power to turn back all the mistakes and return this world to normal.

The power to create a world where everyone can be together.

My relationship with Yotos was horizontal, not vertical. If I gave him what he wanted, he would give me what I wanted.

A relationship that is just so-so… … .

I helped to bring chaos to the world by reviving, guiding, and awakening the strong who, like me, were dissatisfied with this world.

The turbulent times of the 12th century.

The Ashron Incident of the 15th century.

The Anridal Incident of the 16th century.

I didn’t want to destroy this world. I wanted to save those who were being driven to death, just like us.

I just wanted to tell you.

You can be happy, you can dream, you can live your life.

But why on earth… … .

Why did you point your sword at me then, Enuel?

Why do these ignorant and foolish things, just like you, continue to block my path and point their swords at me?

Why, just like you, even if I tell you the truth and reassure you, you won’t even listen, let alone understand?

What’s so good about this kind of life…

A dog’s death wrapped in a warrior’s robe…

If I’m wrong and you’re right, then what on earth was our life for?

The children of future generations… … .

If life was meant to lead us to the same death as them, wouldn’t it have been better for us not to exist? They would have resented us instead of respected us.

– I hate the you now… … but I still deeply respect and appreciate the you of the past.

ah.

– Thanks to you, I was able to meet the Master. Thank you, Master Lucas.

Why is it natural that the last words of the captain, Alcaeus, overlapped on the face of the little boy who was speaking like that…?

Shit…….

Oh, shit… … .

Oh, damn it, what on earth am I, my life, for, living so miserably, and then coming back to life, several times more miserable than my fellows… … .

* * *

“Communication with Lucasel has been lost. What should I do?”

“It’s a good thing that I’ve been sealed by that Karenden bastard’s power. Anyway, it’s time to finish preparing now. The seal on Neigalas has become unstable as I intended, and the player input will be imminent.”

“Hmm, I don’t understand what you mean when you say it went well for Lucas. It seems like it’s become unusable now.”

「When that power is needed, I will forcibly amplify the power of the Abyss contained in that body and take it out. If I use the humanity necessary to use the Abyss as Lucael’s last memory… … That unnecessary memory will be erased, and he will become a usable ‘soldier doll’ again.」