The Hero Disciple Is Back - Chapter 104



103. Adult Duties, Adult Resolutions

【… I’m sick of it. Just stop and die.】

It’s so sudden, but… .

The mercenary king was dying.

The King of Fighters was holding the King of Mercenaries by the neck and lifting him high.

If things continued like this, the King of Fighters’ hand would pierce through the King of Mercenaries’ chest, and it was a truly critical situation where his life would end.

“Hey… . Have you gotten too strong… ?

I heard that he had become stronger… but he had become stronger to the extent that he had easily surpassed his expectations, so he ended up making a mistake and ended up in a situation where it wouldn’t have been strange if he had died right away.

【Die.】

The King of Fighters tried to kill the King of Mercenaries without hesitation. There was no time to be held back by a human like this.

But things didn’t go his way.

As if I was caught by the mercenary king

This was because humans never had a way of keeping things as planned.

Phew!

“Why are you dying?”

The black sword appeared and swung its sword, cutting off the king’s arm.

【Damn bug…!】

When the King of Fighters was about to attack, the Sword Master had already grabbed the King of Mercenaries by the collar and quickly retreated.

“Cough! Cough! Th… I let my guard down.”

“I am so proud.”

“… I tried to hold onto the ankle by myself. I don’t think it will work.”

“It seems so at first glance.”

In the meantime, the King of Fighters regenerated his severed arm. After confirming that his arm had returned to its original state, the King of Fighters glared at the King of Mercenaries and the Sword Saint as if he was not satisfied with it.

【You humans are really tenacious. Like bugs that keep appearing no matter how many times you kill them.】

“Who told you to come to this world of such people?”

“You’re saying that you hate humans because they come here without permission and make a mess like this? You really are a funny guy. Are all the demons like that?”

【What difference does it make that you’ve become two? Even so, all you can do is buy time. What difference does that make? Both the warrior and the white dragon will eventually meet death at the hands of our great heaven. Above all, each and every one of our Demon King’s troops is the elite among the elite who have survived countless life-and-death battles! The possibility of you holding the Holy Grail called victory in your hands is zero!!!!!!!】

The Demon King’s Army’s Four Heavenly Kings shouted with such conviction, as if they were preaching an unchanging truth.

However, the reactions of the Mercenary King and the Sword Master who heard the story right in front of them were extremely indifferent. The Mercenary King even made a gesture of scratching his ear as if it was tickled by the barking of the dog next door.

“what?”

“It doesn’t seem very credible to me that he barks so hard despite being so confident.”

“Isn’t it said that the less confident a dog is, the more likely it is to bark instead of rushing in?”

【These are…!】

“Boshu. You’re clenching your fists and shaking because you’ve been refuted. You’re acting like your logic has been shattered. Are you mentally weak, or did we hit you too hard?”

“That guy is just mentally unstable.”

【Can’t you just shut up!!!!!!!!!!!!!】

The King of Fighters screamed and quickly attacked the King of Mercenaries and the Sword Saint. The attack was like a flash of lightning, but the King of Mercenaries had already adapted to his speed and the attack pattern was so predictable that the King of Mercenaries quickly stepped forward to counter it.

Kuuung!!!!!!!

“Ugh!”

He tried to deflect the attack as much as possible, but because the King of Fighters was so powerful, he was unable to deflect it completely, and the King of Mercenaries suffered internal injuries.

but

“Huh huh!”

The mercenary king laughed.

There was no reason not to laugh, since everything came true just as planned.

Fujik!

【These annoying things…!】

It’s a simple tactic. If the Mercenary King buys some time by defending against the King of Fighters’ attacks, the Sword Master will not miss the gap and deal damage.

【Did you really think you could beat me with just this much!】

If you take a lot of damage and bleed a lot, you might die, but in the case of the Four Heavenly Kings, it’s a different story. Until the core is destroyed, the King doesn’t die, and he has such great resilience that he can regenerate even if his arm is cut off.

in other words…

【You just have to kill the bugs in front of you!!!!】

While one person is defending and buying time, the other one attacks when there is an opening. In some ways, it seems like the most perfect scenario. However, the opponent is a demon tribe that takes no damage as long as the core is not destroyed, and among them, the Four Heavenly Kings, the strongest, are the Demon Kings. As such, the Demon King does not need to worry about his own damage and only needs to focus on attacking the Mercenary King who is concentrating on the defense in front of him, and finish him off.

With that, you can instantly turn a tedious 2-on-1 fight into a 1-on-1 fight, and then you can easily deal with the lone swordsman.

So, without hesitation, the King of Fighters charged towards the King of Mercenaries with all his might.

“… Okay, come and see for yourself!”

The Mercenary King also raised Aura’s momentum by cheering.

‘As planned!’

The mercenary king smiled.

♧♧♧

That’s a story from the past.

“I will not be his opponent.”

The mercenary king said so. He is the mercenary king. That means he is the best mercenary. And being the best mercenary meant that he could evaluate his own skills very objectively. The mercenary profession was one where those who couldn’t even see their own skills properly and showed off would die quickly.

“There are times when you say weak things.”

Geomseong said that as if he was surprised. Even if he thought it wouldn’t work, he had pride, so he would show off his pride first and then reluctantly admit, “I don’t think it’ll work out.” That was the mercenary king he knew, so Geomseong had no reason not to react with surprise.

“I want to brag… and I don’t want to admit it… but I can’t help it because the other person is such a monster that I can’t even feel like doing that.”

Apart from being able to objectively and quickly analyze one’s own abilities, one’s pride is strong and thus it is not easy to admit it. However, in the end, one always admits and accepts it and adopts the best conclusion.

And it was the same even now.

“Honestly, if you want to survive, it would be most reasonable not to fight that monster.”

Even in a weakened state, I was barely able to survive with luck. I have been trying to become stronger up until now, but… If the information from the warrior Sera is correct, no matter how strong I become, I cannot be a match for the Four Heavenly Kings with my current self. I tried hard, but it was impossible. It was truly a regrettable and common story.

No matter how hard I tried, I hit a wall.

Because that’s something that everyone experiences.

The Mercenary King had also experienced this countless times, and he was not mentally weak enough to say such weak things now.

“So, I’m willing to risk my life.”

“If you risk your life, will you be able to kill?”

“Of course it’s not enough.”

I’ll risk my life and do whatever it takes.

It’s a good way to show off, but if that were all that could solve everything… . Every human in this world would have risked their life. Because everyone has moments in life that they can never miss.

“Isn’t the true fear of the Four Heavenly Kings the fact that no matter how many times you kill them, they don’t die?”

“To be exact, you won’t die until the nuke is destroyed.”

“And the Four Heavenly Kings are capable of freely moving the core within their bodies. So they can charge like crazy just by believing in that.”

“That’s what I said was the problem.”

For the lower-ranked demons or beasts, since the location of the core is fixed, they only need to know that and attack it… But for the higher-ranked demons… Especially if they are the Four Heavenly Kings, they can freely move the core. In other words, even if they attack like crazy, as long as they move the core, they will not die and can regenerate as much as they want.

In the end, it was nothing but madness to confront the Four Heavenly Kings head-on.

I know it is like that.

I know, but… .

‘That can’t be a reason to give up the fight.’

If you were just a mercenary standing on the battlefield, the most important thing would be your own life. Even if it is a job where you earn money by risking your life, it is not something you do because you really want to lose your life.

But now it’s different.

The reason why I am standing on this battlefield now… .

It’s not because he’s a mercenary

Because he is an adult.

Because we have duties and responsibilities as adults

He himself stands on this battlefield.

It’s not that I’m not afraid of death, nor do I feel sorry about it, and I’ve never wanted to commit suicide.

But it won’t be just you.

The same will be true for countless sprouts that will live in this world.

Running around with friends under the blue sky, and when night falls, returning to the warm embrace of parents and falling into sweet dreams… . A world where such things are natural… .

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‘I don’t have a family. Don’t you have a sense of duty as an adult?’

So, as an adult, you have to make the right choice. That’s how human history has been and will continue to be.

“There is a way.”

After hearing the entire plan laid out by the Mercenary King, Geomseong couldn’t help but frown.

“You b*stard… Is that what risking your life meant?”

“That’s what I meant.”

“Really….”

“Please, please. This might be my ‘last’ request.”

The mercenary king smiled as he said that. It was the kind of smile that one would never expect from someone who was about to face death.