The Hero Disciple Is Back - Chapter 118



117. Childishness

Both the human army that was trying to protect humanity and the demon army that was trying to dominate humanity had no choice but to stop their actions to achieve their goals.

“Back off!! Further! Back off further! If you don’t want to be swept away, back off faster and further!”

It’s a different dimension.

They had just fought a war to protect the world, risking their lives, bleeding and losing arms. It must have been like that. But looking at the scene unfolding before their eyes now… . The struggle they had risked their lives to protect humanity could not help but feel so pitiful and trivial. It was that overwhelming.

The fight between those two was literally on a whole other level.

Kwaaa …

Whenever the power of two beings collides, the terrain changes. No, the world changes. The quality of the power that the two people create is so immense that it cannot be controlled by quantity. That is why I had no choice but to realize. The outcome of this war is not determined by the struggle between armies, but by the confrontation between individuals. The fight between those two beings, the outcome, will determine everything… .

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The warrior was feeling it.

It means that something big is happening inside of you. It’s natural. If a body that has never had any magic power flowing through it were suddenly filled with the magic power of a great magician, there’s no way that body could withstand it. Since it can’t withstand it, it’s natural that it would try to change. In such cases, it’s like that… .

Now, she is trying to forcefully awaken the power that was dormant within the Holy Sword and use it as her own power. Considering that its essence is none other than ‘divine power,’ it is natural that a change would occur in the hero. There is no way that a normal body could withstand ‘divine power.’

Kwaaang!!

Even though it was clearly an enormous attack that would have made my body scream just a moment ago… . Now, it didn’t matter. Rather, it only got hotter as if it was easy.

This is strange. This can’t be normal. If things continue like this, it’s dangerous.

A warning signal rings in your head. Your instincts keep ringing warning bells telling you that this can’t go on.

Kwaaang!!!

But ignore it.

He dedicates everything to the Holy Sword. He literally dedicates everything to the Holy Sword so that the divine power coming from it will not be cut off. He has no tomorrow. Even if it means burning everything and sacrificing it as an offering… .

“I’ll run and kill that guy right now.”

There is something I absolutely do not want to lose. It is a crisis where I might lose it. In such a situation, I did not care about tomorrow. After all, if that person dies, tomorrow becomes meaningless. It may be okay if that person is there, but there is no way that a tomorrow without that person could have any value.

… Of course, it was not that there was nothing on my mind.

‘ostrich….’

If Jade and herself were to have problems, I couldn’t help but worry about the child who would be left alone. I couldn’t help but worry.

But anyway, for the sake of that child’s tomorrow… .

That monster must be destroyed.

Unfortunately, there is no such thing as a choice for everyone. We have no choice but to carefully consider and calculate the best possible answer to find the answer that is at least a little bit more rational.

So the choice you can make now is….

First of all, let’s get rid of that monster!

【I had high expectations! But I never thought it would surpass my expectations! I can’t help but be amazed! It’s so moving!】

“It’s noisy.”

This side wanted to finish it off as quickly as possible and go save him… But the other side seemed to be enjoying it immensely. However, there was nothing the Demon King could do. The liberation from the loneliness that the Overlord had felt through Jade, the Demon King could also feel it through the hero. Through the infinite regress, he was finally witnessing with his own eyes what he had longed for so much. So he could not help but be happy right now, at this moment.

【Let’s enjoy it! There will be no more regression! This is the last time! Isn’t it human to enjoy a truly one-time moment in life?】

“Even if I listen to the Demon King talk about humanity, I will only be speechless.”

【Now, warrior, aren’t you like that too? It seems like you too can’t be included in the human realm anymore?】

“shut up.”

I know.

A change was happening within him… no, maybe he should call it evolution. Whatever it was, he couldn’t help but instinctively know that a change that could not happen as a human was happening within him.

I feel like I’m getting further and further away from humanity

I couldn’t help but know.

Moreover, I couldn’t help but know that what awaited me ahead was nothing but tragedy.

That too, was just to the extent that he was forcibly using his divine power through the holy sword. The fact that he was using power that was not suitable for his vessel had not changed. In the end, he was going to pay the price for this.

‘It doesn’t matter. If I can get rid of that monster in front of me and save that person… Even if it means something to my body… I don’t care what happens next.’

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“No… I don’t like it…!”

White Dragon Rhea shouted like a child, but her parents, who should have been listening, did not hear her.

Why do you keep trying to leave?

Why do you say it’s precious?

You just want to sacrifice yourself… .

Dad too… . Mom too… . Why… .

I want to stop it. I want to stop it.

But I know. Mom’s ‘that’ is the best she can do now, and her last hope. No matter what price she pays later because of ‘that’… . It is because of ‘that’ now that she has that confrontation with the Demon King. So she can’t stop it. She can’t stop it. Reason knows that. But emotions can’t understand it. They can’t accept it.

What was most important to her emotions at the moment was the overall crisis of losing her mother as well as her father.

I know.

That they both value themselves. That’s why they want to save this world somehow… But so what?

“If those two people aren’t there… I…?”

I know I’m being unreasonable.

The world is in crisis. If we don’t save it, it’s all over. So it’s not wrong to mobilize everything you can to save the world. But that doesn’t mean… What about you, who’s left alone in a world without two people?

“Take it easy… What do you mean, ‘It doesn’t matter what happens’? I said it does matter what happens! Even if both of you think that way, I’m going to end up like this! So please…!”

In any world, rather than letting children remain children, they try to make them adults as quickly as possible. It would be better for children to shoulder their social obligations and engage in economic activities to make a living as quickly as possible. So I hope they quickly graduate from being spoiled. In any era, regardless of the standard, the world, knowingly or unknowingly, does not take it for granted that children are spoiled, and unconditionally packages it as a good thing to quickly graduate from it, saying that it is adult-like. However, there was one rule that did not change even then.

Being childish is a child’s privilege.

Adults can’t act like children, and only children can act like children.

… Of course, no one wants to tolerate excessive childishness.

But would anyone say that a child’s desperate begging not to lose his parents is excessive? If there is such a person, on the contrary, he needs to take some time for serious reflection to see if it is really okay. There is no way. There is no way that a child’s desperate begging not to lose his parents is wrong.

And a world that responds to the earnest tantrums of a child who has done nothing wrong would be a truly worthy world.

But even so, it would be difficult now. Even if it were a true world worth existing in, it would be hard to think of an adult who would listen to such desperate tantrums in this situation. Well, that is, in normal circumstances.

“White Dragon, is the warrior really doing something too reckless?”

Normally, it would be natural for something not to work out, but when one thing is mixed together, an amazing power of reversal takes effect that makes something that was not supposed to work out. That is what everyone usually calls ‘fate’.

“…you are?”

“My name is Galahad, and as you can see, I am a knight.”

Jade’s shadowy friend, Galahad Patton, aka the ‘Steel Knight’, has appeared, helping her live a life of seclusion from the shadows.

For him, who had been paying attention to Jade’s disciple, the warrior Sera, the current situation was going strangely, and he couldn’t just watch, saying, “She’s just a warrior, so I can leave it to her,” so he thought he had to take action, and that’s how he ended up near Leah.

“Is the warrior trying to cross a line that should not be crossed now?”

“… How about that…?”

“I don’t really believe in miracles.”

When he fell into the trap set by the northern barbarians with Jade… . As a result, he survived… . Even if he survived, that hellish time was not erased from his mind. Especially for Galahad, who was conscious thanks to Jade’s protection, unlike Jade who was almost half a corpse… . That hellish time was a time he couldn’t forget even if he wanted to.

So I know.

Miracles do not happen easily. They are harsh creatures that do not reach out to everyone. This is true even for warriors in the midst of a world crisis. Miracles are very strict creatures that do not easily reach out to just anyone, fair and equal.

“…Do you want to stop the warrior?”

“… If I could stop it… Of course… But there’s no way I could defeat the Demon King without that power…”

“Don’t worry about that. If you’re a kid, do whatever you want. It’s natural for adults to take responsibility for what happens next.”

Galahad said what he thought his friend would have said, then turned to the air and said:

“Don’t you think so?”

“Hehehe, I didn’t know there would be a guest who arrived before me.”

The one who appeared after Galahad was none other than the great wizard William. The strange thing that happened to his lord, no matter how you look at it, it was obvious that he would demand an excessive price from his lord, so he immediately went to find the white dragon Rhea. William, who had not expected that there would be a more noble guest than himself, was surprised in his own way.

“White Dragon, it is as the article says. If there is something you want to do, do it freely. Children run towards their dreams, and it is the role of adults to help them do so.”

That’s when Archmage William said that.

“If you’re an adult, you can be here too.”

It was none other than Geomseong. Behind Geomseong, there were also the teachers of the warrior candidates who had carried out special operations with Geomseong and the Mercenary King.

“Just by looking at it, it seems like the demons wouldn’t dare to interfere. Isn’t that the opportunity? Isn’t the battlefield the place where people brag about being transcendent and run wild only to get attacked and die?”

Geumseong was by no means a fool. He was certainly aware that the fight between two beings who were not just transcendent beings but gods was not just a fight that would change the terrain, but a fight that would change the world. However, there were some adults who were not honest. This was especially true for stubborn old people.

But that wasn’t the end.

Other adults, even adults of non-human races, have made an appearance.

“Humans really seem to have no fear.”

“Why did you elves come here if you said so?”

“I owe the Demon King a debt. A very large debt that I must repay with my life.”

In addition, many adults gathered. Among them, there were those who came not to indulge the child’s tantrums but simply out of personal revenge… The important thing was that so many adults gathered because of one child’s tantrums.

That is why White Dragon Rhea had no choice but to completely surrender her will to her emotions, even though she knew in her head that it was an irrational decision.

“…help.”

With sincerity

“Please, my mother… please help me.”

One child was throwing a tantrum.