The Hero Disciple Is Back - Chapter 93



92. The Master Knows

“I see… Is that guy dead…?”

The Demon King immediately felt the disappearance of the Four Heavenly Kings.

Although he was loyal….

He could not say that he cherished him as a loyal subject.

That guy was a guy who forced himself on others in the name of respect, under the pretext of such a thing. He was a guy who didn’t care about his own heart or thoughts, and was only interested in elevating the existence of the demon he acknowledged to the level of a god. In other words, the guy’s respect did not come from himself, nor was it directed at him. It all came from his own goal. He used himself, the demon king, as a tool to achieve his goal.

How could I like it?

How was he any different from the gods who had created me for their own purposes and were trying to destroy the world with that power? In the end, he was essentially no different from the gods he so detested.

That is why, no matter what anyone said, he was a loyal subject who did his best for the Demon King, but because his origins were essentially no different from those of the gods, he did not get close to him and could not cherish him.

but….

“I see. So I couldn’t help but be influenced by the long period of time… .”

I thought it would be nothing, but… .

Surprisingly, his emotions were reacting to the death of the King of Death.

It was just a simple story that it wasn’t just the warrior who had to change in the infinite regress.

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【Great… . Heaven… .】

Something hazy like a ghost appeared before the Demon King.

The Demon King, the incarnation of the devil, was able to immediately recognize its true identity.

The last thoughts the King left behind before he died… In other words, it was his remnants and his will.

【I’m sorry… . I’m… . You… . Beyond the sky… . I’m sorry… .】

And then it just disappeared in vain.

“That’s stupid.”

The Demon King had no choice but to say that.

He was just using himself to achieve his own goals. So if he wanted to apologize for not achieving them, he should have just apologized to himself. He didn’t want to be a literal god or anything like that.

But I couldn’t just ignore it as the nonsense of a fool. Because things had already changed. Because I couldn’t ignore it anymore.

“But… I see… If the warrior can’t stop me this time… I’ll think about it then…”

If the hero can’t stop himself this time too… If the hero in this round, who has all the optimal conditions that he’s never achieved during the entire Infinite Regression, can’t stop himself either… There’s no reason to repeat this pointless vicious cycle any longer. So the Demon King could think that it wouldn’t matter if this was the last time.

so

If the warrior fails to stop it this time too

It’s also a challenge to reach the realm of the gods once.

I don’t think it will be bad

The Demon King was thinking.

It was just a story that the time of infinite regress could not help but have an effect on the Demon King as well.

♤♤♤

Leah and the two celestials went out for a moment and then returned.

“I went far away to play and came back!”

As she said that, Leah smiled brightly and hugged me. I stroked the child’s head. At the same time, I could smell a very familiar scent.

You came here to play?

But I instinctively knew that it was a lie.

The smell of battle… The smell of death…

This was because he had sensed the unique smell that any mercenary who had been on the battlefield for a long time would naturally sense from Leah and the two celestials.

It wasn’t the kind of thing that could be erased if you wanted to. It was a special smell that, no matter how cleanly you tried to erase it, someone who knew its unique smell would eventually be able to sense it, as if it had stuck to your soul. There was no way I, a veteran mercenary, could miss it.

‘Should I ask…?’

It was something that had to be asked, of course.

If it were a guardian, it would have been a natural choice.

but….

‘Even if you are a guardian, it would be an abuse of authority to block a child who wants to fight to protect everyone.’

Is it possible that this child made a wrong choice? That is impossible. If this child fought, it was clearly the right choice to protect someone.

Like Sarah

Leah will be like that too.

I know that.

‘No matter what anyone says, I’m a guardian.’

Being a guardian is a position where you get to know a lot of things, knowingly or unknowingly. Of course, authors who are guardians in name only don’t know anything because they don’t properly fulfill their duties as guardians, but at least I’m not an author who is a guardian in name only, so I know quite a lot.

So I know.

If that kid had fought

It must have been the result of a well-thought-out, right choice.

So, as an understanding parent, it would be better to pretend not to know and move on.

“Did you have fun?”

“Yeah! I had a great time!”

“That’s fortunate.”

I went along with Leah’s lies. I committed the sin of lying, but this would not be Leah’s sin. I, the victim, was not deceived and forgave her. Therefore, this would not be a sin. In the first place, what a child does to his parents cannot be a sin.

‘There is no parent who does not forgive their child.’

Therefore, there is always an indulgence between parents and children as if it were a given.

So, Leah’s lie to me cannot be a sin.

♧♧♧

“Kuaaah! Wake up!”

“… The Great Giant Wolf isn’t fun either.”

As soon as he recovered, the Mercenary King Balik set out on a journey to become stronger. As the Mercenary King, he had a lot of work to do, but he trusted his subordinates and left it to them. He said that they would be able to do it well. After all, they were my subordinates. If I don’t trust my subordinates, who can trust them?

“You trust your subordinates and give them full authority. I think I’m a really cool boss.”

While others are busy suspecting their subordinates, he trusts them so much and gives them full authority, allowing them to run the organization autonomously. The mercenary king was certain that there was no superior as great as he was.

It was a very firm conviction that he did not even think about the slightest possibility that his subordinates’ thoughts might be different from his own. Of course, there was a very high probability that his subordinates’ thoughts would be different.

“Isn’t there anyone stronger…?”

I want to fight more freely.

I want to reach a higher level.

To achieve that, there is no other way than to fight the strong.

“If it were me in the past, I would have had a hard time finding and fighting the strongest monsters… but now it’s too easy.”

Fighting the swordsman, or rather the swordsman who should now be called the Sword Master, would be a way… but he was too busy right now.

“It would also be more helpful to have new enemies and new fights.”

So, I set out on this journey to fight a new enemy… .

As I thought, I could hardly have such new experiences. This could be seen as the harm caused by becoming too strong. If others saw it, they might say it was a full stomach worry, but even so, it was a worry. If it is a strong desire, no matter what it is, it cannot be seen as a reasonable worry.

“Where would a strong guy fall down like that~”

It was when the mercenary king was blankly looking up at the sky and mumbling like that.

【Then shall I deal with it?】

That voice came in….

It appeared suddenly.

It was as if he had never existed in this world before and was born into this world at this very moment. To be more precise, he had come to this world from another world.

“It’s not that I don’t have experience with demons… . They are so dirty that it’s beyond comparison. But…”

You can tell at first glance that this isn’t an ordinary demon.

Is that the guy called the Four Heavenly Kings that the warrior spoke of?

“I am Aslan, the King of the Four Heavenly Kings. I am especially…”

“Very good! Very good!”

The mercenary king’s eyes sparkled and he cut off the king’s words lightly and shouted with all his might.

Ever since I heard from the warrior that there were Four Heavenly Kings and that they were incredibly strong, I’ve been wanting to fight them somehow.

But that guy appeared in front of him on his own. He rolled over on his own and was in front of him.

That is why the current situation was truly a stroke of luck for the Mercenary King.

“This body is specially… .”

“Okay, let’s play a game!”

“… Don’t interrupt me!”

The king finally couldn’t hold it in any longer and shouted.

As he had held a high position as one of the Four Heavenly Kings, there was no way he would ever be cut off from speaking, so the psychological damage was bound to be great.

Phew!

Boom!

“Okay! Let’s stop talking nonsense and talk with our fists!”

“… these barbarians!”

Aslan, who had been called ignorant and barbaric by the other Four Heavenly Kings, was the first to call another being a barbarian.