The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed - Chapter 397



398 – Edio

The golden shell that radiated golden light and illuminated the basement gradually lost its shine and turned into a translucent shell that looked like a fingernail.

As the Golden King said, hatchlings really did not have their own color. The reason the hatchling briefly radiated golden light was simply due to the Golden King’s magic.

“Could the hatchling talk?”

Ellie looked at me with a surprised face. However, since it was my first time experiencing it, I could only shrug her shoulders with a dazed expression on her face.

“You have the same name as the main character in the book Edio and the Golden Dragon. “I don’t think this is just a coincidence.”

Raelan twitched one corner of his mouth and looked at the hatchling. She responded by hugging the hatchling as if it were precious to the Golden King who took it out of the cage.

“That’s right, it’s Eddie.”

“also.”

It was a book I had never read, but judging by the reactions of those around me, it seemed like most other people knew who Eddie was.

Lamine, who usually did not participate in conversations, asked with an interested look on his face.

“But Edio in the book was a person, right?”

“Because I promised Lumiel that I would definitely return.”

At Hatchling’s answer, the women covered their mouths with both hands and looked touched.

“In the end, Edio kept his promise.”

“Of course, I knew it would be like that if it was Eddie.”

I can do anything for Luna too. Even if I had to live as a hatchling for the rest of my life, I wouldn’t hesitate to accept it as long as Luna was with me. As we were building an inner intimacy with the hatchling, Ellie suddenly shouted.

“Sleep, wait a minute. “You bathed with us!”

Ellie turned her head towards me stiffly and muttered softly.

“… “Luna too.”

“… .”

“… Sleep, wait! “It’s a misunderstanding!”

Before I knew it, Edio discovered the spear of shadow materialized in my hand and quickly flapped his wings to escape from my embrace and hide behind the Golden King. Fortunately, she recognized the spatial coordinates of her surroundings in advance, so she was able to penetrate the Golden King’s head even while hiding behind him.

Before I could stab the spear, the Golden King stepped forward to protect the hatchling.

“That’s right, Eddie’s mind hasn’t awakened.”

“… “What does that mean?”

When I slowly raised my magic power and asked, Edio, who was hiding behind the Golden King, shouted as if it was unfair.

“I’m awake now! “I have no memory of anything before that!”

The sight of him glancing sideways at Ellie’s chest as if he was somehow regretful while saying that bothered me a bit, but I looked at the Golden King for confirmation.

The Golden King, who caught my gaze, nodded slightly as if it were true.

“Hatchlings have no color. What looked black… This is because my ego did not wake up because I had been asleep for a long time. “It’s true that I don’t remember her.”

“… okay.”

Perhaps it was because his beloved lover had returned, but the eyes of the Golden King, who had been suffering from laziness, seemed to brighten a little. It seems like the words have gotten longer… It was a good change.

“okay! It’s a misunderstanding! If my memories came back, I would have asked you guys to do it and I would have gone straight back to Lumiel. “I wonder if he would have been locked in such a narrow cage just to spy on a woman’s body!”

I felt sorry for no reason when I saw him venting his resentment. If there were circumstances, there was nothing we could do. As I was deactivating the window, I asked a question that suddenly occurred to me.

“however… “Why do you hate me when you don’t even remember me?”

Edio seemed to follow everyone else except me. He didn’t even reject Estelle’s touch as she stroked the hatchling with a greedy gaze as if looking at an expensive item.

But there must have been another reason why, when I even stretched out my hand, it flapped its wings as if it was afraid and pulled its body back to run away.

After thinking about my question for a moment, Eddie scratched his side with his fingernails and said,

“I don’t remember, but I guess it’s instinct.”

“instinct?”

As his colleagues waited for his next words with interest, Edio waved his wings in confusion.

“No, it’s not as big of a reason as I expected, I just think I instinctively disliked him because he was the same guy… .”

“I guess it’s still a long way to get the Dragon Heart, right?”

I sighed, ignoring Raelan’s eerie muttering coming from behind. When I thought about it, the only men in our group were me and Raelan.

Raelan, who was not interested in the hatchling, naturally did not approach her, so she misunderstood that the hatchling only disliked me.

“Then why were you in the ordeal room?”

“ok? What does that mean?

Seeing their puzzled looks, I explained how I got the hatchling eggs and how I was able to hatch them. After hearing the explanation, Edio tilted his head and looked at the Golden King.

“I thought you were the one who got me out?”

The Golden King shook his head silently.

Eddie, who was thinking while tapping his tail on the table, opened his mouth.

“My last memory is heading to Midas’ dungeon to solve a witch’s curse and finding the Holy Grail.”

“The Holy Grail… ?”

Everyone looked surprised at the word ‘Holy Grail’ that suddenly appeared. Eddie was taken aback by that reaction and asked me.

“Why are you so surprised?”

“We too are looking for the Holy Grail.”

“Aha, so that was the reaction.”

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If Eddie really used the Holy Grail to change from a human to a hatchling, then the power of the Holy Grail is real. This seemed like a story of the Holy Grail’s past created by probability.

“Anyway, my memories were cut off the moment I discovered the Holy Grail.”

“… yes?”

“Really. I don’t remember anything after that. “You feel like you just woke up?”

“You don’t remember using the Holy Grail at all?”

“Yeah, not at all.”

I was taken aback by Eddie’s words and looked at Raelan. Raelan thought for a moment and asked the Golden King.

“When Eddie disappeared, did you try to find him?”

“huh. He sent his men to investigate. But there was no trace of Eddie anywhere in the dungeon. So I waited for it to come back on its own.”

“Edio may have sneaked out of the dungeon. Or someone took Edio, who had become an egg.”

The Golden King shook his head at Raelan’s guess.

“No, at that time I was outside the dungeon waiting for Eddie to come out. “No one left or entered the dungeon.”

“Why didn’t you go with me?”

“If I entered the dungeon, there was a possibility that I would collapse due to the influence of magical power.”

Eddie nodded as if agreeing with the Golden King’s words.

“That’s right, so I had no choice but to go in alone.”

Of course, a lover under a witch’s curse would not have been sent to the dungeon alone. It was quite probable that they had split up due to unavoidable circumstances. Raelan nodded her head as if she understood.

“Then wasn’t there the Holy Grail that Edio discovered?”

Raelan asked in a sharp voice. The Golden King, who was looking at Raelan intently at that question, nodded his head slightly.

“… “There was none.”

“okay. All right.”

Raelan smiled quietly as if he realized something.

He slowly approached the figure, but Raelan only furrowed his eyebrows and widened the distance, and did not tell him what he had found out.

While I was wondering whether I should quietly call him separately, Eunice approached me and said.

“Ross, then I’ll just go.”

Unlike the other colleagues, I tilted my head when I saw Eunice not wearing a mask or robe.

“… “Where are you going?”

“Have you heard the explanation yet?”

While saying that, I turned my head to follow Eunice’s gaze towards Raelan, and Raelan shrugged her shoulders as if it was no big deal.

“Eunice is not with us in the Labyrinth.”

“… “Why?”

With Estelle missing, losing one more person was a big loss. In particular, Eunice, a bookkeeper who read the situation, could be of great help to us.

“Why, unlike you, Eunice is a student of Transcendence.”

“ah… .”

I was so busy that I forgot about it. Unlike me, it was natural for Eunice, who was still a student, to act together with the Academy.

“And Eli too?”

“No, Eli is coming with us.”

“… “Ellie is also a student, right?”

“Eunice, whose role as a strategist overlaps, is a talent that can be replaced, but Ellie, the future archmage, is impossible to replace. Haven’t you and Ellie already worked together in the triathlon labyrinth? “Ellie is an essential talent that must be brought in, even if by force.”

“Well, that’s right. “They said I still need to grow.”

When Eunice pouted her lips and grumbled, Raelan looked at her as if asking if she was saying something obvious.

“Our goal is to reach the 10th floor of the labyrinth. “You have the worst fighting skills, and you’re dumber than me, so it’s obvious that you’ll be a burden, so is there any reason to take you with me?”

“… .”

Eunice, who was speechless, closed her mouth with an expression of bewilderment. Ellie, who was listening to the conversation next to her, smiled at me as if she was okay.

“You promised. “I will help you save Luna.”

“but… .”

“And I received permission from Master in advance to act separately.”

I was worried that I was overdoing it because of my promise… I’m glad I got Nelson’s permission in advance.

As I was feeling relieved, I saw Raelan twist the corner of his mouth.

It was a clear laugh.

“… ?”

As soon as our eyes met, Raelan wiped the smile from his mouth and spoke.

“And Eunice will join the Messiah Club as a temporary member along with Navier.”

“Did you intentionally make these two people join the Messiah Club?”

“… Why are you asking the obvious? Do I look like someone who would act without reason?”

Seeing Raelan looking at me with disdain, I also kept my mouth shut.