The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed - Chapter 409
410 – Reach
It wasn’t until I opened my eyes that I realized I had fallen asleep. As I got up, I heard an unfamiliar voice.
“oh! “Ross, are you awake?”
The moment I heard that voice, I felt my heart drop. As she slowly turned her head, she was able to make eye contact with Aria, who was smiling brightly as always. I feel nauseous in an instant. The pain of something being torn is felt in the heart valve.
“Who disappeared without saying a word and suddenly took up my private bed?”
Aria looks no different from usual, and I wonder if she’s still dreaming… She realized that the body had simply not been found yet. As Aria pushed me away and tried to occupy one side of her bed, her body fell under the bed while reflexively trying to avoid being touched by her.
thud-!
“Are you okay? “It’s going to be a pain in the ass!”
I stood up, avoiding eye contact, as I saw Aria looking down at me from the bed with worried eyes. There were no other club members in the club room. I bit my lip and asked.
“… “What about the other kids?”
Aria seemed to be happy that I was finally speaking, and answered with a small smile.
“Suddenly the principal changed and he is busy preparing for the inauguration ceremony. Thanks to Master, I was able to escape for a bit, and when I tried to take a nap, Ross took my bed! “I was really surprised!”
Nelson, who chose death, seems to have decided in advance who will be entrusted with the matter. I wiped my face once.
“… okay? “Then I’ll just leave.”
“Are you going already? “If you just wait a little longer, the kids will come back!”
Aria tried to hold me back by saying she was sorry, but she couldn’t stay here any longer. It was very difficult to bear having Aria in front of her, who knew nothing and still treated me like her friend.
“… “I’ll see you next time.”
I tried to leave the club room, making a promise I couldn’t keep. But my hand was caught. I reflexively turned my head and could see Aria looking up at me with a determined expression.
“Wait a moment!”
Aria got off the bed, searched through Kane’s pension table drawer, took out something, and held it out to me. This is a beautifully packaged, high-quality chocolate. As I was wondering what this meant, Aria’s voice reached my ears.
“Ross, I’m sorry I comforted you so late. It’s been very difficult so far, right? This is a hard-to-find chocolate that I cherish very, very dearly. But since you are my most precious friend, I can happily give you chocolate.”
Aria smiles brightly as she puts chocolate in my hand. She doesn’t know my heart is broken and swept away and drifting towards the floor.
“Cheer up, Ross. You’ll soon be able to smile again. Because Luna liked it when you smiled!”
The chocolate I was holding in my hand was so heavy. So much so that I want to take it off my hands right now.
Feeling like I had to say something, I made eye contact with Aria, but unable to hold back the rising nausea, I turned and left the club room without saying anything. Ignoring Aria’s greeting from behind me, I ran down the underground hallway and reached the bathroom, where I held onto the toilet and vomited.
I couldn’t feel comfortable even when I poured all the gastric juices in my stomach into the toilet. After holding on to the toilet for a while, I headed to the sink and wiped my face, which was a mess of tears and vomit. After rinsing my face with cold water for a while, I belatedly remembered the chocolate I had dropped next to the toilet and headed back to the toilet.
I sat on the toilet. Everything was exhausting. Both physically and mentally. I lost two of the most trustworthy people in this world. The fact that I failed to keep my promise to protect something precious shows me what a liar I am.
The saint who promised salvation also left to do her part in the flow of the story. Aria, who still considers me a precious friend, will soon lose everything because of me.
“ah… .”
I realized too late that blood was flowing from the lip I had been biting without realizing it as the blood dripped onto the chocolate wrapper. As she wiped away the drop of blood with her thumb, it smeared red onto the wrapper.
“sighe… .”
I definitely tried. I didn’t want to lose something precious, and I wasn’t afraid of losing myself. Even though I was hurt, collapsed, fainted, and wanted to die, I did not give up. But the results say it all. That I was so fucking wrong.
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How many times have I lost someone precious to me? How many more things will I lose in the future? Even my rescue teammates who are by my side right now may all be lost to my reckless actions.
“Queuuu… .”
Intense emotions surged, boiled over, and ran through my mind. Through the quantum jump, the wall that I could not obtain that remained in my mind began to melt away with that intense emotion.
In an instant, with the feeling of being pierced through the top of my head, I was able to gain complete knowledge of Ross, who had become a transcendental person with a spear. Rather than climbing over the wall, he was able to melt it down at the cost of losing something precious.
I have reached the realm of transcendence that I have longed for. But I never wanted to become a transcendent in this way. I had to suppress the urge to kill myself because I felt a low level of relief at the increased possibility of saving Luna.
I opened the chocolate wrapper. It is a gift from a precious friend. I couldn’t just throw it away. I stuffed my mouth full of chocolate. The chocolate was extremely sweet and made me feel nauseous, but I pushed it all the way into my mouth.
***
An hour before re-entering the labyrinth, everyone gathered at Modest’s hideout as promised before parting ways. Eunice and Lamine, who had not entered the labyrinth, also arrived after receiving a call. However, Ross, who was supposed to appear last, did not show up as time passed.
“Maybe something happened?”
Eunice asked, looking at Raelan with concern in her voice. Raelan shrugged her shoulders, her face expressionless.
“It will come soon. Ross’s goal is to obtain the Holy Grail. He won’t just sit back and watch Roel get ahead of him. And I can guess what he’s going to be doing.”
“… yes?”
Eunice, who did not understand what was said about expectations, looked around and gave everyone a look as if they knew, but everyone looked as confused as Eunice.
Then I heard footsteps coming down the stairs. Eunice and Ellie turned towards the stairs and immediately took a deep breath. Ross, wearing a lily mask, appeared covered in blood.
“Ross, are you okay?”
Worried that he might have been hurt, Ellie quickly approached Ross, but there were no injuries. This blood was not Ross’s. Raelan smiled as he watched Ross pass by the embarrassed Ellie.
“Have you been able to vent your anger?”
“I did what I had to do.”
“Well, I guess so.”
Raelan twisted one corner of his mouth in response to Ross’ answer, then looked at Ellie and winked.
“I have something to say to everyone.”
Everyone’s attention was focused on Ellie’s words. After clearing her throat for a moment, Ellie moved to the end of the table so that everyone could see her comfortably.
“I found out the church’s plan and the reason why the Demon King wants to destroy the human world.”
“Jeong, really… ?!”
Eunice was startled and flinched sharply. Except for Ross, whose expression was invisible because he was wearing a mask, and Raelan, who had an interesting face, Lamine and Conrad also looked as surprised as Eunice.
Conrad asked.
“How did you find out?”
“Nelson… “I found it out while solving my teacher’s homework.”
“I see, that guy… “Have you already seen through it?”
Conrad took a deep breath and motioned to Ellie to continue his explanation. Ellie brought her portable blackboard and held up her chalk.
“Currently, the church and the devil are joining hands. The Demon King seeks to destroy the human world, and the Church’s purpose is to destroy the world. “That’s how we know, that we joined hands for a common purpose.”
Ellie, who had drawn a circle on the blackboard to make it easier to read, continued speaking.
“But the order is wrong. The reason why the Demon King wanted to destroy the human world was the church’s intention. The fact that the two forces joined hands was all part of the church’s plan. “The Demon King was used for the church’s purposes.”
Eunice opened her mouth urgently at Ellie’s words.
“Ha, but how can you do that? The opponent is the devil. “Isn’t it against probability for any religious order to control the Demon Lord?”
Everyone here knew that in the novel, the cult was nothing more than a mid-boss. It also goes against the odds for the middle boss to control the final boss.
But Ellie smiled bitterly and shook her head.
“It wasn’t manipulation, it was the Demon King creating a reason to destroy the human world. “It was not against probability, but rather it took advantage of probability.”
“Well, what is that method… ?”
Ellie marked the blackboard with the tip of the chalk.
“Confusion.”
Ellie said, slowly looking around the basement.
“That is an artificial phenomenon created by the magic applied to this basement as well.”
As everyone looked around the basement, their expressions gradually changed. Ellie spoke quietly to everyone who looked like they were wondering.
“Yes, space expansion magic is a poison prepared by the church a long time ago.”
Ellie moved her arm widely and wrote on the blackboard and put down the chalk.
“Space expansion magic is taking away the space of the Demon World and filling the space left empty by the chaos phenomenon.”
Ellie muttered.
“… “The Demon King wants to destroy the human world in order to survive.”