The Hero Disciple Is Back

EP.40 – 39. The teacher asked the student, ‘Are you okay?’

“Didn’t the development of the world stop while I was living in seclusion…? ? What a surprise… .”

I continued to look at the items that Mr. Lars had given me, curiously.

The artifact called ‘Ovilon’ was also said to be an ultra-long-range communication artifact. It is said that the famous ‘craftsman’ Stephen Orville took a long time to complete. Did everyone go crazy trying to get this?

“If it’s Stephen Orville, I know. But didn’t he ignore all the nobles and wizards he was researching?”

Even if it is said that it is an ultra-long-distance communication artifact, it is said that it is not recharged one by one, but it is made to be maintained for a very long time. was famous even during my active career, so I also knew about it.

Everyone clicked their tongues and ignored them saying that geeks were doing geeky things… .

In the end, the captain, Stephen Orville, seems to have achieved human victory with tenacity.

“Even if I heard the principle, I wouldn’t understand it anyway.”

No matter how much I knew this and that as a veteran mercenary, it was unreasonable to know in detail about the principles of artifacts and magic. I’m not bragging, but if you’re listening to such a story, 5 minutes is the limit. I could be sure that after 5 minutes and 1 second, I would definitely fall into a sleep state.

So, no matter what Mr. Lars said so hard, I just accepted it with a feeling like, “Wow~ That’s great~ It’s amazing~”. I couldn’t show ugliness in front of my disciple’s colleagues, so it was all I could do and my limit was to somehow endure without falling into a state of sleep.

“But even with the voice, will I finally be able to talk to Sera after a long time?”

It would be best if we could see and talk to each other in person… . If you can achieve everything you want, it is heaven, not a world where people live, and unfortunately, this is not heaven, but a world where people live, so you have no choice but to live with ‘satisfaction through compromise’.

Satisfaction through compromise, which we call the process of becoming an adult or wise.

“Above all, the competition to become a hero is going to intensify.”

I didn’t know much about magic or the principles of artifacts, but I was well aware of people’s ugly desires. This is because there is no other world where you can see the ugliness on the borderline of life and death and the bottom of human beings as clearly as the world in which mercenaries live, where you can see human instincts and essence as clearly as possible.

Therefore, it is not difficult to recall in my head that the competition for the candidate for the hero could not have been so beautiful. Taking hostages and threatening them will happen by default. It will also happen that a hero candidate kills another hero candidate. If there were no witnesses, it would be a perfect assassination.

It was common even in the mercenary days. Saying that he would grow his share even a little bit, he was aiming at the back of a fellow mercenary who had been fighting together until a while ago. Every time that happened, I hit the back of the necks of the guys who were trying to do that, made them pass out, and put them in jail.

“Because there’s nothing good for me to be known in such a situation.”

I will most likely become a hostage. If the teachers of other candidates for the hero come forward, I will definitely become a hostage. The existence of me is the existence that can definitely catch the ankle of the disciple. If so, it would be the right decision not to do it so that the disciple is not harmed.

I think about this every time.

‘If I wasn’t satisfied and pursued a little more strength, wouldn’t I have been able to fight the demon king with a sword rather than a role entrusted to a disciple?’

Of course, this is a nonsensical assumption.

In the first place, no one could be sure that I would have become a superhuman even if I tried my best, and even if I had become a superhuman, it was unknown whether I would be able to compete with the demon king to that extent. No, it will be difficult. There must have been superhumans even when the demon king descended in the distant past. However, when I thought that there was a record that only the hero chosen by God defeated the demon king… . There was no way a single superman could do anything to the demon king. Therefore, it is pointless to think that if I had done something better, I might have had better results.

It’s not that I don’t know that what I’m doing is just a meaningless vicious circle.

But I can’t help it.

‘Cause I’m weak

If you do this, it may have been like this.

If I had done more at that moment in the past, I might have been able to reach a better reality.

What if we did it like this?

Falling into a vicious cycle of meaningless and useless thinking and struggling is a maze that cannot be avoided by the weak who cannot overcome the wall of reality. It is a vicious cycle that the weak have no choice but to fall into. And I was the obvious weakling who left everything to the disciple and was just waiting for the disciple’s return. So it was a natural result to fall into the labyrinth of such a vicious cycle.

“This shouldn’t be the case. If you’re a teacher, if you’re a person who waits, you shouldn’t waver.”

If the teacher shows anxiety, wouldn’t the disciple also become anxious? It was the teacher’s duty to pretend to be strong even for the sake of his pupil, no matter how weak he had become. Staying firm and unchanging is probably the biggest role a teacher can play for a student.

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The artifact called ‘Ovillon’ was an artifact that could connect the same ‘Ovillon’. No matter how far it is, ‘Obilons’ can be connected, so long-distance communication is possible. And the reason that communication is possible no matter how far away is simple.

It will make a space jump. No matter how far it is, if you make the long distance itself meaningless by leaping into space, the problem will disappear completely. Of course, activating such a space leap as an artifact meant that it had to consume an absurd amount of energy, and if you were to use it multiple times instead of just once, it would take an unimaginably huge amount of energy.

Sera resolved that by sealing all of the Hydra’s life force in the Hydra’s core.

Of course, making several of these was realistically ridiculously difficult. Hydra did not completely disappear from the world like dragons, but it was because they were not so common that they could be easily found anywhere. In the first place, if the giant beasts were common, the empire would have already perished. Although he knew the location of the Hydra with the privilege of being an infinite return hero, there were only a few of them.

In other words, ‘Ovilon’ was currently limited to making about two, and one was in Jade’s hand and the other was in Sera’s hand.

By the way, even Steven, the creator and the captain who is receiving a lot of attention for receiving a patent for this, did not have ‘Obilon’. It was because I had to work hard to make two, but I had to give them back as if they were stolen from Archmage William.

In the first place, it was Sera who handed over the Hydra’s core that sealed the Hydra’s vitality intact, so Steven, the captain, had no choice but to hand it over. No matter how much Steven made it, considering the overwhelmingly enormous value of the Hydra’s core that sealed the Hydra’s vitality intact, Steven couldn’t dare claim ownership. In the end, he achieved the goal he had dreamed of, but had to taste the cruel reality where he could not feel any sense of achievement or satisfaction.

Anyway, I was finally able to talk to Jade. I couldn’t see his face, though.

‘Actually, I can see the face, but… .’

In the episode where I worked with Steven, the captain, to make ‘Ovilon’, I succeeded in remodeling it so that I could see and talk from a long distance, and I could do it as much as I had the knowledge about it in my head, but I didn’t have to. it was not It was because I started to have a conversation with only my voice and voice.

‘… But what should I start with?’

I finished everything ready to have a conversation, but that didn’t mean I was completely prepared. The most important preparation was left. That is, the most important preparation, ‘What kind of topic do you talk about?’, was not yet completed. It’s not that I didn’t think of it. I didn’t sleep properly and spent time in agony. Even so, it was not fixed. It was not a lack of time, lack of preparation, or lack of will.

Literally, there was time, thorough preparation, and overflowing will, but despite all that, the proper result could not be completed. That’s the story.

I don’t want to make a mistake.

You have to do it perfectly.

A strong mind and obsession toward good results are causing a contradictory phenomenon in which liberation is released so that the results do not come out properly.

She is the hero of infinite return. Of course, he was never unaware that a strong obsession with results would ruin them. However, even a hero of infinite return could not be prudent in front of the absolute emotion of love.

The absolute power of love is not something that can be avoided by being a hero of infinite return. Therefore, she had no choice but to be swayed, swept, and entangled in the absolute power of love.

‘Talk about the weather… . No, I’m not looking at a match, I’m talking about the weather. But Master’s hiding place and where I am are completely different. Maybe Master can be interested in the weather where I am? But what if Master asks about my friendships? If you say you don’t have any friends, there’s a high possibility that you’ll be worried… .’

He was a real hero who had to move with the goal of saving the world to what extent, and there was no way friendships were important… . It’s like that from the point of view of Sera, the infinite recurrence hero… . It was clear that it wouldn’t look like that from Jade’s point of view, her teacher and guardian. He must have been thinking that he should have made at least one or two friends.

‘Let’s say Leo and Misha (a disciple of the sword demon) made friends (?).’

While Sera was thinking about that, hero candidate Leo and hero candidate Misha felt chills running down their spines and shivered. From the point of view of Leo, who is going through days of training hell that are not at the level of hell training under Sera, and Misha, who is going through the same days of training hell next to Leo, the hero Sera was never a relationship that could be tied under the cute name of a friend. . The relationship between the top and the bottom was so clear that it would not be strange even if the two wanted to be tied to a relationship like the captain and the head.

In any case, Sera, who did not think of the two’s position at all, decided to tell Jade that the two were friends. It was Sarah who perfectly finished the brainwashing work in the name of self-justification that she never told a lie, saying that it was not just wrong because it would be good to be close from now on.

Big! Big!

When you’re so ready

Finally, ‘Ovilon’ responded.

It meant that it was connected to ‘Ovilon’ that Jade had.

soon

-… Are you connected? I’m not sure.

I could hear Jade’s voice.

Even though I saw Jade’s sleeping face, it was the first time in a long time that I heard her voice directly, even if it was Sera… . For her, hearing Jade’s voice as vividly as right in front of her nose made her feel an indescribably hot emotion.

“Master… .”

Sera had even decided on a greeting, saying, ‘I have to say this!’ However, the moment I heard Jade’s voice, it turned into a blank sheet of paper. The moment I heard his voice, I became an idiot. Jade’s fool, who could only hear his voice and think about his voice, was left behind.

-Yes, it’s been a while.

“That… . Are you well?”

– It’s me, of course. Are you really healthy?

“I am, of course.”

– Does your voice seem weak? Are you eating well?

“Absolutely.”

If there was Archmage William next to her, she was telling lies very calmly and naturally, which would have made you think, ‘You lie very naturally.’ She said that it was different from the rice she used to eat with Jade today, and that she ate three meals a day with fruits and vegetables.

“Did you do anything special?”

-What’s special about me? I don’t know if you heard from Mr. Lars, but I ended up caring for dragon eggs.

“Yes, I heard. Are you having a hard time or not?”

– He’s a quiet and kind boy. He’s a very bright child, even though he must be uncomfortable because he can’t move freely inside the egg.

Sera had had a really good time with Dragon Al Lea, wiping it with holy water the night before, but she was showing off her perfect acting skills as if there was no such memory in her memory, as if that had never happened.

– Hard or not?

“it’s okay.”

– I’ve never met a guy who said he was fine in my life, but a guy who was really good.

“I am really fine.”

The question that the hero doesn’t get asked the most is the question, ‘Are you okay?’ Because the warrior has to be okay. Because there shouldn’t be anything wrong with the hero. That’s why people don’t ask the warrior, Sera, ‘Are you okay?’ Even if he throws it, he is immediately satisfied as soon as he hears the answer ‘It’s okay’ from Sera’s mouth. It is because the person who asked such a question in the first place asked it because he wanted to hear the answer from Sera’s mouth, ‘It’s okay.’

But to her, Jade asked, ‘Are you okay?’

Even after replying, ‘It’s okay,’ Jade didn’t stop worrying.

Rather, he was more worried about himself, saying, ‘I’ve never seen a really good guy, even though he said he was fine.’

Really.

It’s a scam.

To her, the existence of Jade is a fraud itself.

whatever he says

Because all of that becomes a word of salvation for Sera.

That’s why Sera’s heart is colored with Jade’s color today as well.