The Hero Disciple Is Back

EP.45 – 44. Master, do you have friends?

“I’m glad you have a friend.”

– It’s natural to have friends.

“right.”

Even today, I was talking to Sera through ‘Ovilon’ developed by the captain, Steven Orville. The very touching story of Sarah making friends has moved me over and over again.

They say it’s another candidate for the hero. Their names are Leo and Misha (disciple of the sword demon). As you can tell by the name, one is a boy and the other is a girl. I thought it would be great to date even one person, but I made two friends. Even though he is my student, it was so touching that I couldn’t help but be proud.

As a guardian, I couldn’t help but be so happy that tears came out.

If possible, I wanted to bring him here right away and treat him to a meal. But that kind of thing would only burden the kids, so I put up with it. After all, nothing is more terrifying to children than an adult’s book.

“I’m glad you seem to be doing well.”

-I’m Master’s disciple, so it’s only natural that I do well.

“Now you’re even good at flattering.”

I was worried that I might not be able to adapt to the world once I went out, but I guess it was a useless worry. It seems like I got used to it too quickly.

‘friend… . friend… .’

He was too far away from himself.

In the case of Balik, he was literally like a younger brother.

That doesn’t mean I didn’t really have friends.

It’s said that a guy with no friends is the way to say ‘I had friends!’, but he didn’t really have any friends. They all just died.

It’s not for nothing that there is a saying like ‘You shouldn’t have mercenaries as friends’.

So I hoped that the mercenaries would die less.

Every time I lost a friend, hearing something like ‘It’s true that you shouldn’t have mercenaries as friends’ made me feel even more twisted.

That’s why I struggled in my own way.

Still, the dead man is dead.

Can not help it.

Because that was what being a mercenary was.

‘Come to think of it, he seems to be doing well… .’

Speaking of friends, there was a guy who came to mind. More precisely, I consider him a friend, although I don’t know what he will think of me. Only he knew the answer, so you could only find out by asking him, but unfortunately, the problem was that he didn’t know what he was doing for a living.

No, it was obvious what he was doing for a living, but ‘where’ was the problem. Could it be that the simple-minded, stone-like guy didn’t go through a promotion course and enter the imperial family?

“a. It can’t be.”

-Yes?

“yes? It is nothing.”

… I hope you’re doing well anyway.

Because he was an inexhaustibly strong guy.

Above all, he was ‘not a mercenary.’ So, since it doesn’t apply to the saying ‘You shouldn’t have mercenaries as friends’, you must be eating well and living well.

♧♧♧

“This can’t be! It can’t be like this! It can’t be like this! It can’t be like this! It can’t be like this! It can’t be like this! It can’t be like this! It can’t be like this! It can’t be like this! I am the emperor! I am the one and only master of this empire!”

The emperor was crumbling. He is a man who has lived at the center of power all his life. That’s why he was the one who could feel the flow of power more accurately and sensitively than anyone else. That’s why I feel it.

Not an hour, not a minute, not even a minute. 1 second. Every second passed, the flow of power that flowed around him was being taken away by his eldest son. The flow was being taken away like madness, like water escaping in an instant through broken glass.

It shouldn’t happen.

To hold this power, to become its sole master, he devoted his entire life. But why should he have to lose it! Why did this happen to me!

Every day I think about power, I work hard, and I really generously risk everything. Then, isn’t he qualified to take power in this world? Isn’t that what you deserve to get your hands on? Yes! That’s normal! Therefore, what is happening now is abnormal! Wrong!

Therefore, it must be corrected!

“Is anyone there?!”

“lung. your majesty… . Why are you like that? Number. Would you like a drink?”

The first prince, soon to become the crown prince, kept it as it was because it was impossible to have no one to assist the emperor. It was because even such an emperor had followers. If they tried to take everything from the emperor too much, they could rebel. As the existence of the warrior Sera made it possible to obtain the imperial power quickly and accurately without having to see blood, the first prince did so to avoid as much resistance as possible.

“Sing ‘Steel’ right now!”

“under. However, His Highness the Prince allows it… .”

Clink!

“Kyaaak!”

“Shut up! I am the emperor! He is an emperor who has the unique power to put you to death if he gives an order right away!”

“crime. sorry!”

“If you understand, quickly sing ‘Steel’!”

“Yeah!!”

In the end, he hurriedly left the place to listen to the emperor’s order.

The emperor smiled twistedly.

『The Iron Knight』 Galahad Patton

As the name suggests, he is a person who is loyal only to the emperor and strictly follows any orders. In other words, even at this moment, if the emperor issues an order, it is most certain that it will be thoroughly followed.

smart!

“Your Majesty, did you call?”

A knight with a huge body came in.

Sitting on the throne looking down from a high seat, the emperor felt a sense of joy every time he saw the size that did not feel small at all. Even a knight with such an absurdly violent presence could not help but feel the joy of kneeling before his power and fulfilling his allegiance.

“Welcome, my knight.”

“The Holy One of this world is welcoming. It is an infinite honor.”

“Heh heh, you always make me happy.”

After all, the Iron Knight!

The one who doesn’t care about the flow of power and only keeps steel loyalty to himself as the emperor!

So, if it’s his own order, it’s clear that he’s a person who will do it without caring about the gaze of the first prince!

“I, as the one who sits on the one and only throne of this empire, give orders to my knight, Sir Galahad Patton, the ‘Knight of Steel’.”

“I will be loyal to any command as long as this Galahad Patton’s soul exists.”

“Good posture! If so, I will give you an order. It is certain that a mercenary named Jade, the teacher of the candidate Sera, killed the imperial knight. As a proud imperial knight, bring Jade’s head as punishment for that!”

The emperor feels the flow of power better than anyone else and analyzes it well. That’s why I know. The fact that Sera, the candidate for the hero, is at the center of creating an abnormal reality that he can never admit to himself. That’s why you have to show it. That you are not easygoing! It must be clearly recognized by the central figure! Other than that, it was impossible to bring this abnormal state back to normal.

So, for that, I aim for Jade’s neck.

It was because the imperial knight sent to kidnap Jade failed miserably. Even a knight of the imperial family, not even a superhuman, could be sacrificed as much as he wanted, so I just threw it away thinking it was a waste… . Rather, it went well. If that is the justification for giving orders to the Iron Knight, this guy will surely carry out his words with faith like that of steel, as if it were an oracle from God… .

“I will refuse.”

… should it be?

“what?”

“I said I would refuse.”

“my. Have you forgotten who I am?!”

“You can’t forget, can you? Holy One of this Empire.”

“That. But are you saying you won’t follow my orders!”

“I always said. ‘I will be loyal to any command as long as this Galahad Patton’s soul exists.’”

“That. Yes! So follow my orders! Keep your word!”

“That’s why I’m saying I can’t keep it.”

Wow!

“Hiccup!”

The emperor had no choice but to hiccup.

It was because Galahad Patton’s body radiated tremendous energy. It was a look the emperor had never seen before, having used him like his dog for a long time.

“Holy One, you are mistaken. I did not follow you out of loyalty. ‘I just acted like that because that’s what knights are.’ As a knight of the Empire, I only did it because being loyal to the Holy One of the Empire and obeying his orders was what I had to do as a knight. So you are grossly mistaken. I just did what a knight had to do, and I never had any loyalty to a holy one.”

“I am still the emperor! But why won’t you listen to my orders!”

“Can anyone live without a soul?”

“what?”

“If your soul breathes the power you are so obsessed with, then mine also has something to breathe.”

thump! thump!

“Five. don’t come! It’s an order! Can’t you hear me sitting in the only seat in the world!”

“That is the name of friendship. He may think so of me too, but I certainly think so, and consider him a friend. And my soul can only breathe in that friendship.”

“who. Who is missing?!!!!!! come in!!!! Hurry up and stop this!!!!!! Can’t you hear the emperor’s words!!!!!!”

“The friendship that makes my soul breathe, the owner’s name is Jade. He’s a man with the same name as ‘Steel’.”

“Who is it?! I mean listen to me!!! I am the one and only in this empire… ! Couup!”

Galahad’s thick, scarred hands thoroughly sealed the mouth of a man who had lived his entire life indulging in power and enjoying it. Her flawlessly clean, wrinkled hands, without any scars, anxiously gripped Galahad’s thick, scarred hands, trying to loosen them somehow, but there was nothing those frail hands could do.

“I have already entrusted my sword to His Highness. There’s no way I’ll keep entrusting my sword to the guy who tried to bruise my soul, right?”

“… … ?!”

“Everything is planned. You just danced to it without realizing it. A vain man trapped in the cage of power and unable to escape.”

cooong!

With those words, as if he had waited for this moment, the door to the emperor’s bedroom was firmly closed.

In the imperial palace, even the slightest noise was supposed to be recorded, but mysteriously, it is said that no record was left except for that day.