The Hero Disciple Is Back

EP.50 – 49. Master cooks just in case

Stella had never had a proper conversation with the Wandering God. At least, it was all about receiving an oracle once in a while. Even so, she knew why the Wandering God had saved her. The reason was really simple. It is a mirror. To the wandering god, his reflection in the mirror, Stella was half man and half horse.

A child whose death is certain from the moment he is born

An existence that does not know why it was born

What were you born for?

An existence that does not know what value its birth has

That’s why the wandering god couldn’t just pass by Stella. That is why the god whose origin was wandering made his own choice and chose Stella as his saint.

But I was able to survive

Even so, if the wandering saint asked if she considered her survival a blessing, that wasn’t the case again. For her, she thought, maybe it would have been better for her to just disappear.

Because just being alive was no different from having no meaning.

It was a time when he was immersed in contemplation, lying on a large stone and looking at the night sky full of stars, thinking about his past.

“I was here.”

“… Mmm. you count… ?”

“Yes, I am a candidate for the hero. You’re a troubled person because you suddenly disappeared.”

“… I think the gaze towards me is too hot for that… .”

“There are other complaints, too. I think it would be appreciated if you go back to the temple sooner than that and hold a warrior selection ceremony.”

“… Hmm… .”

I don’t understand, thought Stella.

“… Why are you working so hard… ?”

“What do you want to say?”

“If you fail that much, isn’t it time to give up?”

“… … .”

Sarah was not surprised. When I thought that the wandering saint had selected herself as a hero each time and that I couldn’t even find her shadow no matter how I pursued her every time, I thought there was nothing strange about what she knew, and nothing strange about what she did. It was because.

“Can you see something?”

“… a little… .”

“yes… .”

Sera didn’t bother asking, ‘If you saw a glimpse of my future as a warrior, why did you disappear without helping me every time?’ If he had the will to do so in the first place, he would have helped. Yelling at someone who didn’t have that kind of heart was no different from talking against a wall.

I was just answering her question.

“After all, I know it’s the right thing to do. Because it seems to be the most precious thing. So, if the future of this world disappears, it will be troublesome. I just can’t give up for that obvious reason.”

“… That’s enough… ?”

“It overflows because it’s not enough. Because I have someone I want to live tomorrow with, laughing with.”

In particular, Sera did not hold any ill feelings toward Stella. He didn’t use his fight to the death behind his back, and he chose himself well every time he was selected as a warrior, reducing at least one annoying thing, so in that sense it was helpful, so he didn’t want to express his dissatisfaction.

“… I see… .”

Stella still doesn’t know. But thanks to Jade, I was able to realize one thing for sure. No matter how much you wander, you are the only one who can make a choice at the moment of choice. No one can replace it, and no one can do anything about it. When the moment of choice given to you comes, you have to make your own choice. That is absolutely right, and worth a little more than anything else.

“… It’s okay.”

Stella, who was lying on a stone and looking at the night sky, got up. She looked blankly at the night sky and murmured.

“… It’s not that I’m wandering around not knowing what’s right… .”

In the end, the answer is always within you. It’s just pretending not to know and wandering around.

The words Jade had said were enshrined in her soul.

That’s it.

Stella thought so.

Then you no longer have to question what you should choose and whether it is worth it.

Because the answer was inside her from the beginning

“… let’s go… .”

“really?”

“… I got everything I needed… . If I said I would stay, I felt like I would be forced to drag them… .”

Contrary to what Stella looked like, she had a good sense of humor, and Sera didn’t deny that.

It was because my head was full of thoughts that I would solve it by force if I said I would not go.

I don’t have any ill feelings, but there are overflowing feelings that I want to get rid of here.

♧♧♧

“You are really bothering me again. Sigh.”

The priest of the temple Stella is living in sighed and chattered. The Wandering God gave her the position of a saint and a huge amount of holy power, but nothing else was done. Above all, there were no temples or believers. There was no way such a saintess had political power. Of course, the story would have been different if he had wielded it as much as it was full of divine power, but Stella didn’t use it because it was annoying.

The consequences of that… .

“Shouldn’t you realize that existence itself is a nuisance? Please enlighten me. Do you know what a difficult time the temples and priests are having because of you?”

There would be no need to explain.

Perhaps their influence was also a big part of making Stella feel that the world wasn’t worth saving.

“… shut up… .”

“Yes?”

“… shut up… .”

“Whoops!”

Stella sealed the priest’s mouth with divine power. Seeing that the most outstanding priest was killed in an instant, all the priests present were frozen. To them, Stella spoke softly.

“… what are you doing? play?… .”

“ah. no!”

“city. Priest, go there for now… !”

“Ugh!! Ugh!”

All the people who had always treated Stella like trash all of a sudden became her faithful servants and began to work with all their heart and sincerity.

♧♧♧

There was nothing special about Stella’s selection of warriors. It just ended with Stella appearing in a loose outfit and saying ‘that’s a warrior’. That’s why Sarah thought this time would not be much different.

… But it was different.

“Wow. She is a saint.”

“wow! Is the saintess special the moment you see her? It makes me feel that way.”

Leo and Misha next to him admired it, but Sera couldn’t. It was because it was the first time that Stella showed off the look and atmosphere of ‘I’m a real saint’ like that. And that’s not all. The wandering saint is a nuisance to temples. That’s why the eyes of those who helped her beside her were all disrespectful. But now, all the clergy in this seat were full of military standards, as if they had become knights or loyalists serving the monarch. It’s as if Stella, who finds all of that annoying, has exercised her skills… .

‘It couldn’t have been, right?’

No matter how much, I’ve never done it once in all those countless episodes… .

‘In terms of things like that, this is the first time I’ve suddenly visited my teacher… .’

Wouldn’t it be strange if a person who did something strange once did something strange again? In that sense, there was nothing strange about Stella’s uncharacteristic display of her skills.

‘Above all, to see her gracefully straight back, walking gracefully, and even looking beautiful like a saint… . Why are you doing that all of a sudden?’

Sera couldn’t help but be full of energy when she showed a truly perfect saintess that had never been seen in so many episodes. It was Stella, the wandering saint, who always appeared loose and messy and made me feel like ‘She has a pretty face, but everything except her face is messed up?’ So, even if Sarah felt embarrassed, there was nothing strange about it.

“Yo. We will begin the selection ceremony for the warriors.”

As if the priest had not been able to open his mouth for a while and then suddenly opened his mouth, he could not control his voice at all. But no one cared about that. It was because all of the warrior candidates gathered here were completely engrossed in the holy power and divinity of the wandering saint.

“First of all, I apologize for being rude.”

Stella opened her mouth and bowed in an apologetic manner, with a clean voice that was completely devoid of her usual indolence. Some of the warrior candidates who were busy grumbling before Stella appeared blushed and shut their mouths as if they had never done that. As a boy and a girl, she was completely mesmerized by her beauty.

“Hero candidate Sera, please come forward.”

Stella’s tidy voice was not too familiar, but Sera responded calmly, knowing that it was an important moment.

“Please show your respect.”

Candidates for warriors who had never learned about these manners, including Leo and Misha, would have been embarrassed if they had been told to do this right away without practicing in advance, but of course Sera, who had lived multiple lives in infinite rounds and lived as a noble, of course knew, so she knelt down as it was. Kneel down and show respect.

“As the wandering saint appointed by Wolford, the god of wandering, I proclaim in the name of Stella.”

The moment he heard that, Sarah knew something was wrong.

“The main character of the oracle given by the god is Sera, and I declare that she is the one and only true hero.”

The moment she said that, the holy power that was filled in Stella’s body came out and began to fill Sera’s surroundings.

As befits an infinite number of heroes, she immediately realized what Stella was trying to do.

“you… ! stop! If you do this, you… !”

There was nothing wrong with Sarah. If Stella did what she wanted to do now, she would be of great help in defeating the Demon King. If it had been her in the days when she didn’t care about means and methods, if she had been in the days when she felt nothing there no matter how much she sacrificed, she would surely have been happy at this moment.

But not now.

It wasn’t like this.

“I, Stella, the wandering saint, risk my all to bestow a blessing on the hero Sera. Please, God, hear this prayer.”

The Wandering God answered that prayer.

♧♧♧

half man half horse

It is a natural existence that perishes the moment it is born.

No matter how much God’s miracle

Even so, there was nothing I could do other than delay the time of extinction.

The time remaining in the hourglass of death is just ahead.

There was no other reason why she disappeared after each hero selection ceremony.

It was simply because it no longer existed in this world.

Because the time given to her after that no longer existed. She literally disappeared from the world, so even if Sera pursued her, she couldn’t get any clues. Finding something completely extinct in the world was impossible even for a hero of infinite return.

Therefore, she had to choose.

How to spend the rest of your time.

Shall I use it for the warrior? I was also worried. However, her future as seen through Sinan was nothing but failure. The Demon King, seen through Shinan, was not an opponent that humans could do anything about. That’s why she wondered what value it would be to give it a meaning if it was going to fail anyway. That’s why she always disappeared after selecting a hero.

I didn’t know it now, but she had regretted it every time she disappeared so pointlessly. In the end, he couldn’t help but regret his shabby ephemerality, which left nothing behind, could not accomplish anything, and merely existed and disappeared.

Therefore, the wandering god showed his last mercy. As much as the fate of the world could be changed by the brilliant soul, she bet the fate of her own saintess who would disappear in vain. That’s why he issued an oracle, which he hadn’t done before, and made his saintess bond with Jade.

That is why the wandering saint who always wandered to the end

For the first time

It doesn’t end with wandering

I was able to choose my own end.

♧♧♧

Stella opened her eyes with difficulty. As soon as he opened his eyes, what he saw was the face of Sera, who was lending him a knee.

“… hi… .”

His voice was full of indolence as usual, but he didn’t feel the slightest bit of power. She couldn’t help but feel that the sand in the little hourglass she had been given was falling faster.

“… Why did you do this on your own?”

“… Because I knew this was the answer… .”

“you… !”

“Don’t feel guilty… . The time given to me anyway… . It’s not long… . If so… . With that few lives left… . Leaving something valuable… . full profit… Is that it?”

I have seen many deaths. Being that kind of Sarai, I thought death would not shake my heart. However, when the wound is healed and new skin grows, it will be wounded again and blood will flow. That’s why she shed tears now because of Jade. Jade restored her dead flesh so neatly. That is why the fact that she shed tears at this moment was proof that new skin had grown.

pop

So, Sera concluded that ‘these tears’ were because of Jade.

“… crying for me… Will?”

“… It’s got dust in it.”

“… whoop whoop… .”

Stella closed her eyes.

“… If you have to perish anyway… . What should I value… . what to do… . Does that mean that this ephemeral fate will have meaning…? . I had no idea… . no one told me… .”

The light dyed her body and erased her one by one.

“… But I didn’t have to do that in the first place. … The answer has been inside me from the beginning… . It was all inside me from the beginning… .”

“You’re stupid… .”

“Yeah, stupid… .”

‘still… The wandering saintess added,

“… yes i chose … left … That’s all you need.”

When the moment of choice came, he made his choice.

That’s it.

He said he put what he learned from his friend to good use.

That’s it.

The wandering saint has come to an end.

“… Yes, my life is not bad.”

Born as a half-man, half-horse, he was able to live a life he shouldn’t have had.

And there were things left from that life.

I made the right choice at the moment of choice.

That’s it.

Stella smiled.

Instead of wandering, regretting and despairing over his ephemeral life, he met the end smiling and satisfied with his life.

It was a miracle in the name of redemption, an irregularity that had never happened in several episodes.

♤♤♤

“To disappear without leaving a note.”

The guest who came suddenly appeared so suddenly, and then suddenly disappeared this time.

If you’re going to leave, shouldn’t you definitely say goodbye?

“Since he might come back once again, shall we do that for him?”

If you come back and he doesn’t have his share, wouldn’t he feel bad?

“But I wonder if my advice was helpful?”

I wish I could be of some help… .

would that have helped?

I just can’t help but wish that.

But for some reason, I feel like I can spend a quiet time today. Is it because of my mood?

For some reason, today, I blankly gazed at the sky. It was a very strange feeling.