Abandoned Retired Warrior Decides to Return to Farming

Aurelia’s guilt is revealed and everyone awaits her answer.

In this place where all the citizens and those who have been hurt by her are gathered, perhaps the last chance to confess their sins.

But Aurelia’s answer did not change.

“······Shut up. I did nothing wrong.”

Thanks to this, there was silence in the square, and the citizens looked at Aurelia with shocked expressions.

While everyone was silent, I also had nothing more to say to her.

Now, only the voice of Aurelia’s sins could be heard here.

“In addition to the above-mentioned charges, it was revealed that Princess Aurelia not only condoned the cruel human experimentation of the mage Mary, but also participated in kidnapping and financial assistance, and is currently under investigation.”

Traces from Mary’s underground laboratory.

There were fissures over the corpse I saw, and it couldn’t have been all that.

Surely, just by examining those who have gone missing in the last five years, you can see just how much sacrifice they have made.

“Therefore, Princess Aurelia will be detained in the imperial dungeon for the time being until all her sins are revealed.”

“Cael…!!”

Aurelia looked away, but ignored it.

It’s not you who I’m asking for your consent right now.

Of course, no one objected to this announcement.

Citizens, as well as other nobles and knights, were turned away.

Square No, she was no longer on her side in this imperial capital.

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Announcing the disposition for Aurelia, the anger of the citizens did not subside easily.

Disappointment. anger. aversion.

Still, those cold eyes gathered together and pointed at her.

“Until now, I only believed in the princess, but that was all accomplished by the warrior Cael alone. Aren’t you ashamed?”

“Did you even chase the saint out like that? Aren’t you afraid of Goddess’ wrath?”

“If everything is true, why do we need to be locked up? It’s just wasting our precious tax dollars. Let’s just execute him right here!!”

“Go away! Tyrant Aurelia, leave immediately!”

The complaints of the citizens gathered together and in an instant, it grew like a snowball rolling in the snow.

Before the criticism against Aurelia could get out of hand, I decided to take Aurelia down from the stage.

While the Imperial Knights and Revolutionary Army calmed the citizens, several members, including myself, entered the Imperial Palace.

And they began to share opinions about her treatment.

“Then what shall we do now?”

Dimitri asked, looking down at the tied Aurelia.

Representatives of the Imperial Knights and the Revolutionary Army. And even the head of the church and Serin. Everyone was drooling and thinking.

“Ugh. Also, start by cutting. I’m going to cut off the leg!”

“Hey, Serene. Anyway, that’s a bit…”

Shizu responded with a tired expression, but Serin’s eyes twinkled and coveted Aurelia’s ankle.

Well, the expression is harsh, but it’s not wrong. No, it would be rather insufficient.

How many people were ruined and sacrificed at the hands of this woman?

You have ruined the lives of so many people, so you must pay the price.

“Originally, the law is to imprison you in the imperial prison until you collect evidence of your sister’s crimes…”

Dimitri sighed and continued speaking as if in trouble.

“In the meantime, there is a possibility that other nobles and powers who support you will unite.”

“That would make things more complicated.”

It sounds like there’s no room for fuss.

No matter how much support and support from the citizens and the Imperial Knights Templar, Aurelia’s power was so overwhelming that it could not do anything for five years.

However, the nobles who still remain in the capital or have already fled. And if you include those in other cities and provinces, Dimitri will inevitably be pushed back.

Things will get even more complicated if they join forces and come to the capital before all the evidence is found and published.

“Then are you going to kill me here?”

Aurelia trembled when I asked.

But Dimitri shook his head.

“It seems a little difficult. In a situation where there are still some people who are still supporting your sister and some people who are skeptical, if you execute her on this spot without evidence, there will definitely be a backlash. Of course, if Kael-sama wants it, we can somehow find a way.”

“iced coffee. done. I didn’t mean to kill you anyway.”

That’s not okay. Where do you want to go so comfortably?

However, if there is not much time and it is impossible to kill, there is only one way left.

No, I came here with this intention in the first place, so it was a good thing.

“Then we can eliminate his existence.”

“yes?”

“Just as the hero left the capital and the saint escaped from prison, let’s assume that Princess Aurelia also escaped from prison.”

“Hey, that’s unlikely, but Kael-sama. Would you like to release me?”

Shizu, who had been listening beside her, asked carefully.

Maybe it was because of the old relationship that made me weak, or because it was a tone that had such a meaning, I laughed out loud without realizing it.

“Hey, can that be? I came all the way to this distant capital for this bitch.”

“That, then?”

“If you can’t die and you can’t live, you can just destroy that existence. The faction that supported him in the first place is only possible when this bitch is in front of him. What will they do if they break out of jail?”

If you treat it like you went out on a whim, no one will say anything.

Of course, there are some criticisms, but from there, it’s Dimitri’s responsibility to take care of it.

“Well, if you don’t like it, you can’t do it.”

“No, it wasn’t a successful operation because Kael-sama was there anyway. What can I say after only seeing opportunities for 5 years? but······.”

Dimitri stopped talking and looked at Aurelia as if uncomfortable.

However, the emotions in the way the two looked at each other were different.

If Dimitri hesitated with sympathy, Aurelia was trembling with a sense of betrayal.

“Dimitri. I understand, but take heart. Isn’t it something that you started with a resolution in the first place?”

“Yeah, I know.”

And, obviously, Aurelia must have touched Dimitri someday.

With his personality, Dimitri, who is supported by the Revolutionary Army and the Imperial Knights Templar, cannot be left alone.

Poisoning or manipulating a crime like Aerith did and imprisoning him until he rots in prison would have done anything.

Well, I don’t think there’s any need to even say this to a disturbed kid.

“······yes. I do that. I will obey Kael-sama’s words.”

Dimitri nodded his head as if determined.

No one objected to that. In the first place, all those gathered here were gathered to take revenge on Aurelia and bring her down.

The Imperial Knights and the Revolutionary Army would have no choice but to follow Dimitri’s advice in the first place.

The headteacher did not object either, perhaps because of Aerith’s work.

Serin… I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that.

“Then what do we do if we do it externally? It is difficult to hide it because the eyes and ears of the royal power are still there, including the imperial family.”

“Well, I’ve been thinking about that.”

There’s a good hiding place here in the capital.

As I said that, I looked at Aurelia and smiled.

Seeing this, she trembled and had an anxious expression on her face.

I left her alone and called Rabin.

He was a gardener at the Imperial Palace, but apparently he was unfairly kicked out by Aurelia.

“Rabin, cut her hair.”

“······What?”

I must have called Rabin, but Aurelia screamed.

“You, what are you talking about now? How dare you, Cheonmin, touch my hair, the hair of this body!?”

She shouted and cursed, but no one was listening.

“How much shall I cut?”

“As short as possible. So that no one can easily recognize that she is a princess.”

At my words, Rabin approached without hesitation.

His shadow approached Aurelia’s face, trembling with fear.

“Oh, don’t come! It’s an order. Stop!”

“Is your hair so precious to a subject you used to play with other people’s lives?”

“Come on, wait-”

snip.

There was no hesitation in Rabin’s movements.

His long, proud hair slid down his shoulders and fell to the floor.

Aurelia’s eyes looking at it lost focus, but it didn’t stop.

“Oh, no. My hair…”

The sound of cutting continued until a pile of books piled up on the floor, and when all of them were cut, the hair was shorter than mine.

“Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah…”

Aurelia picks up her hair that has fallen to the floor with a broken scream.

Some saw it and sympathized with it, but I didn’t.

She must have trampled on other people’s lives in that way, no, more brutally than that.

Unlike Serin, there was no room for that sin.

“I’ll leave Aurelia in a place no one knows about. I swear I will never appear in front of people again.”

At that, she trembled as she grabbed my arm.

Have you ever guessed what the future might hold for you?

It seems that the situation is now understood.

“Hey, don’t let this go!? Kael!!”

“Come on, wait a minute, hero.”

Just when I was about to take her like that, the teacher called me.

“I am, warrior. Can you tell just where you are taking me?”

“It is difficult to say. What you need to make sure no one knows. Do you know?”

“Yes. I know. However, if not as much as the hero, we also hate the princess and have been waiting for this day.”

“yes. I know too.”

I know that tidy. They must have worked hard in my absence, too.

That is why, even at such a time, so many citizens could have gathered and the revolutionary army and knights could have united.

Since they are such people, of course they want to know the treatment of the princess.

Right now, besides the headmaster, some of them were looking at them with dissatisfaction.

But right now, we don’t know if there are eyes and ears here.

And I can’t guarantee that some of these people will change their minds one day.

“So, Cal. As for what to do with the princess from now on—”

“no. Just send it.”

So how do I convince you now? Just as I was thinking about it, a voice came from a little far away.

Everyone’s eyes turned to him, and everyone, especially the headmaster, looked surprised.

“Stand, saint!”

“Master. It’s been a while.”

The headmaster ran to Aerith in one step.

Then he took her one hand carefully.

“I am very glad that you are safe…”

“yes. I’m also really happy to see you after a long time. Of course… I did something unpleasant like that in the cathedral earlier.”

“it’s okay. We’ll take care of everything, so you don’t have to worry about it.”

“Thank you, teacher. But before that…”

Aerith turned and looked at me.

Then, with a slight smile, he nodded his head,

“Master. Please trust Kael and send it. I’ll beg you too.”

“Hey, but Madame. Even though-“

“I swear with everything I have. Kael will treat the princess fairly according to the price of her crimes. As a saint, I swear to the goddess.”

“ah······.”

So euphemistically, even when she was in the position of a saint, no one had anything else to say.

“Yes… I will follow what the saint says.”

“Thank you.”

Aerith looked at me and nodded slightly.

Thanks to him, I dragged Aurelia out without hesitation.

“Get out of your seat right now!”

“Hang the princess!”

The people’s voices were still boiling in the square.

Unfathomable sorrow and anger filled the square.

“Look, Aurelia. You don’t even think about it when you see it.”

“Hey, Kael. Let’s talk about something like that. ‘Cause I’ll give you anything-“

Yes, I asked just in case, but it didn’t make any sense either.

From then on, I ignored all of her words and took her out of sight.

The chaos now is your only chance to avoid the eyes and ears of others.

After walking like that, I arrived at a slum surrounded by forest.

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I opened the rusty iron door and stepped into it.

“Hey, where are you?”

Aurelia frowned at the terrible stench, but didn’t answer.

Yeah, I don’t know you, who spent every day in the Imperial Palace.

A street where no light exists. slum.

Lifeless ones wandered around like corpses, and dirty mice wandered around covered in mud.

Surrounded by a deep and remote forest, not a single ray of light came in.

It was the only place in the imperial capital where entry was prohibited, and at the same time, it was also a place where you could not leave at will the moment you entered.

“This is where you will live.”

Originally, the knights were blocking the entrance, but due to the situation, there was no one now.

So now is probably the best time to leave Aurelia behind.

“Come on, wait a minute. You’re leaving me somewhere like this? Are you crazy!?”

“By the way, you saw this. I think it’s because he’s holding on to wanting to lose a few units.”

When I let go, this time she hastily grabbed my hand.

And with an expression of horror that cannot be compared with before,

“Hey, Kael. Don’t do it, listen to me. I’m pretty much reflecting on this, right? He, so first of all, we-”

“Aurelia. If you hadn’t committed murder like Serin or Ashua, I might have forgiven you.”

“Ka, Kael, wait a minute—”

“But, how many people have you killed with these hands?”

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I smashed Aurelia’s ship, which was trying to chase me.

Thanks to you, I fell down without even screaming.

“Keep, Heo Eok…….”

“I can’t imagine you being in a place like this. So no one will find it. No, even if you come, then you will no longer be the princess’s nemesis.”

“Oh, no. please, please don’t go Kael! Kael, you bastard!!”

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Just closed the door and locked it.

Immediately, Aurelia waved the iron bars and begged, but she ignored it and turned away.

I came down from there without any regrets.

And after a while I heard screams from behind, but that was all.

Perhaps we will never see Princess Aurelia again.

“Are you here?”

And when I finished everything and came down, Dimitri was waiting.

When I saw that face, I couldn’t help but smile.

“what the. Hopefully we’ll see each other after it’s all over.”

“yes. Mr Kael. I didn’t expect to see you so late.”

“ha. Anyway, seeing your face makes me realize that it’s over.”

“Fufu, go higher than that first. Isn’t this the return of a true hero?”

Having said that, he guided him over the podium with his hands.

As I looked up at the podium he was pointing at, many thoughts came to my mind.

There must be boundless glory waiting for him wherever he guides.

The cheers of the citizens and the pouring out of wealth and power. If it was a country 5 years ago, it would have accepted it.

It’s only natural, and it’s a decent reward for what I’ve done.

But right now, I just thought it was good.

“done. Just do what you guys did.”

“yes? Kael, Kael. What is that…”

Dimitri had a bewildered expression on her face, but as I looked up at the darkening sky, I felt rather relieved.

“The day is dawning. It must be time to go back.”

My revenge is over, so now all I have to do here is finished.

“Besides, the era of needing a hero is over. From now on, it won’t be yours.”

“But it was none other than Kael who opened that era. And this time, Kael-sama’s contribution is the biggest. It’s okay to go back to where you were before, so please just accept it-“

“done. Because I already got what I needed.”

As I said that, I looked at Serine and Aerith from a distance.

Five years ago, I came to this world and thought I had it.

colleague.

They were all they needed when they returned to the village.

When he answered with such conviction, Dimitri did not hold onto him any longer.

“Then go.”

“Aren’t you going to stay a little longer?”

“Well, after work, you should probably sleep at home.”

As soon as you leave, you should go to bed.

Dimitri smiled bitterly at my answer and bowed his head.

Then, along with the Revolutionary Army and Shizu and other knights, he returned to rectify the situation in the square.

“You suffered. Kael.”

Looking back, this time, Aerith was standing there as if waiting.

I remembered her helping me a while ago.

“Thank you. I was wondering how to convince you.”

“Um, then, let’s go on a date later.”

“If you’re okay with that.”

Now, all that’s left is time.

But soon Aerith shook her head with a playful smile.

“Ahaha. just joke. Considering what I got from Mr. Kael, this is nothing. Rather, it is not enough that I have to comply with Kael-san’s request.”

“What, your colleagues?”

“Colleagues… Huhu, it’s good to hear. Of course, it’s not that I don’t want to be more greedy there, but…”

Aerith giggled as she looked at Serin with her ears pricked from afar.

“Still, can you bear the stinging a little? As Kael said, we have a lot of time to spend together.”

“? okay.”

“So, Mr. Kael… is it okay if I stay here a little longer and go back?”

Aeris’ smile as he said that was already brimming with guilt.

“I know it’s all over at last. But there was no damage, and even if Kael forgave me, that doesn’t mean I didn’t do what I was trying to do. I want to stay here a little longer and help others.”

“Yeah… If that’s your decision, do it as you please.”

“ah. But it doesn’t mean that what Kael said to me was wrong. Because of those words, I am able to stand here in front of Mr. Kael right now.”

Aerith took my hand carefully.

Then he carefully buried his face in my arms.

“Because Kael is there, I have a desire to live. Kael saved me, who was drowning in mud both physically and mentally. Thanks to this, even I was able to save my life that I had given up on. Thank you. I am so grateful that it is not enough to say thank you very much.”

Aerith shook her head.

“So, I’ll go in a little while. Until I can think of myself as not ashamed to stand next to Mr. Kael.”

He was brimming with tears, but there was no tremor in his eyes.

Soon she took a step back and fell from me.

“Then, Kael, please say hello to Serin and Lucia.”

“okay. Take care of yourself too.”

“Yes, ah! But if I can’t stand it because I miss Kael so much, I might just come back.”

After saying that, Aerith smiled mischievously.

I laughed at that mischievous smile as well.

“Kuk. okay. The house next door will be empty, so come back anytime.”

“Fufu, yes!”

She bowed her head and turned her back.

Well, I’m a little worried, but if it’s Aerith, I think I’ll be fine.

When Aerith passed me by, Serin ran up to me and asked, tilting her head.

“Hey, what about Aerith?”

“Come later.”

“yes? When are you coming?”

Serin asked Aerith as she looked away, but didn’t bother answering.

I promised her I’d come back someday.

It would be pointless to set a time there.

“By the way, Lucia.”

“yes? After all, I haven’t seen it since. Weren’t you with the master?”

“not really.”

Where are you wandering on the road?

At that moment, I felt a huge energy behind me.

Right now, there must be only one person in this capital city or continent with this kind of power.

When I turned around, my eyes met Lucia, who was next to Aerith.

From the looks of it, it seemed that he did not intend to come to us right now.

“Are you going to stay together?”

Yeah, if you two are together, there’s nothing more to worry about.

“Serin, let’s go back together.”

“yes? How about Aerith and Lucia? Come on, wait… Master. let’s go together!”

When everything is over and on the way home, the day is just getting brighter.

I guess it’s time to go home now.

I left the capital with Serin and returned to the village.

But unlike five years ago, the road back was light.

Is it because I am no longer alone, unlike back then?

Because there are colleagues who go back together now, and there are colleagues who will come back someday.

There were no regrets, no regrets, and no desire for revenge in those steps.