I Picked Up the Hero and the Demon King

28 – Incident (2)

Damn.

[Next news. The death toll for the department store bombing a week ago has been completed, and a commemoration of them… ]

Chin.

[Ah. I think there is some problem with this. No. What kind of era is it that you can’t stop a single bomb attack?! This makes no sense! There will be problems with construction, but the hero… ]

Tip.

[Today, a public discourse was held following the bombing. The government is promptly seeking out and investigating the culprit, and the Hero Association is also putting in all their efforts… ]

“Haa…”

Tteik─

I turned off the TV when there was only news that made me sigh.

It has to be. Bombing is equivalent to throwing a stone by a primitive man in this day and age.

Superhumans have many different abilities.

Stealing, shrinking, passing through, etc…

I made technological advances to stop people with all kinds of abilities, but I can’t find a bomb?

This makes no sense.

Somewhere, it is absurd to not find a bomb that is installed in one place when even those who are as nimble as agents in spy movies are bound to get caught.

As long as it exploded on time, it was a bomb attack that was bound to be discovered unconditionally.

In fact, it makes more sense that the building collapsed as lightning fell from a dry sky.

But what I’m concerned about now is that I had other thoughts that were bigger.

‘… Weird. Surely this never happened in my previous life.’

No matter how indifferent I am to social news or the world, I don’t just pass this news over.

I’m sure this never happened in my previous life, so why did this happen?

… Maybe I’ll come back?

Does the existing disappear and the non-existent appear?

That makes sense, but… Equivalent exchange is too large.

No matter how much they are heroes of war and the main pillars of each faction, the sisters are just powerless children.

A child who looks young for his age due to lack of nutrition.

Thousands of lives lost just because you saved those two?

… If you look at the future steps of the two, it’s understandable, but…

No. Rather, does the fact that this happened mean that there will be no war?

“Haa…”

I don’t know.

I can’t think of it even if I grab my head and think about it.

If you were given at least one ability to prophesy, it would be easy to figure out.

Now all I can do is worry and worry.

“Older brother, have lunch.”

“Huh? Ah, yes.”

As I thought deeply, it was almost time for lunch.

Since last Christmas, the sisters have been preparing meals, and each meal is very delicious.

Ah. But that doesn’t mean my cooking skills aren’t terrible.

Even if I wanted to do it, they said they would do it and kept stopping me, and I was in charge of it all the time.

It wasn’t because my cooking skills were really bad.

Really.

“Today is also a delicacy. Even if you don’t have to do this.”

“Huh. Eat a lot. Even if you prepare a lot anyway, my brother will eat it all, right?”

“Right. Pig. Pig!”

As soon as I sat down on the chair, I untied my apron and Yoo Soo-ah and Yoo Seo-eun sat side by side across from me.

“I don’t eat that much…”

“You always eat more than two bowls of rice. That’s why it’s a pig.”

“Because you use your body that much… Well. You must eat a lot.”

“How about it. If you eat a lot. My older brother looks happy when he eats, so it’s nice to see him.”

“Uh… um… thanks for the compliment?”

I wasn’t particularly conscious of it, but I feel like I’m worried about it for nothing.

Well, I ate two chickens at a time to say I would work hard in my previous life.

But isn’t it innocent that you move several times more than you eat?

“I will eat well.”

“”I will eat well.””

We lightly said our pre-dinner greetings and started eating.

Today’s menu is seasoned bean sprouts, bulgogi, kimchi, pickled cucumber, boiled soy sauce… There are many.

Take a bite wrapped in bulgogi and seasoned bean sprouts, and the flavors are sweet and spicy, and crunchy but chewy.

“Oh. This is really good. It’s really good, isn’t it?”

When I praised the food, Sooah Yoo smiled a little embarrassed.

“hehehe. I made it. Do you like it?”

“Yes. Sua is good at a lot of things.”

“It’s nice to have been cooking ever since I was young. My older brother makes it so delicious.”

“Aren’t you talented? You learned from watching yourself. If you’re like me, you’ll never be able to do it.”

“Umm~ I don’t know. I like it when my older brother eats deliciously.”

Yoo Soo-ah looked at Lee Seo-jin gently with a smile.

Since she was a child, no one cooks for her, and since she is in a poor environment, she has been cooking for maximum taste and nutrition.

Now that I can live a safe and prosperous life, I am Yoo Soo-ah, who has learned to cook to please others.

But just because I’ve been cooking since I was young doesn’t mean my skills have improved.

Her hidden talents were blooming little by little.

“Brother! Me too! I made this too.”

“Huh? Soy sauce?”

“Yeah. Try this too.”

As she ate with admiration, Yoo Seo-eun put soy sauce stew on top of my rice.

Appetizing visuals at a glance.

How about the taste… ?

“Um…”

I took a spoonful of rice and ate it with soy sauce stew.

The taste of salty soy sauce, chewy meat, and rice combine to make it delicious… !

It was slightly lacking by 2%.

“Oh. Delicious!!”

“hehehe. Really?”

“Yeah. But it’s a bit salty. I’d like to reduce the soy sauce a bit.”

“Uh…? Tada?”

“Yeah. Ah! That doesn’t mean it’s not tasty. It’s delicious, but there’s something a bit disappointing. I’ll do better next time.”

When I got a little sullen at my evaluation, I hurriedly praised Yoo Seo-eun.

Is it because it contrasts with Yoo Soo-ah’s evaluation earlier?

Especially, there were many cases where the poisonous sister was happy with my praise or evaluation.

She was always thinking that she should be careful with her words, but since she never cared so much, she occasionally made mistakes.

“Heeing… I worked hard, but it’s a pity…”

“It’s okay. Seo Eun-ah. You can do better next time. Isn’t it?”

“…Yeah! I’ll try my best to be able to do well at once like an older sister.”

As Yoo Soo-ah comforted her, a smile appeared on the sullen Seo-eun Yoo’s face.

“By the way, older brother, do you have any concerns?”

“Huh? Why?”

“Ah. No. Your complexion looks a little dark today…”

“Ah…”

I tried my best not to be bothered by it, but I wonder if it showed.

Since I keep thinking about this incident, I can’t seem to control it even in front of the kids.

“It’s nothing. I was just thinking about this bombing.”

“The bombing… Definitely not something to be overlooked.”

“Who the hell did that?”

“Well. I don’t know about that… But I’m sure he’ll get caught soon. Heroes are so competent.”

“I hope so.”

“Yes. I will.”

Something unusual is happening… The word stuck in my throat.

I wonder if I’m getting impatient because I’m regressing and something that didn’t exist in my previous life happened.

But if I continued like this, I would show a bad look to my sister, so I just forgot about it for a while and continued eating.

※

After the meal, she decided to go for a walk and shop.

Normally, I would have gone out with her sister, but I wonder if I couldn’t overcome the drowsiness after the meal.

I sneaked out because I was quietly taking a nap.

What. There’s no reason to hang out with your sister all the time, and the kids need their own time.

“Let’s see. Something to buy…”

I was walking down the street checking the items I had to buy.

At that time, I heard voices fighting with each other from somewhere.

“Is this thief going all the way?

“No. Why am I a thief? I told you. It’s not like that…”

When I turned my head at the loud sound, there were two people in the direction my eyes went.

An orange-haired man wearing glasses with a slender body contrasting with the big man.

Is it because you’ve been playing heroes?

It is said that he left Hero, but he couldn’t pass by seeing a fight like that, so he approached to see what was going on.

“What are you doing over there?”

“What are you?!”

As I approached and talked to him, the large man glared at me angrily.

“For now, it’s just a hero…”

“Hah! Hero? I’m a hero too, so that’s great. Hey! Catch this bastard!”

“No. Calm down. Could you explain the situation for now?”

At a glance, the giant didn’t seem to be able to communicate, so I asked the confused orange-haired man.

Then, he was flustered for a while, but after my words calmed him down a bit, he sighed and explained the situation.

To sum it up, it was a fight that started with a minor misunderstanding.

The orange-haired man was walking down the street, saw his bag on a park bench, and thought someone had lost it, so he tried to report it as lost.

The owner of the bag, who returned from work for a while, mistook it for a thief and grabbed it and started a scuffle.

“Hmm… Is that hero missing something?”

“No. No. Damn I caught it, I almost lost it!”

“So you’re saying no?”

“Yes! Why? What?”

“Then I thought why not just leave. They fight each other over a trivial misunderstanding…”

“What?!”

I was trying to stop the two of them in order to resolve it as peacefully as possible, but the man was unexpectedly hot-tempered.

You didn’t listen to me until the end and now you were staring at me as if you were going to kill me.

His face turned red and he began to argue wildly with anger.

“This bastard dares to ignore me as a hero?! What?! A trivial misunderstanding?! Don’t be funny! What I saw is correct, what a misunderstanding!!”

“No. Even if you’re not a hero, but an ordinary person, this…”

“Shut up!! Now that I see you, you’re also a loser!!!”

No. f*ck. Hear me out. Cub

A guy who looks like a gorilla behaves just right.

Swearing filled my throat, but I endured it because if I said such a thing, I would become the same person.

But the big man couldn’t stand it.

He screamed loudly.

“Yes. Come to think of it, I was a hero…!! I will punish evil as I will!!!”

“No. What is that—?!”

“Shut up!!!!”

He threw his fist at me.

“Haa…”

There is such a thing.

The world is wide and there are many crazy people.

Unfortunately, that was a term that also worked for heroes.

Lee Seo-jin sighed and lightly grabbed his fist.

“No?!”

“What is it? It’s more flimsy than I thought, isn’t it?”

“Ah. No! My strength isn’t this great…? Why did I lose my strength all of a sudden…!”

“Stop being noisy and go? Fighting between heroes isn’t allowed.”

“Kuh…! Noisy! How dare you, this C-rank hero—”

The big man shouted as if he would not give up.

But at that moment. The man witnessed.

In an instant, the way Seojin Lee looked at him changed.

The atmosphere changed and I got goosebumps all over my body for a moment.

I was able to notice that there was definitely a terrifying life in it.

“Stop it.”

“Kuh…”

Knowing at once that he was stronger than himself, the man with a large body pulled out his fist powerlessly.

He hurriedly grabbed his bag and stepped back, but he didn’t stop shouting.

“You… Let’s see!”

“Noisy and go. Contact the association if you don’t want to be disciplined.”

“Kuh!”

The man ran away uglyly, sending an expression that he hadn’t lost until the end.

After that, when the commotion subsided and calmed down, Lee Seo-jin sighed and looked at the orange-haired man.

“Are you okay?”

“Ah. Ah! Yes! It’s okay. Thanks for your help.”

The naive-looking man bowed his head and expressed his gratitude.

“No, that’s what I have to do.”

“Ah… You mean a hero after all? That’s amazing!”

“No…well. It’s not like that. It’s not something that goes unnoticed.”

“Ah! I see. But I’d like to thank you.”

The orange-haired man, who smiled slyly, thanked me once before sighing.

“By the way, people like that are also heroes. Ugh… Being a hero is a government official. I don’t know why there is?”

“Well, you may think so, but I want to say something else.”

“…Anything else?”

The orange-haired man, who had opened his eyes as finely as his narrowed eyes, changed his gaze in an instant.

But he didn’t have any emotions or energy.

Lee Seo-jin did not notice that the change was simply because he was looking at it out of curiosity.

“Not all heroes are like that. You can fight like that guy and act like you’re proud, but now, where and what hero can help someone.”

“…Like showing up during a bombing and saving lives?”

“Bombing… Yes. That’s right. In the first place, heroes are heroes. They have a sense of mission to save lives and prevent disasters called villains. Without them… Society will fall into chaos.”

“…Well, I don’t know. If there are villains like heroes, wouldn’t there be heroes like villains?”

The man shrugged his shoulders and expressed his doubts, and Lee Seo-jin smiled.

“Maybe. But… I don’t think that all heroes are bad.”

“…”

The orange-haired man looked at Lee Seo-jin gently.

He had an expression that could not read his thoughts at all.

There was a moment of silence, and then the man smiled again and the atmosphere changed.

“hahahaha! That’s right. I think I was so wrong. Here’s a hero who helped me.”

“Yes? Ah… yes.”

I accidentally said hero, but let’s just move on.

If you say it for nothing, the conversation will be long.

I didn’t come out to stop a fight, so I said goodbye and was about to leave.

“Then stop…”

“Ah! This is also a fate, so why don’t we say aloud to each other? I am Lee Jae-min.”

“…This is Seojin Lee.”

“It’s the same Mr. Lee. Is this really a coincidence?”

“…I see.”

Lee Jae-min held out his hand with a sly smile.

Goodbye for a handshake.

As I took his hand, he bowed his head and gave his final thanks.

“Then thank you. Seojin Lee. See you next time.”

“Yes? Ah… yes.”

Somehow, I felt that there was something incomprehensible about the words.

But maybe it was too much speculation?

I just passed it off as saying that I was in a weird mood because of a gorilla-like guy.

※

Lee Jae-min after breaking up with Lee Seo-jin.

No. Neutral was on the road.

A rare road with no people.

I took one step at a time and recalled what had just happened.

“A hero is… A hero…”

She chewed on Lee Seo-jin’s words and opened her eyes wide.

Glimmering red eyes like a devil.

Throwing away the glasses he was wearing, he smiled.

“It’s fun. Mr. Lee Seojin. That there are heroes like you.”

Neutral glanced back.

She imagined that if she had known herself as the villain, she would have followed her.

But when she realized that no one was there, she looked ahead again and started walking.

“I hope to see you again later.”