I’m a Hero, but I Gave Up Saving the World

28 – If left alone, the hero will die anyway

Beatrice pondered over Faust’s appearance, like a work of art carefully sculpted by God, and admired the synchro rate with the warrior she longed for.

I just wanted to go on an adventure with a handsome guy like this.

At first, the relationship that started as colleagues gradually turns into love as they overcome crises together, and when the trip is over, they get married and become a happy couple… I have always dreamed of such a fairy tale life.

However, I had no desire to develop love with a human like Kwak Dong-soo.

Faust was the hero himself, as if he had realized Beatrice’s delusion into reality.

“Mister Faust. Nice to meet you like this.”

“You know me?”

“Yes. The day you were summoned, I also watched you in the auditorium. I am Veronica Beatrice, a saint.”

“A saint? So, did you come to find Kwak Dong-soo? If I met you, I’d be disappointed. It’s pitiful for you guys too to see someone like that chosen as a hero.”

“I think so too. You are worthy of being a hero.”

“what?”

“As soon as you are appointed as a hero, a person like that who enjoys dissolute parties will never be able to save humanity. I think Mr. Faust should be the new hero.”

“Hmm… Isn’t that a story that has already crossed the water?”

“It is not so. Originally, you and Lucy are candidates with the same qualifications. When Lucy disappears, Faust naturally becomes the owner of the holy sword.”

“What if Kwak Dong-soo disappears? disappear… how?”

“You can either die or fall into a state of unconsciousness.”

Beatrice whispered softly after looking around to see if anyone was eavesdropping.

“… Do you know that there was an attempted assassination of the Pope not too long ago? The poison used at that time is kept in the church. It’s a convenient medicine that kills if eaten in lethal doses, but leaves you in a coma for a long time if you consume small amounts. If you feed it to Lucy, she will fall asleep enough to not be able to use the holy sword. how is it? Isn’t that a great idea?”

“What did you say your name was?”

“? Is this Veronica Beatrice?”

“Did you say you wanted to get rid of Kwak Dong-soo?”

——Kwak Dong-soo lived next door and became close.

Born in the same neighborhood, they were of the same age and attended elementary, middle and high school in the same place.

However, while I entered a fairly good university, Kwak Dong-soo went to a third-rate university and dropped out.

The cause was that Kwak Dong-soo felt a sense of qualification toward me and began to quarrel over trivial matters.

At first, he tried to accept his friend’s complaints to some extent, but after Kwak Dong-soo got a job as a temporary worker at a mobile phone store, he distanced himself from him in earnest.

This is because Kwak Dong-soo tried to sell his cell phone with a ridiculous rate plan whenever he had a chance.

If it was only for me, I would have tried to understand it, but at the point of selling my cell phone to my family in a way that was close to fraud, I fell out of love with him as a human being.

He even refused to repay the money I borrowed from him, saying that his life was difficult.

The cost of living is a piece of shit.

A bastard who drinks every day and returns home after becoming a cuckold.

In the end, I went to get the money he lent me with the intention of cutting myself off from him.

“Eh, money? mi, i’m sorry I don’t have a single penny because I’m having a hard time living there… ”

“Don’t give a damn. I know you came from playing at your room salon. Got money for a drink and no money to pay your friend? I really just can’t get over it today. Either pay the money back or eat bean rice.”

“Chi, why are friends like this? It’s really small.”

“No kidding. I have also written a complaint.”

It was only then that Kwak Dong-soo, perhaps frightened after seeing the formal complaint, said with an expression that he would not be able to be servile any longer, telling him to wait because he will come back from the bank.

As long as I got the money, I was really thinking of losing this bastard.

“Hey, I’m bored of waiting, so I’m playing a game.”

＜Seven Runes＞

A classic console game that kids these days won’t even look at.

On that day, I really didn’t intend to back down until I got my money back from Kwak Dong-soo, so I just needed a game-like content to pass the time.

“Goddess year 1082… 」

“Clumsy! If this is a web novel, I just read this far and clicked back right away!”

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Just looking at it, it looks like an old game, so people watch it.

“Two dragons attacked the peaceful kingdom of Aurelia. Carlos, King of Aurelia, issues an order to summon a hero to protect the continent of Pangea… Will the hero be able to defeat the dragon, kill the devil, and save mankind? Explore the world of Seven Runes, where conspiracies and betrayals surge… 」

The story of the game is simple.

It is a simple structure that ends when you gather allies, Saint Veronica Beatrice, knight Alice Frangers, thief Dayna Valentine, and elf Tiffania, and ultimately kill the demon lord.

However, the hero character of this garbage game had horribly low attack and defense power, so the game did not progress.

No matter which route you take, you will eventually die in 1085.

The main character is garbage, how do you break this?

Eventually, at the moment when I was about to give up clearing and close the game, Kwak Dong-soo returned and the two of us were caught in a strange light and transported to Aurelia.

—Veronica Beatrice was definitely the saintess of the warriors’ party.

It was surprising that such a major character suddenly appeared and suggested killing or at least maiming Kwak Dong-soo…

“Veronica, what year is it?”

“? 1082, right?”

yes. It’s still 1082 years.

According to the rules, the hero’s death was scheduled for 1085.

In other words, if Veronica Beatrice kills the hero now, the law of causality I know will be distorted.

don’t want that

If left alone, Kwak Dong-soo will die on its own.

Was there no guarantee that Beatrice’s plan would succeed?

“Stop assassinating and go into the warrior party. That is your destiny.”

“I beg your pardon? Destiny, what does that mean?”

Giving too much information at this point risks changing the future.

I rejected Beatrice’s bold offer and insisted on joining the hero’s party. He added that he had no intention of becoming a hero and wanted to go to the academy to study the world.

“Then I want to go to the academy too.”

“no… Why are you?”

“Because there are things I want to study too.”

“Do not lie. Aren’t you going to follow me?”

“I’m not lying.”

“Then tell me what you want to study.”

“How did the dragons that appeared in the suburbs not long ago be able to break through the tea stalls? ~Why did the dragons living in the depths of the underworld attack human villages?

“It’s my… The words are liquid water, very.”

—Beatrice really followed me.

She took care of me while working at the academy, cooked meals, did housework, and even acted as an undeserved assistant to part-time instructors.

Sometimes it seemed like she was acting as my wife.

That said, the excuse she gave at the beginning wasn’t a lie at all, she actually did research on the ecology of dragons in her own way.

But it wasn’t just Beatrice’s special hobby.

The recent topic of conversation in the academy has been focused on dragons.

It was a daily life at the academy where scholars would announce their opinions and sharply confront each other about when the dragon would attack and kill people again.

“Dragon has power that humans can’t match, but I haven’t thought of it as a big threat because I don’t have intelligence. From their point of view, small humans are useless as prey, so there have been no cases of dragons attacking humans in recent hundreds of years. But why did they destroy human villages in an unprecedented way a year ago? Will there be another dragon attack in the future?”

-there is.

The dragon attack is a very important event in the game.

Two years from now, in 1085, the dragon appears and kills the hero, which was the game’s bad ending.

I know exactly when, but I have no intention of telling you.

If that happens, history may change.

“Rather than that, Beatrice, you should hurry up and join the hero’s party.”

“I do not like it. Because I prefer being with Faust to being with Kwak Dong-soo.”

“Really mine. Why do you like me so much?”

“Faust likes me too… ”

“what?”

“Isn’t it? After all, I’m helping you at work and at home, right? In the first place, a man and a woman live together in the same house, so you can’t say they don’t have a heart, right?”

“… … … Well.”

“Think about it, Faust. We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner together every day, go out together on holidays, and even sleep in the same house, so why don’t we just date each other? Dating or not dating is the same, right?”

“… After hearing that sound over and over again for a year, I’m sure my ears will get scabs.”

“If you don’t want to hear more, you can go out with me~”

We started dating after a year had passed since Beatrice reluctantly followed me to the academy like a stalker and infiltrated my every move.

Up until then, I was adjusting pretty smoothly to life on the continent of Pangea.

My job and personal relationships worked out so well that I thought I was on track, and I had students following me like Lily Windsor.

My lecture became a popular class that ended the fastest among the three towers, and my reputation only increased.

It was also around that time that he began to receive word of appointment from the great sage.

On the other hand, as my popularity increased, it was Kwak Dong-soo’s popularity that fell in inverse proportion.

“Isn’t Faust better than Lucy?”

“Wouldn’t it be better to just change the hero?”

“I heard that Kwak Dong-soo only drinks alcohol these days.”

“I heard you haven’t had a party in over a year… ?”

“What the fuck!! Why is that bastard being compared to me even here!! Even when I lived in Korea, my mom was so bored to imitate the chews all the time! Ao how do you have that baby? ”

—Kwak Dong-soo’s fever began in earnest.