I’m Not Your Dad, I’m a Villain

EP.24 EP2. Heir of Heaven (5)

“Whoa~~ This hot spring is so nice~”

He suddenly entered the same bath, but Kana did not care and stretched out, revealing her body generously.

It’s like being casually treated with someone of the same gender… Damn, is this really okay?

“Hey, I worked so hard during the day… … . Sometimes you need a break like this.”

“It’s good to enjoy the bath, but be careful not to remove the towel.”

I tried to reach for the towel that was about to run down, but I thought that even that would be dangerous, so I withdrew my hand without realizing it.

His slender body was precariously hidden in a towel.

Worried that something might be a problem, Kana put her hand on my chest and said, while I was fixing the laces on the towel that covered my lower body.

“I know that the atmosphere of the hot springs here is from my culture, but it is against politeness to wear a towel in the bath.”

“Isn’t it okay for a man and a woman to have a mixed bath?”

“What can you do? It’s between me and you.”

“Heh heh, what the hell is the relationship between us?”

“Um… a father-daughter relationship?”

“It is the relationship between the employer and the employee. In the first place, my only family is my daughter, who is now alone at home.”

Even though it’s a disguise, my family currently has only one boss.

Calling him a father like that is only a joke to the last, and if we really know that, it will be difficult for each other.

“You seem to love your daughter very much.”

Kana smiles strangely at my words.

I replied to that laughter with a calm voice.

“You must love. Because that’s what family is.”

“IM jealous. I don’t have a family like that.”

“… … hey.”

You f*cking bastard, I’m gonna take the angle that’s going to make me trash here.

Normally, I would have spit out an apology because I felt uncomfortable, but the face I looked back on was not just a smile.

Complexity stood out in the eyes looking down at my hands filled with hot spring water.

“… … What are you worried about?”

“Are you worried?”

“Are you saying you came here because you have something to say?”

“Ah what. We can even chat a little bit between us.”

“I don’t think she has a chastity concept to the point where she even leaves me tidying up her underwear, but I don’t think she’s a mean woman enough to show her naked body to someone who doesn’t have any blood for no reason.”

If you think about it, there were a lot of strange things from the first time we met.

The only thing I’ve ever met was to fight together once, so would it make sense to assume the role of an aide like a manager?

“… … mister.”

Yes, the trust she had toward me was very unusual.

As if the battle at that time stimulated her something.

“Can you teach me one?”

Maybe now is the time to know why.

Feeling it intuition at the lower-than-usual voice, I looked back at her.

“Teach me, what?”

“How to become a hero.”

“… … What?”

“I asked you to teach me how to be a hero.”

Spiritas gives strength to his eyes and asks me with serious eyes.

But I couldn’t figure out how to respond to those words.

“Are you talking about that?”

“It’s called a horse. Were there any lies in what I said?”

Sure, he joked a lot, but never lied.

Rather, being honest is both an advantage and a disadvantage. Even more so, looking at the atmosphere, it was difficult to treat the current word as a joke.

“Heh heh, really. What does an S-class hero want to teach anyone now?”

“If everyone can become a hero just because they are strong, then the heinous criminals are also someone’s hero.”

“…….”

“… … mister?”

“Don’t say nonsense.”

Damn, late reply.

That the person in front of me spit it out so lightly would be taken as absurd for me.

No matter how many people there are, villains are just villains.

Society does not need to understand their story, and evil-minded people should never expect anyone to understand their story.

“… I’m sure it’s too much of a joke now.”

With those emotions raised, Kana smiled bitterly and looked down at the hot springs again.

Silence, only the sound of water resounding.

Feeling the heat in such a place, Kana’s mouth began to open again.

“It sounds strange, but… … . I don’t even realize that I am a hero yet.”

That’s not what someone who climbed into an S-class hero would say… … .

You may think so, but unlike other heroes, she was a super rookie who reached S-class from the start.

He was born with a lot of power from the start, and he got a lot of attention.

For that reason, he is an existence that has no choice but to shoulder a lot of responsibility compared to his experience.

“Before my uncle.”

And from now on, it was about how such a newcomer became an S-class hero.

“I was originally an F-class. An incompetent person who lost his parents and home to the villains and entered an orphanage… … .”

The beginning was a very common story.

Billions of people live on the continent united after the cataclysm, and the scale is so large that there are many places that the government cannot reach.

Wherever there are prosperous places, there are also places where all kinds of injustice and crime are prevalent. The number of children who have lost their homes is also created in a day to an uncountable number.

What is surprising is that the place of origin of the S-class hero was a facility for collecting such children?

“In the facility

After I was a boy and reached a certain age, I applied to the military academy. I don’t have much ability, but if I become a police officer or a soldier

Maybe I could have prevented some of what I was going through. do……”

Could it be that the body that was trained like an idol was influenced by that time?

Obviously, the body you see now was not naturally raised through dance or body care, but it was also seen at first glance that it had received special training.

In particular, the rough skin on his hands, which he always wears with gloves, could not be erased even even when he was soaked in water.

If you look at it up to that point, it’s a really common story. A path that an incompetent person who has not become a hero can go on, the only way to pursue justice… … .

“But who would have expected that the effort would be rewarded in this way?”

The difference is that she worked harder than others.

It must have been that such efforts were well suited to the situation and turned into an opportunity.

“Is it possible that someone else gave you the power?”

“It’s hard to believe, isn’t it?”

“… No, because there are many things I never thought of as a gift.”

like the stars in the sky.

Recalling the analogy the boss had made, I realized at this moment that all of her guesses were true.

Yes, after all, she was the heir of the Heavenly Demon.

It was said that he had such a strong power due to the ability of ‘inheritance’ that he possessed.

“The person who passed on the ability to me called his talent ‘present.’”

However, the name of the ability Kana spoke of was completely opposite to what I had envisioned.

It’s a gift, not an inheritance.

Isn’t that what a person who gives out great power would say?

“As a person to person, it is said that it is a gift to a child who will become a hero after me.”

But it is she, not me, who knows the true nature of that person in more detail.

Kana burst into laughter and continued speaking while stroking my wet hair.

“Yes, this power originally had a separate owner. I suddenly got along well and inherited that power… … . But what did I aim for a hero from the start?”

He had no intention of becoming a hero, but suddenly became a hero.

Of course, he had a different mindset, so he would have had to worry a lot about being a hero more than others.

“Unfortunately, I

At the time, I had never been helped by a being who was a hero. The reason I lost my home and family was because the heroes arrived late.

There were heroes who occasionally came to perform at the facility, but… … . It was more of coming to the show than doing justice.”

Rather, I feel skeptical about the existence of a hero.

As the thought slowly crept across her face, she began to look down at her clenched fists.

“But for me

The person who gave me power said: Even if it looks funny, standing on stage is also necessary for a hero. Just to rule out the enemy

Just a fighter, a hero should be the envy of many.”

Was his gaze directed to himself, who became an apostle of justice?

Or is it the face of a teacher we can never see again?

“So he

You always emphasized individuality and image to me. If you inherit my power, you will have to stand in front of many people.

Picture the image of when you become a hero. Who was the person you called the hero who warmed your heart and made your heart warm?

How are you going to connect it… … .”

I wanted to gradually gain strength in those fists, but even that strength was soon released.

He just stretched out his outstretched hand towards the sky, as if covering the moon floating above it.

“… So she thought she was a magical girl?”

“It was all I saw when I was young.”

Soon she lowered her hand and spoke with a smirk.

“okay. Before I became a hero, that was the only hero I knew. Just sparkling, cute, always smiling, knowing how to smile and reach out to anyone who comes to visit me… … .”

A gentleman with the innocence of a child.

That was all the hero had for the so-called hope of the next generation.

Knowing only that, he produced such an image, but did his best to make sure that even that image would look wrong to others.

“… How can you call a half-peni who only imitates such a thing a hero?”

I could understand just looking at such skepticism. The reason why she didn’t show the ‘comfort’ she had been called the strongest, which she had shown to the strong men I’ve ever encountered.

Because he became a hero in an inexperienced state, there are no tricks, and he always does his best to avoid seeing such shortcomings as loopholes in the eyes of others.

In that way, it is not strange when it collapses… A big star that everyone looks up to is such an existence.

“So sometimes I think about it. Maybe there was no one who suited this power, if it wasn’t me but someone else who inherited this power… … .”

After knowing the truth, I realized why she looked at me differently.

Even if it was a coincidence, I met a person who helped me in my conflicts.

I met someone who was weak, but bolder than myself to jump into the field.

Although it is acting, unlike himself, he perfectly rescues the victim in front of him… … .

Such a person might have seemed ‘real’ to her, who did not have the awareness of being a hero.

“For example, if a person like you… … .”

Hearing those words more painfully, he reached out to her.

To shut this damn bastard’s mouth.

– Exactly!

But when I snapped my finger, it was mine, not this guy’s butt, that smashed.

no shit.

Why did I break my finger when I hit him?

“Oh, I’m sorry. My hair is hard… … .it’s okay?”

“It’s not okay.”

My finger is broken, I can stand it.

The pain was in the mind rather than the body.

Damn, no matter how much a surprise attack, he’s an S-class and I’m an E-class, right?

“I’m sorry. I sounded weak.”

But I wasn’t the only one swayed by the weirdness.

It seems that the reason I reached out my hand was because of myself. As if I thought that I, who should be everyone’s idol, gave me disappointment.

“You thought you were pathetic, didn’t you?”

I didn’t deny that idea because it wasn’t entirely wrong.

Yes, I was disappointed with this guy at this moment.

A hero who is regarded as the hope of the next generation who succeeded in nothing other than Justice… … .

Afterwards, as a villain, who wants to rebuke this world, I may be dealing with, and the person who should be a ‘friend’ beyond mere antagonism is such a weak and incompetent guy.

“Yeah, don’t worry.”

Maybe it’s the same if other executives come instead of me.

What they want to do is not just reckless destruction and looting.

It is to prove that the justice that has colored this age is wrong by breaking the hope of the age that everyone deserves to look up to, and by breaking the opponent in the best condition.

“Anyone will think it’s pathetic. Seeing him grunt while trying to take responsibility for everything he can’t take on his own.”

“… … yes?”

Kana feels doubts at the words that reveal her innermost feelings.

I put my hand on Kana’s head and looked up at the sky quietly.

“It’s because I don’t know if you’re an adult yet.”

He just spoke without making eye contact.

Just stroking the hair of an inexperienced woman who forced her childhood longing.

“Originally, justice is… it’s not as grand as you thought.”

I met him as a villain.

Just to explain what the definition is in my opinion.