Only the Party Members Returned, Not the Hero

7. What happens when a hero is a commoner (3)

7.

Flinch.

My shoulders trembled.

“I know a lot more about Ellen than she thought. That Ellen is hiding her power, that her achievement is deeper than we think….”

Why did your shoulders tremble?

I’m dumbfounded.

Damn-!

I couldn’t stand it and blew a beetle on EL’s forehead.

“Evil!”

Even the chaste saint El El couldn’t bear the pain of the night before, so she screamed out loud and pushed her body back as she came close to my ears.

She looked up at me with her bewildered expression on her face, covering her forehead with both hands.

“No, this crazy woman. Why do I hide my power?”

“Sue, wasn’t that something you hid? However, apparently Ellen had a lot more power than I expected….”

Again, let’s be clear.

I never hid my strength.

It’s just that I’ve never had sparring before.

To be precise, after graduating from the warrior academy, I had never practiced sparring.

I was able to do it because there was a compulsory sparring class at the warrior school, but if there is one joy or sorrow of the common people that the nobles do not know.

Dalian I can’t find an opponent at all.

I am also a person with a sense of victory, and a kendo student who wants to feel a sense of accomplishment.

In order to find out how strong you have become, you have to engage in sparring or defeating monsters, and if you go out to catch monsters as a warrior in the expedition, it’s obvious that administratively you’ll get f*cked up.

There was a time when I went to the ‘Hero Support Desk’ and asked.

Where is the person guiding you to the permit?

Hey, I’d like to do sparring, but how can I not?

I’m sorry, but sparring between commoners cannot be established. This is because commoners who have not learned anything are not qualified to engage in ‘sweetheart’ itself, which is based on ‘mutual consideration’.

Then can’t we have a sparring with the son of a nobleman?

Unfortunately, sparring between commoners and nobles has not been established.

No, what the f*ck, then where am I sparring?

As usual, how about catching someone in the back alley and sparring?

I politely crumpled up the Dalian application form and challenged the receptionist to a duel.

By the way, did I hide my power?

“Saintess, have you seen my sparring?”

“At the warrior school, a little….”

“Ever since I became an adult.”

“Oh, no.”

“So, have you ever seen me training alone?”

“I didn’t have time to look at that….”

“Then how do I catch monsters?”

“The expedition has never caught a monster before, right?”

“Forehead vs.”

“Wait a minute! Why should I be right? Being right, I don’t hate it, but in a more moody situation than the last night….”

“You didn’t see me sparring, training, or catching monsters, so I didn’t even get a chance to show off my skills. Is it hidden? Don’t you touch your forehead?”

I slammed one more beetroot into Eli’s rounded forehead.

If you twist it, you will come back and watch my training.

***

Beat, beat, beat.

The castle of the Ergenuke family was smaller than the royal castle for etiquette reasons, but it boasted a size and splendor that was incomparable to other castles.

Tania’s sister’s room, located on the second height from the top of the castle.

The room of Elise Ergeneuk.

Elise is the leader of the Ergenuke Knights, which is one of the best knights on the continent, and is renowned as the best swordsman on the continent.

It was different from Tania, the vanguard knight of the expedition.

Dark night.

Tania’s face is reflected in the window of the glass wall.

Red hair, magenta eyes, unprofessional white skin, and small lips that always spoke viciously at Ellen.

To describe beauty, you could say it’s aristocratic.

Thinking about it, Tania was never particularly aristocratic to Ellen.

At the time, the last fight before graduating from the hero school.

Since it is the final sparring that has the greatest impact on the commissioning of warriors, the students used to do their best in the sparring.

There were individual differences in whether the “Best” Contained cowardice or dirty tricks, but there wasn’t much of an atmosphere to say anything about it.

First of all, we guarantee maximum freedom.

Because, except for Ellen, everyone was a descendant of nobles anyway, so it was obvious that they wouldn’t do anything that would diminish their honor.

Ellen also had to go through her last sparring, and her senior Ellen’s opponent was, of course, the second-in-command, Tania Ergenyuk.

Tania, looking younger than she is now, walked in front of Ellen and asked.

“Ellen.”

“… Why.”

Ellen looked at her with her wary expression..

Because he was Tania, who had always had feelings of resentment toward him, because she thought she didn’t know what she was going to do before the final fight.

But her attitude at that time was closer to desperation than struggle.

“Are you going to do your best?”

“Of course not.”

“Maybe.”

Tania slightly lowered her head.

“… Can’t you give up?”

Ellen stared at Tania without saying anything.

His eyes trembled with a mixture of bewilderment and hostility. The self-respecting Tania Erzeneuk was begging to defeat the man she hated and was most jealous of.

Tania knew. At the point when the anchor’s ban was activated, she could no longer defeat him.

No matter how hard you try, how much blood you shed, how much bone you break.

She knew that unlike herself, she could never defeat a commoner named Ellen, who, unlike herself, could hone her brilliant talent to her heart’s content.

The intelligent woman couldn’t help but know.

I made a difference of more than one step in a day. The sword he wielded was a piece of art. It was rough, ferocious, and beautiful.

Ah, I can’t wield a sword like that.

For the rest of my life, I can’t be that beautiful.

Tomorrow will be weaker than yesterday.

The light of talent is fading day by day.

Eighteen-year-old Tania was too young to realize the cruel reality.

Nevertheless, she had to become a warrior.

After she became a hero and captured her demon, she had to make a wish to the goddess.

Get rid of the restraint of her anchor that runs in her own blood.

She wished for a chance to live in the world without suffering such a cruel curse.

So she begged.

But Ellen refused her request.

“… Tania, I don’t know what you think, but I don’t think my father was an apostate. He doesn’t think he deserves it, and there seem to be a lot of questions about the process of becoming an apostate. So, I don’t think I can grant your request.”

He politely and honestly explained to Tania, who was desperate in her own way.

Not an idiot, she couldn’t help but notice that this was the moment when Ellen first brought up a story she hadn’t told before.

If only at this time.

That’s right, I can’t help it. Let’s all do our best.

Like that.

Okay, cheer up too. I’ll try my best too.

If you said at least that much.

I wonder if the relationship between me and Ellen has gotten much better than now.

However, in Tania’s clouded eyes, where rational judgment was no longer possible, mixed with shame, shame, and shame that she had begged for her defeat, she could only see a way to trample on Ellen’s sincerity.

“… Don’t you think the values are different?”

“What?”

“Don’t you think that your injustice and my injustice and values are different? What will be more helpful to society, what is more important, and what will affect the existence of this kingdom more. Don’t you think so?”

“… Tania, you.”

Tania felt Ellen’s expression distort, but she couldn’t stop.

“You are a commoner, Ellen.”

Poison flows from her mouth.

Without even realizing what he was saying.

“It doesn’t matter where, how, or what you die, you’re just a commoner. Both you and your father.”

The poor commoner trembled without answering her words—it might seem, but Ellen held back her anger to the limit and gently closed her eyes.

Tania’s slip of the tongue is a slip of the tongue.

From the beginning, from the time she begged Ellen to defeat her, she would have been unable to think properly.

The family business that wants to solve the ban, the expectation and pressure that can only exist from the Ergenuke family, or the jealousy that secretly wants her to be defeated.

Things like that would have driven her little girl over the edge, Ellen tried to understand as best she could.

But equally, eighteen-year-old Ellen wasn’t quite as open-minded.

“I wonder why you became an apostate? What could be more obvious than the fact that the Goddess named it directly? Or do you want to apostatize the goddess too?”

“Stop it, Tania.”

“No matter what kind of life your father led or how great he was, what does that matter? So, did you do something more valuable than the bread our family gives to the commoners?”

“Stop.”

“Ellen, I won’t stop. I will not give up either.”

Tania forced a laugh.

“And.”

She stared at Ellen, holding back the twisted eyes and the tears that were about to burst from misery at any moment, hiding the fear that disguised her composure deep inside her heart.

“I won’t even apologize to you.”

Tania turned her body away from Ellen’s sight.

Ellen thought the case was over.

But the next day.

On the eve of Dalian, Ellen used to go to her father’s grave out of habit.

But that day was not possible.

Because the tombstone of my father, who couldn’t even engrave his name on it, was scattered on the floor after being smashed.