27 – Moving towards the final chapter 4

“Come on, Illil.”

“Yes…… !”

Finally, the morning of the day of departure was bright.

Conclusion of everything.

The time has come when the journey, long if long and short if short, finally comes to an end.

[ The hero and his successor set out to save the world! ]

[[[[[ Hero! Warrior! Warrior! Warrior! ]]]]]

Amid the cheers of the people, the two warriors set out on their way, armed with all they could and receiving all the blessings they could receive.

“Let’s go, hero!”

“…… Go at a pace you can keep up with.”

Since the two of them moved faster than any other means of transportation in the world, it took only a few days to reach the battlefield.

“Ha!”

The monsters that the soldiers were struggling with were almost erased with one sword shot from Iril.

“God, that’s great.”

“That…… Warrior…… !”

“Heroes, cheer up!”

“Save the world!”

Construct all the monsters to block, and advance without hesitation to the forefront while receiving cheers from the troops.

There, Iril found a face he missed so much.

She looked haggard because she didn’t take care of her appearance, but she was still an orange-haired woman with a beautiful face.

She met her mother, El Lua, who kindly embraced her, who was despised by everyone in the world as cursed, on the battlefield.

“Mom…… !”

“Hot, nu, who…… ?”

During the break, Elua was taken aback by a female knight in full armor who suddenly hugged her from the front.

And you’re a mother?

She was called mother by quite a few children, so she was familiar with that title itself, but she had no memory of reaping a girl worth such words.

Iril took off her helmet and confidently met Elua’s eyes.

“Those eyes. No way.”

“Yes, Mom. It’s me! Leel!”

“Lee, Leel!? Uh, how?”

She was Elua who abandoned her cognitive dissonance in her moment, looking at that radiant smile.

‘The one I know is definitely small…… Because she has a constitution where she never gains weight no matter how much she eats, she is extremely thin…… She didn’t even know how to laugh like that, she was such a child.’

She came all of a sudden and she claims to be self-absorbed, what the hell is she doing?

She was also ambiguous because of her unique eyes, to say that she was not an idiot.

Zabak-

Then, another person appeared in front of Elua.

“…… !!”

As soon as she saw her man’s face, Elua immediately pulled her hood deep into her robe and shuddered at her.

I never thought I’d run into her again here…….

‘Come to think of it, she heard rumors that the hero had an heir to her, but could it be that this is Leel?’

It’s hard to even dare to guess because it’s so fanciful.

All she could do was hide her face and shake her body.

“Ah… ….”

Iril realized when she saw that Elua was not feeling well.

The betrayal of the person you love that Chaejin talked about.

Regarding that, she said there was something between the two that she didn’t know about.

As Chaejin walked and stood in front of Elua, Iril quietly stepped aside.

“…… Elua.”

“Yo, hero. Sorry. She shouldn’t have been noticed…….”

“No. Let’s talk for a moment, the two of us. Where no one is listening.”

For some reason, Elua felt Chaejin’s voice addressing her softer than she had ever heard before.

Thinking that she had no right to refuse her Chaejin’s orders, she nodded her head and guided her Chaejin.

“This way… ….”

“Iril, I want you to wait here.”

Frontline, behind the battlefield.

An empty lot in a forest that has been eroded and dying.

Sitting on top of a rotten log, the two talked.

“You may be confused, but my heir, the new hero, is Yrill. The child you picked up.”

“Uh, how could such a coincidence…… ?”

“Whether it was a coincidence or destiny, no one knows. Relying on the bottle containing the ring you said you had buried, it was close to a miracle that I met you alive and didn’t die even after walking without sleep for days and days.”

“Ah… ….”

A ring he buried because he thought he didn’t even deserve to have it anymore.

I wonder if Erill was watching it at the time.

And toward the hero’s presence contained there-.

“The reason Irill grew up so fast is because he became a hero…….”

“Yeah, I grew up really quickly… ….”

Chaejin let out a small sigh.

I don’t know where to start.

It wouldn’t matter if I told her anything now that I was alone with Elua, simply because it would be difficult for Irill to know the truth.

“Elua.”

“Yes, hero… ….”

“What if the memories in your head were lies?”

“What do you mean…… ?”

“Literally. If what happened that day, what happened with the man you said was your fiancé, was actually fabricated…….”

Elua’s body hardened her jaw.

[ It seems suspicious. Your fiancée died in an accident not long after the hero was banished. ]

[ From things that were not known to the outside world, to strange. If you ever consult with a hero……. ]

What Trisha said the other day echoes in her head and whines.

With her honest feelings, even Elua herself felt very strange.

Why did Geron suddenly lose her life in an accident?

In the first place, Jeron wasn’t the type to forcefully violate himself like that.

‘When I think of that time, her mind gets hazy and her heart aches… ….’

She can’t remember exactly what happened to her now.

Nonetheless, I can clearly recall the fact that such a fact existed.

There were many circumstances of suspicion, but I thought it was shameless to even try to find a way out like that, so I lived as a sinner.

But Chaejin brought up such a topic.

The words that could not be said came to her mind.

“What if you had only fallen victim to a conspiracy of the kind you could not resist? In fact, how would you feel if you were completely innocent and still innocent?”

“… ….”

Elua stared at her floor with her blank eyes.

She did so for a while, then she carefully brought out an answer.

“I don’t dare to run away from my sins, but—”

Fluffy.

She struggled to keep her tears from dripping as she tried to hold back the tears in her voice.

“If that was the case, if it really happened, I would feel saved by the world… ….”

Seeing that, Chaejin hinted at the question she had asked before.

“Elua…… Do you love me?”

“Hero, keuh, I, the hero, the hero…… Love it.”

Chaejin closed her eyes.

It is an expression of guilt.

I definitely had a desire to learn everything, restore her relationship with Elua, and try to do well again.

But she had love for him to be responsible for.

Not just a sense of responsibility, Chaejin now truly loves Leel as a woman.

Chaejin and Elua, the two couldn’t continue anymore.

‘The real traitor might be me…… No, it might be, it’s not. As a result, I betrayed her love.’

Chaejin, who had been so painfully aware of that fact, spoke softly.

“I’m sorry. It is I who should apologize, not you.”

“Yes?”

Chaejin stood up from her seat without answering in detail.

“I’ll talk about the rest when I come back after everything is over. You can’t die in the meantime. Got it?”

“…… I understand, warrior.”

When Chaejin moved her seat, El Luah also stood up, wiping away tears.

With this, I had enough rest.

She decided to go do what she had to do.

“… ….”

And she had someone overhear that conversation.

‘I was thinking that maybe…… I wonder if there was room left between the two of them.’

It was none other than Leel.

She became so strong that even Chaejin couldn’t find out, she had mastered the means to completely hide her presence.

If you spend mana on it to maximize her hearing, you will be able to accurately understand any small conversation.

[ Elua…… Do you love me ]

[Hero, Khew, I, Hero, Warrior…… Love it. ]

‘Mmm.’

Why do I feel bittersweet the more I think about it?

I love Chaejin.

I love you so much and I love you so much that I am willing to give my life.

I love Elua.

She was the first person who accepted her report all of her own.

She did not discriminate against other children, but rather took special care of herself.

She would do anything for the existence that taught her what a family was all her life that she thought she would never be able to love.

‘The warrior said he loved me. On that day, he did such a thing to his heart’s content…… But is that really true? In fact, she still loves her mother, who was her lover, but didn’t she do it for me?’

She shook her head at the sad thought that crept over her.

‘No. The warrior can’t do that. But when that happens, what about her mom? What’s going on with her mother’s love? If you listen to what they say, it seems like they said that everything like betrayal was fabricated…… If that’s the case, I feel very sorry for my mother.’

Either way she thought of it, it was painful for Erill.

And the confusion was not unique to her.

‘…… This emotion. The fact that the hero learned the truth means that the other world also knows. Is that so, has it been released after all? Something has to be done.’

A false goddess, one who wants to steal a world.

Pretending to be some kind of system, the existence was grasping the situation through Irill’s emotions.