57 – Scar-11

“There is no time.”

Celia looked back at the village unwillingly, but she understood the hero’s decision.

Farseer and Nerwen prepared to leave as if it wasn’t worth it.

“…No.”

The only one who couldn’t admit it was the nameless porter.

“There’s no reason to waste your time here. You should know that.”

Eleanor tried to convince him as calmly as possible.

“You saw it. A group of monsters… It’s a number that can be defeated in a few hours. Even if it’s just to gain combat experience…”

“Are you concerned about our ‘combat experience’?”

At Nerwen’s cold words, he shut his mouth. No matter how easy the battle with the enemy, he was not the one who directly carried out it.

“Magic comes with a price. Avoid battles that can be avoided.”

Despite Farseer’s words, the porter could not refute anything. No matter how hard he tried, there was no way he could collect magic ingredients from somewhere.

“But, at this rate, those people…”

These are the people on the path of the monster’s advance. Preparations for evacuation began, but the village was too remote to receive any proper news.

“As Farseer says, fighting is unnecessary. Time is limited, and we cannot follow and intercept the enemy first. Inevitably, more than a day is wasted.”

“That’s enough…”

“no.”

The person making a rational judgment was clearly on Eleanor’s side.

If the demon king’s surveillance intensified because he couldn’t reach the hero’s note at the right time, several more months could have been wasted until the demon king was defeated.

And during that time, soldiers on the front lines will die countless times.

It was a group of children who could not count. It was the judgment of a foolish man who only sees what is in front of his eyes and cannot see things far away.

However, it was unacceptable to him.

I heard that the villagers who laughed and chatted until yesterday and provided me with a place to sleep could survive with only a short amount of time and a little battle.

“Anyway, I’ll do my best…”

He hasn’t learned how to put a person’s life on the scales.

“The journey so far hasn’t been easy. If you speed up even more, you won’t be able to stand it.”

However, his eyes contained tenacity and regret. Eleanor couldn’t help but ponder for a moment.

Reasonably, it is right to abandon them.

However, not everyone moves with reason. As long as he came in as a bonus to the warriors’ party, there shouldn’t be an inch of doubt.

The way the demon king moves his heart is cruel and subtle. I didn’t think he would join hands with the Demon King, but if I had even the slightest doubt, I couldn’t deal with an emergency.

“Then, can you take responsibility?”

“…what responsibility?”

“I don’t listen to porters. But I’m willing to listen to the request of my knights, or imperial knights.”

In fact, I wanted him to give up to this extent.

“If you agree, I will appoint you as a knight. You will be treated as a knight by me, and I will demand from you the responsibilities, duties, perseverance and loyalty of a knight.”

“I can do anything.”

However, his eyes were burning.

Seeing him, Eleanor felt pity and bitterness.

“So, please save them. In the first place, if I move a little faster and get less injured, I can speed up more, right? I’ll make up for it somehow…”

It is a natural duty to protect the citizens of the empire. It wasn’t him, it was her.

But now, as if she were a mercenary, she was promised his recruit.

“Do you think that makes sense?”

Farseer intervened and stopped him, but Eleanor shook her head.

“No. Let’s fight.”

If so, you should move at least as much as you receive.

“Are you insane?”

“I’m sane. The types of monsters that will appear will be different from now on, so not everything he said about needing combat experience is wrong. Besides, the monsters that are coming in now will have a scouting role. If you organize them a bit too much, the advance of the monsters will be delayed. .”

There was a plausible reason, but it was not an efficient judgment.

“I’ll ask you, stranger. From now on, I will give you more severe training, unreasonable schedules, and heavy responsibilities. Can you handle it?”

“…I may not make it, but I promise you. I can make it.”

The porter gritted his teeth and burned his eyes.

“I can endure it. I will endure it. Whatever role it is, until the demon king dies and the trip is over and I return.”

Eleanor believed that.

And in time, that feeling fades away and only the promise remains.

The number of monsters increased, the battles increased, and leisure disappeared.

My gratitude and respect for his decision faded, and my anger at him for not doing the job I was given grew.

that’s what he decided It is a responsibility he has accepted. It is an agreed upon matter.

The fact that he becomes the target of criticism when conflicts arise between party members, and the fact that he is placed in a schedule that an untrained human being cannot do at all.

Impatience made her talk less, and respect disappeared.

So it shouldn’t have been.

I couldn’t believe what he said. He couldn’t stand it after all. No, I could only hold on until the promised moment.

Defeating the demon lord was his limit. Enduring until the promise to return was still valid was an act that went beyond that limit.

I couldn’t stand it. No matter how good, no matter how straight, no matter how just, he is a human being.

Until the moment he exploded in the cellar, Eleanor didn’t realize it.

Resting on his kindness, it was she, none of the others, who tore his soul apart.

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“Is it because of that? You’re a member of the royal family, and you just said that because you needed my semen?”

Swinging his sword full of rage at the Orc Lord, he ran rampant like a beast. The maid tried to catch him, but she couldn’t overcome her strength.

“If you don’t like it, I can’t help it.”

The grains of light humming beside him shook more and more violently.

“It means I’m sorry, it means go away, it means to help the f*cking imperial family instead of saving it. Just do one thing!”

“…Your greed got ahead of me this time too. I apologize for the story of the royal family and blessings.”

You can’t take a dangerous posture, and you can’t receive the enemy’s attack from the front.

The moment she took the orc’s greatsword with even a little force, the bones that had finally been positioned would scatter freely within her body.

“I’m sorry. You were just a human with no responsibility, and I turned my responsibility on you and robbed you of the glory. I forced you into a mission you couldn’t bear, a mercy you didn’t need to give.”

“Come now, what…”

“So, go! I’m here to defend the citizens, so you go on your journey!”

However, he did not take his eyes off the Orc Lord, as if he were possessed by a fight.

“What are you going to do with that broken body!

“Again, are you saying you can hold on!”

Leaning on those comfortable and easy words, Eleanor hurt Enerel countless times.

Even if he was a foreigner, while he was in the Empire, he was the person the Empire should be responsible for. innocent and good man

Even at the cost of his life, he had to pay the price for hurting him.

“Go! The emperor and the lineage, don’t worry about anything and go home!”

If you don’t get the lineage of a warrior, the empire will be in danger. It was not something she could say, who should always put the Empire first.

Regardless of the existence of the demon king, countless evil beings will enter the empire the moment the protection of the empire is cut off.

However, in the end, it was his will that had to be prioritized. It was he who held the debt of the debt the empire owed the world.

“There’s no way you can win!”

The Orc Lord’s swordsmanship has definitely become dull. At least, to the point where they could argue loudly.

But it was Eleanor’s body that was collapsing faster than that. With a body that shouldn’t have fought in the first place, it was a miracle that he was able to fight the Orc Lord and endure this much.

“That’s it!!!”

“Keugh!”

Enerel fell to the floor.

It wasn’t that he was hit by a bayonet. The orc’s greatsword was blocked by the holy sword he was holding.

However, attack and defense are made not by sword to sword, but by the being holding it.

Since the attack was made while the impatient Enerel was slightly floating, there was no stepping foot to receive the shock even if it could be blocked with hands.

Seeing Enerel rolling on the ground, Eleanor felt vague memories of the past passing by.

“Of course, I have no strength left.”

Eleanor, who kept his face in her head for a moment, looked at the green monster again.

“However, the will to fight and the reason remain. The knights of the Empire are not only capable of winning battles.”

The well-trained knights were barely blocking the waves of Orcs. At this rate, Nerwen and Enerel should be able to secure a retreat route.

“I think it’s presumptuous, but I want you to think of this as atonement.”

Again, the orc’s greatsword narrowly missed.