122 – graduation – 1

After finishing the process, I headed straight to the garrison. I’m sure Claire will be back, so I’ll have to talk about it.

“Where’s Claire?”

“Yes? Ah. I’m in the barracks.”

“okay?”

I headed straight to her barracks. Let’s open the barracks door.

“Hick!”

I saw Claire kneeling in the corner with her hands raised. Glancing at her as she continued to look at me, I pulled out a chair and held it out.

“Uh…? Oh, sit down?”

“Take this too.”

Claire accepted the chair with a tear on her face.

It wouldn’t be this hard because he’s a warrior by name, but it would be embarrassing.

know you’re lucky

It’s not like you’re punishing yourself in front of others.

“Hero!! I’m back…”

The door bursts open.

It was General Leoden.

He must have just returned from searching for a hero, and his armor was stained with monster blood.

“…What are you doing?”

“Can’t you see?”

“Do you know who asks because they don’t know that…? No, to the hero, why.”

“If you do something wrong, it is natural that you should be punished.”

“But the hero went to rescue those who were captured…”

“Do you know who does it for that?”

“then?”

“Report, contact, consultation. If you come across a ruin, you should return and report right away. Why did you go into it on your own? Do you know how many people struggled to find it?”

flinch.

Claire bowed her head as if she was aware of her sin.

“Umm. Sage. You’re not wrong. But it’s Yongsan.”

“I’m doing this because I’m a warrior. If it was someone else, I wouldn’t do this.”

I cut it off and in the end Leoden couldn’t stop it either. How long has it been since I crossed my arms and looked at you?

Unable to overcome the silence, General Leoden ran away and I pulled a chair and sat down.

“It’s not like I don’t know what he was thinking there.”

“…”

“I’ll say it again. Never. You can’t fix the past.”

“…Really?”

“okay.”

“I saw you there… and…”

Claire’s voice was watery. I could see what she saw.

When I entered this world, I saw the future that would have been created if Claire had saved me.

So I can’t help but feel sad.

“Maybe it was.”

Head bowed. A tear ran down Claire’s cheek, but she didn’t forget what she had to say.

“But in the end it’s only if.”

Reminds me of Chin’s words.

Even if they succeeded in getting it back, would Claire have no regrets?

Once you change a relationship, you will be greedy and want to fix it more.

You will want to fix it more, fix it, and achieve perfect happiness.

Can a person who has regretted once have the confidence not to regret it again?

I already knew that there are no perfect answers in life.

“…but what if you could find the perfect answer…?”

“Even if you can find it, you shouldn’t do it. Do you intend to destroy what people have achieved so far because of your own greed?”

“That’s it!”

“I’ll say it again. No. This is a warning. Claire.”

Claire nodded. Would that be enough?

“Put that down.”

Healed Claire, who had put down the chair helplessly. There didn’t seem to be any major injuries, but there were still quite a few scratches and loss of stamina.

Claire, who opened her eyes wide and looked at me, flinched and lowered her head again.

It is a small and pretty head.

I put my hand on my hair, which sparkled orange like the sun.

“…to?!”

and lightly stroked.

How surprised are you? Claire looked up at me blankly, unable to react properly.

“What.”

“Oh, no… Stroke, stroking. stroking… hair… hair. stroking, stroking. stroking blah blah…”

It’s tongue-in-cheek.

that is great.

“You’d better remember this touch.”

“…Uh, ugh. Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes heh!!”

Not knowing what to do, Claire nodded her head.

I sat down and made eye contact with her.

Orange eyes tremble with anticipation.

“Because the moment you hold hands with Kronos, this hand will crush your head.”

“… Heck!”

“Looking back. Really.”

Seeing Claire hardened, I stroked her hair again and turned around.

“Then I have other business to look at.

Even after doing this, if you betray and become an apostle of Cronus, I have nothing to say.

It’s very unfortunate, but I have to suffer a little.

I wanted to warn Leventia and Evangeline, but they went out on an operation and haven’t come back yet.

It seems that since the last incident, he has only become serious about killing real monsters.

After I wrote a letter for them, I was one of the city-states of the continent. We headed to Alcane, a city known for alchemy.

I went into a bar I knew there and ordered a bottle of alcohol, and I thought to myself.

It’s not my style to whine at others when I’m not doing anything.

So, if you know something is going to happen, you should be prepared as much as possible.

Among the seekers of the eight stars, who would be able to join hands with Cronus?

Surprisingly, most likely.

First of all, Claire, Leventia, and Evangeline become involved with me, and there are many things that can be caught in their story besides what happened.

If you go through the main story, you can tell that Claire feels a lot of pressure because she became a hero.

If someone other than himself had become a hero, wouldn’t he have done better?

It seems like if he hadn’t pulled out the hero’s sword, someone better suited to be a hero wouldn’t have appeared.

Knight Leventia regrets her father’s death.

Archer Evangeline has a bad relationship with her sister.

These three have behind-the-scenes stories that allow them to hold hands with Cronus, and that was the case with other characters as well.

Let’s see the wizard Karin right now.

Karin is cool and competent, but one thing. It had a fatal weakness of being dependent on Cecil.

But what if Cecil was killed by the followers, monsters, or Cronus?

Then Karin will not look back and become an apostle of Cronus in order to save her.

Then what about the shaman Cyron?

The odds are low, but it’s not entirely nonexistent.

As you can see from her behind-the-scenes story, when she was young and learning witchcraft, there was a sister who helped and guided her physically and mentally.

She died fighting the invading monster when Cyron went out with her teacher.

Cyron had taken Kronos’ hand to undo it.

The swordsman Lacey also had a chance to become an apostle of Cronus with a similarly low probability.

The peculiar thing was that unlike the others, he regretted not because he could not save, but because he had saved for nothing.

When she was little, she saved her brother from a crisis. After that, I lost Chuck with my brother and eventually went to the succession competition, and I got rid of my brother with my own hands.

If you were going to kill me anyway

If he hadn’t saved him at that time, he would have naturally become the heir to the family, and would he have been able to save many people who didn’t have to die while fighting for the successor? I’m always thinking that.

The thief Chin doesn’t hold Cronus’s hand for a while, but that doesn’t mean he can’t be relieved.

He regrets the past but never wants to go back.

However, when Kronos’s followers poison the guild leader of the thieves’ guild, who is no different from his father, and threaten him with an antidote, he sheds bloody tears and grabs Kronos’ hand.

And the alchemist…

If he doesn’t prepare anything, he has the highest chance of becoming an apostle of Kronos.

But if you are prepared, you will never give up.

“Oh~ I’m not, Mr. Sage. What did the person who is busy with construction say so far?”

Grumpy attitude and rough gait. Thighs as thick as a child’s waist and forearms like logs.

A lizardman with silver scales, boasting a pectoral muscle that was about to explode, walked with a smile.

Two of his eight horns were broken, and two of them were discolored red.

“Puhaah~ It’s 32-year-old Golden Shower!! The taste that lingers in your mouth is as if a woman from Iscorn’s country is dancing tango!”

“Is that a 25 year old rosebell?”

He flinched, closed his eyes, opened them, and laughed out loud at the label.

“Puhahahaha! It’s a 25-year-old Rosebelly! The taste in your mouth is like a lady from Iscorn’s country dancing tango!”

“I’ve seen a beggar drinking cheap rice wine somewhere.”

“Kuk. Don’t ignore the beggar.”

Licking his forked tongue, he drank again. I raised my hand while he glared at me after drinking the entire bottle in an instant.

“Bring three more bottles of this.”

“Yes.”

A politely greeted clerk brings three bottles of 25-year-old Rosebelly. His eyes brightened, and he looked at me again.

“I also brought the best fish dish in this store.”

“Yes.”

He grinned. It seemed to be in a good mood, and it was wagging its severed tail.

What made him hard, who was so happy, was a rather harsh voice.

“Hey Cherub!!

All of them have dirty impressions, and it is obvious that they are debt collectors.

I saw the cherub averting my gaze.

“Did you borrow money again? How can you be so pathetic? What are you going to do? Gambling again?”

“No, I found a new recipe. But the ingredients are not cheap. Uhehe. But this poison is really good. Drinking one bottle keeps farting and hiccups coming out at the same time for a month…”

“Ugh.”

I looked at the cherub with more pathetic eyes, while the masses began growling around the table.

“If you don’t intend to pay back, come and make some medicine.”

“Ah. I do some drugs.”

“Then pay me back!!”

“How much?”

I asked, looking at the lump, and he glanced at me and whispered to the cherub.

“Hey. He looks like a very precious person who doesn’t get along with you. Who is he?”

“You’re precious. You’re the teacher of the princess of the kingdom, and you’re the one who defeated the demon king.”

“The demon king…? Uh, that, then a wise man?”

The lump flinched, startled, and stood in front of me at a loss. I handed him the jewel I took out of my bosom.

“How much do you owe?”

“Only ten thousand gold.”

“I’ve lost a lot.”

If that’s the case, I’d be able to buy pretty much any medicine with a cart.

Anyway, I gave 10,000 gold worth of jewelry to the lump, and after receiving the receipt, I told the Cherub.

“You’ll do one thing with me.”

“What’s up?”

“I’m going to make some panacea.”

“Why?”

“I have a place to write.”

“Hmm. If it’s the wise man’s request, we can’t ignore it.”

it should be

How much have you gotten from me so far?

“And one more thing. If someone comes later saying that they will give you a lot of money and ask you to become an apostle of Cronus…”

“How much do you want?!”

this child?

“…But if you do that, all the medicines you’ve made will disappear? Their purpose is to turn back time and destroy the world.”

“…Ow. You should never hold hands with bastards like that.”

Then he smiled.

“But I’m a little attracted to giving a lot of money. Seeing what the wise man says, they seem like secret societies… Are you going to give them research materials as well? Isn’t the original alchemist’s dream to make the medicine he wants to make without worrying about the budget?”

grinning.

This mad alchemist has no interest in changing the past.

He only wants one thing.

It’s all about acquiring funds and materials to manufacture the medicine you want.

I am one of the alchemist characters in the Eight Star Seekers, and I have huge undeletable penalties such as ‘poverty’ and ‘overconsumption’, but I can make all kinds of medicines and poisons from the start, and my basic combat power is ‘Absolute’, a warrior-level warrior. alchemist.

He thrust the moonlight toward the cherub.

“You punk. Will you throw up everything you’ve been treated by me so far and make it as it was and serve it? For your information, what you owe me has now exceeded 870,000 golds.”

For reference, 870,000 gold is enough money to use unique equipment.

Of course, only if unique equipment is available in the auction house.

“Ugh… I-I have some money. I’m the beggar. I don’t even have bread to eat tomorrow…”

“Are you going to do the Kronos apostle or not?”

“Oh, I won’t! I won’t do dot-si!”

it should be

I even took the alchemist’s oath from him. Now he will never betray you.

Since alchemy is the most important thing to him, if there is a penalty of deleting the alchemy skill in case of betrayal, he will never do it.

Once you’ve got someone you trust…

“But where are you going to use that panacea?”

“If the head of the thieves guild is poisoned, I have to use it to get my friend out.”

I’ll be securing a second one soon.