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“iced coffee. “I hate one-on-one duels like this.”
Carl sighed and looked ahead.
In front of me, a slightly shorter girl was warming up.
A passionate fighting spirit burns in his eyes.
As we looked at each other like this, I felt something.
‘It’s bloody.’
I saw a lot of belligerent students in Rumern.
It’s not just Rumern.
While attending Lumern during my third year, I had many opportunities to interact with Azonia students.
And the energy that the beast girl in front of me gave off was different from that of the Azonia students.
‘It’s much rougher.’
It’s simply far from personality.
‘It’s more wild.’
Carl measured his opponent.
The beast girl wrinkled her nose at Karl’s gaze.
I felt Carl watching me closely.
“I feel bad.”
“Oh, I apologize if I offended you.”
Carl smiled and raised both hands.
“I was looking for any weaknesses.”
“Do you think you can find something like that without fighting?”
“It’s usually hard. But I’m not good at fighting.”
Carl shrugged his shoulders and spoke slyly.
“Wouldn’t your odds of winning go up if you observed your opponent even a little?”
“You are obviously weaker than me.”
“I know.”
“Do you still plan to win?”
“of course.”
The beast girl looked at Karl with a grin and opened her mouth.
“You are fair and light.”
“I hear that a lot.”
“But I think I misunderstood just by looking at that. My name is Kanea. What about you?”
“knife.”
When Kanea revealed his name, Karl also smiled and introduced himself.
Looking at that knife, Kanea curled the corners of her mouth.
“Are you ready? knife?”
“huh.”
With those words, Canea rushed straight towards Karl.
Looking at Canea like that, Carl put his hands in his arms and took them out.
A long, thin potion bottle was caught between the knuckles of the sword.
Whirring!
Carl threw the potion bottle towards Kanea.
“It looks like a pension bomb.”
Eliza, who summoned a soft-looking pet and sat on it, said with a sour expression on her face.
Then, Drianna, who had taken her seat, folded her arms and shook her head.
“I don’t think so.”
“yes?”
Kanea dodged the potion bottle.
Clink-! Cheeeeeek-!
When the potion bottle broke on the floor, smoke rose.
Kanea saw that and snorted.
“Is it poison?”
“yes.”
Carl smiled evilly, took the cork of the potion bottle in his other hand, opened it with his teeth, and poured it into his mouth.
It was an antidote.
“Uh… … “What are you guys doing together?”
“Huh? What? Why are the swords fighting?”
Ar and Illyana appeared in almost dying voices.
Then, I was surprised to see the duel in front of me.
“Sounds like fun.”
Dweno, who came with us, stroked his beard and laughed.
“Did that friend use poison?”
“It’s poison.”
“It seems a little cowardly.”
“It’s very cowardly.”
Luke, Harbiden, and Aina shook their heads.
“joy. “It’s a knife-like tactic.”
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“Not a bad plan.”
“That’s a good strategy.”
As Eliza, Chelsea, and Duran praised, the second graders looked embarrassed.
The second graders looked at their senior with puzzled faces.
“Isn’t it a bit cruel?”
Drianna said at Harveyden’s words.
“Isn’t it the fault of the one who was hit?”
“that’s right. that’s right.”
Ar also nodded as if he agreed.
In response, the second graders looked in the opposite direction.
“That poison. “Is this poison you’ve never seen before?”
“Even though it was a sudden duel, they even prepared an antidote. “You’re well prepared!”
“Even though they are enemies, they are great!”
Ivaldi’s warrior candidates also seemed to praise Karl.
Lastly, I spoke to Dweno and Enniha.
“It seems that remnants of talent are your specialty.”
Enniha narrowed her eyes.
‘Ah, as expected, adults are evaluated negatively… … .’
“That’s great.”
“huh. “It’s great.”
When Enniha agreed with Dweno’s words, the second graders shrank their necks.
‘Are we strange?’
“There’s nothing particularly strange about you.”
Leo next to me smiled and said.
“When you enter third grade, you will be just like your seniors.”
The academic life of a second year student is not easy at all.
‘Because being a hero isn’t as romantic as you think.’
The image of a hero defeating the enemy with justice is only a story from a fairy tale.
In reality, they do anything to survive.
Because feats are given only to those who have overcome trials.
“Leo Plov.”
“Why, Duran?”
“You said that that prisoner has something we don’t have and that is the readiness to die at any time, right?”
“that’s right.”
“It’s hard to understand what you’re saying.”
Duran narrowed his eyes at Carl and Canea.
“As long as you go to Lumern. No, as long as you aim to become a hero, there will be many life-threatening crises in the future. Of course, I have no intention of dying. “I plan to struggle as much as I can even in a crisis situation.”
“I guess so.”
“But that doesn’t mean I’m not prepared to die.”
Duran looked at Leo.
“How is my determination different from that woman’s determination?”
In response to Duran’s question, Leo looked at Canea, Deet, and the other warrior candidates and said,
“Because we were born in different eras.”
“What era were you born in?”
“I think everyone has the same mindset when going into battle, such as determination and fighting spirit.”
Leo looked at Kinea.
“But people born in a bright world and people born in a dark world are fundamentally different.”
“Fundamentally different?”
“Yes, Duran. What is your goal?”
“You probably already know.”
“okay.”
Leo said, bursting into laughter.
“Those guys don’t have that goal.”
“… … .”
“You won’t have many happy memories, let alone a sense of accomplishment from having achieved something, or even an experience of being overjoyed.”
From the moment we were born, those things had already disappeared.
“Failure is not allowed.”
It is different from today’s hero candidates who can try again and again.
Death was as natural as breathing.
A generation that never knows when it will perish.
‘It’s not just the kids.’
The same goes for adults.
Just living each day in a dissolute manner.
This is an age where we never know when tomorrow will disappear.
It was a time of disaster when the world could not say that such things were wrong.
“Duran. “Would you be able to try if the result of your efforts was failure?”
“All you have to do is make it not fail.”
“What if it doesn’t go your way? What if the outcome is decided in the end?”
“… … .”
Duran couldn’t answer.
“This is such an era.”
An era that those born in a bright world will never understand.
“But still, it’s there. “Fools who struggle even when they see the results.”
A moth running towards a future as obvious as fire.
Those who struggle to survive each day.
His name was not known to future generations.
Those who were called heroes in a time when hero records did not exist.
‘I was like that too. Luna was like that, and so were Aron and Dweno.’
At that time, every hero in the world knew the end.
‘No, I thought you knew.’
Except one person.
There was only one person who truly shouted to save the world.
Even Luna hadn’t thought of something like that until she met that one person.
‘That’s why he’s special.’
“Take a good look at that kid named Kinea.”
Leo said.
That’s not what I said to Duran.
This is what I said to all hero candidates.
“That guy is a guy who tries hard even though he has already been sentenced to a future of destruction.”
“Do you know what that feels like?”
“I don’t know. I wasn’t born in this era either.”
I didn’t lie.
The era in which Leo was born was an era of peace.
It was similar yet different from the generation in the era of disaster.
but.
“I’ve seen more guys like that than you guys. “That’s why I know.”
I lived and observed an era of disaster.
However, everyone except Chelsea remembered that Leo had conquered the world of great heroes several times.
When everyone nods their heads even though they have doubts.
Leo looked at Kinea.
A meaningless struggle.
But that’s what made it special.
Although he is weaker than any other hero candidate here.
Kinea represented the warrior, or rather hero candidate, of the current era.
‘Those guys grew up and later became Aron, Berkia and Bihar.’
A seed that never sprouted.
In the end, a life that will disappear without leaving anything behind.
However, that will is steadily passed down to future generations.
Leo looked at Dweno.
‘Failed?’
Dweno blamed himself for being a failed leader.
‘Where did you fail?’
Leo looked at the warrior candidates, including Kinea.
You can tell by looking at those kids.
‘You can tell just by looking at the warriors who fought against the Giant King’s legions yesterday.’
Leo exhaled.
‘There was no one who broke in Ivaldi anywhere.’
Among the fortresses that survived during Ivaldi’s existence, the most desperate one was definitely Ivaldi.
Fortresses such as Guardsron and Raysar were able to interact with each other.
The same was true for the elf resistance forces.
However, Ivaldi was isolated in the middle of the Tartarus forces.
There was no hope for help.
The fact that the Arhi party led by Lisinas was able to reach Ivaldi was also close to a miracle.
Even in such a hopeless situation, Ivaldi’s warriors burned their fighting spirit.
The situation was relatively better than Ivaldi’s, and even Guardsron, who had a strong force, was full of people who did not have the will to fight.
It was really difficult for Lisinas to instill hope in God’s Lawn.
It was full of only despair and sighing.
But there is no such sign in Ivaldi.
By looking at the starlight?
‘If we are not prepared in the first place, it is impossible to prevent an invasion like yesterday.’
Clearly, the Arhi Party led by Leo was of great help.
But in conclusion, it was the power of the Ivaldi warriors that prevented yesterday’s invasion.
In the end, they all die.
The result may be destined to fail.
but… … .
‘Are you saying that the leader of warriors who can fight like this even in this despair is a failed leader? Then what am I, a damn old man?’
Leo clicked his tongue, remembering his pathetic self in the past where he was not interested in just surviving each day.
‘You did not fail. Dweno.’
