Chapter 122 – [Hero] Waking Up From a Dream
Seria guessed that the villagers probably had pleasant dreams like us.
Therefore… It means that other than me, Seria, Arin, and Uni had similar dreams.
I glanced at their expressions.
When her eyes met her uni’s, she turned her head away with an embarrassed expression.
What were you dreaming about?
I’m curious, but it would be rude to ask. I had no choice but to soothe my regret.
Seria uncovered a new fact, but that alone did not solve the situation.
Since she said it was a dream, she could only speculate that Inma was involved, but no traces of Inma were found in the village.
In the end, even that night, we slept soundly.
To be precise, I tried not to sleep, but before I knew it, I was asleep.
And…
“Today was good too, warrior.”
“Because I am no longer a hero.”
In my dream, I was talking to Arin, who was covered with a blanket.
After making her love, Arin always loved having sweet conversations like this with me.
“Whoops… Even so, you are always a warrior in my heart.”
“It’s embarrassing, haha.”
She was so beautiful when she said that and smiled.
It’s the third wife, so it’s just a pity that I can’t find her often.
“I will visit you more often.”
“I’ll wait.”
Receiving Arin’s slightly sad smile, I stood up.
Sorry but it’s time to go back.
I put on the clothes I had taken off and prepared to leave the room.
“… Eric, wake up.”
“Huh?”
Before I knew it, Arin had become Seria.
Hey, did I do it with Seria?
“Get up!”
Somehow upset, she jumped up and then she came up to me.
“What do you mean wake up?”
She stood in front of me, raised her hand and…
Damn!
“Omg!”
I opened my eyes.
In front of her eyes was Seria, and outside the open door were Arin, Yuni, and a woman she didn’t know.
“Phew, I just woke up. Sorry for waking you up suddenly.”
“Uh, yes… No.”
I rubbed my slightly tingling cheek and came to my senses.
But what kind of situation is this?
Seria’s face was soaked with water, and Yuni and Arin were watching the woman they were seeing for the first time so that they wouldn’t run away.
This woman looked like a human, but she wasn’t human because of her tail.
“Uh… What’s the situation?”
“He is the one who made us dream. As you can see, ummago.”
Did Seria catch it?
According to her further explanation, she was able to hold on to this yumma thanks to Seria waking up after being struck in the middle of her with her stagger magic, she said.
She wouldn’t have known exactly when she was coming, but her ability to act is terrifying.
“So I’m going to listen to you from now on, Eric, so I think you should wake up too.”
“Yeah, that’s right. Thanks for waking me up.”
Saying that, I glanced around.
Mr. Jeren was still sleeping.
“Isn’t Jeren awake?”
“… You can deliver it later.”
I wondered if Seria would wake him up, but after hearing this answer, I felt a little relieved.
And I felt disillusioned with myself for being relieved by such trivial things.
Come to your senses, now is not the time to be thinking like this.
I went to meet Mma, who was dressed roughly and stood outside the door with her hands raised.
“Huh… I’d just ask for a change of area…”
She was lamenting her unfortunate situation with her tears.
For some reason, rather than a demon, he looks more like a human.
“Excuse me…”
“Help me! I didn’t do anything bad! Just mutual aid, yes, mutual aid! Kill two birds with one stone! Oh, isn’t this? No way!”
She lost her mind because of her sudden talk.
I decided to calm her down and ask her one by one.
“Huh… Something like this again… I’m sorry, sir…”
“Eh?”
“Oops.”
She covered her mouth in embarrassment, but I had already heard the name.
“Who is that?”
“That… On that… I-I don’t know!”
She began to lie in an awkward tone that was obvious to anyone.
“If you lie one more time, I’ll pierce you.”
Seria, who was watching from behind her, said a cold word, and she froze.
“Seria, don’t be like that. You were scared It’s okay, I won’t hurt you, so can you answer a few questions?”
“Hey… Don’t make a hole, uh… I’ll tell you…”
For some reason, it seems that she has become her bad guys bullying her, but we were able to hear her information from her in such a relatively peaceful way.
“Um… It’s a village-by-town experiment…”
“I am not bad! Humans have good dreams! We want to build a new society where humans and demons live together…”
“Ha…”
When Seria sighed, she got scared and shut her mouth.
She said sorry to her, but it was much better because she kept her mouth shut.
“It seems like a bigger problem than I thought, hero.”
Arin said that with her perplexed face.
Perhaps her face is no different from mine.
A society where demons and humans live together.
According to this dreamer, they are conducting an experiment for this.
“This is nonsense. If that’s possible, why are you fighting like this right now?”
Seria seemed to be cynically looking at that possibility.
There was some truth in what she said.
Aren’t we fighting because we can’t communicate?
“Still… If this is really possible, you don’t have to fight anymore…”
Uni was hesitant about whether or not she was confident even though she was talking about it, but she actually agreed with her opinion to some extent.
Right now, just looking at the Four Heavenly Kings, you can talk to them, but maybe there is a way to live peacefully?
“No, that’s right… ! We don’t want to fight either!”
“Shut up.”
“Hey…”
The dreamer, who was trying to sneak in, shut her mouth again at Seria’s one word.
“For now, let’s put aside whether it’s possible or not. We don’t have to fight each other over this.”
Arin calmed down the situation by preventing the subject from derailing.
“First of all, the important thing is how to deal with this situation. Hero, what should I do?”
“Hmm…”
As I glanced at her, her dream demon sent me her desperate eyes begging her to save her.
I have no intention of killing you anyway…
“Then we have to dig up the background first. Did you say ea? He must be the one who manages him. But obviously that won’t be the end. Maybe I should go higher. … It’s the same umma, so maybe it’s related to that Sera.”
“Huh… I’m done…”
As if there was nothing wrong with Seria’s words, she shook her head with a gloomy expression.
Anyway, in the current situation, that seems to be the best thing, so I agreed.
After getting everyone’s consent, we took her to see her superior.
No need to do anything intimidating, she just gave Seria a glare and she took care of guiding us.
For some reason, Seria was scared.
***
She led us to a village clearing.
There shouldn’t be anyone at such a late hour, but there were many dream demons who looked like her.
When we appeared at this time when they were supposed to be asleep, a commotion broke out among them, but a demon who seemed to be in charge appeared and settled the situation.
The name of the person in charge was also Ea.
“Our miri made a mistake. I will tell you about her circumstances, so would you please return her to us first?”
Ea looked at the dreamer named Miri with her kind face, but from the look on her trembling face, it seemed that nothing good was waiting for her.
Although she is her enemy, she looks so pitiful that I hide her behind her.
“Ah…”
Miri seemed to have noticed my intentions and hid behind her behind my back.
For some reason, it seemed that Yuni was slightly glancing at her, but it must be her misunderstanding.
“It’s a bit strange for me to say, but… Please don’t say too much.”
“Haa, you’re misunderstanding something, but I’m not particularly scolding Miri.”
As she said that, she pressed her head hard to see if her headache was hurting.
“Just… It’s just that she’s talking about her little mistakes that she’s made.”
“Yeah, that’s right…”
“Hey…”
Even though she said she would not punish her, Miri was still in a frightened mood.
Even though I listened to her this far, it was a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of I sent her to Ea.
Why am I being so friendly to my enemies?
I was slightly puzzled by her, but for some reason I wanted to do that when I saw her.
“In advance, please go back first. We’ll talk about the details later.”
“Huh… Yes…”
She trudged among her comrades, looking like she had seen the end of the world.
After looking at Miri’s back, Ea turned her gaze to us and said.
“So, what did you come to hear? Or are you here to kill us all?”
“… What are you up to?”
First, I asked for a purpose.
Is it really the purpose of what the dreamer named Miri said?
Her answer was not very different from Miri’s. However, she told me in more detail, and they sincerely believed that harmony between humans and demons would be possible.
“What’s not going to happen? We don’t have to kill humans, and humans don’t have to kill us.”
“Why do you keep going to war when you know that?”
When Seria asked sarcastically, Ea frowned at her.
“Not everyone has the same opinion as us. But isn’t that the same for humans? There must be many people who do not want war.”
“Does that mean there are differences of opinion within you too?”
I was a little surprised.
I thought all demons would have a system that faithfully followed the orders of the demon king.
Well, just looking at Luella and Sera right now, we didn’t agree.
“How are we different from humans? If you look at your country, it would be the same, but were you curious about that?”
Although the subject returned to the starting point with her words, Ea’s story was difficult to accept.
The society Ea and other dreamers wanted was for the demons, among them, the demons limited to the dreamers to mix with human society.
They make humans dream their most desired dreams, and in return, they get the right to live in the village.
As time passes and they get used to it, other demons may be accepted into society.
It will take a lot of effort, but this experiment is the first step anyway.
It was roughly like this.
“… After all, you guys aren’t from this continent, are you?”
“I cannot answer that far. It is beyond my jurisdiction.”
Seria seemed displeased with her answer, but she didn’t bother asking further.
“Looks like we’ve told you everything. It can’t be helped if you don’t believe it, but we’re not really trying to harm humans.”
After saying that, Ea made eye contact with me.
“So I want to ask you one favor, can you close your eyes?”
“What?”
I flinched at those words, but the answer didn’t come easily.
“It won’t take long. About the next 5 days? After that, they will quietly step back, and in the meantime, no one will get hurt or die. If this thing goes well, the first bridge between humans and demons may be created.”
I first asked her to share her opinion among us.
When Ea nodded her head, we gathered separately and asked each other’s opinions, but our opinions were not biased.
Seria and Arin were opposites.
Seria said she couldn’t trust them, and Arin seemed unwilling to coexist with her demons.
I was in the same position as Uni, but Seria’s opinion didn’t seem wrong, so I couldn’t conclude anything.
“You’re the party leader anyway, so decide for yourself. We’ll get there.”
Saying that, Seria crossed her arms.
“Actually, you don’t even need to discuss it with us. Isn’t that what being a leader is all about? Our opinions are only for reference, and in the end, the highest person decides what he wants.”
Her comments sounded strange.
In the past, when everyone suggested that we gather opinions and decide, I think we actively agreed, but suddenly our thoughts changed.
Seria’s words sounded like she had to absolutely obey the orders of a higher person.
“… Yes. Since the hero has been blessed by the goddess, in a sense, he might be the most suitable person to decide this.”
What was even more surprising was that Arin did not refute her words.
Arin too… Did you have similar thoughts?
Maybe it was more because I was in a position to serve the absolute God.
I looked at Yuni for the last time.
When her eyes met hers, she smiled awkwardly, not knowing what to say.
“I don’t know much about difficult things like this. But… I trust Eric’s judgment. With Eric, he could definitely pick a better one.”
“Thank you, Uni.”
I was more worried after hearing their stories, but in fact, my heart was already tilted.
The smiles of the people I’ve seen in the village over the past few days, Miri, Ea, and Sera who are so human.
Maybe it was all a hoax.
Everyone is so good at acting that I could have been fooled.
But… I wanted to believe in them.
“I have decided.”
“What are you going to do?”
If I could create a world where neither humans nor demons fought, I wanted to choose that.
It may not be what a hero would say, but I don’t think that demons are as evil as the church says.
“… I will also look forward to the day when humans and demons become one.”
Ea’s eyes widened a little, as if my answer was a little unexpected.
“You were a better person than I thought. Thank you for your good judgment.”
I took Ea’s outstretched hand.
***
We stayed in the village for 5 more days, and only after confirming that the girls were leaving, we moved on.
On the last day, before withdrawing, Ea confronted the village chief and she revealed all the facts, but the villagers did not get angry and asked them not to go.
Ea seemed to want to convey their lively opinions at the negotiating table to be held later, but looking at this reaction, at least the experiment seemed to be a success.
Over the course of five days, we received her offer to make us dream if we wished.
Seria and I refused, but Arin and Yuni nodded with slightly reddened faces.
After confirming that everyone was leaving, we hurried to get ready, but Miri hurriedly ran from afar.
“Uh, what’s going on?”
During her 5 days, I became quite friendly with her, so I was comfortable with her.
“I-over there… If the… If things go well and we end up living with humans…”
She wiggled her hands and stuttered her words.
“Hmm.”
For some reason, Yuni cleared her throat.
“Please… ! Please call me to Eric’s village!”
“Uh? Uh…”
I was taken aback by the sudden statement and slightly blurted out, but she seemed to understand it as a sign of agreement, and her expression brightened.
“Thank you! See you again! By all means!”
After she said that, she ran back to her comrades.
What? What is this atmosphere?
“Eric…”
I turned my head at the cold voice, and there was Yuni, who was looking at me with a puzzled expression.
“The warrior is really…”
“It’s quite right, Eric.”
Behind her, Arin sighed, and Seria laughed as if having fun.
… Have you misunderstood this?
