Chapter 205 – [Hero] Finally
One night when I fell asleep alone, I woke up in a strange place.
At least not the lodging where we stayed.
High ceilings, long corridors, and even religious paintings decorating the walls.
This is the church
Suddenly, what kind of church?
I must have been sleeping in an empty inn.
As soon as I thought about it, I knew right away.
It’s a dream.
The church and I have almost no relationship, so what is the reason for me to be in a space like this in my dreams?
Are you a goddess or something?
Is it something like a revelation?
I wasn’t sure where I was going, but I kept going in the direction my body was heading, and at some point I came into a huge chapel.
Numerous chairs and a statue of a goddess in front of them.
A woman was standing behind the statue of the goddess.
“Would you like to pray?”
“… Don’t play around.”
That woman was Sarah.
Yeah, you ended up getting caught up in her pranks again.
The other day, I was sure to say that I forsook God with my own mouth.
This must be an idea to make fun of me.
“Joke?”
She tilted her head with a puzzled face.
It’s the expression that I really don’t know what I’m talking about.
Come to think of it, it has neither wings nor a tail.
“Otherwise, what are you doing in the chapel?”
“Uh, that…”
What? Isn’t it a joke?
Confused.
Looking closely, Sera was right, but something was a little different.
Should I say that he looks a little younger than now, something… It was a little different.
“Could you come to see me? Whooping… I don’t know how you got through that much surveillance.”
“Yes? Oh, no, that’s not it…”
No, Sarah is right.
That tone and expression. Whoever it is, she is herself.
But…
“If you have something to say to me, please pray to the goddess first. If the Goddess takes pity on you and grants you permission to talk to me, then I’ll think about it again.”
“Oh, what if you don’t?”
“Please go back. I’m sorry, but I’m a person in an important position.”
I absentmindedly followed her and put her hands together in her prayer pose.
What is this all of a sudden
“You should close your eyes too.”
Eventually, I closed my eyes.
No, then you mean I have to beg her goddess here to let her talk with her, her Four Heavenly Kings?
Something this…
“It is pointless. Don’t you think so?”
“Yes?”
When I opened her eyes at Sarah’s words, I saw her looking at me with her strange face.
“What’s wrong?”
“Didn’t you just say something?”
“… I didn’t say anything.”
Didn’t you just say something pointless?
“Ah, could it be the Goddess? Did you hear the voice of the goddess?”
Suddenly she had her own wild fantasies, and with her agitated look, she grabbed my shoulder.
“Oh, no, that’s not it…”
“I heard her voice while praying! You are definitely a goddess! Wow, there are people who really listen!”
“Ah, there…”
While she was thinking about how to treat this woman who was like Sarah but not like Sarah, she heard a strange man’s voice in the distance.
“Sera! We will be leaving soon!”
“Oh, yes! Coming soon, warrior!”
Dragon… Buy?
“I just need to go. Next time, please tell me what the goddess’s voice was like. By all means!”
Then she disappeared with her gun stride.
“Isn’t that really stupid?”
This is it. The voice you just heard.
The voice of Sera who was next to me until now and the voice of Sera that I hear now are very slightly different.
I turned her head in the direction I heard her voice and found her sitting in one of the chairs in the chapel.
“Sera…”
“What you just saw is me in my human days. Warrior… Ah, the warrior before you. Me in the days when I was with him.”
“Human days…”
That’s why he looked a little young.
“At that time, I didn’t know anything yet. That’s why I was so eager. Both the hero and the goddess…”
She looked ahead.
The statue of the Goddess, which had been shining as if it were going to be polished just a moment ago, had rusted before I knew it.
“Has Ertina told you anything more?”
“Oh, no, just… I’ll let you know when I’ve made up my mind…”
At those words, Sarah smiled with a devastated smile.
“Yes, I probably still haven’t accepted it. Because she was more active than anyone else.”
“How… What are you talking about?”
Something that Ertina and Sera cannot easily say.
Why… What more secrets do you mean?
“It’s nothing. Just… I just realized that salvation, miracles, and all these things are all nonsense.”
After she said that, she pointed to my arm and said.
“Who do you think gave you that ability?”
My arm… Are you referring to this divine power and this ability to imitate their power?
“Yes, of course the goddess…”
“Whoops.”
She just laughed wordlessly.
Maybe not?
So, then who… ?
“Don’t you think the world is being too cruel to you?”
Saying that, Sarah looked at me.
“The women who loved you are taken away one by one by another man, but that man had never had anything to do with you.
“Leaving, letting go, I…”
“Do you seriously think that she will only look at you until the end?”
I couldn’t answer that.
Uni is… Will you still love me as innocently as before?
“It’s such an odd fate. Strangely enough, he also suffered a similar fate to yours.”
“If so…”
“He’s the warrior before you.”
He too suffered the same fate as mine…
“Maybe it was before that. I don’t know where it started, but it’s been going on for a long time…”
After saying that, she deliberately patted her chair with her tail to distract me.
“So, as a senior, I would like to tell you from my point of view. Slowly… It’s a time when it won’t be strange if something happens.”
“Um, something…”
“Don’t beat yourself up too much. Anyway that’s… Entire…”
Her words seemed to stretch out, but she couldn’t hear the details.
“Oh… Already over…”
While even her vision is blurring little by little, she slowly… Comes to me
“… Poor… Gift…”
Gift?
Then I felt something warm touch my forehead.
Are you playing pranks on me with your tail again?
But, for that reason, the touch is too…
***
“Oh…”
The place where I opened my eyes again was our familiar dorm.
Second best room in this ryokan.
On that overly wide bed, only I was lying.
Why is it only me
Uni is… ?
Could it be that he still hasn’t returned?
I put my hand on the spot where she was supposed to lie down.
The bed, which had never been touched by human warmth, was cold.
I had an anxious feeling.
Something… A feeling that something very bad is about to happen.
I got up and went out into the hallway.
This building with only us in it was gloomy, but at least there were two rooms with human warmth.
Our room and his room.
Judging from the slight chill, it seemed that there was still quite a bit of time left before morning approached.
Dawn is the time of the goddess… Was it
It doesn’t seem like he’s been asleep for that long.
Suddenly, it seemed that light was leaking out, so I looked to the side and saw that the door to the next room was open.
The best room in this inn.
With him… The room where his women are tied up.
There, the light was still on, and faint moans leaked from within.
I walked into the room like someone possessed.
With each step closer, the groaning grew louder.
“Ahhhhh… ♥”
A woman moaning as if clinging to a man.
“Haha…”
A sweet moan that seemed like it would melt at any moment.
I know that voice, undeniably.
I’m afraid to go any further.
It’s scary to see the truth with my own two eyes.
But… I must see.
For whom?
Maybe… For me.
With this sense of exhilaration boiling in my heart, I slowly and slowly approached and peeped at the scenery in the room through the open door.
In that lighted room, Seria and Arin were soundly asleep on a huge bed, and a man they knew very well was sitting between them.
“Huh… Uh… There, there… Ahhh…”
He was holding a certain woman, and from here I could see only her back.
Brown hair.
And… Unbraided, loose hair.
A very familiar, but slightly muddy rose was visible on the shoulder that was subtly exposed.
“Kuhh.”
He looked at me and smiled, perhaps noticing my presence.
“Look back.”
She addressed her to the woman she was holding.
She slowly turned her head at his words, then froze as she looked at me.
“… Eh, Eric…”
“… UNI.”
She was my childhood friend and my one and only lover.
“Huh♥ Ha, don’t do it… That stop… ! Black, hehe…”
She was begging him, clinging to him.
