episode_0021

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A time of light that pushes away darkness. The feeling of eating breakfast while receiving warm sunlight made me feel like I was at a resort.

Is this the breakfast menu that these elements usually eat? I don’t think so. It smells good.

I think they put it in with my taste in mind as a guest, but it was a menu that gave me a mysterious feeling of being familiar, light yet filling and not burdensome.

Even though something like that happened yesterday, I feel so free.

Compared to the days rolling around in Maruk, this place was like heaven.

Even though I lived with support after being summoned to another world, if you ask me if it was comfortable, I would say yes.

I was taken aback by the summoning of the hero to another world instead of the awakening event I had hoped for, but it would be a lie if I said I didn’t exclaim in joy when it was confirmed that I would return with a suitable reward and full abilities, rather than being hit in the back of the head.

Even though killing creatures that looked like monsters wasn’t exactly fun.

It was all possible to endure mentally by getting through it under the pretext of a mission to move toward world peace.

“I don’t know if I evacuated properly.”

Although it might be something to say while leisurely eating breakfast, the Element Tribe said they would take care of the commotion that was coming their way.

“I guess I’ll have to upload it later and talk to you.”

When the Chujara tribe came to disturb the village, Olli personally asked for help, so he stepped forward, but he wondered if the request for help was still valid.

“Maybe that’s why I asked for help.”

If it were me, I would have expected that he would just hit and run. Anyway, I would have to contact Ollie first to decide what to do.

I relayed it to the messenger last night, so I should get an answer by today. I could have gone there myself, but I was worried that it might interfere with an important operation, so I stayed silent.

The elemental tribe defending against the incoming Chujara tribe.

Leaving aside thoughts about Ollie, I try to predict what will happen soon. Unlike what I usually read in the siege, it was a battle of persistence.

Even if there were beings capable of destroying such walls, an ordinary siege was a tedious tug-of-war of patience and supplies.

The attacking force, sitting still and waiting for the days to come, and the defense force, going into space defense with a counter-fire operation.

Like in a novel, if you storm the castle walls, they will fall. Or, if you are outnumbered and defending the castle, the main character will jump out on his own and wipe out everyone.

If we look for such developments again, it would be difficult to guarantee that they never existed in history, but even in this world, wars were fought normally while maintaining the basic principles.

However, if the Chujara tribe gets involved in a siege, it can become easy or difficult. They are a tribe that only charges forward without any strategy, so the difficulty of dealing with them varies depending on whether you have basic defensive skills.

He said that the strategy for dealing with the Chujara tribe was that as long as you have enough supplies and manpower, defense is not that difficult.

I think you said Aorra.

A female elementalist who called herself the Queen’s second thorn. Judging by her skills, she seemed to be able to compete with the Four Heavenly Kings.

It just so happened that the opponent was also assumed to be one of Critrick’s subordinates.

As I was going through these circumstances, I found myself wondering if it was really right to join.

“I know that I can’t do everything myself.”

I’ve caught the Demon King, but seeing as I’m still here, I guess there’s still work I have to do.

Yesterday, at lunchtime, Ollie called me because of the trust, and as soon as I followed him, I got caught up in a commotion.

Before considering causality.

Is it because he is a warrior that he calls upon incidents? Or is it because incidents call upon the warrior?

As I took a moment to reflect on myself, the distracting thoughts that had plagued me began to torment me.

“Write-.”

Help without stepping forward.

“Ke-hmm!”

A stretch to shake off the confusion. It wasn’t a story about a strong man or a hidden powerhouse, but it was frustrating to have to just watch without helping to quickly resolve the issue while possessing overwhelming power.

Contrary to rumors, the Element Tribe had a favorable impression of me, and despite warnings to be careful, I don’t remember ever being discriminated against for being human.

Moreover, there has never been an instance where I was secretly ignored for being human.

This might be because I hang out with party members.

Honestly, if I had just wandered around alone, I might have done things like swindling or beating up men here and there to try to take advantage of them.

Me too, I’m a man. Since I’m surrounded by only women, my speech has become tainted. But I’m not a woman, am I?

Then, the word community came to mind, and I found another excuse to miss my hometown’s artifacts and slang.

“Dechaaa-.”

Suddenly, he thought of the saying that even a man who gets older is still a child, and he took on a ridiculous pose. Even if he returned to Earth without any financial compensation, he would have no problem eating and living as long as he had the warrior’s abilities, but he couldn’t help but feel regretful that he had postponed the opportunity to return.

“The real-life method! The shit-demon tribe is already dead.”

fault

Papa Pot

“KuiKui.”

So, I shook off my minor depression by adopting a humorous attitude towards myself.

Ha. It’s weird to think like this when she’s doing this, but Suiseiseki was once my favorite character. What a twist of fate… How could such a pretty character turn into such a monster-.

Wow

‘dripping’

I was nervous that my foolish actions might have been discovered, so I straightened my posture.

“Hero of the Otherworld. May I come in?”

Because it was a characteristic of the element tribe, I couldn’t really feel their presence, so I could only detect them right before the knock on the door rang.

“… Yes, come in.”

As expected, the woman of the element tribe came in calmly with a clear voice. I felt relieved, thinking that it would have been very embarrassing if I had been caught.

“I came to deliver the priestess’ message.”

“You’re here.”

He put strength into his voice as if nothing had happened.

“I will tell you. I have heard the story of the warrior. I am also tracking down the suspicious person. The warrior’s information was of great help. That is all. ”

“… That’s really Ollie-like.”

As I slyly mentioned Ollie’s name, I looked around, and he sat there with his eyes closed, expressionless and neat.

“But. Is that the end?”

I clearly told Ollie last night to ask him if he wanted to join or wait.

“That news will come a little later.”

“… Don’t you usually tell me things like this all at once?”

“Whenever new news comes in, a messenger goes to see the priestess.”

“Ah.”

It’s not like it’s an emergency text message that just rings every time.

Although Ollie’s status was high within the elemental tribe, it did not seem efficient.

No, it’s too early to jump to conclusions based on just one snippet.

“Then should I wait longer?”

“No. I will go and tell you wherever you are, as long as you don’t go out of the city.”

“That would be great, but it shouldn’t take that long to hear from you, right?”

“Maybe.”

“Then let’s wait a little longer.”

“Okay, if you need anything, please let me know anytime.”

“Yes-.”

The female element leaves after a short conversation.

“Are you calling people by their bells here too? Huh, then I was talking nonsense?”

It’s fortunate that he didn’t show any strange gestures.

“… They say that the element tribe listens to what is said during the day, and the demon tribe listens to what is said at night.”

It’s already a refreshing morning. As the saying goes, I should refrain from even talking to myself in front of the sensitive hearing of the element tribe, so I should try to keep my thoughts to myself if possible.

I understand that you decided not to help me directly, but does that mean I shouldn’t tell you the information I heard from Millet?

I didn’t bother to eavesdrop on the meeting last night, so I don’t know what happened afterwards. Instead, I got in touch with Millet and found out some more information about Critic.

This may not improve the situation right away.

“No. Let me tell you. This much should be fine.”

Now that the Demon King has been annihilated, the Demon King’s army’s actions in the Land of Elements seem like a desperate attempt at collapse.

It may be taken lightly, but I didn’t want to repeat the same mistake as when I let my guard down when the real Demon King was destroyed.

‘Tinkle tinkle’

He called in a woman who had just left.

“It’s a misunderstanding that we have a hobby of eavesdropping, otherworldly warrior.”

I heard an unbelievable excuse from the woman who actually overheard what was said in the room.

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They barely manage to protect the village and track down the person suspected to be behind it.

The results of staying up all night and working are familiar.

As I wait for the spirits to bring me news, messengers come one after another.

“The other world warrior wants to hear the priestess’s opinion on whether to join her or wait in the city.”

I’m used to the way you tell someone what you want to do without even saying hello.

“… Is that so.”

Last night, I swept away the Chujara group and ordered them to evacuate. I thought that there must be something else besides the Chujara group involved in the sudden attack, so I wandered around for a while. I felt relieved by the hero’s performance that the messenger had told me, but I also felt grateful to the hero for accepting my sudden request.

Join the warriors.

What he had asked of the warrior was the commotion that had occurred yesterday, and what had happened since then was strictly a matter of the clan. It might have been disappointing for the warrior to hear, but he knew that it was shameless to ask someone who was well rested to share the work.

but.

If a warrior helps, it can be dealt with quickly and easily.

Haven’t you ever felt this way while walking around as a warrior?

“… … Not yet.”

A word that was barely uttered while enduring the faint desire to receive help from the warrior and to continue to be with the warrior.

“Would it be okay to convey it like that?”

“Yeah.”

The messenger retreated, and a sigh of regret was swallowed as the spirits around him wandered around with worried expressions.

“Warrior… .”

An alien and mysterious man.

He treated me without hesitation and took care of me even though most people couldn’t approach him.

Even now, I desperately want to ask the warrior for his opinion and resolve the commotion, but my desire to not cause any more trouble to the warrior who has suffered since being summoned barely wins.

“Warrior, rest.”

After moving around as a scout, it was his turn to give the advice the warrior had given him.

And that’s not all.

He was a man who adjusted so that they wouldn’t be at odds with each other, but he was also the one who firmly coordinated in the center and made everyone laugh. After the party to catch the Demon King was formed, he taught me various things while living with others who were not part of the clan, and they were all treasures to him.

“Warrior.”

Although I don’t teach you my name, I call you by your profession as a warrior instead of your name, but one day I will hear your name and call you by it just as you called me.

Even I, who was lacking in social skills, knew that in order to do that, I had to be open with the warrior.

There was a time when I asked him what his name was out of curiosity, and he looked embarrassed and changed the subject.

I remembered how other party members also showed interest out of curiosity, but then showed regret at the warrior’s attitude, but also seemed glad that I didn’t ask.

“Colleagues, friends… .”

Comrades who worked together for the same purpose of defeating the Demon King.

When I told my colleagues that I was leaving after completing my mission, thankfully they said that I was their friend, not my colleague.

A wise man who courts the warriors the most and acts as the brains of the party.

A princess who fought the enemy from the front with a warrior in a woman’s body.

A saint with a bright and colorful expression, a girl who worships God like herself.

The warrior who felt like he was a good person among these party members.

For women who have always lived noble lives, the subject of warriors was already an indispensable meaning and purpose. This could be seen in the atmosphere they felt before leaving their comrades and friends.

Wasn’t that the case for you too?

When I think of the warrior, my mind becomes at peace, yet strangely anxious.

When I think of the warrior, I feel like laughing, but of course I miss him.

When I think of the warrior, my heart trembles, but strangely I feel depressed.

When I think of the warrior, I feel strange.

That’s probably because he knew that the day the warrior would leave was not far away.

I tried to figure out the reason by looking back at myself like this. And the conclusion I came to was none other than love. Honestly, I wasn’t stupid enough not to know the word love.

Stop

“Love… .”

However, it just didn’t feel real because it was unfamiliar and awkward.

It was already an element of her closed nature. What’s more, she had no one of her own to talk about the subject of love and confidence in her position as a shaman.

Even the Queen is cautious, so how could there be anyone with whom one can have small talk?

Before I met the warrior, I didn’t know what loneliness and desolation meant. So, the more I spent time with the warrior, the more I felt the emotions of joy and sadness.

Then, I thought of you as a colleague. I told you that you were my friend.

Wouldn’t this be something you can discuss with your party members?

No, they are after the warrior too.

Isn’t this something we already know from living together?

A wise man who courts her whenever he gets the chance.

A princess who watches for an opportunity and boldly rushes in when the situation allows.

A saint who expresses her affection openly, even though she is clumsy.

He himself had even confessed to sowing seeds right before the operation to enter the Demon King’s Castle.

If you nurture the seed of a warrior, I believe your clan will prosper even more.

But now, the sense of duty for that clan no longer resonated with me, and I began to hate myself for making excuses.

Instead of pushing the excuse of clan, he should be straightforward with the warrior like a wise man.

I wanted to tell you honestly that I love you.

Fire-Evil

The complexion suddenly warmed as she imagined telling the warrior that she loved him.

I wondered if the sun had suddenly gotten closer. I looked around instead of up, wondering if someone had caught me like this.

“… After.”

I didn’t do anything wrong, but I feel so strange about myself.

The only ones watching him were the blandly floating spirits and the great mother.

mother.

The mother of all elements, the natural tree that governs nature. I lived and spent my time next to such a god.

Aside from moving with the warriors to defeat the Demon King, he has also acted according to the oracle. On the contrary, he has worked for his clan and his mother for a long time.

The years of tranquility that were by no means short.

Could that have actually been the cause of the trouble?

A warrior came to the lake of his calm and expressionless heart. It was like a stone thrown by a child, or perhaps like a fierce storm.

It’s really hard to explain the ripple effect a warrior has on himself, because I don’t know if it’s a good thing or a bad thing.

He exists for his mother, he must exist… but in his heart, a warrior, not his mother, was taking up residence.

How blasphemous and immoral is this thought? To open one’s heart to someone other than one’s mother, when one’s only reason for living was to live for one’s mother.

It made me laugh when I was bored, and brightened up my dull thoughts.

The Demon King’s Curse?

It is truly heartbreaking that even the warrior saw his confession and rejected it, misunderstanding that it was something he did for the sake of his clan, but at that moment, he can say with certainty that it was solely his own will and that there was no intervention.

Like a wise man who always confessed to the warrior without getting tired of it.

Even though she is armed with an inscrutable smile, she is just like a frail princess in front of a warrior.

Like a saint who, even without saying a word, seemed to really like the warrior.

She, too, was conscious of herself as a person of the opposite sex, just like other women.

Swish-

A thought that happened to last longer than expected in the same place. Based on the information the warrior found out, suspicious traces were revealed when tracking it.

Footprints that look like footprints of an element, but do not seem to be from someone living here.

“Blue?”

The information I found out by asking the spirit was that its skin was close to blue, and that before it protected the village, it acted with a group of Chujaras and then ran away without anyone knowing when it saw it.

Although he himself felt the presence of such unnatural elements, he couldn’t bring himself to follow them because there was another village that was being attacked by a group of Chujaras.

“Yeah.”

I nod and summarize the additional information.

He has tattoos on his body. He has been wandering around alone for a while now. He avoids other elements and looks even more suspicious.

Are you a demon?

Pale skin and tattoos are the distinguishing characteristics of the Demon Tribe. Since the hero had already guessed that he was a subordinate of Kritrik, one of the Four Heavenly Kings of the Demon King’s Army, the eyewitness account obtained from the spirit gained more credibility.

How, here.

The barrier of the mother was not so easy that the likes of the demon tribe could easily enter. It was something that could only be done by force by a sage, so it was unthinkable that a mere demon king’s army would set foot in the realm of the elements.

So, what he had predicted was only a traitor or a controlled servant of the continent, but he never thought that the factor was behind it.

I’ve never heard of an element that turned into a demon.

However, if we assume another possibility based on the message from the sage through the hero that the Demon King’s army is experimenting with elements, it may not be completely impossible.

The result was the current uproar.

let’s go.

I resumed my investigation of the incident, which had been paused for a moment to think of the warrior, and followed the traces of the elements that were awkward for traces.