The Former Hero Began To Be Re-Evaluated

14 – The Second Hero (13)

‘There’s nothing particularly special written there.’

I found a document with the seal of the Kingdom of Artes among a group that looked like a band of thieves.

What is this? I read the document, but there was no particular content written in it.

I was a little embarrassed because both the subject and the object were omitted, and only the words [Take down those who interfere with the existence of the kingdom] Were written.

How do we protect the existence of the kingdom? No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t understand it.

However, I had an idea about the obstructive person this document was talking about.

In other words, I seemed to roughly know who I was being told to kill.

“Leah. Why are they targeting you?”

“Huh? What is that?”

The target was definitely Lia.

I looked at Lia and asked what happened to this situation.

In response to my words, Lia seemed to be explaining it with her words, saying she didn’t know, but her actions showed otherwise.

When I looked at Lia, she had an annoyed expression on her face.

There was a connection after all.

“Leah. There’s privacy, and she didn’t want to ask, but shouldn’t she know at the time she was attacked? Can you explain what the relationship is?”

She knew that there were circumstances in which Lia could not say anything.

I could already tell that he was hiding something from me just by looking at him.

However, she didn’t really want to know.

There was no need to know about issues that had nothing to do with me.

Besides, he didn’t want to tell me, so I had no intention of forcing him to know.

But, not now.

Clearly I was attacked.

Of course, if you were to ask me whether those attacks were a crisis for me, you could say that they were not a crisis at all, but I couldn’t say that I had nothing to do with them at the time of the attack.

I said while looking at Lia.

He demanded to know who they were and why they were targeting him.

“Well… I guess I was targeting the hero?”

I tried to persuade her, but Lia continued to evade it.

As if she really didn’t want to talk, she guessed that maybe she was targeting me instead of herself.

“No way, that’s not possible. If you think about it even a little, you know that’s not true.”

But I don’t think that’s the case at all, right?

They recognized me and attacked me? That was so absurd.

I can’t say that I lived a good life without receiving any grudges from anyone, but at least I didn’t have any grudges against these guys.

Besides, they don’t even know that I’m a hero. It’s not like I go around bragging around the neighborhood that I’m a hero, and not many people know me.

At least it wasn’t enough for these kids to recognize.

If I had known in the first place that he was a hero, I wouldn’t have sent these shabby kids.

Even if he was stripped of his title as a warrior, he wouldn’t think that a former warrior would lose to a few guys like this.

There were many other reasons why they wouldn’t have attacked me.

Even if you don’t have to explain it to Lia.

“Ugh…”

It seems like Lia has nothing to say in response to what I said.

Even though he is young, he is a smart kid in his own way.

She probably knows best that she is just prevaricating what happens now.

“Tell me quickly. What’s the matter?”

I asked Lia one more time.

Unlike before, the urging was somewhat forceful.

“Well… There’s nothing special about that.”

In the end, Lia started talking, crossing her fingers as if she had no choice in response to my urging.

She seems to have decided that she can no longer hide it.

So what was she hiding?

I slowly started listening to Leah and learned a shocking truth from her.

“I am the third in the Kingdom of Artes… No, I am now the first in line to succeed…? hahahaha…”

You are the first heir to succession?

Nothing special…

It’s incredibly different.

# # #

‘Is this… The devil?’

The Demon King declared that he would go sincerely, and those words were by no means bluff.

In an instant, the Demon King began to overwhelm everything.

Power, speed, mana, etc. There was a clear difference from the Herald.

As if to prove that she was just playing around up to this point, she cornered the Herald.

“Ugh…”

Herald was also basically a strong prosecutor and a skilled prosecutor.

He was a swordsman who had experienced countless battles, and an veteran who had won countless difficult battles.

During battles, he had many experiences defeating opponents stronger than himself with his wisdom.

No matter what opponent you face, there will definitely be a way to win.

Such wisdom was the greatest weapon and strength for the knight named Herald.

But even he couldn’t find a way to win just now.

How do you win against such a monster?

Just as ants cannot defeat humans no matter how hard they use their brains, the difference between the Demon King and himself was clear.

“Ugh…!”

The outcome of the battle was decided really quickly.

In the end, Herald could no longer withstand the power of the Demon King that was visible before his eyes.

The Herald’s sword broke without being able to withstand even three hits.

And, it wasn’t just the sword that was broken. The Herald’s power had also reached its limit.

I just blocked the devil’s attack, but my whole body is shaking and I feel dizzy.

The devil’s attack went so wrong that he had to use all his strength.

Now we can’t stop the devil’s attacks anymore.

The Herald confirmed his defeat.

You cannot win against the devil.

“Jim has no hobby of bullying the weak.”

Looking down at the Herald, the Demon King simply raised his hand in silence.

“Let’s finish this quickly.”

To end this boring battle, I have to kill him now.

Because that was the utmost consideration for the loser.

“I just ask one question, Demon King.”

Is this the end?

Herald accepted his own death.

But before that, I had something to ask.

“Was the hero who came to you before really strong?”

The Herald was curious about Lee Han-soo.

From my own experience, the Demon King is truly unbelievably strong.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that it is the pinnacle of living things.

Even if all the knights of the empire mobilized to fight the Demon King, they might not even be able to inflict even a scratch on the Demon King.

It is truly a being worthy of being called a monster.

Because he was such a being, I couldn’t help but be curious.

About Lee Han-soo, who met the devil and returned alive.

“I’m so curious. I want to hear the answer.”

This question was not specifically about the Herald wasting time or that he was asking anything to survive.

The devil will kill himself anyway. Because killing heroes is the devil’s natural duty. In that situation, Herald had no intention of begging for his life or doing so.

I don’t live that long anyway. No matter how he survived, he was old and had lost a lot of strength from this battle, so even if he survived, it was obvious that he would not live long.

In that case, he thought it would be better for him to die honorably here.

So, his question now was purely out of curiosity.

“Hmm… The hero who came to me then asked me if I was strong…”

The Demon King thought for a moment about the Herald’s question.

The Demon King honestly had no obligation to answer the Herald’s questions.

But, he still decided to answer.

Even though it did not fit his last name, Herald was a warrior.

There must be a duty that must be maintained as a demon king and a hero.

I was willing to at least accept questions from a warrior who would die soon.

“I wasn’t weak. I couldn’t compete with Jim.”

When the Herald asked whether the warrior who came before was strong, the Demon King’s answer to that question was not very long.

Well, it was the devil’s answer as if he was asking something obvious.

“Did you get the answer you wanted?”

“That’s right.”

Herald received an answer from the Demon King.

After that answer, the conversation between the Demon King and the Herald could no longer continue.

“It’s so boring.”

The battle between the hero and the devil has come to an end.

It took quite some time, but the result was very simple.

It was a one-sided victory for the devil, a perfect victory.

However, even after such a victory, she was not particularly happy or anything like that.

Rather, the feeling she was feeling now was emptiness.

“As expected, you are the only one who can stand up to Jim.”

The reason was, of course, that the hero she wanted did not come.

The Demon King, who had been waiting for Lee Han-soo, not another hero, was not pleased with the Herald.

The battle with the Herald was not very enjoyable either.

It was so boring. He tried to enjoy it somehow, but he couldn’t enjoy it either.

If the battle itself doesn’t work, how can you enjoy it?

So in the end, I had no choice but to wait.

The only being that fights.

“Hero. My patience is not very deep.”

Because I made a promise.

The warrior who came to see him in the past promised to come to him.

He said he would settle the match that could not be concluded.

Of course, there were some who said that he was not a hero now, but he would have no choice but to come in the end anyway.

To stop yourself, that is.

Until then, you can just wait with a relaxed mind.

The Demon King looked forward to the day when he would meet the hero again, and once again prepared a feast to serve to the hero when he came.

# # #

Meanwhile, the warrior party members who parted ways with the Herald.

“What…? What does that mean?”

“Herald Hero is dead?”

“Yes. I think so.”

“Oh my god…”

The warrior party members realized that the Herald was dead.