The Hero Disciple Is Back

EP.30 – 29. The student met another teacher

The hero candidate plan was literally carried out in a hurry by the emperor, who was in a hurry because his life was so precious and precious in the crisis of the devil. In other words, it was a very natural result that there were many gaps here and there. And it was also a natural trend that there were many people who wanted to take advantage of that gap.

The Real Problem with the Champion Candidate Plan

It’s not that God came down from the sky and selected the warrior.

If all the candidates for the hero died and only one remained, the empire would have to recognize that one person as a hero no matter what his skills were. Maybe it’s God’s will that only one of them remain, and he’ll wrap himself up as a warrior for now. Could it really be that the moment God came down and bestowed special powers on that one and only hero candidate?

Like a plan that was messed up from the start, even the middle and results were overflowing with sham things. That’s why, even at this moment when the fate of the world was at stake, it was really foolish to intervene with dirty desires and touches, but that’s why truly humane things were happening.

“It’s a request.”

“… … .”

“I haven’t even started properly yet, but they say there’s already a girl who’s making a name for herself as a candidate for the hero. Get rid of him.”

“… … .”

“Answer me, Number Five.”

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Jiji Jijik!

“Ugh! … Yes.”

“A foolish thing. No matter how much you struggle, your destiny will not change.”

In the underworld, there were groups that made a living by doing various dirty things, but among them, there was a group that was the most secretive, and that was 【Medusa】. A legendary monster that turns any creature into stone the moment they meet eyes. As befits a group that took that name as its own, this group was famous for burying those who tried to know their identity without rumors. Therefore, only the name and this group were known to kill people for money, and no one knew about the group more than that. In the case of the information guild ‘Darkmoon’, it was known that they did not accept any requests for [Medusa], whether they really didn’t know anything or they didn’t want to get involved.

And the woman called No. 5, and the middle-aged man who was giving her orders but didn’t like it, so she was giving her excruciating pain, both of them belonged to [Medusa].

The legendary monster [Medusa] was known as a monster with a female body. I don’t know if that’s why, but in [Medusa], all the people who kill people as assassins were women. And they were victims who were forced to become such by a group called [Medusa] to be forced to become assassins as one.

Number 5 was also one of the victims.

However, No. 5 could not consider himself a victim.

“You don’t even say ‘it’s not my fault’ anymore? So, killing people to live is a choice you made, right? If you really had such a sublime will as a saint or saint, wouldn’t it be normal for you to pierce my neck with that dagger?”

As the man said, he killed people because he wanted to live. Even if you forcibly give an order and suffer tremendous pain if you don’t follow the order… . In the end, wanting to live, wanting to escape the pain, made him see other people’s blood and stained his hands with that blood, no matter what anyone said.

That’s why No. 5 couldn’t help but despise himself. As much as [Medusa] resents the group that gave her unreasonable orders and gave her terrible pain, she couldn’t help but hate herself madly. In the end, since he killed people for himself, it was because he was no different from the [Medusa] he hated so much.

‘I’d rather stab my throat with this dagger…’ .’

Why not?

Why can’t I?

‘Do you still believe? A hand will come down to save me from this hell… .’

It is futile.

At first, when he was abandoned on the street, he believed that after a few days his parents would find him and take him back.

It was a futile wish.

When I first entered [Medusa] and had to spend a near-death time, I believed that the knights of the great Empire or the Paladins of the Order would come to the rescue.

It was a futile wind.

When I killed a person for the first time, I prayed with trembling hands. please save yourself Or rather kill yourself to make it easier.

It was a futile prayer.

now i know

This world is hell, and no matter how much you beg, nothing will change.

So it would be best to end his own life with his own hands.

‘But if I die, it will be hell as soon as I die.’

Maybe the people she killed, waiting for her to die, are waiting for her. As such, it was hell for her. So, for her, even death was not an escape route. Living in hell, dying in hell… . In the end, there was nothing I could do but surrender to the flow.

Yes.

She is not living with hope.

There was simply no choice, so I couldn’t make any choice and just existed.

And now, at least he had to kill the candidate for the hero.

‘If you’re a candidate for a hero… . Could it kill me?’

Number 5 quickly erased that thought from his mind.

Even though he was a candidate for the hero, he was a child. There was no way that such a child would be able to kill himself in that hellish training because he unwillingly became so strong that he would kill even those in the ranks of masters.

“No. 5, be sure to succeed. Don’t forget that there is no such thing as a choice for you anyway.”

“… … .”

“Answer me!”

“Ugh!”

Number 5 gritted it. He has not yet abandoned his will to resist. There was nothing he could do but express it. Even though he knows that it is garbage-like self-satisfaction and self-consolation, he still cannot throw it away.

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Hero Candidate Sera

It is known that he was recognized by the Mercenary King Balik, one of the ‘Hero Selectors’. That wasn’t enough, so rumors about her were spreading rapidly as she had already traveled here and there, killing countless evildoers. It’s as if they prepared in advance and then exploded at the same time according to the timing. The important thing is that all the other candidates for the hero were buried as she stood out so much.

As a result, many people hated her existence. It wasn’t just those who returned to the lust for power. Even the superintendents and masters who were recruited by this hero candidate plan came to regard Sera as a thorn in their eyes. Just because you have a high level doesn’t mean you’ve been tested for your humanity. In other words, it wouldn’t be strange if there were people who wanted to use black hands out of passion for their pupils being covered up among masters and superhumans.

The important thing is that someone wanted to kill her and gave [Medusa] a large amount of money and entrusted the request. That’s probably why the request was delivered to number 5, one of the first numbers.

First Number, [Medusa] Numbers 1-10 are given to 10 assassins with the most outstanding skills. Selected up to 10 times… . The other numbers have no meaning. That’s why, unlike No. 5, those who were satisfied with living as [Medusa] were doing their best to somehow get into First Number. Unlike No. 5, other First Numbers took sweet rewards and lived a truly enviable life when other assassins saw them.

The other First Numbers and Assassins couldn’t understand Fifth, but Fifth couldn’t understand them either. What on earth could you enjoy with that bloody money? Doesn’t it remind me of the blood-stained faces every time I spend that money?

It wasn’t that No. 5 didn’t try to escape from this hell. But none of that worked. No matter what they did, their faces never got out of her head. They never got out of her mind, and she couldn’t forget them either.

And

Obviously today

You won’t be able to forget the face of Sera, the candidate for the hero.

Whii profit!

I hesitate

at the moment of murder

Didn’t hesitate.

It is because they have been thoroughly trained to do so.

I could hesitate when I didn’t pull out the dagger, but I couldn’t hesitate when I pulled out the dagger.

Approaching from behind Sera and aiming for her neck was so natural, so quick, and so accurate. A skill that is too superior is no different from magic. At this moment, No. 5’s assassination technique was like that. The skill she displayed in an instant was astounding, as if she had literally used space movement magic and several other magics at once.

“Resent me.”

With those words, her dagger, close to swiftness, aimed precisely at Sera’s neck.

It’s over, her experience and sixth sense cried out. It was over, she thought with all her heart. That’s how perfect her technique was. Her talent for killing, a talent she couldn’t deny no matter how much she wanted to, was always because she thoroughly betrayed her and the assassination was perfectly successful. So, she couldn’t help but think that this time too, of course. Because they used technology more perfectly than ever before.

Whiing!

“… … ?!”

So I couldn’t help but be surprised.

It was because his own dagger only cut through the air.

‘An illusion created by magic? Nope. A little while ago, there were definitely people in my realm.’

There was only one thing I could think of.

It was the only possibility that Sera used the technique he had been aiming for Sera’s back in an instant.

‘Shadow walking? Nonsense!’

shadow walking

It was a secret technique of 【Medusa】 that only assassins of 【Medusa】 could learn, and because the assassin who could use this skill more perfectly than anyone else was No. 5, she occupied the first number position. The only thing that can perfectly respond to ‘shadow walking’ is ‘shadow walking’… . That’s why it’s unbelievable. It doesn’t make much sense that the candidate for the hero learned ‘Shadow Walking’.

“Your face looks like you witnessed the impossible happen with your own eyes, right?”

“… … !”

Sera was right behind Number 5.

No. 5 used ‘Shadow Walk’ to immediately widen the distance.

However, when he checked the location where Sera was, Sera was not there. As if it never existed in the first place… .

“It’s fun. Could you make a face like this?”

“… … ?!”

Sera was right behind Number 5. It was simple. The moment No. 5 performed ‘Shadow Walk’, Sera immediately caught on to No. 5 by using ‘Shadow Walk’.

Teeing!

Number 5 quickly turned around and swung the dagger. Sarah also defended. Unlike usual, she is holding a dagger, not the sword that Jade gave her as a gift, and she uses No. 5’s dagger technique… .

Teeing! Ting! Chaeeng! Teeing!

He responded without difficulty. As if they had mastered the same dagger technique, their movements were identical, like twins.

Number 5 felt like a nightmare.

Should I say that it felt like a powerful enemy that could never be defeated emerged from a dream? As set in the dream, one cannot overcome the strongman in the dream, and the moment the sword of the strongman falls on one’s head, one wakes up from the dream. It was such a feeling. But this was reality. Feeling that way didn’t change anything. The only thing waiting in front of him was certain death.

Die?

yes it will die

will be able to die.

himself… .

“I want to show you a mirror.”

“… … .”

“Do you know what face you are making?”

“… … .”

“You’re laughing while crying, you.”

“… kill it.”

“Nope?”

“… Why?”

“Death is happiness to you, right? Because I don’t have a good personality enough to bring happiness to the person who tried to kill me.”

“… … .”

Number 5 had no choice but to know. Those eyes are pure sincerity. Sera, the candidate for the hero, really had no will to kill herself. No, rather… !

No. 5 urgently tried to stab himself with his own dagger.

Crackle!

All of the daggers except for the handle were destroyed.

It is literally extinct.

Very clean, without the slightest trace

Sera’s Aura Blade had destroyed it.

“It doesn’t matter whether you bite your tongue or eat poison. The archmage will cure them all.”

With those words, Archmage William appeared. Even No. 5, who had a genius talent for detecting signs, could not notice it because he completely hid his presence by hiding himself with high-level magic and not moving at all.

“From the beginning… . Did you know I was coming?”

“Sure. Because I put in a request to [Medusa] to make that happen. In addition, we have put in requests that fit the fields of expertise of other First Numbers so that you can come. That’s why you came here as I wanted.”

remove poison with poison

【Medusa】 would be struggling to make unwanted contributions to the world. That’s how he made all the first number assassins fight for the world, and then forced No. 5 to come to him.

Dealing with 【Medusa】 was familiar, so there was nothing difficult for Sera.

if there is something difficult

This moment could be said to be the most difficult.

that’s also

It was because she killed No. 5 with her own hands each time.

Even the hero of infinite return had no choice but to know how to save her. Because it was a road I had never been on before.

‘Shall we start to repay the grace properly?’