The Hero Disciple Is Back

57. The Master Awakens

“… I… am alive.”

Did you survive this time too?

I thought he was dead, but he turned out to be alive. That’s something you experience a lot as a mercenary. That’s why I knew.

That I’m not dead.

‘But this time, I thought he was dead for sure… .’

It was a fight against the demons.

In order to protect Leah, I forced myself to get hit by that terrible arrow.

It was so horrible that I never want to think about it again. I couldn’t help but feel the life force flowing inside me being forcibly transformed and destroyed by something in real time… It was a feeling so horrible that it couldn’t even be compared to someone entering my body with their bare hands and tearing and squeezing my internal organs.

It was such a horrible feeling that I never want to experience it again if possible.

Even so, it is better than not being able to keep what you need to keep… .

for a moment!

“ostrich?!”

“Yes~”

“… … ?!”

I turned my head in surprise, and there was a girl sitting there. Silver hair reflecting moonlight, eyes that looked like amethyst crystals, white skin, and a lovely smile…

‘Sarah?’

When I first met Sarah, she was even younger than when I first met her… She was sitting there so young that I thought this might be the Sarah I had never seen before.

‘But Sarah wouldn’t have smiled so lovingly, would she…?’

What kind of terrible experiences did that little kid have to go through to make his expression so cold… .

I shook my head and cleared my mind. As for Sarah… of course, it was important! But for now, I had to focus on the problem at hand.

“Leanya?”

“Yes! It’s Leah!”

“I see.”

I accepted it easily. What should I say… . The energy I felt from the dragon egg was now being felt completely from a girl who looked like Sera, so there was no reason to doubt it. It had felt a little small in the dragon egg state, but now it felt even more obvious, so I couldn’t help but notice it even if I wanted to.

“You healed my body?”

“huh!”

“Thank you.”

“Of course I should do it! I have to protect Dad!”

He said that with his hands on his hips and his chest puffed out proudly… .

‘Hmm. Shouldn’t I be the one protecting you?’

I wanted to make such a rebuttal, but I couldn’t. It was partly because she was so cute and I didn’t want to ruin the mood…

‘Is he really a perfect being…?’

It was because Leah was overwhelmingly stronger than me. The gap was so big that I couldn’t even say, “I’m an adult, so I have to protect her.” If we just look at the gap, it was so absolute that I could use the expression “hopeless.”

In times like this, you should first change the flow of the story. Just as fighting in an unfavorable situation will only result in bloodshed, you should first change the situation.

“You must have taken care of the demons too.”

“Yeah, yeah. But in the end, a human wizard came and took him away.”

It seems that while I was unconscious, Leah was freed from the egg and fought against the demons, and it seemed that Mr. Lass, who received the signal, finished it off. I decided to consider myself fortunate since the child who had just come into the world did not commit murder.

“Thank you.”

“compliment!”

“huh?”

“Praise me, Dad!”

Leah stuck her head out. It was obvious from looking at her that she wanted a pat on the head.

To be honest, I worried a lot. Isn’t he a perfect being? I even thought that if he were to be liberated from the egg and become free, he might just leave. Doesn’t being perfect mean living freely without being tied down by anything?

As you grow up, you have more useless doubts. You protect yourself by having useless doubts. If the thing you doubted actually happens, you will be less hurt. In order not to get hurt, you try to protect yourself by having more useless doubts. In other words, it is no different from saying that you become a coward as you grow up. That is why you give doubts rather than affection.

And this time, I guess what I did was also a useless suspicion. This child was approaching me so earnestly because he wanted to receive my praise so badly.

Indeed

He must be a petty coward.

I’m an adult.

Toouk

Raise your hand carefully

Tsdam tsdam

I stroked it.

There was a strange addictiveness to that soft sensation.

“Hehehe”

When the child smiled so lovingly, I couldn’t help but smile too.

“thanks.”

“Yeah! I protected Dad!”

“Of course, I appreciate that too, but….”

“… … ?”

I couldn’t help but smile happily at the child who was looking at me with curious eyes.

With that smile, she said what she really wanted to say to her lovely child.

“Thank you for being born. Really.”

“… … .”

The child who had been staring at my face for a while soon blushed and smiled brightly, then nodded.

“I’m so glad that my dad is my dad!”

That’s what he said.

… it was very bad for my heart. Ahem.

♧♧♧

“…My lord.”

Archmage William looked at warrior Sera with worried eyes. He had come immediately after receiving the signal, but… . A demon of a high level… . In that short period of time, he was able to take the life of a person in an instant. However, a miracle occurred and the worst outcome was avoided.

“thank god….”

Sarah sat down.

It was the first time in countless episodes that he had become Jade’s disciple, and the first time that he had taken an interest in Jade. Also, it was the first time in infinite episodes that a dragon egg was entrusted to Jade, who was human. Therefore, even Serah had no idea what would happen to Jade and Leah. That was why he had been even more thorough in his defenses… .

I never expected that a mid-level demon, such as the second seat of the Demon King’s army, would suddenly appear. If the Demon King had descended, then it would be different, but even if the current demon came to the human world, it would not be able to exert its power properly. In other words, if it came for no reason and died, it would be a huge loss to the Demon King’s army. That is why the demons rarely came forward themselves before the Demon King descended. However, I never thought that they would send the second seat, which is an important force for the Demon King’s army, and even Ahudias, who is strong enough to rise to the first seat…

Even for a warrior with infinite turns, this was something he would not have expected.

‘I thought I had just learned about the Dragon Lord’s magic by chance… Did you know about the Dragon Lord’s magic from the beginning?’

So, when the Dragon Lord’s magic disappeared, you were searching for the last dragon egg somewhere in the human world?

Whatever it was, it doesn’t change the fact that he made a mistake and almost lost his teacher.

No, it wasn’t just the teacher.

I almost lost Leah too.

That lovely child who followed me and called me mom was almost snatched away by the Demon King’s army. And again…

That was when.

“mom”

Leah approached.

“Dad, he fell asleep. No matter how much treatment you give him, mental shock doesn’t easily recover.”

“… … .”

“mom?”

“… … .”

“You’re not going to see me?”

“… … .”

“It’s not Mom’s fault. I know how hard Mom tried to protect Dad and me, even though I was inside her.”

“… I’m sorry. I should have… .”

“I was the one who targeted that demon tribe in the first place. So isn’t it my fault in the first place?”

“That can’t be true. There’s no way the child could have done anything wrong.”

“Then let’s consider them all innocent.”

“… … .”

“You’re not going to hug me?”

It was an absolute command, an absolute privilege that no one with even the slightest love for the child could ever disregard.

Pork

Without even realizing it, Sarah was holding Leah in her arms, following that absolute command.

“Yeah, it’s warm. I really like hugging in person like this.”

“… I’m sorry, Mom. I’m sorry I’m late.”

“Hey. Mom came really early because I said I was late. Hmm. Let’s say it couldn’t be helped. It all turned out well in the end.”

“…I’m sorry, Mom.”

In the end, Sarah ended up shedding tears. Leah smiled at the fact that her mother was shedding tears because she might have lost herself. The perfect being knew very well that this meant that Sarah also truly cared for Leah.

“It turns out my mom was a crybaby. Hehe.”

Archmage William smiled as if he was relieved. He was doing what he had to do.

It was something like a small box held in his hand.

It looks like a small box, but

This is the second seat of the Demon King’s Army, Ahudias.

To be more precise, he was sealed inside it.

The second stone, Ahudias, whose ego had been thoroughly destroyed by Leah, was not in his right mind. Thanks to that, Archmage William was able to seal him more easily than he had thought.

It would feel good and refreshing to destroy and destroy the core, but… The position of the Second Seat was the position closest to the Four Heavenly Kings after the First Seat. In other words, it meant that they knew a lot. Therefore, they had a lot to vomit out. There was no method more certain than torture to make them vomit out information.

Moreover, the opponent is not a human but a demon.

Now Ahudiyas is in a sealed world.

I was going through all the hells, from the fiery hell given by Archmage William to the ice hell.

Just because he was the Great Wizard William, he couldn’t possibly feel good about the situation that made his lord shed tears, and so he was thoroughly and emotionally putting in revenge. His opponent had no reason to care about things like the Demons or human rights.