Chapter 133 - 133. So Much Has Changed Since I Couldn't See It, Leon (4)

The man who introduced himself as 'Zeto', covering his eyes with bandages, very easily cut down his demon tribe, which I was struggling with.

Thanks to you, it gave me an opportunity to feel how weak I was...

...Doubtful

I know that I am a warrior as if it were natural.

The guy laughs

They worry about me, saying that it was dangerous and that I was seriously injured.

Enemy or not

Before picking whether it can be trusted or not.

ㅡ Tak.

He reached out his hand to lift me up, but I savagely slashed him away. It wasn't something to do to a life saver.

"..."

But I felt rejected.

The energy that leaked out of his body was in conflict with me.

It was not too late to find out the identity of the aura.

"Kerung."

As I lie down unable to move, a 'circle' with dark, fluffy fur approaches me.

ㅡ Lick.

He licks my cheek with his tongue.

I couldn't resist and put my cheek to him.

"...Shady, don't lick the hero."

Soon, Jeto picks him up and places him on top of his head.

"Kerung."

Then, as if it were his own seat, he comfortably lays down on Jeto's head.

'It's a spirit, that's...'

What I could clearly feel was the energy of the spirit.

It is also a dark spirit known to be dealt with by demons.

However, this blind man called 'Zeto' in front of me was not even a demon, and 'Shady' was also very different from the spirits I was familiar with.

"Kerung..."

Shady, who was on top of Jetto's head, made a happy expression and melted away.

The guy was pretty cute.

'...If it's that size and the fur is soft, I think it'd be perfect to sleep in your arms...'

I stopped thinking more.

Feeling ashamed, I slammed the ground for no reason.

What kind of nonsensical thoughts could a guy like me be thinking in front of a suspiciously suspicious man?

Ever since I became Ray, for some reason, I felt that even my mind was being polluted as a child.

"First..."

As Jeto blurted out his words, he raised me up and leaned against the tree behind me.

This time I didn't reject his hand.

ㅡBus Luck.

Soon, Jetto rummaged through his pockets and took out a small pouch from him.

He put his hand in his pocket, which he later pulled out, holding a flask in his hand.

It was a large flask for the size of the pouch. Could it be a 'subspace pocket'?

"...What is that?"

I asked Zeto, who approached me with a flask.

"This is the 'elixir'."

"Elixir...?"

"Haha, I got a few bottles as gifts."

Don't you get an elixir that's so hard to find as a gift, or don't you carry a subspace pouch? The identity of this blind man named Zetor was unclear.

"Excuse me for a moment."

Jetto put his finger on my lips, which I couldn't move.

Since he was blind, it seemed to be to accurately position the mouth.

Soon, I put the flask in my mouth and tilt it.

The solution in the flask slowly flows down and enters my mouth.

I couldn't tell if he was telling the truth about the elixir, but I could tell as the liquid touched his tongue.

This is the Elixir.

It tasted the same as the elixir that was poured into the throat of the saintess when she was absent during the past warriors' party.

ㅡ Knock.

ㅡ Knock.

She emptied the elixir all at once.

It wasn't long before I could feel her body rejuvenate.

"Ugh..."

The elixir was still bitter.

It was a bitter taste that naturally made me stick out my tongue.

How the hell did you drink something like this casually in the past?

"Did you write a lot?"

"...It's nothing."

"I just had some candy, so I thought I'd give you this as a treat..."

Jetto smiled as he held the candy he had taken out before he knew it.

"..."

It was a candy of a color I had never seen before.

What kind of sweetness does that have?

My mouth started to salivate.

Jeto tilts his head.

When she came to her senses, she was already reaching out her hand to him.

Since I am blind, would it be better for me to speak?

"...I didn't ask for it."

If you just ate something bitter and asked for candy, your status as a hero was dropping in real time.

"Oh, candy?"

Zeto dares to mention the word candy.

"...Give me."

I said that, closing my eyes tightly to endure the shame.

Shortly thereafter, candy is placed in my hand.

I immediately put it in my mouth.

'This taste...!'

It was a candy that harmoniously mixed the taste of 'chocolate', a luxurious dessert that could not be dreamed of in a small village on the outskirts, and the soft taste of vanilla, which is often used as a spice.

The extreme sweetness made my eyes wide open.

Delicious.

So delicious.

It was such a sweet taste that made me feel better.

'This guy named Zetor...'

...Maybe he's a better guy than I thought.

After all, there were no bad guys who carried candy for the little ones. This was the director of the orphanage.

I was holding candy, leaning the back of my head against a tree and asking Jetto questions.

First of all, I needed to hear the story of how this all happened.

Jetto, he described himself as a prophet.

To be precise, you can look into the future.

He said that a bad future made him arrive here.

I asked about the contents, but dismissed the story by mentioning the leak of heaven.

At first, it didn't seem like astrology.

Because he is blind, he will not be able to read the 'Path of the Stars'.

Are you looking into the future through dreams?

A blind prophet was quite unique.

Even if that's the case...

...In the end, the demons were the problem.

The demons found out where I was, the reincarnated hero. This was very bad.

Jetto asked me if I had any idea how they might have arrived.

There wasn't much to point out.

Lately, I've been summoning the Holy Sword frequently.

Summoning the Holy Sword was quite noticeable.

I checked without even trying.

Whether you can handle the holy sword or not.

It was half annoyance.

At least when I was Leon, I didn't have to do this. It was because I spent my childhood not realizing that I was summoning a holy sword or being a hero.

Besides, I don't know why, but I have memories of my previous life. It may be because of these various reasons that things have become so big.

I frowned at the fact that my complacency put everyone in the orphanage in danger, and eagerly melted the candy in my mouth.

It needed sweetness.

Jetto said it would be dangerous to stay here any longer.

Since the location was definitely discovered, it wouldn't be strange if the demons came back anytime.

"... Now maybe it's good. Ha..."

"So I'd like to make a suggestion to the warrior."

"Any suggestions?"

"There is one place where the warrior can be safe."

"Is there a safe place for demons? I don't know how many demons have crawled into human land..."

After I died, there was one war without a demon king or hero, and that's how things turned out.

Zeto, who had been listening to me, bent his knees to meet his eye level with me.

I wonder if there is such a thing as 'eye level' with him, but he was looking right at me.

This is because of his special ability called 'Gigam'.

A blind man with good senses who had his eyes covered with bandages had met him once even when he was Leon, so it didn't feel that strange.

'Look with your mind's eye.' He was an unusual martial artist who muttered things like that.

Soon, Jeto raised his finger and opened his mouth.

"...You can follow me."

"Do you have a separate place to follow me?"

"Hero, have you heard of Innocence Academy?"

"Oh, I know."

Innocence Academy.

It was the best educational institution on the continent, said to have been built by my former colleague, the magician of the warrior party and the sage 'Obert'.

I was thinking of giving it a listen when I get older. Right now, I was too young to enter the academy.

The academy created by Oberth, who had a tendency to consider and prepare for all situations with a little fanaticism, seemed like a safe place.

In the first place, when I heard the director's explanation, I had to see it as a place to teach how to catch demons, so I won't allow the invasion of demons so easily.

"But what about that? I heard that Innocence Academy tends to be closed-minded. I feel like I'm too young to enter the academy."

"It's not that the hero is entering... Actually, I'm an Innocence Academy student right now."

"...What?"

"You may not believe it, but I'm still in my first year."

I thought I was young, but I couldn't believe I was a student.

If so, does that mean that a kid who must have been only 20 years old at the most defeated the demon with the dark red horns so easily?

He is a prophet who can look into the future, and even I, who have dealt with countless demons, handles advanced dark spirits that I have never seen before, and possesses high-level swordsmanship skills that cut down even dark red horned demons with a single sword. .

Even at the young age of twenty.

He even looked like a parasitic brother, and his appearance was not lacking.

The only downside is that he became blind and lost the light of the world.

Even this is inconvenient.

It wasn't because he wanted to, so it was difficult to call it a weakness.

Rather, we might have to praise him for the bloody effort he must have put into obtaining the ability called 'Gigam'.

'What the hell is this?'

As we slowly sorted things out, every single element that made up him was a mysterious man.

"...Yes, I understand. I understand that you are a cadet, but... So you're saying that if I follow you, I can set foot in the academy?"

"It would have to be related. For now, it is."

"Officials?"

"I'll be able to stay at the academy only if I have a relationship with me as a cadet. Well, leave the persuasion of the higher up to me... The hero just needs to act."

"...Performance?"

"It's an easy acting. Maybe...?"

Jeto smiles.

For some reason, his smile might have felt a bit sinister.

***

The morning sun was shining through the forest.

Convincing the hero, Ray, was easier than expected.

Is it because the memories of living as a warrior remain? She readily accepted her unusual remarks.

It may be because she has met a lot of unusual people in her unusual life.

After convincing Ray, I took care of the orphanage right away.

Although the location of her orphanage where Ray stayed was not known to her demons, she explained that it was so to her, so she had to follow suit.

Even if it wasn't that way anyway, I had to talk to the director of the orphanage in order to take Ray.

There was no need for her to run away at night.

It is also a place where Rei has been beholden to for several years.

It was clear that she had a crush on herself.

I held out my Knight's badge to make it easier for the director to explain.

Roughly, since she seemed to have enough divine power, she was talking about taking her to the Holy Kingdom and raising her as a paladin.

The director, who woke up early in the morning, was very embarrassed, but it had to be seen as some kind of promising scout.

She said she didn't want to get in Ray's way, and she readily agreed.

She only expressed a small doubt as to whether there were only women in the Saint's Silver Wing Knights.

After talking about Ray's whereabouts, she said that it would be a good idea to relocate the orphanage because the demons have been in trouble recently.

They covered all the costs of moving to an orphanage.

It was not a big problem because there was a lot of money collected from the gambling house while saving the Elementalist 'Magredo' before.

Handing over a purse full of money, he told them to spend the rest of the money on the children in the orphanage.

The director thanked me greatly and said that she would take good care of Ray.

After that, she gave Ray a farewell time.

The director hugged Ray and burst into tears.

I got out of the orphanage and was using Shady's power to dispose of the corpses of the demons that Ray had killed.

'I almost beat the madam too.'

The 'actor', who thought he could easily create a crisis, unexpectedly struggled.

Other than that, I didn't know that the rest of the demons would be dealt with neatly.

If there were any guys I couldn't handle, I tried to step forward, but the hero was the hero in the end.

The creeping shadows swallow the corpses of demons scattered all over the forest in miserable shapes.

"I'm tired. I'm tired."

Maybe it was because she wasn't human, so Shady reacted with a sneer.

'I'm sick of it... I guess I fed too much then.'

Could it be that he ate demons even before he was subordinated to me...?

If the previous owner had existed, he would have been a demon, but it is not uncommon for a demon to kill a demon.

ㅡ Basrak.

Soon, Ray, who has been sensing through the senses, arrives.

A little girl came out of the grass and came to me, having finished her dressing up for the long journey.

Sierra, who found her, looked at me blankly and expressed her doubts. That question has been a question that has not stopped ever since I met Ray.

[Such a young girl is a hero... I still can't believe she is the original woman. Wasn't the hero Leon originally male? Could she have misunderstood the original woman? ]

...I got it right.

Sierra went on to wonder what it would be like and how it would feel if a man turned into a woman.

'Well...'

It's a question I feel I'd better never ask myself, at least.

I was deliberately avoiding comment on this.

Ray, who was wearing a robe, approached me and watched the shadow devour her corpse with nonchalant eyes.

Soon, her small lips opened.

"Jetto, let's go now. Is the cleanup still?"

But there was a problem.

"Hero, you seem to have forgotten 'acting'..."

This was an important part in the future, so the point continued.

"..."

Ray bites her mouth.

I couldn't help it.

I'm not doing this because I want to.

Her performance was necessary for the relationality, the 'setup' I concocted, for her to step into her academy.

And it seemed like I needed to practice in advance from now on.

It seemed that Ray couldn't act as easily as the artificial intelligence 'Zepetti'.

Eventually, Ray's flinching mouth opened completely.

"Come Zeto... Uhh..."

"You're doing well. Let's try harder."

"...Zetto brother, are you done cleaning up?"

"Sure."

I smiled and naturally played 'oppa'. Fortunately, the corpses of the demons were completely cleaned up just in time.

I gave her a small round of applause for her effort and took out her candy. Her efforts deserve a reward.

"Buy..."

I take out her candy and before she can say anything, Ray jumps up at me and grabs the candy from her hand and puts it into her mouth.

"..."

Soon after, Ray, holding her candy, smiles in satisfaction.

'Well... You look happy, okay?'

Sierra's eyes widen as she looks at Ray, a warrior who becomes happy with just one candy.

Looking at it, I think it's confusing.

'Anyway, the job was done well...'

Now it was time to pick up the next 'little sister'.