chapter 3

"Yes."

He needed to go to the study to form his plan. There were no desks or even any paper in his chamber. There were a lot of expensive looking alcohol bottles though.

"Excuse me, young master."

"What is it?"

Noah looked toward the anxious looking deputy butler.

"This, we have not been able to do our morning cleaning of the study just yet."

"Is that so? It's fine if it goes a day without cleaning."

"No sir. We cannot let that happen."

The deputy butler was extremely pushy about this for some reason. He then smiled brightly and put up a single finger.

"Please just wait one hour! I will put my name on the line to make sure that the study is completely clean, not like a study that has not been used in ten years, but one that was used just yesterday!"

"Sure, whatever."

He didn't mind waiting an hour.

"Great. Then I will go report this to the master."

"No need to do that, but go ahead if you want to do so."

"Yes, young master. I will be off now."

"Okay. Sure."

Like a well-trained deputy butler, kans closed the door without making any noise and disappeared. He seemed to be in a rush. Noah knew that there were three deputy butlers vying to become the official butler. Maybe that was why kans was so passionate about it.

"Aryn."

"Young master?"

"Why are you blanking out like that?"

"My apologies, young master."

"No need to apologize."

Aryn had another odd expression on his face, but Noah put the precious cheque in his inner pocket as he asked. There was so much going on that he did not even have any time to ask about today's date.

"What is today's date?"

This question would seem odd coming from anybody else, but the servant Aryn answered in a gentle voice.

"It is the 30th day of the 4rd month in the 891st year of the Aelix Calendar."

"Mm, that is a problem."

"Excuse me?"

"Nothing."

Noah tightly clenched on the 10 million gallon in his pocket once more. The only thing he could trust was money.

Yesterday, the 29th day of the 4rd month in the 891st year of the Aelix Calendar. That was the day that the villagers of arris Village, the village that the main character Kang-Dae went to after escaping from the Dark forests , the place that Kang-Dae felt human affection for the first time in this world, made friends, and created a second family, were all murdered by an unknown group of assassins.

Even Noah, who had read until the fourth volume, did not know the true identity of this secret organization that murdered the villagers.

Some readers may be saying something like this while reading about this situation.

'I thought he was really strong. What was Kang-Dae doing while they were murdered?'

It is only natural to think like that.

However, there is a reason this novel is called, [The Hero's Legend], and not, [The revenge the Heroes].

Legend.

It was the story of a person who overcame all sorts of obstacles and carried the pains of his past as he became a hero. Love and friendship comes up along the way as he meets enemies and friends.

Something that cannot be missing from a story is the, 'awakening.' He may have explosive talents and have lived for tens of years in the Dark forest, but, through all of that, Kang-Dae was still an innocent and gentle person who could not kill another human being. He had no issues killing monsters, but Kang-Dae had never hurt another person.

In order to turn someone like him into a hero, the novel had created a situation for Kang - Dae. In order to heal the lady who treated him like her own son, Kang-Dae had gone into the Dark forests to find some precious medicinal herbs.

He had to travel deep into the forest to find it, and, when he finally managed to find the herb and headed back towards the village, he found the corpses of the murdered villagers, the burning houses, and the assassins who were about to leave.

Kang-Dae went berserk after seeing this and killed someone for the first time. Of course, the people he killed are the members of this secret organization, and this secret organization clashes against Kang-Dae every so often throughout the novel.

Kang-Dae only returns to normal after killing all of the assassins from the secret organization, before falling into a state of despair as he is unable to gather any information from the dead bodies. He then buries the bodies of the villagers before making a promise to himself.

'I will kill them all. I will kill all of the people that made this happen.'

Kang-Dae realized what the sadness of death was at this moment, but his first kill starts to twist his mind. Of course, he starts to feel again and starts to become more human-like after meeting his party members later in the novel, and grows to become a true hero.

"...Aryn."

"Yes, young master."

"A cup of cold water please."

"... I understand."

After Aryn left and he was alone in the room, Noah covered his face with both of his hands.

The problem was that the city that this twisted Kang-Dae arrives at after leaving arris Village is the city called Ammi, located in the center of the Bryce territory.

Noah who happens to run into Kang-Dae annoys Kang-Dae and ends up getting beaten up. That is when Kang-Dae gets his first subject/party member, the reliable chef Harun.

'... I was going to head there in advance and help him out.'

The best scenario to not get beaten up is no longer available. I did care more about potentially saving the people of the village, but there is nothing I can do about it at this point.

Now, all that is left is to make sure I act in a way to avoid getting beaten up by the angry Kang-Dae, who is moving at a crazy speed to arrive at Ammi City by tomorrow.

'Avoiding the main character is not a good idea.'

He needed to run into Kang-Dae so that Aryn and Harun run into him as well. That was the only way for the three of them to leave this place together to start their official journey. Then that left just one course of action.

'Have them run into each other and then get out of their way.'

With the best possible first impression, if possible.

"Young master."

"Ah, thanks, Aryn."

Noah took a sip from the cup that Aryn brought over. He then started to frown.

"It's not cold water?"

"It is Tart cherries juice."

He really is an insidious man. He knows that, just like Hyun-ki , the original Noah hates sour things. But he still chose to bring Tart cherries, which would take more work to prepare than cold water. Noah wanted to be angry at the sour taste, but he could not do so because he was afraid of that assassin old man. He could only drink the Tart cherries.

"Thanks, it was wonderful."

"No problem. Young master. We should be able to head to the study soon."

"Great."

Aryn's benign and gentle smile caused Noah to have the chills. He once again clenched onto the 10 million gallon cheque for support.

Money really was the only thing you could trust.