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Kiriko's point of view:

A few days had passed since Ren's trial occurred, and now Kiriko Hakuya known as the hero of light could be seen in his room within All.

he was at his desk writing a diary as if his life depended on it, while he shivered occasionally, in other rooms there were similar situations, of girls writing diaries while trembling slightly.

To know what the hell happened, we must go back a few days.

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When Ren ended up being found innocent, Kiriko heaved a huge sigh.

Looking at Ren who, with his calm gaze, was escorted to another room where he should be given his clothes, and not the criminal's clothes, which is a blue overall since the traditional orange did not want Ren and changed him.

Kiriko looked at his back, and Kiriko felt like she saw a big mountain walking.

the narrator was having a talk with the author to restate the reason why kiriko felt bad when he looked at ren.

Let's go back to the time of the first dungeon.

(I know, time to remember a little)

Kiriko had wanted to pull the chain attached to the wall because it seemed somewhat loose, obviously, he didn't know that Akane for fear of falling unconsciously activated the hooks of the dagger, even if it seemed loose, it wouldn't come off for nothing.

but kiriko did not know.

Kiriko obviously felt how hard it was attached, pulling it out of the wall almost made him fall too.

but he was able to hold the chain before he pulled ren.

With Kumiko's help, he was going to climb back up to his friends, he had forgotten about the injury to his arms due to the adrenaline.

he felt a stabbing pain in his arms that caused him to let go of the chain throwing ren and the girls into the void.

Kiriko almost dived as well, but Kumiko pulled him towards the core.

when kiriko was able to return to the other group outside the dungeon...

Kiriko saw Kumiko on the ground crying silently.

Kiriko was going to try to hug her, but he felt thick mana in the air.

Kiriko felt like his body was going to freeze just from being under that mana pressure, he inadvertently knelt down.

Turning to look, he saw a huge shield of scarlet lamas surrounding him and all the students.

As the flames cleared, he saw 2 incredibly beautiful and powerful women searching through all the students.

When everyone believed that they would die from the pressure of the 2, Naomi arrived.

Afterward, everything happened very quickly.

and kiriko could only be with fear in her mind with regret because if ren didn't show up, his kingdom will go to war with the demon kingdom and there will be a rebellion of the Scarlett house.

When he found out that Ren had made it out of the dungeon with the girls, he was finally able to catch his breath.

then kiriko was a witness and messenger about which ren participated, and since he was already prepared he was given a noble title and lands.

Kiriko was happy for his friend.

then Ren was sent on a secret mission by his aunt, Naomi didn't want to talk, she just told him this.

- is something that only Ren could do.

Naomi had said it because she couldn't send or trust anyone to send someone to close the dungeons since Naomi knew that many of her acquaintances didn't.

but kiriko heard as a declaration that ren was superior to him.

That gave Kiriko the motivation to be stronger, he trained as much as he could every day.

after 2 months ren had come back.

Kiriko thought that he would beat Ren in a fight since from before it seemed that they were on the same level.

when he checked, they were still on the same level, Kiriko couldn't beat ren.

When Ren helped Kiriko propose to Kumiko, he felt that he saw a brother in Ren, who was always helping others.

the day kiriko received an angel's blessing, he inadvertently felt a sense of surpassing the man who was always surpassing him.

what was ren

On the 3-day celebration day, Kiriko witnessed how all the hope of humanity fell on him and his mission delivered by the goddess, everyone in the ceremony attended, and he also received congratulations from his aunt and everyone in the capital.

But then he found out that Ren had liberated the Holland territory from the duke's tyranny, he even helped close down an s-rank dungeon.

Even though Ren did remain only among the people of the Holland Territory, Kiriko didn't think that it was just luck that Ren can unlock an S-rank dungeon.

Kiriko was frustrated with himself, while he was celebrating, Ren was saving the country from him.

but kiriko was not discouraged, he saw in ren a great rival.

He thought that with his new Goddess Blessing tattoo, he could surpass Ren.

but he couldn't, ren was still on an equal footing with kiriko.

Seeing that, he decided to focus on his work as the new hero.

when he was going to start his trip, he decided that he would go by carriage using the compass to guide himself, he wanted to know the world outside the capital, and he wanted to venture.

he thought that being a hero would give him the freedom to go anywhere and do anything.

how wrong he was.

Kiriko learned about responsibility.

His adventurous freedom came with great responsibility.

his mission to be a hero was not easy at all, in each town they visited, there were many requests from the villagers.

among many of them were freeing small dungeons, capturing bandits, and helping them against the monsters that used to occasionally come to the villages.

It was extremely tiring if it weren't for Kumiko and Ren taking care of Kiriko's group's needs so that Kiriko only had to worry about fighting, instead of food, water, clean clothes, weapon maintenance, etc.

Kiriko was very grateful that Ren was different from them.

Kiriko always thought that Ren was someone strange, while Ren spent his time sleeping, Kiriko spent his time learning the history of spells, training his arts even more, etc.

Just outside the capital, he learned that knowing how to swing a sword will not give you food, nor will it give you water, knowing the basic things that he knew and demonstrated in his day to day, allowed his entire group to continue with the trip.

When Ren was captured by slavers along with Amerie.

Kiriko felt his mind empty, he wanted to go immediately for them, but he didn't even know how to start.

he looked like a child being guided by how Kelly and Kumiko handled the situation, Kiriko could only follow them.

And when he believed that they had finally found Ren and could save him by giving Kiriko a reason to breathe a sigh of relief, he found out that Ren had allowed himself to be trapped to free the slave trade that was secretly going on in his country.

when kiriko saw the slaves, although they didn't look as skinny as they originally did thanks to ren, kiriko still saw them as quite skinny.

Seeing them like this, Kiriko couldn't help but think that Ren suffered a similar fate as them, being under constant suffering for weeks just to help save these slaves.

but the slaves' first question puzzled him.

Seeing Kiriko and his group, everyone was alert and afraid, only one child approached him.

- Sir, are you Ren's friend?

"ren? yes... I am.

After Kiriko confirmed his friendship with him, only then did the slaves lower their guard.

The next day, Kiriko kept thinking about the happy look of the boy asking Ren's location to thank him.

She later found out from Amerie that Ren made a plan to save the half-human slaves.

his head was becoming more entangled with ren.

'how did he do it?

that was his doubt.

because ren could do such good and big things.

When he thought of Ren, he only had the image of a quiet boy who silently ate his lunch during the first few days of school.

Now every time I remember Ren at school, he is the same quiet boy, but more and more people were around him.

Kiriko could only sigh and rejoice at his friend's achievement.

what alarmed him was the fact that there was a dungeon that appeared out of nowhere in the main square.

Kiriko was going to go immediately to help against the monsters.

but Kumiko told him that by ren's order, go to the dungeon.

Kiriko saw in Kumiko's eyes certainty that Ren would take care of it.

After Kumiko started a car to go to the dungeon, Kiriko couldn't help but ask.

"Kumiko, do you really think Ren will be able to handle the situation there?

-trust the kiriko, if ren says that he will take care of something, he will.

Hearing Kumiko's assurance, Kiriko nodded and decided to trust him and take on his mission, which was the dungeon.

When Kiriko received Excalibur, he felt the divine power coming from the sword, he felt the power of a king.

but he also felt the weight of his responsibility.

he had accepted that title.

he is the chosen hero, and he planned to play him.

when he faced that undead, he felt the power of his sword.

he was excited to finish off all the evil monsters.

he was on top.

when he came out of the dungeon, he left with such great positive thoughts about his power.

Upon leaving the dungeon, seeing that great number of dead, he felt the fragility of the human world.

he felt that his mind would break seeing that man in armor kill so many humans.

but his heart was brave remembering Excalibur in his hand and facing that armored man.

he thought it would be easy with Excalibur since he is superior to all weapons.

but when he faced reality...

seeing that man who seemed invincible surpassing the arts that kiriko had worked with so much effort, as he could face Excalibur with his flaming sword.

he truly realized how powerless he was.

he couldn't win, he felt a great wall impossible to cut.

his resolve was shattering and just as he was about to be engulfed in a great heap of flames, he felt death approaching him.

he saw a shield of ice appear before him.

he was saved by the man he believed to be his rival, the man with a carefree and calm look.

Ren Artega.

Ren had fearlessly thrown himself into a fight against the opponent Kiriko believed to be invincible.

Unlike Kiriko who fought with the best sword in the world, Ren fought with a sword of much lesser rank and value, and yet he did not flinch or flinch.

Ren was not fighting to win, Kiriko saw that Ren would not win in that fight.

but for ren it did not matter, ren thought further.

Ren was able to make a plan to trick that mount into disappearing, saving him and his friends.

Kiriko realized how far she was from his goal.

the fear of death and impotence made him realize that there was still a long way to go for him.

but he could also see something important because in his desperation he saw a true hero appear.

but kiriko also saw that hero fall to the ground.

what kiriko thought was incredible, he was also a human like him.

With that, his depression was cured, and he swore to himself that he could become as strong as Ren and save the innocent as Ren did with those slaves.

But reality hit him again.

Ren had been put on trial by the nobles.

Kiriko felt remorse before Ren.

the hero who saved him and his friends from certain death, who saved those innocent half-beasts, was about to be hanged.

but despite that, he never saw fear on ren's face.

At first, he thought that Ren was a man who would not collapse before anyone, a fearless brave man like a lion.

But Ren wasn't just brave.

how he got the support of 3 noble houses proved it.

Kiriko again, felt like he saw an unbreakable mountain when he saw Ren's back.

and right now.

as kiriko wrote in his diary, he was scared just remembering that mountain.

After Ren was released, they were invited to a banquet.

Ren had been the duchess's guest of honor.

even though ren was the guest of honor.

You could only see 3 people near him.

Akane

amerie

Aiko

no one else approached them, everyone approached him to congratulate him for completing his first dungeon, or the girls to praise them for his talents.

the matter of the slaves was determined in a secret of the highest caliber.

and many nobles who were invited did not attend the trial.

therefore they did not know what happened there.

they only knew that ren was found innocent, but they would not accept the slaves.

but neither could they do anything to ren at the banquet because he was the guest of honor.

Kiriko could see that calm mountain without caring about the looks of hidden disgust.

even his companions couldn't help but get upset.

but ren reassured them.

he then was invited to chat with Duchess Kitamura herself at that party.

a woman known for being stoic and cruel, always noble and authoritarian who does not smile and rules her territory with a heavy hand.

but kiriko saw the duchess smiling elegantly as she chatted with ren and his 2 grandchildren, even his grandchildren happily chatted with ren.

Ryan Kitamura, 18 years old and the heir to the house and known to be a very wise and cultured man, always serious.

he could be seen laughing at a stupid ren joke.

you could see Shiro Kitamura, a stoic and talented woman who with sheer effort was able to become an S rank and dedicate herself to educating at school, she always looked kind and polite to her students outside of her and would in class.

She could be seen happily toasting the cup in her hand with Ren.

the other guests could only look enviously at ren.

After that party, he had to go back to the capital.

where Ren was greeted by a big loving hug from Naomi Hakuya.

Kiriko laughed secretly, she knew his aunt and she knew that his hugs are strong.

Kiriko thought that his days would go back to the way they were before, training diligently, going on dates with Kumiko, and being in classes.

but kiriko made a very serious mistake, from that moment to the present he regrets having done it.

It was to report in Ren's presence that he had trouble clearing his first dungeon for his mana, but now it wouldn't be a problem thanks to invisible air.

when ren heard that, he approached Naomi, and unlike normally casually talking to Naomi, this time it was different.

- Director Naomi Hakuya, I would like to make a request to you, Director of All Academy.

Naomi had been surprised that she'd spoken so formally out of the blue, but she'd turned serious and nodded.

- tell me what you need, student Ren Artega.

-I formally request permission to train Kiriko and his allies who will go on a mission from the goddess next month, I want formal permission to train them, obviously under the tutelage of the tutor Shiro Kitamura.

- understood.

Naomi had sent everyone to her room and was left alone with Ren to discuss details.

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