I Became the Hero Who Banished the Protagonist chapter 94

94. where you are (3)

“Marianne.”

Marianne looked up in surprise at the voice calling her. A sharp wind, unlike the cold of winter in the Holy Land, brushed Marianne’s cheeks. here,

“You know from the fact that I usually wear this on my head, but it probably won’t be easy to succeed.”

It was a room. Illroy’s voice was heard. familiar words. Marianne also saw a familiar hand opening and closing the wooden box. The crown of thorns appeared intact after a long time. As he grabbed the crown, Roy’s hand trembled slightly. My eyes were shaking at the boundary between certainty and uncertainty. Illroy then turned his head to Marianne.

“If I don’t overcome the ordeal, I will fall unconscious. Then somehow wake me up right away and take me to Rhys.”

Before Marianne could say anything, Illroy put the crown on top of her head. Trembling as if someone had been electrocuted, Illroy dropped to his knees and sat on the bed. He could have fallen forward, but Illroy was sitting in a stiff posture as if his body was tied to a pole.

Why am I looking at this scenery?

Marianne stared blankly at Illroy. Memories of that time were coming back. Illroy took on the challenge of the crown with the intention of defeating the giant and rescuing the Archduke of Quenore, and Marianne was helping him by her side.

“Hero.”

Marianne muttered softly and approached. It was a painful memory. Why do I remember him painfully? Marianne decided not to think about it. Illroy did not move after entering the ordeal. Marianne moved closer and looked into Illroy’s face. Eyes closed as if sleeping. Beyond that were long eyelashes. At first, I was afraid he wouldn’t wake up.

“no.”

Illroy’s complexion began to change. Even cold sweat began to break out on his forehead, and his sagging hands were shaking. Marianne involuntarily approached and took hold of his hand. Illroy’s hands were as cold as ice. How many people did you protect with these hands? Illroy’s face seemed to ease a little as Marianne held her hand.

“… no.”

Marianne hesitated and rubbed Illroy’s hand. Marianne recalled her feelings at that time. If Illroy passes the crown test and opens his eyes, Illroy will surely pick up the holy sword and fight again. Out of Marianne’s eyes, risking her life.

I was anxious. I was anxious to just send him away and watch him. In fact, I also had a heart that I did not want to let go. At least I won’t be fighting alone. But, but again. Marianne’s thoughts went back and forth between refutations and refutations.

“… ah.”

Then, the crown on Illroy’s head began to shake. There was a sound of cracking and crackling, and then pieces of the old, withered tree trunk fell to the floor. All the crowns are broken. Marianne stared at the glowing ring floating above her head in place of a crown. Illroy will wake up soon.

“Has it been successful?”

Illroy opened his eyes and murmured. Marianne’s heart pounded little by little. Anxiety. His own mind said it was anxiety.

“Thank you for your help.”

hold on Marianne’s instinct said so.

“I will be back.”

Marianne looked at Iroy as he left. Now, if Illroy attacks the enemy’s base to save the Archduke of Quenore, he will have to fight to block the castle wall from monsters.

Tick.

There was a sound like the hands of a clock turning. A moment later, the sound of busy footsteps followed, and Marianne opened the door to face the entering knights.

“We must prepare for a defensive battle. It’s not very large, but the monsters are coming in again.”

Marianne nodded and rose from her seat. The holy spear was clutched in her hand.

“The monsters are coming.”

Marianne sighed. He could see the eyes of the knights who were looking at him and working hard. Marianne kneaded the holy spear, then put it down. The knights’ expressions were wrapped in doubt. Marianne tried very slowly to remember why she had come here. My head is hazy as if there is fog.

“There is no time, Marianne. Captain Georg and Lady Daphne are also hurrying to the castle wall.”

Marianne followed the knights up the castle wall as if they were half-led. A landscape that flashed Marianne’s memory appeared before her eyes. The soldiers shouted and pushed the demons out of the castle wall, and the knights brandished their swords. Marianne swung her spear and killed the flying monster with a movement close to habit.

“Marianne!”

I heard Georg’s voice welcoming me. Daphne also glanced away and smiled. I felt strange. Marianne turned her head over the castle wall. The cloudy sky created by the limit line was close by. In there, Illroy will be fighting.

“The wall over there is weak. If you do it wrong, you may not be able to handle the monsters and the defense wall may collapse. I think you should go and apply.”

Georg, who took on the role of a reliable commander when Illroy was gone, said so.

“request. It’s what Illroy left. Our mission is to make sure that even one less person dies.”

Marianne unconsciously nodded. Georg then turned the monster that charged into the shield into mush.

“Okay… It is.”

killed the monster Marianne frowned as she stared at the bleeding spear.

The surrounding noise gradually receded. The fog that enveloped Marianne’s memories was slowly dissolving. Marianne slapped the head of the white wolf that ran in front of her eyes. At the same time, a round object fell from Marianne’s arms to the floor.

Compass.

Marianne stared blankly at the compass that had fallen to the wall. The needle of the compass was still pointing somewhere and twitching a little in place. Marianne picked up a compass. where the compass points. Marianne looked at it and moved her steps little by little.

“Marianne! Where are you going!”

A sound like a scream came from behind. Marianne raised the holy spear. Daphne, who was screaming, was unable to cope with the attacking white wolf and was bitten and collapsed. Behind him, Georg was crushed, unable to bring down a single gray bear.

A look of resentment, a hand asking for help.

no. Marianne’s colleagues don’t get hit like that. When an emergency comes, I will never find her, and I will never create an emergency in the first place. Marianne looked back at the frozen world as if time had suddenly stopped. When I put my finger on the blood droplets flying in the air, they dispersed and disappeared as fog.

That’s not the hand she needs to hold. Marianne remembered Illroy’s face. The person he needs to go and save isn’t even beyond the limit.

This was not where she was supposed to be. What he had to save was not the beings in those illusions, but the people who were fighting those illusions. My heart pulsated and raised my magic power. Marianne felt the power of the sex organs wrapping around her legs and jumped out of the seat.

The castle wall collapses. The cold of winter faded and the monsters turned to dust and disappeared. Marianne was running on the ground that was like the floor of a building, not the hard ground of Evernode. The fog could no longer block her.

warrior.

Marianne looked down at the compass.

Tick.

The compass twitched. Marianne ran, looking only at the compass. Now, what on earth is Illroy fighting for?

—-

“Warrior… .”

Holding onto Marianne’s limp body, I exhaled weakly. How much time had passed outside, it didn’t matter anymore. In this endlessly repeating crazy day, I was just trying not to lose my mind. so that I will never change my choice,

“Marianne.”

I called Marianne, but there was no answer. Marianne, her vision, died with her eyes open. I quietly closed my eyes and got up from my seat. A wrecked sea, a sunken ship. If I just close and open my eyes here, I’ll be standing in front of that damn tent again.

“Are you aware now?”

I turned my head at the sudden voice. The vision of the fog looked at me and smiled with a faint sneer. Arjen’s face. Looking at it, I couldn’t even get angry.

“You know how absurd you are thinking. How lucky you are, and what choices you will have to make when that happens in the future.”

I sighed. I am shaken by my thoughts, not by his words.

“So, if I choose to forsake the inhabitants of Baktins, what will the next vision show me, Mist? What does Bakhtins look like in pain? Residents who reprimanded me and turned into apocalypse worshippers?”

I let out a laugh and shook my head.

“I don’t break down. You picked the wrong target. I have the intention of dealing with you until all of your magic power is exhausted. Please keep going.”

I said it like it was nothing. Whether emotions are worn away by death, or the magical power of the fog is exhausted.

“what? What magical power do I possess?”

Arjen… No, the fog asked back with round eyes, then burst into laughter. As if he couldn’t stand it because it was funny, he pretended to grab his stomach and bent his back.

“Hero, you are really out of your mind right now. This, I might get a harvest I never thought of. It’s going well beyond my expectations.”

“… what the hell does that mean… .”

At that time, Arjen’s face changed to someone else’s. I looked at the person’s face reflected through the window and bit my lip.

It was me.

Illroy was there, dressed shabby, with tattered clothes, and the face of someone who hadn’t slept well for days. And beyond that mirror, Arjen’s figure appeared.

“You, you never thought about the condition of your body. I never thought you would really think of my world as the real world.”

I raised my hand. The lifted arm was trembling slightly.

“Does the scenery you’re showing me really look like I’m showing them with my magic?”

My heart raced. However, he did not feel the huge movement of mana that should pulsate with the blood. More than half are gone.

“You have already lost, champion. And know that what I will show you will never be happy memories.”

I let out a shallow breath. Looking at my expression, the fog let out another giggling laugh as if satisfied.

“After digesting you, the only thing left to do is to devour the world in earnest.”

Aren’s shape was getting closer to me little by little.

“Shouldn’t we pay the price for obstructing ‘our’ long-cherished wish?”

I drew the Holy Sword and cut the mirror. And, the scenery that appeared as the mirror broke was a familiar tent again.

“Illroy! I was waiting for you.”

“Hero, are you here?”

I put strength back into the hand holding the sword hilt.

—-

ran

I ran without knowing where the end was. I felt like I was just hanging around in the same place over and over again. At some point, the compass suddenly started whirling around in place. It was certain that I was near Illroy. Marianne tightened the hand holding the compass.

It was just a desperate thought. The desire to save the hero. If only I could, if only I could jump over it. Marianne eagerly grasped the holy spear. It was a weapon that had never been answered before. Marianne, too, had never needed the power of the holy spear. I had to clear this damn fog and reach the place where the hero was.

Marianne stopped in place and thrust her holy spear into the ground. I don’t even know how to wake up this relic. Like Illroy, he had no choice but to run into it.

“… please.”

Marianne spoke as if the Holy Spear were human, and then began to lash out with her magical power. A golden haze formed on Marianne’s fingertips and passed to the holy lance. The holy spear began to gobble up the sex organs. As if the person who held him in his hand knew what he was doing.

“Keugh… !”

Marianne grabbed her head dizzyingly at the magical power that escaped in an instant. But instead of hesitating, she gripped the spear pole more firmly and increased the amount of mana she poured out. Until your whole body collapses from exhaustion, if that’s still not enough, even by burning your own life-

I had to stop.

Marianne looked up in a half-exhausted state. Then, little by little, mana flowed back into her body.

It’s not my taste to listen to you complaining, but I admire your sincerity.

And finally, the unknown voice began to shine. Marianne gritted her teeth, trying to handle the surging force.

damn

There was a sound like an egg cracking. Marianne faced a space that was slowly cracking and a landscape that appeared beyond it.

It smelled of the sea.

The stench and fishy smell were enough to cover up the smell of the sea.

“… This, by the way,”

And, there was one person who stood at the end of that fishy smell. The person Marianne came to rescue. Illroy confronts a huge monster with his whole body covered in blood. Marianne unwittingly took out a compass from her bosom,

The compass was definitely telling me that it was what he was looking for.