36 – Relationships
“Irrel, it’s been a while. How have you been?”
“Yeah. How are you?”
I was a little embarrassed to say the next thing.
Knowing that I would be rejected, speaking in front of so many people was not as easy as I thought.
I thought I had become numb to the eyes of others as I had many experiences, but I guess it wasn’t.
“Irelle, if time permits, can we talk separately for a moment? I want to clear up the misunderstanding that occurred on your birthday.”
“You don’t like it?”
Even at this moment of conversation, Irelle didn’t seem to be interested in me.
It was strange to see Irrel like that. In her current life, she still paid a little bit of her attention to me, but that was how she treated me in her previous life.
It seems that it was not enough to use the knowledge of her past life to adapt to Irrell’s disposition and save her from kidnapping once.
It didn’t matter anymore.
‘It’s fortunate that I’m not being sanctioned by the system.’
“Yes.”
After answering Ir El, I turned around and walked away.
She walked away from the eyes of many people.
Whether I am sincere or not.
Being rejected by someone was more bitter than I thought.
I left the social church and walked through the hallway where antique paintings were displayed.
When the thing I was worried about came to a conclusion, I felt more relieved than I thought.
‘Still, the worst seems to have been avoided.’
I don’t know why, but it seems that the system’s punishment, the curse, did not come to me like it did in my previous life.
‘But at this level… It’s fine.’
It wasn’t okay, but the situation was better than I had planned.
It was a little disappointing that I couldn’t get talent from the system, but I made strong friends.
Among talented people, he became a sword master that only a few can reach, and undeservedly received the title of warrior from the church.
Since the holy sword and the unicorn were by my side, I wondered if it was greed to wish for talent.
“Robert bro!”
Kim greeted me when I left the splendid and huge mansion.
After being told to call him hyung comfortably, he hesitated for a few days, and now he added the word hyung quite naturally.
Why do you wander around so diligently every night alone?
Kim was so sore that she seemed to have difficulty even breathing on her own.
After saying hello to Kim, who has impressive dark circles under her eyes, we got on the carriage together.
Unlike her gloomy appearance, I looked out of her window against the background of Kim’s lively words.
Blue sky, lively voices of people Looking at the plants that radiate vitality, I felt that the world is still alive and well.
It was bittersweet that such a beautiful world would surely perish.
‘A new protagonist named Kim has appeared, but…’
The demons I saw in my previous life were not on a scale that could be stopped by one or two main characters in the novel.
I remembered the first time I drank with the warriors.
Because her body couldn’t handle her mana, she couldn’t even drink a few drinks and got drunk by herself.
“Demon King, if you catch one Demon King, everyone who is happy will have a very happy ending. Because I can make it that way.”
The other party members burst into laughter at Kim’s muttering while looking at the wall alone, but she knew what kind of person Kim was and I couldn’t.
Because Kim was a different main character from Irelle.
But she has one thing Kim doesn’t know.
This invasion is not on a scale that ends with defeating a demon lord.
At first, one demon king invades. However, after that, 2 people, then 3 people. As the dimensional wall collapses, the demon kings increase in number and descend to the middle world.
‘I don’t know if it’s possible, but I’ll catch the first demon king and send Kim back to Earth. After that, if the opportunity arises, Illel too.’
This middle-earth, where I am stepping, has been beaten by demon lords for a long time, and many of the dimensional walls have been torn down.
‘That’s why Irrell is the blessing of Middle-earth.’
The dimensional wall was strengthened just by the fact that Ireel was breathing and existing in this middle-earth.
If the dimensional wall completely disappears, the gods will abandon the collapsed Middle-earth and put their power into the other Middle-earth.
This is because the invasion of demons does not happen only in Middle-earth, where I live.
I’m not as special as the other main characters, but I think I’m special.
Because I came from Earth.
Therefore, I often wondered about the meaning of my existence.
Irrel strengthened the dimensional wall with just her existence and protected Middle Earth from the demons. And he goes around with male leads and kills a lot of demons without realizing it.
I don’t know the story of the place where Kim came in, but since she is a member of the warrior party, Kim must also be a help to defeat the demons in the middle world.
Recently, I felt something while thinking about those two.
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‘Isn’t I the one who has the role of sending them back to Earth?’
Such a role wasn’t bad either.
As I worked hard, a futile moment came to me.
‘It’s a world that will perish anyway. Is there any meaning to my efforts?’
When your will is shaken by such a question.
Returning Kim and Irrel to Earth became my goal.
If Kim and Irelle came from Earth to a fantasy world, they can go to Earth from a fantasy world.
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Things around me have changed a lot since I met Kim.
I, who belonged to the 7th Prince Ershen’s army, came out of the army naturally as I became a warrior.
Those who had gathered under me because of rumors that I was a warrior were convinced when they saw the skills of the warrior party members and scattered.
The bandit-bearded Viegel, the Staonfenberg Counts Clios, and the knights Cheiro and Hennure, who had followed me, joined the 7th Prince Ershen’s army to gain strength and experience.
I was grateful to see them saying they would come back stronger.
The assassins of the Irelle men, who had been targeting me from time to time, also calmed down after I broke off their marriage.
After the situation was sorted out and before leaving for the expedition with the warrior party, I visited my family.
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My hometown, the estate of the Marquis Albert family, has not changed, so I remembered the old days, but I couldn’t get lost in the memories.
It was because the children who saw Uni were excited and chased after them.
After struggling to get the children following Yuni back, I stopped in front of the huge castle in the center of the estate.
My parents and older brother were with me, as if I had heard the news while passing through the gateway.
“I’m here.”
My mother hugged me saying that she had a hard time, and my father patted me on the shoulder.
Hyung saw the squirrel sitting solemnly on Uni’s head and sobbed, saying it was so cute.
For others, the breakup between Irelle and I was just a big topic, but not for my family.
Knowing how much I loved Irelle, he looked at me and comforted me.
My heart warmed at the unexpected consideration.
Father sent the retainers who had come to report back and moved to eat.
“Hmm.. Then Robert, are you a hero now?”
During the meal, I was interested in what my brother said, wondering if my parents were also curious.
“Well, since the church recognized it, you’re a full-fledged warrior.”
“I heard the story, but I heard that all of the warriors were female except for the porter?”
“That’s right.”
“Everything was pretty.”
“Huh?”
“Take a picture of me and go. Show the party members a picture of me and ask them to introduce themselves if they like it.”
I laughed when I saw my older brother nagging at his mother not to talk nonsense.
While drinking tea after dinner, my parents worried a lot about whether it would be dangerous to become a warrior.
I tried to reassure my parents by telling them the story of becoming a sword master and other colleagues.
After a long talk, when I was going to my room, my older brother called me.
“Robert.”
“Why?”
“Anyone in the party is fine. All 4 of them are so pretty that I like them all.”
“Okay. I’ll be sure to show you a picture of you.”
“Yes.”
The hyung, who had been laughing mischievously, withdrew his laugh and said.
“You can do something like a hero and run away if you are in danger. Don’t worry about the family.
“Yes. Thank you.”
“Tell me if you need help or have difficulties. You must be tired, but get a good night’s sleep today.”
I waved my hand once and silently looked at my older brother’s back as he walked away.
After moving to the room, I sat down on a chair full of traces of my childhood.
“Ha..”
My heart was pounding as I remembered the problem I had been avoiding.
It is a very precious family. That’s why it was painful every time I saw my family. Because I know that I will not be able to protect my family in a perishing world.
I even made a plan to evacuate my family to a remote place, but it didn’t seem possible.
First of all, the first problem was that my parents and older brother would not abandon the locals, and the second was that the middle world was full of demonic energy, but ordinary people could not stand it and went crazy.
If he took a large amount of purification stones and holy water, he could last for several months, but it was unlikely that his parents and older brother would want such an extension of life.
‘Is it because I met my family?’
Every time I closed my eyes, I thought of my family members who were killed by the demons.
Robert, who stayed up all night with his eyes open, did not fall asleep until dawn.