5 – Belated regret
Heo Na-yun. The first time she met the warrior Kang Eun-chan was at her inauguration ceremony.
‘Is that person a warrior?…’
The first impression Na-yoon Heo thought of was that of a pirate.
‘I have to keep going with such a scary person…’
Heo Na-yun’s parents are an executive in the high-level guild. In addition to the influence of her parents and her speciality as a ‘summoner’, which is rare in the world, she was recognized for her speciality, but Yoon was able to enter her elite member, the Hero Party.
However, as soon as Yoon met her hero, she regretted her own choice to join the hero party. Because she looked so scared of the hero.
‘Are you sure you’re not doing anything bad to me?’
All the heroes in each Goddess Kingdom are known to have great power.
There is a difference in strength between them, but the fact that they have a far greater force than ordinary people is the same.
In fact, there are those who are drunk with their own power and engage in heinous actions. Of course, there are not many warriors who use force to torment people, but it was inevitable that they felt fearful.
In her first expedition with the hero and other party members, she was seriously wounded. This is because she did not see the demons attacking her before she was attacked.
“Shut up…”
Heo Na-yun quickly used a summoned beast to defeat a monster, but her abdomen was left with a large scratched by the monster’s claws.
‘It’s a mistake like this from the first expedition… If they find out I’m hurt, everyone will be disappointed in me… And… I don’t know what that scary looking hero will do to me… It hurts. … It hurts so much, but I have to endure it…’
Fortunately, the brave party members were in the last room but did not see Yoon’s injury, and Yoon also hid the fact that she was injured. However, as time passed, Na-yoon Heo’s body got worse and worse.
‘Did you bleed too much?… My head is so dizzy… I think my speed is not good…’
However, Yoon had shed so much blood that her judgment became increasingly blurred, and her face began to turn pale.
‘You have to be patient… Until the expedition is over…’
She persevered and continued her expedition to subdue monsters. However, something happened after a while.
– Hui Yiying
“Kyaaah!”
Yooni, though her mental powers are clouded. She just fell into the trap-type gates around her.
The trap gate is a buried gate installed by the Demon King. It is like a landmine that is placed randomly on the ground. If you step on the trap-type gate, you will instantly move to a hidden space.
“Turn it off….”
However, Yoon suddenly moved to another space and sprained her foot. In front of her, several disgusting-looking monsters were mercilessly running towards her.
“Keee!”
“Nu… someone help me!”
Thinking that her life was in danger, she shouted without thinking about the future. But she had no one around her. She’s the only one who fell into this trap gate.
The monsters running fast, she panicked and cast her magic to protect herself.
[Summon: Lesser Phoenix]
– The user is seriously injured. Skills cannot be used due to lack of mental power.
‘Do not make sense…’
Her summoning magic consumes mana and her mental power at the same time. Due to the fact that she bled all over her body and left her alone for a long time, her mental power was greatly consumed, so her summoning magic could not be properly cast.
This is how… you die…’
The fact that she could do nothing and end her life in such a vain thought, Na-yoon Heo, felt so vain. Suddenly, her conversation with her mother when she was young flashed past her like a flashlight.
– Na Yoon-ah Do you remember the fairy tale book about the hero that your mother read yesterday?
– Yes! It was so much fun!
– That’s good. My mother also really liked fairy tale books featuring a hero when she was young. Nayun, what do you think you are a hero?
– A hero is… um… a strong person?!
– Because he’s a strong person… That’s not wrong.
However, Yoon’s mother nodded her head in agreement. Then she, however, asked Yoon a question.
– What does your mother think of a warrior?
– What kind of hero do you think your mother is? Will Nayun give it a try?
– Ummm… someone who helps others?
– That’s not wrong either. But she’s a little different than her mother thinks.
– Uh… it’s hard! What kind of hero does your mother think?
– The hero my mother thinks of. Someone who helps me when I need it.
– eh? It’s simpler than you think. Does it make you a hero simply by helping?
– Impossible in the dictionary meaning. Because by the laws of the Goddess Kingdom, every Goddess Kingdom can have only one hero. If anyone could become a hero just by helping, wouldn’t it be against the law? But in someone’s mind it’s possible.
– What do you mean by that?
– I read a story my mother also read in a book. Imagine there is a family who is starving because of poverty. At the same time, a true hero recognized by the Goddess Bureau happened to pass by. This is what a starving child tells the hero.
[My mother has been starving for several days. I’m begging you, please help me just once. Please share some bread. Please… share some food for my mother to eat]
– That’s what the hero is talking about
[Don’t think about coveting other people’s things, she said, if her mother is hungry, she should buy food with the money she earned by working herself.]
– What do you think?
– That… I’m not saying it’s wrong… You look kind… The hero I think of is not that kind of person…
– Right? Then, on the other hand, imagine the beggar sitting next to him looking at the few hundred won he had barely saved because he had been kind all day long, then gave it all to the child and said something like this.
[Hey. Uncle received more money than expected today, so take this and buy bread for her mother.]
[I… Is that really okay?]
[Then. He received a lot of money other than this.]
– …it’s sad to imagine, you must be hungry too…
– It’s sad. In a situation like this, who do you think the child would be a hero? A hero recognized by the Goddess Bureau for wearing stylish weapons and giving realistic advice? Or did he hand out a few hundred won in pieces with his black hand?
– If I were that child, I would have thought of the beggar as a hero.
– Yes. it’s simple A hero doesn’t have to be strong, and he doesn’t need much help. When someone desperately wants, he is a decent helper. Such a person, my mother thought, was a hero.
In a state where the conversation with the mother passed like a lantern.
Heo Na-yun thinks. please. Everyone is good, so like the kind of hero that my mother thought, I hope someone helps me. I hope someone saves me, who will soon be eaten by those demons, just once. Please, save me so that I can live again and see her mother’s face.
–
-Keeek-!
At that moment, I heard the sound of something tearing.
Heo Na-yun lifted her tightly closed eyes little by little.
“Are you okay?”
In front of her, Kang Eun-chan, a warrior with a harsh face, was still standing with a sword.
“Ahhhhh…”
The moment she saw the hero, her crying burst out.
“Really…thank you so much…”
But Eun-chan Kang responded as if she didn’t really care.
“Something like this… It’s nothing. You seem more hurt than that. I have holy water, so sprinkle this on me.”
“Can I use holy water on me?”
Holy water given to the warrior. Unlike ordinary holy water, this is a higher-grade holy water given by the goddess to use when the hero is injured or injured.
“Well, wouldn’t it really matter? You just have to report to the Goddess that I wrote it.”
“That… but…”
When Heo Na-yun hesitated, the hero sprinkled a little holy water on his arm, and poured the remaining holy water on Heo Na-yun.
“Are you okay? After all, once opened, holy water cannot be used again. I think I applied the rest of what I wrote.”
Heo Na-yoon looked at the hero and cried while saying thank you.
On that day, for the first time in her life, Na-Yoon Heo discovered a true hero who matched both lexically and emotionally.
***
As she finished reminiscing about her past while running, she was engulfed in anxiety.
When I called Kang Eun-chan, she heard an unfamiliar voice over the phone.
-W… There are a lot of people here who are hurt… Dude… I think you should come soon…
Heo Na-yoon had an ominous thought.
‘Have you been attacked? A warrior that strong?…’
‘Please… Please… Please…’
Heo Na-yun prayed. I hope the warrior is okay.
“Heo Eok… Heo Eok… Heo Eok…”
She ran out of breath and barely reached the place her man was talking to on the phone.
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There is a single man lying there. Then I saw an old man making urgent phone calls to and from next to me.
——
She walked carefully.
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At some point, Heo Na-yoon, who reached the man who was lying on the ground, shed tears without hesitation.
“Yo… Hero… Open your eyes…”
Her tears flowed endlessly without thinking of stopping, and she muttered in a choked voice.
“Hero… Was my addiction to holy water my misunderstanding? right? A warrior can’t do that, right? The goddess representative must have misunderstood something? right? You couldn’t have threatened? I was also confused about the atmosphere and the things I had actually seen, so I doubted the hero for a while, but after thinking about it again, I realized that there was no way for the hero to be like that. I’m sorry that I came here to talk like this.”
However, the corpse that was left after Kang Eun-chan used the [Resurrection] privilege, of course, did not respond at all.
“Hero. I’m sorry for doubting… I’m really wrong for not believing… It’s okay to get angry… It’s okay to curse. So please answer me. Please tell me something…”
Heo Na-yun hugged the fallen corpse and shouted.
“Please! Please open your eyes!”
“Ouch…”
However, there was only blood flowing from the body of the hero, Eun-chan Kang, who had not yet had any warmth left.
After that, Da-hee Choi, Ye-seul Lee, and Min-seo Han arrived, and after a while they found a suicide note written by Eun-chan Kang.