92 – Prevent the heroine from being eliminated (6) (Feat. Awakening of the protagonist)
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The fishy smell of fresh blood.
The sound of a mansion collapsing at the same time and the screams that do not distinguish between genders.
The sky, which was clearly blue, had turned to gray from the fire.
This is the sight we are greeted upon arriving at House Phrygia.
Exactly the same development as I saw in the original.
It felt like a prepared play, as if Ian had to face this situation when he arrived at the Freesia family.
‘It’s too contrived.’
But now, there was no time to get lost in such emotions and get angry.
“The strategy remains the same! Princess and Selina, please follow us immediately after deploying the space barrier!”
“”okay… !””
“Anna! Get on my back! I’ll run in the direction you tell me! Ian follows me with all his might!”
“Yes? Oh, yes!”
“…Okay.”
With Anna on his back, he twisted in the direction her voice indicated.
I was worried that I would be frightened by the sudden sense of speed, but fortunately that worry was over.
“Kyaaa!!! W, right here!!”
“Left!”
“You have to pass through the garden and enter the terrace under the garden!!”
“If you keep going like this…! That room! That room with a broken door!!!”
It was so fast that Ian couldn’t even see his shadow.
In the midst of all that, a hypothesis popped into my head. In the original development, Ian witnesses this scene and runs with Anna to this room, the Great Alchemy Room of the Freesia family.
And what greets Ian and Anna is none other than Anna’s parents who have just died, and a dragon polymorphed into a human form.
If so, what if Ian arrives at a much earlier time than the original arrival time? If so, wouldn’t it be possible to rescue Anna’s parents?
Here is the answer to my question.
The view you see as soon as you enter the room.
Anna’s parents, who have minor scratches but no other signs of trauma, and a non-polymorphed dragon.
“Get out of here you bastard!!”
Anna’s father, the head of the Phrygia family, threw a bottle of dark red medicine at the dragon that was approaching them.
Kwajik.
“A mediocre resistance…”
Perhaps he had judged that a mere bottle of medicine would not do any harm to himself as a dragon, the moment he was about to step away, not taking it seriously.
The dragon’s body gradually began to change.
The scales, which boasted steel-like strength, turned into the soft and weak skin of a mere human, and the dragon’s symbol-like wings, which made it possible to fly high in the vast sky, became human arms and fluttered in the air.
“It’s troublesome to underestimate an alchemist.”
“…A mongrel that only bought it, if it wasn’t for the contract, I would have dragged it back to the nest and made you regret being born…It’s a pity. I really regret it.”
contract.
With just that one word, I could tell that the dragon’s attack was caused by someone’s instigation.
A word Ian hadn’t heard.
I had to hear clear evidence that this dragon attacked the Phrygian family because it had something to do with it.
‘Anyway, it’s difficult to look down on an alchemist… You can’t lie about the real bloodline.’
On the one hand, it was considered great to be able to have such a fishy smile in the face of a dragon that was grinding its teeth in anger.
Unlike me, they are not the ones who have the power to fight dragons directly.
“…!”
My eyes, carrying Anna on my back, met with the dragon in a straight line.
He put his index finger to my mouth to tell me not to make any noise.
Surprise is the surest and most effective means of attack.
Occasionally, it makes a voice when attacking. There are idiots who shout out technical names, but… Well, who would actually do that?
It’s only likely to happen in creative works that value pretense and conveying the situation to the reader.
I just quietly approached the arrogant dragon like a flowing air.
Fortunately, Anna seemed to be holding back her breath as well, probably not being unaware of it.
“…You must be the one who only bought your mouth!!”
The head of the Phrygia family, who stimulates the dragon even more in case I draw attention.
Where the hell does that kind of courage come from?
Seeing them reminded me of a line in a book that I had heard before.
‘Courage is the exclusive property of the weak. It is said that the feeling that the strong have based on their own strength is not courage, but confidence.’
And if your confidence is distorted, you will become reckless and arrogant.
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Just like the dragon placed in front of my eyes right now.
Saaak.
I drew a line down toward the dragon’s ankle. A neat straight line drawn in one stroke, like a single stroke.
This is the result of judging that this is the most effective for a guy who has been forced into human form.
I had to dig up the information, so I couldn’t kill it, and how to cut the Achilles tendon so that I couldn’t escape.
“Keep!!!”
Unable to control the body of a human he was not used to, he collapsed onto the floor.
“Who, who…ah. You must be Ian Cedric.”
Unlike the demons who didn’t reveal any information until right before their death, this stupid dragon spits out information on its own without me even asking.
You knew Ian was coming.
“…how did you know my name?”
“…?!”
When I pretended to be Ian calmly to the tune of the dragon, Anna’s body flinched.
Still, the movement to avoid being noticed is imaginary. Yeah? Is there something that hasn’t been said?
“Keuhehehe…Are you sure you want to tell me?! Cheeky bastard!! They say he’s an honest guy like a fool, and he’s a cowardly surprise attacker!”
Shouting at me, the dragon’s body instantly floats toward the sky. Even though it has no wings, it seems to have used magic to fly.
‘How do dragons know about flying magic?’
Kwajangchang. A dragon flying towards the sky with the sound of windows breaking. It seemed that he was trying to occupy the sky where he could fight with his advantage.
I wanted to shoot my body in line with that movement, but if I did that, there was a risk that Anna would be seriously injured by the shards of glass that were still flying around.
I had no choice but to put Anna down and look up at the sky, and I was already high up to a point that I couldn’t even reach with my leap.
“Berry…!”
The real Ian arrived at the same time.
Following my gaze, Ian’s gaze also rises.
“Uh, what’s that…”
“You can’t see it? It’s a dragon. Ian, you’ll have to drop that guy. If we wait until the princess or Selina arrives, we’ll all be grilled.”
It will end up being oven-roasted to a very golden brown.
“You, you?”
“Me…? I can’t jump that high. Are you sure you did it once before?”
“However….”
Ian hesitantly blurted out the end of his words.
Could it be that this guy is still heartbroken about Cindy? Looking at Ian with such eyes, Ian hesitantly continues to speak.
“Berry, can I really do what you can’t…?”
“What?”
“That’s right. Dalian is no match for you, and you even warned me about the problem with Cindy, but it turns out like that… Can I really do what you can’t? Rather, since I’ll be your shield, wouldn’t it be better to wait for Selina to come? “
An unexpected problem occurred.
I can’t believe that the reason Ian was more intimidated than I expected was because of his inferiority complex towards me and his sense of helplessness.
Rather than being jealous of me because he was good-natured, he seemed to blame himself for everything that had happened because of his own weakness.
I didn’t even know that, and I thought it was just a process for Ian to make a leap forward… It was left until the wound festered and rotted away.
The conversation we had in the horse-drawn carriage turned into a wound that was festering.
As we gazed at the sky through the window, the dragon began to gather its breath towards us.
Was it an expression of the dragon’s own pride in not attacking the Freesia family with its breath from the beginning?
Ian, who watched the scene, stood in front of the window and said.
“It’s okay, since Durandal is there, you’ll be able to hold on enough. Shouldn’t you be helpful like this? You can’t just make a friend carry all the burden. I also have a debt to Cindy.”
“Don’t worry, my body has been famous for being strong since before. There’s only one thing I can put forward over you, nimble Berry…hahaha.”
Ian smiled bitterly and said that he didn’t have to worry about himself, then pulled Durandal towards the dragon.
Why did I think that Ian would overcome and overcome it on his own?
Because it’s the main character of the story? Because I am a being who is loved by fate? Or because Ian is going to be a hero in the future?
‘It was stupid.’
Heroes are given and not innate.
It’s just that Ian was naturally called that because he fought tenaciously with one desire to save people.
What do you do when you receive the love of fate?
What would you do if you lived a spectacular life to the point of being chosen as the main character and have great talent?
After all, you are human.
The hero is also a human being who is happy and sad like me and has all kinds of emotions.
… And if there is always someone who surpasses himself, he is also a person who feels inferior to him.
I thought that this world was no longer a novel, but it seemed that I couldn’t help even recognizing the main character deeply rooted in my head.
Without knowing it, Ian would do something… That’s why I had vague expectations.
Rather, he didn’t even realize that Ian had the belief that I would do something that he couldn’t do.
“Ian can’t stand it. No, even if you do, the breath will spread and the other people in the room will die.”
“Then, Barry, will you gather them here? You’re quick on your feet…”
“I’m not that fast either.”
“then….”
“You. You have to do it. Ian Cedric. I can’t jump that high no matter how hard I squeeze. What I can’t do, you have to do.”
“Berry, how can I do something you can’t…”
“Have you tried it?”
Ian answered me with silence.
“To be honest, I’m saying it because I’ve tried it, but have you tried it, Ian.”
Honestly, I don’t think it’s suitable for the role of enlightening and awakening someone like the characters in the novel.
Because your mouth is very rough.
“What the hell did you say to me during the entrance exam? You said you wanted to be a hero who protects everyone.”
But what can I do? A thirsty man digs a well. If you don’t have teeth, you have to replace them with gums.
I am clearly aware of my limits, but Ian, overcome with an inferiority complex, is different. You don’t know your own limits yet.
“Is this a hero? A meat shield is a hero. Anyone can do that. Even if you take a homeless person scattered across the valley, you can become a meat shield.”
okay. I know. This also happened due to my complacency.
But what do you mean? I am also a mere human being, no different from Ian.
“What did Selina say to you, what did Cindy say to you?
“But it’s fucking good!! If Selina and Cindy’s hero is to say that being beaten somewhere is the best thing they can do, they’ll be so happy that they’ll jump up and clap their hands. You fucking asshole!”
puck.
I walked over to Ian and pushed him to the ground.
Ian, who was looking up at me with a blank expression, gave me arsenic and said.
“If I, who says you’re so great, acknowledges your skills, then get out of here. I’ll protect Selina and Cindy. Leave them both to me and disappear, you idiot.”
Then, just like Ian had done, he aimed the moon at the window.
“If you want to be a hero, you have to die or die. You’re not just tailgating, it’s like pulling your tail… Just as I can do what you can’t do, I trusted you to do what I couldn’t do.”
“…I am an idiot for trusting you.”
The dragon fired a breath at us.
… can i stop that?
It’s good if you get hit and don’t become half asshole… .
Unlike Ian, it is safe to say that I focused all my stats on instantaneous attack power and speed.
Blocking the breath that came from the front like that was tantamount to committing suicide.
But I stayed upright without any hesitation.
If you’re the one I know, you probably won’t be able to ignore your colleague’s, my fears.
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Quaang!!
Ian jumped high into the sky and cut off the dragon’s leg with a breath.
“Don’t touch my friend….”
“It’s quite a famous scene.”