Kidnapping the Hero Party

50. Gathering Fog, Swept Emotions (6)

50. Gathering Mist, Swept Emotions (6)

Before breaking into Estiya’s dream.

Lee Jun-woo stayed at that time.

The day Aina lost her life.

She shouted at Lee Jun-woo, who was standing blankly.

“What are you doing, you idiot?! Move quickly!!”

Yes, I must have heard Aina’s voice like that.

Aina shouted at me, who was unconscious.

While holding her hand, I was running away from the demon lord chasing us from behind.

That guy wasn’t within our party’s reach.

I didn’t expect the sudden betrayal.

Aina looked back and exclaimed in annoyance.

“I didn’t know that son of a bitch would betray us… !! for a moment… !? Where are the monks?!”

The party swordsman Irina answered.

“Daniel died first. The traitor must have known. That monks are the most important thing in a party. It’s a shitty situation.”

“f*ck. f*ck. f*ck… !! A bastard bastard… !! We welcomed you to the party, but you dare betray us… ?!!”

Aina swears, grabs my hand and keeps running away.

When I saw that, my stomach ached and it hurt.

My vision suddenly changed as I was being chased.

It was a form of the past.

‘… is this the place When that guy wasn’t involved, when the party was 4 people.’

A poor man on the street was looking for a party.

A boy who has nothing and only one body.

Do you remember when you first saw me?

Aina looked at the dark-haired boy and asked us.

“Hey, are you going to use him as a porter? My luggage is heavy these days, Jun. You still haven’t mastered the subspace magic.”

“… Neither child nor you can use it. How do I write?”

“I told you to call me Master, you bastard! Wanna get mad!?”

Aina tried to assault my body with a stick.

Of course, I couldn’t hit even one due to my lack of athletic ability.

The reason why I vomited blood and learned subspace magic.

Obviously, this was something I remember.

At that time, avoiding Aina’s attack, I approached the shabby boy.

“You’re looking for a party?”

“B, yes! I’m looking for a party! I can do anything!”

“Hmm… ”

It looks naive and fierce.

The look is not believable, but I liked the look.

However, I did not see the other side.

At that time, I shouldn’t have made such a choice.

It was all my responsibility that the party members died.

It was my wrong judgment that even Minerva did not realize.

“Yes, Aina. Let’s use him as a porter. I like the eyes.”

“If you didn’t say anything, you were going to do it? I just know that Ji is the main character. Hey there, what’s your name?”

At Aina’s question, the boy blushed.

Maybe then.

If I had noticed the boy’s feelings, if he hadn’t brought him to the party as a porter, Aina wouldn’t have died.

The boy answered Aina like that with longing eyes.

“My name is Raoul. Par, I will work hard as a porter for the party!”

Raul, a boy who answered lively.

After the boy’s smile, the scene changed again.

The first scene I saw, where I was being chased by someone.

Raul.

He was chasing us like a loathsome piece of meat that had given up its humanity.

“Gimme, give me-!! Right now, that woman… ! give it away-!! That, that woman is not yours-!! June-!! Aina loves me-!! I mean, it’s definitely not you!”

Hearing it again still sounds like shit.

Kill a guy named ‘Envy’ who introduces himself as the Demon King of Jealousy.

Raoul murmured in the corner to himself, and turned into such a chunk of meat and killed the monk.

It was difficult for me to accept the sight of the man whom I had loved for three years dies in an instant.

“Mister, f*ck you! Jun what are you doing! Move your legs quickly! My, even if I die! You, you must not die! Why is that madman doing that all of a sudden? !!”

“… Seeing us hugging, it changed that way.”

“What kind of bullshit is that-!! It wasn’t like that when we were usually hugging each other-!!”

“… The Demon King of Jealousy. That guy’s power. I think I fell for that porter bastard. First, let’s run away. I think there is no other answer than that.”

At that time, I was running after receiving Minerva’s problem, choosing the answer to run away.

With Aina and Irina.

However, as time passed, the speed of the chunks of meat increased, and our speed naturally slowed down.

Starting with Aina, the magician of the party that lacks the most stamina.

‘shit… ‘

I didn’t want to recall this scene again.

The Demon King of Lust.

With that bitch’s powers, I can see again the memories that tormented me for the past hour.

With a heart filled with guilt, I looked forward.

“Hey, Jun… This disciple… ! I’m going home first… I’ll be there soon… ”

“Aina! Wake! go, you can go Give me a little more strength-”

“Hey, really. I never listen to a teacher like heaven. I say this. just go… It is not the role of the teacher to hold the ankles of the disciple… ”

What is a master?

Why did Aina sacrifice herself to protect me?

It’s still completely incomprehensible.

Aina, showing signs of exhaustion, lowered her wand toward the floor.

tuk-

And, the last time I saw it.

He spit out the words from that memory.

“Thank you so far… The one who made sure to live, I… ”

Biting his lips as if he didn’t want to say the last word.

Aina separated the space with a tearful smile.

As if he didn’t want to show the end, he covered his view.

In the past, I collapsed there and cried, and Irina barely managed to hold back the tears and led me out of the place.

Seeing again what had always appeared as a nightmare.

My chest felt like it was going to be ripped apart.

I was barely holding back my emotions.

“… A wicked ability, Rust.”

“No, it’s more like a blessing. Be honest. Nice to see you after a long time that woman.”

“… ”

I’d be lying if I said I didn’t like it.

Rust laughed as if he knew my heart.

“If you are here with me. You can still see her. Your spirit, your vitality. If you give it to me, I’ll let you live with this woman in your dreams for the rest of your life. Because happy memories always remain in my dreams.”

So.

Choose.

Rust smiled and created an illusion of Aina.

Aina, created as an illusion, was staring at me silently.

“Poke this woman’s heart. Then, we will be able to save other children.”

“… What if I refuse?”

“It is a lifelong dream. Reunited with the teacher I missed. A reunion with the woman I thought I would never see. how is it? not good?”

Rust, perhaps noticing my trembling heart, grinned and said.

“I’m going to another child, so choose well~ Please, I hope you make a good choice~?”

Having said that, Rust immediately disappeared.

After she left, Aina and I were left alone in the same space.

If she was Aina, there would have been a mountain of things to talk about.

Knowing I couldn’t answer, I kept my mouth shut and looked at her.

“… You have to choose.”

However…

Hard to choose.

Even if it was Aina’s illusion, the appearance was exactly the same as the real Aina.

She is no different from the one that remains in my memory.

Can I stab Aina’s heart like that?

Someone like me who invited that trash porter to the party?

I looked into the eyes of Aina who was standing still.

I keep thinking of the last of her, paralyzing my brain.

“I can’t choose. But, you have to choose… ”

In a situation where there is no choice.

I have to choose.

the most correct answer.

answer the question.

Recognizing the water droplets flowing from my eyes, I drew my sword and approached Aina’s vision.

She had no expression, but I couldn’t wash away the guilt I had for pointing the sword at her.

“… sorry. Aina. I am trash.”

Fuuk-

With tears streaming down her face, she plunged her sword into Aina’s heart.

Even though it was an illusion, the blood from her heart soaked my sword.

Aina’s vision collapsed to the floor like that and disappeared into dust.

“I’m sorry Aina… If I had the power back then… I could have protected you… ”

If only I had learned subspace magic sooner.

I wouldn’t have had to bring that porter to the party either…

Guilt spreads all over your body, making it hard to breathe.

However, even in that situation, I had to move forward.

“the kids are… I’m waiting.”

These are the children I kidnapped.

They must be held accountable so that they do not suffer any more.

Leading to the guilt and responsibility that weighed on my shoulders.

I walked towards that exit.

Their ordeals I saw on the answer sheet were all painful…

“… I’ll have to pray for it to last.”

I led my aching heart and went towards the children.

“Oh, brother? What is the blood of the sword…?”

“It’s nothing.”

The first is Estee.

I saved her, who was suffering from the denomination in her memories of the past.

Maybe it was in a dream, so he wasn’t drunk with holy water.

After finding such Estiya, a door was created in the air.

‘We have to save the other children quickly.’

If emotional sequelae remain, growth is hindered.

so…

I grabbed Estiya’s hand and opened the door to the next child.

It is…

“Wedding ceremony…?”

It looks like a wedding, but the atmosphere is similar to a funeral home.

And there, the thief of the hero’s party.

Hare was on her knees, crying as if in pain.

“Oh, no… please stop it… Mister…”

Watching the illusion of me and Aina kissing right in front of my eyes.

Seeing that, my anger grew.

“Don’t even think about dying nicely, the demon king of lust.”

It won’t be easy to kill.

It was time to wake Hare from his nightmare.