Unfortunate Hero's Retirement Life

Back to the shore right below the floating castle, Heero was sitting on it with the guy that just came out of the castle itself. They sat face to face, the other one was telling his story the other one was listening to the story.

"You are still alive?" The caveman looked so surprised and happy at the same time as he asked that toward Heero. The caveman was topless with only a leather pant covering his vital spot.

Heero was distracted, his body was here but not his mind. It could be seen from his expression. The caveman was too happy to notice as he just went on with his thoughts.

"You are so strong if you could survive the Eternal Ice," The caveman praised Heero for that, then he looked at the unfamiliar surroundings. He was confused because this place was supposed to be the dead land that surrounded the castle, but why was it a sea and a dense forest?

"Where are we, anyway?" The cavemen asked again to the distracted Heero.

Heero snapped out of his thoughts and looked at the caveman. Not, he was not the caveman but was a hero from the past that got trapped inside the floating castle where God Horas stayed. The man in front of him was the famous Saul the King of Heroes. The title you could only get after killing God.

"Did you truly kill Horas?" Still could not believe what he heard, Heero repeated his question.

"Yeah, I did! I beheaded that damned bastard with my sword…" Saul wanted to show the sword he used to behead God Horas but then he remembered he left the sword behind in the castle.

He waved his hand awkwardly as he did not have the sword in his hand, "If you are truly curious, then I will tell everything I know to you! You are my savior, after all! Telling my glorious tale bringing no harm,"

Heero did not reply but silently looked at Saul. The reply was clear, he wanted to hear the story.

"Alright! Alright… Where should I start with…" Saul rubbed his chin, "Let's start the story after you got sealed in Eternal Ice…"

Saul with other forty Grandmaster Class Heroes was preparing to raid God Horas in his castle. They had prepared everything and it was the day.

However, that day, Saul noticed a man flying toward the castle. The man was Heero, he still remembered that day clearly in his head. Heero landed in front of the gate and entered the castle alone. There, he witnessed Heero fall into a trap set by God Horas, the Eternal Ice trap was activated and sealed Heero's body.

Maybe the trap was meant to be for him and his party. But thanks to Heero, he and his party were saved from the trap. That day, he and his party decided to go back from the raid. They were afraid there would be more dangerous traps set in the castle.

Saul was embarrassed as he mentioned that story. His face slightly turned red, "I am sorry about that but Eternal Ice is the seal that could not be broken,"

Saul was very sorry as he could not save Heero at that time. It was he could not, but he was incapable to be exact.

"It's okay, please continue," Heero nodded.

"Hah… After a month of trying to learn many things about traps and seals, my party gave up on raiding God Horas," Saul continued with a sigh of disappointment as he remembered about his party, "But I don't give up! I scouted the castle for months and my chance is coming!"

"I saw a man coming to the castle. This man fought God Horas for three days and three nights. Do you know what? This man was so strongggg! He beat God Horas like beating a dog!"

Saul's expression was clouded by admiration when he mentioned this. However, Heero was thinking about Niadin's story. The old man told him that his Master came to beat God Horas. The story was checked in line, if it was true then Saul was not lying.

The next moment puzzled filled Saul's expression, "But there's something weird. That man could beat God Horas and it should be easy for him to kill him, but that strong man did not kill God Horas. He left after beating Horas for three days and three nights. Weird, isn't it?" Saul tried to get Heero's opinion about this.

Heero however merely smiled at that. The next, it should be a world-destroying disaster. At least, that was what Old Man Niadin told him, the end of Dramonia before many pieces of land got separated in space, leaving only Earth. He did not interrupt Saul and asked him to continue the story from his perspective.

"Let's not think about that strong man! After that, I thought my chance had come! That strong man had beaten God Horas black and blue, I only needed to finish what he left, right!?" The vigor was back as Saul's eyes shone.

"With big confidence in killing God Horas, I entered the castle alone! Yes, you did not hear it wrong, I entered the castle alone!" Saul slammed his chest a few times, "At least, this is how I felt that time. Excited, I was brimming in excitement!"

"But then, it took me seven days to kill that dying God! I put my life on the line, but that God Horas was so strong for me to beat. But on the seventh day, I don't know why but God Horas activated a hidden mechanism of that damned castle!"

Saul pointed his index finger toward the floating castle, "He drained his Ki to activate the hidden mechanism of the castle which I did not understand until now. It was that moment that I managed to kill God! It was so satisfying!"

He tried to describe the feeling he felt when he killed God Horas. But he could only come up with one word which was "Satisfying!".

"That is it! With a series of lucky incidents, I managed to kill God Horas. After that? I was trapped in that damned castle, alone!" Saul ended his story, but then he remembered something, "Ah, I tried to find you, maybe I can help you to come out from the Eternal Ice, but I could not find you," He tried to say that he also tried to help Heero in the end.

"That's all, two days or yesterday? Your face projection appeared in the castle, then the castle came out of that damned space and appeared here! Where are we anyway? This is not the Dead Land!" It was Saul's turn to ask.

"It was three days ago! And it seems I saved your life once again, huh!?" Heero smiled, it was a smile but also not a smile to Saul. For some reason, he perceived it like that.

"As for you where we are, we are on Earth!" After that, Heero stood up and turned around, leaving the confused Saul.

"Huh!? Earth?" Saul never heard of a place called Earth before.

Heero slowly walked back to the edge of the shore. He looked up, looking up to the floating. A smile formed on his lips, it was a bitter smile.

'In the end, I can't get my revenge?' The vengeance he had pursued in two different timelines and two different eras, he could not get what he pursued in the end.

"Or I have avenged them? The guy is dead, so literally, I have avenged them, right?" The smile changed into a happy smile.

"The good thing is, I don't have to risk my life to fight against God Horas. And that Horas is dead now!" A relieved sigh slipped out of Heero's mouth.

'Is it fortunate or unfortunate?' He could not help but question himself.

"It's unfortunate as I can't avenge them with my hand! But it is also fortunate that I am sealed in Eternal Ice. Thanks to that, I meet my wives and have children now! Let's not think about that depressing matter!"

Heero turned around after mumbling for a while. He approached the confused Saul, he looked at the guy as if he found a new toy.

Was it fortunate or unfortunate?