A Banished Failure Survives in the Borderland and Becomes an S-Rank Exorcist

A man wandered around in the dusk.

I can't go back to the border city anymore. I already knew that. Outstanding as a magician, he tried to help his people, even at the expense of their lives. I was already ready to die at that time.

But he was alive.

I don't know what the cause and effect is. But he who thought he was dead survived.

"Hah... hah... hah..."

--Where are you now?

I don't know how many times I've thought about that. I don't know how much time has passed since I left the border city. For hours, days, decades, hundreds of days... he already lost that feeling.

I just decided to live.

I ingested the monsters, the dusk contaminated plants, everything. That's all I needed to live. No, that's no longer what I think is necessary. It was instinctively motivated.

--I don't want to die. I... still want to live...

He was beaten to the point of being a young man in his early twenties. The cheeks are scratched and the beard is stretched out as if it were untouched.

Where are those eyes looking?

He no longer knows.

I was just obsessed with living. That's all I had.

That's him, but there was a concern in my heart.

"... I wonder what he's doing."

Squeal. A man sitting near it, setting fire to it. He looks up at the sky and says such a thing.

He is about his sister. He had a sister. My beloved sister. I've been so close and so cute. He spent all his life with his sister, grieving that he would one day leave his brother.

But seeing such a sister won't come true anymore.

That's not a hunch. It is a simple fact.

I know that returning to the borderline city will not come true. I'm sure it's no longer obvious that I'm going to die in this dusk. But there was no way I could tolerate a monster killing me here.

He was an anti-magician and a noble man willing to save mankind.

But even with him... let's give up. I was beginning to think about that.

"No... I still... I still have work to do."

I want to live.

We can't die yet.

I want to go back to the border city and see my sister again. I'm sure my sister will grow up to be a beautiful woman. I want to see her alive by my side.

Such a small desire led him to decide.

In this earth at dusk, I will live on.

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"Okay, here's what it looks like."

Unpack and pack. Years since then. He lived without decay in the dusk. At first, I was just confused. But I've learned how to live in this twilight world.

Drinking water, food, and a place to stay. With everything he needed to live, he lived on the move.

One day he was just living in this world to return to the border city.

But someday, I became interested in the world.

Is that an indication of the margin of mind?

"I wonder what's going on here at dusk...."

Murmuring, he keeps writing what he thinks on paper.

This is already a habit. The pen and paper had more cause and effect than the original, so keep writing what you thought of them. The first thing I did was to express my anxiety and see it objectively.

But someday it was supposed to put together the questions I had in mind.

How was this dusk born, and why is man invaded by dusk, and the demon tribe strengthened? It was turned into a document summarizing what I noticed, such as such questions.

And so he kept going... he got somewhere.

"Is this a village?

The man found something like a village. I broke through the boundaries around me and forced myself into it in the middle of the day, but it was like some sort of settlement.

"Who is it!?

"Humans!?

"Why are you here...!?

It was Augustus that came from behind.

Of course, the very existence was known.

According to the literature in the past, it was known that some of the subpopulations were good at the battle called Auga.

A species characterized by a large body and a horn on its head. Though I heard it was militant, as far as he could see, it didn't look like that.

It was never a sign of hostility, though it spoke at high pressure. It was just strange being seen with strange eyes.

"Miren, are you human?

"Yes, my name is Raul Brady."

"Really... I didn't expect humans to come this far..."

"Where is this place?

"This is the eastern end of the continent, the exact opposite of where the humans are...."

"Really... I didn't know you were coming to the end of the east..."

Raul was going to come all the way to the border city, but the opposite has been going on for the last few years... I never dreamed of it.

After that, they welcomed me to the village of Auga. The village chief's name was Edgar, and he was taken care of by Edgar.

I wonder if I stayed for about a month. Raul decided to leave this village.

"Mr. Edgar. Thank you for your help."

"Welcome. The days you were in this village were very pleasant."

"No. Oh, speaking of which...."

"What do you got?

"I forgot the materials I put together... and I'm leaving them here."

"Are you sure? Isn't it important?

"If there is a human coming here, give it to him."

"I understand."

Well, see you later.

"Ah, master."

Raul left the village as it was.

Absolutely willing to return to the border city, he proceeds.

That is why Julia will arrive here in a few years and follow a similar trajectory… Raul will follow a different path from Julia.

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"Hah... hah... hah..."

Recently, my eyes have become blurred. It's been months since I left the village of Auga.

I can't see the borderline city at all. Even so, something was progressing in him.

It is man's inevitable destiny.

Twilight Syndrome.

Humans can never escape the disease. At first it was a purple and black engraving on a part of the body, but it was already stretching to the wrist. No, it's not just the wrist. It was spreading throughout his body and certainly invading him.

Twilight Syndrome Level 5 is already superior. If it were a normal human being, he would have been desperate to burn himself.

But Raul endured it.

endured, endured, endured, endured.

But... maybe the time will come when it's over. He had such a hunch.

"Uhh... ahh... uhhhh... ahh..."

I fell on the spot. My voice has already faded. I've already lost my sight. There is only a slight hearing. But all I can hear is the groans of the trees, nothing else.

- Yeah, I guess I'm done here.

For the last few years. I've lived a crazy death.

I have acquired the skills to live, to live, and to survive on this dusk earth. That's why you're dying of Twilight Syndrome at the end.

He looked up at heaven with that thought.

The sky of dusk is spreading. Compared to today, there is no change in the sky.

"Hey, Miriam, don't you feel anything?

"Does Tria think so?

"Hmm... ah!? Is this a human...?

"Seems so...."

The voice belonged to a young girl. But even if I found out about it, it's still the case. He thought it was time.

But Raul Brady's life will continue.