A NEET’s Guide to the Parallel World: Healer, the Strongest Cheat?

After a long battle, the war ended and the empire perished.

The Free Army won the Empire.

It was the desired result, but later only grief remained.

Everyone lost their loved ones, lovers, best friends, scars everywhere, and damage even reached unrelated towns and villages.

That is no exception to Beyond.

When the five arrived at Beyond, there were no four known homelands there.

Zephyr, Kagetra, Adolph, Califa.

They lost their word and stood up to their changed hometown appearance.

Black burnt houses, wreckage of collapsed buildings, and black burnt bodies.

Khalifa collapsed from her knees.

Adolf similarly droops.

"Mother..."

Zephyr and Kagetra laid down their eyes.

Shawn couldn't find a word to call, and the four of them couldn't get up for a while.

There appeared a knight from inside the town.

Zephyr rushes over as soon as he finds himself.

"Um, excuse me!

"Hey, what are you guys!?

Zephyr was followed by four people who ran over and explained that they were from this town.

"Well, in this town..."

The knight lost sight of the story.

"In town, what happened?

Khalifa inquired.

"Food shortages increased among the soldiers, attacking every town and village in the neighborhood."

The four of them pulled their faces together.

I mean for food, but I could easily imagine that's not all.

"But he reassured me that the inhabitants of the town had taken refuge in a nearby shelter before them. Everyone should be there."

Four stroke their breasts down to the knight's words.

The desire to go see my family now engulfed me.

The five headed to where they were taught to stick.

But what was there was a tragic sight that determined four more hearts.

"Oh no..."

Adolf collapsed on the spot.

The shelter, like the Beyond, was round-burned and turned into a graveyard.

Next to the skeleton of the fallen hypothetical tent, bodies were arranged over time.

The first one I found belonged to Adolf's parents.

He was an Adolf who barely remained conscious, but he couldn't stand to cry and lose his mind.

Califa asked softly to her cold father and mother.

Tears pass down her cheeks, and the fallen tears fall on her lying mother's cheeks.

Zephyr and Kagetra wrapped the bodies of the two in a cloth and put them in a carriage without telling their parents anything.

The expression was dangerous and was about to collapse.

When Adolf, who had passed out, was transported to the carriage, his parents took him to the carriage in the same way.

Heading to the side of Khalifa, to her crying down, the two put their hands gently on their shoulders.

"Why, why..."

To Khalifa's question, the two of them were unable to answer anything.

Because it was a similar thought.

The four then made numerous trips back and forth between the shelter and Beyond, transporting all the bodies of the families of their former homeland to Beyond.

The beginning of the reconstruction was the production of the cemetery.

Each body was buried and a grave marker was erected.

"I wonder if I was wrong... us..."

Khalifa groans in front of countless graves.

Zephyr couldn't find the words to call and embraced Khalifa.

Are we glad to be on an adventure?

Wasn't it a mistake?

Shouldn't we have turned back immediately?

I shouldn't have participated in the war or anything...

"We didn't know, I can't believe this was happening... I didn't know that"

Zephyr's words seemed to imply.

Seems like what I'm saying.

"Not for a reason... we abandoned everyone..."

Khalifa denied, Kagetra said.

"Yes, we were only thinking about ourselves. I never thought my hometown was under attack. But that's what this war was. That's about what I knew as soon as I thought about it. Yet all we could see was what was right in front of us... prioritized our own adventures..."

"Adventure?... well, maybe so"

War is also tolerable if you try it on them, and it is only something that is in the extension of adventure.

Because no matter how much you put yourself in contention, you don't have to worry about putting your life in jeopardy.

The four thought that they didn't realize what was going on in Beyond, and that was the price for the power gained in previous adventures.

Kagetra said.

"We overlooked the most important thing. I abandoned everyone I could have saved."

"Kagetra, that's different. I had no choice."

"It's a fact!

Kagetra strongly denied Zephyr's words, and his voice echoed in a town that had become scorched earth.

"Brother, we must have had enough power to save you, this is the result of our chronic heart. We abandoned everyone!

Zephyr didn't say it back.

Because I had to admit that my chronic heart was somewhere.

Khalifa said.

"Yeah, I think so."

"But we can change it from now on. No, that's all we have left to do."

Kagetra said against that voice color.

I tried to be strong.

But it was the limit, a single tear spread on my cheek.

The tears he showed for the first time, never making weak noises and never showing weakness in anything before.

The four of them were terribly upset.

"Kagetra? ……

Khalifa reached out.

But I don't know how to speak.

Above all, in a situation where I'm about to be squashed with sadness, I can't afford to care.

"Lizard, it's okay, even if I cry about it today"

Only Shawn was given the words he wanted.

Kagetra wipes tears.

"... I don't want to see war anymore, I don't want to see my loved ones die, I don't care who dies"

To the words, Zephyr and Khalifa wept.

"I will avenge this world, revenge for war!

There is no anger in Kagetra's words.

There was just sadness.

The four understand what Kagetra meant by the word "revenge".

Keep peace without waging war.

I vowed that a country like the Empire should no longer be created.

Revenge was a cagetra's readiness.

But that contradicts the phrase "I don't like whoever dies".

That's why I'm ready.

Ready to bear everything, ready to bear the sacrifice.

"Vengeance! That's right, Shawn, I'll blow this name to the world!

There were zero tears from Kagetra's eyes again.

Shake your shoulders.

"The world needs deterrence, we become gods..."

I can't say Kagetra was sane.

Enough, you must have been disturbed.

Kagetra couldn't stand the facts in front of him.

Preparedness, vengeance, deterrence, God, those words were also due to escape.

But I am not alone in keeping calm here.

"Kagetra......"

Shawn burned that back to his eyes.

"I will not hesitate to point a blade at anyone who flickers the shadow of war. So ahead, the casualties will continue to increase. But this is necessary. Revenge against this world that created war...... I will not get lost"

Kagetra said that at the end.

There was no one to deny.

Adolph didn't say anything in the meantime.

From a little further away than the four, he stared at the four backs with a terribly cloudy eye.

Let's rebuild this town - it was Kagetra who said that the first time.

"I'll give you a hand if I can," Shawn said, agreeing with the other three.

Beyond is a superhuman town.

Therefore this city was called the Eternal City.

But there is no more eternity.

Still, they vowed to rebuild Beyond.

One day again, I want my family to come back to this town...

After five years of months, Beyond regained his appearance.

New people's lives were born there, travellers, adventurers, etc.

But there is no more of the former eternity.

"This is fine..."

Kagetra said.

Five people staring at the town from outside the gate.

"Oh, this is fine... this is fine. As long as there is a town here, the family can come back again. We can be connected forever."

Zephyr also looked to the same future as Kagetra.

"The eternal town is in our hearts..."

Adolf spent five years restoring his sanity.

I stared calmly at the town, at what once seemed like an eternal town overlapping there, smiling.

"What are we going to do now, is the journey over?

"No..."

Kagetra asked the question of Shawn.

"Actually, I'm thinking about taking another trip. I heard the dungeon showed up three days ago."

It was Shawn who taught.

He was waiting for Kagetra's word.

Khalifa looked surprised.

"A dungeon is that dungeon!?

"Oh, it's a labyrinth eating adventurers. Shawn and I will be challenging the labyrinth soon. I'm sure they won't forgive us for completing our journey here."

Gradually, the expressions of Zephyr, Kagetra and Adolph reclaim the signs of the former adventurer.

"Kagetra, I'm coming too."

That's what Adolf said.

"I want to reassure my mother and father who dropped me off that day. I said I'd be fine."

"Okay."

"I'm coming, too."

It was Khalifa.

"Look at us stopping here, what does everyone think? Maybe they'll laugh at you for what you're doing."

"Don't worry about it."

Zephyr went on to say.

"Let's go, to the dungeon"

Five looked at each other and smiled.

But Khalifa felt a little uncomfortable.

It's Adolph.

He was the most sinking of the last few years, but now his expression was cloudless and sunny.

That was rather creepy.

But Khalifa turned away from her mind and celebrated the reconstruction.

"Speaking of which, there seems to be a lot of dungeons in the last few years. Just about three years ago, an adventurer told me he wanted to go through."

"Really?

Zephyr of interest.

"Oh. But even a few months later, the dungeon disappeared, and no one attacked him, apparently."

"Phew..."

"So this is the first time the attacker comes out."

Kagetra is intentional.

"It's us..."

There is war, loss of home and family, sinking into the abyss of despair.

Still, they walked out again toward the path they believed in, without stepping off the road.