As the Communication Hero, I Formed the World’s Strongest Party with a Cool Big Sister

I was an orphan until about twenty years ago. I was stealing things from those adventurers, fishing for discarded garbage, getting food, but still living was my life at last.

—— That was the time. He showed up before me--

He gave me the money, the house, the power.

"The purpose of keeping you alive is to make someone kill you. I'll see you when the time comes, boy."

That's what I said and walked away. I didn't understand the meaning of the word at all then. But it didn't matter if I didn't understand what it meant. Acquiring others with gold, building an organization with houses as asides, telling the miscellaneous fishes with power, I created a world just for me. Then more than a decade later, when he had forgotten the past, he suddenly appeared in front of me and said:

"Come on, it's time to be killed. Boy."

I was shocked by that, too irrational a word. At the same time, fear and anger creep up. I was selflessly obsessed with attacking him. But when he grabbed the hammer I shook down with one hand,

"Are you afraid to die? Boy."

And I've heard the obvious.

"What's wrong with being scared"

Yes, I still want to play. I want to enjoy the rest of my life. I don't want this inexorable life I've dreamed of to end so easily.

"Fine. Then I'll give you a chance. Your life will be saved if you can strike a stunning boy's opponent with a cursed bullet in it. But if you take it off... Huh, you don't have to tell me this, you know?

That's what he said, he gave me something black on his hips. Strangely enough, the moment I touched it, this way of using something black came through as it poured into my head. In an instant, I found out that something black was a weapon named "pistol."

"... who's the enemy?"

"It shows up tonight, a wizard with brown hair and short hair. She will take the two of her companions out to Azit in the middle of the night. That's where they kill you."

No one would normally believe such a future-predicted proclamation. But I believed him. For I would never want anything to die.

"What if I kill the enemy?"

"That can't be. There's only one way you can help, it'll hit that bullet on the enemy, that's all. One bullet, you take it off, you have no future. Scratch your feet at best, boy."

That's what he told me, and he disappeared from my sight. Then I started preparing to entertain the assassin. Hire powerful adventurers with your strength and gather them into Azit. Whatever their strength, they heard me say as soon as I threatened them.

To hit a bullet with your enemy, you must stop the movement of the other two allies and seal the magic of your enemy.

"Well, there, it would be a good story to see the gap"

I was thinking very sweetly about the battle that was about to begin because of all the helpers' miscellaneous fish, even though my life was at stake.

Was that the cause?

Why did this happen... he must have fallen right in front of me!

I couldn't accept the situation in front of me.

It's a lie...... it's such a lie. I'm not dead yet! We still have a chance! Kill that sobbing foe and I'll save you.

Yeah. You don't have to rely on a weapon like this to kill him yourself. Easy. There's nothing I can't do.

—— I will definitely kill anything!! --

The next moment I thought about it, I ran out toward the girl in front of me.

———— ⭐︎ ————

"Sonia!!

At the same time Mr. Lilia shouted, Mr. Sonia sheltered me from the enemy. And fall to the ground with butterflies.

I was confused by the situation.

Now I have Mr. Sonia in my arms. Nothing. Sonia is not injured. I'm not bleeding, and I don't see any noticeable trauma. Yet for some reason......,

—— not breathing ——

I can't feel my heart beating even if I put my hand on Sonia's chest. Apparently, Mr. Sonia is dead. I overflowed tears from my eyes the moment I found out about it.

It's all my... it's my fault.

If I hadn't put my shield in front of Mr. Sonia and Mr. Lilia, perhaps Sonia's behavior would have turned into one of taking away enemy pistols with one or eight instead of sheltering me at the expense of myself. But I interrupted it with a shield...

I was about to be crushed in the chest because of my guilt toward Sonia. One Azito boss rushes out at me like that. Apparently, my next target is me.

Enough is enough. Nobody's gonna be sad that I'm dead here, right? A quick Mr. Lilia would get away with it. Already... let's give up.

I laid Mr Sonia to the ground, ready to die.

It's the third time. There is no fear or stray. Rather, it also feels like salvation to die and this guilt disappears. Because I no longer deserve to live.

I bowed and stared at my enemies running through a hammer. The next moment the enemy stopped in front of me and tried to wave down the hammer, a shield appeared in front of me.

"Ruka! Now! Kill!!"

That's what Lilia screams as the shield takes the shaken hammer down. I, selflessly obsessed, took the heavy long sword that Mr. Sonia had just held and poked it deep into the chest of a gap formed enemy.

"Where... scum..."

That's what Azito's boss said, he threw up blood reflexes and fell to the ground with a bump. Blood overflows from where I stabbed my sword, and I can build up a large build-up of blood on the ground. I was watching the sight.

"... are you okay?

One of the dozen people standing around the boss said so and reached out. Apparently, there's no hostility. I said quietly, "I'm fine," and moved my gaze to Mr. Sonia. Sonia's expression is as if she were asleep.

"Why... for me..."

The stopped tears overflow again. My face was crying too much and turning bright red.

"Somebody, help me clear the rubble."

Lilia says so and asks for help. The people who were worried about me, when they heard about it, turned to Mr. Lilia. Apparently, Lilia's legs got caught in the rubble and she couldn't move. Several men joined forces and lifted the wooden pillars on Mr. Lilia's feet. Lilia, with her body freedom back, seems to have figured it all out when she ran and came over here, looking at my shaky crying face. Without asking anything, I caressed Sonia's head silently.

"An adventurer is like this. It's always a job of death and neighborhood. Wasn't it a good experience to accompany Ruka to this operation to get her used to people's deaths?

Lilia muttered such a sad thing with a lonely look on her face.

"Sonia died because I, irresponsibly, deployed a shield in front of Sonia and Lilia or caught my guard off guard, creating a situation where Sonia had to sacrifice herself. I killed Sonia."

Yes, it's all my fault. But when Mr. Lilia heard my words, he shook his head,

"It was that big guy who killed Sonia, and it was Sonia's own will that killed Sonia. Ruka is nothing wrong. The decision to deploy the shield was not a bad choice in the sense of protecting my people, nor would I be bad enough to not have put the possibility of the enemy having a flying tool in perspective"

And denied my words. But I understand that Lilia is lying. It's all my fault that whoever hears it is obvious. Still, listening to Mr. Lilia made me feel a little easier.

"... thank you"

"... oh"

Then there was a moment of silence between us. But the silence ends abruptly by one man.

"Hey there ladies. He's still alive!!

The tall, blue-haired man said so with such a dazzling smile that he could not help but meditate on his eyes when he stood in front of us.