I Was Caught up in a Hero Summoning, but That World Is at Peace

On the bed in the dim room, one old woman.

With a lean, thin body, with thin eyes open... the old woman speaks to the girl who keeps staring at herself beside her.

"... for God's sake... sticky... but on the boulder... it seems like it's time to... limit... 150 years... well... it's something that I could live forever with a crushing thought"

……

The body, which no longer moves, leans only slightly towards the girl, and the old woman slowly spins the words.

This old woman was the most raw woman in the world. He continued to pursue dreams of becoming immortal until that day when he applied various life-extension measures and lay low on the floor.

But Sole never did it for himself... it was important... he kept up against the wall of longevity so that he wouldn't leave alone a truly important being.

Unfortunately, however, the old woman could not cross the wall... so soon the old woman's life will run out.

"But... well... this way, when I nearly die... I know very well. I was… a reward… no more happiness… if I wanted, I would be punished."

"... eh"

"... it's just... just one thing... to heart... to end you... hang out with him..."

……

"... I'm sorry... I... leave you... to die first"

I understand my time of death and apologize to my best friend who has spent most of his life with me for dying first.

Then, in the hands of the old woman...... many grains of tears fall.

"... no..."

"... yeah?

"... no... illis... don't die... don't leave me alone..."

The girl, who has become immortal, weeps and tells the old woman not to die.

Already, the old woman was one of the last...... the existence she loved wholeheartedly...... all but the old woman died already.

"... same face... poor guy... but sorry..."

"... Illis..."

"... hey, -? Just one thing... do me a favor... don't you mind?

"... Huh? Ugh, yeah."

In the eyes of a tearful girl, she reaches out like a dead branch, wipes her tears with a trembling hand, and then the old woman slowly... smiles and utters her words.

"... make an old bet... remember? Look... it was a trading city..."

"Huh? Yeah..." Which one can make a lover first, "right?

"Oh... we end up... we're in love..."

"... Iris didn't, didn't he? For me..."

Sole made such a small bet as to which one could fall in love and make a lover first, a small battle he had long ago, the two girls who did not know love.

In the end, however, the bet was never settled. Of course the girl who has become an immortal monster, the old woman should have had the opportunity, but she truncated them all without hesitation... chose the path to remain with the girl.

"... no... I ended up... wanting to be with you more than you... I don't think so... I can find you"

"No, I'm the same. I couldn't find a more secure existence with you than Illis."

"... right... hey, -?"

"What?"

Calling the girl's name with a faint voice, the old woman mouths her little wishes.

"... you... 'Try to fall in love'..."

"Huh?"

"... fall in love... find someone important... and... be happy..."

"... why... no..."

You guessed what the old woman was going to say, and the girl opens her eyes wide and gives a stunned look.

Because the wish I had for an old woman's mouth... was a restraint on what the girl was trying to do after she lost her old woman...

"... I'm sorry... now you... suffer... I know. Of those who die... be angry that it is a selfish wish... but still... I... want you to be alive."

"Huh!?

"... so please... it's still the same... if you think of me as your best friend... make this last wish come true. And one day... again... like old times... a heartfelt smile..."

"Iris? Iris!?

Even as we talked, the old woman's voice grew weaker and weaker... and it was painfully transmitted to the girl that her life was about to run out.

So the girl weeps and desperately calls on the old lady... yet, tell her not to die...

Towards such a girl, the old woman... smiled tenderly and said her last words.

"... you and... meet... well... good... yes... but... uhh"

"Illis!! Oh, ahhh... uhh... ahhh!?

It's a really ironic story, but the girl has the heart of a bond called Hekatonkail, and the death of her bond-spinned opponent pierces too clearly and too painfully deep into her heart.

A spinning bond can be heard to cut... what remains in your mind is a sign that its opponent existed... a small, cold fragment of bond...

A room with no one, in the dim darkness... the girl's crying echoed...

Alice wipes the tears that were in her eyes at some point, finishing her last conversation with her best friend, Sole, quietly.

"... I wanted to go where my best friends... loved ones are. But if you do, you'll trample on my best friend's, final wish, that you've always kept going with my self. From that day on, I... stopped dying."

……

"I wanted to manage to fulfill my best friend's wishes. But my mind is already dealing with people I know... on the premise of being divided into death... and I really couldn't hold anything like romantic feelings."

Right, that's why Alice said the word... was a curse? I want to die, but if I die, I'll betray my best friend.

I guess it's the last wish of a sincerely important being that has kept her heart tied stronger than anything else.

"... and then I did all sorts of things. I tried playing instruments, painting, making things... only time was long enough, so all of this was superb."

"... yeah"

"Even in the process, I got to know new people again, got along... and dropped that death off again and again. I kept staring at the shifting world and dropping off many deaths. Realizing that my heart is getting colder and less and less and less..."

Sole is never talking about years or decades... maybe thousands or tens of thousands of years of distracting time Alice has lived on. Make your best friend's wish come true. That's the only goal...

"But well, after spending enough years to be shy... I thought. In a world where there are only humans, I'm sure I won't be able to fulfill the wishes of my best friend forever... so I studied ways to go from there to another world."

"Does that mean Alice came to this world on her own?

"Yeah, well, I found a way... the catalyst was a little allergic... it was tightly sealed, you stole out the core of the evil god and used it!

"Huh!?

Something absurd is happening again... Well, like I came here, going to another world on my own is more like a hurdle than being summoned...

"And I took the 'ashes' of my best friends and loved ones into my body with Hecaton Cale, evolved into a further monster, and then powered them to activate the great magic of transworldly metastasis. Later, it's a by-product, but if I take in any ashes, I can be transformed into what my best friends look like all the time. You have a lot of mysteries in your power, Hekatonkail..."

"... So, to this world?

"Yes. No, well, I was surprised. Sometimes I haven't been able to use my powers to the fullest... but I got beat up by Mr. Crowe early on in the world."

"... so to speak, Crowe also said something about fighting Alice..."

Apparently for Alice, Crowe was the first person to come to this world and meet her... but what the hell kind of interaction did that make for instant combat...

"It's me. When I knocked the lass boss down and dived into the back dungeon in a whim, it felt like you came out the back boss with your first hand...... No, seriously, it was super strong, Chlo."

"... how to say it"

"Whatever, so Mr. Crowe tells me how to use his powers - it feels like he called me out. Don't you know Mr. Kite to some extent from there, too? I mean different from my old self, I was named Chartier, and at the same time I was called Six Kings No Face."

And 20,000 years ago I fought the divine world and became friends with Mr. Faye...... is that it? I don't think I know much about the details.

With that in mind, when I try to ask around and about my best friend's promise... Alice looks me straight in the eye and smiles so beautiful that she's about to get sucked in.

"... and I met you... in love"

"Huh!?

Dear Sir, Mother, Father - Words inadvertently told with stories of the past. I've joked and been told before... what is it? Now the words I heard - I was under the impression that they were completely different.