Running Away From The Hero!

# 1 Their Reason: The Demon King's Reason

Today, we have gathered troops to attack the castle.

The goal is to scatter as much as possible to reduce damage and deplete enemy supplies.

After confirming that the dwarf is not inside, he has been acting with the aim of exhausting consumables thoroughly.

Originally, we were going to bypass the troops and surround them, but the Empire saw through them and built a march behind the castle.

The moment he attacked the rear of the castle, he was trying to dismantle the troops to surround them.

I would have been beaten if I hadn't scouted ahead.

If the dwarf's weapon damages many of his troops, but the troops he was trying to send to the rear are gone, he has no choice but to retreat.

If that's the case, you'll have to leave the castle and go far away.

The warriors and the Imperial Army will not let me go.

I had to be as careful as I could because I knew that if I didn't collect all the pieces of evil, I would eventually lose.

“Those bastards. ”

He gives a short speech to the imperial army that is still immobile.

If they were fighting in a frontal battle, they would have tried to break through even if they were completely depleted.

I was unable to use my troops without knowing when to apply for them.

“All forces attack! ”

The moment you want to disperse all troops and start a boring Workshop again,

Kuoooooooooooooooooo!

You notice a large number of troops disappearing along with a loud bang.

It's not a Dwarf weapon. It was an attack from the rear, not the front.

“Are we finally moving? ”

He knew we were surrounded a long time ago.

Starting with the warriors, the cult and hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

Each and every one of them could affect the war.

However, if the instructor or individual with the Evil Fragment were compared to the Empire army with more combat strength than the warriors, they would be less of a priority.

I didn't care because I didn't attack first, but now I think they're after me.

“Give them a third of your troops! ”

Divide a portion of the troops to stop the enemy from attacking.

This is a small force, but the troops sent by Jill are stronger.

Even an Ogre bitten by evil can be crushed lightly by Dwarf weapons or Imperial troops, but no ordinary soldier can be defeated when 10,000 are gathered.

You will not be easily defeated unless you are a warrior or a sorcerer.

“Charge!”

You don't have to send the strong against the strong.

It's only because it's strong and weak and compared to the average target.

When you compare the strong with the strong, one becomes the weak.

If you can't win, buy time with the weaklings.

Nothing is more foolish than losing the best hand in a fight you can't win for nothing.

You lost, but you fought well.

That's just a loser's excuse.

That's what the instructor taught me, and I did it anyway.

“Kill them all! ”

It was at the same time as speaking out, when we began to move the forces of evil with fragments of evil.

"Do you see the apostle of the evil god?

Suddenly, I hear the instructor's voice.

“What?"

The instructor who has to flee from me is moving himself?

I started hearing the instructor's voice more accurately in my confused ears.

I even started to see these huge, magical projections.

Demon King, I... We are here. Come! The kingdom of Barresseril... And here I am!

I had to pause to see the instructor coming out of the castle and confidently exposing his position.

What's the point?

Why are you trying to provoke me out of that castle?

The castle was an impregnable fortress that could not surpass even the forces of evil, and it was a place that could easily defeat thousands of armies just by waiting.

The instructor who taught me how to fight couldn't have known it.

"Are you thinking, Evil Demon King?

It was words and actions that felt like they were looking at me.

I turned my head and looked around.

After realizing that there was no instructor around, I was embarrassed for a moment and stared at the video of the instructor floating in the air.

I don't know why we left the best walls behind.

Yes, it is.

No matter how much I thought about it, there was no reason for the instructor to leave that fortress.

Could it have been those who were aiming for the rear and the bucket?

If they did, they wouldn't have to be so noisy.

We fought. I fought and fought and fought. Even though we knew it was a war we couldn't win, we fought evil with our lives for the will of the great gods.

But no matter how many you defeat, evil never goes away. As time went on, they suffered! We had nothing to do but defend ourselves.

"The Demon King! This is a challenge. The challenge that our Sword of Humanity can reach you!

"Come! The kingdom of Barresseril is ready to defeat you. Ready to put a sword in your heart and save the world!

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

With cheer, the video disappeared as those presumed to be soldiers of the Barresseril Kingdom started rushing into the evil god's army.

“What is it?”

It was honest.

“That's not the kind of man you are. ”

He wasn't avoiding a frontal battle.

He had the skills and the guts.

But he wasn't the one who didn't take advantage.

Winning using everything around you.

I was taught it was the best shortcut to becoming a winner.

“It's a trap.”

The instructor knows you can't defeat me with that kind of force.

Nevertheless, I couldn't think of a rational reason to lure me out of the castle except to dig a trap and wait.

Perhaps the Imperial soldiers are hiding.

The moment I set my sights on that place, an Imperial army will appear and come after me.

I examined the progress of the Imperial Army with birds bitten by the evil I had sent ahead.

“I knew it.”

I was able to piece together all the pieces of the puzzle, looking at the Empire army that had already disappeared.

That's a trap.

Maybe the rear attack was a trap.

All mankind united and prepared a plan to kill me.

However,

“A trap I knew and knew I had to be set up. ”

I knew it was a trap, but I had to get close.

The evil god's army has already suffered too much damage.

Even if I did retreat, there was no best chance I could make it back alive.

The choice to make now is to avoid the worst choice.

We had to make the most suboptimal choices, and the most likely way to win was to take the fragments of evil from the instructor and collect all the pieces of evil.

“Phew……. ”

I sighed a little.

The instructor must have planned all this.

He told us to reduce our enemies' options and build the stage we want to win.

“It won't be easy. ”

I recall the instructor in the video a moment ago.

You're old.

I didn't think the instructor who was looking at me with a cold expression in the past would age like that.

Who I thought could not be exceeded as a child.

Someone who still doesn't want to fight that much.

But to get back at the world that killed her, we needed to get beyond the walls of the past.

“Sir... No, sir. ”

I raised my sword to recall my past time with him.

“I will surpass you. ”

Though you may not be fighting in your old flesh, I will prove to you that your cunning has surpassed you by force.

Battles that you think and prepare for.

But things were a little different from what I expected.

“Fool. How long are you going to keep him waiting? ”

There was no Imperial Army.

The Barresseril royal army is well within reach.

“What do you think? ”

All that's in front of me is the instructor holding two swords.

“Do you think it's time to die? Are you trying to fulfill the dream of an ugly apprentice before you die? ”

From what I learned from the instructor, I had to run unconditionally without saying anything in this situation.

But I had no choice but to speak out in a situation that was so incomprehensible.

“ ……. ”

Looking at the instructor who bowed his head to my words, I could feel something protruding out of my mind.

“Why are you doing this? For what reason? ”

The instructor I knew wouldn't do this.

“Khh... Khh... Hahahaha! ”

Seeing me like that, the instructor shook his head and laughed.

“What does that smile mean? ”

“Hahaha! There are many things in the meaning of a smile. There's smiling with joy, there's laughing with laughter, there's laughing with laughter. Why do you think I'm smiling? ”

What does that smile look like? Of course there's only one.

“I'm ridiculed.”

“Yes, that's right. I'm laughing at you. ”

“Is there a trap I don't know about? ”

As well as looking around you, you are scouring the surroundings with the eyes of the evil birds floating in the sky.

But all I can see is you.

This was not an ambushable terrain in the first place.

“Are you keeping an empire army underground? ”

Wherever I couldn't see, I was in the ground.

Unless the Imperial Army suddenly appeared from the ground, the only thing that could help you was the Barresseril Empire army that was far away.

“Or do you believe in the Vareserril kingdom behind it? Are we to rob the castle of supplies and use Dwarf weapons and armor to become fully armed soldiers? ”

The Barresseril Empire forces have forced me to struggle after the Empire army on this continent, but that was not because the soldiers of the Barresseril Empire were strong.

Dozens of kingdoms with that level of military power have been destroyed.

The only reason they stopped me was if there was a Dwarf weapon or not.

“Do I need that luxury to deal with you? ”

I told you my only hope was to defeat you, but you denied it.

“Imperial forces? We don't need their strength. ”

Grave and now even my worst enemy has denied you.

“Then what on earth do you believe? ”

“Ahh... ”

The instructor took a small sigh and saw me with the look on his face in the past.

I never thought I'd see the look on your face again when I joined the organization and was just a senior trainee, wondering how to make this useless thing human.

“What did I tell you to believe? ”

The former instructor said about faith:

“Don't trust anyone else. Don't believe in special circumstances. Don't believe in possibilities. Believing only in yourself. The moment you believe in yourself, you can believe in everything else. ”

Trust yourself first.

Then you can trust everything you believe in.

And then...

“But you put your foot on an axe you believe in. ”

The former instructor speaking with an evil smile was projected with the current instructor.

“Yes, it is. ”

I took a step back without even knowing the instructor looking at me with a very wicked smile.

“I believe only in myself. ”

The instructor approached me two steps ahead to narrow down the distance.

“Do I need someone else's help beating the fool's disciple? ”

Three steps, four steps.

Looking at the instructor walking on a light walk, I could feel the past instructor.

“Sir……. ”

Howling, once called the Empire, or, rather, the continent's worst evil organization.

The youngest and most feared instructor in Howling.

“Come on, you stupid pupil. ”

Nothing lasts forever.

No matter how sharp the sword is, it rusts over time and becomes dull.

However, the instructor was neither rusty nor dull. No, it felt sharper.

Sharpening every day keeps getting sharper and sharper!

“Gulp!”

I swallowed dry saliva without even knowing it.

I'm scared. It reminds me of my past.

Wirev!

But the moment I remembered her smile, I could feel my mind calm.

“Very well.”

Draw the sword.

I must cut down the past to avenge the world that took her.

“Let me show you firsthand how much your disciples have grown. ”

Cut through the past.

I raised my sword to become the perfect incarnation of evil.

“Yes, come. I'll show you what a teacher's wall looks like. ”

Looking at my angst, the instructor gave me a smile when he taught me in the past.

And so began the final battle to decide the fate of this world.