Me - Kaisel Clyde was an adventurer.

He appeared on the headlines from the time he was first licensed as an adventurer at the age of fourteen, and rose to the A-rank adventurer at the fastest pace in history.

If I dealt with the sword, it was called Kensei, and if I dealt with magic, I was called Sage.

Prodigy since the adventurer guild began.

That was my assessment from around.

But I could never float to the admiration around me. Because the purpose was only to become an S-rank adventurer.

Dawn every day in swords and magical archeology, he did his duty.

Everyone didn't doubt that Kaisel would be an S-rank adventurer in the future. That was none other than me myself.

But...

One day when I was seventeen, I lost everything.

It was when I went on an A-rank mission.

It was a mission to crusade Wyburn, which lives in the volcano.

I climbed the volcano from my village and crusaded Wyburn safely. That's where we were supposed to accomplish our mission.

But...

Irregular has happened.

The fierce battle between me and Wyburn woke up an enchanted dragon sleeping deep in the volcano.

The dragon was a disaster-class demon - S-ranked.

As he flew from the fire exit with his roar, he flew towards the village at the foot. It was late when I hurried back to the village thinking it was a mess.

In front of me lay a good number of deaths.

One of the villages was completely devastated.

The buildings, the people, the earth, everything was ravaged.

Black smoke rises from the area.

The scorching dead smell of meat snorted.

The dragon was in the middle of a village that had become a burning field, roaring. I rushed out toward that wretched giant body.

After a death fight that lasted a whole day, the dragon fled.

I didn't have the energy to chase him.

"Somebody! There's nobody here!

I was in a village where no one was, and I shouted.

The villagers are dead.

The mayor who welcomed me happily, the muscular carpenter who drank all night, and the billboard daughter in the inn who favored me.

They're all burned down.

"Such an idiot..."

I was swallowed up by despair and knelt on the spot.

It's all my fault.

If we could have defeated Wyburn more quickly. I didn't have to wake up the dragon sleeping behind the fire exit.

What is an A-rank adventurer?

What is Kensei? What a wise man. What is a prodigy?

If you can't protect someone to protect, there's no point in standing or honor. Now I'm a big idiot.

It was then.

"Ahem."

I heard voices from somewhere.

I smell death. I'm blown by the wind, and I smell it.

When I stand up, I walk out to the person whose voice I hear.

Run out.

He turns to his voice with all his might.

The distance of that voice is gradually approaching.

- It's from around that rubble.

I scratch the debris scattered at my feet.

Please.

Please stay alive.

Hope so.

When my fingertips scratched the rubble to the point where it wore out - a cute baby peeked in the gap under one rubble.

That's not alone either. The three of us.

"" "Ohhhh" "

Everyone is crying as they sneeze their faces.

Anxiously, trembling with fear.

He raised his high voice and was crying.

But it's...

It was also a sign that these children were alive.

"Good. I'm so glad..."

When I picked up the three babies, I hugged them.

Like taking on the anxieties and fears of these children all by themselves.

I thought they were all dead.

But there were lives I could protect.

"Because I'm responsible for raising you. Because I'll make you happy for the people of this village who are dead...!

That day, I swore to the villagers I couldn't save.

These kids want me to raise them nicely.

And he said he was going to make you happy to the minute of those who couldn't save you.

My life changed after I got back from my assignment.

The Wyburn Crusade mission was a success, but I was blamed for destroying the village by an awakening dragon.

Those who praised me until now also returned the palm of their hands. I started to be treated like a criminal.

"This is what he thought was gonna happen one day! They called me a prodigy or something, and I got on with it!

"What's an A-rank adventurer? Leave the village to ruin! Now strip him of his Adventurer license!

"The dragon hasn't been crusaded yet, has it? You just have to sacrifice him and bring in the dragon guy."

Everybody's been throwing hard words at me.

But I didn't even feel like disputing it. Their words are harsh, but because it was also true that I killed the villagers.

And -.

I'm retiring from Adventurer Operations.

The guild's receptionist was the only one who enthusiastically held me back, but he solidified by saying he wanted to be beside the babies he had picked up.

"Really...... Mr. Kaisel is nothing wrong. You just did the best you could on the spot."

"Thank you"

I guess you're comforting me.

When I bowed my head, I left the Adventurer Alliance behind.

Both open doors close.

It was the sound of my dream as an S-rank adventurer being closed.

Seventeen-year-old I became the father of three babies this day. I vowed on my chest to give my life to raise these kids to a fine adult.