The Immortal Demon King and the Impaired Hero

After saving the carriage from the bandit's raid, Isaiyoi and Yuka left the rest of the aftermath to Lilith and the carriage face to return to Termus one foot away. Fortunately, it was Lilith and a face-to-face merchant who were in the carriage, and she took on the aftermath with pleasure if I told her that Evening Incense was not in excellent health.

Lilith was terribly worried when she broke up, but she couldn't afford to respond to Evening Incense and just snorted weakly.

Returning to Terms, the two returned straight to the inn after reporting to the guild that the request had been completed.

We were alone in the room, and once again Isaiyoi faced Evening Incense.

"Yuka, you've never killed a man, have you?"

Ask for confirmation now. Yuka doesn't try to answer with just a slight shake in her shoulder, but that attitude tells the story.

- Evening incense has never killed a person.

To be honest, it was unexpected. Isaiyoi thought that he had encountered a scene where he would be killed by the time he came to him exactly, and that it was something that was way over the line.

But the reality was different.

I don't know how long it's been since I've been summoned to this world, but Yuka never killed anyone yet. It can be a major obstacle in this world.

In this world, the weight of life is quite light. What a routine tea meal to lose your life in battle with demons, not just sickness, famine, etc. Not only that, but humans can take their lives from each other, from the robbers and so on.

Whenever and wherever you die, it's not weird. It is far too lethal not to be prepared to kill at times of need in this world that has been slaughtered to such an extent that it cannot be compared to the original world.

That was a good example of a burglar.

The man who was attacked by Yuka had a firm intention to kill, leaving aside the reason. Evening incense is precisely hostile without intent to kill. I was therefore surprised, hesitant, and unable to deal with the man's ambush.

Lilith, by contrast, was neither lost nor hesitant to kill. That would be the case, too. Because if you hesitate for a moment when you have a career as an adventurer, it is you who will be killed.

Let us say that we are accustomed in a way and that we are defending the common sense of this world.

- If you don't kill him, you can kill him.

That's common sense in this world.

Yuka, who hasn't said so, will bear the handful of immortality in all the battles ahead. It is too great a shackle to have to consider the life or death of an opponent in the midst of a killing.

So Isaiyoi preaches to Evening Incense. I don't care if you're going to hate me. Because if I don't make you realize it here, it's going to be irretrievable one day. This is all I can't give in.

Isaiyoi imparted evening incense.

the lightness of life in this world.

Common sense in this world.

Prepare to kill.

As a result, it was the whimpering voice that returned from Evening Incense.

"Why... why are you saying that..."

Tears seep into his eyes, and Evening Incense grabs him by Isaiyoi's chest barn.

"What do you mean, life is light? What's the value of your life? You're right, this world may see life lighter than it used to be."

But go on.

"Because the world has changed - it doesn't even change me!"

Isaiyoi fell into the sensation of being hit in the head with a blunt instrument by words released to spit blood. Evening incense curls up without worrying about him like that.

"Killing demons was hard. In the beginning, I couldn't help throwing up. But the feeling faded as I fought over and over again. I had no choice but to break it off. I'm sure he's used to what you said. But I was afraid of Sole. I was afraid that I would be able to kill creatures flat!"

The tear glands that have reached their limits are overflowing, and they blur and cry out. Still, it should be noted that Yuka keeps exhaling her own mood as if her hoop had come off.

"I think it's changed already. But still. I didn't want to just kill people. You can't get used to it. 'Cause I thought we shouldn't just cross that line. If I get used to it, I'm not really me anymore. Sunset Kogure (...) is gone. - That's all I'll ever do!!"

The shout of Evening Incense's heart, which is also close to the earliest plea, slaps his ear. It sounds as if you blame yourself, as if you blame yourself.

Isaiyoi must have touched something he shouldn't have touched. It tried to make me cross a line that I could never give way to for Yuka and I didn't want to cross.

You suck. On second thought, I was still trying to force Kid Sunset to kill me. I was trying to decide my mind by branding it as for her, not considering how much that might affect her mind.

Once formed, the ethic is broken, because if you make a mistake, you can break the person's personality as well.

I feel so sorry for myself that I can't help it.

And it's so painful that there's nothing I can do.

Yuka said - Yuka Kogure didn't want to change. Isaiyoi, by contrast, is the opposite. In the eternal time since I was summoned to this world, I have forgotten my former self and turned to such an extent that I cannot go back. It's dyed off.

You won't be able to see him and his predecessors as the same person at the earliest. The only thing that hasn't changed is appearance, and the contents are almost separate. There can't be any more aversion to taking a life.

For Isaiyoi like that, Evening Incense's words were also equal to the murder weapon. I also felt completely denied everything about myself.

But still...

- I'm sorry.

Put your hands gently on Evening Incense's head, which covers her face with both hands and cries.

"I didn't think about your feelings. I'm sorry for being so selfish."

Press and kill your emotions and say your words of thanks. The voice was flat enough to soothe and cold.

Noticing that, Evening Incense slowly lifts her face as she whimpers. Crying eyes collide with his - Evening Incense's eyes are opened.

"Ah, ah..."

Evening incense that leaks your voice to wheeze. Step back from Isaiyoi, as if frightened by something.

Yuka noticed. To the fact that my words totally denied the existence of Isaiyoi. To have mercilessly chosen his heart.

And I got scared. in his eyes, which drained any emotions.

"Yes, Isaiyoi. Me..."

"... no, never mind. I'm gonna chill my head a little."

Isaiyoi leaves the room behind, blocking the evening incense that tries to spin the words with a trembling voice.

"Ah... mah."

Sunset's stretched hand cut the sky in vain.

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Blurry view of the sea sky being eroded by the herd blue from the east.

Isaiyoi, who couldn't think of anything to do in particular and didn't feel like drinking, wandered the city without guessing. The city already knows every inch of it, so it's not interesting.

The figure was like a child who lost sight of his way home, flushed by a wave of people and waited for his mother to pick him up. Though hundreds of years old for a child.

With a thin grin on his self-derision, Isaiyoi changes course from street to narrow alley under the guise of a natural breeze.

He proceeded without hesitation through the dim alley day and night and stopped walking after a while.

"Don't hide. Come out."

A quiet grunt echoes in the alley. Then a few shadows appear blocking back and forth from nowhere. I can't see my face because I wear a hood deep in the dark, but there are three in the front and two in the rear. I can tell from the outfit and standing that it would all be women.

"What do you want?"

I would ask for the requirements, but Isaiyoi had a big idea. Probably Lilith related. Otherwise, I don't remember being surrounded by five women.

One of the three forward stepped forward as he waited for his opponent to react to the sighing mix.

"I'd like to get right to it. Could you stop parasitizing Master Lilith? It's Lilith's problem."

The tone is polite. There seems to be some upbringing, but I can feel it insulting Isaiyoi from the ends of the word.

Isaiyoi doesn't know much about adventurer circumstances, so I don't know, but he's probably from nobility or knight. So I admire and indulge in Lilith, the A-rank adventurer.

And he set out to eliminate Isaiyoi as a pest wrapped around Lilith?

It passes behind Isaiyoi's brain to think for a moment that Lilith had a similar experience during the Demon King era, although I was well aware that she had a fan-like presence, but had no idea that she was so shallow.

That one, yeah. It was around the time when we talked about how my wife was doing and how the side room was doing. It was when Azumi, blinded by fanaticism and power, approached Isaiyoi to marry her own daughter or herself to her righteous wife.

What made Tochi crazy, they went to get rid of Illum and Lem, women who were also near Isaiyoi's side and close. Fortunately, the driving of the Illum and the magic of the Rem, and the reversal of Isaiyoi, were not touched, but returned.

Even then, Isaiyoi had no idea what they were doing. It is Isaiyoi's feeling that he does not understand clearly. And now I can't stop sighing when I think they're of the same kind again.

Ha, and spit out depressing thoughts with exhalation, and Isaiyoi looks up at the sky where the stars showed their faces.

"... troublesome"

Isaiyoi's grunt echoed in a dark alley.