“…….that, in the end, wouldn’t defeat the monster.”
“It’s fine like that. If Aya-chan stopped the enemy’s movements, we’ll deal the finishing blow.”
With one of the branches, I drew a shitty goblin on the ground.
And after completing it, I slashed it with a diagonal line.
“Magic isn’t simply to defeat monsters. Stopping and constraining the enemy is also a perfect strategy.”(renji)
Well, this girl has no shred of strategy and simply has brute power to crush all enemies though.
Completely different from me who’s trying hard everyday just to not fall behind others.
I feel envious at the same time feel relieved as well.
I don’t want such kids to travel while feeling the danger for their lives like me. Well, everything is simply me reaping what I sowed.
The wish to the goddess. The weapon to kill God. It can definitely kill a god, but that’s all it does.
It’s a weapon only effective against Gods. It was nothing more than a normal weapon against other monsters, weak……..that’s why, I was the natural enemy of the Demon God though. The demons would attack me, hate me, as if I killed their parents. Thanks to that, my life was in danger the whole time we were in the Demon continent.
I always regretted that I should I have wished for something more generic/all purpose power.
No use crying over spilt milk. They truly are great words.
“Un…….I guess that I should be able to easily imagine that.”(aya)
Without realizing my inner thoughts, Aya was thinking about how to make my idea work.
She’s fast to hit but I think she’s a serious and diligent girl. Her way of thinking is flexible and will create a magic which will far surpass what I originally imagined.
Grand Magus. She really is a genius that doesn’t shame that title. This Girl, Fuyou Aya.
“Also, do you really feel no reluctance when…….killing living beings?”(renji)
“——-“
As she heard that, her smile stiffened and looked up to me with surprise as if she was choking on breath.
I must have asked something I shouldn’t have. It’s an unnecessary emotion in this trip to kill the Demon God.
It could be said that it’ll only be a hindrance, a useless emotion.
But that was only if nobody said or talked about it.
15yrs old. It’s a sensitive time, in my opinion.
At such an age, even if it was to save the world, even if the enemy weren’t humans, even if the monsters were the enemies of humans, it’ll be painful to take away the life of another, I think.
It’s something I was meaning to ask Souichi and the others sooner or later as well.
It was simply because we started talking together more that I asked Aya first.
“But, it’s to save this world……”
“Yeah.”
It’s a nostalgic memory.
I can’t hear anything other than the crackling sound of fire and the buzzing of insects.
Even the sleeping breaths of my comrades, I couldn’t hear them. The next morning, I remember being teased.
“——–“
To kill a living being. To steal away life.
It’s much more heavier than what it sounds like.
That doesn’t change even if you have the excuse that you are doing it to save the world. For us who have only seen such things on TV, it was far too heavy.
But even so, Aya’s words averted away from that fact. The duty to save the world.
If we don’t kill the monsters, demons, and the Demon God, this other world will end. Countless people will die. That’s why, kill. That’s why we fight, that’s the reason why we can fight.
The pressure was too heavy but Souichi and the others still took on that duty and continued journeying. Even though I worried about it everyday, my hands tremble everytime, and kept guard every night without sleeping.
For someone, for something, for the world, for comrades.
For me the pressure that came with the title of a Hero felt ridiculous.
I felt envious and jealous of them so much that I felt like averting my eyes——-Everyone was so bright and honest.
“Renji-san……will we able to return back to our world?”
“Un.”
“Will we able to return together?”
“We will.”
——after we kill the Demon God.