For the [Grand Magus] Fuyou Aya, the person known as Yamada Renji was special.
The extraordinary life of being summoned into another world. She was able to handle it because she was together with her childhood friends Souichi and yayoi. If those 2 weren’t here, she definitely would have been unable to handle it.
The existence of humans and non-humans. Living together with demi-humans and beastmen that only appeared in stories and legends, in a world infested by monsters. A world not of science but of sword and magic.
For men it was situation that would make them excited. Including Souichi, there were 7 men among the summoned 13. She remembers that 6 of them were so happy as if there was no problem with this.
But at that time, only one was being realistic. That was Yamada Renji. He worried about realistic things like how will the survive in this world, their position and status in this world and whether they’ll be able to return or not.
Aya remembers that even now.
In fact he was extremely surprised and questioned the goddess many things about their future. Aya found that to be very mature of him.
Goddess. An existence called as Goddess Astrarea by the humans.
She told them that she wants them to save the world. To defeat the Demon God trying to destroy this world. For that reason, she could give them any power. For that reason, she would fulfil any of their wishes.
That’s why, Aya wished. Since she was in another world now in any case, she wanted to use magic. She imagined the miracle like magic that only appeared in stories and legends. Magical energy that won’t lose to anyone—–not even the Demon God.
That wish was fulfilled and during the decisive battle she was able to do a one on one magic battle with Demon God himself.
Souichi wished for a never losing power and Yayoi wished for a power to heal any wound.
Others as well wished for every power they wanted.
The last one to wish was Yamada Renji. He wished for [the weapon to kill Gods].
That was not to enjoy this world but the power to return back to their world. A power only for that reason.
In actuality, he did recieve the power to become undefeatable against any God. Not just the Demon God, Spirit God or the Goddess. But even against the descendants of the Demon God, Apostles of the Spirit God and priests of the Goddess. That power would work even against the followers of Gods.
For that, he was hated by many. Received the anger of many. And made many enemies as well.
A weapon useless against the monsters, nothing more than a normal weapon, Ermenhilde.
He protected countless with that weapon. That included Aya and the others as well.
He always said that it was impossible to save everyone but yet he was the one who tried to protect everyone the most.
When he was unable to protect someone/something, he would always hide his sadness. At night, in front of the campfire, he would often mourn for it. He was afraid of this other world more than anyone else. Aya realized that half a year later after coming to this world.
One night she woke up and saw Renji, who was acting as the guard at night as usual, feeling down alone. He had even put away Ermenhilde in the custody of Yuuko.
He was an adult, but weak yet tried the hardest and always held the strongest sense of responsibility.
That was the impression Aya had of Renji. And that was not a wrong estimation either.
Yamada Renji always stood at the very front. Along with the jade coloured weapon Ermenhilde, he kept on fighting at the very front.
To protect magicians like Aya and others. To protect kids like Souichi and others. He always tried to not make others worry. So that everyone could sleep peacefully, he would always take up the night guard duty.
Before anyone knew, that became an obvious thing and everyone depended on him for that.
She could still remember his back.
She had become prideful, she had let her guard down. She thought it was obvious that she had won. At that moment, she had almost died.
Her opponent had been an Ogre like today. Overestimating her own abilities, she had gone off too far in the front while trying to kill it.
No matter how strong magic she could use, Aya and others were still human. They die when they are killed. (T/N:classic shirou :P) even if Yayoi could heal wounds, she couldn’t bring the dead back to life.
There were magic to bring the dead back to life but there were too many constraints to that and above all it was a taboo.