Frowning due to the loud scream, I cut away its throat with the return swing of the sword.
That was it. With just that, it was over. The screams disappeared and the Black Orc fell on its knees. The blood spray dirtied my cloak. Oh damn.
And, then it sunk in its own pool of blood. A heavy gloomy sound *zuun* marked the end of the battle.
After this, all that’s left is to take care of the orcs fallen in the pitfalls.
Fuu, as I exhaled, the divine sword turned back into jade green magical energy and dissipated.
“I’m tired. I feel like I worked enough for another half year.”
[You barely did anything at all……..]
The amazed voice sounded really comfortable.
As expected, it suits me more when I’m not fighting.
Maybe it sensed my thoughts, Ermenhilde silently sighed.
“Ah, um………”(fran)
“Ah…oh right.”(renji)
I hid my face with my right hand.
[Give up. You wanted to protect someone, right? That’s why you got me, the God Slaying weapon.]
Yes.
That was the cheat, the [Power of God Slaying] that I wished for.
I wished for a God Slaying weapon.
And, I wanted to protect someone with that weapon.
That was what Yamada Renji had wished from Goddess Astrarea.
To protect someone with the God-Slaying weapon.
That was a truly distorted, cruel and a hopeless wish. An unreasonable wish that was like a contradiction in itself.
……..Why did I wish for something like that? If I were able to return to the past, I’ll go punch myself.
No, that’s not it.
I was simply, affected by the youths around me.
I can say it now, if I got the chance. A power that would make me comfortable or give me absolute fortune or something like that. I want such a power.
That’s why, I sighed.
The words I had easily said, its extremely complicated implication, by the time I realized it, it was already too late for me to do anything.
“Shall we return?”(renji)
“So suddenly!?! Um….the Orcs?”(fran)
We can’t carry them back even as corpses. Let’s go back and ask the villagers for help.”(renji)
The weight of an Orc was about 200Kgs. We couldn’t even carry one of them with us.
We’ll have to get a carriage from the village or it’ll be too difficult to move them from here.
But still, it’ll be many round trips before we finish this.
If we leave them as corpses, other beasts would come after them so we’ll leave them just as they are inside the holes.
“It’s a good haul this time. With this much it’ll be easy for quite some time.”(renji)
“U, Um…….”
Hahahaha while laughing loudly I tried to move away with the momentum but from behind me a timid voice came.
[It would have been nice if she had been fooled with the momentum, right?]
“Don’t say it like it doesn’t involve you, stupid.”(renji)
[Who’s stupid?!]
I looked towards the sky.
How should I fool her?
Suddenly, my gaze moved towards the corpse of the Black Orc.
As if it was mud, it was disappearing into the ground while melting.
Miss Francesca also looked towards it while following my gaze.
“…….Wh, what is that, that black orc?”(fran)
“Who knows? It should be either a mutation, new species, or a hybrid or something.”(renji)
Or was it the revived Demon God? Or did it eat the flesh of the Demon God? Or was it a descendant of the Demon God?
Though I have no idea how the Demon God that had been defeated on the continent of demons had arrived to the Imnesia continent.
[It looks it’ll turn into something troublesome.]
“Don’t say it so happily.”(renji)
[If Renji would work seriously, then even troublesome things are happy things for me.]
“Are you my mother?………”
What kind of philosophical things is this medal trying to say?
Also, I am working seriously! It’s fine as long I can spend everyday while enjoying it.
While sighing, I began to walk in the direction of the village.
And, Miss Francesca began chasing after me.
“Umm, Renji-sama?”(fran)
“You’ve got the wrong person. I’m just an adventurer, Miss Francesca.”(renji)
Denying her instantly, I shrugged my shoulders.
I mean, an adventurer that has simply killed a God and a great noble. She’s the one with the higher status right? (T/N: Right………..c’mon dude….)
[Kuku, Renji-sama, eh? Kukukuh…….]
“Yeah, it’s funny. Laugh as much as you like, it doesn’t suit me I know, goddamn it!”
I’m not a hero.
I can never become a hero.
That’s because my wish was a wish that is unreasonable as well as contradictory.
My cheat, [Power of God Slaying] can only work when someone else is in danger.
A man who can’t fight without putting someone’s life in danger can never be called a Hero.
And that too, without fulfilling many specific conditions, a power that can’t be used at all can only be considered as weak.
That’s why I’m weak. Weaker than any of the other God Slayers.
I looked towards the sky where the sun had begun to rise.
[An Orc with the power of the Demon God, eh?]
“Problematic things are special rights given only to protagonists.”
[And you’re also one of them.]