Do Heroes Need Welfare Too? - Chapter 105

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Chapter 105

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“…Kyrillos.”

Adam muttered in surprise, as if he hadn’t expected him to appear here.

However, Kyrillos didn’t look at him, keeping his gaze fixed only on the sword the knight was holding.

“And that knight over there… why are you so brazenly holding my uncle’s sword?”

When he shifted his gaze toward the knight, Kyrillos smiled with his lips twisted upward, just as the knight had done moments before.

“That sword surely disappeared along with him when he went missing. It’s as if the Imperial Palace and my uncle’s disappearance are connected, isn’t it?”

Dozens of magic circles that had been pre-cast floated up behind Kyrillos.

As if he had been watching their confrontation from the very beginning.

“It seems I need to hear the whole story from start to finish.”

A quiet rage contained within his magical power rippled through the air.

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Iberis, who had been holding Erwin and holding her breath while watching the messages appear in the air, frantically looked at the message that appeared with a small sound.

Your Hero kills the Imperial Guard.

“…It’s done.”

She held her breath as she read the messages that kept appearing one after another. And when the final message appeared.

Only then could she breathe out the breath she had been holding.

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Adam and Kyrillos arrived less than five minutes after the last message appeared.

So the final battle had taken place closer than I thought.

Her palms grew sweaty at the thought that the Imperial Guard could have discovered their location first if things had gone slightly wrong.

“Are you alright?”

“…Yes. Thank you, Kyrillos.”

Kyrillos, who had found Iberis first, extended his hand to help her stand up.

Having been tense for so long, she couldn’t stand properly and her legs wobbled.

“It would be good to go outside and get some fresh air.”

Kyrillos supported her by holding her waist.

A sharp gaze directed toward them from behind.

Iberis didn’t notice, and Kyrillos pretended not to notice.

Adam let out a small sigh after the two left.

It would have been better if Kyrillos had looked after the child instead.

Adam, left alone with Erwin, thinking that the familiar Hero would probably be better than himself whom the boy didn’t know, fell into thought about how to comfort the child.

Eventually, just as Iberis had done once before, he knelt down to meet the child’s eyes and asked.

“Were you okay? You said the Imperial Guard was chasing you.”

Erwin looked a bit tense at the mention of the Imperial Guard, but his complexion quickly returned to normal.

It must have been frightening for the young boy, but Adam felt puzzled by his attitude of not seeming to care much about it.

“Yes. Sister Eve said that big brother would come soon. Oh, and that he’d come with a reliable companion!”

By companion, he must mean Kyrillos.

However, meeting him on the way was purely coincidental.

Kyrillos had been patrolling the village in hiding to prevent the disappearance incidents from recurring, and discovered Adam confronting the Imperial Guard, then joined him.

It was something even Adam hadn’t anticipated, yet Iberis had known about it?

“…How?”

It could have been vague faith.

Since there were countless matters he had stepped forward to resolve.

However, rather than that kind of direct faith because he was the Hero…

He was suspicious.

“Eve acted as if she knew my location?”

“Yes. She suddenly muttered something, then told me not to worry about missing you on the way and to just stay still because big brother would come.”

Erwin’s eyes turned toward the red string Adam was holding.

“Ah, it really is a string! Sister said that Hero big brother would come soon after finding that string. And less than 10 minutes after that, the Hero came!”

“…”

Adam, who had been listening intently to Erwin’s words, unconsciously let out a hollow laugh.

It felt like the tightly blocked knot was finally beginning to unravel.

At that moment, the cabin door opened. It was Iberis who entered.

He hadn’t said he would stay here, yet Iberis was naturally looking for him.

“Ah, Hero!”

When their eyes met, the corners of Iberis’s eyes curved prettily as she smiled.

The person who smiles at me like that…

As far as he could remember, there was probably only one.

Your one and only God smiles while looking at you.

So then…

Iberis is…

“You came faster than I expected.”

While looking at Eve’s face, Adam slowly traced through his memories.

There wasn’t the slightest darkness on her face.

Knowing the Imperial Guard’s skill level and having nearly died, she should surely realize some danger and be afraid.

On her clear face, there wasn’t a trace of fear to be found even if you searched with your eyes washed.

What could be the reason.

‘Because she knew I would come.’

It was a deeper trust than vague faith, something like that.

Until now, it had been vague suspicion.

Iberis had always been a curious subject of study.

She acted as if she knew everything, and she knew things he hadn’t told her.

Even when he tried not to pay attention, his gaze would naturally fix on her, so he couldn’t help but notice.

Something he couldn’t ignore even if he wanted to pretend not to know.

Adam found himself smiling without realizing it.

‘There’s only one possibility.’

A person who could know what he was doing anywhere.

And the only person who could converse with him.

Only his God.

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It had always been a life decided by someone else.

He didn’t know the reason.

It had been that way since the first moment the child could remember.

At first glance, it seemed like an ordinary family.

A father who worked as a miner and a mother who did sewing for wages.

There was also an older brother, one year older.

Though they were a family of four, the child often thought that he didn’t seem to belong to that family.

The food given to him was leftovers from what they had eaten, his clothes were only the worn-out ones his brother had discarded, and all the menial tasks were entirely the child’s responsibility.

He didn’t think it was unfair. It would be more accurate to say he couldn’t even think about it.

It was just decided that way.

It couldn’t be helped.

Even when the child became a boy and grew older, it was the same.

Whenever he drank, the boy’s father would always beat him. The father, who had injured his leg in the mine, couldn’t go to work, and his anger was directed at the boy.

That day was no different from any ordinary day.

He was helping his mother tend to the sheep.

A man wearing a pure white robe grabbed his hand and said.

“You are the only son of the late Former Emperor, Your Majesty. The current Emperor is a murderer who killed his brother, and also an assassin of the Imperial Family! I will definitely restore your throne to you. Definitely…”

Despite the content that would shake the foundation of his entire life, the boy didn’t fall into shock and simply accepted it calmly.

I had simply finally come to realize the truth I had always been curious about.

Ah, I see.

I had never truly belonged within my family from the beginning.

But the person before me was the same.

He was searching for traces of the Former Emperor in my face.

He was looking at me, yet at the same time, not looking at me.

‘No one needs me.’

‘Adam’ did not exist in this place.

To his adoptive father and mother, he was merely a ‘worker,’ and to this mysterious man who had come to find him, he was nothing more than a ‘friend’s son’ needed to achieve his purpose.

“I will make you the sun of the Empire! His late Majesty would have wanted that too.”

To anyone who knew nothing, these would be irresistibly sweet words.

A commoner child who had been abused was actually the missing son of the Former Emperor.

The Elderly High Priest said he had secretly spirited away Adam as an infant before the Emperor’s dark hand, who had killed the Former Emperor, could reach him.

However, while Adam believed his words, he could not trust him at the same time.

After all, he was merely a tool of revenge to ease guilt.

Because Adam was the only key who could now bring down the one who had unjustly ascended to the throne.

He said the mark on his left shoulder was proof of the Imperial Family.

But that was all.

There was no human bond or emotional connection from him.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t have left me abandoned in this obvious hell.

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