Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 113

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113.

‘Do you think this world is worth saving?’

‘What do you mean by that?’

‘Exactly what I said.’

Elsi stared directly at Leo with an expressionless face.

‘Is there a reason for this world to continue existing?’

‘Well.’

Kail scratched his head.

‘Shouldn’t we think about that after saving it first?’

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He recalled events from long ago in the past.

When Kail first met Elsi, it was after the Erebos Expedition had taken the form that people remember.

After Risinass had dragged Kail into what seemed like an impossible journey.

Luna, Arron, and Dweno joined one after another, forming the appearance of the ‘Great Hero’ party known to the world today.

And not long after, the party encountered Elsi.

There were three members in the Great Hero party who had the qualifications of a summoner.

Kail, Risinass, and Luna.

Among them, Luna had no talent as an elementalist.

Kail could handle both magical beasts and spirits, but he couldn’t match Risinass.

So they expected Elsi to form a contract with Risinass.

Moreover, since Risinass was a black dragon, he would certainly be the best contractor for Elsi, a shadow spirit.

But defying everyone’s expectations, Elsi chose Kail.

‘I never did hear the reason why she asked that question before the contract, or why she chose me.’

Kail and Elsi’s contract didn’t last long.

Because not long after the contract, Elsi perished in battle against the Overlord King and Hell Kaiser.

“Black Rabbit! What are you doing standing there?”

Ar approached and asked with a puzzled face.

“No, it’s nothing.”

‘I’ll have to talk with her slowly later.’

Now wasn’t a suitable situation to have a conversation with Elsi.

And Kail meeting Elsi was a story from one year in the future.

Moreover, Leo wasn’t even Kail.

When the Elf Girl who appeared to be the eldest handed over a bowl of porridge, Leo and Ar accepted it.

“Could you give us one more bowl?”

“Yes?”

“I think that man should have something to eat too.”

“Yes!”

At those words, the Elf Girl smiled brightly and handed over another bowl.

When Ar shared some of her portion, Leo also added food to Agon’s bowl.

“Mister. You should eat too!”

Ar approached Agon and handed him the bowl.

At those words, Agon looked back and forth between the bowl and Ar.

“What’s wrong?”

Seeing Ar looking slightly flustered, Agon smiled bitterly.

“It’s nothing.”

Taking the bowl, Agon settled down in one corner of the open field, and Leo and Ar sat in front of him.

“You two came from outside.”

At those words, Ar hesitated for a moment.

‘More precisely, we came from the future.’

Since she couldn’t say such a thing straightforwardly, Ar obediently nodded her head.

“Yes.”

“Then you’d better leave this city quickly.”

“Huh?”

At the sudden words, Ar’s eyes widened.

“I know you’re not simple refugees. With that level of skill at your age, you’d be welcomed anywhere.”

Agon, who had seen through Leo and Ar’s abilities, wore a complicated expression.

“There are still many places other than this city that would value your skills.”

During the Age of Calamity, it was a time when they were even more desperate for talented individuals with strong power than now.

This was inevitable because strong military power was essential to defend against Tartaros’s attacks.

“We can’t do that.”

“Why not?”

“I told you. Arron sent us here.”

Watching Leo speak while eating porridge, Ar perked up her ears and tail.

“Right, you said Arron sent you here? Where is that guy now?”

“Don’t you know where Arron is either?”

“I don’t know. That foolish disciple of mine. It’s been half a year without any news.”

At Agon’s words, Ar’s eyes widened.

‘Disciple?’

For Ar, Agon’s words were shocking.

What gets recorded in Hero Record are only achievements as heroes.

So almost nothing was known about the Great Heroes’ past stories.

Since all the Great Heroes were figures from 5000 years ago, documents about their previous activities were also hard to find.

Therefore, the statement that Agon was Arron’s master was enough to excite Ar.

Because it was a moment to learn new history that had been unknown until now.

“Mister! You were Master Arron’s teacher?”

Seeing Ar ask with sparkling eyes, Agon let out a deep sigh.

“Yes, I’m the master of that pathetic fellow.”

“But Master Arron is so amazing!”

“What?”

Seeing Ar’s sparkling eyes, this time Agon was the one who became flustered.

“A noble, great, and brave hero – to say he’s pathetic when you raised such a person… excessive modesty isn’t good either.”

Watching Ar smile brightly while praising Arron, Agon wore an incredulous expression while Leo covered his face with his hands.

“Miss, you seem to be mistaken.”

“Huh?”

“My disciple isn’t noble. He’s not great or brave either.”

Ar’s mouth fell open.

“Of course, he has tremendous power that doesn’t match his age.”

Agon let out a deep sigh.

“But he’s a coward whose power doesn’t match his courage. The reason Arron left Reishar was also because he was afraid of fighting.”

Faced with the harsh reality, Ar said in confusion.

“Ah, I know! The Master Arron I know and your disciple must be different people!”

Ar hurriedly pulled out a photo of Arron from her chest.

“Your disciple doesn’t look like this, right?”

Agon looked at the photo and said.

“No, that’s definitely my disciple.”

“That’s a lie.”

“What did you say?”

Ar stepped backward.

“Th-that can’t be. That can’t be true! Master Arron! That Master Arron can’t be a cowaaard!”

Watching Ar wail and run away with a “thud thud thud!”, Agon asked.

“Why is your friend acting like that?”

“She has fantasies about Arron.”

‘Well, I guess it would be shocking enough?’

Arron had been the pride and dignity of the beastman race for thousands of years.

To the beastmen, Arron was a great hero and a symbol of courage.

He was so respected that there was a tradition of praying to Arron when facing life-threatening battles.

To hear that such a figure was actually a coward in real history must have been a tremendous shock for Ar, who was dreaming of becoming a hero.

Moreover, the Heroes’ World was actual history itself.

Knowing this fact all too well, she had fled in denial of reality.

“She had fantasies about Arron. How peculiar.”

“She was saved. By your disciple.”

“What?”

“It’s not just her.”

Leo put down his porridge bowl and stared intently at Agon.

“Of course Arron is a coward. I know that better than anyone.”

He recalled his friend who used to tremble before fights.

“But he saved many people where you don’t know. I’m also one of the people he saved. So you can be proud of your disciple.”

Though from Agon’s perspective, it was a story from the distant future.

Arron had saved the world.

“That boy… has he grown so much in the past six months?”

Agon was amazed.

Pride appeared on his face.

Even though they had spoken of unpleasant things, to Agon, Arron was like a son.

He couldn’t help but be happy to hear such a son being praised.

“I should bring her back since we can’t just leave her like that.”

Leo got up from his seat to bring Ar back.

A little distance away from the open field, Ar was muttering while looking at Arron’s picture.

“I can’t believe Arron-nim was a coward. Something must be wrong.”

“Is it bad if Arron is a coward?”

“Huh?”

Ar jumped up like a startled cat and then came down, shouting.

“You scared me!”

“It’s not that surprising.”

“Black Rabbit! Don’t you feel anything about hearing that Arron-nim was a coward?”

“Not at all. That could be possible.”

To beastmen, the word coward was like a curse.

Moreover, calling a deified hero a coward was tantamount to insulting all beastmen.

Even if it was actual history, it was natural to get angry when hearing stories different from one’s common sense.

But Ar’s reaction was strange.

She had a deeply disappointed face, an expression as if she had lost her way.

The confident Ar seemed somehow diminished.

“Is the fact that Arron was a coward really that shocking?”

“Because Arron-nim’s story gave me courage.”

With her tail drooping, Ar looked at Arron’s picture.

And with a voice somehow tinged with melancholy, she said.

“I was an incredibly timid coward when I was young.”

“That doesn’t suit you at all.”

“Don’t spoil the mood when I’m being sentimental!”

Glare- After glaring at Leo once, Ar fell back into reminiscence.

“I was an incredibly timid coward when I was young.”

‘Starting from there again?’

Leo let out a hollow laugh watching Ar regain her emotional momentum.

“My father always emphasized to me back then.”

‘You must become the best! My daughter Ar!’

“Every single day was a terribly difficult succession of days.”

He recalled the cat beastman with incredible muscles whom he had briefly met.

“That uncle was definitely very strict.”

“I told you not to spoil the mood when I’m being sentimental!”

Ar, who had bristled the fur on her tail and ears, let out a deep sigh.

“I always wanted to give up. Whenever that happened, father would tell me. That my name was taken from the hero, Arron-nim’s name.”

A name taken from the greatest hero’s name.

“When I heard those words, somehow I felt courage. So I tried to become like Arron-nim.”

So as not to shame the name of hero.

“Noble and great and brave… to become like the dignified Arron-nim who never cowered in any situation.”

The young girl’s knowledge of Arron was limited to what she had seen in fairy tales.

Ar’s tail swayed gently as she recalled old times.

“But to think that such an Arron-nim was a coward…”

Leo chuckled watching Ar’s tail droop again.

“It’s simple.”

“What’s simple! It’s a complicated problem for an adolescent girl!”

Leo spoke while watching Ar shout “Kyaa!”

“That coward saved the world.”

“…!”

“It might be different from fairy tale books. But I don’t think that’s a reason to be disappointed?”

Leo talked about the Arron he had seen.

“That coward showed the most courage when everyone despaired. That’s why the gods call him a hero.”

Leo smiled.

“Shouldn’t you respect him even more?”

Ar opened her eyes wide and looked at Arron’s picture.

The dignified appearance in the picture was certainly an image created for later generations.

But the fact that Arron was a hero, that he had accomplished great deeds, remained unchanged.

Ar’s ears perked up and her tail swayed gently.

“I think I like Arron-nim even more after hearing that!”

Leo clicked his tongue watching Ar shout with a flushed face.

“Completely gullible.”

“Don’t spoil a girl’s sentiments!”

“Ack!” Leo returned to the open field, leaving behind Ar who was shouting.

In the open field, the children were cleaning up.

Leo’s face darkened slightly upon seeing this.

‘Come to think of it, all these children die from the plague?’

The open field Leo remembered was a huge graveyard.

All these children that Agon was caring for had already lost their lives to the plague when Kail’s party arrived.

From Leo’s position of knowing history, it was painful to see this place.

Leo, who had been making a bitter expression, suddenly felt something strange.

‘Wait. The plague?’

Chronologically, Kail, Risinass, and Luna would arrive at Reishar in a month.

‘When we arrived at Reishar, it was said that everyone living in the district had already died from the plague except for the Guardians of the Starry Skies.’

No matter how strong a plague was, it was strange for this many children to die within a month.

Thinking that far, Leo recalled past events.

‘The Guardians of the Starry Skies won’t try to persuade them further?’

‘Yeah. His will is already broken.’

‘Will can be revived though. It’s a shame to leave behind someone of his caliber.’

‘Luna. As you said, broken will can be revived. But….’

Risinass wore a dark expression.

‘Someone who harbors hatred cannot save the world. Let’s look for someone else.’

After that, they met Arron, and Agon blessed the Expedition Force’s path forward.

So at that time, he had simply let those words pass.

‘Could there be something more to it?’

It was when Leo wore a hardened expression.

“Well, well. Still a filthy place, I see.”

A somehow arrogant voice was heard.

Leo turned his head.

And upon discovering the face there, he grimaced.

It was a person Leo also knew.

The man who had refused when the Expedition Force requested help before their battle with Tartaros in the distant future.

But when the Expedition Force achieved victory after victory, he joined as if nothing had happened, coveting achievements and acting like a hero—that piece of trash.

The lord of Reishar,

‘Lebaiten.’

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