Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 371

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371

 

At Elsi’s question, Larel showed a momentarily bewildered expression.

 

“What? The era you had to live through? What are you talking about?”

 

She couldn’t understand what the spirit before her was saying.

 

Elsi, who had flown right up to Larel’s face, made a slightly sulky expression.

 

-You say you’ve given up on this world, yet you don’t pass it on to future generations and refuse to disappear—isn’t that because you still have lingering attachments?

 

Elsi spoke in a grumbling voice, pouting.

 

-Acting like you’ve seen all the darkness of the world.

 

Elsi stuck out her lips and made a displeased expression.

 

This wasn’t like the usual Elsi.

 

But Elsi, in her own way, found the Great Spirit before her frustrating.

 

She possessed a more brilliant light than anyone, yet pursued darkness.

 

She could shine even brighter. It seemed like she was killing her own light.

 

Embracing darkness wasn’t the role of a Spirit of Light.

 

Illuminating the beacon of hope and leading people forward.

 

That was what a Spirit of Light was meant to be.

 

“I don’t know what you’ve seen, but.”

 

Larel frowned.

 

“You can’t understand my darkness.”

 

-Then first, show me the darkness you’ve witnessed.

 

“You think you can understand my darkness?”

 

-Of course.

 

Elsi smiled brightly.

 

‘For a spirit of darkness, she’s so bright…!’

 

Larel extended her hand toward Elsi.

 

Above Larel’s hand, a small cluster of light was twinkling.

 

“Don’t blame me if your mind collapses.”

 

This was darkness that even a Great Spirit had suffered from.

 

Spirits, being mental entities, suffer fatal wounds if their minds are cracked.

 

At Larel’s words, Elsi smiled and reached for the cluster of light.

 

Flash—!

 

Bright light burst forth.

 

It was just an instant.

 

But from Elsi’s perspective, it was an incredibly long time.

 

Elsi opened her eyes.

 

Eyes like black obsidian, dark as a night sky without even starlight, reflected Larel’s face.

 

Elsi smiled bitterly.

 

Seeing such an Elsi, the moment Larel showed a flustered expression.

 

-It must have been very difficult.

 

Elsi reached out and gently patted Larel’s head with her small palm.

 

Watching Elsi comfort her as if she understood everything, Larel’s face contorted.

 

“What the hell.”

 

Was the darkness she harbored so light that it could be understood so easily?

 

“What are you that you understand me so easily!”

 

-Hmm.

 

Elsi cupped her cheeks as if troubled and fell into thought.

 

-It’s not a competition, but it’s probably because I’ve experienced worse than you.

 

Elsi smiled bitterly and extended her hand.

 

Darkness rippled.

 

-Want to take a look?

 

Larel looked at Elsi’s darkness and reached out her hand.

 

The darkness enveloped Larel’s body.

 

After a moment, Larel staggered backward with a pale face.

 

“You… what exactly are you?”

 

The era of Elsi that Larel had seen was filled only with despair.

 

“How did you survive the Age of Calamity?”

 

-I’m a Great Spirit from the past.

 

Elsi introduced herself.

 

-I’m Elsie, the Shadow Spirit, a Great Spirit of Darkness who was born in the Age of Calamity and perished in the Age of Calamity.

 

Watching Elsi formally introduce herself once again, Larel’s eyes wavered.

 

“How is a Great Spirit who perished 5000 years ago in this era?”

 

-I borrowed the power of the Hero Record.

 

Larel couldn’t deny Elsi’s words.

 

The scenery in the memories she had seen was definitely from the Age of Calamity.

 

As a Pact Maker of Rodia who had conquered the Hero Records of the Great Heroes together, she clearly remembered the landscape of that era.

 

But experiencing part of that era through the Hero Record was completely different from the despair of one who had to live through it directly.

 

Larel’s hands trembled.

 

After seeing Elsi’s memories, she could understand what kind of heart she had.

 

“How… how can you smile like that?”

 

Larel looked at Elsi, barely managing to speak with a trembling voice.

 

“How can you move toward the light?”

 

Despite having lived through such a desperate era, Elsi had never let go of the thread of hope.

 

-Well.

 

Elsi tilted her head.

 

-That’s probably… because light is that beautiful.

 

The sight of Elsi smiling brightly captivated Larel’s eyes.

 

Watching that scene, Leo smiled bitterly.

 

Leo knew another Elsi.

 

If this was Elsi before she became twisted.

 

The Elsi that Leo originally knew was a spirit who had more doubt about the world than anyone.

 

‘And yet she sacrificed herself for the world.’

 

For the starlight of a night sky she had never seen, Elsi willingly gave her life.

 

In the darkest era, born as the darkest being, Elsi was that kind of spirit.

 

-So don’t give up on this world.

 

Caressing Larel’s cheek, Elsi smiled brightly.

 

-Don’t give up on your Pact Maker. If you just don’t give up, you’ll surely be able to save everyone. Just like this world that had lost its light regained its light once more.

 

Larel’s face contorted as if she was about to cry.

 

For Larel, who had been trapped in deep darkness, those words were like salvation.

 

***

 

Larel had transformed into a small form the same palm-size as Elsi.

 

-So.

 

Larel looked at Leo.

 

-Leo Flobe, what exactly are you?

 

A Hero Candidate who had a spirit from the Age of Calamity as a Pact Maker.

 

At Larel’s question, Elsi spoke.

 

-You must never say things like ‘I had it hard’ or anything like that in front of Leo.

 

-What?

 

-If you do it wrong, you’ll hear nagging like ‘Have you fought Erebos? Or have you seen the world end?’ You heard it earlier, right? Him calling us ‘kids these days’?

 

“What do you think I am?”

 

Leo sighed softly and glanced at Larel.

 

“I’m the reincarnation of the Hero of the Beginning.”

 

-The, the Hero of the Beginning?

 

Larel’s eyes widened at Leo’s unexpected identity.

 

“What? Can’t believe it?”

 

-Well, considering Elsi’s identity… it’s not impossible.

 

Before she knew it, Larel’s tone toward Elsi had changed to honorifics.

 

It was only natural.

 

Elsi was a great spirit who had been with the Great Heroes during the Age of Calamity.

 

To Larel, she was like a great senior.

 

‘Leo Flobe is all-class. And he’s continuously shown extraordinary behavior.’

 

5000 years since Hero Record existed and the Age of Heroes began.

 

Even after the existence of the Heroes’ World was revealed, no one with abilities like Kail had existed.

 

Even the Heroes of the Cataclysm had no one who inherited Kail’s power.

 

Larel, who had been hesitating while looking at Leo, carefully asked.

 

-If… if you really are the Hero of the Beginning.

 

Larel, who had been glancing around nervously, mustered courage to ask.

 

-Did you really not know that the King of Wisdom had feelings for you?

 

“…”

 

Leo looked at Larel with an expressionless face.

 

Under Leo’s gaze, Larel unconsciously made a startled expression.

 

“How could I really not have known? I just had to ignore it because I had to embark on a journey to save the world.”

 

Elsi looked at Leo with an incredulous face while Larel let out a sigh of relief.

 

-I knew it, right? Rodia said so! That Risinass was so pitiful, teaching dragon etiquette that he didn’t even need to learn so openly, and anyone who couldn’t notice that would be a real idiot.

 

Leo just smiled broadly.

 

‘These damn bastards, really.’

 

Seirun calling him a fool, and now Rodia calling him an idiot.

 

Leo thought he should punish them before lecturing them and said.

 

“Then let me ask you, Spirit of Radiance.”

 

Leo approached Larel and said.

 

“Will you make a pact with me?”

 

Larel looked up at Leo.

 

For generations, the great spirit of light had taken those who would lead the world as pact makers.

 

During the Age of Calamity.

 

The one to lead the world to salvation was the King of Wisdom, Risinass.

 

And when calamity returned, Rodia the Dragon of Cataclysm took that role instead.

 

-If Kail faces the primordial evil once again… you’ll have to stake everything once more. Do you think this world has that much value?

 

“Value.”

 

Leo burst into laughter.

 

“Elsi asked me the same thing long ago.”

 

Elsi smiled bitterly at words spoken by another version of herself she didn’t know.

 

“I thought about it too. I know well that the world we tried to save… the world we saved isn’t only beautiful.”

 

‘We will save the world.’

 

He recalled the words conveyed by a friend who had cruelly left first.

 

‘Why do we have to save it? Does this world have that much value?’

 

He also recalled his own cynical response to that.

 

“But this world is also a beautiful place where flowers bloom abundantly and children laugh brightly.”

 

Leo looked down at the cityscape visible outside.

 

The sun was setting before he knew it.

 

‘It’s not something to judge by whether it has value or not.’

 

“It’s not something to judge by whether it has value or not.”

 

Red sunset poured behind Leo as he turned around.

 

‘It’s the world my precious people cherished and loved, and the world they’ll live in. That one reason is enough to stake everything.’

 

“It’s the world my precious people cherished and loved, and the world they’ll live in. Some guy taught me that one reason is enough to stake everything.”

 

-Is that one reason really enough?

 

“It’s something taught by the most foolish yet wisest guy in the world, so I’m certain.”

 

Watching Leo answer without hesitation, Larel politely bowed her head.

 

-Kail, no. Leo Flobe. I promise to become your pact maker and be the sword and shield that opens the path you’ll take, lending you my strength.

 

Larel raised her head and extended her hand.

 

A contract mark appeared on the back of Leo’s hand.

 

-Once again, please save the world.

 

“Yeah. I’m counting on you, Spirit of Radiance.”

 

***

 

Late at night after sunset.

 

Iliana, who was walking ahead through the alley with a completely flushed face, said.

 

“So. I clearly saw with my own eyes that the class president went into a shady street!”

 

At Iliana’s words, Chelsea narrowed her eyes.

 

“There’s no way Leo would go to such a strange alley.”

 

Looking at Chelsea full of disbelief, Iliana made a frustrated expression.

 

“Right! Normally the class president wouldn’t do that! But the class president is also a guy!”

 

At Iliana’s words, Chloe made a pathetic expression and asked Cal.

 

“Cal, what do you think?”

 

“Well, Leo has never shown interest in that kind of thing.”

 

“Right, Leo is mature, isn’t he?”

 

“You guys don’t know anything.”

 

Iliana raised her index finger and wagged it.

 

“The class president is very mature.”

 

“That’s right.”

 

“Adults do amazing things.”

 

“What amazing things?”

 

When Chelsea squinted her eyes, Cal beside her grinned slyly.

 

“Why ask when you know everything? The amazing magic where two people enter a room and become three people.”

 

“No! It’s magic that could make four people!”

 

Whack-!

 

“Gack!”

 

“Keck!”

 

Chelsea struck Cal and Iliana’s necks with both arms.

 

“Keep your vulgar jokes to a minimum.”

 

Looking at Chelsea making a pathetic expression, Chloe clicked her tongue.

 

“He probably went for investigation purposes.”

 

The four of them arrived at the entrance of the Street of Pleasure.

 

“Grandmother!”

 

“The little miss who ran away screaming earlier.”

 

Late at night.

 

The old woman chuckled and said.

 

“This street has even more amazing things to see at night. Did you come because you’re interested?”

 

“I’m not interested in that kind of thing!”

 

When Iliana shouted loudly, Cal grinned wickedly beside her.

 

“Really?”

 

Thwack-!

 

“Gack?”

 

Cal, struck in the solar plexus, collapsed.

 

“That boy who went in earlier. Do you happen to know where he went?”

 

“I didn’t see him leave, so he must still be in the Street of Pleasure.”

 

At those words, Iliana flinched and said.

 

“See! There’s no way an investigation would take this long! The class president must have fallen into the adult world here!”

 

Chloe and Chelsea also showed flustered expressions upon hearing that Leo had been in this place for a long time.

 

Cal’s mouth fell wide open.

 

“Wow, that’s Leo for you. He’s really bold, isn’t he?”

 

“Leo oppa wouldn’t do that!”

 

When Chelsea shouted with a reddened face, Cal flinched.

 

“Ah, no! Even if you yell at me…”

 

“What are you guys doing here?”

 

Leo appeared at the entrance.

 

Iliana looked Leo up and down, scanning him thoroughly.

 

It was when Chelsea and Chloe hesitated slightly.

 

“Class president, tell us honestly.”

 

“What?”

 

“You were playing around here, weren’t you? You experienced the adult world, right? That’s it, isn’t it?”

 

At those words, Leo grabbed Iliana’s cheek and pulled it.

 

“What are you talking about?”

 

“Don’t, don’t do that!”

 

“This little brat. I’ve known about you since you hid a bunch of inappropriate magazines and novels in the dormitory.”

 

“Ahhh! Ahhh! Ahhh!”

 

Iliana screamed with a reddened face to stop Leo from speaking.

 

“We agreed not to talk about it!”

 

“Because you read nothing but that stuff, you only have these weird imaginations, don’t you?”

 

“Don’t say it!”

 

Iliana protested desperately, but she was only getting scolded by Leo while her dark history was being exposed.

 

“Sometimes when I see Leo scolding the kids, I think…”

 

Chelsea looked at Cal.

 

“Doesn’t it remind you of getting scolded by your parents?”

 

“Yeah, I agree.”

 

Chelsea nodded.

 

Cal looked at Chloe.

 

“Your expression looks fierce?”

 

“I’m going to scold Iliana a bit.”

 

Chloe, as the dormitory manager, was angry that Iliana had brought in prohibited items.

 

“Are you her mother or something?”

 

Thud-!

 

“Gah!?”

 

Having said something unnecessary, Cal was struck in the side and rolled on the ground.

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