Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 493

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493.

 

Leo couldn’t find the words as he looked at Luna, who was holding his hand and smiling.

 

Luna’s attire was exactly as it had been 5000 years ago.

 

A mage’s robe soaked with blood from the fatal wounds inflicted by Erebos.

 

Fortunately, the wounds she had sustained 5000 years ago were gone.

 

She was different from Arron.

 

But she was also different from the Luna who had crossed over to the present world last time.

 

The Heroes of the Heroes’ World, no matter how real they seemed, were ultimately illusions.

 

But spirits were different.

 

Spirits were like echoes of memories dwelling in mana.

 

A fragment of someone who had existed in life.

 

But their essence was the person themselves.

 

The one before his eyes was Luna herself, who had to end her time 5000 years ago.

 

‘Moreover, this body.’

 

The crucial difference between spirit magic and necromancy.

 

In spirit magic, one harbors a spirit within their own body to manifest its abilities.

 

Therefore, unlike necromancy, it cannot manifest the physical body from when they were alive.

 

But now Luna had a physical body.

 

Luna seemed as bewildered by the current situation as the confused Leo.

 

She examined her body from various angles, then spun around in place.

 

“Oho, oho?”

 

She exclaimed in admiration, touching her pointed ears with her fingertips, then smiled brightly.

 

Then she made an ‘L’ shape with her left hand, extending only her thumb and index finger, placed it against her chin, and looked smug.

 

“Lady Luna, revived!”

 

“Seeing you spout nonsense so casually, you’re definitely Luna.”

 

“What? That dry reaction? Aren’t you happy that I’ve been revived!?”

 

Luna glared at Leo with raised eyebrows.

 

Looking at such Luna, Leo spoke seriously.

 

“That you’ve been revived as a spirit and we can meet again… I’m happy.”

 

Luna was flustered by the unexpected response.

 

‘I thought Kail would definitely react annoyingly?’

 

The honest and serious reaction secretly made her happy too.

 

“Hmph! Then you should just honestly be happy about it!”

 

Luna crossed her arms, hiding her bewilderment, and turned her head away sharply as she spoke.

 

Looking at such Luna, Leo said.

 

“The reason you became a spirit.”

 

Leo clenched his fist.

 

“Luna, in the end, I even lost Risinass.”

 

“…”

 

At those words, Luna’s ears drooped.

 

“But I barely managed to defeat Erebos and save the world. What do you think I felt when I died?”

 

“…I can’t imagine.”

 

“It was relief.”

 

Leo closed his eyes and spoke.

 

“I couldn’t completely defeat Erebos either. In the end, there were limits to what I could do alone. I had no choice but to console myself that I had to leave it to future generations.”

 

In the final battle with Erebos, what frightened Leo most wasn’t the black flames that burned everything.

 

It wasn’t the anxiety that he might fail.

 

It wasn’t even the fact that the world’s fate hung on his hands.

 

It was simply the fear of being alone.

 

The fear that he might not fulfill the dying wishes of friends who had departed before him.

 

So when he succeeded in defeating Erebos and, his strength exhausted, fell from high in the sky to the ground as he died.

 

Seeing the rising sun and the clearing gray sky, he felt relief.

 

He felt relief that the friends who had departed first could rest in peace.

 

“I hoped you all would leave without any lingering regrets.”

 

“…Kail.”

 

At Leo’s words, Luna clenched her fists tightly.

 

“You remained as a spirit because you had lingering regrets, right?”

 

“It seems so.”

 

“What kind of regrets do you have?”

 

Leo looked Luna in the eyes with a serious expression.

 

Seeing Leo’s serious face, Luna took a deep breath.

 

“My regrets are, well.”

 

“Yeah.”

 

“I don’t know.”

 

“…”

 

Leo fell silent at Luna’s answer.

 

“I feel like I have regrets, but I have no idea what they are?”

 

Luna smiled brightly and spoke casually, patting Leo’s shoulder.

 

“So don’t act like you care about me when it doesn’t suit you, just behave normally. It’s actually disgusting.”

 

“Alright, got it.”

 

Leo grabbed Luna’s cheeks and pulled them vigorously.

 

“Wha- sho mea!”

 

“I feel pathetic for worrying about you.”

 

Leo shook Luna around while holding her cheeks with an expressionless face.

 

Unable to endure it any longer, Luna grabbed Leo’s neck.

 

It was truly a beautiful reunion between two people who had crossed the boundary of death.

 

***

 

After they had their scuffle.

 

Sitting face to face with Luna in the flower garden, Leo spoke.

 

“Let’s organize this. You became a spirit due to some lingering regret after the battle with Erebos 5000 years ago, and now you’ve formed a spirit contract with me, right?”

 

“Yeah.”

 

“But how did you immediately recognize that I was Kail?”

 

It was something he hadn’t thought about, being surprised by Luna’s appearance as a spirit.

 

If she was Luna from 5000 years ago, it was strange for her to recognize him as Leo Flobe now.

 

“And how do you, as a spirit, have a ‘physical body’?”

 

“Wait, let me organize my current situation too.”

 

At Leo’s question, Luna crossed her arms and fell into thought.

 

Eventually, Luna nodded and spoke.

 

“First, I think I should explain why I, as a spirit, have a physical body.”

 

“Alright.”

 

“The reason I can currently have a physical body is none other than because of the Cometes you possessed.”

 

“Cometes?”

 

“Right. That thing called a Hero Weapon that someone obtained by conquering my Heroes’ World. Thanks to that Hero Weapon, I was able to form a physical body.”

 

Leo could summon characters from within the Heroes’ World to the present world using Hero Record and divine power.

 

Through that power, Luna and Arron had already crossed over to the present world once before.

 

“So essentially, Cometes became the medium that allowed you to have a physical body?”

 

“Yeah. That’s what it seems like. So when all my magic power dwelling in Cometes is exhausted, I won’t be able to remain in the present world as a spirit.”

 

At Luna’s words, Leo fell into thought.

 

Luna’s deduction was quite plausible.

 

Deep and flexible thinking was a mage’s greatest virtue.

 

Luna accurately deduced the current situation from just the fragmentary information given.

 

“And the reason you know I’m Kail is also deeply connected to Cometes.”

 

“How is it connected?”

 

“Part of the memories I experienced in the Heroes’ World were passed to me through Cometes.”

 

“Part of them?”

 

“Yeah. The memories of meeting you during my school days and when Jerdiak escaped to the outside.”

 

“What about the memories of when you went outside the Heroes’ World?”

 

“I don’t have them.”

 

Luna shook her head.

 

‘Only the memories from inside the Heroes’ World were passed down? But why?’

 

Leo made a serious expression.

 

Even though he was the owner of Hero Record, Leo knew nothing about Hero Record itself.

 

‘I’ve only seen Hero Record in its complete state once, in Rodia’s world.’

 

Even for Leo, it was difficult to properly grasp the extent of Hero Record’s possibilities in such a situation.

 

“It’s a shame you don’t have those memories.”

 

“What is? Why is it a shame? What happened when I went out?”

 

Luna’s eyes widened as she moved closer to Leo and thrust her face forward.

 

“What did I do in the Heroes’ World?”

 

Looking at Luna blinking her large eyes with an innocent expression, Leo made a very disappointed face.

 

“You did something.”

 

“Wh-what did I do?”

 

Looking at Luna whose face was slightly reddening, Leo said.

 

“We defeated that damn Monster Queen together.”

 

“Huh?”

 

“She’s your enemy, isn’t she? It would have been nice if you had the memory of defeating her.”

 

“Really?”

 

Luna’s eyes widened.

 

“What else besides that?”

 

“What else? Nothing in particular.”

 

Leo shrugged and stood up from his seat.

 

Looking up at Leo, Luna’s face contorted.

 

‘This damn bastard, really! There was a tragic farewell! A tragic farewell!’

 

Actually, Luna did have memories from outside.

 

The reason she pretended not to know was simple.

 

‘It’s embarrassing! I confessed alone! I kissed his cheek alone!’

 

Her pride wouldn’t allow it.

 

Before dying, she couldn’t convey her feelings because she was worried about burdening Kail and Risinass’s hearts before the final battle.

 

In the Heroes’ World, she somehow conveyed her feelings thinking they might never meet again.

 

And now… at this point.

 

‘Can’t I create time reversal magic?’

 

Luna sincerely wanted to smack her past self on the back of the head.

 

Specifically, she wanted to knock out her past self at that moment.

 

Not conveying her feelings while alive was also due to useless pride, wanting that guy to notice first.

 

‘By the way, Risinass also had feelings for Kail.’

 

Luna thought of Risinass.

 

Risinass.

 

‘Honestly speaking, even as a woman, I think she’s pretty.’

 

Even Luna, who was confident her beauty wasn’t inferior anywhere, felt slightly conscious when compared to Risinass.

 

‘Moreover, she’s mature and smart.’

 

She wasn’t called the King of Wisdom for nothing.

 

Of course, Luna was also called the strongest archmage in history, so her intelligence was definitely not lacking.

 

But regarding knowledge outside of magic, she couldn’t match Risinass.

 

‘And her atmosphere too.’

 

If she herself was a chatterbox, Risinass was a noble lady.

 

‘…’

 

As Luna was seriously contemplating, one doubt arose.

 

‘Why does she like that idiot anyway?’

 

Why would the perfect savior of the world, lacking in nothing, like Kail?

 

Along with the question, her confidence gradually disappeared.

 

Luna was usually overflowing with confidence and quick to become conceited, but she also got discouraged just as quickly.

 

If the comparison target were someone else, it might be different.

 

But if it was Risinass, even Luna couldn’t be completely triumphant.

 

Looking at Luna drooping her ears with a gloomy expression, Leo sighed deeply and said.

 

“Don’t be too disappointed. Anyway, you’re the one who defeated her. Also… whatever the reason, we met again like this, didn’t we?”

 

Leo smiled.

 

“For now, don’t think about anything and enjoy this moment. There are countless sceneries I wanted you to see. I hope you can see them, Luna.”

 

At Leo’s words, Luna’s eyes widened.

 

And soon she smiled brightly.

 

“Yeah!”

 

Luna’s ears perked up as she regained her energy.

 

‘Right! There are definitely things I’m better at than Risinass!’

 

Luna, having regained her spirit, put her hands on her waist and puffed out her chest.

 

‘I’m rich in the chest but she’s poor in the chest, right? Men prefer the rich!’

 

Having such thoughts that would have made Risinass rush at her immediately, Luna nodded with a “Mm-hmm!”

 

Looking at Luna who had regained her energy, Leo chuckled.

 

Then he went to his own grave with serious eyes.

 

“Whose grave is this?”

 

“My grave.”

 

At Leo’s answer, Luna’s eyes widened.

 

“Berkia recovered my body and buried it next to you. It seems they couldn’t find the other guys’ bodies though.”

 

“Ah…”

 

Luna let out an exclamation filled with regret.

 

“…Do you think the other guys also have lingering attachments?”

 

“I don’t know. But I don’t think they have any lingering attachments.”

 

“…That’s probably likely.”

 

Luna also didn’t know what kind of lingering attachments she herself had.

 

But she didn’t think her other companions had lingering attachments like her and remained as spirits.

 

She hoped they didn’t have any lingering attachments.

 

Meanwhile, Leo reached for Bihar’s dagger in front of his grave.

 

And hesitated.

 

‘…It hasn’t been long since this was left here.’

 

It wasn’t an object that had been there for a long time.

 

At most a few days.

 

‘…’

 

‘The flowers blooming in this area despite it being autumn might be due to the influence of Luna, who was revived as a spirit.’

 

Considering these were flowers Luna liked, it was possible.

 

‘The memory I saw then, whether it was Berkia or Bihar, is still a mystery.’

 

Leo put strength into his hand.

 

‘The fact that this dagger is placed in front of my grave… does it mean Bihar came here?’

 

Swoooosh-!

 

A wind blew.

 

Leo clenched his fist as he looked down at the dagger.

 

‘Bihar… could it be that you were revived by the Overlord King’s power?’

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