Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 547

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547.

 

For both Berkia and Bihar, it was truly a dreamlike time.

 

Their physical bodies had died long ago.

 

Berkia closed her eyes in hatred of the world, and Bihar closed her eyes in sorrow for being unable to stop such a Berkia.

 

After 5,000 years had passed, Berkia became an undead and Bihar became a spirit.

 

The end of both their lives was certainly tragic.

 

But…

 

Berkia looked at Eiran, who was struggling to eat her meal.

 

“Eiran.”

 

“Yes?”

 

“I’m sorry for showing you such a pathetic side. Are you disappointed?”

 

At those words, Eiran, who had been blinking her large eyes, slightly averted her gaze and answered.

 

“Rather than disappointed… I was scared.”

 

“…”

 

“It seemed like you weren’t the Berkia I knew anymore. And I couldn’t imagine how much pain you must have endured… I was scared.”

 

She had shouldered the entire world and devoted everything she had to create a better world.

 

And what came back was betrayal.

 

It wasn’t unreasonable for Berkia to become an undead filled with hatred.

 

“Still.”

 

Eiran smiled brightly.

 

“Berkia is still Berkia.”

 

A hero who worked harder than anyone else for the world.

 

The fact that she was still the hero Eiran loved and admired most remained unchanged.

 

Watching such an Eiran, Berkia closed her eyes.

 

She could feel unwavering faith from Eiran.

 

“I want to become like Berkia.”

 

She realized anew.

 

This unchanging faith was a greater comfort and consolation than anything else.

 

‘Was Master Luna like this too?’

 

Even at this moment, what kept her on this land as an undead was her hatred toward the world.

 

Even now, she was sick of it.

 

The fact that she had devoted herself to such a world.

 

The fact that her friend had stepped into darkness and worked her entire life for such a world.

 

The fact that the Great Heroes had given their all to save such a world.

 

But…

 

‘Maybe I should have tried a little harder.’

 

Her young descendant’s words left her with regret.

 

It seemed like vitality was returning to Berkia’s exhausted soul.

 

Berkia approached Eiran and rubbed her descendant’s cheek.

 

Just as Luna used to do for her in childhood.

 

And soon she spoke the words Luna often used to say to her young self.

 

“You’ll definitely be able to do it.”

 

She gave a bright smile that somehow resembled Luna’s.

 

“Even after 5,000 years, it remains unchanged.”

 

Berkia looked at Leo.

 

“The path the Great Heroes took…”

 

Next, she turned her gaze to Bihar standing beside her.

 

“The path we followed…”

 

Finally, Berkia stepped back and looked at the three girls.

 

“Now you’re trying to follow it.”

 

Generation connects to generation.

 

The world the Great Heroes saved passed to her.

 

The world she had revived passed to future generations.

 

‘It wasn’t wrong.’

 

At that moment, she had felt everything was wrong.

 

But it wasn’t.

 

“Indeed, the world was worth saving, Bihar.”

 

Berkia smiled brightly while looking at her friend standing beside her.

 

Seeing that expression that somehow seemed relieved, Bihar nodded.

 

-Yes, it’s just that the era we lived in was dawn.

 

A time when daybreak had not yet come.

 

A gray time when darkness and light intersected.

 

An era when dawn was slowly breaking.

 

Nodding at Bihar’s words, Berkia looked at the future generation and said.

 

“We couldn’t stand on the final battlefield.”

 

The time allowed was insufficient.

 

“That fact was so frustrating.”

 

Berkia’s eyes slightly dimmed.

 

“The battlefield you’ll stand on will probably be fierce. So please, don’t let the same thing as 5,000 years ago repeat itself.”

 

Berkia spoke with all her heart.

 

“Move forward while relying on each other. And after ending all the fighting, make sure to return together. Come back and.”

 

Berkia looked at the table.

 

“Sit together like this and have a good time.”

 

The ordinary daily life they had welcomed after the Age of Calamity ended.

 

They had become so accustomed to it that they thoughtlessly let that peace slip by day after day.

 

But sometimes when watching the dawn break, there were moments when they felt the absence of the Great Heroes.

 

At such times, they would realize how precious that ordinary daily life was.

 

And they felt regret.

 

‘It would have been nice if we were together.’

 

If they could have welcomed the morning comfortably without any worries in a bright world.

 

‘It really would have been nice.’

 

It was an unattainable dream.

 

But at this moment, that dream came true.

 

Both Berkia and Bihar.

 

Certainly the end of their lives would have been tragic.

 

But thanks to that, they fulfilled their wish even after death.

 

-Teacher.

 

“What?”

 

-Want to go for a walk?

 

“That’s bothersome.”

 

At Bihar’s words, Leo answered indifferently.

 

Berkia went behind such a Leo and forcibly pushed his back.

 

“Come on, go, you mister.”

 

“It’s bothersome.”

 

While grumbling, Leo went outside without much protest as Berkia pushed him.

 

The three people who had been eating also hurriedly followed behind.

 

Creak-!

 

The sound of the door opening was heard.

 

The world had been dyed white by snow that had fallen again at some point.

 

Crunch- Crunch-

 

He walked through the ruined streets.

 

Berkia and Bihar stood on either side of Leo.

 

“Teacher.”

 

“What.”

 

“We really worked hard.”

 

“So what?”

 

-Don’t you have anything to say?

 

Bihar asked bluntly.

 

“….”

 

Leo chuckled at those words and raised both hands.

 

Then he reached out and placed his hands on his disciples’ heads.

 

“You both did really well.”

 

It was a calm statement.

 

Sincere praise that was neither lacking nor excessive.

 

“Thank you so much for not letting our sacrifice be in vain.”

 

He sincerely expressed his gratitude to his disciples who had done their best to live for the Great Heroes, including himself.

 

His young disciples had now become adults and, like his past self, had devoted their lives to the world before meeting death.

 

Though things had gone awry.

 

What did it matter?

 

That didn’t make their achievements disappear.

 

Dawn had now completely broken.

 

The pouring sunlight hit people and objects, shattering.

 

The shattered sunlight completely drove away the darkness.

 

Complete morning.

 

This miraculous moment had also come to an end.

 

Leo, who had been stroking his disciples’ heads, gently pushed the two disciples’ backs.

 

Berkia and Bihar walked toward the sunlight without regret.

 

They cast off all lingering attachments from becoming undead, from becoming spirits.

 

Even the small regrets from life.

 

“Ah.”

 

Berkia, who had been walking, stopped as if remembering something.

 

The gloomy aura had completely disappeared from Berkia.

 

Only the same clear energy as Bihar surrounded her.

 

Berkia whispered softly in Bihar’s ear.

 

Bihar nodded and looked toward Leo at the same time as Berkia.

 

Leo was making a puzzled expression as he watched his two disciples with their backs to the morning sunlight.

 

“Dad, cheer up.”

 

The two who spoke in unison giggled at Leo, who was making a dumbfounded expression, then disappeared into the sunlight.

 

“Haa….”

 

Leo sighed as if he couldn’t believe it.

 

“Who are they calling dad? Damn brats.”

 

Muttering quietly, Leo stared for a long time at the spot where his two disciples had disappeared.

 

The three girls watching couldn’t tell what expression Leo was making in the end.

 

***

 

Rustle- Rustle-

 

He walked through the courtyard where fallen leaves had settled.

 

Fallen leaves crumbled under Leo’s feet.

 

Runia, Eiran, and Chen Xia silently followed behind.

 

“Miss Runia came all the way to Lumern?”

 

“How could I just let it go after what happened?”

 

Runia looked at Leo’s back with a worried expression.

 

Looking at that back that seemed somehow lonely, Runia said.

 

“What must he be feeling?”

 

“I can’t even imagine.”

 

Chen Xia shook her head.

 

The three couldn’t easily speak to Leo.

 

Because they newly felt how heavy the weight of what Leo was carrying must be.

 

As the two were silently watching Leo’s back as he walked ahead.

 

Tap tap tap-!

 

“Huh? Miss Eiran?”

 

“What are you doing?!”

 

Runia and Chen Xia were startled when Eiran, who had been beside them, ran toward Leo.

 

“Leo!”

 

“…?”

 

“Please give me special training starting today!”

 

Eiran raised her voice beside Leo.

 

“I’ll receive any kind of training! I’ll work harder! Like Berkia and Bihar did! Like the other Great Heroes did! I want to be helpful to you, Leo!”

 

Leo looked at Eiran, who was speaking with clenched fists, chuckled, and roughly patted her head.

 

“I’ll work harder than I do now too!”

 

“Me too.”

 

Runia and Chen Xia, who had approached from behind, spoke energetically.

 

Leo chuckled as he watched them speak as if making a resolution.

 

“Oh? Isn’t that Leo?”

 

“Where? Where? Ah! It really is Leo!”

 

“Leo, Xia, Eiran, you’re here?”

 

“How was the mission?”

 

Cal, Chelsea, Chloe, and Avad spotted Leo and waved their hands.

 

“Xia!”

 

Then Iliana came running with a tearful expression toward Xia.

 

“The Knight Academy and Department of Magic kids have been treating me like a bat since yesterday!”

 

“Miss Iliana definitely acts like a bat though?”

 

“Class President! The kids are treating me like a bat! This means they’re treating the all-class Class President like a bat too! Scold them!”

 

At Chen Xia’s cold words, Iliana complained to Leo this time.

 

“How pathetic.”

 

“It’s not just a day or two, is it?”

 

When Selia snorted and spoke, Nella shook her head.

 

Duran made a cold expression.

 

“The Student Council President from Seirun came too. Why did you come?”

 

“There must be a reason.”

 

Eliza and Woreden showed more interest in Runia.

 

It seemed like they were moving by department.

 

Not just the 2nd years.

 

The atmosphere was that the entire school was moving.

 

Leo made a slightly strange expression watching that scene.

 

“Class President! Class President! Are you listening to me?”

 

“Stop bothering Leo who just returned from a mission.”

 

“Grow up, you bat.”

 

Selia and Chloe grabbed Iliana and dragged her away.

 

Leo chuckled watching that scene.

 

Seeing the noisy scene naturally reminded him of old times.

 

The chaotic days at Gardstron, where he was always busy growling, overlapped with the present moment.

 

‘It’s exactly the same.’

 

An admiration that began 5,000 years ago.

 

All existing heroes, the starting point of everything, clenched their fists while looking at the hero candidates who would be future heroes.

 

What would the world look like when these people ascended to the position of heroes?

 

5,000 years ago.

 

Kail, the Hero of the Beginning, did not envision the future.

 

It was his close friends who drew the future in his place.

 

‘I merely leaned on and followed the future those guys had drawn.’

 

Leo looked up at the sky.

 

Now there was no future to lean on.

 

‘So now I have no choice but to draw it myself.’

 

The feeling was by no means bad.

 

‘Thinking about it like that makes me excited.’

 

While imagining the future when he would someday lay down all his burdens.

 

The Hero of the Beginning smiled brightly.

 

***

 

All the students had gathered.

 

Among them, all the students’ gazes were focused on one place.

 

“What’s Seirun’s student council president doing here?”

 

“I don’t know. I heard she came with our student council president today?”

 

“This is our school’s special class, isn’t it? Is it okay for a Seirun student to participate?”

 

“If you put it that way, there are exchange students too, right?”

 

“Hmm… That’s true. But one thing’s for sure.”

 

The Lumern students nodded their heads.

 

‘How shameless.’

 

Even though hundreds of students were looking only at her and whispering, Runia didn’t bat an eye.

 

Rather, she wore a confident expression.

 

“Oh my. Hello, Runia?”

 

“Ugh? Elena?”

 

At that moment, Elena Jeron, a 4th-year Lumern student and the strongest in the Department of Magic, sat down next to Runia.

 

At Elena’s appearance, Runia made an uncomfortable expression.

 

The two had previously worked together to conquer Luna’s World.

 

She had been very reliable at that time, but on the other hand, Runia found Elena burdensome.

 

When such a person approached and greeted her, she somehow felt intimidated.

 

Elena looked at such Runia and said with a bright smile.

 

“Runia, won’t you transfer to our school?”

 

“I’m Seirun’s student council president though?”

 

“Yes, I know. That’s why I’m telling you to transfer. If you transfer, I’ll make you vice president. It’s vice president, but the actual power would be as strong as Seirun’s student council president, right?”

 

“I’ll decline.”

 

“That’s a shame.”

 

It was when Elena was shrugging her shoulders.

 

Creak-!

 

The large lecture hall door opened.

 

Along with that, all the students fell silent.

 

What appeared was a child with beautiful features that made it impossible to distinguish whether they were a boy or girl.

 

Behind him with gray hair and gray eyes, Mellina was following.

 

Leo’s eyes, who was sitting with Cal on one side, stirred.

 

“Greetings, hero candidates who carry on the legacy of Lumern, successors to Kail, the Hero of the Beginning. My name is Rian.”

 

All the students looked at Rian with puzzled faces.

 

“If I were to explain my introduction in detail, the circumstances would become extremely complicated, so let me introduce myself simply.”

 

Rian smiled slightly.

 

“I am a god.”

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