Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 618
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618.
Raina opened her eyes.
She quickly surveyed her surroundings.
Recognizing the familiar building, Raina quickly grasped the situation.
‘My room in the Flobe Estate mansion.’
Still lying down, Raina checked the clock and realized it was morning.
Her entire body ached.
During the attack.
It was the backlash from forcing her body to move.
‘Seeing that my body hasn’t recovered yet… less than a day has passed.’
After checking her physical condition, Raina realized no one was in the room and sat up.
Just then.
Knock knock-
The door opened carefully along with the knocking sound.
“M-Madam.”
The one who entered through the door was Anna, who served as the head maid of the Flobe Family’s main house.
Seeing Anna’s expression – frightened and almost ready to burst into tears upon seeing her regain consciousness – Raina spoke.
“Anna. Where is the uninvited guest?”
“In-in the young master’s room…”
At those words, Raina got up and headed to Leo’s room.
Upon arriving at Leo’s room, what she saw was the Hero Slayer leisurely reading a book in the room.
“You came? Raina Jerdinger. Or should I call you Raina Flobe now?”
Looking at the Hero Slayer who maintained a relaxed expression without taking his eyes off the book, Raina said.
“What are you doing?”
“Learning about him. What kind of person Leo Flobe is.”
The Hero Slayer raised his head to look at Raina and smiled faintly.
“Before that, shall we introduce ourselves? My name is Joroa Iner. The being you call the Hero Slayer.”
“Iner?”
Raina’s eyes stirred.
It was a powerful renowned hero family that had established itself in the center of the continent long ago.
Countless heroes had gathered under the name of Iner.
Literally the greatest renowned hero family.
But it was a family that had vanished without a trace at some point.
“That’s right. The master of a family that disappeared because of the Shadows.”
Joroa, wearing a hood, spoke in a nostalgic tone.
“Though inadequate, I was a hero who held the epithet of All Master. Of course, it’s just past glory.”
“All Master?”
It was an epithet she had never heard before.
A name that should be impossible not to know if it had left its mark in history.
Raina, who had been making a perplexed expression, soon thought of certain individuals.
“The Shadow Lords.”
“Indeed, you’re clever. Truly befitting a once-promising Hero Candidate.”
Joroa whistled.
“Those detestable Shadow Lords thoroughly hid my existence behind the veil of history. If I had known my name wouldn’t even remain in history, I should have rampaged more violently.”
During his lifetime.
Joroa had only achieved feats worthy of becoming a hero.
And he had acted more heroically than anyone else.
To avoid pursuit as much as possible.
No one would have thought that a noble hero would massacre other heroes in the darkness just for the desire of power.
After being caught by the Shadows and subjugated, the records themselves were erased.
That’s why being hidden from history happened in an instant.
“If you regret it that much, you should have lived properly.”
“It’s fine. Now the world won’t forget my name again.”
“Your name and such. Only infamy will remain.”
“Hehehe. You seem to be mistaken. I don’t covet achievement as a hero.”
Joroa burst into laughter.
“It’s enough just to let the world know that I existed. Whether it’s infamy or fame. The form doesn’t matter. I just need to let the world know that the Hero Slayer was none other than me.”
“For something like that, it seems like you’ve been hiding like a rat even after getting a new life?”
“Of course. I want to leave my name in history in perfect form. Getting a new opportunity was good, but…”
Joroa burst into hearty laughter and removed his hood.
“I ended up with this hideous appearance.”
Clack- Clack- Clack-
White bones clattered against each other.
Even at that comical sight, Raina only maintained a cold expression.
* * *
Looking at such Raina, Joroa said.
“How regrettable. So regrettable. If you had grown as you were and become a hero, you would have gained tremendous power. Even more than the current head of Jerdinger, Seld Jerdinger.”
“You’re the one who made me like this, aren’t you? What’s there to regret now?”
“I can’t help but regret it.”
Whoosh-
Joroa’s body was engulfed in flames.
Raina noticed that it was her own flame and gritted her teeth.
After being covered in flames, Raina’s face hardened at the sight of a woman who had just begun to shed her girlish appearance.
“The best thing about losing my flesh is this. With this, I can become anyone I want.”
Joroa spun lightly in place.
Watching that sight, veins bulged in Raina’s hands.
It was her own lost appearance.
Standing in place, Joroa said.
“You see, I target the moment when my prey shines brightest. Because I want to cherish that time forever.”
Joroa’s gaze turned to Raina.
“You truly shone at that time. More than any hero I had ever seen. Despite sacrificing yourself, despite being in a situation where you would die, you burned yourself without hesitation. You seemed to have not even a trace of regret about risking your life for others. You were truly dazzling. That’s why I harvested you and didn’t bother to finish you off. I thought you would die anyway if left alone, but if you survived, I thought you could become a remarkably noble person.”
The eyes of Joroa, who had taken Raina’s past appearance, narrowed.
“But you weren’t. You regret it. Sacrificing yourself back then.”
Joroa clicked his tongue.
“If I had known that would happen, I wouldn’t have hunted you early and would have left you alone. For you to grow into a more noble being.”
“Then why don’t you kill me now?”
“Do you have that kind of value?”
Joroa burst into laughter.
“You just need to serve as bait to lure in Leo Flobe.”
Raina’s clenched hands trembled.
“So. What exactly is Leo Flobe?”
Joroa looked around the room.
“It’s rare to see such a bland human.”
People inevitably leave traces in the places where they stay.
Personality, likes, dislikes.
They leave more things than expected in the places where they reside.
At first glance, they might seem trivial.
But those trivial things come together to become the prey’s weakness.
That’s why Joroa had come to the room to learn about the human called Leo.
But nothing could be felt from Leo’s room.
Joroa looked at Raina, who remained silent with her head bowed, and spoke in a languid tone.
“You’re truly useless for anything other than being bait.”
Leaving those words behind, Joroa went outside.
“Well then, shall I go greet our guests?”
Raina, left alone in Leo’s room, looked down at her hands.
Gritting her teeth, Raina recalled the past.
The distant past.
When she had not yet lost her flame.
She heard news that Ellyn Runda, a top student from Seirun in the same year who had been her rival since their first year, had fallen into crisis.
She felt a kinship with him, as they both used the same Phoenix flame.
Though they attended different academies, this bond had made them close friends worth risking their lives for.
When she heard that Ellyn Runda had failed in his attempt to conquer a Hero Dungeon.
Raina didn’t hesitate to rush into the Hero Dungeon to find Ellen.
The Heroes’ World normally didn’t allow additional entry.
But when a Hero Dungeon went berserk, one could get swept up in that rampage and enter.
That was also why they could tell that Ellen’s party had failed in their conquest.
If the conquest had succeeded, the rampage would have stopped.
But the rampage didn’t stop, and the dungeon’s scale grew even larger.
A phenomenon signifying failure.
Even with his life or death uncertain, Raina didn’t hesitate to enter the Hero Dungeon for her dear friend.
And she saw it.
‘The ashen sky.’
Seeing that, Raina could tell.
That this unknown Heroes’ World belonged to a hero who had lived during the Age of Calamity.
To find Ellen, Raina searched the surrounding area and was able to find Ellen, who had survived alone.
Taking Ellen with her, Raina desperately poured all her strength into finding the conquest conditions.
She fought endlessly against aberrant monsters.
And before long, she reached her limit and sensed death approaching.
And then…
‘When I came to my senses… the world had already been conquered and I had lost my flame.’
Her survival itself had been literally a miracle.
Because her injuries had been severe.
She had thought she lost her flame due to overusing it at that time.
‘I thought that was the case… but to think it was stolen by the Hero Slayer.’
Raina gritted her teeth.
The Hero Slayer had been right.
She regretted what happened back then.
Throwing away her future and sacrificing herself for someone else.
She still regretted that choice.
Joroa had been right.
She wasn’t a noble person.
Raina, who had been gritting her teeth, suddenly showed a puzzled expression.
The ashen sky came to mind.
‘…Come to think of it, back then. Why didn’t I give up?’
Her last memories from the Heroes’ World were hazy.
She recalled the memories from that time that she had deliberately avoided until now.
The memory of when she had given up everything, then pulled herself together again.
‘Right… I’m sure dawn was breaking then.’
In her dim memories, she recalled the dawn that had broken during the Age of Calamity.
And there was one more thing that emerged in the memories she had thought were illusions.
‘A person.’
A person falling toward her from the sky, silhouetted against the sun.
She had pulled herself together thinking that person would save her.
Something she had dismissed as an illusion at the time.
But…
‘Could that have been… the scene of the Age of Calamity ending?’
Having thought that far, Raina looked around the room.
It was the room of her son, who had followed in the footsteps of Kail, the Hero of the Beginning.
Raina took a deep breath.
‘Right. It’s because I didn’t give up then that I have now.’
Raina left the room.
‘Leo will win.’
But she couldn’t leave everything to Leo.
Returning to her own room, Raina looked at the sword hanging on the wall.
It might not be of any help.
She was no longer a Knight of Jerdinger, after all.
‘But that doesn’t mean I’m not a knight.’
Just because she wasn’t a Knight of Jerdinger.
Raina had never once stopped thinking of herself as a knight.
‘A knight is someone who protects others.’
And this was the land of the Flobe Family, and she was the lady of the Flobe Family.
‘I still have something I must protect.’
When she first picked up a sword.
Raina had admired the knights from fairy tales.
She had dreamed of becoming like those knights.
It might be a foolish dream.
Pursuing that dream had turned everything she had to ashes.
She had certainly regretted that moment when she sacrificed everything to save her friend.
But…
If that moment came again.
Even if she would live in regret once more.
Raina would make the same choice again.
‘Because that’s who I am.’
That’s why Raina picked up her sword.
‘So that no harm comes to the people living on this land. I must protect them.’
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