I Quit the Hero’s Party Chapter 287

〈 Episode 287 〉 Your Story (2)

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Raniel van Trias.

This wizard, now called a wise man, rarely understands others. Raniel did not want to understand the human being who quickly gave up on himself and others.

I have to stand up.

Even if it’s hard, you have to stand up again.

If I don’t move forward like that, won’t all the paths I’ve walked become in vain? Wouldn’t it be a waste to destroy the value of the path I’ve walked along with my own hands? Shouldn’t we prove it by walking to the end?

Raniel has always thought that way.

That’s what I thought, and that’s how I acted.

That’s how Raniel lived. Even though it was hard for him, he stood up and he moved forward again. He walked without stopping. Once he started walking, Raniel never wanted to give up.

I walked and walked again.

As I was walking like that, I looked around without thinking… and there was no one left by my side. You are the only one walking down the street. When I look back, I see an old colleague stopping and looking at this place.

“I can’t be like you.”

“What are you, Raniel?”

There is a colleague who I once thought had the same dream and walked the same path. The eyes that the colleague looks at are not the same as the eyes that look at a fellow human being. The eyes seem to be looking at something different.

“You and I are not compatible.”

“We can’t be together anymore.”

Eventually the paths diverged.

Raniel feels lonely. Also a terrible feeling of betrayal. However, Raniel never stops. Even though there is no one to walk with, Raniel continues to walk. Moving forward alone

“I guess it’s me, Raniel.”

Then one day, Raniel looks to the side.

There is a road that is a mess. People walking on the road are also tattered, just like the road.

“It seems like my dream has already come true.”

He smiled at Raniel.

At that moment, for the first time, Raniel realizes that someone is standing next to him. Raniel is happy about that fact.

I have a colleague.

A true colleague walking the same path.

Although he was happy about that fact, Raniel was also relieved. Because it proves that someone can follow him. Maybe it’s lame self-justification. It may be the stubbornness of a child who does not want to admit that his ways are wrong.

It’s still good though.

Someone can follow me, right?

Wouldn’t someone walk with me?

Raniel felt comforted just by the presence of such a person. He got a chance to break away from the terrible betrayal he felt towards Kyle and look around him. So, Raniel is in the midst of looking back on his own life.

Galahar, who was walking by, died.

His path ended there.

He achieved a feat at the last moment, and whether his life shined brightly or not… it is an undeniable fact that his life was over.

‘I don’t know.’

Raniel suffers under Galahal’s death.

While affirming Galahal’s life, on the other hand, one finds oneself questioning whether there is any meaning to the life that has been cut off. Conflicting emotions race through Raniel’s mind.

Meanwhile, Raniel saw the letter.

『My story ends here.』

『I hope you will fill in the rest from now on.』

That is a sentence left by Galahal.

Engraved in the last line of the epigraph, it is Galahar’s last words, so it could be called a will.

“My life is over.”

Raniel pondered his will.

“Next, it’s your turn.”

I chewed and pondered.

Muttering that sentence, Raniel absentmindedly flipped through the manuscript. The unfinished novel was empty in some places, but there were also parts that were filled with letters.

[Sage, Raniel van Trias.]

The page with Raniel’s name on it was like that.

This is the moment I read the first sentence on that page. Raniel’s tightly closed lips opened. What escaped between cracked lips was a dry laugh.

“···aha.”

First sentence, first phrase.

Raniel saw the words playfully written there.

『About Raniel Van Trias, a great sage and one of my few close friends.』

A story we once shared jokingly.

I jokingly said that if I were to write my story, I should always put the word great in front of it. Galahal kept that playful promise.

“really.”

Raniel held the manuscript tightly.

The edges of the manuscript were crumpled.

“Really, ah…”

She lowered her head.

Lips open and close repeatedly. Raniel has been unable to properly accept Galahal’s death because the situation has not felt realistic for the past ten days.

Not anymore.

What I had held back for ten days finally broke out.

Raniel’s shoulders trembled slightly as he lowered his head.

2.

Time passed.

The event, which was originally planned as an exhibition of 100 heroes who highlighted the kingdom’s history, was transformed into an exhibition highlighting Galahal. This is why the anecdote that Galahal stopped by an exhibition and left an autograph right before his death went viral.

To see the autograph, Raniel walked through the center of the royal capital while many people visited the exhibition to commemorate the hero’s final moments.

Trudging.

After spending nearly ten days with open eyes, Raniel fell asleep from exhaustion. When he opened his eyes, about two days had passed. So this was just a two-day outing.

Raniel walked aimlessly.

The death of a warrior and the vacuum created by it.

The royal capital is full of people talking about such things. Raniel continued walking, listening to that voice in one ear and letting it out of the other. Where are you heading?

“······.”

If you notice, you will soon be standing on the road to Aplia. Why did you come here? Raniel raised his head and looked at Aplia’s front door. He was going to meet someone here…

“ah.”

Chloe.

I had to meet that kid.

I thought he was staying in the Black Magic Tower, but from Yetual’s words, it seemed like he was staying in Aplia.

“That kid, something has changed.”

“It’s hard to pinpoint what exactly has changed, but in any case, something has changed. “See you in person.”

Raniel walked inside the Aplia campus.

Since it was still vacation, Aplia was quiet. Soon, Raniel arrived in front of the Central Academic Building where Chloe was staying.

However, Chloe wasn’t there either.

“Chloe is not here.”

So where? Maid Chang shook her head as if she didn’t know. She only told me that she would go somewhere early in the morning and that she would return late in the evening.

Raniel thought as he walked around looking for Chloe, who didn’t know where she might be.

Chloe must have also suffered a great deal of mental shock.

Because Galahal sacrificed himself to save himself. Due to the girl’s personality, she will feel guilty and self-destructive at the same time. Raniel doesn’t know which direction it would have bounced.

‘You should probably say something.’

As a teacher to Chloe, I should have said something and suggested direction, but I couldn’t think of anything right now.

‘To begin with, I’m not normal right now.’

Raniel walked away with a helpless laugh.

I visited the library and walked around the garden, but I couldn’t see Chloe. How long did you wander around Aplia like that?

Gooung.

For a moment, the mana in the area trembled.

Raniel turned his head and looked at where the shaking started. That is the spell training room. Ran El took his steps towards that place.

Boom, boom.

The more you walk, the more the shaking gets worse.

Raniel opened the door in front of the training room. The moment the door was opened, the remnants of mana remaining in the training room roared and rushed towards Raniel.

Raniel’s eyes narrowed.

It is a spell training room plastered with all kinds of resistance stones.

The floor of the training room was cracked with cracks, and training scarecrows and golems were piled up in piles. At the center sits a girl.

She is drawing a circuit while sitting on the floor.

Draw the circuit and run it right away.

The circuit cannot overcome the girl’s mana and becomes distorted. The girl controls the twisted circuit by grabbing it with her bare hands and immediately draws a new circuit.

And then make corrections right away.

In this way, the circuit is completed little by little.

Once one circuit is complete, move on to the next. The girl is repeating this endlessly.

“Chloe.”

Even when Raniel calls, the girl does not answer.

Chloe is paying all her attention to the circuit she is holding. Chloe’s eyes, looking at the circuit, don’t show anything that Raniel was worried about.

It’s not a feeling of shame or guilt.

What is in Chloe’s eyes is a spirit of improvement.

These are the eyes of someone who looks up to a high place and challenges endlessly. Raniel feels familiar in those eyes. She ends up feeling similar.

They have the same eyes as Galahal.

Raniel leaned against the wall and looked at Chloe for a while. After some time passed, Raniel closed his eyes and opened them.

I didn’t even need any consolation. From the beginning.

In the end, you have to find the answer yourself, and Chloe has already found the answer. Unlike myself, who is still searching for the answer.

“···Anyway.”

Did you say that teaching is not in one direction?

Did you say that sometimes a teacher also has to learn from his disciple? Indeed, it was as he said. Raniel smiled bitterly and took a step forward. He took a step, stretched his hand forward and pulled it lightly.

C’mon!

Chloe’s circuit, which had been twisting in the air, was dismantled in an instant. Only then did Chloe look back, and Raniel stretched out his hand toward the dismantled circuit and spoke.

“Look Carefully.”

She touched a circuit.

“Because this is how circuits are handled.”

It is only shameful to receive teachings from a disciple as a teacher. He’ll have to teach himself too. Raniel tapped Chloe’s head.

3.

While teaching, Raniel observed Chloe’s starlight. The starlight that Chloe embraces is different from before. Even the characteristics of the starlight.

It is not just a flowing light.

The flowing light gathers in one place according to Chloe’s will. Although he was still immature, Raniel saw the light of Galahal in the starlight.

‘At the last moment, the light moved to Chloe.’

What Chloe has is not just her own starlight.

The starlight of Galahar, who once lived as a warrior, also resides in Chloe’s soul. As I watch Chloe deal with it, a phrase suddenly comes to mind.

Something I saw earlier in the Northern Tower.

What the Great Sage muttered as a habit.

Also, what he was doing.

Humans who live in the moment carry on their will to the next. Some make disciples, and some leave a legacy for the next generation. That’s how the meaning continues.

‘Next, then again.’

Raniel sees Galahal in the girl in front of him.

In the girl who had just started to stand up and walk, I saw traces of Galahal, who had ended her life early on.

Cooung.

After completing one circuit, Chloe sat down and leaned against the wall. Raniel also sat next to her. Sunlight streamed in through the windows of the training room.

The long winter is over and spring has come.

The season where a new year begins has arrived. Raniel opened her mouth, bathed in the spring sunlight.

“Chloe.”

“Yes, Professor.”

“Are you okay?”

It’s a question without context.

Chloe answered that question without hesitation.

“It should be okay.”

She looked at my hands.

“…Because my life is no longer just mine.”

There is a responsibility to bear.

It is up to the person who receives it to determine the value of someone’s spilled blood or sacrifice. Chloe feels a sense of responsibility resting on her shoulders.

It’s heavy, but because it’s heavy, it has meaning.

“I want to become a perfect warrior.”

Chloe said.

“I’m still immature, and I can’t become a symbol yet… but I have to become a symbol like Galahal.”

Chloe looked at Raniel.

Chloe asked a question as she looked at the girl who now knew her identity and looked like Galahal.

“This is correct, right?”

“You don’t know.”

Raniel let out a short breath.

“In the past, I would have been sure it was true, but I’m not sure anymore. It’s so hard to find the answer. “I can’t say which path is right, and I can’t be certain that moving in a certain direction is absolutely right.”

I don’t know what is right and what is wrong.

If you dream that much, you might be able to achieve that, or you might be able to achieve what you want at the end of the road. It’s full of things I don’t know.

“therefore.”

Raniel smiled softly.

“Follow the path you think is right.”

In the end, it is you who walks the path.

“When you look back on the path you have walked, you realize that you have lived well at this level. Walk the path where you can say you have achieved your dream. That’s enough. In that case…”

Raniel, who was muttering like that, chuckled.

“Still, Galahal would say this.”

Chloe, you can do it.

As Raniel muttered that, Chloe lowered her head. What comes to Chloe’s mind is the short time she spent learning under Galahal for a few months.

I couldn’t trust myself.

Because I didn’t believe it, I doubted myself.

Galahal said this to himself several times.

You can do it. Walk the path you think is right. If that happens, I’ll be happy. Chloe remembers those words.

also.

“it’s okay.”

“Aren’t you alive?”

Even as he was dying, he never forgot Galahal’s relieved expression as he looked at him. Chloe would never forget the sight of Galahal extending his hand and pointing at her at the last moment.

“I will work hard.”

In the end, this is the only thing I can promise right now.

“I’m going to work really hard.”

Chloe said, holding back tears.

“I will be able to proudly and without shame say in front of others that it was I who saved Galhal at the cost of his life… and that I will take his place.”

Wiping away her tears, Chloe stood up.

“So, please help me.”

Chloe said, looking at Raniel.

“Laniel.”

The eyes are full of determination.

Looking into those eyes, Raniel stopped laughing and stood up. She said, patting Chloe on the head.

“okay.”

Raniel stood in the center across from Chloe.

As she clapped her hands, dozens of circuits appeared around her.

“Let’s do as much as we can.”

After stopping, she moves forward again.

To continue the story that ended.

To complete your story.

She walks with the child following behind her.

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fantasy,