I Quit the Hero’s Party Chapter 360

〈 Episode 360 ​​〉 Disaster, and a hero (3)

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Death approaches.

Raniel’s eyes wavered, but it only lasted for a moment. Even as he lost his sense of direction, Raniel ran towards somewhere. There was a place where everything was turned upside down and revealed. Information he already knew.

Cardi said the church was modeled after the “main church” in Arcadia. Naturally, it has the same structure… and the ‘basement’ that was in the main church also clearly exists.

“···Ugh!”

Raniel threw himself towards the hole he had previously drilled in the floor. He tried to save an evasion method that could only be used once, but it was not a situation to save on this or that.

Ka-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga!

A loud sound echoed above my head. As he fell into the basement, Raniel looked up. He was wrapped in sword energy and everything was soaring towards the sky. It is truly a reverse heaven (??).

Suddenly.

There is no time to be surprised by that sword strike.

As if he saw Raniel running away, Kyle cut up the floor of the church. The thick wall was torn into dozens of pieces and the floor collapsed. From Raniel’s perspective, it was the ceiling as he fell.

Kyle comes down with the ceiling collapsing.

Kyle took a stance while standing on the fragments of the wall he had cut down. Falling situation. unstable footing. However, despite this, the swordsman shows off his best blows. Kyle swung his sword. The tip of the sword did not waver at all.

Ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssww!

The sword energy spread out like a net and rushed towards the falling Raniel. Biting his lip, Raniel randomly scattered the stock spells.

Soaring flames.

Exploding ash.

Dozens or hundreds of bullets are ejected.

I spewed out countless spells, but that was nothing more than buying time. The sword energy cut down everything it touched and strangled Raniel. Raniel gritted his teeth and spun around in the air.

Huge basement.

Thirty-seven pillars erected there.

Raniel tied the chain he had pulled out to a pillar and pulled the chain. Flying towards his pillar at high speed, Raniel barely avoided the sword energy.

thud!

Raniel’s body, which almost landed on a pillar, was completely destroyed. Because he couldn’t completely avoid his sword energy, he got cuts here and there on his body. He is recovering, but not as quickly as he is already straining his body.

widely.

Unlike Raniel, who landed awkwardly, Kyle landed lightly on the floor. He looked up at Raniel hanging on the pillar. Unlike Raniel, who is completely injured, Kyle is fine.

‘···Damn you bastard.’

Raniel bit his lip.

If I was going to beat Kyle, I needed something to block that damn sword. This was true even before Kyle became a disaster. The compatibility between Raniel and Kyle is the worst.

Raniel cannot block Kyle’s sword.

Therefore, the options given to Raniel are to avoid it or dig in and block the sword attack in advance. But now even the latter is impossible. No matter how fast it is…

‘The moment you get caught, even if it’s just one chance.’

It ends just like that.

The moment you swing a sword while captured, you will have to give up a part of your body. So what on earth should you do?

···Actually, I know the method.

Now Raniel can have something that can block anything and never break. Star armor. This is something you can obtain once you become a hero.

‘but.’

For some reason, it doesn’t appear to Raniel. It’s not that he lacks qualifications as a warrior. It covers everything except that. Raniel lacked something, and that lack prevented her from receiving the Star Armor.

I couldn’t figure out what was missing.

Unknown, Raniel had to continue the fight. Spurring down his pillar, Raniel rushed forward. He poured out spells and used his physical strength to pressure Kyle. In the end, the only thing that could surpass Kyle was speed.

However, even that has its limits.

Kyle gradually followed Raniel’s pace. It was as if he wanted to grow further on a topic that had become like that, a topic that was so strong… Kyle’s movements were becoming faster and more sophisticated.

Movement without waste.

Prediction through future vision, a specialty of superhumans.

Using all that, Kyle began to catch up with Raniel. There were more and more attacks that he could not avoid. Blood flowed from Raniel’s body.

Suddenly.

Kyle’s sword became faster and swept across the area. Dozens of sword energy, huge sword energy, and sword techniques resembling those of a superhuman were thrown out indiscriminately. As if he was boasting about his accomplishments, Kyle showed off everything he had to Raniel.

Avoid. Avoid and avoid again.

Raniel took the opportunity to escape somehow. But that can’t happen forever. The stocks that were loaded in hundreds or thousands of units are already running out.

Chii Iik.

The body that moved under load also reached its limits. Due to the increased number of wounds, Cho Jae-saeng was unable to keep up with his subordinates. Raniel became slower, and Kyle became faster. Raniel bled, and the tip of Kyle’s sword was stained with blood.

I’m pushed.

It keeps getting pushed back.

Raniel, who was taking a step back, suddenly hit the pillar with his back. Raniel looked ahead. He was running towards Kyle, who was already faster than him, with his sword raised.

There was no way to avoid it.

“···f*ck.”

Phew.

Raniel’s vision turned red.

2.

Ka■, no, ‘Kyle’.

Kyle can only be himself in front of gray light. As of now, chasing the gray light, Ka■ was just Kyle. The shade continued to yell at Kyle to kill Ash. But Kyle didn’t want to do that.

The gray light continued to flutter before my eyes.

Ashes were flying everywhere. Ash took the form of a human and stood in front of Kyle. I took a stance towards Kyle. Kyle thought as he looked at that. Oh, what is it? It’s Raniel.

“What? Raniel?”

Ash has no words.

I take a stance without saying a word. I took a stance as if I was going to run away at any moment.

Ah, I see.

Let’s fight like we did then.

Kyle smiled and lifted the knife. At first it was a real sword with a sharp blade, but when she closed and opened her eyes, it was a wooden sword. When she closes and opens her eyes again, the scenery around her also changes.

It’s a training ground.

The training ground where I learned sword fighting from Uncle Kuntel.

And it was the very place where he often sparred with Raniel. is it. Are you dreaming? Kyle prepared to swing his sword in his dazed mind.

With a thud, Raniel rushed over.

For a moment, Kyle couldn’t keep up with the movement and rolled on the floor. That guy is seriously hitting on me. My cheeks were tingling. “Let’s give it a try,” Kyle said, smiling and helping her stand up.

“Even after all this, I’m confident in my tenacity, Raniel.”

Hit it. I’ll endure it and give you a shot.

Kyle rushed at Raniel, swinging his sword. For some reason, his body moved well. Little by little, I was able to catch up with Raniel’s movements, which I couldn’t keep up with at first.

“uh?”

At some point, Raniel started running away.

Sometimes he would use unusual tactics. He used to come up with ingenious strategies. Is it like that this time too? Kyle chased after Raniel and swung her sword.

Whoop, whoop.

He swung his sword as if he were proud.

Without knowing why, many sword techniques came to mind. Kyle followed suit. He is Rani El, who always went ahead of himself. Kyle wanted to show this to Raniel.

How strong you have become.

What have I been able to do?

I wanted to ask if I could now stand in the same place as you. Yes, I really owe you a lot. Now that I am this strong, I should be able to repay my debt to you.

“Really.”

I swung my sword, but it did not reach me.

Raniel barely escaped. Even now that I had become so strong, I could hardly reach him.

“Really, you are a great guy.”

It was always like that.

Because of you, I was able to become a hero. Because you always led the way, I was able to follow behind. So, thought Kyle.

“At least once.”

It’s good just once.

“I wanted to surpass you.”

I wanted to move forward beyond you.

Instead of looking at the same scenery, I wanted to look at a place farther than you. You can call it ugly competition. Maybe it’s a child’s immature dream of becoming a hero in a fairy tale.

Still, I sincerely hoped so.

Kyle thought that he might be able to do that now that he was stronger. So, Kyle ran with all his might.

thud!

I hit the ground and took a stance.

In this way, Kyle showed off the best blow he could deliver. He swung his wooden sword at Raniel, who was pinned against the wall and unable to escape.

“We finally reached it.”

In Kyle’s opinion, it was a more perfect blow than ever before. She swung her sword in a way that surprised even herself.

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Phew.

Raniel saw Kyle’s sword piercing his heart. A sword stained red. The sword that pierced the heart came out behind Raniel’s back and became lodged in a pillar.

Kiiiiiiiing!

The suppressed sword energy burst out from the blade.

The sword energy that cuts down everything it touches cuts into Raniel’s body. Raniel’s body shook, and black and red blood burst out like crazy from her eyes, ears, mouth, and nose.

“Big, ugh.”

Blood poured out along Kyle’s blade. Kyle swung his sword sideways. Kyle’s sword pierced the heart, shattering Raniel’s ribs and sticking out.

Coo goo goong, coo goo goong!

Raniel was not the only one who was cut to pieces by the sword. The pillar she was leaning against also collapsed under the influence of her sword energy. The collapsing pillar swallowed Raniel, who collapsed.

Cooung. thud.

As the rising dust cleared, Kyle looked down at his feet. Raniel could not be seen, hidden by the remains of the pillars piled up like a tomb. All he could see was blood flowing through the cracks in the wreckage.

There was no more gray color.

3.

Patter.

In his fading senses, Raniel felt something fall on his head. It was stone debris. But even that soon stopped being felt.

All senses faded.

I didn’t even feel any pain.

Something kept pouring out of my mouth, but I couldn’t tell what was pouring out of my mouth. My vision, which had been stained red, was gradually becoming blurred. A feeling of weakness draining from her entire body.

Raniel knew this feeling.

It was death.

Death, which I thought was far away, was approaching. Before we knew it, it was right in front of us. In his dim mind, Raniel concentrated on his senses. There was at least a sound.

chin.

The sound of someone’s footsteps.

The sound of a knife being dragged across the floor was heard. The sound was getting farther away. Probably Kyle.

‘I thought I was dead…’

Is it getting farther away?

Are you trying to go to a place you can’t reach?

I barely made it this far, but soon I got further away again. He is a guy who is rarely caught. Raniel laughed, not fitting for the situation.

Did I mention I wanted to be

Have you ever said that you want to be like me?

Raniel bit his lip, remembering what Kyle had shouted. It was a funny thing to think about now. Raniel doesn’t know how he looked in Kyle’s eyes. But, Kyle probably doesn’t know either.

How Raniel has viewed Kyle.

Raniel had no dream.

I had no idea what I wanted to be.

She lived only on duty. She became a wise person not because she wanted to, not because she wanted to be, but because she had to, because she had to become.

Raniel hated himself like that.

Because it was a life lived out of obligation, when he looked back on his life, Raniel expressed it as ‘like hell.’ That’s why Raniel reflected himself in Kyle. Unlike himself, who had lost his dream, he hoped that the guy who was pursuing his dream would succeed.

Then I felt like I could become something.

Because it all seemed to have meaning.

But in the end, it’s like this.

‘I am.’

What did I hope for?

Now is the time when even my second life has been lost.

Now is the time to end my life lacking again.

In the face of approaching death, Raniel thinks for the first time. He wanted to be what he was. He really did what he had hoped for. What leaked out between his lips were his true feelings that he had never thought of before.

The gray wizard shared his wish.

The star heard that wish.

Stars are beings that answer human wishes.

Starlight flooded in and answered the gray wizard’s wish. The remaining ash was ignited once again. At that moment, the part that was missing as a warrior was corrected.

And then, it appeared in front of Raniel.

Something that never breaks.

It’s like a symbol of a warrior.

It was a star weapon.

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fantasy,