Episode 2. King of Heroes (2)
“Status window?”
-Tiring!
『[Status Window]
Name: Locke Ron Widia
Age: 14 years old
Status: “Mana-incapable body”, “□□”, “□□”, “□□”, “□□”
Tendency: 「F: Childlike Courage」, 「□□」, 「□□」, 「□□」, 「□□」
Martial Arts: 「□□」, 「□□」, 「□□」, 「□□」, 「□□」
Skill: 【Draw a hero】 【Save ability】
Number of cards: 0』
“……This?”
In the status window, there was my current age, name, the mana immortal body I was in, and the hero abilities I had just obtained.
“What is this gap?”
“Hmm… … So does that mean I can only put five items from the cards into the blank space?”
“This F thing… is on the low side, right?”
Status, disposition, and martial arts can be obtained through a skill called [Hero Draw], and cards are required to obtain them.
The maximum number of items you can place in each space, whether it’s status, disposition, or martial arts, is five.
The letter F seemed to be a low grade, and there seemed to be some that were even lower than that.
If you collect five F-grades, you will gain an ability that is one level higher.
However, abilities are determined randomly, and you need 10 to level up one.
“Can I put this together myself?”
“What should I say… … . It’s an ability left to luck.”
Now that you’ve come this far, you should be able to answer most of your questions.
“Then the last card is… … .”
-smart.
The door opened before he could finish speaking.
“It’s time to eat. I’ll ask the last question after breakfast.”
“… …Are you eating too?”
“……bon appetite.”
I got up from my seat and went outside.
***
My meals were always set.
A bowl of soup with some crusty bread and a few potatoes floating around.
That was all.
Whether it was breakfast, lunch or dinner, I always ate like this.
It was worse than the Duke’s servants, but I was satisfied with it even at the time.
“Then let’s eat.”
Because it was the only time in the building I could eat with a speaking living being.
‘Tesrun… … .’
He was a man who always looked at me with a pitiful expression, but he was still the only one who answered my questions.
‘At the time, I was happy with that… … Wait a minute. How old am I now?’
I think I saw my age in the status window that the King of Heroes told me about.
‘You’re 14?’
If you’re 14, then it’s about time that happens.
As I was frowning without eating, Tesrun, who had been quietly eating in front of me, opened his mouth.
“What’s wrong?”
“… … What day is it now?”
“It’s January 4, 1034, Haytons. If you’re finished wondering, then please finish your meal.”
Only after hearing Tesrun’s words did I breathe a sigh of relief.
‘Should I think there’s a chance?’
On March 1st, based on the Haytons calendar, all children of nobles belonging to the Ryzen Empire will go to the Academy.
Even the Duke of Widia, known as the Empire’s right-hand man, was no exception.
‘Two months from now… … I will run away.’
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To be exact, he runs away after a month and a half.
‘Then after this meal… … that guy will be there too.’
Crack!
As I clenched my teeth so hard that it made a sound, Tesrun stopped picking up the bread and looked at me.
“Now that I think about it, it’s almost time to go to class. He’ll go early today and be waiting for you.”
“… … .”
Haytons speaks of planets, and Haytons’ month lasted until the 13th.
After the 13th month, everyone on this planet turns one year older.
That is, even though I was an illegitimate child of a noble family at the age of 14, I had to go to the academy, and to do so, the Duke of Widia sent a teacher to teach me at least light swordsmanship.
‘You bastards!’
Perhaps even the father, the master of the Duke of Widia, is unaware of this fact.
No, there was a high possibility that he didn’t even know I existed in the first place.
I was an illegitimate child, and lost my mother at a very young age, to the point where I can’t even remember her, and came into the Duke’s household.
From then on, I was trapped here, and my father, the Duke, never showed his face to me or called me.
Since childhood, only Tesrun has been by my side.
“Please train hard for the status of a peacock.”
“Cultivation… … .”
Even if he had been holding a sword since birth, it would have been impossible for him to defeat those who had learned swordsmanship.
Because I have no talent.
But with only 3 months left until school starts, what am I supposed to learn?
It was a time when it was difficult to learn even the basics, let alone swordsmanship.
‘shit.’
Thinking about it like that, I suddenly felt as if I was possessed by something and couldn’t control my emotions, and I couldn’t stand this disgusting injustice.
“It’s only been three months, or rather, a month and a half? What can I learn in that time?”
“……yes?”
“How funny. How funny. Are you telling me to go to the academy to be educated and read as violence while saying teacher?”
Tesrun blinked his eyes and made a dumbfounded expression.
It was the first time that a child who had never expressed his own opinion before spoke up and complained about something.
Above all, the person criticizing him was a swordsmanship instructor sent by the Duke.
“To me, who doesn’t even know the basics, who has no stamina or strength… … What do you think you should teach me first? Tesrun.”
“Umm… … .”
Tesrun, who had been blankly staring, came to his senses at my words and let out a gloomy tone.
Should we be happy about this? No, is it really something to be happy about?
No, before that, I had doubts about whether he was really my master.
Tesrun opened his mouth quietly.
“Physical strength… isn’t it?”
“No. It’s not physical strength, nor how to hold a sword, nor how to build strength.”
“Then what is it?”
“This is a way to deal with those brainless brats who say they’ll teach you swordsmanship in three months. Even the warriors and heroes who are only mentioned in legends can’t master the sword in three months.”
‘… … .’
Tesrun said, stroking my chin as I spoke.
“But your highness… … .”
“I have no power, no parents, and a mere swindler… Are you going to report me if I say so? The head of the Widia Duke House, the right-hand man of the great Golden Dragon! Duke Aizen Lon Widia, known as the Black Drake, probably doesn’t even know about my existence.”
“Umm… … .”
Tesrun looked at me with a confused face.
Until yesterday, it was not the behavior of a child who had clearly been subjected to violent training from a swordsmanship instructor, and who had been looking up at the sky with a tearful face, looking for his mother.
‘A face that has crossed a battlefield… … Yes, that’s the kind of face it is.’
Tesrun’s head became even more confused as his face became filled with venom, as if he had been through many battles.
“… … Are you really the young master?”
“What about me is not me? Tesrun?”
“……it’s nothing.”
It has changed. It has definitely changed.
But Tesrun couldn’t say that he had changed.
Even if he changed, the situation wouldn’t change.
anyway
‘Even if a talentless person changes, talent does not appear.’
Because the young master named Locke had no talent of any kind.
Tesrun calmed his mind.
His role is to assist the master and record the master’s actions every month and send them to the Duke.
He didn’t know if his letter would reach Duke Aizen or if it would disappear in the middle, but as a servant of the Duke’s household, he just had to shake off his doubts and do his job properly.
“Your Majesty’s words are true, but I cannot ignore the swordsmanship teacher sent by the Duke.”
“Tsk.”
I have never seen a young master click his tongue before.
However, as a ‘servant’, Tessrun faced Locke, who was chewing on bread while his heart grew cold.
“Then I will get up now. I will tell the swordsman that you will be a little late.”
“okay.”
Tesrun quietly picked up his plate and left the kitchen.
And then I thought.
‘Nothing changes.’
According to Duke Aizen’s standards, change means that talent has been discovered.
A change in personality does not necessarily mean that talent is revealed.
***
Left alone at the kitchen table, I stared thoughtfully at the window that appeared before my eyes.
-Tiring!
[Fate has changed by 0.003%.]
[You have acquired 3 hero cards.]
“… …Your Majesty the Hero?”
“What does that mean?”
“Well… … .”
The moment I died came to mind.
10 years from now.
“Because this world will be destroyed by someone.”
This planet is destroyed by an unknown enemy.
Some spoke of demons, some of them of demons, and some of them of beings from another dimension, but at the time, humanity, or rather the world, was unable to discover their true identity.
It was only at the very end that I had a chance to learn of the presence of the invading enemies, but in the end, I met my death with only the enemy’s ridicule.
“… … Just because I was cold?”
“… … .”
Is that all you did to choose me?
“… … I just talked to Tesrun… … .”
Actually, compared to how I was until now, it wasn’t ‘just’ that much.
It was the first time he had expressed his resentment towards the Duke of Widia, and it was clear that Tesrun was slightly affected by those words.
‘I didn’t finish eating.’
There was a rule that the Duke’s servants were always to serve the right amount of food and not leave any leftovers, and Tesrun was the first to do so.
Just like the saying that a butterfly’s small flap of wings can turn into a typhoon, only now can I understand the meaning of that saying.
Because of my words, a very small change occurred in Tesrun.
“Well, now that I have the card, I should open it.”
‘What is 3D?’
It would be a good idea to open it before meeting the swordsmanship instructor.
fantasy,
