The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed - Chapter 223



224 – Appearance

After the meeting with Luna, I returned to the club room and was thinking about the location of the fireplace to be installed in the club room at Aria’s request.

It’s not because the club room is cold. Temperature control artifacts were everywhere inside the academy building, so it stayed cool even in the summer (except for the outdoor training area).

The club room was on the second basement floor, so it took a lot of construction to build a chimney for smoke to escape, but Aria worked hard to appeal to Red Magic Tower’s new product, a fireplace that emits warm heat without smoke using magic, so the winter atmosphere was created. I was planning to save it and use this opportunity to decorate the club room as well.

Aphrodisiac, smokeless fireplace… This is definitely a magic tower that knows how to make money. Originally, the green magic tower lord extorted money from Bella and used a huge amount of money to grow the green magic tower, but since the magic tower lord Tarantra died at my hands, a red magic tower took his place.

It is not a dirty method that sucks out blood like Tarantra, but a magic developed through legitimate efforts.

It is difficult to purchase a smokeless fireplace because it is expensive and there are many reservations, but thanks to the Phoenix artifact I used in front of everyone at the last triathlon, I was able to receive it as a gift when I sent a letter expressing my intention to purchase it.

It is inevitable for people to have an increase in likeability. Because it was a free gift I received without any expectations.

After much deliberation, I decided to install a fireplace on the wall between the sofa and the bed. While installing the fireplace, I also planned to change the old wallpaper in the club room. After the promotion exam is over, I have a lot of free time. There is probably no club member who would not take part in decorating the club room.

While I was stroking my chin, I thought to myself, “If at all possible, I should choose wallpaper in Luna’s favorite color.” Suddenly, a terrifying warning spell that sounded like tearing iron began to echo throughout the academy.

“W-what… !!!”

Aria, who was sleeping in bed, suddenly woke up to the warning magic. Rakar and Kane also got up from the sofa and looked at me with embarrassed faces.

It is the same as the warning spell that sounded during the Chimera attack in the first semester. Could it be that the academy was attacked again? Confsion attacking Luna came to mind.

Unlike before, the warning spell ended briefly, and Professor Leora’s voice was heard throughout the academy.

―Notice to all students at the academy. Immediately, 1st and 2nd year students should evacuate to the auditorium on the basement level, and 3rd and 4th year students should put on their school uniforms and combat gear and head to the main gate. Let me say it again: 1st and 2nd grade… .

The members who heard the voice prepared to leave the club room. I don’t know when Kane packed it, but she took out a large bag containing the camping set from under her desk where her pension table was placed. She is compared to Aria, who quickly prepares a bowl of food.

“Chief.”

Rakar, holding his shield, looked at me with eyes asking me to give him an order.

“First, go to the auditorium with the members. “I’ll stop by the ward and then go right away.”

If Confsion really attacked the academy, Luna could become dangerous again. Rakar nodded her head as if she understood and left with Aria and Kane, who were trying to get at least one more snack.

I left the club room and tried to head straight to the ward, but the stairs leading up were full of students trying to evacuate to the auditorium, so I had to go back to the opposite hallway and use another staircase.

I ran like crazy and arrived at the ward, but I couldn’t go inside. The door was protected by magic, as if the protection magic had been activated due to the warning magic.

Still, relieved that Luna was in a safe place, I tried to head to the auditorium on the first basement floor where the members were.

“Are you saying the students are fighting now?”

Someone’s urgent voice came through the walls of the hallway.

“Yeah, they said Roel was fighting with someone. Principal Nelson and several teachers came to support us. “The capital guards were also dispatched.”

When I heard the name Roel, I stopped walking, hid myself at the end of the hallway, and slightly exposed my face. Two middle-aged men who appeared to be professors were having a conversation. the bald man asked, wiping the sweat from his head with a handkerchief.

“Why are you collecting 3rd and 4th grade students? Are you really going to fight?”

Hearing the bald professor’s nervous voice, the thin and tall professor across from him shook his head.

“What are you talking about? Of course, you can’t ask a student to do something dangerous. This is to help clean up after the commotion. “Isn’t it natural for Transcendence Academy students to step up for the citizens?”

The two people who had talked up to that point suddenly pretended to run and headed outside when they heard someone else’s footsteps. As the footsteps faded away, I looked out the window.

The night sky looked red. Black smoke was rising from somewhere. An ominous feeling creeps into my heart and reveals its presence.

When I saw that Roel was fighting, I wiped my face. If things go according to the original flow, it is normal for this second semester to go by without any incidents.

However, the emergence of a new Confsion and the variables of Roel, who became a transcendent faster than expected, were creating unpredictable variables.

I clenched my fists tightly. As Roel said, he couldn’t leave everything behind and enjoy a comfortable life at the academy. The fact that I, who should have left in the first place, is still alive is changing the tide in a big way.

If you let go, there is a possibility that even the original ending could change for the worst. I had to remove the story I had created for everyone, edit it, and correct the variables.

I no longer thought of this world as the world I created in a novel. It is a world that is not fiction, but reality. This is the world where the people I love, like, and cherish live. You can’t just sit back and watch.

I headed towards the stairs leading to the basement. However, my destination was not the auditorium on the first basement floor, but the Messiah club room further down. The only secret passage out of the academy was in the club room.

***

I escaped the academy through the sewer. In case anyone recognized him, he put on the robe he had worn as camouflage on his way to Modist and headed out into the streets of the capital. The streets were full of people. Everyone was looking at the fire burning in the distance with anxious eyes.

When I saw the wizards and knights running towards there, I eagerly followed them. As we got closer, the roar and screams coming from somewhere continued endlessly.

My heart began to beat with unknown emotions. It felt like my consciousness was gradually becoming dark with ominousness and fear.

A wall of smoke and flames blocked the road. One of the wizards ahead swung his staff and created a huge wind. When the knight and wizard saw the street where the flames and smoke had disappeared, they stood tall, as if they had made a promise.

I, who was secretly following behind, could not help but look dumbfounded at the tragedy that unfolded before my eyes. Everything was burning and everything was falling apart. There was blood, flesh, and death everywhere on the streets.

The blood from the people who died after being crushed by the collapsed building formed a puddle due to the drains not functioning properly.

The wizard and knights must have come to their senses late and ran somewhere. But I couldn’t follow suit. I stood there as if I had been nailed to the ground, capturing the tragedy before my eyes on my retina.

I was afraid. I didn’t know exactly what I was afraid of, but I shivered in a place filled with the heat of the flames.

Kwaaang―――!

The building in front of me collapsed, and someone fell to the ground. The man, with one of his arms cut off, staggered to his feet. Something fell from the sky in front of the man.

Roel was covered in blood and dust, but his shining appearance could not be hidden. There were many wounds on Roel’s body, probably because of his blood clots.

“ha… It’s hard to believe the skills of a guy who just became a transcendent. Even hallucinations don’t work… This doesn’t even seem like something… .”

Roel tried to cut the man without answering. However, the man and Roel were momentarily distracted by the appearance of a girl who miraculously survived the collapsed building and crawled out.

“Huh, huh… ! Um, mom… Daddy… !”

Roel and the man’s gaze became entangled in the air as they heard the sad voice of a child calling for his parents who were trapped in a building.

Roel swung his great sword first, but the man barely dodged and hugged the crying child, using him as his shield.

When I saw that, I ran out without realizing it. With my space magic, I could have attacked the man from behind and saved the child.

“brother… !”

Roel heard my voice and looked at me over his shoulder. Roel made eye contact with me, her face distorted, and she gritted her teeth.

“Why are you here… !!!”

I know that Roel is worried about me, but the child’s safety came first.

“I will help! I can help too… !”

He took out the Spear of Destruction and shouted, but Roel spoke in a stern voice.

“There is no battlefield where you can help.”

After saying that, Roel turned his head and looked at the man. The sight was so ominous that she screamed, her throat tearing out as she tried to deny the worst that came to her mind.

“Stop it!!!”

Roel’s great sword moved. The child’s voice, crying for her parents, suddenly cut off. The man who was impaled along with the child desperately ran away, exploding magical energy around him.

Roel didn’t turn around and look at me. He didn’t even glance at the child he cut up, even though it was submerged in a pool of blood. His eyes only follow the enemy’s back. Roel didn’t say anything and chased after the man who ran away.

I walked. Although the thought of walking did not even exist in my mind, I staggered and reached the child who had collapsed helplessly in a puddle of blood. I didn’t know when I had dropped the spear, but I picked up the child with my empty hands.

The warmth felt at the fingertips tells me that the child is alive. She tried to stop the spilling intestines, but she knew it was too late.

The child is dead.

My main character who will save the world and become everyone’s hero.

In Roel’s hands.

I felt my heart break as I saw the child’s face contorted in pain. Her emotions flow back violently, as if she is vomiting blood.

“why… why… “Whyeeeeee!!!”

It can’t be. This shouldn’t happen.

Roel was my ideal and aspiration.

Because I was not loved by others, I wanted to be loved by everyone.

Because I hated everyone, I wanted to love everyone.

Because I was born a lie, I wanted to become truthful.

Because I was lacking, I wanted to become perfect.

A protagonist created by my wishes, far removed from my miserable reality. That was Roel.

I could not take my eyes off the tragedy caused by the object of my hope, admiration, and desire. There was nothing I could do in the face of despair before my eyes. Because this was my cause and effect.

I hugged the child who was growing cold in my arms. A moan escaped from my teeth that I could not suppress. Despair so intense that I couldn’t breathe weighed down my entire body.

I looked up at the sky with difficulty. Black smoke obscured the moonlight. There is only darkness with not a single star to be found.

Breathing heavily, I let out a scream as if my lungs were bursting.