The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed - Chapter 273



274 – Wind

I don’t know if this world is a parallel universe, another world line, or one of the multiverses. But one thing is certain: I am not the only possessor in this world.

Ross here also learned information about the future and changed the original flow. Perhaps the reader of my novel was possessed by Ross. Unlike me, who wants to cooperate with Roel, he may be joining hands with the Demon King to take down the main character, Roel.

There were many things I wanted to ask Ellie and the Ross of this world. But the demons surrounding us were ready to pounce at any time.

There is little chance of winning in a fight. There are many of them, and I am weaker than the wounded Ellie. Additionally, it still took some time for the runes on my wrist to turn green.

The good news is that the demons are still keeping a siege and not moving because they still misunderstand me as Dantalion. As I was desperately wondering what to do, Ellie asked me in a low voice.

“Ross, are you okay?”

Who is worried about whom? I was dumbfounded and laughed out loud at the sight of Ellie worrying about me, even though she was the one with all the scars on her body.

“I think I should worry about you more than I worry about myself.”

Although he said it as a joke, Ellie spoke with a face like a criminal.

“… Sorry. I thought you’d be safe in my room… . I was too complacent. “I should have just stayed by your side and protected you until the end.”

As if she had forgotten about the presence of devils around her glaring at us with their murderous gaze, Ellie bit her lip and apologized to me over and over again with her eyes filled with tears as if she was about to burst into tears.

I said, shaking my head with a sigh.

“It’s not your fault. It couldn’t be helped. “It’s so powerful that it blows away the entire capital, so it’s natural that even the academy building won’t be able to withstand it.”

Ellie tilted her head as if she didn’t understand my answer.

“W-what do you mean… ? It’s so powerful that it blows up the entire capital… ?”

I was puzzled by Ellie’s reaction and responded.

“What do you mean, Bella sacrificed herself and exploded the imperial palace to kill the cult leader and the demons all at once-”

I couldn’t finish speaking because Ellie froze at my words. Only then did I feel something was strange about her. If the imperial palace exploded and the entire capital was blown away… There can’t be this many devils around.

In the novel, it was described that all the demons and cultists who attacked the capital died in the explosion along with Bella. But there are so many demons… .

“… “The imperial palace is still the same.”

Not knowing what was going on outside, I naturally assumed that the reason the academy’s main building collapsed was due to the explosion in the imperial palace.

Ellie said, furrowing her eyebrows.

“The Academy building collapsed… This is because there was a spy planted by the church’s vice president inside the academy. An explosion occurred inside and the building collapsed. “Maybe it was a bomb or something?”

Is that why? Just like Professor Dewin, who was a spy for the church, the church must have infiltrated the academy by disguising other demon king followers and members of the church as spies.

Ellie asked, looking at the demons around her and looking at me with anxious eyes.

“Ross, what did you mean earlier about the power to blow away the entire capital…? ?”

In response to Ellie’s question, I brought up the lie I had thought of in advance.

“This is what I heard from Roel in the previous world. It is said that Bella used herself as bait to lure the cult leader and the devil into the imperial palace, causing the palace’s magic to run away and blow up the imperial palace and the capital. She heard from you earlier that Roel went to the basement of the imperial palace, so she knew. “Today is the day Roel spoke of.”

Ellie bit her lip, as if she could guess something from my explanation.

“So Bella gave me that…” . Ross, for now-”

“Hey, Dantalion. “Why do you talk so long about food?”

The person who interrupted Ellie was the muscular monster I had met earlier. The monster that came out among the demons that surrounded us grinned and smiled grimly.

“Didn’t you see your friends here, dripping with saliva, anxiously waiting to taste the thigh meat you gave them?”

I made eye contact with Ellie. I nodded and took out the Spear of Destruction from the space warehouse. Ellie immediately drew out her magic using magical power and prepared to use her magic.

As we prepared to fight, the monster watching let out a roaring laugh.

“Haha, you disgusting b*stard. “Have you become attached to a human again?”

The monster swung its fist and exploded the head of the demon standing next to it. He then swung his hand down his throat, pulled out the devil’s vertebrae, filled it with demonic energy, and hit the floor like a whip.

“I always wanted to explode your head for opposing the idea that all life in the human world should be killed. Hehehe, the opportunity has finally come. “Hold them!”

As the monster hit the floor again with its vertebrae, the demons that had surrounded us began to rush towards us with terrifying force. A black ray of light shot out from the tip of Ellie’s staff and instantly turned the running demons to ashes, but the number of demons running towards us did not decrease.

“Ellie, we have to stop them from getting closer!”

At my shout, Eli swung his staff sharply. The ground around us warped, and huge rocks rose up from the road to create a barricade.

Then the demons that were running spread their wings and began to fly into the sky. While Ellie used magic to deal with the demons in the sky, I took out a bag of seeds from the space warehouse.

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He took out all the beanstalk seeds from the seed bag and threw them around with magical energy. The rapidly growing beanstalk rolled on the ground along with the running devil, blocking the devil’s approach.

But the number of enemies coming was too many. I shouted urgently as I saw the devil running after trampling the devil on the beanstalk and the devil filling the sky.

“Ellie, take my hand! “You can escape the siege with space magic!”

If you use intangible breathing to continuously use the dimensional passage, you will somehow be able to break through the siege. Thinking so, she held out her hand to Ellie, but Ellie, who was looking at her outstretched hand with a strange expression on her face, suddenly gathered her magic power and threw her staff into the sky.

A tremendous amount of magical energy pulsated around the staff, and translucent geometric patterns began to spiral into multiple layers. Then, lightning struck around us, and all the demons that were attacking us began to turn into ashes.

“good job! I can run away now. “Hurry and hold my hand!”

Thanks to Ellie giving us time, we were able to easily create a dimensional passage. She waved her outstretched hand for me to take her hand, but for some reason, Ellie passed my hand and fell into my arms.

The sweet strawberry scent rushes into my lungs. I feel warmth and wetness. A moment of worry crossed my mind as to whether I was bleeding this much.

“Ellie… are you okay?”

When I looked down at Ellie in my arms with worried eyes, she raised her head and looked at me. Her eyes, which resembled obsidian, were filled with sorrowful emotions. A teardrop runs down her cheek.

Our breaths mix. In a battlefield filled with the screams of demons and the roar of lightning, Ellie’s voice came clearly to my ears.

“It’s late, Ross.”

Ellie took something out of her arms, put it in my inner pocket, and pushed my body away with all her might. Because of that, I took a few steps back and noticed that what Ellie had put in her inner pocket started shaking, so I lowered her head and checked her inner pocket.

It is a golden artifact that emits a brilliant light. What this is, I know. Because I have seen it used in person.

Why did Ellie have the Fairy King’s wand that belonged to Bella? Before the question could be resolved, the Fairy King’s staff activated at will.

He escaped from my embrace and rose alone in the air. Then an encroaching barrier surrounded me. I looked at Ellie outside the barrier with stupid eyes.

“I can feel a tremendous amount of magical energy gathering in the imperial palace. “I guess the magic runaway you mentioned is happening.”

The one remaining obsidian eye looks at me. And Ellie smiled sweetly through her tears.

“You promised. He said he would help him get back home. “I will definitely protect it this time.”

“Wait a minute, Ellie! What is this! “Ellie, Ellie!!!”

Realizing what he meant, I screamed at Ellie in a fit of rage and pounded the encroachment barrier with my fist. But it was no use. Even if he drew out the power of destruction and stabbed the barrier, he could not escape the barrier. There weren’t even spatial coordinates inside the barrier.

The encroachment barrier is the most powerful barrier among the magician’s barriers, enough to nullify even the cult leader’s attacks. I realized that it was impossible to escape the barrier at my level.

Bella would have given Ellie the Fairy King’s staff to help her survive the explosion in the imperial palace. If she had used this on herself, Ellie would have been able to survive this hell and run away to Liberty City like her original flow.

If I hadn’t come to this world… It would have been like that if I hadn’t been there. In order to keep her promise to me, Ellie used the Fairy King’s wand, not on herself, but on me.

Ellie said, taking a step closer to the barrier.

“You know, Ross. You are such a good boy. So when I lost you because of my fault, I felt like I lost everything. I spent most of the day missing you. In order to forget you, I studied like crazy without sleeping and passed out several times. Roel oppa worked hard to help me like this, but no matter what I did, I could never fill your empty spot.”

Ellie, speaking in a lower voice than usual and conveying the emotions she felt, looked at me and smiled sincerely.

“So I just lived like that. I miss you every day and pray for you to forgive me even though I know I won’t. So, a few years have passed and today… “Suddenly you appeared in front of me.”

Ellie shuddered and then smiled weakly. It was a smile that touched her heart.

“Thank you for giving me a chance to be forgiven at least a little.”

There was something I could finally understand after hearing those words. Why did Ellie bring me to her secret room after I was almost killed by Lycan?

Since I, who was dead, suddenly appeared in the middle of the academy, it was natural for people to suspect that I was a devil, like a lycan. But Ellie immediately released my restraints and approached me defenselessly.

Ellie didn’t care if I was a devil. I think it was her own atonement if she wanted to, and she was willing to give her life.

I couldn’t hold back my surging emotions and shouted.

“Did you forget? I won’t remember your sacrifice. Death in vain! “I will forget everything you did to me!”

Ellie smiled softly as if she already knew what I was saying.

“I think that makes me even happier. As I said before, this is my own atonement. “You just have to take it.”

My vision is blurring. Perhaps I was shedding tears at some point. I spoke with difficulty, unable to suppress the emotions that surged in my heart.

“… “You are the worst friend ever.”

At my words, Ellie raised her arms and wiped away her tears. She then smiled the bright smile she once showed me.

“Hehe, I’m so sorry Ross. Really, truly.”

After saying that, Ellie placed her forehead against the barrier. Beyond the translucent barrier, she stretched out her hand toward Ellie, but she could not reach it. I can no longer feel her warmth.

“I’m sorry for leaving without saying hello earlier. I felt like I couldn’t watch you leave. So she stupidly ran away.”

Ellie sighed softly. She then spoke to me with the face of a girl confessing her shameful feelings.

“You know, Ross. Since you come from another world, there must be a next life, right?”

“… “Maybe so.”

Ellie, who paused for a moment in response to me, smiled brightly with moist eyes.

“Then in the next life, I will cling to you… Even though I fight, cry, and blame you every day, I will not give up and cling to you as if I never did before. So, so… “Will you be my friend again?”

I couldn’t hold back and burst out laughing. Even though tears were flowing from my eyes without stopping, I couldn’t help but smile at Ellie’s words. And in a voice so wet and wet with tears, she answered:

“… “Isn’t it natural?”

After a brief pause, he swallowed his tears and spoke with a smile.

“It’s you.”

Ellie smiled brightly at my words, slowly looked at my face for the last time as if engraving it into her memory, and then turned around.

When Ellie stretched out her hand in the air, the staff that was pouring out the thunderbolts was sucked into her hand. The demons that had hesitated due to the lightning strike are coming back.

The world shakes violently, and the sky splits in two. Ellie, with her back turned as if waiting for her promise, gathered all the magical power of her body and created her magic.

Rumbling―――!

Several geometric patterns come to mind and merge into one. Every time Ellie swings her staff, a huge magic ceremony is created around her.

When Ellie lowers her wand, the monster swinging its vertebrae and the demons thrusting its spear-like claws freeze in place.

Amid the loud noises, vibrations, and demonic cries that rang in my ears, I suddenly heard Ellie’s voice.

“I’m glad it’s you too.”

At that moment, the world exploded.

***

I feel like I was dazed and then suddenly came to my senses. Her body trembles, and when she shakes her head, her dazed mind comes back to normal.

I think I moved somewhere while preparing to fight Lycan, but I don’t remember anything after that.

Even if you try to think of something, you end up forgetting even the attempt.

Bath!

The staff that was floating in the air suddenly cracked, turned into powder, and fell to the floor. What is this? I looked around, but nothing caught my eye.

Where on earth is this? For some reason, I felt like I didn’t know anything.

While I was scratching my chin foolishly, I felt something rustling in my pants pocket. I reached in and took out a piece of paper that had been folded several times.

I spread the paper out and read the contents, scratching my head. It was definitely my handwriting, but I didn’t remember writing notes like this.

Seeing that the paper matches the one I use as a notepad, it is clear that I wrote it down.

“It’s a mental image of the destination… .”

If I use this, will I be able to return to the world I came from? I’m not sure, but it’s all I can do right now.

Coincidentally, the runes on my wrist are also green. I made my way down the aisle, thinking of the academy where Carnega would be baking pizza.

It feels a little different from the passages I saw before. I tried to move forward with a happy heart, thinking that I would now be able to return to my original world.

But something made it impossible for me to take my light steps.

It was the wind that passed me by.

A faint scent lingered in the air. After taking charge of it, I inadvertently turned and looked at a place where there was nothing.

I couldn’t hear anything, but somehow it felt like someone was calling my name.

The faint scent that filled my nose left only the impression of sweetness, and soon disappeared without leaving a trace.

My heavy steps became lighter. I feel the wind blowing again and pushing my back with force.

I shrugged my shoulders at the incomprehensible phenomenon, turned around, and walked briskly toward the passage.