The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed

33 – Piece

After leaving the club room, we headed to our respective search areas. I left the main building of the academy and headed towards Lakar and the 3rd annex, scattered and searched.

When you are intensively searching for places that are out of sight and may accidentally end up in the hands of Ross. Someone came towards me with footsteps.

“Ross? What are you doing here?”

When I turned to Roel’s voice from behind, Roel approached me with a bright smile.

“I was in a club.”

“Clubs? Ross, if you joined the club, you should have told your brother!!! What kind of club is it? Shall I join?”

With an interesting expression on his face, he hurriedly waved his hand at Roel’s interest.

“It is a friendship and club created by the children who became close during this practice. Only first graders can enter.”

It was quite a surprise to Roel that I had made another friend. He snorted and patted my forearm roughly.

“Now you are living a real academy life!”

Roel, who had a proud expression on his face, glanced around and whispered softly.

“So, are there any good girls?”

When I looked at Roel’s unusual appearance with a smirk as he patted her side, he smiled and raised his eyebrows as if asking for a quick answer.

“Two of the five members of the club are women.”

“One person must be lonely. Isn’t that one person going to be Ross?!”

When I pushed Roel’s arm away to tell him to get away from Roel, who was making a worried expression, the joke finally stopped.

“Rather than that, did you find a partner to go to the prom with?”

“Prom?”

Looking at Roel with a slightly puzzled expression at her sudden remark, Roel shrugged her shoulders as if he didn’t understand.

“It’s the emperor’s birthday soon. That day is originally a holiday, but I heard that there is an academy raid this time, so we are holding a ball to change the atmosphere?”

At Roel’s explanation, I stroked my chin. Originally aligned with the emperor’s birthday, take advantage of the weakened vigilance. Warlocks raided the academy through the sewers.

I wonder if this is also the result of changing the flow, so let’s put on a worried expression. Roel sneaked up to her and whispered.

“How…. Can you give me some advice about dating?”

It was absurd that Roel, who had a good first impression and a fraudulent ability to be easily liked by everyone, would give her advice.

Unlike Roel, who just goes there and talks to anyone with a friendly smile, I have similar characteristics to Roel, but I have a normal appearance and have lived with a depressed expression all my life. It was a bit depressing even to me.

“It’s okay, I will take care of dating.”

When he said that with a shy expression, Roel, who had a sad expression on his face, took out a bag of gold coins from his chest.

“Since we met like this, I’ll give it to you now.”

I looked at Roel in bewilderment as he handed me a pouch full of gold coins, and Roel continued talking.

“Would a commoner like us have clothes to go to the ball? When the first prom was held, I was very embarrassed because there was no special costume. If it wasn’t for Flavia’s help, I’d probably go there alone in my school uniform…. Don’t worry like me and buy nice clothes. The rest of the money is spent on pocket money.”

Roel, who was making a bitter expression as if he remembered that time, realized that he was in front of me, quickly erased his expression, and smiled warmly as always. When I saw Roel like that, a part of his heart ached.

How emotionally and physically difficult it was for Roel before his first prom. I, who wrote the story myself, knew better.

He promised to go to the prom with Flavia, but Roel, who belatedly learned that prom attire was basic etiquette, cut down on sleep to earn money and went out every weekend to earn money. After all, he couldn’t save up the money to buy clothes.

Roel, dressed in an old school uniform that had to be folded up once due to lack of money and the size he inherited, who may have worn it, is standing next to Flavia, who even prepared an expensive custom-made dress for the ball, as a partner. It was just right.

It was a story that any man would feel ashamed of revealing his shortcomings in front of the woman he liked.

She would rather skip the prom and let Flavia go to the prom with her other partner, rather than harm Flavia because of her. Flavia, who found out that Roel was having such troubles, shuddered at her.

Roel’s new school uniform, customized suits, and prom outfits are presented. Separately, Roel helps Roel earn money and secretly get a good job…. It was a story created for the heroine Flavia’s fiancee.

The story he created for the interest of readers left a shameful scar on Roel. Feeling guilty about it and Roel’s feelings toward me, I couldn’t bear to lift my face in shame.

Perhaps reading my expression, Roel forced the bag of gold coins into his hand and tapped him on the shoulder.

“Are you worried about choosing clothes by yourself? Well, I’ve never bought clothes, so it’s scary. If you need my brother’s help, even right now… !”

I shook my head with a wry smile at Roel’s act of trying to lighten the atmosphere with a playful voice.

“No, I can do it alone…. Thank you always brother.”

When I said that with sincerity, Roel replied with a smile.

“So I am the older brother. If you have any difficulties, tell me. I will work hard to help you. Well then, I’ll be on my way. I have dinner plans with Flavia.”

With that said, he patted my shoulder lightly and left with a bright smile as always.

I felt the weight of the heavy bag of gold oppressing my heart, not my hands. With a sigh, I sorted out my emotions and put the bag of gold coins in the space storage.

After sweeping his face, he started searching again.

The search time was lightly set at 2 hours, so I had to look around the 3rd annex within that time.

I looked around the inside carefully and made sure that no one could reach it, so I stepped on an acorn that fell from a tree that grew next to a bench in the corner while walking around the annex building to go to the club room.

I inadvertently looked up at the top of the tree where the acorns had fallen because of the feeling I felt under my shoes, and found a strangely shaped mask hanging from the branch.

The moment I looked at the mask, I felt an indescribable sense of déjà vu. The words that had been lingering in my mouth disappeared without coming out of my mouth.

I looked closely to see if it was an unclean artifact, but I couldn’t confirm it with my naked eyes.

Because of his indomitable courage, he thought that even if he touched the artifact, he would not succumb to the demon lord’s temptation, so he used space magic to pull out the mask hanging on the tree.

I was worried that something might happen if I touched the mask, but there was nothing particularly wrong with it.

I took a closer look at the mask and noticed that there was a very small acorn drawn on the inside of the mask.

“Is it just a lost item… ?”

It was time for the appointment, so I put the mask in the storage room and headed to the club room.

Whether you arrived late. Members were already lying on sofas and chairs, drooping.

“We didn’t find anything. Manager?”

A mask came to mind at Lakar’s words, but he wasn’t sure, so he just shook his head.

“Then let’s get together in the club room again tomorrow after lunch.”

Let me tell you that. Members nodded and left the club room one by one to enjoy the rest of the weekend evening.

Lakar said after tidying up the cluttered club room.

“Let’s go eat.”

“Oh, I will eat in a little while. Eat first today.”

“Okay. Oh, I’m going to take a break from physical training today. I was supposed to meet her fiancee.”

“Okay.”

When even Lakar left the club room, the noisy club room was filled with silence. The sunlit ceiling suddenly turned into a night sky with twinkling stars.

I took out the mask from the space storage and looked at the drawing of the acorn.

What is the identity of this mask?

I don’t remember, but why do I feel a sense of deja vu about this?

Instinctively, I knew that in order to easily recognize its identity, I would have to wear a mask myself.

If this was an unclean artifact, you could get a chance to face the demon lord. Let’s wear a mask thinking that if we have indomitable courage, we won’t succumb to the devil’s temptation.

Suddenly, at the same time as feeling as if the whole body is melting. As if someone forcibly pressed his head against the undeniable, powerful intimidation, he slammed his forehead into the ground and shook his body convulsively.

Blood vessels are tearing, muscles bursting. My heart was twice as large as it was before, breaking my ribs, and I heard someone’s cry in my ear along with an ever-growing pang of pain.

“I could have saved them all!!!”

The emotion of despair in his voice burrowed into his ears.

How many sorrows and losses do you have to experience before you can have a voice like that?

The voice was so desperate that I was afraid to even imagine it, and the emotions of sadness were conveyed clearly.

For some reason, I was filled with all sorts of emotions and shed tears.

Contrary to that voice, a philosophical voice asked.

“What did I lose this time?”

At that question, I felt pain pressuring my whole body. Some great madness was weighing me down.

“My everything.”

With someone’s reply, all sorts of voices started babbling incomprehensible words.

I felt like my head was about to burst due to the overlapping of countless voices, but I used my indomitable courage to force myself to look up and look ahead.

Into the endless expanse of space.

The stars are dancing, spiraling into something.

Things swallowed up in the darkness twisted and exuded a clear presence, but I couldn’t stand the intimidation of it.

「Then, take another step. 」

In front of the great throne, something indescribable threw the mask it was wearing into the abyss of space.

Let an unrecognizable being beckon you even though you are seeing it with your own eyes.

A passage of a dimension that is enough to overturn the world appeared behind its existence, and at the same time, it escaped from illusion like a lie.

The mask I was wearing was broken beyond repair and fell onto the carpet.

She exhaled heavily as she lay on the carpet in pain that felt like an awl piercing her brain.

What did you see?

I tried to recall the memory, but my indomitable courage instinctively blocked it.

As if even thinking about it would be impossible for me now….