The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed

5 – Oath

Open your eyes and get up quickly. What I could see was the lycan’s grim face.

Did I lose my mind?

Let her grimace, feeling the headache. Lycan, who was looking at me, stroked her chin and opened her mouth.

“I heard that he passed out after screaming at the corpse. As I said before, there were often cases where a person who dreamed of becoming a knight realized the reality after seeing a real corpse and gave up on his dream.”

At Lycan’s words, the unknown corpses of her mother and daughter appeared in her mind.

Biting her lips in pain as if someone had stabbed a corner of her chest with a needle. The lycan sighed and brushed her face.

“If you can’t get over today, you might as well drop out quickly and find another way.”

The brown eyes of the lycan met her gaze. Eyes without emotion, with no expectations on me. Seriously, Lycan thought it would be better if I dropped out.

“It is up to you to decide whether you will sit down at what you saw today or take a step forward. Whichever you choose, it will be a big turning point for you.”

Due to her personality, Lycan, who couldn’t speak for long, put her hand on my shoulder and left her last words.

“It will be cleaned up soon. Think about it when you go back to the academy.”

Looking at the back of the lycan who was leaving, I felt a deep sense of inferiority at her pathetic figure and lowered her head.

***

She finished her meal and returned to her dormitory, sat across the edge of her bed, and pressed her eyes with her palms.

I knew that Ross’s personality had a big impact on me, but at this level, it really was a big deal. Could it be because of a nervous breakdown? She still felt guilty about the images of her mother and daughter that she couldn’t get out of her mind.

“… It passed out, so Me and Pobel cleaned up the bodies instead.”

“Really? You fainted when you saw the body?”

“It’s a real load.”

My headache got worse when I saw my roommates talking about me in a loud voice as if they were listening.

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Nervous breakdown and sense of defeat. I laughed at my stupidity while looking at the setting book, wondering if there was a way to solve these two.

I already knew how.

*

When it was night and I heard my roommates snoring. I got out of the dormitory and out through a hidden passage in the academy.

Thanks to the secret passage setting that Roel used to spend a hot night with the heroine, I escaped and hurriedly moved to my destination.

If the fact that you went out without permission is discovered, it could be a big deal. Of course, it wasn’t to the point of being expelled, but I didn’t want to see Roel’s worried face again.

Let’s go downstream for a long time along the river that flows on the outskirts of the capital. Warning signs caught my eye.

*Note*

It is a village where stone thorn disease patients live.

Restriction on unauthorized public access.

If you get poisoned by a plant called stone thorn, your body hardens like a stone as time goes by, just like Medusa’s eyes. It was a terrible disease that eventually turned him into a stone statue.

It’s a story that Roel is in the third year and solves it, but there is no solution yet, so the empire just confined the patients to one village.

The reason I came here was to find the remains of a witch called a saint in the village.

Later, a grave robber stopped by the village, heard that she was a saint, dug up her grave, and put her belongings up at the auction house.

When Roel participated in the auction. It was mentioned in passing, but it was a relic that was later used as rice cakes.

Let’s walk around the outskirts without entering the village. Not long after, I was able to find a tomb with a collection of stone statues that seemed to have been created by a skilled sculptor.

I checked the stone statue with a torch, and finally found the stone statue covering both eyes with a cloth.

Use the tip of the torch like a shovel to scrape and dig up the ground in front of the stone statue. A small metal box was found.

I put a torch next to it and dug up the soil with my hands to take out the box. After shaking off the dirt and opening the box, the witch’s mementos were revealed. Let’s get rid of things like jewels, magic stones, and rabbit’s paws with our hands. I was able to find a ring with a small purple gem in it.

Put the ring on your right index finger. A familiar status window came to mind.

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[Ring of oath]

―A ring imbued with the power of the covenant ‘Gias’.

It is a magical restraint and curse, but the shrewd gias gives powerful power.

◆ Currently no oath

◇ Currently no restrictions

—–

I wasn’t interested in anything else, so I took out the ring, closed the box, put the box in the ground, collected soil with my feet and buried it. In case you didn’t know, I pressed it with my foot.

To return to the dormitory as it is, maybe it’s because Ross has a nervous breakdown from touching other people’s belongings. Because I was constantly worried, I put my palms together as if to confess a crime to the witch’s stone statue.

“I will definitely use the keepsakes for good. It’s a price to pay, but I’ll definitely find a way to get rid of stone thorn disease.”

If you’re feeling guilty, you’re going to have a nervous breakdown and toss and turn in bed again. It was a word I spat out to alleviate some of the guilt. Suddenly, an unexpected message popped up.

[ A witch’s curse is applied. ]

[ Geas is activated. ]

[ The witch’s curse has been delayed. ]

—–

[Ring of oath]

―A ring imbued with the power of the covenant ‘Gias’.

It is a magical restraint and curse, but it gives you powerful strength.

◆ Current oath

– Promised to find a way to get rid of stone thorn disease in return for a keepsake to ‘Splin the Witch’. / Additional 3P for fulfillment of the oath.

◇ Current constraints

-Witch’s Curse / She dies if she can’t find a way to get rid of the stone thorn disease within 3 years.

■ 1 Current oath.

– Witch Splin’s Oath 1P.

—–

Only then did I understand the situation. A curse was placed on her for touching the witch’s mementos, but the curse was postponed because her gias was forcibly activated because of her words in front of the stone statue.

If Ross’ nervous breakdown hadn’t relieved her guilt in front of the statue and said those words, she might have died under the witch’s curse.

“Are you lucky….”

A nervous breakdown helped me for the first time. It was not difficult even to find a way to get rid of stone prickly disease within three years, which is the limit.

After a year, Roel was going to find a cure for Stone Thorn’s disease according to the flow.

With a sigh of relief, I decided to go back to the dormitory.

***

Fortunately, no one noticed that I had left the academy.

I ate breakfast casually and organized my thoughts against the background of the professor’s voice conducting a boring class.

The setting of Geass was not created by me. It was a setting from Celtic mythology, and the setting of oaths and restrictions seemed fine, so it was added to the story.

Earl named Kelt, who later became a minion of the Demon King, used the memento purchased at the auction house to activate ‘Gias’ and gain flawless power.

With Roel’s escape, he couldn’t keep his oath that if he pulled out his sword, he would surely kill his opponent, and his heart would burst and he would die.

Gias was a double-edged sword. The stronger the oath and restrictions, the more you can get. In Celtic mythology, it was even regarded as the source of heroes’ superhuman strength and the cause of their destruction.

Remember the power to choose as you touch the Ring of Oath. As if selecting an ability in a game, a status window popped up.

[Dragon Slayer] – 10P

[Fountain of Healing] – 7P

[Battle Continue] – 4P

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After confirming the abilities that appeared in front of my eyes, I could understand why Gias destroyed so many heroes.

The more oaths and restrictions are placed, the stronger the structure.

If you’re a hero, you can’t help but roll your eyes. No matter how strong a hero is, it’s close to impossible to kill a dragon with power comparable to that of a god alone. It was possible if I got the ability of the dragon slayer with 10P.

What I needed right now was the ability to overcome personality penalties and the magical power to use Patulga’s spell book.

While checking the abilities related to it, I organized the oaths and restrictions that I could make in my head.

*

A big unexpected problem arose.

“I will never eat chocolate cake!”

“I will not assassinate a stranger!”

“I will save the world!”

“Oh sh*t. I won’t swear.”

How does an oath work? That I don’t know at all.

Is it a punishment for being complacent and thinking that once you get the ring of oath, everything will be resolved? When the plan was blocked in an unexpected place, a sigh came out.

When you’re eating alone in a corner of a restaurant thinking you need to find out about the activation conditions. Someone sat across from me.

Inadvertently raising my head, I faced black eyes like obsidian, and I shut my mouth in embarrassment.

“Hello, Ross.”

It was just a simple greeting. My heart started to beat as if I was running with all my might. Just looking at Ellie made my mind go white.

“No… Big! Hi.”

When I opened my mouth for the first time today because I had no one to talk to, my voice was locked and a strange voice came out, cleared my throat, and greeted me again.

Feeling embarrassed to see Ellie smile happily at the action, she felt strangely satisfied that she had made Ellie laugh.

“I am also adjusting to the academy. I didn’t have time to talk like I used to. Sorry.”

“No, it’s okay. Adaptation comes first.”

When Ellie said she was sorry, she hurriedly shook her hand, feeling sorry as if I had done something wrong.

“Haa, it must be that Transcendence Academy is excellent. Because everyone is better than me.”

I wanted to comfort Ellie with her grumbling, but I, the last in the battle department, had nothing to say.

“The old days were good. When I went out with you and Roel.”

For some reason, I felt strangely uneasy when I saw Ellie talking bitterly.

“Roel oppa is so busy he doesn’t seem to have time to talk. Even when I go to visit the girls around me, they don’t look at me well….”

I remember well the setting of Ellie, the heroine of Roel.

Although he is a cute academy junior, he is quick-witted and smart, so he has a natural talent for manipulating the situation in the direction he wants.

The heroine in the position of a younger sister who has liked Roel since she was a child, has gained a lot of popularity even though she joined Roel’s harem belatedly.

For your information, the past story about Ellie and Ross is not mentioned in the novel. Ross only hinted to the reader that Roel had a crush on Ellie, and Ross, who saw Roel and Ellie kissing, exploded her inferiority complex and argued with Roel.

“Are you trying to take Ellie away from me too?”

Roel was taken aback by Ross’s questioning appearance and tried to clear up the misunderstanding, but Roel’s inferiority complex exploded and he succumbed to the demon king’s temptation and killed Roel and died while trying to possess Elly as his own.

But when I became Ross, I was curious about Ellie.

Did Ellie, who is quick-witted, really not know Ross’s heart, who smiles with her stupid face when he sees herself?

“They say you can go out on the weekends. Shall we play together with Roel oppa for the first time in a while?”

As I looked at the obsidian black eyes looking at me with innocent eyes, I realized one thing.

Like Ellie is quick-witted. There’s no way Ross, who is quick to understand, didn’t know Ellie’s heart.

She was Ellie who tried to approach Roel using Ross’s feelings for her, and Ross who couldn’t give up on Ellie even though she knew it.

“Yes…. I will tell my brother.”

“Really? After all, Ross is nice.”

I couldn’t help but smile bitterly as I felt joy or despair at Ellie’s bright smile.