The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed

67 – Plausible

After killing Tarantra after a fierce fight, Amber looked at the fallen Ross, swallowed dryly, and turned her head to Estelle, who watched Los silently.

Estelle, who has a lovely appearance in her small body, had a very cool expression unlike usual.

“Lady Estelle. Ross can’t believe it’s our clan… “

Amber asked in her cautious voice, and Estelle shook her head slightly.

“No, not our clan. I didn’t feel the clan’s unique aura in magic power at all.”

“Then how… ?”

Amber followed Estelle’s orders and continued to follow Ross out of Modest. Because of that, Amber, who watched the fight from the beginning, was in a state of great shock.

“It could have something to do with Farelga.”

“If it’s Farelga…. Are you the founder of the clan?”

Amber asked in a surprised voice, and Estelle answered with her eyes fixed on Ross.

“Yes, the ability I showed when I killed the green mage tower master…. It’s a very similar ability to the family’s vision of cutting space.”

Amber couldn’t help but be surprised by Estelle’s words. In fact, Amber didn’t quite see Ross killing Tarantra.

Following that incredible speed with her eyes…. She was close to impossible.

What Amber saw. Tarantra’s body exploded along with a large gray tree with a flash of red light, followed by a huge roar as if an explosion had occurred.

“… It’s only for an instant, but I used the dimension to fold the space.”

“Yes… ?”

She asked Amber, who didn’t understand Estelle’s words, but she didn’t hear an answer.

Estelle, who had been looking at Ross with an expression as if she was organizing her thoughts for a long time, finally broke her silence and opened her mouth.

“This should not be known to anyone. Especially in the church, never.”

Amber moistened her dry lips with saliva at Estelle’s determined voice.

“Maybe… Do you think Ross is the apostle the Reverend prophesied about?”

At Amber’s question, Estelle looked at her with clear purple eyes and gave a small smile.

“I don’t know, maybe he isn’t an apostle. However, if this incident is known, the headmaster will surely be very interested in Ross’ abilities…. More than before.”

Ember felt her palms damp with sweat. The Church had already approached Ross once. That’s because Estelle moved directly at the head’s command.

“Whatever…. 1St year academy. Also, an inferior student at the bottom of the grade killed the green mage tower master. When she entered the academy, she has grown tremendously to the extent that it was impossible to see… Still growing. Through this fight, Ross has only one thing left to do to get stronger in the future. After all, he must be Roel’s younger brother, whom the headmaster is wary of.”

If recognizing the value of a person is a talent, Estelle must be the most outstanding on the continent.

For Estelle’s words of praise after a long time. When Amber thinks she’ll have to dig deep into the things about Ross again in her head.

Estelle’s face, which was not the usual lovely girl, but the dark-eyed heir-like figure, began to turn red little by little.

‘Why are you doing this again… ?’

As Amber stared at her questioningly, Estelle lowered her head and wiggled her fingers.

“Lo, does Rosalyn like Roel over Ross?”

“Isn’t it? She checked several times, and she concluded that Ross was simply her crush?”

As a way to sell information about Rosalyn to Ross, the figure of Ross knowing even information that anyone who has been watching Rosalyn for a long time would not know.

Ross alone confirmed that he had a crush on Rosalyn.

“Then…. My, can I have it?”

“Yes… ? Yes?”

I wonder if I heard it wrong, so Amber asks again. Seeing Estelle’s behavior of poking the ground with the front of her shoe, Amber questioned with a hopeless heart.

“I’m not talking about Ross… ?”

Estelle pursed her lips at the concern in Amber’s voice.

“I don’t know! Anyway, clean up after yourself. Leave no traces.”

Amber let out a deep sigh when she saw Estelle getting angry because she was shy.

‘What else are you going to do when you can’t even talk to a man….’

Looking at Estelle with her anxious eyes, Amber asked, hiding her inner thoughts.

“But will you be okay? If the lord of the green mage tower suddenly disappears, she will surely feel strange and investigate, right?”

In response to Amber’s question, Estelle returned from being a lovely girl to being a strict guild leader.

“We have to manipulate the traces of the green mage master. It should be enough to leave a trace saying that you went to the dungeon in the north. It will buy time and make the investigation more difficult.”

“Then what about Ross?”

Amber nodded her head and asked Estelle, stuttering her words in embarrassment.

“I, I will take care of it!!!”

Looking at Estelle’s back as she rushed to the fainting Ross, Amber let out a worried sigh.

***

When I woke up, I saw an unfamiliar ceiling.

Calm down, get up and look around. It was the typical look of an old inn.

I got out of bed with a puzzled face at the sight of the Spear of Destruction built on the wall.

I must have passed out with all my might… ? Why did I wake up at the inn? Even the wounds on the body were completely healed.

Did someone find me and take me to an inn? First of all, to put the spear of destruction into the space warehouse and come to my senses. As I wiped my face with my hand, only then did I notice a message floating in the air.

[ Gias has been released because the object of the oath has disappeared. ]

When she said she was going to kill Tarantra because she really meant to kill her. It seemed that Geass’ oath had been activated.

Because the condition of the oath was complete sincerity.

When I reached the idea that I had killed Tarantra, I suddenly thought of Lawton.

Isn’t Lawton’s body still lying on the cold ground?

Let’s hurry out of the room and go down to the first floor. The innkeeper who was cleaning the table said hello.

“Oh, are you awake?”

“Me, how did I get here?”

“Huh? A little woman helped me because I was drunk?”

“Woman… ?”

I was curious about the identity of the woman who brought me here, but right now Lawton came first.

“Where am I?”

“Here? This is a village south of the Thorn River. I guess you’ve been drinking too much? Would you like some honey?”

I shook my head at the kind words of the owner.

“It’s okay. How much is the accommodation fee?”

“Oh, she already did the math.”

At the words of the owner, I hurriedly said hello and came out.

I immediately took out the map I had put in the space storage and looked for a place called the village south of Thorn River.

After checking the map, I panicked and had to check the map again.

The village I am in now is the complete opposite of Turning Village. If they had picked me up after I collapsed, they would have taken me to a nearby village…. Why did they leave me at an inn in a faraway village?

My head was full of questions, but the important thing was to retrieve Lawton’s body.

I paid money at the village adventurer’s guild and rented a horse and headed to Turning Village.

I rode a horse for a long time while looking at the map, but for some reason I couldn’t see Turning Village.

Feeling strange, look around. I found the entrance to the mountain where I was going up to collect Platinum flowers.

“What is this… ?”

I’m sure there wasn’t a village along the way, right?

As I turned my head back in puzzlement, only then did I see the surrounding mountains.

I had already passed the village. However, Turning Village disappeared as if evaporating without leaving any traces.

The corpses of Tarantra and his men, as well as the corpses of the villagers and Lawton who had been killed by them, all disappeared without a trace of blood.

As if I was dreaming, I raised my hand and slapped my cheek hard, but it only gave me a tingling pain.

What kind of situation is this? He wakes up in an inn on the opposite side of town, and the town has disappeared without a trace.

Have you been dreaming all this time? When I checked the space warehouse just in case, I saw that the box Lawton left behind was still there.

It is not a dream.

So, was it the woman who took me to the inn?

I felt guilty that I couldn’t even hold Lawton’s funeral properly. I wasn’t a formal disciple, but…. Lawton has done so much for me.

He healed Luna, found a cure for stone thorn disease, and left it to me. In the end, he worried about me rather than himself who had been betrayed, and even gave me sincere advice.

Even if his life was ruined by Tarantra’s conspiracy, Lawton’s end was a comfortable look with no regrets.

For Lawton, I will use the cure he left behind to rid the continent of stone thorn disease.

Lawton, who was pointed out as a mad scholar…. He will be recognized as the scholar who conquered the Stone Thorn disease.

Because that is the only reward a disciple can give.

I turned my head toward the capital to return to the academy.

It was complicated in my head. There were so many things I didn’t set up for reasons of probability.

The story of Stone Thorn that I made up simply to show how hard Bella is for Roel…. It was a life dedicated to someone, and it became a promise.

A story that could never be seen in the novels I wrote. Just like the original Ross had a shady plan to bind her Ellie to her own side…. I was able to see the true face of Tarantra, who received enormous support using Bella.

When I think about it now, I wondered if it was a setting error that Tarantra was using Bella, who had the wisdom of snakes. There’s no way the sneaky Tarantra could use Bella, who has the innate ability to understand people’s true feelings.

But if you’re a Tarantra with a decades-long history of using Lawton to your liking…. The probability fits.

I vividly pictured in my head Tarantra, who intentionally spread stone prickly disease on the continent to create an advantageous situation for herself, and forced Bella to use her.

Probability is what made even my setup error plausible.

In order for Tarantra to become a monster capable of using Bella, she needed a sacrifice called Lawton.

As I was staring blankly ahead in my complicated mind, someone suddenly jumped out in the middle of the road and hurriedly grabbed the horse’s reins.

“Okay, are you okay?”

I immediately stopped the horse and asked if there were any injuries.

“My, my child! Have you not seen my child? It’s Jeff, he’s only this tall…. Her brown hair has a scar on her left eyebrow….”

Scattered hair, dirty clothes that hadn’t been changed in a long time. I was a little wary, wondering if I was a crazy woman at the clear traces of tears on my dusty face.

When I was calming down by stroking the neck of a surprised horse, not knowing what to do at the sight of a woman pouring out tears and talking nonsense. A man came running from afar.

“Ler!”

Perhaps he is acquainted with the woman, the man shouted his name and approached.

A woman called Lere kept asking me if I couldn’t hear the man.

“Haven’t you seen Jeff? She said she was obviously playing around here…. He’s a cute kid Being nice, and eating well without covering anything….”

“Ler, stop! I’m sorry. My wife is out of her mind….”

Looking at the man bending over with an apologetic expression and forcibly pulling the woman to the side of the road, I said it was okay and tried to move my horse again.

“My child! Where have you been Jeff… Black, black…. Jeff! Jeff!!! I’m sorry mom, I’m sorry Jeff… !”

“Stop it! I don’t know how many days it has been! You are in danger too!”

I couldn’t just pass by the woman crying like a madman and the man tearing up next to her and getting angry.

“Hey, what’s going on?”

When I carefully asked the man, a woman called Ler answered first.

“My child, my child is gone. I’m sure you’re talking here…. It’s a place where she hangs out often, so I just sent it…. She’s gone My child is gone…. Jeff, Jeff!!!”

“I’ve reported you missing, so you don’t have to worry about it.”

Holding the woman who was having a seizure, the man answered.

I was just passing by at the man’s words, so I asked just in case.

“How old is your child… ?”

“… He is now a 10-year-old kid.”

I put my hands on my eyelids at the sad man’s answer.

10 Years old. A child from a village near the capital. Kidnap.

Without thinking, it was easy to see who the culprit was.

It was the information I sold to Modist.

I couldn’t help but keep my head down and chew my lips as Ler let out a cry close to screaming in sorrow at the loss of a child.