There Was a Porter Who Would One Day Be Called a Prophet

43 – Get the best of both worlds

“Everyone, calm down!”

Everyone in the place said one word at a time, and when it became impossible to understand, the warrior stepped forward and stopped the people.

“Aren’t any of them representative of the village?”

Then a young woman stepped forward through the crowd.

“My name is Tanasha, acting chief of Dolomia Village.”

Since I narrowed it down to one person to speak for sure, the rest of the chatter went quiet.

“As you said, we are a warrior party. Excuse me, but you look very young. What the hell happened in this town?”

At that, a shadow fell over Tanasha’s face, and she replied in a melancholy tone.

“Originally, my father would have welcomed you… But the village chief said he would solve it, and then stopped…

“I said something stupid…”

“No. It’s true that the wound is deep, but I just came out instead of resting at home.”

Tana Shah shook her hand and corrected her champion.

“We only talked about our situation and couldn’t even greet you. It’s late, but welcome to our village.”

“Thank you. First, could you tell me why the town is like this?”

Tana Shah took a deep breath before opening her mouth.

“…It started a few days ago.”

She speaks as if she is chasing her past, looking into the void.

“It was a peaceful village not too long ago. To go south, you had to pass through our village, so it was a lively place with many people coming and going.”

The atmosphere naturally became solemn at her words, which were the exact opposite of the now desolate landscape of the village.

“But a few days ago, after the sun went down, a knight without a head would occasionally appear and start roaming the village. The knight attacked people he encountered, and when the news spread, he stopped going outside. At first, while the sun was up, People used to go there, but now they’re not even coming.”

“The situation in the village is much worse than I thought.”

“That’s right. After my father became like that, he had no choice but to encourage the villagers to stay home at night. Since then, he hasn’t come out.”

‘Because the condition for boss mobs to appear is to leave town at night.’

She was about to tell me about it, but she shook her head.

‘It would be better to catch it and then tell it.’

If you fight for no reason, you might come out and get involved.

Raina approached me as I was thinking about what to do next.

“The porter. You seem to know something.”

“I think I know what it is. But…”

“Just?”

“It’s too long to talk about, so I’ll tell you when I find a place to stay, not here.”

Tanasha must have heard what Reina and I were saying.

“If you’re looking for a place to stay, come this way. I’ll let you know.”

As we entered the inn, guided by Tanasha.

“Are you here to stay?! Hurry up… No, welcome!”

The innkeeper sitting at the counter was overjoyed, and I sensed that the situation in the inn was not that different from that in the village.

“There are two males and three females. Do you have a room?”

This time, the hero speaks straight without stuttering like last time. Have I grown up?

“The problem is that there are too many rooms.”

The innkeeper replied with a bitter smile on her face.

“I’m contemplating whether I should quit my business because no one visits the village.”

I wonder if what the owner said was true, we were the only ones on the first floor, even though it was lunch time, when it should be the busiest.

‘Even though it’s not a very small town, seeing that the room is so empty, the problem must be serious.’

Maybe it’s because we’re the only guests using the inn. This time, I was able to get a room for one person.

The hero had a complex and subtle expression on his face, but he probably couldn’t sleep well because he was worried about me outside, but he should be able to sleep well this time.

I entered the room, put my bag down, and sat down on the bed, stroking Kyadol while thinking.

‘Something must be strange.’

The past days when I acted with the experience of seeing the ending.

After I joined, Camille Village didn’t disappear from the monsters’ attack. As a result, thanks to the early arrival of Strega village by a party of warriors who did not waste time building the Pisare Cemetery, Cassie was able to defeat Periget before she became her witch.

It arrived faster than before from the Empire and prevented Arya’s assassination. It’s fine so far….

‘Assassins were made of humans, not demons.’

From there, variables started to appear, and in the case of Dolomia Village this time, the appearance of monsters was accelerated. As if moving in line with our progress.

Then it would be more correct to assume that someone noticed our trend and responded.

Once I thought about it, I thought it would be dangerous to blindly believe in the story as before.

‘And there’s been something particularly irritating lately.’

Why did the demons appear in Camille Village? Why weren’t there demons among the assassins?

You can think that the demons in Camille Village are plotting something behind the scenes. So what about assassination?

The job of protecting Camille Village. Or it could be that they reached the Empire too soon. Maybe it’s both

‘The butterfly effect. It’s scarier than I thought….’

Until this village, it would be fine as long as you simply defeat the enemies blocking your progress. I can’t guarantee that there won’t be any derailments in the story in the future.

‘Isn’t fast progress going forward….’

I was afraid to think that the story had already gone wrong. I wondered if it was because of me that the devil would catch the warriors party instead of the ending where he was killed.

‘The emperor said something similar. There’s something uneasy at this rate.’

If the demons responded to our movements and deviated from the way I knew them, I couldn’t stand still either.

‘Come to think of it, Talia expanded her skills only with the information I gave her.’

Because of the fact that he overpowered me at the dorm, and he showed very rapid growth.

‘If the other three can do that too.’

The only thing left for me now is one of the two.

For sure, raise the party from the side. I’m anxious, but I run away hoping to catch the devil.

“Haa…”

The flaws of both sides were clear, so I sighed and lay down on the bed.

-What?

Kyudori looked at me when the hand that was stroking him stopped.

“Kyumdol. Why is it so hard to live like this? There are thorny roads everywhere.”

-Kyum.

“Is that what life is all about? You’re not even a year old now. That’s what I mean.”

The time when I was trying to show what a real old man is to a young old man who has seen less of the world’s bitter taste thanks to his proud owner.

“When I was…”

I remembered the days I lived.

Growed up in an orphanage, started working as an adult as soon as he became an adult, and worked as an intern at a small company.

My only hobbies were games. Come to think of it, why did I end up playing that game?

I thought I would think of something, but it didn’t come to my mind, so I gave up.

“Life is real…”

When I think about it like this, it is a very pitiful life.

Abandoned by her parents as soon as she was born. The parents who had been born once were subsidized and disbanded. I tried to work like a dog and live like a human, but wouldn’t I fall into a different world just because I made a mistake in a game? Now I’m doing this because I was wrongly caught by the warrior party.

Anyway, the goddess must be a psychopath. Otherwise, how could you kidnap someone with such a story?

The more I thought about it, the more disgusted I was. If she had a purpose, she would come out and talk to her face. She just tossed it out and what is this about?

She was me who used to be so fierce alone for a long time. I remembered that there was sweetness in my life.

If there was one thing that parents did well, wouldn’t it be that they abandoned her in front of an orphanage? I met the teachers there.

If I hadn’t even met them, I’d just be living hating everything in the world.

“You must be very worried because I haven’t been able to contact you for a while.”

‘Can I go back? In novels, if you catch the demon king, the goddess will return you to the original world.’

It was hope that I let go of in frustration for half a year, but when I thought ‘maybe’, I couldn’t help but sigh.

“Anyway, it’s the same thing to catch the demon king in the end.”

To live in this world. To return to the original world.

Everything was possible only if it was to catch the demon king.

“Ehh… what am I going to do?”

That time when I was about to bury my head in the bed again.

“Wait a minute.”

A flash of thought passed by.

“It doesn’t matter if I’m not there.”

You have to run away to live, but if you don’t catch the devil, you’ll die anyway. This was a dilemma that caught my ankle.

‘What if you grow up to a certain extent and then fall out? Since that also contributed in its own way, wouldn’t the emperor say something?’

There are reasons why you can’t run away right away, but even if you find a justification for stepping out later and get out of the story at the same time, the party members will be stronger at that time.

For some reason, the teachers said that I was just a lazy genius, even though I couldn’t study. There’s a reason you said that!

If this doesn’t work because of this and that doesn’t work because of that.

Isn’t this the same as saying that this should be done this way and that that should be said this way?

“I had to do both.”

It was such a good answer that even Archimedes, who was shouting Eureka, was ashamed and went back into the bath.

He runs away while raising a party of warriors. That’s the only way.