Not All Heroes From Earth Are Bad [EN]: Chapter 206

Sidriel immediately finished preparing to leave for the 3rd Corps.

“I can leave anytime.”
“Could you give me some time?”

Sidriel silently nodded.

Sarah Dunphy and Choi Hyun-seok moved a short distance away to talk.

“Park Hyun-ah’s treatment won’t be done in a day or two.”
“Then what should we do?”

“I think it would be best for Park Hyun-ah and me to return to the Marriott Kingdom.”

Sarah Dunphy needed to be with Park Hyun-ah for her recovery.

Park Hyun-ah described it simply as torture and overworking the body, but in reality, making the vessel flexible requires a precise and systematic process.

Sarah Dunphy was the only one who knew this.

“Since a high-level healer is needed, it’s inevitable to work with Abelson Marriott.”

Sarah Dunphy couldn’t use magic to heal Park Hyun-ah.

So, the only ones left were Abelson or Rachel, but Rachel couldn’t stay far from Choi Hyun-seok, so they had no choice but to work with Abelson.

“The problem is that it’s too dangerous for Park Hyun-ah to teleport right now.”
“Hmm, it would be impossible to fly with magic. It would take more than a month.”

Park Hyun-ah was in a situation where the vessel containing her magic power would break if she didn’t receive treatment for even a day.

A long-term move was also impossible.

“In the end, the only option left is space-time magic.”
“We need to monitor her progress a bit more to see if she can withstand space-time magic. I think it will take about three days.”

“Three days…”

Choi Hyun-seok trailed off and turned his gaze.

He glanced at Sidriel, who was standing there blankly, and whispered softly.

“I don’t mind… that friend over there. He seems quite motivated, but is it okay to keep her waiting?”

Sidriel’s face was expressionless, as if she had no emotions, but that was just her usual demeanor.

She couldn’t stay still and kept twisting her body, glancing this way from time to time, as if she wanted to ask when they were leaving.

“I’ll talk to her.”

“Okay.”

Sarah Dunphy approached Sidriel.

The two of them talked quietly.

Watching them, Choi Hyun-seok recalled the word ‘girl’ that Sarah Dunphy had used.

‘Girl…’

She’s about 90 years old, but if you convert it to human age, it’s in her late teens, so the expression ‘girl’ isn’t technically wrong.

However, she looks more like a handsome man on the outside, so he still couldn’t quite reconcile himself to the fact that Sidriel was a woman.

“Looking closely, she’s definitely pretty…”

If you remove the overall austere atmosphere and look at each feature individually, Sidriel was undeniably a beauty.

If she grew her hair out and softened her demeanor, wouldn’t the sense of incongruity around the word ‘girl’ disappear?

While he was having such random thoughts, Rachel suddenly sighed.

“Ugh~ Seriously, if it’s a woman, he’s all over her!”

At that moment, a vein popped out on Choi Hyun-seok’s forehead, but he endured it because he didn’t want to interrupt their conversation.

After a while.

Sarah Dunphy, who had finished talking, returned.

“She said she understands.”

“That’s a relief.”

Sidriel’s expression didn’t show any emotion, as before.

However, the atmosphere had subtly changed.

She plopped down on a rock and stared blankly, as if she was disappointed that she couldn’t leave right away.

Choi Hyun-seok turned his gaze back to Sarah Dunphy.

“So, are we leaving in three days?”
“I’ll have to check the progress again then. But I’m almost certain.”

“Okay.”

“In the meantime, you can take a rest and take time to adjust to your grown body.”

“Yes.”

Choi Hyun-seok had leveled up in many ways by killing the Demon King.

As Sarah Dunphy said, it seemed like he could spend time moving his body appropriately to adjust.

***

“Kkeueueueu, Aaaaaah-!”

Park Hyun-ah’s treatment continues.

The desperate screams had continued for more than a day, so they had become familiar background noise.

Choi Hyun-seok was sitting on a rock, staring blankly at the sky.

‘I have nothing to do.’

Being alone and doing nothing.

This was surprisingly painful.

Sarah Dunphy and Rachel were focused on treating Park Hyun-ah.

Left alone without anyone to talk to, Choi Hyun-seok was bored.

“Hmm…”

Thanks to this, Choi Hyun-seok’s main routine was observing Sidriel.

Sidriel was the only one who had the potential to be a conversational partner in this situation.

She was also spending time blankly like Choi Hyun-seok.

The difference was that she didn’t move as actively as Choi Hyun-seok.

‘She’s like a stone statue.’

Sidriel really didn’t do anything.

At first, she seemed interested in Park Hyun-ah’s treatment process and watched it for a while, but that was only for a moment.

Soon, she sat on a rock a little further away and became a stone statue.

The only time she made a sound was after finishing a meal.

“I ate well.”

She bowed her head and said hello, then sat back on the rock and became a stone statue again.

Choi Hyun-seok decided to talk to Sidriel.

‘We’ll have to move together for a while, so it would be good to know things about each other.’

Anyway, after Park Hyun-ah’s treatment is over, only Sidriel and he will have to move.

It would be good to know about each other in many ways before that.

Choi Hyun-seok carefully moved next to Sidriel.

Sidriel glanced up and then turned her gaze away, starting to space out again.

“Ahem, ahem!”

Sidriel turns back at Choi Hyun-seok’s clearing his throat.

A look that asks if there’s anything he needs.

“Um… aren’t you bored if you just stay still like that?”

“It’s a familiar thing.”

“Still, if you stay still for too long, you get restless…”

“Not at all.”

Sidriel continued with a blank face.

“My existence shouldn’t have been known. So, I had to be alone in the basement of the Demon King’s castle since I was born.”
“Always? For life?”

“Yes. My father came sometimes, but it wasn’t for a long time. Most of the time, I was alone.”

Sidriel said indifferently as if it was nothing.

“So, to me, loneliness is as natural as breathing.”

A girl who was indifferent even while saying that she had spent nearly 100 years alone.

Choi Hyun-seok felt a pang in his heart for no reason.

‘Living alone for life and the only person you meet occasionally is your father…’

What does it feel like to spend a hundred years alone?

Even the only person he could talk to, his father, was killed by him.

Choi Hyun-seok was human, so he couldn’t help but feel guilty.

‘This won’t do.’

He felt like he had to say something.

“Then what about your mother?”

“She died as soon as she gave birth to me because she had to keep the secret.”

“Ah…”

Choi Hyun-seok’s face was dyed with embarrassment, and his eyes started rolling around frantically.

‘Damn… this isn’t it…?’

The more he spoke, the more he was falling into the abyss.

If this continued, he felt like he would feel depressed and guilty every time he saw Sidriel’s face.

‘Okay. Let’s apologize first!’

Choi Hyun-seok decided to apologize for killing the Demon King first.

It was funny for a hero to make such an apology.

But he felt like he had to do this now.

“That… about killing the Demon King, I mean…”
“You don’t need to worry about my father’s death.”

“Huh?”

“Anyway, my father wanted to die. He was already too old, and even if he had been left alone, he would have died soon.”

Choi Hyun-seok nodded with an awkward face.

‘Even the last resort failed.’

There’s no way now.

He didn’t have the ability to save this depressed girl.

‘No. There’s still one left.’

Suddenly, a good idea flashed through Choi Hyun-seok’s mind.

He opened his inventory and checked something he had put away in a corner.

“Hehehe…”

A secret weapon.

With this, he could blow away the gloom of the demon girl here in one shot.

“Hey, can you come with me for a second?”

“What’s wrong?”

“There’s something to show you.”

Sidriel got up from her seat without saying anything else.

Choi Hyun-seok walked into the forest with her.

“Okay. This should be enough.”
“What are you going to show me?”

“This.”

Choi Hyun-seok took out a yellow lump from his inventory.

“What is this?”

“Dusebariche.”

“Dusebariche?”

“It means sweet greed.”

Sidriel frowned and repeated the words sweet greed.

“That’s a dangerous name.”
“Dangerous? This is so precious!”

Choi Hyun-seok grinned and wrapped the surroundings in mana [magical energy].

It was to block the scent from leaking out.

“Sweet greed… is this yellow lump precious?”
“Of course. This is a very delicious fruit.”

At the word fruit, Sidriel pretended to know.

“Ah, this was a fruit. I’ve eaten fruit that my father gave me.”

Choi Hyun-seok held out his index finger and tapped it.

“No, no! It’s not such a common fruit. This is the most delicious fruit in the world!”

He chose a flat rock, swept away the dust, and carefully placed the fruit on it.

“This is really precious. I only have five of them.”
“If it’s precious, you don’t have to give it to me. I don’t attach much significance to eating anyway….”
“Sit down!”

Choi Hyun-seok pressed Sidriel’s shoulder and sat her down on the floor.

He also sat down and carefully grabbed the fruit.

“Now, I’ll cut it.”

Choi Hyun-seok swallowed hard and released mana minutely.

The golden fruit is cut in half.

At the same time, a tremendous scent spread in all directions.

“T, this is…?”

For the first time, a proper expression appeared on Sidriel’s face.

Eyes widened as if they were about to pop out.

She was shocked by the dizzying scent that she had never smelled before.

“A, a, a, a, is it okay?”

“What?”

“Such a scent… it’s dangerous… too stimulating…. Ugh!”

Choi Hyun-seok put a piece of fruit directly into Sidriel’s mouth.

After a moment of embarrassment, Sidriel’s jaw slowly moved.

Gulp-

The fruit gently passes down the esophagus.

Sidriel stared at Choi Hyun-seok with dazed eyes.

“Oh… this is…”

“Do you want more?”

Sidriel didn’t answer and nodded like a soulless person.

He gives her another piece and she puts it in her mouth without saying a word.

Choi Hyun-seok also picked up a piece and ate it.

‘Ah, this is it…’

His eyes closed on their own and joy washed over him.

“You… did you say your name is Choi Hyun-seok…? Where is this place…?”

It’s a somewhat hazy voice.

Choi Hyun-seok also muttered with unfocused eyes.

“This is heaven.”

“I see… this is heaven…”

Sidriel nodded with a blissful expression.

“Heaven. It’s the best.”

“It’s the best.”

***

“Hoo, let’s stop here for today.”

At the same time as Sarah Dunphy’s words, groans flowed out from both sides.

“Damn… I really can’t do it.”
“Keueung, Rachel is tired. I miss the days when I was just a honeybee. No, a slacker…”

Rachel muttered, slumped on a rock.

“By the way, where did the Hero go?”
“The Demon King’s daughter is also not visible.”
“Did something happen?”

The three looked around, but Choi Hyun-seok and Sidriel were nowhere to be seen.

“Um, I can feel the Hero in that direction.”

Rachel is connected to Choi Hyun-seok, so she can know his location in an instant, no matter how much he hides.

“Let’s go for now.”

The group slowly moved in the direction she pointed.

Soon, a strange noise began to be heard from one side.

“Hehahahahahaha…!”

“Khek, hek, khehehe!”

The group looked at each other with serious expressions.

“What is it?”

“Something went wrong…”

“Speed up.”

The closer they ran, the closer Choi Hyun-seok’s energy became.

The strange noise also gets louder.

Finally, after passing a huge tree, the figures of the two were revealed.

“Hehahaha! Choi Hyun-seok! Heaven! We have to go to heaven!”
“Wait! I’ll send you right away!”

There were two men and women laughing like crazy with their expressions loosened.

There were yellow peels scattered on the floor, which were familiar to Park Hyun-ah and Rachel.

“Huh? It’s gone?”

Choi Hyun-seok, who was rummaging through the inventory, blinked.

All the Dusebariche had disappeared.

“That’s weird. There were five of them, where did they all go?”
“Choi Hyun-seok! It’s on the floor! On the floor!”
“Oh? Really? Hehehehe!”
“You’re a complete idiot! Hahahaha!”

The two laughed for a long time, wondering what was so fun about looking at the fruit peels on the floor.

Sarah Dunphy looked at the two with a serious expression.

“What’s going on? Were you attacked by the enemy’s mental magic?”

Sarah Dunphy doesn’t know Dusebariche.

That’s why she misunderstood that Choi Hyun-seok was attacked by the enemy’s mental attack.

“That’s strange. I don’t feel any traces of magic…”

Park Hyun-ah sighed deeply.

“That’s not it. The ingredients in that fruit are the problem.”

“Ingredients?”

“There is such a thing. Anyway, that idiot…”

In the meantime, Rachel was upset.

“Hero! That’s cheating!”

She flew to Choi Hyun-seok and punched him in the chest.

“Huh? Rachel?”

“You promised to eat it with me secretly!”
“Hey hey! There’s still a lot left! Look here!”
“That’s the peel!!!”

Rachel shouted and approached the remains of the fruit.

Something was caught in her eyes as she knelt down with a look of despair.

‘That is…’

Some pulp remained on the fruit peel.

Because Choi Hyun-seok’s mind was blurred, he couldn’t peel the peel cleanly, so some pulp remained.

Rachel swallowed hard.

‘I, I have pride!’

She is the exclusive fairy.

She is supposedly an apostle of God.

She could never do such a pathetic thing as licking fruit scraps.

At that time, Park Hyun-ah’s angry voice was heard.

“Get a hold of yourselves, you bastards!”

Even if Park Hyun-ah slapped them in the back of the head, the two just kept laughing, wondering what was so good.

In the meantime, Rachel carefully approached the fruit peel.

‘I, I’m eating it secretly… I can keep my face if no one knows!’

The moment she was about to lick the pulp attached to the peel.

“Oh oh! Why are you doing this~”

Choi Hyun-seok, who was pushed back by Park Hyun-ah’s punch, stepped on the pulp with his foot.

Kwajik-!

The pulp scraps burst out.

Rachel knelt down and screamed.

“Ah, no way-!”

It was the day that the fairy could not keep her face, all thanks to the hero who defeated the Demon King.