Not All Heroes From Earth Are Bad [EN]: Chapter 163

Same time.

Choi Hyun-seok, Abelson, and Bobo were gathered in their hideout, a cave.

“What are you doing right now…?”
“Just wait a moment.”

Choi Hyun-seok suddenly started digging into the ground.

There was soft soil in one corner of the cave, and he dug into it with fervent energy.

“Hoo… found it.”

After digging for a while, Choi Hyun-seok finally straightened his back.

He held up a yellow fruit, the likes of which she’d never seen before.

Choi Hyun-seok carefully presented the fruit as if it were a sacred object.

“Ms. Abelson. Do you know what this is?”

“No.”

Abelson said, trying to appear as indifferent as possible.

She felt like she would seem vulnerable if she let her guard down even for a moment.

‘He didn’t go crazy fighting the monsters, did he…?’

Choi Hyun-seok is the hero who will save the world.

It would be a huge problem if such a hero lost his mind.

“Hehehe… this, you see! It’s amazing!”

Just as Choi Hyun-seok was stroking the fruit with a bizarre smile, Rahel, who was next to him, lunged for it.

“Kuaaaa! Give it to me!”

“Are you crazy! Don’t you dare drool on it!”

Choi Hyun-seok swung his hand like lightning and knocked Rahel away.

Rahel crashed into the cave wall with a thud.

Even as she lay on the ground, her eyes were still fixed on the fruit.

“H-Hero… just one bite…”
“I’ll wait for you.”
“I’ll do anything you ask…”
“Then hold your breath. If you hold it for about an hour, I’ll give it to you.”

“Yes…”

Rahel grabbed her nose with her hand.

Abelson blankly watched the two of them.

‘He’s crazy. They’re both definitely crazy.’

It seemed that Choi Hyun-seok and Rahel had both lost their minds together.

Then, Choi Hyun-seok cleared his throat and approached.

“Ahem, about this fruit, I need to tell you a story from the past.”

“Yes?”

“It was exactly one week after I came here.”

Choi Hyun-seok started a story that she wasn’t particularly curious about.

“Ah, I can’t even grill meat… there’s nothing to eat.”

Choi Hyun-seok, who was fighting monsters every day on an empty stomach.

He happened to find a yellow lump hanging on top of a tree.

“Rahel. What does that look like?”
“Well, maybe it’s a fruit?”

“Bring it here.”

“Yes.”

Rahel flew up with a brave spirit and carried the fruit, which was as big as her torso, with a groan.

“Ugh… it’s so heavy… Ack!?”

Rahel, who was trembling and flapping her wings, accidentally dropped the fruit.

Thud!

The fruit fell to the ground and happened to hit a rock, breaking its skin.

At that moment, the sweetest scent in the world began to spread.

“What is this…?”

“Hero… it smells so sweet…”

Choi Hyun-seok and Rahel were drawn to the fruit as if possessed.

And when they came to their senses…

The fruit had all disappeared into their stomachs.

“Among all the fruits I’ve ever eaten in my life. No! Among all the food I’ve ever eaten! It was by far the best!”

Choi Hyun-seok said with wide eyes.

“That’s right! It was crazy delicious!”

Rahel also chimed in with wide eyes.

Abelson nodded with a sullen face.

“Ah, yes… so that’s the fruit?”
“Yes! But there’s one more sad story about this fruit.”

“What is it…?”

Abelson wasn’t very curious, but she asked out of politeness.

“It was about ten days after I first discovered the fruit.”

Thus, Choi Hyun-seok’s story began again.

“Hehe… Rahel! I found it! I found it!”

After eating the yellow fruit for the first time.

Choi Hyun-seok and Rahel scoured the entire forest every day to find the fruit.

As a result, they were able to find the fruit again after ten days.

“Keehee! Hero. Let’s save this one! Last time, we ate it all up, so we didn’t even get to taste it properly!”
“Okay. Let’s save a little bit every day!”

It was a little smaller than before, but that didn’t matter to them.

The two of them smiled purely at the joy of finding the fruit.

Just as Choi Hyun-seok and Rahel were shining their eyes at the thought of eating the fruit.

“Hey. You’ve got something good there?”

Park Hyun-ah suddenly appeared.

“Monsters are also after that, so it must be hard to find. Where did you find it?”

She naturally approached and snatched the fruit.

Crunch!

She bit into the fruit in one bite and made a happy face.

“Mmm~ This is the taste.”

Park Hyun-ah, who had eaten the fruit in an instant, smiled contentedly.

And…

“Hey. Tell me if you find more next time.”

She waved her hand and left.

Only the peel of the fruit was scattered miserably on the floor.

Choi Hyun-seok and Rahel trembled with anger.

“Damn it… Daaamn it! How did I find that!”
“Hero. Should we kill her? No! Let’s just kill her! Let’s cut open her stomach and take out the fruit! It might not be fully digested yet!”

Unfortunately, Park Hyun-ah’s ears were everywhere.

“What did you just say? You want me to cut open your stomach now?”
“Ah! N-No, I’m just kidding… Hehe…”

This is a world of the survival of the fittest.

The land of monsters, Inemosit.

If you are not strong, you cannot even protect the fruit.

“I still shudder when I think of that day…!”

“Me too!”

Choi Hyun-seok, who had finished the story, clenched his fist and trembled.

Rahel also swung her fist in the air next to him, responding.

“That woman! I won’t let her get away with it if I see her next time!”
“Ah, yes… that must have been hard…”

Unlike her words of comfort, Abelson’s face was full of contempt.

In addition to that, there was a slight look of disgust in her eyes.

‘Irrecoverable.’

Wasn’t it already too late to turn back?

The two of them were crazy beyond normal.

“And just yesterday!!!”

Choi Hyun-seok suddenly shouted.

“I happened to find this again! And I immediately returned to the hideout, dug a hole, and hid it!”

He gestured and used his feet to explain the situation from yesterday, and then stroked the fruit with a loving face.

Rahel also came to the fruit and rubbed her face against it.

“Hoo, I’m so glad even thinking about it now. If this had been taken away too… Rahel might have died!”
“Ah, yes… that’s a relief…”

Abelson sighed deeply.

“Haa… so, is the fruit story all over?”
“No. There’s still more.”

“Again…?”

Abelson made a blatantly bored face, but Choi Hyun-seok pushed the story forward at his own pace.

“Do you know what I saw while getting this yesterday?”
“I don’t really want to know…”
“There were ten fruits similar to this! Ten of them were hanging there!”
“Wow… that’s amazing…”
“Right! But I couldn’t bring any more. There was a terrifying monster guarding it…”

Choi Hyun-seok said, subtly watching Abelson’s reaction.

Abelson narrowed her eyes.

“Don’t tell me… you’re going to say we should go get that fruit now…”

“That’s exactly it!”

Choi Hyun-seok jumped up.

“Now that Park Hyun-ah is gone! If not now, then never! We have to get the fruit right away and hide it here!”
“Choi Hyun-seok. Calm down. It’s foolish to risk your life for just a fruit.”

“Kwang!”

Bobo also nodded his snout vigorously, barking loudly as if agreeing with Abelson’s words.

“Just a fruit! No!”

Choi Hyun-seok sat back down and carefully held out the fruit.

“If you taste this, Ms. Abelson and Bobo will change their minds.”
“Even so…”

Abelson was doubtful.

Could a person really break down this much, even if they haven’t had proper food for a long time?

‘No matter how delicious the fruit is.’

Even so, she was secretly curious.

How delicious could it be to make them act like this?

“Carefully, without spilling a drop…”

Choi Hyun-seok carefully cut the fruit with magic.

At that moment.

Hwaaaa~

A sweet scent spread throughout the cave.

Abelson and Bobo stared at the fruit with wide eyes.

“Uh-uh! No. I’ll distribute it fairly, so wait.”

Choi Hyun-seok divided the fruit into exactly four pieces and gave one piece each to Bobo and Abelson.

Then, he took a big bite out of one of the remaining two pieces and handed it to Rahel.

Rahel, who received the half-eaten fruit, glared at him.

“Why are you only giving me a small one!”
“You’re small. It’s unfair to divide it equally!”
“Don’t talk nonsense! I want an equal share too!”
“Uh-uh, don’t whine.”
“I want an equal share too! I want an equal share too! I want an equal share too!”
“If you keep doing that, I’ll take the rest away.”

“Heeing…”

Rahel lowered her head, shedding tears.

She, who had a very unfair expression, took a bite of the fruit and smiled brightly.

“Keehee… it’s so delicious!”

The sorrow of receiving the smallest piece was forgotten in an instant, truly a delicacy!

Choi Hyun-seok also bit into his fruit and made a happy face.

“Haa~ This is it…”

“Hero. If we have this fruit, I don’t need to eat macarons for the rest of my life.”
“Compare things that can be compared.”
“Right? I made a mistake. Heehee!”

Abelson swallowed hard, watching the two of them seriously spouting ridiculous things.

‘Where do I…’

Abelson slowly opened her mouth.

Then, she took a bite of the flesh of the fruit, which was a mixture of yellow and crimson.

“This is…!”

She felt like lightning was striking in her head.

Krrrrrr!

No, lightning is really striking!

Abelson trembled as she felt a tingling sensation inside her brain.

“Uh…?”

When she came to her senses, the fruit was already gone.

“…”

Abelson and Bobo looked at each other.

The two nodded and stood up.

“Let’s leave right away.”

It was the moment when the yellow fruit collection expedition was formed.

***

“Here’s the plan.”

Choi Hyun-seok explained the plan as they moved to the place where the fruit was.

“Me and Bobo will buy time with the monster, and in the meantime, Ms. Abelson and Rahel will pick the fruit and run away.”
“Can’t we just hunt the monster? I think we can catch most monsters if there are three of us.”

Abelson’s suggestion seems reasonable at first glance.

The group had all become strong enough to play their respective roles in the Inemosit food chain pyramid.

However, Choi Hyun-seok shook his head firmly.

“Absolutely impossible.”

“Why?”

“It’s a feeling.”

“A feeling…?”

“The magical energy I felt from that monster far surpassed Bobo. No matter how many of us gather, it will be difficult to face it head-on.”
“Hmm… I understand.”

It is the word of Choi Hyun-seok, who is the only one who has directly witnessed the monster.

Moreover, he was so good at sensing the strong that he was even more trustworthy.

“First, I will explain the appearance of the monster.”

Choi Hyun-seok picked up a branch and drew a picture on the dirt floor.

“Overall, it feels like a fat orc. Although it’s much bigger.”
“If it’s an orc, isn’t it a demon rather than a monster?”
“Hmm, but there’s no way a demon would be living here, right? Besides, it was too big to be an orc. It’s also strange that it’s fat without muscles. Orcs are usually very muscular.”

“Ah…”

“Anyway, the appearance is nothing special other than that it looks like a fat orc. And the ability is…”

Choi Hyun-seok stroked his chin for a moment and pondered.

He nodded as if he had finished organizing his thoughts.

“I don’t know the ability.”

“Yes…?”

“I’ve seen him fight, but there wasn’t really anything special about it.”

“…”

“It’s just hitting them with a club and killing them.”

Choi Hyun-seok said with a serious expression.

“It may sound like a joke, but I’m serious right now. Ms. Abelson should have seen the scene of that guy swinging his club…”
“That’s right! You’ll be dried meat if you get hit once!”

Rahel, who was next to him, chimed in.

“If that guy follows Ms. Abelson, don’t even think about fighting him and run away.”

“Yes…”

“I’m serious. At that time, you have to throw away everything, including the fruit, and run without looking back.”

“I understand.”

After that, Choi Hyun-seok continued to receive promises while moving.

“You must! You must run away! You must!”

Just as Abelson’s annoyance was reaching its peak due to the constant warnings.

“Shh! It’s ahead.”

Choi Hyun-seok stopped and lowered his posture.

“Do you see that tree that splits into two branches over there?”

“Yes.”

“If you walk a little further in the direction of that tree, you will see the fruit.”

“I understand.”

“Me and Bobo will move first, so Ms. Abelson and Rahel hide and move.”

Abelson and Rahel nodded with tense expressions.

It was the moment when the fruit theft operation began.

***

Orc Cardlock.

He was the vice-commander of the 3rd Legion of the Demon King’s army in the past.

The reason why Vice-Commander Cardlock settled in Inemosit is because of his superior, Hemis.

“Cardlock. What did I say I hate the most?”
“S-Stupid guys, sir.”
“That’s right~ Stupid guys. But that stupid guy is here? Ohohoho!”

In-army corruption.

Hemis tormented Cardlock terribly.

It was common for her to send Cardlock alone to the front lines to fight.

She even used him as a shield during the retreat of the unit.

This was practically ordering Cardlock to die.

Nevertheless, Cardlock struggled to survive.

He somehow returned to the unit and was scolded by Hemis again.

“You have a tough life, don’t you~?”

“T-Thank you!”

“Is it because you’re stupid? You’ll live for five hundred years without a problem! Ohohoho!”

Some might think this.

Why can’t you refuse such unreasonable orders?

Unfortunately, Cardlock did not have the option of ‘refusing orders!’

Because he was too afraid of Hemis.

Cardlock, who had watched her power from the closest side, could not even think of resisting and suffered from corruption.

Then, an incident occurred that decisively led him to leave the army.

“H-Hemis-nim.”

“Why?”

“A, a, a human is a-attacking…”
“Cardlock. I told you not to stutter?”

“S-Sorry.”

“Hmph~ Are you ignoring me now? Is that it?”
“N-N-No, that’s not it…”

Cardlock was scolded that day too.

In fact, Cardlock doesn’t want to stutter.

He originally stuttered often, but not this much.

It was just that he was nervous when he stood in front of Hemis, so his usual stuttering habit became more severe.

“I’m not in a good mood today. The meat I ate this morning didn’t taste good.”
“S-Sorry…”

“Go out alone and stop them. If you can’t stop them and come back, you’re dinner tonight.”

Cardlock left the Demon King’s army that way.

The humans who were attacking at the time were a large army of two legends and over fifty thousand soldiers.

Facing such a large force alone?

It was a certain death.

However, if he said he couldn’t do it, he would be dinner right away, so he had no other choice.

There was no choice but to run away.

“H-Hemis… bad woman…”

It has been over 200 years since then.

Still, when he thought of Hemis, he felt a strange emotion where anger and fear coexisted.

“My treasure… I only need treasure.”

Anyway, Cardlock, who had hidden in Inemosit, happened to learn about a very delicious yellow fruit.

After that, he discovered this place where there were many trees where the fruit grew.

At the time, a very strong monster that dominated the area was guarding it, but Cardlock, who was running his heyday as the vice-commander, was able to kill it after a life-threatening battle.

Since that day, protecting the tree where the treasure grows has become Cardlock’s life and everything.

“My treasure… if you touch it, I’ll kill you…”

Cardlock rolled his eyes.

Over 500 years old, fat body, wrinkled skin.

White hair grew sparsely, but his eyes still shone coldly.

“If you touch it…”

Suddenly, Cardlock struck down with his thick club.

“I’ll kill youuuuu!”

Kwajik!

The head of the monster that was slyly approaching, aiming for the fruit, was dented.

The monster named ‘Slibrapa’ was a cunning and cruel monster known as the plunderer of the forest, but it was nothing more than a stray dog in front of Cardlock’s club.

“Sweet gold. I’m the only one who eats it.”

Cardlock smiled contentedly, biting a handful of fruit.

At that moment.

“Human…? Human thief!!!”

He saw a monster approaching another tree and a human standing on it.

The eyes of the human picking the fruit and Cardlock met.

“If you touch it… I’ll kill youuuuu!”

Cardlock’s figure shot out like light.