Hero Creator: The Last Hero
Ch. 43 — Offered Or Abandoned
“What he said was a man came bringing a big change. The man who bears all sins, what he loves and cares for will melt into one. Leave a man crying in the void.”
Priscilla explained the early events of her first encounter with Azartooth when it came to the Hell's Labyrinth.
His words were unforgettable, imprinting so deeply on his brain as if it had been an order not to forget. At first he thought the words were nonsense. But he slowly understood. And when he understood and knew the man he was referring to, he wept.
“So he came to see you, ruled build the Conquest Union Region.” Rigel felt that everything had been carefully planned for some reason.
He did not notice Priscilla's sad face. He was busy with his thoughts piled up, questions scattered without answers, riddles with incomplete pieces, lost history swallowed by time.
“Please run Rigel.” Slowly take a step, hand hugging with face immersed in Rigel's chest, any “Ke, run as far as possible. It's too sad to be borne by you. That burden is not for you to accept. No one will blame you for running away from reality.”
When you can't face bad luck, lose a loved one. Humans naturally divert them and escape reality, they reject fate and live.
When human heartache intoxicates itself with alcohol. When angry man destroys something to satisfy himself. When he loses the person he loves man seeks his successor. And as they continue to flee, the trailing reality will not break.
He doesn't know how far Priscilla knows. But he knew that Priscilla knew how to end ‘day it’, the end of a human named Amatsumi Rigel.
“Now there is still time, there is time for you to leave. Leave this place, let's run as far as possible with me!” Huge tears soaked the cheeks, immediately seeping into Rigel's clothes.
“What will I get if I escape?”
“Happiness, you won't lose everything. Such sadness will not happen, your life will be more colorful.”
“What will happen if I abandon the world?”
“Destruction is possible and will not be avoided. Even so I'm sure we will be fine, until the end I will accompany you to old age!”
“What will happen to humans if I leave them for my happiness?”
“Winning a war without you is bound to be difficult, with its chaos where nature in the absence of the Queen of fairies will also be disastrous. Even so no one will hate you when looking for happiness, humans live to meet the meaning of life. Go with me Rigel.”
“In a ruined world you sure want to live together?”
“Sure, we can definitely get through it. The world begins with emptiness. Then it is filled with life and will return to emptiness. In a broken world, happiness can be formed, we can build all from scratch even if humans are destroyed.”
No more questions, all the answers quickly silenced him. Not no more words but no more things can deny how great his selfishness. When a lion puffed out his chest declaring the strongest in the jungle, the lion was unaware of the height of the sky.
“select Rigel ... Run forsaking the world with me, or fighting and being abandoned?”
He clearly knew what was going to happen to Rigel, his selfishness clearly had a purpose for Rigel's good. The end he was aiming for was not something beautiful, nor was it something shrouded in darkness. And when it is not light or darkness, emptiness is achieved.
“Your offer .. is really good. I no longer need to fight for a world that is not mine or where I come from. This world is alien to its people. Otherworldly inhabitants like me have no right to fight for it but—”
He has no obligation to protect the world and its contents, no one has the right to blame the people who abduct humans from another world to fight against destiny. Even so ...
“—ada people I want to protect.”
Hearing the word meaningfully with a gentle smile that seemed empty, huge tears flooded the cheeks.
“Everyone will die. Even an unattached Sylph died. But at least I can give their death in a beautiful world.”
Life and death are cycles, while the future is something that changes all the time. If the world is destroyed then the future is not helped but if saved then the future will be full of warmth.
Rigel was not a person with a high sense of kinship. He was not a compassionate person but at least he knew what he had to protect, what he had to persevere and live with.
“That, don't you know the path you take will lead to such an end?! It doesn't matter how you study it, the words of the God show an end that doesn't match the noble purpose you have!” The crying Priscilla began to clutch Rigel's collar.
Suddenly it made Rigel look at him sharply, “I know. I know the future I see.”
His words silenced Priscilla. It's not about him knowing that, but how he's still willing to live despite knowing how it ends.
“The eyes Takumi gave us give us a vision of the future. There were two I saw. First Sylph's death. Second, the end of the journey and also the beginning.” Rigel holds Priscilla's hand from her collar and presents the word, “No matter what God says to you, fate is unstable. Depending on how I act, he'll change. Just like Creator who is the weakest Hero is now the strongest.”
He would not hesitate to call himself the strongest among the 12 Heroes. Although Ozaru may be much stronger, he has fallen into Rigel's hands and is impossible to resist.
Believing speech without evidence is false, believing vision is not so certain is nonsense. Rigel won't be daunted by what he sees that won't necessarily happen.
“I'm so grateful that you care about me. But those feelings are not necessary.”
Rigel secretly accesses something he never uses at every turn until he forgets that it still exists. The thing he rarely used, the decaying Index functioned. He dived into a sea of unused skills, until he finally found the thing he needed.
By looking each other in the eye, the Hypnosis Skill used, “Do you see any fear in my gaze? Of course not, right. I'm not afraid to defy my destiny, not one bit. Because it—”
The skill was so simple that even Priscilla was deceived easily. Rigel immediately approached his face with Priscilla, their mouths open as if about to kiss. But on one occasion Rigel activates the Void.
‘Sorry Priscilla, that memory you don't need, then forget it.’
Rigel's eyes and mouth gave off a faint bluish glow, soon Priscilla had the same light. Their lips did not touch each other but a blue mixed golden light was drawn out from Priscilla's mouth.
The piece of memory of what Priscilla was worried about vanished, there was a part that could not be retrieved but was quite easy to seal.
Priscilla soon lay weak and fell asleep. Rigel caught him and held him in the chest, with a flat face.
“That end will not come to me. What you call pathetic will not happen, Priscilla. There would be nothing sad if no one cried, right?” Rigel stared at something far away with a faint smile on his lips.
A sad ending would not exist if there were no tears, such a future would be what he achieved according to the promise he made.
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**Note Author:
In this section there will be a route that tells the part when ‘If’ Rigel abandoned the world by running with Priscilla to the end of the world. It is not certain when I publish it but it will definitely be done because I am so interested in doing it.
And sorry for constantly disappearing to even lower the mood for reading. I do not promise but starting from mid or maybe late January there will be episodes every day. For now I will only unravel unsolved mysteries, especially the origins of the divination stone.
Was it created by a god like in legends? Or maybe a bastard made it and made all the legends in the past stray on his path**?