NOVEL NEXT chapter 16
16 – Do you still like it?
“Give up the power of the hero?”
E9 couldn’t help but be surprised by Lulu’s proposal.
A hero can give up his power if he wants it…
Giving up the power of a hero… That was because it was unthinkable.
“… I can’t… Give it up…”
When being chosen as a hero, there are things you learn first, most importantly, and learn the longest.
That is to never give up the power of a hero. It is a word that is taught close to brainwashing, saying that no matter what happens, you must not give up the power of a warrior.
In a warrior’s family… A taboo that must never be done was to give up the warrior’s power.
“I’m just giving you one way.”
Lulu smiled at E9’s words and said that she would not force her.
Then he hugged Enine.
“It’s just that there’s a way to do it. Dogram must be very angry? Shouldn’t you show your own sincerity?”
And while stroking E9’s hair
“Maybe if I do that, Dogram will look at me again?”
He comforted me slowly.
“…”
Enine had no choice but to get into trouble for a while.
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On a rainy rainy day, after Lulu and E9 left for a while, the remaining me and Philaine quietly waited for the two of them.
“Brother-in-law.”
“Don’t call me that.”
And while I was waiting, Philaine called me with a gloomy tone, probably bored.
Brother-in-law… Now I’m neither a fiancé nor a brother-in-law.
Anyway, it seems difficult to erase words that have been familiar for a long time. Still, I need to fix something.
“… Master, I have a question for you.”
“What is it?”
Anyway, Philaine seemed curious about me.
Maybe he’s trying to tell a sad story?
I hate that sort of thing…
“Can you talk about dating with your sister?”
Fortunately, it wasn’t a sad story, but I wasn’t asking for a very pleasant story.
A love story with E9… It was a story I didn’t want to talk about.
Because, like all love stories, all love stories that didn’t come true are uncomfortable. For a love story to have a happy ending, it has to be concluded.
“Hmm… Not a pleasant story to hear.”
Me too.
Should I tell you this or not… To be honest, I didn’t want to say it.
So I got into trouble for a while.
“But… Please do it.”
And Philaine strongly asks me, who is worried.
Anyway, he seemed very curious. Well, even for me, two lovers who were good for me split up like this, and I wonder how they came to like each other.
“Come in and do something.”
“Just… I was curious about what kind of love makes people so childish.”
Besides, Philaine is her sister.
Since Enain showed a very sad side today, it is natural for her to be curious like that.
“Ehh…”
I sighed and decided to just tell you.
There’s nothing to do while waiting for E9 and Lulu anyway.
It’s not a very pleasant story, but it’s not a bad story either.
“In the past. I was a child of an assassination guild.”
Twenty years ago, when I first reincarnated in this world, I was not born in a pleasant place.
No matter how unlucky you are in this wide, wide world… I was born in a very dog-like place.
The Assassin’s Guild gathered young boys… I was born there.
“Assassination Guild…?”
“Uh. Yes, the Assassination Guild.”
Philane looks a bit surprised.
Well, nobody knows about my past except for Enin and a few of the warrior families. It must be the first time Philaine has heard of it.
And Philaine must have expected that my past was not good to some extent, but he probably didn’t know it was an assassin’s guild. It’s embarrassing
“Since I was little, I’ve had a knack for cutting things.”
Anyway, I was raised in the Assassins Guild, and I was a very promising talent there.
I don’t know if I had a talent for assassination, but I worked hard there. No… I had no choice but to work hard.
Because if you don’t have the skills, you’re supposed to be scrapped without mercy. I just had to work hard to survive.
“…”
Perhaps it was a rather bleak story, Philaine lowered her head slightly.
As if depressed. But it’s not such a depressing story, so there’s no need to make that face.
“Then one day I received an assassination request… That’s E9.”
I became a skilled assassin when I was only 7 years old… I received a request from the Assassination Guild.
That was Enain’s assassination… Although entrusting such a task to a mere child is quite a heavy task.
That’s why it’s also a mission for child-like assassins. Even if you fail, there will be no risk. It was like a lottery aiming for a jackpot, or like a throwaway word.
“That…That…”
Philane looked at me in surprise.
Well, the story of the Assassin’s Guild is surprising, but it would be even more surprising to hear the story of Enin’s assassination…
However, the real surprise starts here.
“So, after hiding for a few days, I aimed for the street where Enin came out, and finally I faced Enin. Do you know what Enin said to me on the first day I met him to kill him?”
E9 came out to the streets of the village with only a few guards on. I approached her Enain to kill her.
And E9 noticed me too, when he first saw me…
I laughed involuntarily. E9’s behavior at that time was spectacle. It was pretty funny even now that I think about it.
“They just like me because I’m handsome. And they want me to be their attendant.”
E9 held my hand and looked like he was looking at a prince.
She showed a very deep interest in me with bright eyes and strongly suggested that I would like to become an attendant.
No matter how much I think about it, it seems E9 was too immature at the time.
“You look like a big sister… I thought she would have screamed and ran away…”
Philaine smiled, as if she was disappointed, or as if she agreed.
As if he understood something.
Screaming and running away… Well, that’s the general idea when you run into an assassin. However, Enine was too foolish. She was good-looking, so she had no doubts about me.
“Enine was young then.”
In addition, the fact that she was an innocent child who did not know what an assassin was also a factor.
At that time, being an assassin was also unfamiliar to Enain, and it is highly likely that she did not even know exactly what she was.
There’s no way a child who is only 7 years old has ever had his life threatened.
“Ummm…So what happened? She tried to go in as an attendant and kill her?”
Philaine looked up at me slightly uneasy.
If you listen this far, it is bound to be a pretty dangerous situation.
However, as E9 is alive now, of course the story flows in a good direction.
“Isn’t it? An attendant in a warrior’s family is a much better job than an assassin in the assassin’s guild. Of course I switched.”
Why ask such an obvious story?
Assassin of the Assassin Guild and servant of the warrior family, it is clear which job is better.
There’s no reason why I should continue with the Assassin’s Guild when there’s an offer to scout for a better place.
“… Huh.”
It was Philaine’s shocked face.
The expression seemed to ask if there was such a way.
“In the first place, when the Assassins Guild brainwashes children, it is the cause they use the most. They repeatedly instilled that the warrior family is a very bad family.”
But the world is like this. I just realized that quickly.
If I had been a child from another assassin’s guild, I might not have succumbed to such an offer.
Those children are thoroughly brainwashed into believing that the warrior family is a bad family and that they fight for a cause. They were quite pitiful children who could only live in a small world.
“But I’m not an idiot to be fooled by that.”
However, I was not subjected to such brainwashing. Still, since I lived until the age of 17 before my previous life, I was able to think correctly and objectively to some extent.
I knew right away that the warrior family wasn’t a bad family.
And since he knew that the Assassin’s Guild was bad enough, he pretended to be brainwashed and prepared to change at any time.
“And after that, as you know.”
Well, I think I’ve explained everything at this point. Because it was Philaine who saw the relationship between E9in and I up close.
“I came to live as an attendant at Enine’s house, and to be honest, I didn’t think much of it. I was just going to live here moderately, but Enine really likes me. That’s why he always kept me by his side.”
Pillain must have been watching Enine and me all the time.
Enain hugs me and carries me around and I’m quite annoyed, but she still reluctantly follows me.
As if she was quite amused, Philain remembers what she looked at.
“While eating, playing, or sleeping, he just called me and stayed with me.”
And the images that always wear me…
“That’s why. I don’t know if I came to like it naturally.”
I didn’t admit it at the time, but looking back now, I think I’ve come to like E9.
… So I was quite happy when Enain asked me to get engaged.
I hated it because it hurt my pride because I thought I fell for it when I was happy, but I couldn’t hide my feelings.
“Somehow. We got engaged.”
In the end I accepted the engagement and…
I dreamed of a happy life.
“And then we broke up.”
Well… This is the current situation.
“…”
Philain listened to me and he thought for a while, as if sad.
“Sure. Master… I’ll ask you one last question. So, do you still like your sister?”
And after a while, Philaine asked me.
Do you still like E9?
“Hmm…”
I thought about Philaine’s question.
And he smiled slightly.
Because the answer was so easy.
“Dogram… I have something to tell you…”
I was trying to tell Philaine the answer I was thinking of.
I heard a voice calling me.
Golden hair flowing down as if wet from rain. And the girl with gloomy eyes… Was Nine.