The Hero Disciple Is Back

EP.24 – 23. Another guest (?) came to the world in the teacher’s dream

I immediately realized

I mean, it’s a dream world. I am not dreaming, I have fallen into the world of dreams. That’s what I was able to realize right away.

‘Is it the world tree again?’

Since I couldn’t think of anyone other than her to invite myself to in this way, I assumed it must be the World Tree.

But as soon as I opened my eyes, I knew immediately that this was not the case.

“… who are you?”

“Hoo. Aren’t you surprised? It would be difficult to experience the world in a dream, so of course I expected to be surprised.”

On the battlefield, the one who panics is the first to die. If you’re lucky, you can survive without dying even if you panic, but if you’re a mercenary, don’t expect luck. Because there’s no way a lucky guy would work as a mercenary in the first place. That’s why there’s nothing more stupid than believing that you’ll be lucky while working as a mercenary. And I’m not stupid Therefore, I always tried not to panic no matter what happened, and the result was shining right now. … I don’t know if it would be of great help in this situation if I didn’t panic. An existence that could create and invite a world in my dreams, I thought I could easily kill myself without panicking… .

First of all, I checked the opponent in front of me as much as possible.

The first thing that came to mind was the impression that she was like an old lady respected by an aristocratic family. He looks quite old, but his posture was not disturbed at all, and the dignity and dignity felt in the atmosphere felt different from the depth. First impressions aren’t always the answer, but they’re not something that can be ignored either. Anyway, if the person who makes you feel that way can invite people to the world of your dreams… .

You can never be an ordinary person.

“I had a similar experience… . Not that surprising.”

“Hmm? That’s amazing. There aren’t too many that can do this. Could it be that he survived the nightmare? But I don’t seem to be particularly wary of that… .”

“He was the World Tree.”

“… what?”

“The World Tree invited us, so we had a conversation in the dream world.”

“… Hmm. The sun will rise in the west The World Tree is interested outside the barrier. Isn’t that such a strange thing? Looking at your soul, it seems quite possible, huh.”

As we chatted, I realized

The existence in front of my eyes is different from the world tree. It’s natural that it’s different because it’s a different existence… . What I meant to say was that it was essentially different. If it feels like you’ve had a direct conversation with the World Tree… . Even though I was having a direct conversation with the existence in front of my eyes, there was no such feeling.

In the end I had no choice but to ask.

“Is it a living being?”

“Hoo.”

At my question, the old lady looked at me as if she had found an interesting toy.

“I was really surprised. The protection of the world tree? Or is it that special soul force? Whatever it is, it’s amazing. The ‘magic’ itself would be perfect.”

“Magic?”

“Yes, I am ‘magic’. To be precise, it would be correct to say that it is something like the remnants of the soul left by magic. Because the existence of me has already returned to the earth in the distant past.”

At that moment, I thought of a possibility.

A being that can use the remnants of the soul as magic, and existed in the distant past… .

No matter how great a wizard is, he doesn’t use magic that cuts off part of his soul. no, i can’t write For the soul is part of the whole, and the whole is a part. It’s not something you can share just because you want to share it. But there are people who can do that. A race that is capable of such things because it has a soul that is incomparably larger than that of humans… . A race now known to no longer exist… .

as soon as… .

“Dragon… .”

At my words, the old lady smiled softly and nodded.

“You are smart, human child. Yes. I am the last Dragon Lord, Roael.”

… Heh heh, after the elves, the world tree… . Dragon now… . That’s a dragon lord… .

… Why do you keep doing this to me?

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“You have a funny face. Ho ho ho.”

“… So what does a dragon lord do to an ordinary human like me?”

“I think it’s too much to call you ordinary, but… . It’s not that important right now, so let’s move on. I invited you like this because I wanted to ask you something.”

“… I beg you There’s not much I can do, right?”

“No, there is none other than you. The fact that the magic called ‘I’, which had not been activated for 735 years, was able to be activated means that a target that met the conditions that had been cast under the spell appeared, and that is you.”

“So… . For 735 years, no person who satisfies the conditions did not appear, so the magic was not activated until finally a suitable person appeared and the magic was activated… . Are you saying it was me?”

“You heard me right.”

“… … .”

… It is unfair.

I don’t do anything, but why do accidents keep happening around me… . I’d rather go around without knowing anything and get caught up in it, then there’s room for understanding… . Despite being shut up in a quiet place, incidents and accidents continued to happen, so I couldn’t help but feel unfair.

Now, the dragon lord’s magic appeared in front of me on its own, saying that a suitable person had appeared for 735 years, and I was getting caught up in this.

Isn’t this why all kinds of demons are just coming? Even the very Elyos show up, right? … In a moment of desperation, I even had this absurd thought.

really… . It even made me feel as if the world was not ready to eat me.

They say that an unlucky guy will break his nose even if he falls backwards… . In my case, it was a situation where my nose was breaking even though I was sitting quietly in a safe place.

“Am I really obliged to do that request?”

“Hmm. It’s amazing. When I was alive, I never refused a request from a dragon.”

… That’s because I was afraid that if I dared to refuse the dragon’s request, I would get hurt and blow up the whole area… .

But that wasn’t the case for me.

The Dragon Lord is already dead. And the reason I can talk like this now is because I was able to do so with magic. There is no way you can do anything new here. The dragon lord’s corpse, which could already use that magic, would have become part of the earth, and the soul would live well in heaven or hell. In the end, he said that he was hurt and that there was no reason for me to be swept away by the anger. So, if you could ignore it, it was best to ignore it.

“You may decline my request.”

“Is that true?!”

“Instead, something very bad will happen to the world.”

… I’m cursing… .

“What does that mean?”

“Unfortunately, once this magic is activated, it ends there. If that’s the case, with this magic, “what was stored in a time-stopped state” will be revealed to the world as it is. And with a very high probability, the world will go back to a bad side.”

“… What is that?”

“It’s a dragon egg.”

“… … .”

So… .

The dragon, which was thought to have completely disappeared from this world, has not completely disappeared. But if I don’t say I take care of it, it will appear somewhere in this world and I don’t know what the hatchling that woke up from the dragon egg will do? Is it roughly like that?

“… Isn’t this a request, just a threat?”

“Isn’t the dragon’s request no different from a threat anyway?”

There was something beautiful and frightening about the smile he smiled as he said that.

Wow… . Bad personality… .

In other words, didn’t he use the expression ‘please’ one by one, knowing that it felt like a threat? The only conclusion that came to my mind was that I had a bad personality.

“Haven’t dragons completely disappeared from this world?”

“It is gone. More precisely, it self-destructed.”

“Self-destruction?”

“A perfect being, though it would sound wonderful in words. Being perfect is not as good as people think. Rather boring and boring, so boring as hell. Eventually we got so bored that we didn’t want to live, and in effect we self-destructed. Because no one thought they wanted to live. In the end, it’s right to see it as self-destruction.”

It was a story that I couldn’t understand at all as a human being who had a lot of hardships because I lacked a lot. But I was so lacking, so weak, so pathetic that I thought I wanted to die. Maybe it was the exact opposite? No, in that case, since the weak wanted to die, it’s the exact opposite, so shouldn’t the strong want to live? Well. The expression is wrong. So, in this case, do we have to say that poles and poles are connected? Whatever it was, to be honest, it was a story that didn’t touch my heart very well.

“But a child… . One dragon egg said he wanted to live. I want to get out of this shell and see the beautiful world and see and experience humans firsthand. As long as he’s alive, he has the right to live, so I didn’t have the right to stop it. So, along with the time stop magic, I left the magic like this so that I can wait for the time when someone who can properly care for this child appears, and when he does, I can entrust this child to him. I had to consume all my Dragon Hearts for this, but… . As an old dragon with only a few days left to live anyway, I was able to do something like this for a new life, so I did it.”

Indeed a dragon… .

Even though the specs were different from humans, they were so different. The level itself was different from the story of a wealthy man who listened to his granddaughter’s request and built a mansion as big as a castle.

want to refuse I want to strongly reject it. I sincerely want to refuse. I really want to refuse… .

‘As long as you are alive, you have the right to live… .’

The moment I heard that, I remembered what I had done to Sera.

So did I.

As long as the child was alive, he thought he had a right to live.

That’s why I gave my aura heart to that child. In the hope that the child will continue to live and enjoy his rights.

Wasn’t that the same for the Dragon Lord?

It was true that I was caught up in it, but… .

Like me, the Dragon Lord was only fulfilling his duties as an adult.

then… .

At least I can’t deny the Dragon Lord, right?

After all, if I denied the Dragon Lord here, that would be a fratricide.

“… But still, I don’t seem to fit. I’m very anxious because I have no experience raising it properly, so I don’t think I have any qualifications as a guardian. So wouldn’t it be better to find a better fit?”

First of all, although I am Sera’s teacher… . To be honest, Sera grew up knowingly. Rather, I benefited from Sera a lot. It is truly a failure of the guardian. I lacked the experience, experience, and know-how as a guardian to that extent, and I really didn’t have the confidence to take good care of dragon eggs, or hatchlings.

“Don’t worry. The fact that this magic has been activated must mean that you are a creature with the greatest parenting talent in the world.”

“… … .”

It’s not the world’s greatest swordsmanship talent, it’s the world’s greatest parenting talent… .

It must be a compliment… . I couldn’t help but wonder why it didn’t sound like a compliment… .

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when i wake up from my slumber

next to… . there was an egg

It was so large that it had a presence that anyone could see that it was not an ordinary egg.

It was hard to write a cute expression like an egg, but… .