The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed

256 – An unexpected journey

The moment I walked down the aisle, I felt a strange sensation. I feel like something is stirring inside me. It was correct to say that it was closer to excitement of pleasure rather than discomfort. My sense of adventure was not stimulated by an unexpected journey. It’s almost like an instinctive excitement for no apparent reason.

As I walked and passed what seemed like an invisible membrane, a huge pink space suddenly appeared outside the passage where nothing existed. Without realizing it, I raised my head and let out pure admiration.

“and… .”

It is so full of stars that even if you combine all the stars you have seen in your life, it would not be enough. It was a place I wanted to show to Luna, as it would be a shame to say it was beautiful. She stopped for a moment and looked around, but apart from beauty, there was nothing that caught her eye. She didn’t feel the need to research anything or remember anything as a clue.

As I continued to walk, I could feel another intangible barrier passing by. It’s a strange feeling, like walking through a space full of damp towels.

This time, a red-colored universe appeared. It was a place where something moved quickly like a comet and disappeared from sight, with small explosions and vibrations continuing. It was also a beautiful place, but there was nothing particularly worth investigating.

The moment I started walking again, my body suddenly seemed to turn upside down and flew towards the passage connected above. She was completely unable to maintain her balance due to the sudden change in gravity. She ended up hitting her head on the passageway, bruising her shoulder and limbs, before crashing down somewhere, speeding through a universe of blue light.

■■□

It was only for a moment that I felt like I was out of the passage and realized at the same time that I was falling through the air.

puck-!

Fortunately, I managed to twist my body in the air and fall on my back. It was a hard dirt floor, so if I had fallen on my face, my nose would have been broken. Although I was able to absorb the shock with my muscles, my back hurt because of the speed.

I endured the pain and raised my upper body to check the condition of my body. It didn’t fall from a completely high place, and fortunately there were no broken or cracked bones. However, the runes on his left wrist turned red. It was originally green like the runes on my right wrist… I don’t know why the color changed.

I scratched my head and turned my head to look around. It was dark as if a hazy fog had settled down. However, the fog did not mean that visibility was limited; it was a strange environment. Although it was still an unfamiliar place, it felt like I had returned to the original world. There was a wind here that made bangs shake, and in the sky… ?

“W-what… ?”

What caught my eye as I inadvertently raised my head to the sky was something I could not easily understand. The sun and moon were mixed together as one against the backdrop of a split sky. I knew from the little scientific knowledge I learned in school that it was physically impossible, but there was no other way to express it. Indeed, the sun and moon were mixed together to form a circle.

A huge vortex was created around it, sucking everything in. Bricks, smoke, wood, leather shoes, fragments of statues, all kinds of things were floating and being sucked toward the center. The passage I came out of was disappearing, leaving only faint traces of its existence.

Did something strange happen while I was trapped in the dimension? One strange thing is that although that whirlpool was very unpleasant to me, it felt familiar, as if I had not seen it in a long time. Obviously, this is my first time seeing it.

No matter what the sky is like, the first priority is to check if there is a village nearby. If you ask anyone, they will at least explain why the sky is like that.

I’ve never actually used it, but it gave me a nice way to see around me. The idea is to create a dimensional exit at the highest point above your head where you can recognize spatial coordinates. Next, stick your head into the entrance of the dimension and use your head outside the exit to look around.

If the dimensional passage breaks, there is a risk of being decapitated and dying, but now I have enough magical power to maintain the dimensional passage, and there is nothing around to use as a guidepost to walk blindly, so I feel like I will lose my direction in the middle.

The more I think about this, the more worried I become. After connecting the dimensional passage, I stuck my head into the dimensional entrance. The view is clearly clear. Strangely enough, there was nothing around. There were no common weeds or trees. Have you been sucked into the sky?

Still, as I turned my head and looked around in the hope that there might be something, something caught my eye.

The ground was shaking. Although it was a long way away, something huge was shaking the ground. Do giant moles even live? At that time, it suddenly changed direction. This is where I am. The ground flipped over and I quickly pulled my head out of the dimension exit as it approached me at incredible speed.

“What the fuck… !”

Did you at least feel my gaze? There were no trees growing nearby, so there was no place to run to. Thinking of getting off the ground, I took out a cloud beanstalk seed from the seed bag I wore around my waist. He used his magical power to rapidly grow a beanstalk and took refuge high in the sky. A hopeful thought occurred to me that if I was lucky, the bug would just pass by.

Before I knew it, I saw it getting closer. That’s incredible speed. The beanstalk he was holding began to shake from the vibrations.

thud-!

It must have collided with the beanstalk, whose roots spread deep into the ground, causing a huge impact that shook the beanstalk. As I was desperately holding on to the beanstalk to keep from falling, I suddenly heard a howl from below.

Kuee Ee ―――!

It was a cry full of madness. A huge bug broke through the ground and revealed itself.

“Well, what the fuck is that… !”

What was sticking out was part of the head. So how big of a bug is it? That wasn’t even a discarded setting. I have never imagined such an ignorantly large bug. Isn’t that too unexpected to begin with? It’s not a fantasy troll or ogre, it’s a giant bug that looks like something from a science fiction film.

While I was thinking dissatisfied thoughts, the bug opened its huge maw. And like a lie, it swallowed up the land where the beanstalk grew. With a snap, the broken beanstalk falls towards the road at an alarming speed. Thanks to the creation of a dimensional passage connecting the air to the ground, he avoided falling to his death even though he rolled around on the floor.

But the bugs were still there. As if recognizing my existence, the man who had swallowed the land where the beanstalk had grown and was planting a well suddenly twisted his body.

The entire ground I was stepping on rose high into the sky. Just before his body rose, he threw another beanstalk seed on the floor and soared high into the sky.

Kwazijic―――!

The beanstalk, which was growing rapidly, was soon destroyed by the insect that opened its mouth again. This time, the bug came towards me, pulling its body out as if it wasn’t going to let me go.

I thought about using space magic to remove my body again, but a fatal problem arose. All surrounding spatial coordinates have disappeared. I was floating in the air and had no way to escape.

Just before the maw of the giant insect swallowed me along with the beanstalk-

A single flame pierced the insect’s head like an arrow. The bug that was trying to devour me writhed in pain when its head was pierced. As the bug moved away, the spatial coordinates that had suddenly disappeared began to appear again. I managed to create a dimensional passage just before falling.

How many times did you roll on the ground today? As it stood up in frustration, the flames that appeared again pierced the insect’s head.

Kieeeeeet───!

Even insects seemed to feel pain, as they kept twisting their huge bodies, causing the ground to shake and turn upside down as if there had been an earthquake. But that stopped not long after. Since it has two holes in its head, it would be difficult for even a giant bug to survive.

As I was sighing in relief, I heard someone approaching. Since you saved her life, I can at least say thank you. With that in mind, I turned my head to where I heard the footsteps and could only stare dumbly.

There was a girl. A lovely girl with beautiful silver hair and a small body. There was no way I, the writer, didn’t know who the girl holding the black greatsword engulfed in flames was. What writer would forget the heroine who is most popular with readers?

Grand Duchess of the North, Ilya van Fraks.

It was none other than Ilya who killed the giant bug. But it wasn’t what I knew. The body, which should be as clean as pure white snow, had runes engraved on it like a tattoo, and there was a heart-shaped eyepatch over one eye. Even Roel’s favorite long straight hair was cut short.

Because I was embarrassed, I opened my mouth in a higher voice than usual.

“Ilya… ? “No, you’re Ilya, right?”

Ilya, who was approaching at a leisurely pace, stopped at the sound of my voice and made eye contact. Just a moment of silence.

And then Ilya swung his greatsword as if he was going to kill me, as if it was a given.

Kang-!

“What, what are you doing!”

As I blocked the great sword with the hastily created Spear of Shadow, Illia muttered softly with her only remaining red eye shining.

“… devil.”

“Sleep, wait… ! “What bullshit!”

Kang-!

Sparks fly again. The attack speed was so incredible that I almost lost sight of the greatsword’s trajectory for a moment. I stepped back with the intention of clearing up the misunderstanding, but Illya just approached me with fierce force and swung her great sword.

It’s not a joke. He was really planning to kill me and was emitting a fierce killing power that made my skin tingle. You might be killed before you can resolve the misunderstanding. I had no choice but to use space magic.

Pretending to stab a spear, he created an entrance to the dimension where the tip of the spear touched. Even when an attack suddenly appeared from behind her, Ilya skillfully twisted her body to avoid the attack.

Then he suddenly threw the great sword at me. I adjusted the dimensional passage and sent the great sword flying with tremendous force into the distance, but before I knew it, Ilaa’s beautiful face came under my chin.

As soon as I felt a dull pain under my chin, my body started to float up. A thought crossed my mind that there would be a lot of rolling and flying around today.

He grabbed me as I was floating in the air, slammed me to the ground, and continued to punch me indiscriminately, as if he was planning on smashing my head. I felt like my nose would bleed and my cheekbones would cave in.

The moment when Ilya filled his fist with magic power and tried to slam it into my face once again. Someone’s hand blocked Ilya’s fist.

“Stop, Ilya.”

“… “But it’s the devil.”

“It’s not the devil. I don’t know why… “It must be Ross.”

At those words, Ilya lowered his fist. Although I felt like I was going to lose consciousness at any moment, I raised my head and spoke to my benefactor who saved me.

“Thank you, brother. But it would have been better if it had dried sooner… .”

With those words, I lost my mind.