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Chapter 390 The Night Before ([-])

——In front of the campfire, brave men——

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The knight finally finished telling the hero's long story.

It not only includes the fighting experience of the three of them, but also includes the past that makes the hero become a hero.

The brave man exhaled softly at the end and said: "I like heroes. Because others have all kinds of wishes for the brave man. But only the hero only asks me to witness everything he does."

The knight turned his head and said: "The hero also made a wish. Doesn't he want you to resurrect him?"

"No, no, it's different. Arthur and I have completely different understandings of wishes, right?"

"Of course the purpose of resurrection is to continue to witness, but that is just incidental. The hero wants to burn out. So being able to be resurrected means that he can continue to burn, and being unable to be resurrected means that he has reached the end. Resurrection... is not an end in itself."

"Just like the last time, didn't you see it with your own eyes??" The hero tossed his scorched hands boredly, "The last time, I said: Hero, I'm sorry, but you have exhausted your times, so this is the end.

"The hero didn't complain about anything, right? He just said calmly: OK, thank you, goodbye.

"...Just like that, he said goodbye to us simply.

"So, even though we didn't talk about him much after the incident, I actually missed him."

The knight sighed: "Me too."

After another moment of silence, the knight started again and said, "Then, it's time to get down to business. More than 100 days have passed since our journey, right?"

"Ah."

"Whether it's me, the hero, the priest or the monk, I all joined the team to help you defeat the devil. But what are you doing now? Are you traveling around the continent?" The knight seemed to have wanted to say this for a long time. .

After a moment of silence, the brave man said vaguely: "It's not urgent, it's not urgent yet——"

The usually calm-tempered knight became a little angry in a rare moment: "Hey, you just agreed to have a serious talk with us about this matter, so I called Hui and Jack over -"

The brave man quickly bowed his hand and said: "Hey, don't take it too seriously. Why do I think you are more anxious than me?"

"I just want to defeat the Demon King as soon as possible." The knight said confidently, "To be honest, I am a little tired of hiding here with you and being a coward."

"...I didn't hide, and I didn't shrink back." The brave man argued.

The knight simply turned to look at Jiao Shou: "Let's ask the hero for his opinion."

The priestess held back her rant, thinking she was telling a joke, right?Can one speak with a burnt hand?

"Stop telling jokes. What advice can I give?" Then the blackened severed hand really answered.

It said in an emotionless voice: "After all, I'm just a hand, and it's still burnt and carbonized."

Then, he told a cold joke: "——So, I'm just a passing non-burnable garbage."

"It's so cold..." The knight shivered and hugged himself tightly, "Why is it even colder even though it's already burnt?"

The priestess said angrily: "Isn't what you said a bad joke? It's still a bad joke from hell."

Then she rubbed her temples and said to herself: "Wait, it seems that the point of complaining is not here... Obviously I should be surprised why one hand can talk..."

"This is how the world is set up, just accept it." The monk comforted her.

"So, this is the difference between fire and fuel." Jiao Shou ignored the reactions of these people, and continued to say, "The one you are familiar with is the hero, the flame. And I, the fire thallium, It’s the fuel at the beginning and the residue at the end.”

"Okay, first meeting, Huo Thallium. Anyway, I want to scold Huiyuan. Do you have any suggestions?" the knight asked again.

The blackened hand said naturally: "Don't be like this, he is afraid."

The knight pointed at Jiao Shou and turned to the brave man: "Look, even Huo Thallium knows that you are just running away! You are afraid!"

"So I said don't be like this. I quite understand Haiyuan's mood." Burnt Hands continued to persuade.

The knight became even more unhappy: "Huo Thallium, stop speaking for Haiyuan. I hope he can learn from you."

"……follow me?"

The blackened hands fell silent, seeming to be thinking.

Finally, it asked a rhetorical question: "What kind of person do you think the Fire Thallium Hero is?"

The knight and the hero were a little confused.

They looked at each other and began to comment alternately.

"justice."

"combustion."

"You don't have everything that ordinary people have, but you have a will that ordinary people don't have."

"Burn, bring justice with a switch."

"He is a person who has no confusion or regret. Because all confusion and regret have been completely abandoned by him."

Including the priestess and monk who had just listened to the hero's story, they also expressed their opinions.

"You don't show mercy when you kill a woman. He is a person without blood or tears, right? But in my opinion, this is an advantage."

"His will is as strong as my muscles."

Burnt Hands just listened quietly.

Then, after another long silence, the charred hands said something that surprised everyone: "No, Huo Thallium is crying.

"...Yes, heroes don't cry, that's true. Heroes can only move forward, move forward, until they burn out. Because of the eternal burning flame, heroes naturally don't shed tears at all.

"-But Huo Thallium is crying.

"The real Huo Zhan is a helpless child huddled in a dark corner. Huo Zhan's despair and Huo Zhan's crying have actually never stopped.

"You can't hear it, just because fire thallium is the hero's fuel... He and his tears are both fuel. Before it has time to flow down, it is ignited into the hero's flame."

The knight and the hero opened their mouths and fell silent.

But suddenly, Jiao Shou amplified his voice: "——But as long as the hero's flame is still burning, it proves the existence of thallium."

"What I want to say is, Haiyuan, the same goes for you."

The blackened hand dropped a loud sentence, and then fell silent again.It lay quietly on the tree trunk, just a scorched hand that couldn't speak.

"Okay, I understand what you mean, Huo Thallium." Finally, the brave man held the Jiao Hand in front of him and said solemnly to the Jiao Hand, "...Thank you for speaking for me, and thank you for giving me your opinion. , it’s very useful.”

"No, I want to thank you, Huiyuan. You helped me burn it."

Then the brave man fell silent, as if he was struggling with something in his heart.

"Huo Thallium, help me." Finally, he said suddenly.

"I am just a wick, and the wick will only burn... Of course, if that's all it takes, I will burn for you." The blackened hand replied calmly.

The brave man nodded: "Then, thank you... Huo Thallium, goodbye."

"Goodbye."

The blackened hand also calmly answered with two words.

As his words fell, a violent flame suddenly ignited in his charred hands.

After a while, the burnt hands were completely burned out, leaving not even a trace of ashes.

But after the flames were extinguished, a key appeared in the brave man's palm.The brave man didn't explain anything, just stuffed the key back into his arms.

Looking at this scene, the priestess felt something in her heart for some reason.

The brave man turned to look at the knight, and said again with helplessness on his face: "...I didn't hide or shrink, really."

"During this period of time, I actually did a lot of important and serious things..." The brave man recalled and began to count his fingers: "I said goodbye to Yumiko properly, made a promise to Saya, and asked Ayano Sent to a safe place, he saved no less than a hundred villages, gradually became stronger in the battle, and defeated the Four Heavenly Kings..."

This time the knight didn't refute, he just looked at the brave man and listened quietly.

"These things are actually very important. Because...you understand, my situation." The brave man continued, while gently pressing his chest: "——You know, the 'brave' is in my body. .

"—The brave is not just an 'identity', he really exists. I am not the same person as the 'brave', I am just using the power of the 'brave'.

"In the past, 'The Brave' was an underwater shadow. But as I used his power, he even started talking to me in my head... So, maybe one day, 'The Brave' will come directly from me Resurrected inside my body, he used my body to speak his own words.

"At that time, where is the 'me' now? Nature will be completely replaced, and nature will disappear."

The brave man exhaled and lowered his head, seeming to finally reveal the tiredness that he had concealed for a long time: "...Yes, so, the Demon King asked a question that is difficult to answer, but very important..."

"In the end, is it the brave man who loves the bride, or is it the original Hui who loves Oro Aoi?"

"——Of the decisions I made in the past, how many of them were influenced by the 'brave', and how much of them were due to my own will?"

"I can't go to the Demon King's Castle until I draw a conclusion."

Silence fell before the campfire.

Then the monk slowly spoke: "Haiyuan, the 'brave' you mentioned, his name is——"

But the priestess suddenly screamed, interrupting what he had not finished saying: "Stop, Jack! No! You can't say that name -"

After taking several deep breaths, the priestess regained her composure. Seeing everyone else staring at her, she explained uneasily: "I'm sorry, I don't know why, but I feel..."

The brave man looked at them quietly: "No, Hui Ren, you are right."

"It's best not to say that name until the dust settles."

"...That's why I call him 'brave'."

"That's why I arranged for everyone to act here. There is a reason for this."

He made a shushing gesture: "Don't... wake him up."

It was quiet again before the campfire.

The monks and knights looked solemn, and the priestess also looked uneasy.

The brave man continued: "This is why I couldn't go to the Demon King's Castle before, and I couldn't answer that question before."

"Because in this world, 'making an answer' means 'making a choice.' And 'making a choice' will immediately...'become a reality.'"

"If I go to the Demon King's Castle with a wavering mood and answer that question rashly... maybe, the result will be the disappearance of 'me'."

"So, I'm not hiding."

"I just want to see Yumiko, Saya and Ayano, whom I haven't seen for a long time. I want to have a chat with them. Maybe, in the process of talking to them and reminiscing about the past with them, I can draw some insights from them. Wanted answers.”

"That's why I didn't rush to answer Aoi's question and decided to see them first -" the hero raised his head and looked at the other three sincerely, "and for the same reason, I also asked you for help. . I hope you can help me—you and Huo Thallium, who are familiar with each other, and Hui and Jack, who are not very familiar but can be considered friends."

The knight sighed: "Of course I know. Of course I am willing to help you."

After a pause, he asked again: "So, you are willing to talk to us about this matter today, does this mean you have got the answer?"

The brave man didn't answer.

After he pondered quietly for a moment, he replied: "From Yumiko, Saya and Ayano, I have obtained some of the exact answers related to them."

"As for Laixiang, Alyssa and Meili... I knew I couldn't understand them, so I decided to treat them in the simplest and most brutal way from the beginning - if they dare to stop me, I'll defeat them. Otherwise, just ignore them.”

"And today, I got the answer given to me by Huo Thallium, so -"

Then he suddenly shut up and said nothing.

Finally, the brave man took a deep breath and said: "It's time to set off. Let's go to the Demon King's City."

Then he lowered his head and made no move to get up.

But the priestess who looked at him suspiciously suddenly jumped up from the sound of thunderclaps above her head.

She raised her head in panic, only to find that the sky had changed.In the blink of an eye, the originally clear starry sky was covered with dark clouds, and the entire sky seemed to be weighing down.

And in the clouds with lightning, thunder, and thunder, a magnificent city appeared above everyone's heads.

——But in the next moment, neither the lightning, thunder nor the thick clouds disappeared.

The Demon King's Castle is still there, but the entire city has fallen to the ground.But the forest around everyone disappeared.

They were still sitting in front of the bonfire - but the bonfire was lit in front of the gate of Demon King's City.

Immediately, amidst the heavy creaking sound of the wheel axle turning, not far away, the huge city gate nearly a hundred meters high slowly opened.

But through the crack of the opened door, the priestess saw three figures she was familiar with.

The Four Heavenly Kings who were supposed to die were waiting there.

(End of this chapter)