Jobless Reincarnation: Emiya the Great Hero Must Show His True Skills

As an excellent healing sorcerer, the other party was indeed something the Black Wolf Fang team lacked, and quickly became one with the rest of the team.

It was from that time onward that Paul began to understand Senis more clearly and intuitively.

Unlike Paul, or rather, completely opposite, Senis is a very upright and gentle woman. She is honest, humble, and helpful. These qualities serve as a foil to Paul, making him instinctively realize what a scoundrel he is when he sees her.

Surprisingly, Paul himself did not dislike the feeling; he even became fascinated by being exposed to the scorching sun and becoming aware of his darker emotions.

Just as moths always yearn for bright light, rats in the gutter also long to one day stand on the ground...

Gradually, he began to lose control of his feelings. Although, to put it bluntly, he had already been with countless women by then, he still felt an uncontrollable attraction to Senis.

It was from that time that he began to look back on his life and realized just how much scum he was; to call him a scoundrel would be an understatement.

This caused Paul to hesitate to make a move on Senis, and his awkwardness lasted for a long time, making him wonder if he had been possessed by an innocent young girl.

Normally, under such close proximity, he would have already had his way with the women his age around him.

But in the end, Paul couldn't control his instincts. He took advantage of an excellent opportunity and, with some hesitation, took advantage of Senis.

At that time, the other party clearly had a very high level of affection for me. It's safe to say that even if I abandoned them on the spot, they wouldn't blame me at all.

This is based on Paul's experience...

If it were the old Paul, he would have simply pulled up his pants and pretended nothing had happened.

In fact, that was what he originally intended to do.

However, perhaps by coincidence, or perhaps as punishment from heaven, Senis became pregnant after only doing it once.

Pregnancy means that Senis is carrying her own child...

The shocking truth left Paul bewildered, as if struck by lightning. He even suspected that Senis and the doctor were conspiring to deceive him.

But he still knew that there were some facts he could not escape no matter what.

Many years later, a crossroads appeared before him again, just like when he chose to run away from home. Now, he was once again facing a fatal choice.

Choose home, or choose freedom.

Paul once chose the latter without hesitation because he did not think that cold, closed place, which had nothing but luxury and prosperity, could be called home. He would rather live a life of being homeless and wandering around.

But this time, he just couldn't make the same choice.

Seeing Senis's face and the unborn child in her womb, a sense of urgency and intense impulse arose within him.

He wanted to create a home that belonged to him and Senis.

Paul has only one strength: decisiveness. Once he makes a choice, no matter what awaits him on that path, he will charge forward without hesitation.

He immediately abandoned his years-long career as an adventurer and sought out a relative he had met in the Kingdom of Asura, asking them to arrange a stable job for him.

Afterwards, he took Senis to the village of Buena, where they built their own house and awaited the birth of their child.

One of the little incidents was that while they were waiting for their child to be born, they also encountered the red-haired boy who appeared on a rainy night.

Senis's kindness made it impossible for her to abandon the boy.

Paul would not ignore the helpless either.

This unexpected move brought a new, and extremely important, member to their future family.

But that's a story for another time.

In short, Paul was filled with complex emotions and excitement at the time. He was both confused about the new direction his life was about to take and excited about having a home that truly belonged to him.

That was arguably the happiest time of his life.

In fact, the happy times did last a long time. Senis gave birth to a son named Rudeus, and the red-haired boy Shirou, whom she had picked up, also showed talent in swordsmanship after growing up and was able to inherit her mantle in swordsmanship.

Paul even felt that he was a little too happy, and that his dream life was like a bubble that could be easily burst at any moment.

In fact, this long-held illusion of happiness was indeed shattered.

And the one who exposed all of this was none other than Paul himself.

His unexpected affair with the maid Lilia marked the beginning of a tragedy...

Chapter 81 Facing the Crimson Dragon!

Paul's affair with Lilia was, in his own view, purely accidental. His son's outstanding performance made him, as a father, feel increasingly invisible and even gradually lose his voice in the family. Troubled by this, he fell into a state of self-destruction.

Of course, these are all just excuses, and Paul himself knows very well that he is just making excuses.

Essentially, the reason he cheated on Lilia was because he was not fully mature and had not made up his mind to take on the responsibility of a whole family.

Even after being married and having children for so many years, deep down he still has the same mindset he had when he was an adventurer. He just drifts through each day in a daze, never thinking about the responsibilities he has to bear or what the consequences will be.

For him, starting a family and building a career is just talk; he's always a step behind in terms of actual action.

He never considered what he could and couldn't do as a husband and father, nor did he realize that a small mistake he made unintentionally could lead to the complete disintegration and collapse of his family.

Paul only realized how foolish he had been when Lilia's pregnancy was revealed, and Senis completely broke down, even wanting to go back to her parents' home.

After starting a family and establishing a career, he was no longer the carefree adventurer he once was. Every action he took and every decision he made would profoundly affect everyone in his family. Although he was still physically free, his responsibilities had robbed him of his freedom, or at least prevented him from being unconditionally free.

Paul once placed freedom above all else. He left the capital for freedom, chose to become an adventurer for freedom, and also came together with Senis for freedom...

Because everything was going too smoothly and he encountered almost no setbacks, Paul couldn't help but have the illusion that he was still free, that he was still the boy who could do whatever he wanted.

But Senis's slap jolted him awake, making him realize that he was no longer as free as before. The reality of starting a family meant that he had to restrain himself for the sake of his family and could no longer do anything unruly as before.

Otherwise, the family would inevitably fall apart in an instant...

Through his affair with Lilia, Paul finally understood his responsibility and realized that he could no longer run away from it and had to mature.

So, after the battle with Shirou ended and he was asked to accept punishment, he volunteered to leave the Grellard family and spent a whole year hunting monsters in the forest.

This was both Paul's punishment of himself and the realization he made of himself.

He could no longer act as recklessly as before. For Senis's sake, or for the sake of everyone in the Grellatt family, he could no longer do anything foolish that would make his family sad, in pain, or even cause the entire family to fall apart.

Now that she had made up her mind to escape that cold and indifferent family, she absolutely could not make any more mistakes, otherwise, what difference would there be between her and her father in the capital?

At that moment, Paul finally understood completely.

Freedom has its limits.

If you want to protect the people you care about, and if you want to achieve happiness, you must give up some freedom in exchange for harmony with more people.

The so-called protection is not just about force, but also requires a heart that is willing to give for others, even at the cost of sacrificing a part of oneself.

After realizing all this, Paul truly calmed down and spent a whole year in the forest of Buena village, living a life of hardship and sleeping in the open, accompanied by wild beasts and monsters every day.

These long-lost days reminded him of his past life as an adventurer.

But at the same time, he suddenly realized the difference between himself and his former self.

I used to lack direction and goals. I chose to become an adventurer to kill time in this meaningless life, engaging in endless battles. All I got from those battles was emptiness and numbing myself with alcohol—a vain life.

But he is completely different now. He no longer fights for himself, and his sword is no longer an empty vessel without purpose or soul.

Compared to the past, he is now fighting to protect the people who are important to him, and to fulfill his determination to protect his family.

The moment he thought of this, his sword was instantly filled with power, and his will was no longer affected by the emptiness and loneliness of having no one to accompany him every day.

From that moment on, Paul truly became a husband and a father.

He felt that once everything was over, he would be able to do better than before when he returned to the Grellat family, and become a role model for Shirou and Rudeus, and even Norren and Aisha.

He thought this way, and he looked forward to it, even counting down the days until the appointed day arrived, anticipating his return to the Grerat family home and his reunion with them.

However, fate played a cruel joke on him at that very moment.

When Paul woke up in a cabin in the forest one day, he suddenly sensed that the magical aura in the forest had become abnormally chaotic. The previously calm magical currents suddenly became extremely distorted and abnormal.

As a seasoned adventurer, Paul quickly deduced that something extraordinary had likely appeared in the forests of Bouyena village.

The magical power released by such terrifying monsters will greatly cause the magical power in the forest to accumulate, and may even lead to the emergence of more monsters in the forest than in the past.

Paul had no time to react. He immediately went to Sylphie's father, Roltz, and made a deal with him: if he did not receive a response from him within three days, he would go to the Grellat family to find Shirou and Rudeus and ask them to organize the village to build a defense line.

Meanwhile, he himself, filled with tension and unease, ventured alone into the forests of Buena.

Such a terrifying surge of magical energy must be caused by some unimaginable entity. If that thing is allowed to continue to wreak havoc in the forest, and even cause a wave of monsters, the village of Buyena, located around the forest, will certainly not be able to survive in that situation.

As the lord of Bouyena, Paul would not allow this to happen, not only for the sake of the people in his territory but also for the sake of his family in the village. He would do everything in his power to eliminate the source of all this.

After venturing into the forest, Paul, drawing on his experience as an adventurer, began searching for the enemy.

While eliminating the monsters born from the accumulation of magic, he searched for the areas with the most severe accumulation of magic, hoping to find the source of the magic reaction by searching these areas.

After searching for about a day and a night, Paul finally found the culprit.

What he found unbelievable, even unbelievable, was that what appeared before him was not a monster, or rather, not an ordinary monster, but a gigantic, pale red creature with enormous wings and sharp claws gripping the ground—a creature people called a dragon.

Why are dragons appearing in the forests of Bouyena village?

Paul's brain suddenly went blank.

In his confusion, he instinctively looked towards the Crimson Dragon Mountains not far away, guessing that the Crimson Dragon in front of him might have gotten lost from the Crimson Dragon Mountains and come to this place.

Although the Crimson Dragon Mountains have "dragon" in their name, the actual probability of seeing a Crimson Dragon is quite low, let alone encountering a lone Crimson Dragon, which is an unbelievably low probability event.

No matter how much Paul resisted or doubted, the existence of that enormous figure still made him realize the reality.

Of course, Paul wouldn't recklessly engage a red dragon in battle; such a challenging task would typically be carried out by a team of many S-rank adventurers.

If Paul were still the captain of Black Wolf Fang, he would probably have already gone to the Adventurers' Guild to call for reinforcements by now.

But now he has relinquished his identity as an adventurer, and given the current state of the red dragon, he doesn't even have time to seek support from a higher-level territory.

If I cannot stop it here and prevent it from causing further chaos in the forest and triggering a monster wave, Buena Village will certainly not be able to withstand the impact of so many monsters.

Not to mention the possibility that the red dragon itself could attack villages...

With all these thoughts swirling together, Paul made an unbelievable yet undeniably real decision: he would kill the red dragon.

Of course, as an adventurer, no matter how stubborn Paul is, he could not possibly fight the red dragon head-on.

He decided to set a trap and launch a sneak attack, making full use of the forest's advantages to fight the red dragon.

Of course, the best-case scenario is that this red dragon doesn't have any designs on Buena Village, and just stays in the forest eating some monsters before leaving.

However, the situation ultimately deteriorated to the worst possible outcome.

While Paul spent the entire day preparing, making as many arrangements as possible on his own to prevent the red dragon from heading towards Buena Village, the red dragon, which had completely distorted the forest, began to instinctively move towards the direction where the creatures were clustered.

During this process, Paul discovered that the red dragon appeared to be injured. After leaving the dragon herd, it had experienced numerous battles, yet it remained steadfast in its pursuit of a certain goal.

Paul then ceased all hesitation. Despite the overwhelming fear deep within him, as an adventurer, he knew all too well that hesitation meant defeat.

"boom!"

The sword's edge tore through the wind and snow, and Paul, with almost insane courage, launched an attack on a red dragon that was hunting.

The result was naturally bitter.

Even with Paul's strength, fighting a monster at the top of the food chain is simply impossible.

Paul felt no regret or sadness, for he had anticipated his defeat. After attracting the Red Dragon's attention, he did everything he could to draw its attention away from the village of Buyena.

In this way, as long as Shirou and Rudeus notice the movement in the forest, they can make arrangements in advance. With the time they have gained, it will be possible to move the village or seek help from other territories.

My sacrifice was not meaningless.

however……

"I really don't want to die."

The closer he got to danger, the more Paul instinctively recalled the figures of those important people in his mind: Senis, Lilia, Rudeus, Shirou, and his two newborn daughters, Norren and Aisha.

If I die, I will never be able to see them again, nor will I be able to sit down and talk with my family in a warm room, laughing and playing together.

He himself was even more unable to watch his children grow up smoothly and become people who were better than him.

However, he doesn't regret it.

In the past, when he was at a disadvantage in battle and faced a life-or-death crisis, he would instinctively feel fear. However, incredibly, he now has no such feelings at all, his heart is as still as water without any ripples.

The only thing lingering in my heart is regret...

In the last year of his life, he did not see his family members even once, and died alone without anyone by his side.

If possible, I really hope someone can witness my final, tragic battle; that way, at least I won't have to die so painfully.

Of course, it would be better not to actually see it. They had already dragged the red dragon so far away that even if it turned back to attack the village, it would be enough for Shirou and the others to relocate the villagers.

Paul felt only satisfaction at this.