Is this Hero for Real?

king, he was the most suitable to be the hero that will defeat the great demon king.

Though Class President Yu Bora bothered him a little, she was a woman in the end.
No matter how smart she was, she couldn’t fight properly with her weak body.

If the gods were in their right minds, there would be no way that they would choose a woman…

[A certain male god stares at you with a smile.]

[A certain impatient demon god stares at you with a smile.]

[A certain evil god stares at you with a smile.]

[A certain innocent goddess asks someone what they are staring at.]

[A certain water god advises his friend, saying it’s none of their business.]

[A certain god…]

A feast of messages appeared without warning!

Before the flustered Choi Gangmin had a chance to ask the saintess, the surroundings became noisy.

“What’s this message?”

“What god? A god…?”

“Is it really a god? This?”

All the students, who were heroes, were looking at the same scene.

The saintess put up her hands and spoke, as if she was praying or singing.

“Though you cannot see them, the gods are watching all of you heroes.
They send you their intentions through oracles just as you saw right now.”

“Gods? Really?”

“These are gods?”

“However, please keep in mind that their interest in you is not eternal.
I will pray that all of you receive a god’s blessing.

“Excuse me! What do we do if we don’t receive a god’s blessing?”

One of the students asked a question in a very annoyed tone.

The saintess then replied to him while making a splendid smile with her eyes.

“Do I need to go as far as to care about trash?”

“……”

This marked the start of the adventure full of hopes and dreams in a fantasy world!

 

* * *

 

Shit! If I knew this was going to happen, I would have exercised!

I was running through a pitch-black forest.

“Huff, huff!”

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I was out of breath, but I could not stop my legs even for an instant, because I knew that a gruesome end would be waiting for me if I did.

“Meat! Human meat!”

“My lunch!”

“Meat! Stop!”

Bipedal hyenas were chasing right behind me with crude weapons in their hands.

Hyenas that, like humans, can use tools, run on two legs, and even talk?

They were beings that did not exist on Earth.

It was solid proof that I did not return to Earth.

Tap, tap, tap.

If I hadn’t protected my head with my bag, I would already have suffered a concussion from their stone-throwing.

Dangerous! This is too dangerous!

I’m not a marathon runner.
It was clear that I would collapse from fatigue if this went on.

“Think… think, Kang Hansoo…!”

If I didn’t want to end up in those hyenas’ stomachs, I had to use some sort of miracle, like magic.

Magic.

It would be an absurd thought if this was Earth, but I was still in the fantasy world because of that wicked goddess’s trick.

Anything is fine, so please…!

 

[Name] Kang Hansoo

[Level] 1

[Blessing] –

[Curse] Hero E

[Dividend] 2.56

 

Huh? It really appeared?

Personal information was displayed in front of my eyes like a translucent hologram.

It was undoubtedly the status window that the wicked goddess explained to us.

Please let there be a way to break through this situation here.

“…Or not?”

After checking the details of ‘Hero’ in the curse list, all that came out of my mouth was a dejected laugh.

 

[Hero]

-> Automatically translates the languages of races hostile toward the hero.

-> Dramatically decreases the experience points gained through hunting and achievements!

 

It was a curse full of malicious intent to bury me in this fantasy world!

In a game system, the importance of ‘levels’ is equal to your life.
But there’s a permanent penalty on the experience points, the requirement to increase your level?

It’s no different from telling me to give up on the status window, the cornerstone of a fantasy world.

“The language function is also…”

This effect may be good, considering it’s a curse, but that wasn’t the case after experiencing it first-hand.

‘Give me your heart!”

“Meat! Human meat!”

“Let’s chew on his bones!”

I was watching a live broadcast on how the fantasy hyenas will cook me.

Throb, throb!

Just listening to them was putting stress on my heart.

As someone who was born and raised in a peaceful country on Earth, where it was safe as long as you watched out for cars, these translations were unwelcome.

“Hello, my meat-loving friends! Let’s talk it out…!”

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“The lunch spoke?!”

“Meat! Talking meat!”

“Let’s talk after we eat!”

Conversation was possible thanks to the curse, but whether I got through to them was a different story.

“Huff, huff…”

As I started to struggle for air, the world turned yellow.

It was a hopeless warning that my stamina was reaching its limit.

Will my bones be buried in this fantasy world like this?

Mother, father, please forgive this unfilial child who’s leaving before you.
This is all because of that damn wicked goddess…

“#$^$%^%$^%$#^”

“#$%^$%^#%^#$%^$%#^#$”

“$#%^%$^”

Just then, multiple cries could be heard from the pitch-black forest.

What are they saying?

Whizz-plunge!

“Agh?!”

After tripping due to the strong pain in my leg, I screamed while rolling on the dirt.

An arrow?! It hurts so much!!

I could see an arrow stuck in my right thigh.

But fortunately, amidst all the misfortune…

“Elf! Elf meat!”

“Atop the tree! Cowardly elf!”

“An arrow! New lunch!”

The fantasy hyenas left me, who was incapacitated, and charged toward their new prey.

“$#%#$%#$%”

“Meat! Elf meat!”

“%^$%^%$”

“My elf! Meat~!”

Amidst the chaos, there was a word that I heard the second-most after ‘meat’.

Elf.

A fantasy race that always regularly appeared in fantasy worlds.

No, I don’t care about that.

“Keuk! Damn savages!”

To think they would attack a normal person being chased by man-eating monsters!

Even if my words don’t get through to them, there’s no way civilized people who are capable of regular thoughts would do something like this.

I used the chance of the elves and hyenas fighting to escape behind a large tree.

I knew that this place wasn’t safe at all.

But there was nothing else that I could do in this desperate situation where I was exhausted and even my leg was injured.

Should I try praying to God?

“No.”

Who the hell am I supposed to pray to, when the reason why I’m in this situation is because of a goddess?

I, Kang Hansoo, the human, would rather choose death than pray to a god.

[A certain god peeks at you.]

…What’s this?

My head reacted before my body.

“Please save me!”

I, Kang Hansoo, the human, will do anything to be a good son to my parents!

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