Main Character Hides His Strength

“What if there is no danger to you? What if you and everyone you are trying to protect are all safe from the Calamities? At that point, will you continue to fight for the others who are left behind?”

Adelwight opened her eyes wide and observed Sungchul.

Sungchul made a confused look.

“What? I thought you were going to say something serious, but this is it?”

“It’s an important question to me.”

“You’ve asked me before, don’t you remember?”

Though inundated by countless memories, Adelwight clearly remembered that moment in the past.
She, also, clearly recalled his answer at the time.

Unlike Adelwight’s serious attitude, there was no hesitation in Sungchul.
He replied.

“Like I said before, I am not a hero.”

It was the same answer as 9 years ago.
Adelwight let out a sigh of relief in her mind.

‘Thank goodness.
He didn’t change.’

Sungchul continued to speak.

“I fight for salvation for myself and my people.
That is all.”

It was an answer Adelwight wanted to hear.
Looking deep into his eyes, not a single change in his mind could be detected.
Sungchul was still the Sungchul of her memories.
But the scenes from the future she had seen through Fal Garaz continued to nag at her mind.

‘Just what was that vision? A simple mistake? Misunderstanding?’

Adelwight began to think that it might have been because she had lived far too long as a human being.

‘In the next era, I’ll have to raise a pupil.’

*

Time has come to depart once more.

Adelwight gave Sungchul personally handmade lunches as a present.
Sungchul wasn’t too excited about it but he thought it would be good to have for the boring travel so he put it in the box Phoebe Canvas had been carrying.
Bertelgia saw that and began to flap around in panic.

“Ugh… Don’t put food in something you store severed heads!”

“It’s ok.
I washed it clean.”

“That’s not the issue!”

While she was watching the back and forth exchange between Bertelgia and Sungchul, she recalled a particular scene she had seen through the Fal Garaz.

A single volume of book.

‘I wonder what was that about? Does it mean that the book affects the Destroyer’s behavior?’

Although Adelwight had looked into the future, this time not even she could explain nor predict the future.
As the ancient witch watched on, Sungchul’s party headed to their next destination.

The target was New Ixion.

The Magician’s Paradise said to be created overnight by a pure white witch.

Note: As you might have noticed, this is the shortest chapter the author wrote aside from the prologue.