"Kyaaaaa-"
"Please die, you monster bastards!"
I was walking through the chaos of the Butler estate.
The resistance, mixed with screams and shouts coming from here and there, is literally hell.
If it had been me before, I would have rushed around to save as many people as possible.
'It's perfect.'
Now, I was walking through the inner sanctuary at a very leisurely pace.
As I passed the soldiers who were fighting hard against the monsters and headed deep into the castle, the battle I met with Hazel caught my eye.
Perhaps the monsters had already invaded the battlefield, and the fishy smell of blood emanated from inside.
If Hazel had already died, I might feel sorry for her, so I quickly moved into the Daejeon.
'Fortunately, I'm alive.'
I laughed at Hazel, who was trembling in terror in the corner, holding a little boy named Lloyd in her arms.
Still, it seems that she wasn't entirely on Hazel's side, but a few soldiers were defending her against her monsters.
Among them, I saw a familiar face, but Juan, whose arm had been blown off after fighting with me, was fighting monsters with his now intact arm.
"Yo, hero!"
Hazel, who confirmed that I had come in belatedly, shouted at me, and I noticed that the soldiers who were fighting the monsters were also looking at me.
Seeing a strange hope flash in their eyes, I let out a stunned laugh.
It was because I wondered if he was expecting me to help after hitting the back of my head like that.
"Oh, I'm going to sit here and watch, so finish what you're doing."
I said that to Hazel while sitting on a dusty chair on one side of the Great Hall.
Of course, the monsters under Lilith's control were acting as if they couldn't see me at all.
"Help me, hero. It is impossible with our own strength."
After slashing down a goblin that was ignoring his life, Juan said that to me.
While I was gathering refugees, it seemed that I had returned from the capital.
I looked at Juan with a curious expression and asked back.
"Why me?"
At my words, I saw Juan's cow-like pupils shaking as if an earthquake had struck.
He didn't know that the hero would ask such a question, and it seemed that he couldn't think of anything to answer.
"Are you stone heads? You can see the situation. Why don't the monsters attack me? Huh? And who would have brought this monster?"
Seeing me giggling, Hazel and the soldiers became terrified.
To me, their reaction was rather absurd.
"You're not a hero; you're the Demon King's pawn!"
"Yo, how can a warrior..."
Watching them quickly change their attitude, I leaned back in the chair and started crossing my legs.
"Hazel, let's ask one question."
"What, what?"
"Did you know the gates were closed?"
"…"
Hazel didn't answer my question, and I thought that answered it well enough.
"So it is. Even if you guys end up like this, the reason I stay still is."
**
'He fights well.'
At my words, Hazel and Juan were struggling hard, as if they had given up any further help.
Of course, most of the struggle was being done by Juan, but he also seemed to be getting tired of stopping the monsters that were continuously pouring in.
Of course, the fact that the battle lasted for a long time was not only because Juan had endured well.
Lilith, who controls the monster, was also watching this situation in real time, and as if she were interested in this strange confrontation, she moderately drove Hazel's party into a corner but did not launch a bold attack.
As a demon who likes human fear and negative emotions such as regret, he seems to be enjoying the suffering of Hazel and the others.
I also enjoyed watching the frightened faces of Hazel and Lloyd, but it was also true that I was getting bored.
"Keugh."
In the end, Juan, whose arm had been torn off by me, fell to his knees.
"Hero, Lord Hazel, is not that kind of person. It was only to protect the young master, so please be generous."
I frowned as I watched the bald man weeping and pleading.
Honestly, it was because I was curious about why Juan was protecting Hazel so much.
"Bald. What do you really have to do with that woman?"
"What?"
"No, what kind of relationship is it that a rotten guy like you protects her with his life?"
Although Juan had a rather spleenful expression on his face, I clearly remembered how he treated the refugees before.
The funny thing was that his face and head started to turn red like a boiled octopus at my question.
"He is just my master. There are no other feelings."
An obvious lie.
Perhaps Juan had a crush on Hazel.
No, seeing him risk his life like that, he didn't even know that he had feelings much deeper than just unrequited love.
However, Miss Hazel, who was ignorant, seemed to believe Juan's words.
"He's a funny guy. Really."
I said that to Juan and glanced at Lloyd.
The only line of blood left by the previous earl was looking at the goblins, glaring at him with a bloodless look where the arrogance of the former was gone.
"Little boy."
At my call, I saw Lloyd look at me with a blank expression.
"Why don't you act like you used to? At least shout at the monsters to stop."
"A dog-like mercenary soldier."
Lloyd looked at me and shouted as if his pride had been hurt by my provocation.
Hazel seemed surprised by Lloyd's words, but I expected him to react like that.
Even if he's scared, even if he's in the worst situation, the little guy hasn't felt real pain yet.
'By the way, someone tells me that a hero is not a mercenary soldier.'
I threw a sword rolling on the floor at Lloyd while thinking such an absurd thought.
Flinch.
A startled Lloyd was seen cowering in his body as the sword flew towards him.
"Kid, if you're a man too, don't just mess around with your mouth; show me something. If you catch a goblin with your own hands, maybe I can help you."
"Hero!"
Hazel was frightened by my words, but Lloyd just stared at the sword I threw.
Even a boy who had just turned seven at most had pride.
Lloyd picked up the sword I threw and started glaring at one of the goblins, even with a trembling body.
"Lloyd, no."
Unexpectedly, I clapped lightly as I watched Lloyd pick up the sword obediently.
Maybe he thought he had a chance at the goblin's size, slightly larger than his own.
Furthermore, since the soldiers he looked down on had already captured several goblins, he must have wanted something he couldn't do.
"Aaaaagh!"
"Lloyd!"
The little boy's shouts and Hazel's screams blended together.
Lloyd bravely charged at the goblin, but the goblin wouldn't have been treated as a monster if he had only been hit by his sword.
"Oh! Ah, it hurts! It hurts!!!"
Lloyd, stabbed in the stomach by the goblin's dagger, rolled on the floor and screamed.
Hazel looked at Lloyd in a frenzy, while Juan looked at me with a fearful expression.
'This, it feels like I'm not a real hero, but a demon lord.'
"Okay, that's it."
I said that while watching Lloyd roll on the floor, and the monsters that had been attacking Hazel's party just before began to leave the battle.
"Mom, mom! Help me; I don't want to die!"
"Lloyd, it's okay. It's okay, it's all over."
Hazel said that while stopping the bleeding in Lloyd's stomach, who was bursting into tears,.
I didn't think it was all over yet.
**
'Is this the hero's way?'
Marianne saw the Butler estate, where the monsters had escaped, and she thought so.
She couldn't help but be ignorant that she wasn't an idiot and that there was a connection between heroes and monsters.
Even if it was only possible to move like that by chance outside the empire, in the Butler Territory, the monsters acted as if they were the arms and legs of a hero.
Of course, to Marian, who had run out of arrogance towards the people living in Butler, the hero's behavior was a bit extreme, but she didn't think it was wrong.
Recalling that the castle gate was blocked, in fact, it was enough to think that the hero had endured well even if he hadn't killed all of them.
In fact, there were not that many casualties compared to being pierced by monsters.
However, the only thing Marian didn't understand was how a hero could command monsters.
'There's no way the trust went wrong.'
Marian, who pondered the hero's actions, eventually remembered what had happened recently.
On the day she secretly visited her hero's room, she was a suspicious woman who met eyes with herself in a spiritual body.
Except for that woman, nothing particularly distinctive had happened to the hero.
'What is that woman really?'
The moment Marian doubted Lilith's identity,.
Someone came up to her and shouted in an urgent voice.
"Saintess, you should go to the inner sanctuary. Quickly!"
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