“Hey, mind if I sit with you?”
“Ah, please go ahead… wait…?”
While I was munching away alone, my former party member and Great Sage Rin-Rin was standing right in front of me.
Ah, this is dangerous! Rin is talking to me! Isn’t the probability of encountering her with this face strangely high?! What’s going on?!
No, I was really startled. I think I managed to interact normally, but I was really startled. I never expected her to approach me when I was alone with this face.
Don’t come to a place where commoners are doing things like mixers, legendary hero party. You’re supposed to be a sage. You surprised me.
However, it seems I wasn’t found out, which is a relief. She asked me to show her magic again and said it was impressive, but of course it would be.
After all, Rin was the one who taught me magic.
But she might be suspecting my true identity. At the end, she asked if we could meet again. That might have been because she suspected I was Hero Dan and wanted to verify it again.
She’s said many times before that my magic is refined. Maybe I should refrain from showing it in the future.
But if I refuse strangely, it’ll be even more suspicious… Plus, I need to continue the marriage hunting.
I don’t think there’s any chance of being found out, but I just need to be careful about that. I mean, I don’t want my former party members to think that the guy who acted so arrogant is actually just a plain-looking guy.
But it’s nostalgic. Rin really taught me magic well. I caused her various troubles, but… back then, I seriously thought we might end up dating.
But there’s no point thinking about such things now. However… magic, huh… Maybe it’s about time I taught Will too. I did promise to teach him.
I’ve been focusing mainly on swordsmanship and basic physical training, but it’s become quite solid.
Now that I’ve decided, I’ll buy a magic textbook on the way home. Ah, I should also make a reservation for next week’s adventurer mixer.
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A week had passed since I participated in the adventurer mixer. The second session was being held, so I decided to participate again.
As someone known as Great Sage Rin-Rin, I’m basically avoided.
I was alone. So I decided to talk to Ban, a young man who was also alone.
“This is bad… I can’t talk to anyone at all…”
He was looking around while munching on salad. However, groups had already formed, and it was too late to join them now. Just like me.
“You’re alone too, aren’t you?”
“Ah, yes.”
Since we had the chance, I thought I’d talk with him. For some reason I couldn’t understand, he strangely caught my attention.
“If you’re free, want to talk just the two of us?”
“I don’t mind, but… why me? I’m obviously a boring person.”
“You’re saying that about yourself…”
Was that self-deprecating humor? While wondering if I should have laughed heartily, we moved to the balcony.
“How’s your adventurer activity going? Are you working hard?”
“Ah, once a week if I’m lucky…”
“Once a week? I had the image that newcomers are active every day…”
“I’m busy with various things.”
“Ah, I see.”
While we were having this idle conversation, a certain person approached us.
“Well, well, it’s been a while. Great Sage Rin-Rin.”
“Ugh… Oracle Voyager.”
“Don’t say ‘ugh.'”
Someone I didn’t particularly like came over. I don’t dislike this person himself, but I tend to have an aversion to people related to oracles.
“Ban wouldn’t know, right? This person is Voyager, who delivers oracles. I’ve received oracles from him many times too.”
“I see.”
“Now I also work as a fortune teller. I still do oracles though.”
“Why is Voyager here?”
“Well, you see, recently the number of people who believe in gods has been decreasing… My income, you know… So I’m here doing love fortune-telling to make money.”
“Hmm, I see.”
Ban was responding absentmindedly with a spaced-out look. I could tell he wasn’t interested. But Voyager seemed to have taken an interest in him.
“So, you’re… an adventurer?”
“That’s right.”
“Since we’re here, how about I do a love fortune-telling for you?”
“Ah, well, please do.”
“Leave it to me… Hmm? I can’t see anything at all… I’ve never had someone so invisible… No, there’s been only one person like this…”
He was divining his fate with a small crystal ball, but Voyager was tilting his head.
“What’s wrong? Can’t you see Ban’s fortune?”
“Exactly. The only one I couldn’t see at all was Hero Dan… Are you someone with a star so large that it can’t be divined… or is your star so small that it can’t be seen…”
…Does that mean there’s a possibility he’s the same as Dan?
I couldn’t help but arrive at that thought.
Just then, a couple of adventurers came asking Voyager to do love fortune-telling for them, so he and I were alone again.
The same as Dan. I couldn’t get that thought out of my head, and even though it couldn’t be possible, I ended up pressing him about it.
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“Is it really possible for fortune-telling to be invisible?”
“Well, I suppose it happens. I don’t believe in fortune-telling anyway, so I’m not interested.”
“You don’t believe in it?”
“No… I don’t believe in it at all. Like palm reading—what can you understand by looking at the lines on someone’s hand?”
“When you put it that way, you have a point… Do you believe in oracles?”
“…If that old lady says it, I’d believe it a little. But generally, I think gods are mostly full of hot air.”
“You’d better not say that outside.”
“I’ll keep that in mind.”
Dan also said fortune-telling and such were nonsense.
“Well then, I should head home now.”
“Eh, ah, okay.”
“See you later.”
There were other things I wanted to ask…
I was alone again, and then Voyager returned.
“I was thinking of giving him a more detailed reading, but he went home.”
“Hey, are Ban’s and Dan’s divination results really the same?”
“Same, or rather, I can’t even tell that much. However, Hero Dan used to say this often: ‘Fortune-telling is nonsense. Oracles aren’t worth listening to. There’s no measure in this world that can gauge my existence.'”
“Still as arrogant as ever.”
“That’s right. However, it’s also true that oracles and fortune-telling are gradually losing credibility.”
“That’s why Hero Dan worship became stronger, right? Calling gods liars…”
“Ah, I heard about that. Because of that, the marriage proposal fell through, didn’t it?”
“That’s right… I was supposed to marry him as a reward for defeating the Curse King, but… at that time, when a fairy said to Dan that it was thanks to the oracle and that they’d be grateful for life…”
“That’s a famous story. Instead of having time to be grateful for life to gods who are just liars, he told them to never sleep with their feet pointing toward him for the rest of their lives… is what he said, right?”
“That’s right… The fairy folk have always worshipped gods, and I was even called a ‘child of god,’ so things got rough. As a result, the marriage proposal fell through…”
“Haha, how interesting…”
“It wasn’t funny for me at all… The marriage proposal was canceled.”
“Indeed. However, he said that for your sake—you understand that much, don’t you?”
I understand that. That Dan said that for my sake.
“Oracle-related things caused Dan a lot of trouble… Because of that, Dan came to hate gods… I’m always causing trouble.”
“He probably doesn’t think of it as much of a burden, so I don’t think you need to worry. Besides, as I’ve said many times, oracles are gradually becoming less accurate… They don’t come true, and Demon Kings come from completely unexpected places. They don’t mention Hero Dan’s existence at all either—maybe they don’t even recognize him.”
“…Are there many existences that even gods can’t grasp?”
“You can think that without being wrong. After all, even the Curse King was never mentioned in any oracle. Neither was Hero Dan’s birth. A hero’s birth that oracles couldn’t touch—that had never happened once in history. Just that alone shows how much of an anomaly he is. Things were really chaotic back then.”
“…Originally, Sakura was supposed to become the hero, right?”
“That’s right. And that man snatched it away… A strong person that even oracles can’t grasp… That man stands at the pinnacle.”
“…I know. I can’t imagine Dan ever losing. His depths can’t be seen by anyone—not by gods, not by demon kings.”
“A deviant from the world… Perhaps not even a fragment of his power has been seen yet.”
I’ve never seen Dan’s true strength either. Not Dan’s real self.
I felt a little disgusted with myself for not knowing anything about the person I love.
“Demon King Balkan—no, new Curse King Balkan-sama… preparations for invasion are complete.”
“Hohoho. Thank you for the report. Then shall we go retrieve it… that otherworldly country.”
This was the demon realm. Another world existing in a different dimension from the world where heroes live. Vicious creatures called demons lived there. And their king was Curse King Balkan.
“Then let me declare this here. In the name of True Curse King Balkan, I will bring down the hammer upon the detested hero and rule all worlds.”
Just as Curse King Daedalus once invaded the fairy elven country of Frontier… once again, the evil hand of True Curse King Balkan was approaching.
“There’s no need to fear a weakened hero. Though with my power, I could easily defeat even a hero in his prime.”
He spoke thus to the demon masses. The new king was about to attack the other world with his subordinates in tow.
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