Chapter 55 – 55. A Man Who Opens His Eyes to a New World.

Immediately after hunting the demon Belial, the dome covering Varia collapsed.
The supply of demonic energy that composes it is cut off and destroyed.

“Coup, coke! Coke!”

Grape coughed up blood and trembled.
Only the head remained, seemingly as if the ball was vibrating.

Purple ball because her hair is purple.

Ash looked around the village clearing, trying to find the remains of the demon.
Evidence to show to Baron Euteron.
Unfortunately, he couldn’t find it.

Belial’s body had already turned into black powder and was scattered, and the demon summoning magic circle was purified and destroyed by Ash’s heavenly energy.

“Tsk, I’ll have to go through the church. Plaguy…”

Ash took the holy sword and put it on his back.
It meant that the battle was completely over.

“This warlock is still alive, can we not kill him?”
“Yeah, do you plan on taking me with you?”

Ash grabbed Grape by the hair.
Grape struggled in pain.

“It hurts, it hurts! You fucking bitch!”
“Is it because I don’t have the body to struggle with? It’s a bit odd.”
“Are you a warrior?! Is it okay for a hero to treat a hostage without the strength to fight like this!”

Grape spat at Ash and vomited his anger.

If it was a normal hero, he would have treated the hostages on a humanitarian level.
But Ash is not an ordinary hero.

“Yes, you are a warrior. So shut up, it’s a fucking baby. “
“Keep it off… !”

Ash knocked Grape to the floor.
At the same time as the sound of bones breaking, Grape bit into foam and passed out.
Blood was pouring from his head.

“Aren’t you dead?”
“Don’t die like this. You have to break the head in moderation to restore the torso.”
“Ah… It sounds like you’re going to break your head periodically, right?”
“You understand, puppy. Sometimes when you get stressed, tell me.”

Ash said with a big smile, saying that he would lend Grape instead of a punching bag.

He had nothing to say.
Only laughter came out of my mouth.

He evaded the answer and decided to help Baria Village clear things up.

After the demon disappeared, the villagers rose one by one.
As they came to their senses, they began to assess the situation.

“Demon, did the hero defeat the demon… ?”
“Yes.”

Ash didn’t deny it.
It was because, except for Ash, there was no one who could defeat the demon.

“Thank you… !”
“Thank you for saving me, hero!”
“The black magician has set up a magic circle in the village… If I did something wrong, the whole village could have been sacrificed… !”

The villagers faced the truth.

A sacrifice summoning ceremony was set up in Baria, and the hero Ash saved him from it.
If he made a mistake, he informed of the terrible future that the entire village of Baria would become a victim of the devil’s summoning.

The people of Varia expressed their gratitude to Ash.
It was medicine to bow down or shake hands.
Some bowed excessively or burst into tears in a mess.

The children who knew nothing had no idea, but the parents who had children vomited their emotions by adding their children’s lives.

My heart tickled.
Even though I didn’t do anything, the ending that anyone could see was proud.

Ash knocked people out.
She wrinkled her face, telling her to go away because she didn’t need to say thank you.

“What about this…”

The villagers sighed as they looked around the devastated village.

Ash did it, and she couldn’t blame him.
She had a cause.

The village chief drew people’s attention.

“There are also houses that are fine. Let’s start with the ones that are in good condition first and then sort them out in turn.”
“…”
“Let’s be grateful to be alive. If the hero hadn’t saved us, we would all have been sacrificed to the devil.”
“… This, how to rebuild the town…”

Someone grumbled.
The village chief immediately corrected the complaint and read it.

“How to rebuild the village is possible only when people are alive. Therefore, we are having a happy worry!”
“Yes! It’s a happy worry!”

The ladies shouted.
As if responding to the words of the village chief, she strengthened her will.

“Now that this is the case, we need to build a bigger house. Will Baron Euteron support you?”
“Nothing! Our village has been destroyed by demons! Not only Baron Euteron, but also the Church of the Sun God will help!”
“Wow!”

It was obviously broken by Ash, but at some point, she was supposed to be wiped out by the devil.

Villagers started working under self-hypnosis.
The devil stormed off, but he couldn’t stay in shock for long.
People in this world recover quickly.

“Whoops, good.”

Ash looked at the villagers and smiled contentedly.
Then sneak peek at me

“Are you good?”

Ash whispered as he poked her side beside me.
Looking at his expression, he seemed to be expecting something.

“Yeah, good job. Very.”

I stroked Ash’s hair.
Ash leaned into my arms and let out a chuckle.
Gyarrling, the street was like a cat.

She caressed her until she was satisfied.
At least it was my role—management of Hero Ashe’s stress—so my hands didn’t rest.

“Who is coming?”

While he was stunned, he saw knights from afar.
The Holy Knights armed with pure white armor.
He was coming this way on horseback.

I pushed Ash a little.
Perhaps it was because of my lack of touch, Ash glared at the Holy Knights and frowned.

That didn’t change anything.
We had work to do.

Since the demons were subdued, the church had to take care of it.

“Hero?”

A man from the group of Holy Knights approached.
Looking at his horse, it seemed that he was a paladin with a fairly high position.

He looks at Ash and looks around.

“We sensed the presence of the devil and mobilized urgently. What happened to the devil?”
“I killed him.”
“… Did the hero defeat the demon? Fortunately, the.”

His gaze touched Ash’s holy sword.
There was a blue jewel embedded in the holy sword, proof that it was a fairly high level.

Still lacking
It’s a feeling that I can’t believe that I defeated the devil alone.

“Where have the other colleagues gone?”

The paladin looked around.
It seemed that they were trying to find someone other than us, squinting their eyes.

Ash answered with a consistent attitude.

“I caught it by myself. I want to go back quickly, so take care of it yourself.”
“… Are you saying that the hero is alone?”
“Yes.”

Hit the Holy Knights for a while.
She left everything she had to report and communicate about the devil.

“Belial, Rank 68, that’s how he introduced himself.”
“Belial… I single-handedly defeated him… You are really amazing, warrior.”

The paladin glanced at me.

The current me was not a speck of dust.
It was difficult to see that he had fought a battle with the devil.

He was right.
I skipped the question and answer process.

In the case of compensation issues or achievement listing, the church will proceed with appropriate points.
On the day peace comes to the continent, you just have to go find it then.

Ash was bothered by these processes.
While answering roughly, he reduced the procedure, wondering if he would take care of it.

The paladin didn’t ask any more deeply.

“Where do you plan to return?”
“I’m going up to the torso. There must be a teleport wizard at the church branch there, right?”
“Yes, I am staying with the Order. If you’re thinking of going to Torso, I’ll show you the way.”

The paladin summoned one of his men.

“Yep, Captain!”

His subordinates saluted him and called him captain.
He seemed to be the leader of the Holy Knights of the Torso branch.

“Guide the warriors, return to Torso.”
“All right!”

The leader didn’t seem to have any intention of prolonging the conversation with Ash.
They released us right away.

“That person… ?”

Ash took the head of the grape.
Then, the leader showed interest in Grape.

“I can feel the magic, hero. I will cut it right now.”

A gooey demon swayed from Grape’s head.
The commander of the Holy Knights sensed it and drew his sword.

Ash frowned and waved his hand.
It meant taking up the sword.

“This guy is useless. So go see your business.”
“… You mean a black magician? You can never just let go.”
“Ugh.”

Ash let out a sigh.

Every time the Holy Knights appeared, they always caused accidents.
It was the result of colliding with the hero Luke in order to highlight the overly naive side.

Just like now, he tried to fight against the hero Ash.

Of course, it wasn’t incomprehensible from his point of view.
It’s just that I’m doing my duty to kill the black magician unconditionally.

Even so, it wasn’t that Ash had to unconditionally understand what he was doing.
I’m not a person who can understand you.

“If you want to talk to me, other than the commander of the frontier knights, bring a saint or a saint. You won’t want the Pope.”
“Ji, what did you say now? The saintess and the saint… ?”
“If your tongue gets too long here, I will cut your arm. Close your mouth.”

Ash has no intention of persuading the commander of the Holy Knights.
No, it may be that he is persuading himself in his own way.

Conversation is not the only means of persuasion.

Ash sheds life little by little.
It was such a vicious aura that I couldn’t even think of something like Magi.

The commander of the Holy Knights, who must have trained quite a bit, also shook his legs.
Against a woman one head shorter than his, he had her terrified face on.

“… Heh, why the hell are you trying to keep the black magician alive… How dangerous they are…”
“It’s okay because I’m stronger. You said you would cut your arm if your tongue gets longer. Which arm will you cut off?”

Ash was about to pull out the holy sword right away.
If left as it is, the arm of the commander of the Holy Knights would really fly off.

I quickly grabbed Ash’s arm.
As if crossing his arms, he held the hand that went up to the holy sword and sagged.

“Let’s just go back.”
“Leave this person alone?”
“Yes, Captain, you are fulfilling your role. To be honest, it’s weird trying to keep a warlock alive. If we get angry here, only we will get hurt. Your reputation will only suffer, and nothing good will happen.”

Ash dampened his momentum.
His lips protruded a few feet, but that was fine.
It was still within the strong defensive range.

The commander of the Holy Knights also noticed.
He saw the eyes that were trying to kill him, so he bought it on his own.

He didn’t mention the Warlock Grape.

“Uh, hurry up and search this town. Check to see if there are any leftovers!”
“Yep!”

The Holy Knights dispersed and checked the village of Baria.

Ash and I pulled our horses and headed for Torso.
Torso was a small town located quite close to Baria.

From there, I went straight to Euteron.
It took less than a minute thanks to the use of teleport magic that connected the church branches.