The Former Hero Began To Be Re-Evaluated

25 – The Third Hero (8)

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“Does that mean you can’t baptize me now?”

“Yes.”

Aila decided to follow Alex for a while.

I thought that no matter whether he committed a rebellion or whatever else, I would just follow him and kill the demon lord.

So, even if the request was particularly unreasonable, he planned to ignore it as much as possible.

However, she could never yield to the baptism of a saint.

It was something she could never let go.

She spoke firmly to Alex.

She said she could never baptize herself.

“I shouldn’t do that, right? She might not be able to maintain her status as a saint?”

Alex chuckled.

It was not that Alex did not know the circumstances of her sainthood.

The reason Alex did not expel the party members in the first place was because they were competent and he thought they would follow him.

It was not a very hidden secret what kind of circumstances the warrior party members had in the empire.

If you were just a little bit interested, you could know why Aila, Luna, Nafira, and Carne were in the warrior party for their own reasons.

That’s why Alex found this situation absurd.

It’s not like you don’t know what it means to refuse your own request.

“… I still don’t like it.”

However, Aila’s determination did not change.

The reason she wanted to become a saint in the first place was to get closer to her goddess.

She could not maintain her status as a saint while doing something that made the goddess hate her.

She could not yield because that was her minimum duty.

She expressed her will once more.

“Well, just do it. I don’t mind.”

As Alex listened to the saintly woman’s words, she was a little surprised, but she didn’t seem to have any regrets.

In the first place, he did not consider the party members very important.

“Then, at this point, we will split up. We will expel all other party members, including the saintess.”

Alex’s decision was simple.

He announced the expulsion of all other party members as of this time.

“No, us too?”

“Ah… Why us?”

“We will follow the hero.”

The other party members were surprised as sparks suddenly flew towards them at those words.

Even if it was okay to expel Aila, there was absolutely no reason for them to be expelled.

They said that while they were banishing the saint, they would also be banished. This was like a bolt from the blue for them.

So, looking at Alex, I had no choice but to question him.

“Yes. Well, it’s not because of the saint, I was thinking about it from the beginning.”

However, even so, Alex did not really listen to what they said.

To begin with, Alex did not have a very kind view of the party members.

From the beginning, I planned to just use it and then throw it away.

The parade had already been held anyway, and there was no further value to them.

“The party members have already failed twice, right? That must mean you are useless.”

Isn’t the reason very obvious?

This was because these party members were completely useless in the first place.

In fact, the story that the party members were incompetent had spread to some extent.

Since Lee Han-soo’s days as a warrior, he has solved almost all cases by himself.

Of course, we cannot confirm this because there is no evidence for it, but it was a story that everyone in the know already knew.

But this time, after working as a Herald Hero, it became a clear story.

Why would the Herald leave the party members behind? The Prime Minister didn’t know the reason, but Alex could easily guess.

The party members were probably just useless.

There was absolutely no reason for Alex to be considerate of such party members.

“… That… That.”

“That’s not necessarily true…”

Of course, the party members who heard Alex’s claim had nothing to say.

She herself did not know that they were useless.

At first, they thought they were talented, but after the battle with Nepenthes, they thought about it again and realized that they only had talent and lacked other things.

So she couldn’t refute Alex’s words, and could only equivocate.

“Please take us with you…”

He had no choice but to ask Lee Han-soo and Herald to take him with them, just like he did to them.

“Well, anyway, that’s the end of what I said. Good luck.”

However, Alex’s decision was firm.

With the words that he was expelling the party members, he left them.

“…”

The remaining party members each looked devastated.

In the end, they faced the outcome they least wanted.

The fact that I was kicked out of the warrior party.

Being expelled was the same as saying that they had no future from now on.

What should I do in this situation? I had no choice but to keep thinking of ways.

Should I chase after Alex and grab his pants right now? Just when I wanted to.

“Now that it’s like this, let’s find the hero.”

Luna, the wizard of the warrior party, carefully spoke.

“Huh…? What kind of hero? No way…?”

The party members did not understand at first.

Because I didn’t know which hero I was talking about.

However, soon I was able to guess which hero Luna was talking about.

“I’m looking for warrior Lee Han-su.”

The first warrior.

It was Lee Han-su.

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‘Ha… The problem is that I really have a weak heart.’

In the end, I decided to keep Aji in charge for a month.

I swore that I would never go around with a prisoner… But in the end, this is what happens.

If I were to ask why this happened, I think it was ultimately due to a problem with my personality.

I think I may have become too kind-hearted after being a hero for a year.

I think I originally had this type of personality.

When I was first summoned to this world in the past, I could not ignore the request to take on the role of a hero and save the empire.

In the end, I wonder if this personality of being tricked and taken advantage of is the problem… But I shook my head.

The problem is the empire that betrayed me. Why are you blaming my personality?

I think there is no problem.

‘Hmm… It’s been a month.’

Anyway, I was planning on keeping Aji in charge of him for a month, but I wasn’t planning on just taking care of him.

I had my baby eat and sleep comfortably for a month, and I had no intention of doing so.

Because independence will not be developed in that way.

It is obvious that in a month he will chase me again and ask for food.

So, rather than letting Aji catch a fish, I was thinking of teaching him how to catch a fish.

If you do that, you will be able to throw it away a month later without any regrets.

‘Hmm… Wouldn’t it be better to raise him as an adventurer?’

Then what method would you like me to teach you on how to catch fish?

I thought about that method for a moment, but I didn’t think much about it.

If I look at the physical abilities that Aji has shown me so far, he is quite excellent.

Her own instincts and senses are very good, and her physical abilities are also quite excellent.

Well, it’s not something to compare to me as a warrior, but if you look at talent alone, I think it’s probably on the same level as Naphira, the beast of the warrior party.

Just tell them how much they can make a decent living and then they can leave.

“Ajia. Follow me.”

“Yes.”

I might have to delay returning to the village just a little bit.

I took Aji with me, and instead of heading to the village, I headed to a somewhat large city nearby.

Was the closest city to here a city named Mirva?

I didn’t go there when I was a warrior, but I heard that it was a city with moderately developed commerce.

Guilds were probably also quite developed.

Luckily, it was not far from where I am now.

“Where am I?”

“Guild.”

“What is that?”

“You can receive requests and receive money here.”

I entered the city with Aji and headed straight to the guild office.

Aji looked around her and asked me, and she seemed a little curious.

I explained it to her very simply, but she just tilted her head and didn’t understand.

Hmm… Maybe I should explain it a little easier?

“To put it simply, it’s a place where if you do what they tell you, they’ll give you something to eat.”

“Oh.”

This time, the child understood.

You still have no concept of money.

I felt like I would sigh a little about Aji’s intelligence status, but it didn’t matter.

‘Anyway, I’ll have no choice but to find out in about a month here.’

Guilds are, in a good way, said to work for the public benefit of the world by receiving requests from people who want them and solving them, but in the end, the purpose of establishing this organization was one.

Money.

They make it possible for everything to be solved with money, and they themselves receive that money reasonably.

This was the purpose of the guild’s existence.

So, if you work here for about a month, you will naturally find out.

No, honestly, it won’t take even a month.

How important money is.

“Hmm… So what kind of request should I receive?”

After entering the guild, I started looking at the requests posted on the wall.

The request bulletin board was full of various requests ranging from E level to A level.

There were various requests, starting with requests to find someone, requests to work part-time daily at a blacksmith shop, and requests to kill monsters.

I was hesitant about which request to choose among these.

It wasn’t that the request was particularly difficult or anything like that.

Hmm… Well, these were very simple requests by my standards.

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If I were to use my standards as a warrior, then of course A-level requests would just be a piece of cake.

It looks grandiose because it’s S-rank, but that’s because it’s based on adventurers as A-level. If it’s based on heroes, it’ll be somewhere between E-level and D-level, right? No, that’s too much.

So, if it were me, I would have accepted the request to subdue a Class A orc nest without hesitation, but I couldn’t have chosen this either.

I am not trying to accept a request right now. I was thinking of asking Aji next to me for a request.

I only provided support to the extent possible, but I had no intention of helping directly.

I started to worry about what kind of request I should make based on Aji.

“Of course, this would be best, right?”

While I was worrying so much, I happened to discover something good.

It was a C-class request to kill monsters in a dungeon near the city and retrieve the jewel.

The income reported as remuneration is quite generous, so it doesn’t seem like it will be that difficult.

If you stay long enough, it won’t be that much of a problem to catch Aji.

For my first mission, it was a much better request than I expected.

Good. Let’s do this request.

The moment I held the request form and was about to officially receive the request.

“Huh…?”

Just then, the guild clerk posted another request on the request bulletin board.

Normally, I would have passed it on, thinking, “Oh…Another request has come up,” But this time I couldn’t pass it up.

At first glance, it was a request written in heavy letters on ornately decorated paper.

As if it was very important.

I took a quick look at the request, and as expected, it was an S-class mission.

It’s an S-class mission… This kind of thing isn’t common.

I was interested for no reason.

As I was looking into what kind of request this was, I couldn’t help but be surprised.

‘Huh…? ‘What is this again?’

For an S-class request, we are looking for warrior Lee Han-su.

Are you looking for me?