Golden Brave, Betrayed Hero.
「The truth is, the Demon Lord does not really exist.」
In the first place, the Demon Lord never existed.
On the terrace of the Demon Castle, the wind blowing, there was Alex the Golden Brave on his knees, muttering while looking at the two bodies. On this terrace, the princess whom Alex swore his love to and Alex’s best friend, Zain were both on the verge of death.
A tremendous amount of their blood flowed under Alex’s feet. The odor of iron drifted from the blood, the air was filled with despair and loss, Alex regretted being summoned to this world and grew to hate it.
Alex–.
“The Golden Brave” Alex Vlad, was a poor Hero, forcibly summoned to this world “Hortegram” by the power of the G.o.ddess.
Alex did not want to become a Hero.
The mission given to Alex is to subjugate the weakest Demon Lord born in this world. The subjugation of the weakest Demon Lord, who was hidden somewhere in Hortegram,
to save the people.
The future that Alex could defeat it was the image that s.p.a.ce-Time G.o.ddess
Mayter saw. The young Alex who could not express his intention well
couldn’t refuse to be a Hero after being welcomed by the people of Hortegram.
The heavy expectations become pressure, and can’t escape from their obsessions.
Obsessions from which the demon seed was planted became one with Alex’s heart, steadily growing roots and stems in his heart.
How ironic, for this plant that can bloom without withering to bolster his heart to be a Hero, for Alex, it was like his body is tied up with thorns.
I want to go home, I want to see my mom, I want to see my father, anybody I know.
The days pa.s.sed. Day by day crying like a child. I didn’t want to come to Hortegram. That’s right, because I was still a child. Still at the age where I wanted to play and be spoiled by others.
For Alex, he still couldn’t imagine a different world other than his own world. When he was summoned he couldn’t understand the situation. However the truth that he was summoned
couldn’t be denied.
In order to return to the former world, he must find the Demon Lord in Hortegram.
The Demon Lord is a black man wearing a black cloak, he read it in the literature. And for a while searching for the Demon Lord, continuously searching here and there, there nothing to be found,
He wanted to defeat the Demon Lord, but can’t find them anywhere. To journey to the vagus from summoned projecting part, Alex is bewildering. (Tran: What is vagus?)
[i think its my mistranslations, : 「召喚された出鼻から迷走する旅路に、アレックスは途方に暮れる。」 i don’t really understand]
Over the time, Alex grew in this world of Hortegram and learned the ways of a Hero to complete his mission, to become people’s hope and be called the one who defeats the demon. He fell in love with the Princess of the Kingdom. Since he was summoned, he was acquainted with the Princess. They grew up together, supported each other, and eventually he decided to marry the Princess. Alex became an adult, still searching the Demon Lord that was nowhere to be found. Alex was irritated and decided he will live in this world. Looking at his current age, it’s not possible to return to the former world.
And the Princess he loved, she harbored love for not him but his best friend, Zain. Knowing that he wanted to suicide.
On the terrace of the Demon Castle, there were two bodies rolling with their mouth open. How did this happen? Inside Alex’s head, the reality is replaying like echoes.
That day, no, that night, was the beginning. No, maybe before that. Before the marriage between Alex and Princess, a demon with wings suddenly appeared in front of the two of them. Although the appearance is different from literature, since the Princess cried out that demon was the Demon Lord, he immediately recognized it as the Demon Lord.
The Demon Lord kidnapped the Princess and flew to the
direction of the Demon Castle. To save the Princess, Alex gathered his comrades,
and finally came the fate to defeat the Demon Lord.
Inside the Demon Castle, a huge trap activated there, killing half of the soldiers and Zain. Nevertheless, after slaying a great number of demons, and reaching to the Demon Lord’s throne, he defeated the Demon Lord after a battle to the death. The wise man Noel and the great hero Forest became a shield for the young hero Alex, during the battle with Demon Lord, while enduring the Demon Lord’s poison.
The Demon Castle was half destroyed, everyone was annihilated except the hero. It shows how fierce the battle is.
On the verge of death the great Hero Forest said, it was not the Demon Lord, the Demon Lord is more powerful than this. It is too weak that it could take damage from an old man like himself. He thought, if in this world the Demon Lord is still alive, it must be someone else.
It was not a Demon Lord subjugation, but a fake Demon Lord subjugation. Alex survived for the wishes of warriors who have pa.s.sed away, then he searched for the Princess throughout the Demon Castle, but he could not find her anywhere. Alone, returning to the country without obtaining anything, only feel a sense of loss in the room in the castle. There was no Princess, there was no Demon Lord, and his comrades just became memories.
For the sake of defeating the Demon Lord, he was summoned. The appearance of the Demon Lord and his destiny to defeat the Demon Lord. That had made him relieved somewhere that he really was the hero.
The fact that he was the hero at Hortegram made him remember coming to this world from the previous world.
I was summoned to this world to defeat the Demon Lord――.
It became his support. The fundamental meaning for his existence. At last it was rewarded, that feeling is overflowing. Even so, he lost everything, he lost his friends.
He even lost his enemy the Demon Lord.
The days he couldn’t eat continues to pa.s.s. Then that night came, an accident happened.
It was a foggy night. The guards on watch were sleeping for some reason and no matter he did, they did not wake up,
It’s strange.
Not only the guards, but everyone within the castle are in deep sleep, only Alex is awake.
Alex ran around the castle. On the throne he witnessed an amazing sight. The place where the king supposed to sit originally, there was a figure looking exactly like the literature described.
A Black Man, the Demon Lord.
Feeling tense.
The Demon Lord floated and approached Alex. Why is the Demon Lord suddenly here? Is this the work of the Demon Lord? And is he the real Demon Lord?
There was so many to think, however Alex movement was reflexive, he slashed down the Demon Lord putting in it the anger with his whole body and whole life. The slashed demon crawls on the floor and spills blood. The black figure scatters like a fog, and the Demon Lord’s appearance changed to the figure of the king.
His majesty the King. It was not the Demon Lord but the king. The moment when that figure became exposed Alex was confused.
「What.. Are… You doing… Alex…」
「Wh…Why!? Your Majesty!? Just a second ago here was the Demon Lord 」
「Have you… lost your mind?… Was it you?! Who killed my daughter… And the great hero…」
What Alex saw was a hallucination.
He thought that the king was the Demon Lord and he slashed him. And the soldiers who woken up watch the king painted red with blood, mourned and emanate a shout like a scream.
Alex was surrounded. He was no longer a Hero and became a traitor who will shake the country.
Alex who was transported to the jail pa.s.sing the city, the people of the city threw rocks at him.
「Die..」
Abused by the people.
「You are the real Demon Lord!」
「You are the one who kidnap the Princess! 」
Since Alex survived alone from the Demon Lord castle, the people are starting to suspect that he was the Demon Lord.
All grudges inside the country was gathered at Alex, even though Alex was forcibly summoned to be the Hero.
It is convenient, there is no one who would protect him, as easy as returning the palm of the hand.
Demon, it is a Demon Lord,
Alex was the Demon Lord.
It is a Demon Lord.
So although the existence of the Demon Lord was sensed, but the Demon Lord was not found,
because he was the Demon Lord.
Demon!
Curse you Demon Lord!
It’s a Demon Lord!
Demon!
Demon!Demon!Demon!Demon!Demon!Demon!Demon!Demon!!!!!
Demon――――!!!
Inside the prison. Alex in the state of emptiness.
He got scared and slashed the king.
Why did he get confused?
It make no sense. Looks like I am dreaming a nightmare.
Rather, is it not a dream?
Everything. I’ve lost everything.
It was time.
When the time of execution approached,
the clone of the wise man Noel,
who fought together, appears before Alex.
Before the fight with Demon Lord, Noel use his magic to create a clone of himself for emergencies.
A semi-transparent shadow of Noel.
「Alex. The Golden Hero Alex. Are you tired from the battle?」
「Noel … …. I … … already … I do not know what’s going on … I lost my friends and slashed His Majesty and I could not find the Princess …. Please laugh. I am pathetic. To think I was deceived by an illusion of a Demon Lord who was not supposed to be there. 」
「Okay, but you made one mistake, the Princess is alive」
「… What…?」
「The Princess is alive, I was at the Demon’s Castle, I certainly felt the life force of the Princess. The Princess is surely still living alone in the Demon Lord Castle, otherwise I would not be willing to go to that filthy place」
「Noel … so then?」
「Go to the Demon’s castle. Go and see what is going on with this world. See the truth with your own eyes」
Noel’s clone is exhausted when the prison is opened, it disappears a little.
Alex got up and beat down the guard of the cabin.
In the store house which Alex found the Raster sword from Great Heroes Forest.
Alex took the Raster sword in his hand and escaped the country.
The guards who try to stop him were slashed one by one.
People threw stones, hit his head, shedding blood but still he headed to the castle gate without stopping.
How many people had he killed?
He had never even thought of killing people indiscriminately.
Strengthening his determination, there is no one who can stop Alex.
Alex used the technique of killing the Demon Lord which any hero can use, 「Garnish」, and destroy the castle gate with shockwaves of magical power expanding at the speed of sound.
The Kingdom Cavalry soldiers pursue Alex.
There were many familiar faces.
But, Alex took their lives with his blade as he ran towards Demon Castle single-mindedly.
Demon’s Castle. With wounds over his body, he arrived at Demon Castle at evening.
He investigated the throne room, the place where he defeat fake Demon Lord, thinking ‘the fake Demon Lord was here, maybe there’s something here.’
While examining the throne, the throne moves noisily, a terrace appearing on the back of the throne room.
It’s a hidden room.
‘I did not notice it before.’
Alex’s heart beat fast.
He step into the terrace.
It was a wide terrace, wide enough for him to run with full power.
And there wasーー.
「…..Princess」
The Princess whose dress flutters in the strong wind is looking at the outside scene from the terrace.
It’s night.
The moon almost hidden by clouds.
Demon Castle stood on a mountain.
A deep forest can be seen clearly from here.
He threw away everything to reach Demon Castle.
Filled with unexpected overflowing feelings.
There was no Demon, but a loved one was there.
One step distance between them.
The Princess talks without looking back.
「Alex, you came to help me」
「Yes」
「Why?」
「… ….」
「Why did you come to help?」
「Because I love you Princess … Princess … … I realized that I love you more than anything else since that time when you’re kidnapped, Princess Seiten」
That was a word from the bottom of his heart.
However, Seiten’s reply did not respond his feeling.
「If you do not speak like that, you can not keep yourself and the country, are not you?」 (ED: Weird sentence)
「……Ah?」
「You who make others’s efforts look like waste」
The Princess looks back.
「You who trample others’s efforts, are unfair in this country … You are unnecessary in this world … unnecessary.」
「What … … what are you talking about? Seiten」
「Zain has been leading you ever since」
「Zain?」
Zain. Suddenly Alex’s best friend’s name came out from Princess’s mouth.
「Zain would have been the best warrior in the country if you did not show up,
and I would have engaged and married to him, but you appeared and made Zain a stepping stone」
The Princess glaring while speaking.
Alex, as a Hero, has received a lot of protection from G.o.ddess.
He continued to reign at the top with most abilities.
He will be first in any field, as it is natural.
Trampling those who have continually aimed for the best with b.l.o.o.d.y effort.
It is unreasonable not to reward effort.
The perfect Alex is a symbol of unreasonableness.
「I should have known somewhere …」
「…… Se, Seiten」
「I should have died somewhere」
「What …」
「I wish I had died, I think so from the bottom of my heart, Alex Vlad」
Alex doubted his ears.
He feels a presence.
There someone behind him.
Turning around.
There was the magician, Zain, someone who led him according G.o.ddess’s oracle, his friend who missing because the trap of Demon’s Castle.
Alex was surprised.
「Zain, you alive ……! Where were you up to now?! No, everyone who were caught a trap with you are okay too!?」
Zain fearlessly laughs with his nose.
「fuu…The others are dead」
「Dead?」
「Common soldiers, I killed them all.」
「…… Zain?」
「Are you happy because I was alive? Alex. But I am not happy that you were not executed.」
「Wait a moment, since a while ago, neither Zain nor Seiten, I don’t understand what are you talking about …!」
「Fu..fuhahaha.. do you not understand yet? You blockhead, then how about if I say this? I did not think that you would easily get drawn into the illusion spell. Thank you for killing King who tore up the relationship between Princess and me, Alex..!」
「It can’t be.. that you…!」
「Demon Lord Alex….! For me the true Demon Lord was you! … You have change the lives of people!」
「Zain…! I am the true Demon Lord is it? I am not a Demon Lord!」
「Shut up! …. it’s always like this, every time every time.. you are always a nuisance!.. standing on me… why is a talented magician like me.. always number 2 in magic?! If you were not here.. I would be the best magician in the world…!! You always hinder me.. and the others who think the same as me.. 」
「I was.. a hindrance?」
「That’s right!..you are always getting in my way..
Demon Lord subjugation? Ha! Where is the Demon Lord anyway?! There was none! However why did you come to this world?! Haaaa?! Heeeey Hero-sama! Hero-sama here, Hero-sama there. A Savior! The Chosen one! You the one who ruined our lives are a Hindrance!! Aleeeex!!!」
Hatred and cry filled with magical power.
*Piri piri[TL Note: Like sound effect of electricity]
Distorting the air.
Alex just silent and processing his thought while looking at Zain.
「Zain …. The fact you supported me from the shadows until now, … was a lie?」
「It’s not a lie. I have seriously supported you! The faster you subjugated the Demon Lord, the faster you return to your world, and go to h.e.l.l! Alex.. that why I supported you!」
「Such a thing…. 」
「That’s it! That’s the face! That’s the face I wanted to see!! Even if any suffering happened, you always make a calm face!! Always.. always.. from the time we were kids.. since you were called to this world.. with your proud face, brainwashing His Majesty!!! Even taking away the princess from me…!! Beside you are abandoned by the G.o.ddess! Even now, the G.o.ddess is being disturbed by the power of the Demon and will never reach to you! With no sign of the Demon Lord doing anything, and not appearing at all!! Your existence as Hero IS UNNECESSARY you know!! 」
「 That’s…!」
「However, you b.a.s.t.a.r.d, who do you think you are with that Hero face. You’are stepping at other people’s feelings and lives you know that?! How long you’re going to look like baby!! Just when you’re in trouble always coming to my side! How much more you’re going to destroy my life until you satisfied?! Haaa?! Just because you are a hero so all of your actions are forgiven ha?!! 」
「You’re wrong.. I did not depend on you for that purpose..! 」
「Right now, I am not the number 2 anymore.. Today… I will surpa.s.s you.. and become the best in the world..」
Zain froze the nearby ground with his magic.
The terrace is covered with ice.
The temperature fell to zero.
Zein shoutec again.
「This my hidden ultimate magic!! The ultimate magic, everything I touch will freeze at my will!」
Magic that instantly freezes surroundings.
On the verge of being immersed in ice.
Alex placed his palm towards his feet and blew out a blaze.
While burning his body with flames, he expanded the flame many times causing the ice to evaporate.
As he approached Zain, he moved his blade to Zain’s neck.
And pulled it sideways.
A cut blushes vivid blood from the neck of Zain.
Alex releases the swinging blade to the backward Zain.
Zain was sharply cut on his throat.
The magic ice starts melting.
Zain slowly falls on his back.
「Alex… an instanteneous self-damaging decision.. thrusting in… you.. how far do you surpa.s.s my power..?」
Alex was burnt all over his body with his own magic.
Originally because the G.o.ddess’s protection, the wound would not be severe.
But now the protection has expired.
It has been a long time since the protection ended.
And Alex today is hardly a Hero, an ordinary “strong man”.
While out of breath, he shook his head.
「Why…
why did this happen..
Zain…」
Alex ‘s eyes were looking at his friend.
Zain thought to curse Alex, magical words that are not magical.
「Alex, I thought you were my best friend … ….」
The word pierce deeply into Alex ‘s chest.
It is not a sharp knife but a kind of spear like a spear that was made by folding paper, forcibly pushing through the heart by force.
Soon after, light disappeared from Zain’s eyes.
Zain breathed his last breath by Alex ‘s Raster sword.
Alex is trembling.
He heard the Princess’s voice.
「This is your true form, your nature, the evil you have imposed on this world」
Alex looked back.
Princess Seiten gazed at the corpse of Zain in pain.
「Zain… why.. you are the one who trying the hardest.. to meet fate like this? … Why did the G.o.ddess called Demon Lord Alex to this world?…」
「….Seiten」
「Stay away!!」
The Princess took out the small knife hidden in her bosom and held it to her neck.
That smile of the Princess who had been with Alex was an illusion.
Happiness to the present was false.
The peaceful life was a lie.
Alex ‘s chest was badly damaged to the throat.
「Alex! You have messed up our lives! Why are you a Hero !? How is an evil like you a Hero !?」
「… ….」
「Oh, Zain, I will also go with you」
Princess Seiten pierced the knife against her neck.
Walking towards Alex, tottering to Alex’s shoulder.
「I love you」
Pa.s.s Alex, as it is, and falling on top of Zain.
While kissing him and died.
Alex who dropped the Raster sword.
The dry metal sound of the Raster sword reverberates loudly.
Alex does not move.
Immobile.
A damp wind pa.s.ses through his body.
It feels like time has stopped.
Can’t understand what is going on.
Bitter.
It was just faint.
Painful.
And sad.
He was silent for a long time.
「And the truth is.. the Demon Lord has never existed in the first place」
The Demon Lord has never existed in the first place.
On the terrace of the Demon’s castle,
Golden Hero Alex at the knees and muttered looking at the two bodies.
The sight of the princess that was kidnapped by the demon,
Alex’s best friend Zain who lost his breath.
A tremendous amount of blood of Princess and Zain was flowing under Alex ‘s feet.
It is the end.
Alex cursed.
His life.
He cursed his life that everything was a failure.
For what purpose had he fought for nearly 15 years?
Even though he was separated with his father and mother from a young age,
He searched for the Demon Lord, as the G.o.ddess said, and strove to be a Hero in response to the public’s expectations.
He worked harder than anyone else.
He tried harder than the world’s top cla.s.ses like Zain.
Since there was an obsession that it is natural as a Hero.
He tried not to put it out to the mouth.
And thought not to compare.
But that was his pride.
Therefore, he got stronger.
That’s why he overwhelmed the world’s most powerful wizard.
Even though there was no more protection from the G.o.ddess.
Therefore, he was at the top in various fields.
So, although he did not receive her protection.
He was strong enough to be called a Hero.
Conversely, he had made a terrible amount of effort to be strong enough to be called a Hero.
He had undoubtedly a gift of unremitting effort beyond human knowledge.
He who continued to be a Hero since he came to this place is now called a Demon Lord.
Separately,
he was the Hero not because he want to be.
He only did because he could not go back to the original world unless he did it.
Time had already pa.s.sed.
His parents may not be alive even when he returns to the original world.
Even if he returns home, there are no other than relatives such as those who know about him.
Perhaps even his relatives may have forgotten about him.
This world Hortegram was like his second hometown.
He felt like he was being a well-treated prisoner.
Still, he made important friends in Hortegram.
He loved someone.
He was trying to stay humble as a Hero.
He was standing behaving in such a way that everyone could see it as impressive.
There was nothing to insult.
A perfect Hero.
The figure who did not get crushed by the pressure of expectations and continued to respond without escaping.
Nevertheless,
「Why.. this is happening to me…」
What is left in his ears is the voices of the people in the city who were expecting and supporting him.
Voices that turned to voices of grudge by the palm of his hand.
Those whom he had worked hard and ate the same rice with were now pursuing him.
The person whom he loved like his own father, the King.
He misunderstood him as a Demon in Zain’s illusion spell.
He killed and abandoned his precious friends.
Labelled as Demon Lord.
Doing something he can’t redo.
Even the G.o.ddess forsaken him.
「If you wanted a play with a Hero… don’t involve me.. I wish you had chosen someone among the people of your own world.. even I.. I want to go home… I want to go home!!!」
What is real unreasonableness?
The beginning from all this was that event.
When a child was holding hand with his parents and playing at the park.
Without advance warning he was summoned to another world.
Alex looks at the sky.
The thoughts he never spit it out, overflow.
[TLN : Alex Pov i think]
Aren’t I the biggest victim that my life is destroyed?
Isn’t it because the G.o.ddess fault?
Where is the Demon Lord?
Where did the Demon Lord go?
There was no meaning that I was called.
I was fooled.
I was deceived in the first place.
Even if I was not being deceived,
there is no doubt that the plan went awry somewhere.
Yes, it is from the time when the revelation from the G.o.ddess could no longer be heard.
Since that time,
the means of contact with the G.o.ddess was gone.
There were disturbances of magical power.
Even so, those who are religious said that it was because of a disturbance from the Demon Lord that the connection between G.o.ddess and I disconnected.
That’s why, as for the G.o.ddess, leaving me without doing anything for 8 years. no matter what, it would be irresponsible.
It was okay to send another Hero to this Hortegram
I wish it was okay for me to do that much.
To tell the truth,
I have not been protected for a long time.
There is nothing to be a Hero.
The mediocre person who was brought to an unknown place for fighting an invisible enemy and kept fighting by himself endlessly.
It is the failed story of a Hero.
It began to rain.
Like speaking for Alex’s feelings.
Standing on the brunt as a brave person for this world Hortegram.
Alex who has devoted everything to protect the people laughs.
「ha..haha…hahahahaha」
Hahahaha, dry laughter is raised.
He laughed out loud.
It is not funny.
Nothing is funny,
but laughter came out because it was too c.r.a.ppy.
Are the drops flowing on my cheeks tears or rain?
Alex himself did not understand.
The only thing he can understand is that his intuition when he was young was right.
I may not be able to return to my original world.
I may not be able to see my parents again.
I always felt like that.
The existence of gentle and loving parents who he remembered as a child were sufficient as a reason for returning to my original world.
I have to kill the Demon quickly.
I want to see my parents.
To show that I was fine, I wanted to tell my parents that I was alive, that I came back.
The wish was supposed to be sealed with the flow of time.
But when he know that his life in Hortegram is an illusion, the seal was unraveled.
That nostalgic world will never come back again.
「What is this …… for something this ridiculous I was being fought against」
When.. was I asked if I want to be Hero!! ..
When did I.. wish to be a Hero?!!..
Living until now.. not even once.. not once.. I never wished for that!!
I never ever wish for it even once.
Conversely.. I denied it!!
I am not the vessel of a hero..
I can’t be a hero..
Its painful..
If I become hero for that..
I should just be the one who is saying that.. !
What the heck..
Demon Lord…
What is a G.o.ddess?
What is a person?
What is a demon?
What is salvation?
What is hope?
What is Hero?
It is c.r.a.p.
It’s c.r.a.p!
It’s all c.r.a.p!
Aah!?
If you ask what is it silly about it?
I would say..
「Everything!!!」
Alex who let out his anger. The tremendousness of that spirit scatters *Piri piri[TLN: Piri Piri~] and noise appeared in the s.p.a.ce around him. Alex tells the world with views from the terrace.
「I am the Demon Lord?! .. You say I am the Demon Lord?.. That’s right.. You b.a.s.t.a.r.ds say that when things are convenient for you to blame the Demon Lord, as I am the connection and I am the demon.. you fear me so!!!」
Oh, I see! It is!
Ah, I see I see! It is! It is!
Really! It is!
Were you expecting such a results!
It will be good! It is!
It will be good, human beings! It is! It is!
Let’s do it well! It is! It is!
If you want it, I will become a demon king! I will! I will!
Hey G.o.ddess!
If you want to find such a Demon Lord so much!
「I will become the Demon Lord. The Hero..!! This world’s G.o.d, I will Slaughter you all!!!」