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Ryu had participated in the raid—they agreed to leave Ryu behind—with the intention of killing all the adventurers.
But…..
Ryu thought he couldn’t forgive him for cutting down and almost killed him, but what Jorma told him was an “emergency situation” stuck with him. When he calmed down, he remembered that the “selection of lives” had existed on Earth in his previous life.
Triage. In the field of emergency medical care, it is necessary to select whom to treat first. If it is not possible to save everyone, it is inevitable.
Also, in an emergency situation, the legal interpretation on earth would have been that if you killed someone and survived yourself, the person who survived would not be charged with murder. (Plank of Carneades).
However, it is not the same as tricking people into taking them “for the sake of it” from the beginning.
Even triage only determines the order of treatment, it does not kill someone on the spot and use him or her as a material for treatment.
If a decision is made to sacrifice someone to survive, the commander should take responsibility for the decision later.
It would be wrong for a human being to take no responsibility, to have no regard for those he sacrificed, to proudly boast that he did the right thing, and to have no remorse in his heart.
Ryu asked Goji.
[How many people, besides me, have you thrown away in the past?]
Goji said nothing, but when he saw Ryu make a gesture of holding his hand in the air, he hurried to answer.
Goji [Thr……three, no, four, no, three.]
Ryu [Which is it?]
Goji [There are four !]
Ryu [Only four? Isn’t there really more?]
Ryu makes a gesture of holding the air.
Goji [Eek, five, there could have been five people !]
Ryu [Hmm, five people……I can’t let you live, after all…..]
Goji [Eek ! ! I don’t want to die ! Please forgive me, I’m sorry…!]
In the end, Ryu stopped trying to kill Goji.
Death is not annihilation.
There is an afterlife and reincarnation.
Ryu knew this from his own experience.
There is the next world. Once he realizes this, death is no longer such a serious punishment.
If you let someone die easily, you are just making it easier for them. If you really hate the person, you will not feel better if you make it easy for them.
Ryu decided to let Goji live on condition.
Ryu had three conditions.
First, he would find the families of the adventurers he had killed and left for dead and sincerely apologize to them.
Second, never again do anything that would allow him to survive by killing someone.
Third, from now on, as a senior adventurer, he must protect and guide the newcomers.
[If a newcomer’s life is in danger, you will lay down your life to protect him or her. Can you swear to that?]
[Yes…..I swear……]
[If I find out that you broke your promise, you will taste [punishment] again, got it? This time a hundred times more !]
[Eeek…..I swear…….]
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Two hours later, Ryuujin returned to the guild again.
Goji came in a little late, his face pale and his steps weak.
Leila talks to Ryu.
Leila [Are you all right?]
Ryu [Everything is fine.]
Goji staggered toward the bar and went to his waiting companions, Sanji and Yoji, who were partnered with Goji.
Sanji [Hey Goji, what’s up?]
Goji looked pale and didn’t speak. With a frightened expression on his face, he doesn’t even look at Ryu.
Yoji [What the hell did you do to Goji !?]
Ryu [……Who knows?]
Yoji [Bastard !]
Yoji grabs onto Ryu.
Ryu [Hmm, I have to thank you guys too, I guess?]
Yoji and the others understand that [thank you] does not mean what it says.
Neither Sanji nor Yoji remember having done anything kind to Ryu. On the contrary, they have treated him harshly. They also assaulted Ryu with Goji.
They were the adventurers who left Ryu for dead and ran away during the raid the other day.
Ryu grabs Yoji’s wrist, which is clutching his chest, and puts his strength into it.
[It hurts ! Let go of me !]
The force that Ryu applies is not enough to shatter his wrist, but he tightens it up just enough to almost shatter it. Yoji is unable to move due to the pain.
[What’s wrong, Yoji?]
Sanji rushes over to him.
Ryu [I’d like to have a long ‘talk’ somewhere out of the way, but I’m busy today, can we talk another day?]
When Ryu glanced at Goji, Goji rushed over and started to stop them.
Sanji and Yoji [What’s the matter, Goji?]
Goji [Just come !]
Goji grabbed Sanji and Yoji and dragged them out.
Of course, Ryu had both Sanji and Yoji reflect just as sternly as Goji later on.
Goji’s party, “Afternoon Wind,” kept the promise that they made with Ryu, and set off on an apology trip to the families of the adventurers they had killed in the past by abandoning them. (The adventurers who had been cast away had been chosen because they were from outside the city.)
When they visited the bereaved families and apologized for having left them to die, some were angry, but many were prepared to take risks when they became adventurers, and many forgave them for what they had done.
Sanji and Yoji decided to stay and help the bereaved families who were struggling with the loss of their workers. As it was, the three decided to live in another town, and the party was disbanded.
Goji also helped a new adventurer in a town near a certain dungeon, and he remained there to mentor the junior adventurer. Goji kept his promise to Ryu and continued to take care of the junior adventurers.
Surprisingly, his talent as a mentor blossomed, and he later trained many of the newcomers to become full-fledged adventurers.
Fifteen years later, in a dungeon, Goji died as a sacrifice to protect the new adventurers.
After that, adventurers who were raised by Goji came to talk about him as the legendary S-class instructor Goji, but…
But that is for another story.
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