Episode 4 – Mistakes made and suffered by Hero

“You Idiot!”

“Gyafun!”

The king, Arlos, struck the hero, Alta, at the encounter.

Alta screamed and slid on the red carpet.

The surrounding entourage, their eyes widening at the shocking picture, whispered unimportant things, ” First time I’ve seen Gyafun…….”

In the audience chamber of the castle of King Grateka in the Holy Land.

It was good until the hero Alta, who was said to have defeated the demon king Galvoron, returned triumphantly.

Immediately after the audience, however, Arlos, the king and Alta’s father, became furious and punched him in the face.

Alta looked up at his father’s face, holding his swollen cheek, which was bleeding from his nose and mouth.

The king is a young man with white hair and a fine white beard. But his large, youthful body is full of life.

“Papa! No, Your Majesty! What are you doing out of the blue? Have you lost your mind towards your hero son? You’re mad!”

“You are the one who has lost his mind, Altaa! I have heard the story from the king of the Kingdom of Woana and the Pope of the Temple of Mersana! I heard that despite being a hero, you had a substitute fight for you in your mission to defeat the Demon King! Is that right?!”

The Kingdom of Woana is the homeland of Princess Knight Karina, one of the fiancées, and the Temple of Mersana is the great temple that symbolizes the Holy Land of Grateka. Also one of the betrothed, Saint Fiala, was the Pope’s beloved daughter.

“Guh, guh …… (Those women, they tipped off their parents!)”

“The same complaint was also received from the spirit king of the elf tribe and the great sage Magus! And they all slammed the engagement breaker on me! They are so heartbroken that they won’t be able to return to their hometowns for a while! All because of what you did!”

“Dad, it’s not true! They’ve given up on me and are just out looking for a fake!”

“I don’t give a shit! you idiot!!!”

“Kyaaaiiii!!”

King Arlos stomped mercilessly and repeatedly on the face of his son Alta, who was crying like a wild dog.

The sanctions seemed excessive, but his entourage stood by and no one tried to stop him.

“Ouch, ouch! Papa, you’re going too far! It’s true that I hired a “fake” for fun But is that a bad thing? Did I cause trouble for anyone? I’m sure I killed the Demon King in the end, so the result was all right! Are you that afraid of the media and people’s rumors?!”

At Alta’s appeal, King Arlos’s legs stopped.

“…… Alta. You don’t seem to understand anything. …… I didn’t realize you were this stupid. I have spoiled you too much, it seems. Sweeter than a sugar candy.”

The king’s tone turns cold, and he turns his back on Alta, approaching the throne with slow steps and quietly sitting down.

“Papa?”

“Hero …… no, Alta von Euken. You are stripped of your heroic status as of this day and excluded from royalty. In other words, you are disinherited.”

“P-papa! No, Your Majesty, that’s too much! If I’m disowned, how will I, or I, live?!”

“I don’t know. You can live your life as you like. …… In the meantime, I’ll at least give you a retirement allowance. Hurry up and go, shh, shh!”

“Oh, no, Your Majesty,…… wait a minute! Let go of me! Let go of me! No, Papa!!!”

Alta was held by both sides by the Kingsguard and dragged out of the audience hall with both legs dragging.

The door slammed shut.

The moment the door is slammed shut, groans and sighs leak out from the surroundings.

“Phew…..I’m sorry, …… guys. My stupid son is ……”

“No, Your Majesty. I know it must be hard for you, but I think you made the right decision.”

“Now our country will no longer bear the brunt of that organization.”

“I agree. If Prince Alta continues to stay here, …… the entire city of Gratica will become a target.”

“The Hades assassination organization is a guild of assassins that controls the underworld of the continent,……. It’s not something a single country can compete with.”

King Arlos nodded gravely at the words of his aides.

“Ummm …… that is more serious than the dissolution of the engagement of the princesses. The fact that he has entered an area that he should not have entered, even though he did not know it, because of his own desires is …… clearly a mismanagement on Alta’s part. If it was just myself, I wouldn’t have put the entire country at risk.”

As expected, the opponent is too bad. No matter how much he may be his son, he can’t be a protector of his son.

That’s what everyone was trying to say.

“…… father.”

A beautiful woman appears from the back room.

She is a beautiful woman in a gorgeous dress with slender golden hair.

She is the first princess and Alta’s sister, Eliza von Joucain.

“Where is the queen?”

“She’s in the back room, crying her eyes out. …… Mother loved Alta the most.”

“I see. But I no longer have a son. You know why?”

“Yes, it’s his own fault. I will talk to her myself.”

“Well, Eliza. Yes, it’s his fault. I am only thankful that my daughter is alive and well.”

“No, ……, so, father, what shall we do now?”

“I abdicate as king. I am abdicating from the throne to apologize for my mishandling of the situation,…… which will be more acceptable to the relatives of those who are engaged to him.”

For the sake of future diplomacy, you cannot be disrespectful to other nations and races.

And as long as they called themselves a holy nation, they needed to maintain face with the Temple of the Holy Mother of Goddess Mersana and the Great Sage Magus, who is regarded as a hero.

King Arlos continued.

“Eliza. The next king will be your husband, Lotakka. He is the adopted son-in-law of a barbarian nation, fat as a pig, but petty and harmless. If you, a wise woman, advise and support him as his wife, Grateka will be safe and sound.”

“Of course, father.”

“I will take full responsibility and retire with my wife to the temple. I will curl my head, shave off my beard, and pray daily to the Virgin Mersana …… for the prosperity of this country and as penance for spoiling my foolish son.”

“Father, …… you are wretched.”

As King Arlos sagged in disappointment, Princess Eliza held her mouth and wept.

However, no one noticed at the time that the princess’s lips were strangely lifted in a cunning smile.

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Having taken care of the mysterious assassin who was stalking a young girl in the Kingdom of Woana, I was washing my bloodstained hands in the fountain square.

“……I’m starving. I need to find a job as soon as possible.”

But I don’t know what to do.

I’ve been doing nothing but assassin work for so long.

What else could I do?

The quickest way is to become an adventurer.

But that would require registering with the Adventurer’s Guild.

Not good. …… can easily be traced back to me.

Particularly with organizations. Some of them are posing as adventurers.

They’re probably out there right now trying to find me, the traitor, and kill me.

If that’s the case, the best job for me would be a general job that changes daily. …… Hmmm~…I wonder where I can get hired.

I’m endlessly wondering while enduring hunger.

No good. Even though I’ve just become free. ……

Gugyuuuu.

“—onii chan, are you hungry?”

I suddenly hear a high-pitched voice from behind me.

I turn around and see the girl with pigtails standing there, the one I helped earlier.

Her shoulder-length black hair is tied in two small knots behind her ears.

She is a somewhat petite girl with a cute face and big, bright eyes full of energy.

“Who are you?”

“Hina Shiranui. And you?”

“…… Seti. I don’t have a first name.”

“I see, Seti onii chan. Hey, are you hungry?”

I wonder what it is, you’ve been asking me that for a while now.

“Why do you keep asking me that?”

“Because your stomach has been growling for a while now. If you’re hungry, why don’t you come over to my place?”

“Eh?”

“We’re a lunch shop. We are a mobile wagon specializing in street vendors. My father and I travel around the world.”

A mobile wagon lunch shop that travels around the world? I have never heard of it.

Well, more than that

“Unfortunately, I don’t have any money, so I’m trying to find a job somewhere …….”

“Then come to my house. If you help me out, we’ll give you free meals.”

“Eh, really?”

“Yeah, let’s go, okay?”

“Yeah, okay.”

I nodded, and Hina gave me a big smile and held my freshly washed cold hand in hers.

The warmth of her small but very warm hand strangely soothes my heart.

I had a feeling that something good was waiting for me.

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