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Sol followed him into a dark, unlit hallway. Sol called out to Odie as he walked alone down the corridor.
“Um, Odie san!”
Odie turned around quietly at Sol’s call.
“You are ……. Oh, you were with Carla……”
The moment Odie said that, he turned his eyes away from Sol. Odie doesn’t hide his expression of disgust towards Sol, a stranger in red, and Sol becomes worried about whether he should go any further.
He was the only one who knew the original work, and he had been able to make some changes to it. So, there was a hope that if he acted in a way that was not in the original, he would be able to do so.
Sol took a small breath.
“Well, um, Carla has always said that you were her rival, and she’s been looking forward to fighting you …….”
“I’m not a rival.”
Odie said coldly to Sol’s words, which he desperately chose. Odie laughs as if he despises himself.
“I don’t know what kind of overestimation of me you are getting from Carla, but I’m much weaker than Carla and can’t do anything. In fact, the fact that Carla was recommended to defeat the Demon King and not me is proof of that. Dad ……, even my mentor, praised Carla all the time.”
What was oozing out of Odie was an inferiority complex towards carla. And Sol didn’t have the means to deny it.
It was true that when he had been here before, Carla had fought with Odie and Miter at Carla’s request. That was with the original event, and of course Carla won hands down.
In any game, the natural storyline was to win the rivalry and move on. So Sol himself had no doubts about that. But in the real world, the two of them would certainly be too distorted to be rivals.
“But for Carla, it was because of Odie that she was able to become strong. ……”
“That’s not true! Carla was called a genius by many people, including her master! She was able to become strong even without me! No matter how hard I worked to become stronger, she would soon surpass me!”
Sol managed to spin, and Odie exclaimed
“You’re Carla’s friend, so you’re strong, aren’t you!? Do you understand how I feel about being compared to someone like that for so long?”
“No, you don’t. ……”
“Don’t you ever say anything that’s a pretty word of consolation! I’m tired of hearing such words! I’m tired of hearing that I have my own way or that it’s wrong to compare myself to someone else! Everyone says that’s how I grew up, but you’re just trying to find something to say to make yourself feel better! It’s miserable to be below someone else all the time! Even if you fight, you will lose! Who would want to be in such a miserable competition?!”
Sol could not say anything at Odie’s words. He knew exactly how Odie felt.
In a previous life, when he was a superior student, his parents often compared him to his older brother, Akira. He was a better student and athlete than Yuto, and more importantly, he had more friends. He was compared to his older brother many times by his parents. He gave up and gave up on the idea that he could live with that.
There was no other way. He had to give up in order to maintain his peace of mind. But somewhere in Odie, he still had not given up. He wanted to beat Carla.
He stared at Sol, who said nothing.
“I know you are traveling again. Please leave as soon as you’re done.
Every time the children praise Carla as a hero, I feel miserable because I am an ordinary person. Please hurry up and return me to my daily life without Carla.”
And then he heard a clatter behind him. He turned around to see Carla looking at Odie, upset.
“Why?”
Carla said in a trembling voice.
“Odie has always been a rival of mine, and today, I wanted you to see how much stronger I’ve become. ……”
“You just want people to see you, don’t you? Carla doesn’t want me to win.
because to everyone, she’s the obvious winner.”
With that, Odie spun around and turned away.
“I’ve never thought of Carla as a competitor!”
That was the line that Carla said in “Lian’s” when Odie hated her. The original Carla had convinced herself that it was the effect of the miasma, but the truth was different.
But in fact, it was not. Just as the power of the bond overcame the effects of the miasma, perhaps Odie’s rejection of Carla was because he had originally harbored such feelings.
As it was, Odie left. Carla trembled and cowered as she watched Odie.
Sol gently reached out a hand to her back.
“Carla ……”
“Why, I just wanted to have fun fighting with Odie. ……”
She clutched at Sol’s clothes, tears streaming down her face.
“I wanted to protect the village with Odie, so I practiced a lot and became stronger. The reason I took up the journey to subjugate the Demon King was because I wanted to protect this town…But I wonder if the reason I became stronger was because I was making Odie suffer…?”
I know. The truth is that Carla is not a genius. In order to become stronger, she trained without hesitation, even taking a break. Sol didn’t just know the setting, he knew it by actually seeing it.
I bet Odie doesn’t know that. Carla hides the hard work part at first because she thinks it’s cooler that way. But as the story progresses, you see the hard work, and you grow to love the character of Carla.
Oh, if only Odie knew about Carla’s efforts.
Odie was supposed to be more than a rival to Carla. So Sol wanted them to at least be able to talk normally somehow, even if they couldn’t be rivals.
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