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Afterwards, when I had calmed down, I asked Estelle what had happened.

Estelle chewed and swallowed the herbs she received from me, and her wounds healed and she was able to move. She was also able to feed Atria and Maybella the remaining herbs.

But I was unconscious and couldn’t be fed, and Estelle and Atria, who could use recovery magic, had consumed all their magic power, so they had no way to heal me.

They said it was very hard to carry me, a man, out of the ruins.

They took turns carrying me on their backs and encountered demons on the way back, so it took more than half a day to get back to Teramitia, the nearest town to here.

When they rushed into town, they took me straight into a church and had a monk cast a recovery spell on me. Thanks to that, I survived, and although it took me a month, I was able to wake up.

The place where I am now is an inn that Estelle and the others took for me.

I heard that they paid the fee, but I will return it later. I’ve done nothing but level up, so I have a lot of money.

“Ouch …….”

“Castor sama?! Are you alright!”

The wounds on my back didn’t heal all the way even with recovery magic.

I don’t know if there is some kind of power peculiar to the demons, but it seems that there is something that even the original story doesn’t know about.

The wounds are gradually healing, but the burn marks on my back are horrendous and when I saw them in the mirror I thought I was going to throw up because they were so grotesque.

Estelle has always been worried about me like that.

I’m so happy that my favourite character is taking care of me like this.

Speaking of which, I’ve always been curious about Estelle calling me ’sama’.

I am now twenty-two years old, and Estelle is twenty-two years old too, so we must be the same age. I wonder if Estelle doesn’t care.

“Thank you. I’m only a little sore still, so I’m fine.”

“Yea …… still …….
That scar was made by protecting me …… so …….”

“Just the fact that Estelle is doing well like this is a source of energy for me.
So don’t look at me like that.”

“Castor sama…….”

Only two hours have passed since I woke up, but when I feel pain like this, Estelle is seriously worried about me every time.

“I brought you breakfast!”

Then, Maybella, a martial artist, and Atria, a magician, cheerfully entered the room. They seem to have anticipated that I was hungry and brought it for me.

Maybella is dressed in revealing, rather bandit-like clothing and has short red hair down to her chin.

Atria, on the other hand, looks like a wizard, wearing a large triangular hat and keeping her long, beautiful, light blue hair in the hat.

She placed a whole tray of rice brought on the small table next to the bed.

“Castor sama……, I’ll …….”

“W-why! I can at least eat rice by myself—”

“No, you can’t! Castor-sama, I will take care of you until your wounds heal!”

“No,…… I know how you feel, but I’m embarrassed,……”

“Araa …… I can’t believe you’re as shy for me……”

Does Estelle not realise how beautiful she is?

She’s this beautiful, and yet she’s ……to a mob-faced swordsman like me.

“Then …… please …….”

“Thanks, I’m happy!”

It’s not a master-servant relationship. ……

Then Estelle put a spoon in the risotto-like rice and took it and brought it to my mouth.

“Aahnn”

“Amu…….”

Wow …… sinking into my body. …… I don’t remember rice tasting this good.

But still, I know I’ve been nursed for the past month, but what have I been doing with my drinking and eating and defecating?

“Is it good?”

“Yes, very tasty.”

“Fufufu. Thank you.”

When I say that, Estelle smiles happily.

Her smile is so cute. Estelle was never seen smiling in the game. That’s why this smiling scene is not in the original.

“Even though Estelle didn’t make it~”

“Fufu, that’s good. Estelle looks so happy.”

In the rear, Atria and Maybella were looking at Estelle with a smiling face.

Ah, this is what happiness means…, I thought to myself as I chewed my food.

◇ ◇ ◇

When Estelle cleaned up and went to take the food down.

The remaining Atria and Maybella had to talk to me.

After I woke up, I had been talking only with Estelle for a while, so I wanted to have a conversation with them too.

“Castor-san. Thank you so much. If you hadn’t helped us at that time, we wouldn’t be alive and well like this.”

“Yeah. I am the same way.Thank you again, Castor.”

Maybella was a tomboy?! It’s true that she didn’t seem to have nearly as many lines, but she had short hair, which suited her, …….

I can’t say I helped Estelle, my favourite character, along the way, but I’m relieved to see them both in good spirits, no longer on the slave route

“You’re welcome. By the way, how did you know my name? I’m pretty sure I never told you my name.”

“We know your identity in a month. Besides, I took the liberty of looking through your luggage, and I saw your Guild ID card.”

“I see. …… Well”

Then Maybella stiffened up a little and started fidgeting.

“Even if it’s not as much as Estelle. It’s hard to understand, but I’m really grateful too, okay? The feeling of despair at that time… I thought it was over… So, there’s nothing I can do. Tell me anything, okay?”

“I feel the same way as Maybella. I’ll do whatever I can…I’ll also cast a spell on you every day to help your wounds heal faster.”

“Haha,…… you’re too good for me. …… but thank you both—“

Indeed, Estelle seemed particularly grateful to me. That is probably because I took a stand and protected Estelle from the last Tejato’s magic. That is the only thing that makes her different from the other two.

“- Ah~! What are you two talking to Castor-sama! I hope you didn’t do anything weird while I was gone!”

“Don’t be rude to others! we were just having a conversation…right, Castor?”

“Maybella! You called him Castor!?”

“No, ……, you can call me whatever you like.”

“No, you can’t! you’re Castor-sama, you’re Castor-sama!”

“It’s so annoying …….”

“Maybella?!”

This was exactly the kind of exchange that did not exist in the original.

In the game, these three were supposed to be a very close party. The background of their hometowns and so on is almost unknown, but I never thought that they were friends who could talk to each other like this.

Even though they were quarrelling, this was probably something that happened all the time. The exchange seemed to have that kind of atmosphere.

“–Umm!”

“Hnn?”

Then Atria spoke up loudly, although I don’t know if it was to stop Estelle and Maybella fighting.

“I, I’ve always wondered. So I’ve been meaning to ask you something when Castor-san wakes up.”

“What is it? I’ll answer whatever I can answer.”

Atria said, ‘Yes,’ and then broached the question.

“I think Castor-san is almost the same age as us. And yet, he was powerful enough to defeat the Four Kings of the Demon King’s Army. And I also think that if we weren’t there, he would have been able to fight even harder. ……”

It was a serious story. But for Atria, this story must be important.

“We don’t have such important goals as heroes, like trying to defeat the Demon King. But when I saw Castor san, I thought. How did he become so strong at such a young age?—”

Atria turned her amber eyes straight at me and asked me the secret of my strength with a serious expression.

To be honest, the level-up I did is a cheat method.

Since I knew what kind of demons appeared where, I only had to deal with those demons that would give me more experience.

But. If this method becomes widespread, something bad might happen.

The game doesn’t know how demons rise in level. But what if we are defeating demons in the same way as humans? Wouldn’t the demon tribe become stronger – and more powerful?

“…… Please don’t tell this story to anyone. If it is leaked to the demon tribe side, that will lead to the destruction of the world. …… okay?”

My words made everyone tense. They looked at each other and nodded at the same time.

“I-I would never betray Castor-sama. I don’t want to cause that kind of trouble again. That’s why I want to hear your secret too. ……!”

I can’t help it if even my favourite character, Estelle, says this to me. ……

Bracing myself, I decided to explain.

How was I able to reach this realm in the fastest way

◇ ◇ ◇

Young Castor was born in Hakrabi, a remote village in the middle of the eastern continent on the world map.

This world is divided into two large continents on either side, which can be reached by ship via the southern port town. However, this is only the shortest distance, and there are several boats from other port towns facing the sea, so it is possible to travel to the opposite continent, although it takes longer.

And in the centre is a vast ocean, dotted with floating island nations. Somewhere in the middle is a place where the demons are said to live, but at this point in time no human has been able to reach the place.

 
The village of Hakrabi, located to the east, is a prosperous dairy farming village, and Castor was born in the village, the child of a farmer. He lived with his parents and gradually grew up to become a swordsman belonging to the vigilante group that guarded the town.

Then one day.

Suddenly, Castor’s personality changed, as if someone’s soul had danced into Castor and taken away his consciousness.

However, even though Castor’s personality changed, as if by some forced force, his parents and the villagers did not question Castor’s change.

Castol left the group and set out on a journey. He only told them the purpose of his journey was ‘to help someone’, thanked his parents in his own way, bowed his head and then left the village.

Originally, the heroic group encounters him in a village in the middle of the story. There, the character accompanies them for a bit to lead them to a certain place, but now that he has left the group and started his journey, it is up to Castor to decide whether or not they will meet in the future.

Originally a swordsman, Castor was about level 10.

Weak demons were not his enemies and he did not die easily.

So he headed south from the village of Hakrabi and reached the nearest town, a place called the city of Mincal. He registered as an adventurer with the Adventurers’ Guild in the town so that he could sell the demons he hunted as materials.

Castor went to a cave near the town of Mincar.

It was a cave known to all adventurers staying in Mincal. There were no treasure chests or items to be picked up, and no adventurers would head for that place.

However, Castor went alone to the place.

He went deep into the cave, walked around, and found a small space.

What appeared there was a metal-like sphere-shaped demon called a ‘Metallica Ball’.

Because it rolled quickly on the ground, it was difficult for the human eye to catch it.But Castor knew. It has a characteristic that it stops moving once every five times to check on the situation.

Until then, he was on the defensive all the time and folded up on the fifth time, He repeated this several times and defeated ‘Metallica Ball’. He gained a huge amount of experience.

After about a month of doing so, he reached level 30.

However, in order to defeat the demons and sell the materials, he had to defeat other demons as well.The reason is that the ‘Metallica Ball’ has no materials and disappears the moment it is defeated.

He had no choice but to live his life by defeating other demons with less experience.

The time for Castor’s objective was getting closer and closer, and the speed of his level increase was slowing down.

So Castor took a week to move from place to place.

Sierratan, a port town in the southern part of the eastern continent.There, he boarded a ship and set foot on the western continent and headed for the city of Serpentis, in the southern part of the western continent.

One of the mountains near there was a mine. Kastor went to that place.

What he looked for was the Thorn Metal, which is found only in certain areas of the mine.

It had a spherical, metal body like the Metallica Ball, but it was characterised by the metal spikes that covered its body.

Magic was almost impenetrable against metal-based demons, and although Castor was able to use some magic, he had to fight only with swordsmanship.

The bad thing about this ‘Thorn Metal’ was that it sent metal spikes flying. Once hit, the Thorn Metal would inflict heavy damage, but it was easy for the level 30 Castor to avoid.

However, the speed of the Thorn Metal was also unusual.

Unlike the ‘Metallica Ball’, the ‘Thorn Metal’ is a demon that floats in the air. If it moves at a reasonable speed in the air, it is difficult to hit it with an attack.

But this is a mine. Castor chipped away at the rocks and used the terrain to surround the Thorn Metal. The Thornmetal, which had nowhere to run, sent spikes flying, but they were meaningless to the level 30 Castor

This is how he defeated the ‘Thorn Metal’ and gained a huge amount of experience.

After spending some time defeating this demon, on the next day, Castor, now level 40, headed for the desired ruins near the city of Teramisia in the south-west of the Western Continent.

◇ ◇ ◇

I scratched and clawed and explained to Estelle and the others where I’d travelled from and what demons I’d defeated.

“I cheated, you know. So it’s not something to be praised—”

“–Castor-sama, Castor-sama, Castor-sama! I knew it, Castor-sama is amazing! I’ve never heard of anyone who’s level 40!”

I thought I spoke humbly, but Estelle was moved and praised me.

“I’ve never heard of a demon with a name like that. ……”

“I mean, how did you manage to defeat it when it was that quick?”

Atria and Maybella also looked surprised.

I don’t know how much experience the inhabitants of this world know about how much experience they get from which demons.

But there are probably a handful or even nonexistent who even know where the metal demons live.

“Haha …… well I was desperate ……”

I wanted to save Estelle, you know.

Now that I think about it, I’d become a bit of a celebrity in Serpentis.

After defeating the Thorn Metal, I went on to defeat other demons, and because of the number of demons I defeated and the strength of the demons I defeated, I was surprised every time I brought materials to the guild.

However, I didn’t have much time, so I might have been blunt to the people who spoke to me. If I ever return, I’ll try to visit the guild.

“Castor-sama!”

Estelle approaches me loudly …… very close.Her good smell tickles my nostrils and I feel a little embarrassed.

“Will you take me …… us to that place! I want to be strong!”

“What do you think, Castor sam?”

“I’m asking you too!”

Well, I had expected this to happen.

However, there is no ‘Metallica Ball’ nearby, and in the current situation, we’re going to head for the mine where ‘Thorn Metal’ is. Those spikes are quite dangerous, and I want to know what they’re capable of now.

“…… Okay. Just let me heal my back first. In the meantime, I want you all to show me what you’re capable of – is there a training ground or somewhere good to show me what you’re capable of?”

“Castor-sama! Thanks~!”

“Ouchhh!!!”

When I agreed, Estelle jumped on me and pressed her ample breasts against me.

But my back was too sore to enjoy them.

I wonder if one day I will be able to properly enjoy them. ……

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