I Possessed It Instead of My Younger Sibling

91 – The Five Warriors

After Professor Ellini’s lecture.

I was deep in thought.

‘Ugh…. ‘That’… what the hell was it….’

The reason I was immersed in deep thought was because of the ‘certain emotion’ that made my heart beat loudly the moment I heard the word ‘unidentified warrior’ from Professor Elini’s mouth.

I don’t feel anything when I think of that word now….

The strange and confused feeling that welled up in the depths of my heart when I heard it for the first time…… It left a very strong impression on me.

It seems very welcome, but it seems to be similarly repulsive…….

Unfamiliar, like seeing someone for the first time, yet at the same time familiar, like meeting a friend you’ve known for a long time…….

I feel reassured as if I am with a partner I can entrust my life to, but also as if I feel in danger as if I am standing back to back with a mortal enemy who is always seeking my life…….

There is no way I can easily forget the contradictory feelings that seem to be a mixture of both positive and negative emotions, feelings that can’t be described in words.

That moment when I was deep in thought, brooding over my confused emotions.

“Nya~an♡”

“…Whoops?!”

A piece of meat that came into my mouth with a tickling voice rescued me from the sea of accidents.

The savory gravy of premium quality meat that spreads in your mouth and the flavorful sauce that goes well with it.

I was immersed in my thoughts while feeling those flavors, so I turned my fuzzy focus to the front…

“hehehe~♪”

There was Nice, who was looking at me contentedly, smiling like a satisfied cat.

“…Nice?”

“Seonwoo Nyang, are you awake now? For some reason, it seems that you haven’t been here since the lecture ended Nyan~.”

“Uh…”

I looked around while listening to Nice’s words, and before I knew it, I was sitting in a restaurant with my party.

…… I couldn’t believe I was so lost in thought that I didn’t even know I was coming to the restaurant…….

“I am next.”

“… Huh?”

At me who was dumbfounded, Krysia, who was smiling lightly, pushed a salad mixed with refreshing dressing to her mouth.

I don’t know if it’s when I’m out of my mind, but it’s a bit like accepting and eating while I’m sane, so I tried to refuse….

“No…that’s…”

“Ah~.”

“It’s okay…”

“Ah~~ah~~!”

“…….”

Dumb-

Crisia pressuring me with a grin as if she would continue until I eat.

Unable to overcome her pressure, I finally opened her mouth and ate her salad.

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“Whoops.”

Krisia looked at me with a very satisfied face.

“……!”

And behind her, Miris with a flushed face, half shy and half excited, was waiting for me to finish her soup, holding a spoon.

“……Ah.”

“Ehehehe…!”

It was obvious that I would make a sullen expression if I said no, so I opened my mouth small without saying anything.

Miris smiled wide enough to make the viewer feel good, and she gently put her spoon into my mouth.

And Miris joins Nice and Crisia, who are smiling with satisfaction.

Students around me unknowingly cast their eyes on this bizarre group, but….

“…Hmm, as expected, the learning from Valhalla’s academy is delicious no matter what you eat. The ingredients are good, but the chef’s skill is also amazing.”

I had already made up my mind not to care about the eyes of the people around me, so I put a steel plate on my face and shamelessly evaluated the taste.

“……Um.”

And as he approached the party, Douka looked at the two trays in his arms and the group in turn…

I quietly returned a plate and headed to the party.

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In the end, I ended up eating more than half of the three of them, and in return, I took the party to a nearby cafe and bought them a drink each.

We were sitting at a table in the corner of the cafe, chatting and taking a break.

“So… Why did Seonwoonyang get so carried away?”

Nice looked up at me from the seat next to me and asked, as if she had just remembered.

The others also focused their attention on me as if they were curious.

I thought about it for a while, but then I remembered that it was an opportunity to learn about the ‘unidentified hero’ and opened my mouth.

“…Hmm…By any chance, do you all know about the ‘Hero’?”

“Nyaang? Seonwoonyang doesn’t know about the ‘Five Warriors’? It’s the story of the world’s most famous heroes, made into plays and fairy tales that even children know.”

“Yes. I honestly don’t know.”

Although there are quite a lot of settings in the strategy book, except for a few, most of them are focused on the present, so there was not much information about the old story.

So let me be honest, Nice blinking his eyes as if he was curious.

The people around me were also looking at me curiously. Even that silent Duka.

At that time, we clapped our hands as if we remembered Nice.

“…Ah, come to think of it, Seonwu Nyang has been training alone in the mountains since he was a child…. Then you might not be familiar with it. Ehhh! If that’s the case, then I’ll explain it a bit.”

Cleaning his throat while clearing his throat, Nice began to speak, controlling the rhythm of his voice like a minstrel unraveling a heroic tale.

──One day, an evil demon came from outside this peaceful world…

──It always sat on a throne woven of starlight, aiming its cruel fangs at the god who spins the wheel of fate.

——So began, the sky was shattered, the earth split, and the seas were seething. The war of the gods continued until the seven suns awoke and the seven moons went to sleep.

──At the end of the seven-day and night war, the Demon God was shattered and scattered all over the world…

──The wounded Lord fell into a deep sleep.

──…… However, the demon didn’t die.

–From the heart that fell on the eastern continent, that evil life blossomed again.

–It has been 100 years since the revival of the terrifying Demon God.

──The devil’s claws clawed the continent, and the shadow of the devil began to strangle mankind slowly….

──The noble and beautiful fairies of the forest who worshiped the sacred tree withered away along with the divine tree they worshiped, leaving behind only a pair of noble fairies and thousands of compatriots….

──The dwarves of fire and earth, who restored the beauty of the jewels of the earth with more delicate touch than anyone else, lost their most passionate hearts….

──For the brave warriors who inherited the blood of the six sacred beasts, only one bloodline remained….

──Of the more than a hundred people’s countries, only one remains….

──This is the age of darkness deeper than the abyss.

——At this, the kind Lord wept bitterly and dropped five drops of tears into the underworld….

──Five beams of holy light rose from the continent that was full of death, and began to illuminate the world’s widespread despair.

──That light eventually bound all of humanity together and pierced the demon’s heart….

──The name of that light is the hope of mankind, and I call it the Five Great Heroes.

…… This is the first line of a story written by an unknown bard immediately after the end of the Demon God War.”

“…Hey, Nice would be nice to be a minstrel. He’s good at listening to stories.”

“Nyahahahaha! Thank you for the compliment, Nyan♪”

I closed my eyes and listened to the story, and when I spoke in admiration, Nice smiled happily and continued talking right away.

“As soon as the five heroes appeared, they supported the human frontline. It is said that they literally appeared in a place where humanity started to be pushed out, and were so great that they pushed back the monsters. The members…”

The twin half-elf sisters who rule time and space——’black and white twins.’

They can purify the land polluted by demons and revive anyone as long as they don’t die——’a saint of brilliance.’

It is said that he defended the castle single-handedly for over a month against hundreds of thousands of monsters——’an indomitable guardian.’

And… The head of those heroes, an almighty master, a mysterious sage, and also called the great warrior of the main god, no one knows his true form——the ‘unidentified hero’.

“Among them, the ‘unidentified hero’, who is considered to be particularly heterogeneous, is a controversial hero with many scholars saying that he is ‘not a real person’ despite leaving numerous achievements and traces in history.”

“…Why is that?”

“There are two reasons for that…. First, it’s because he demonstrated ‘world’s highest level of ability’ in so many ‘various fields’ that he literally couldn’t even be considered as one person. Nyan.”

…… Indeed. Common sense makes sense.

If you replace it with modern times, if you restore the Olympic records of the Greek era, is it the same as having the names of ‘the same person in 1st and 2nd place in all events’?

That’s right, even I wouldn’t believe it.

“Secondly, it is because the images of the heroes written in the memoirs of people in the past who said they met an ‘unidentified hero’ were ‘all different’.”

“The appearance… Everything was different…?”

As I blinked and raised my question, the party started talking about the images of the ‘unidentified warrior’ they knew.

“For reference, the first family head of our house wrote ‘A Miao explorer with a sleek physique and a middle-aged appearance’.”

“Ah~ I also read in the memoirs of the supreme elders~. ‘The leader of the warriors was a compatriot who was about to become an adult.’ It was written.”

“…In the Pike family, it was known as a ‘dwarven warrior with a long beard and big arms’.”

“Uh…. I knew that he was an ‘old man’s great wizard with deep dizzy eyes’…”

“Everything is different…”

I laughed out loud at the descriptions that were so diverse that it was impossible to say that they were descriptions of the same person.

There is not even the slightest resemblance between the appearances of the ‘unidentified warrior’ that the four people spoke of!

“That’s why the handwritings are all different, so the mainstream opinion among historians is that the ‘Unknown Hero’ is not talking about a single person, but a collection of many nameless heroes. The abilities of various heroes. It’s like a ‘fictional character’ that combines his and his achievements into one.”

Nice, who said that, showed signs of agreeing with that opinion, but….

“──No, that won’t be it.”

“Nyan…?”

──Instinctively, without realizing it, I denied those words.

The words literally jumped out of my mouth without passing through my head.

My friends were tilting their heads at the sudden words, but I didn’t revise the words again and quietly kept my mouth shut.

The bizarre level of ‘firm conviction’ that ‘the unidentified hero is not many people, but only one person’……

…… Somehow, it was because it was nestled in my heart.

“Ah!”

At that time, Miris suddenly exclaimed as if she had a good idea.

And at the words that followed, I also thought of a certain person and exclaimed.

“Sunwoo! If you want to know more about the five warriors, you can ask someone who experienced that era!”

“…Ah, that’s right! I totally forgot!”

The image of a person that came to my mind was that of an old woman smiling benevolently.

He was a history professor called ‘living history’ who was in charge of history at Valhalla.