Evade The Hero and Flee!

Chapter 287

Chapter 287

Chapter 287

It is most fun the watch fights(12)

“Achoo!”

“Huh?”

The metal bat frowned at the sudden sneeze.

“Got something in your nose!”

“Ah, sorry.”

Sniff, sniff!

I took out a handkerchief and wiped away the mucus that came out from the sneeze.

“What is it? Did someone curse me?”

“Someone to curse you... There’s too many to predict, right?”

“Nah, it’s not that bad.”

“At least a few thousand?”

“Why would the count be that high?”

No matter how much I’ve done, there’s no way there would be thousands of people cursing me.

That number doesn’t make any sense.

“First, the guys chasing the master.”

“Wouldn’t the number be small?”

“Other than the faces the master knows. Wouldn’t they have a ton of underlings?”

“Uh... That’s true.”

“That alone would make a thousand.”

“Hmm... Okay. I admit that.”

A thousand has already been filled, but there’s still thousands more to fill.

Can the metal bat really fill that number?

“And every time the Demon King is active, the master gets cursed.”

“What kind of logic is that?”

“The master is the execu... Groah!”

“What the heck are you saying?”

I quickly cover the metal bat’s mouth and get up from my seat.

-What the heck is this!

-That’s my line, you idiot!

-What, idiot? To the Goddess, idiot? You’ll be cursed!

-If it’s curse, it feels I’ve already received enough.

Her very existence itself felt like a curse.

Because of her I can’t use magic, I’m chased by my blackened disciple.

And because of that I had to separate from my daughter, and after harming the Demon King I still have to keep running away.

“Mmm mmm mmm!”

-I’m the victim for the last part! Unfair!

-You’re not denying the previous charges!

Even so, the metal bat has developed more of a conscience compared to the past.

-I don’t think it makes sense for the master to be the one to bring up the word conscience first. And how long are you planning on covering this Goddess’s mouth?

-Until you start to think and speak?

-I’m always thinking and speaking though!

-You call that thinking and speaking?

You really think yelling the master is the apostle of the evil god in the middle of the city is thinking and speaking?

-I should seal your mouth shut forever!

-Eek! Everyone! There’s an apostle of the evil god here kidnapping this cute little goddess!

A evil god is reporting an apostle of evil god to devils. I’ve never heard such crap in my life.

“Extra, extra!”

Just as I was covering the metal bat’s mouth to stop his crap, I heard the voice of a young boy not too far away.

“The heroes have mobilized! To take down the vile Demon King!”

Normally when saying something like this, papers with more detailed info would be scattered, but reality was different.

“Get the details for just 1 silver!”

Information is money. There is no one who does not know that.

And that information was contained on paper.

Even in my past life when technology was developed and paper could be mass produced, paper still cost money to buy.

Let alone in a fantasy world, scattering paper around to spread news wouldn’t make any sense.

It’s only natural they would sell it at a high price.

“Looks like things are finally moving.”

“Did the Demon King die?”

Since it was interesting news for both me and the metal bat, we headed over to the boy selling the papers.

“One copy.”

“That’s 1 silver!”

It’s quite an expensive price, but considering the price of paper, the effort to gather the information, the commission for this boy selling it, it could be called a reasonable price.

Of course among this kind of thing there would be flashy titled info bait that has no substance.

“There won’t be a lack of content right?”

“No way. It’s a news publication guaranteed by Paekenes’ top.”

Paekenes’ top... Since I’ve never heard of this name, it seems it’s only famous within this kingdom.

“Well, if it has the guarantee of the top...”

For a normal news publication like this, I expected the ending to have contents like ‘With the heroes dispatched, the Demon King shall fall and the world will be saved!’

Yet here I was, with several pages left till the end, being shown a clash with the Demon King already concluded.

“Is the fight already over?”

The relatively accurate details indicate this was written after the heroes had already clashed with the Demon King.

The contents were all pessimistic. The details were the same.

Though they were able to take down countless evil god troops, they crucially could not capture the Demon King himself.

“Hmm... As expected, it was good I ran away.”

If I had blindly trusted my sword skills and fought, I may have become departed like in the past, given how terrifyingly mighty the Demon King was.

Over 30 heroes died and the hero guy himself also suffered heavy damage at the Demon King’s hand from the looks of it.

Though of course he didn’t just take it without dealing some major injuries to the Demon King as well, judging by the contents, had the Imperial Army been even slightly later in taking down the evil god’s army, the hero would have died too.

-Was the Demon King always this overwhelmingly strong? The records in history were all frauds?

History is, after all, the victor’s records.

Good parts are embellished and written, bad parts are minimized or not written at all.

This made me wonder if the records about the Demon King were like that too.

-Hmm... He’s stronger than what humans have recorded, but temples record only truths though kingdoms don’t.

-I see.

For me, temples were further away than even different races.

For ordinary people, they can casually visit temples once a day if they put their mind to it, but when have I ever lived an ordinary life?

Other than visiting the Earth Temple and Life Temple with my parents in this life to pray for good harvests when I was young, I’ve never visited other gods’ temples.

So there was no way for me to know what’s recorded in temples.

-Well, doesn’t change the fact that this Demon King is some freak irregularity.

-Is that so?

-Yes. Normally even if they’re strong, they’d fight til the end and die.

What the metal bat was saying was that if it were a normal Demon King, the likelihood of mutual destruction with the hero would have been high.

-Tsk... What a shame.

-One must understand the master’s personality.

No matter what the metal bat says, the hero and Demon King destroying each other was my best case scenario.

With the two who know my info dying without a word, my peace would have been complete.

“Tsk, then what’s going to happen?”

Flipping the page, once again the hero’s face appeared along with post battle contents.

It was filled with content reminiscent of current affairs programs.

Exposing the reality of heroes suddenly chosen having to fight the evil god army without proper education.

It really was beneficial and important content, but

“Let’s skip over this.”

Since it had nothing to do with me, I decided to skip over it.

“Hmm...”

Flip over page, and over page.

Not much useful information comes out.

“At least got the important parts.”

The best I could get was on the final page, that the hero guy had recovered and was chasing the Demon King along with the Imperial Army.

And more importantly,

“Crazy bastard, chasing right till the end huh.”

Where they were chasing was very openly indicated as my direction.

Meaning the Demon King plans to catch me as a final resort.

“Gonna flee again?”

Having finished her meal, the metal bat cheerily swung her legs asking.

Hmm... Fleeing does sound best, right?

There’s the danger of the Demon King capturing me, and the Imperial Army chasing after him capturing me as well.

But,

“A tragedy seen up close is a tragedy, seen from afar is a comedy.”

“Huh? What’s that crap mean again?”

“Anyway, my location will clearly keep being exposed unless the Demon King dies right? So we should set up a plaza for our reunion at an appropriate spot and wait there.”

If I have to see the ending someday, better to see it while I’m still relatively young.

So,

“Gotta prepare popcorn and get ready to watch the fight.”

After all, watching fights is the most interesting thing.

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