Novel: Is He a Hero? “Yup.”
Author: Karumi Ayumu
Chapter 14 — Even the Goddess Works Occasionally?
After the fierce fight with the demons, the hero had collapsed.
“Wake up, wake up, Hero.”
“Ugh…”
The goddess talked to the hero, but the hero seemed to be unable to sleep well, not waking up.
“Ha, it’s so shameful that you died, Hero.”
“Whaaaat!” The hero jumped to his feet. He was in that usual empty space with the goddess.
“So you’ve woken up, Hero. Of course, since I was lying when I said you died.”
“Please don’t startle me! My memories went back like a revolving lantern to the last place I saved after I collapsed!”
The goddess looked at the hero with a nonchalant face. “Hero, I did say that it’s the end if you die, but I didn’t say that you can start over from the place you saved? What is that, that thing you’re writing in your notebook that looks like a revival spell?”
“It’s not like that, it’s about my feelings.” The hero said that like it was obvious. The goddess didn’t change her expression, it seems she was already used to this.
“Well, you’re the one that’s actually trying so hard so it doesn’t affect me at all. But please don’t do anything unreasonable and really die. Hasn’t it only been three days? And then you’ve been leveling up too much, though it probably doesn’t matter if you’re the kind of hero that finds it difficult to increase your intellect…”
“What happens when you level up too much?”
The goddess made a suggestive face. “This is about a wizard that could easily increase his intellect, but as he leveled up his mind couldn’t catch up to his suddenly high intellect and we went crazy.” The goddess smiled in an ‘oops’ gesture.
“Isn’t that extremely dangerous?! What is this level up, the so-called ‘blessing of the gods’?!”
“It may be worth the ordeal, but it’s because you obtain power that you never had before. It’s the same as humans that win the lottery and then ruin their bodies.”
“Please say things like that earlier!”
“To be honest, I didn’t think an otaku would go so far. Hero, it seems you’ve learned healing magic, but don’t you think you can overdo it even further if you use it?”
“Uh, I did.”
“Although you can use different abilities here than from the world you were in, please don’t overdo it.”
“Alright.” The hero obediently nodded.
“Well, you can do whatever about that, but there’s something a little unpleasant related to what we were talking about earlier…”
Bzzz… Bzzz…
The hero felt like shocks were running through his body.
“Ah—what is this?”
For some reason, the goddess made an awkward face, ‘oh, whoops’.
“Crap, they’re here already?”
“Who’s here?”
The goddess crossed her arms, making a resigned face. “It seems someone is trying to carry out your body.”
“Carried out, you mean I’m being kidnapped right now?!”
“Yes, though I meant to guide you until you became able to protect yourself. You stand out too much, Hero, to think that you’d be found so quickly!”
Shocks ran through the hero’s body like noise.
Bzz… Bzz…
“It’s not the time to be in a place like this! I have to wake up, even if it’s by hitting my head.” The hero tried to hit his head but… He couldn’t.
“Hero, right now you are only a spirit, you don’t have a hand to hit with or a head to hit.”
“Then, what should I do?!”
“Since you’re wounded, I do not expect that you can wake up, fight her and run away. So please be obedient. Surely you can manage somehow.”
“‘Surely’….”
The goddess averted her eyes from the hero. “Well then, Hero, it seems I’m late so I’ll go home now.”
“Goddess?!”
“Well then, take care and stay level-headed, Heroes.”
The goddess ascended up towards the sky until he couldn’t see her anymore. The hero’s consciousness disappeared into darkness.
“Hmm~ Hmmm~ La la la~♪
“U-Ughh…”
The hero woke up from the sound of someone humming.
“Oh, so you’re awake!”
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