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Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari (LN) - Volume 5 - Chapter Ep




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Epilogue: The Problem We Face

 

“So, it looks like the other heroes proved themselves useless in yet another battle.” 

After the wave, we all went back to Cal Mira. 

The other heroes regained consciousness right around the time we arrived at the island, and they were taken to a hospital to recuperate. 

Honestly, how could they be so weak that L’Arc and Glass hadn’t even worried about bothering with them? 

What a bunch of useless jerks they were proving to be! 

Did they think the whole game was just a series of events the player was forced to lose? 

“To think there is such power in the world. We must find a way to defeat them.” 

The queen was thinking over the day’s events and muttering to herself. 

“Thank you for your help there at the end. If you hadn’t stepped in, who knows what might have happened.” 

“Naturally. Though I was wondering something, Mr. Iwatani. After Raphtalia and Filo were out of range from the rucolu mist, why didn’t you breathe some in?” 

“Huh?” 

“I have heard that you do not get drunk from the rucolu.” 

“That’s true.” 

 

“Well the fruits and the alcohol which they produce has another short term effect beyond drunkenness. It increases the user’s magic power and concentration. It may have helped you.” 

“What?” 

Did that mean that if I was fighting in rucolu mist, I could continuously replenish my magic and SP? 

Glass had been able to break the shield prison, but if I had unlimited SP, I could have used iron maiden time after time? 

Damn! If I’d known that, we might have won! 

“You could have told me that earlier.” 

“Unfortunately I only just thought of it now.” 

In her defense, it had been a pretty tense situation back there. 

And my only way of attacking took too long, anyway. They were able to break the shield prison before I got a chance to use it. 

My only real remaining option was to try and keep using counter attacks to slowly wear them down. 

Glass had been so powerful after the soul-healing water that neither Raphtalia nor Filo had been able to get a decisive blow in. It’s not that they were weak or anything like that. They’d both been fighting really well before Glass had been powered up. 

What did we have to do to beat them? 

And what did they want? I gathered from their conversation that their goal was to kill the heroes. But L’Arc had gone to lengths to avoid any unnecessary casualties. He’d only been concerned with me at the time. 

 

Were they really bad guys? 

They were definitely my enemy—but why did they want to kill the heroes? 

But who were we fighting, anyway? 

Sure, we were fighting the waves. It was supposed to be simple. 

The waves would produce monsters. We had to protect the civilians and defeat the monsters. I knew that much. 

But then a person—Glass—appeared. 

At first I thought that it was another monster, a smarter, more terrifying one. But that theory didn’t make sense anymore. 

And her allies, L’Arc and Therese, had been around since long before the waves had come. 

They must have come from the other side. 

I hadn’t even thought about it until now, but just what was on the other side of the rifts? 

What were the waves of destruction, really? 

In this world, they were only spoken of as legendary waves of destruction. 

But what about Glass and L’Arc? There must have been real people on the other side. 

I had plenty of theories, but no way to figure out what was true. 

Theory #1 Glass and the others were trying to invade this world. The monsters were their solders. But there was a problem with that idea. Glass and L’Arc had fought and defeated some of those monsters. And it didn’t explain why they wanted to kill the heroes. 

 

Theory #2 

Glass and the others stood to benefit from killing the heroes. But how? And why? And what was on the other side of the rifts? 

Theory #3 

Fitoria had said that if the heroes died the world would have no way to stand against the waves. Is that what they wanted? What would happen if the waves overran the world? We wouldn’t know unless we lost. If the world was destroyed then there was no point to any of this. There was no way to tell. 

I couldn’t figure out what they were after. 

“It seems that Cal Mira is still in the midst of the activation event. What would you like to do?” 

The queen asked. 

There was some sort of level cap around level 80, and I’d felt the leveling efficiency drop off substantially when we crossed level 70. That meant there was no reason to stay on the islands much longer. The only real thing left to do was to fight the boss characters on the island interiors for their drop items. 

Raphtalia and Filo had gotten some good weapons. All that was left to do was gather up more rare materials and see what the weapon shop owner could do with them. 

“I think we’ll head back to Melromarc pretty soon.” 

“Very well. I will prepare a ship for your return. But the ocean is very rough now due to the wave, so it will take a little time.” 

“That’s fine.” 

“I cannot praise you and your achievements highly enough, Mr. Iwatani. We will do all that we can to assist you. Let us move forward against the waves, against whatever difficulties we encounter.” 

That was nice, but her cooperation wasn’t really the issue. I was the only hero that was pulling his share of the load here. 

“The problem is the other heroes.” 

“Yes.” 

They hadn’t helped at all. Actually they hadn’t helped during the last wave either. 

They would probably say that they hadn’t leveled enough or make some other excuse. But we were past the time for excuses. 

They were too weak. 

I didn’t say that to try and feel better about myself, either. 

Maybe the problem was they hadn’t put all of their respective power up systems into use. 

“I think we’re going to need to have another meeting about them.” 

“I agree. And it had better be soon.” 

The queen seemed to understand the situation. 

 

Honestly, the other heroes weren’t truly much stronger than a typical adventurer. 

Sure, they had access to special skills, so they had power for short term immediate attacks. 

But that wasn’t the same as having real power. 

If the other heroes could become as powerful as I truly am, would we have such a hard time fighting Glass? 

The queen had said that the high priest’s replica weapon was not even a quarter as powerful as a real hero’s legendary weapon. 

After all we’d been through on the islands, I felt I was finally strong enough to withstand how powerful the high priest’s attacks had been. 

That meant that the heroes were capable of being at least as strong as I was now. 

If the heroes with strong attacks matched my current power level, then could we have realistically lost to Glass? 

“Yeah.” 

That sense of crisis I had when the waves came hadn’t left me yet. 

No matter how powerful I became, all I could really do was protect others. That was a limitation I was going to have to face. 

If you can only protect, then there was no way to win. 

If we didn’t find some way around that problem, then we were not going to survive the next encounter. 

I felt like I finally understood why Fitoria had wanted us to cooperate and grow more powerful. 

 

Not to mention that if we lost a hero, the waves would get that much more difficult to deal with. 

Those three were obnoxious and didn’t know how to shut up and listen, but we needed them to be stronger as a whole. I was a little worried about what they would do when they got stronger. But whatever happened, it was better than dying. 

“I’m a little tired right now. Let me get some rest, then we’ll meet with the other heroes tomorrow.” 

“As you wish, Mr. Iwatani.” 

The queen bowed deeply and walked back to the soldiers. 

I stepped back and turned—Raphtalia and Filo were right there waiting for me. 

“We survived another one, didn’t we, Mr. Naofumi?” 

“Yeah.” 

“I don’t feel like I was very useful.” 

“That’s not true.” 

Both Raphtalia and Filo had fought well. So had L’Arc and Therese. 

Honestly, until L’Arc used that soul-healing water, we were about to win. 

Judging from that, Raphtalia and Filo must have been far more powerful than the other heroes. 

It must have been due to my maturation adjustments skills and the effects of the class up ceremony. 

 

“That fan lady was really strong!” 

“Yeah.” 

“I wanna get stronger, so I can help you more, master!” 

“I’d like that too.” 

I didn’t know what the leveling or power cap would be on them after the class up ceremony, but they had gotten really powerful already. If the other heroes weren’t able to step up to the task, I’d have to depend on these two to take up the slack. 

They were my only party members. 

“We might need to have more power on our side.” 

“Yes, we may not be able to go much further without more help.” 

Raphtalia immediately understood what I had meant. 

She didn’t ask any unnecessary follow-up questions like “aren’t we enough?” 

The country’s soldiers could help us in a pinch, but we weren’t going to be able to depend on them for a decisive victory. 

We needed . . . we needed more help, someone that could help us defeat Glass and L’Arc even if the other heroes were not around. 

We needed another party member. 

But I had my personal traumas to deal with too. 

If we increased the size of the party, then I opened myself up to the possibility of further betrayal. 

I found out Melty wouldn’t betray us, so I could trust her. 

But could I say the same thing about our next party member? 

 

I needed to find someone else I could trust. 

That was why I wanted to invite L’Arc and Therese to join, but they turned out to be the enemy. 

I’d trusted them too quickly. I must have been looking for someone to trust. L’Arc and Therese had been friendly enough that I had just fallen into it. 

They’d gotten worried about us and come looking for us in the middle of the night. I’d really wanted to trust them. 

It’s hard. Things just don’t go the way you want them to. 

We still needed to fight against the waves and against Glass. 

“What’s wrong, master?” 

“Huh? It’s nothing. I was thinking we should get some rest.” 

“Good idea. I’m very tired.” 

“Master! Let’s go to the baths!” 

“Oh okay. We need to rest up tonight. We’ll be busy again when morning comes.” 

“Yes!” 

“Yay!” 

So we went back to our room and rested, preparing for the next day. 

The next fight, and the next wave, would be upon us soon. 

Before then, we had to find some way to overcome the problems we faced. 

We all had to be stronger than we were. 





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