In the previous life, the more heroic stuff he did, the more he realized how limited he was. He felt like a fraud.

I’m not as great as you think; he wanted to warn his friends and comrades who held great expectations for him but he could not so he forced himself to live upon their expectations but in the end, he had failed them.

He thought he had already forgotten all that but now thinking about the incoming Monster King, Allen once again isn’t certain to win.

However, somehow that’s not like me at all, is the sentiment Allen has.

In the first place, there’s no reason that I must do it, even if I’m able to, in the current situation.

However, if he leaves now, the people in this land will suffer tremendously, especially now that Azi Dahaka realized his existence in this place. He wouldn’t stop until he had found him…

Sara would be implicated…

I’m really not cut out for such setting, he leaks a sigh.

Ava had once told Allen his fatal flaw:  he was supposedly too loyal to his friends and family.

He couldn’t avert his eyes for once.  He would save a friend or a loved one even if it meant dying or destroying the world.

At that time, Allen had shrugged this off.

How could it be a bad thing? For him, what’s more important than Family?

Now, though, he started to wonder. He would gladly throw himself at any monster, god, or giant to keep his friends and family from being hurt. But what if he wasn’t up to the task?  What if he had died?

What would happen in the world then? What would happen for those who were left behind?

That was very hard for him to admit.

Haaa~ Allen couldn’t help but sigh.

He was once self-centered but due to the existence of the Dawn Alliance, Mia, and the others, he had changed. He was once again given feelings and responsibility like a normal human being…

Seriously, what a pain in the ass… He can decide everything a split second when he was just a wanderer, an explorer but when he was installed with emotions and responsibilities just like normal humans, he was once again scared of returning back to a self-centered person…

Allen couldn’t help but smile wryly… really, I’ve become a wimpy person…

Well, I guess there’s only one choice. Besides, it’s the least he could do for her whom he had done something bad…

I guess sometimes, it’s fine to be stupid… in any case; it wasn’t the first time for him to do this…

I’ll just apologize to Alkrasha for doing this after all she had done just to keep me from them…

I will pay my debt from this…

Allen didn’t happen to have even the slightest attitude of considering himself to be amazing, but even so, he wasn’t a coward either… with his current power, at least he has the ability to content in standing.

“Master…”

Agathi who noticed Allen’s difference worriedly asked while trying to take a peek at his face, who ended up brooding.

Agathi’s call attracted the other‘s attention. Madam White used her long tail and coiled herself around Allen while the Unicorn nudged Allen's back with her head.

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Immersing himself within his thoughts, Allen noticed their worries, extends his hand and pulled Agathi to his bosom.

“M, Master?!” Agathi was startled and her face was immediately dyed beet red. Her back was facing Allen.

“Let me lean for a while,” Allen said softly as he buried his face into her neck.

Allen absolutely didn’t feel like he could talk in his usual tone if he looked at the faces of Agathi, Madam White, and the others.

Without even seeing, Allen could imagine what kind of face Madam White and others are making. They must be feeling worried…

Agathi trembled but she didn’t refuse and let Allen do whatever he wanted. She felt her heart wanted to jump from her chest.

Looking at her current expression right now, anyone would think that there was already no resemblance left from her life as an evil criminal in the sea world. The mermaid from before would be shocked if she saw her right now!

Somehow I want to really smoke a cigarette, Allen thought.

Well, I guess I have no choice but to stand on the stage…

“Really… I’m an idiot after all.”

He mutters in self-mockery.

Allen raised his head and looked at the sky; the crimson light from the sun seemed to be foreboding something…

The first battle of the two Monster King was slowly approaching…

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“I will leave this place.”

Everyone present at that place opened their eyes widely due to Sara’s far too sudden statement.

Today the three leaders had gathered in the parlor and were in the middle of enjoying a tea.

Lemuel was about to spew out the tea which he held in his mouth due to Sara’s abrupt and unrestrained statement, but somehow enduring it, he looks at her after putting the cup back on the table.

“Still, that’s quite sudden, no?” Lemuel said while frowning.

Ali Mahsid too was showing a displeased face. Anger flashed across his eyes.

“Certainly, if you say it’s sudden, that might be the case, but… I have already made my decision.” Sara calmly spoke.

“What is this?” Ali Mahsid asked in a cold voice. “Are you getting scared off by what that necromancer said…?”

Sara’s eyes narrowed. A long scorpion tail suddenly appeared behind her, pointing at Ali Mahsid.

“Don’t speak in a venture Ali,” Sara said. “I will go wherever I go, this is none of your concern!”

“Then tell me, what’s the reason?!”

“That’s right!” Lemuel also joined in. “This is too sudden, are you giving up on this city?”

“I am not…” Returning the cup to the table, Sara answered, “It’s a personal reason. Besides, I don’t think I needed to justify my actions… I’m only saying this beforehand…”

“That’s extremely selfish!!” Ali slapped the table in anger.

“Even so,” Sara wasn’t fazed.

She stood up and started walking away.

“Sara! Think about this carefully! You are needed in this place!” Ali called out.

“Even if I’m gone, aren’t you also here? That would be enough,” Sara responded with her back facing them. “I have said this before; I wouldn’t stay in this place for a long time… I want to go and see the world’s changes myself…”

“Sara! You can’t do thi-!?”

“—Eh?!”

As their conversation had become extremely intense, it was suddenly interrupted.

“The ground’s shaking…… really intensely! This can’t be a normal earthquake, right?!”

As the ground was shaking like a rattled crib, they were unable to stand firmly on their two feet and could only choose to drop to their seats or prop themselves against a wall.

The magnitude of the quake was so great that one would immediately understand that this was no natural disaster.

Not far away from their location, despaired screams and sound of houses collapsing could be heard. And it wasn’t just one or two but sounded more of dozens at a time.

“What’s happening?!” Lemuel asked in shock.

“I don’t know,” Sara answered with her face falling. This sign is certainly not good! “But we have to get out!”

It was a tremor that seemed like a deliberate attempt to change the geological landscape—that was the feeling that this intense earthquake gave to others.

‘Was there a volcano somewhere?’ This thought flashed across their minds.

But they didn’t know any active volcano near this city…

Then,

 “Could it be…?!” Ali Mahsid widened his eyes in realization.

It must have been a deliberate act of someone to have created this tremor. Although the exact method or purpose for that action was unknown, still Ali’s thoughts were already set on that assumption.

Enemy!!?

At this moment, the entire place was suddenly enveloped by an icy cold pressure, weighing the three Superhumans down.

“—!!!”

Both Sara, Ali and Lemuel gaped in fear and shock.

Their bodies instantly flashed and Superhuman strength surged through their bodies. And yet, that monstrous pressure still covered their bodies, causing them to tremble.

It wasn’t enough! Their strength wasn’t enough to content to this pressure!

This was a true terror. It was the first time they had felt such terror in their lives.

Thin black hazy mist swirled around the entire place, and the pressure it released caused them to tremble uncontrollably… 

“What… What sort of power is this!!” Lemuel stuttered.

“Magwayan!?” Ali muttered in shock as he saw the black haze swirling around. It somehow looks similar to Magwayan’s power he had seen yesterday!

“No, it’s not!” Sara responded. Her face paled but she knew that this presence, this aura, this pressure, it was not Allen but from someone else.

Lemuel looked at his comrades. Ali and Sara did the same before they immediately bolted towards the exit.

There was no need for further explanations. Ali Mahsid and the others charged towards outside.

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