Beyond the Hero’s Death – 11 | Sousaku – 創作

Episode 11: A small miscellaneous afterword-like note of Chapter 1


　Nice to meet you, or it's been a while, or thank you for your continued support. I am the author.

　As I have previously mentioned, my work is titled “Beyond the Hero's Death”.

　The short story version was edited and finished based on the plot of original version, which was initially written in a rush and then dropped. But since the parts that were omitted when making the short story were re-edited and added to the original plot, some details have changed a bit from the short story version.
　When I published the story as a short story, I was careful not to make it sound like a censored story, and I closed it in a way that left it up to the reader's imagination, for better or worse.
　This time, the story will be written up to the end of the journey with a total of four chapters plus the last chapter planned. ……So I have tagged it with a happy-bad ending from the start. I hope you enjoy what the end of the Celestial Knight Raoul's journey will be like.

・Mireille, Porcas.
　Ms. Shitbitch and her trashy interloper who betrayed Alberic. In case you were wondering, Mireille was a beautiful girl who was too beautiful to be in a small village, but she was unaware of it because she had no friends or acquaintances of the opposite sex in the village to compare herself with. She loved Alberic decently until he left on his journey.
　Porcas had been in love with Mireille since they were children, and he took advantage of Mireille's emotional state to seduce her, but Mireille herself had her own flaws, so in the end, both of them were no good.
　Porcas's influence was so strong that she became increasingly prickly and selfish, and she ended up getting what she deserved.
　It was inevitable for the two of them to end up they way they did.
　Teenage boys and girls are quite influenced by the people they date, and in many ways this author is tempted to look back on the past and look longingly into the distance.
　The rest, such as the resident knight who was bought off and kept his mouth shut, and the villagers who turned a blind eye out of self-interest, were also quite irresponsible people.
　Raoul felt something was off about his impression of Mireille, but maybe we'll find out what that was in due time.

・The King and his children
　He was the king of a rather rich country in this world, so he is an old man with an inflated sense of self-esteem and needless almightiness. In peacetime, he ran his country properly and prosperously, but that is not the same thing with humanity. As a result, he was easily deceived because of his shortsightedness, and he was unable to think of the future or several matters in parallel, which ultimately led to the destruction of the country. This would not have happened if he had not mishandled Alberic after his triumphant return. He said in the story that the Empire and the Church had spread some kind of nonsense, but that would come later……

　The prince is a disappointing son who grew up spoiled as an heir, so his confidence and pride are as high as his father's, and with the added bonus of youth, he lives with a greater sense of omnipotence than his father. As for the sword that Alberic left behind, he believed that the sword itself contained power, and he had no doubt that he had become the most powerful hero in the world.
　The prince stubbornly refused to give it up for appraisal, and no one around him examined it in detail, recognizing that if it was that hero's sword, then it must be the same as before. As a result, it was brought out at the time of the downfall under the mistaken impression that it was a holy sword, and nothing was achieved…… People usually think that once the Demon King is defeated, the world will become a peaceful place, so it can't be helped that they didn't expect disasters to come one after another in the next few years, right? But they were wrong.

　The princess, although beautiful, was a prodigal daughter who was a whore at heart, and she took up the good-looking children of noblemen as her guards and indulged in lewdness. The king overlooked the act because, although he had the option of having the hero marry his daughter after his return, he dared to overlook it because he thought it would be better to have a child of some nobleman's son rather than to have a child of a lowest-born hero in the royal family. In the end, Alberic was saved by the fact that he did not wish for such a thing and chose to stay in the village, but if he married the princess, he would have gone the route of mendicancy and further killed. ……That would be hell as well, so I think he might end up going the self-inflicted blade route eventually.

　The people, who enjoyed a higher standard of living than in other countries, were also selfish and egocentric to a greater or lesser extent, and unconsciously ingrained with the mindset that as long as they were happy, others were unimportant. In a sense, they were probably the ones who had to perish.

　So, the first chapter will be based on the short story version, but the next two chapters will be the Elven Kingdom version, with the addition of Raoul's perspective + Falty's perspective of the incident in “In This World Where the Hero Has Died,” which was a short story from Falty's perspective.
　I hope you'll read that too.
　
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