I Kidnapped the Hero Party – Chapter 28

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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“Luna, what is your sword?”

Jun-woo was serious.

Luna turned that question to her heart.

‘What is my sword? He’s probably not asking about the type of wooden sword!’

She had never thought about it before since she was a villager who had never swung a sword.

She didn’t swing the sword with the mindset of knights, she only swung the sword to defeat Mister.

‘Then, isn’t my sword a ‘winning sword’?!’

This must be the right answer!!

Luna answered Jun-woo.

“My sword is a winning sword! A sword to defeat Mister!”

“…That’s surprising.”

“What?”

“I’m surprised at how incredibly stupid that answer is.”

“Huh?”

But she answered seriously?

Jun-woo’s wooden sword came down on Luna’s head.

“Yelp!”

“That’s the wrong answer. Think again, Luna.”

“Tch, I said my sword is a winning sword! Why are you deciding it’s the wrong answer!”

Tap-

Jun-woo raised his wooden sword again.

Luna, as if nothing had happened, began to contemplate deeply.

‘Hmm, my sword…’

It was a sword to defeat Mister.

To defeat Mister…

‘Why am I trying to defeat Mister?’

The answer was close.

Snicker-

Luna confidently shouted.

“My sword is for escape… No, haha. I’ll think about it again!”

“That’s a good idea, Luna.”

Because Jun-woo raised his wooden sword, Luna decided to think again.

If a sword for escape was the wrong answer, why was she trying to escape?

More than that, why was she staying here?

‘I’m staying for money.’

Although she was forced to stay, her purpose was money.

Then, what was she earning money for?

That was…

“A sword for my family… A sword to protect my family!”

“That’s the correct answer, Luna.”

A sword to protect her family, which will gradually expand its range, extending to a sword to protect people, because the Hero is born with such a fate.

Jun-woo was satisfied with Luna’s answer.

“Yes, Luna. Your sword is a sword for protection. Then, I’ll teach you how to protect.”

“Oh, ooh!!”

A sword for protection, was she finally learning the sword?

Luna gripped her sword tightly at Jun-woo’s words.

What kind of swordsmanship would he teach?

Although she hated to admit it, Jun-woo’s swordsmanship was refined and sharp.

Luna was full of anticipation.

“Come on, teach me! Teach me swordsmanship!”

“…First, I’ll teach you how to hold the sword. Your posture is wrong.”

“What?”

It was rocky from the start-

Jun-woo approached Luna.

On the surface, Luna seemed to be holding the sword properly.

However, while only the ‘surface’ looked polished, there were mountains of points to be corrected.

“Luna, stay still. I’ll show you.”

“What? St-Stay still- Kyaa! Where are you touching!”

“I’m correcting your posture. Stay still.”

Jun-woo looked around Luna’s body.

Like fixing a machine, he searched for mistakes and reassembled them.

“Your front leg is too far out.”

“O-Okay-! I’ll pull it in- Aah! Do-Don’t touch me!”

“Be quiet. Don’t make a fuss.”

In Jun-woo’s eyes, Luna was just a child.

He couldn’t feel anything in the process of correcting her posture, only Luna was feeling embarrassed and rejecting Jun-woo’s touch.

Jun-woo took a position where he was hugging Luna from behind.

“The hand holding the sword should be soft, not rough…”

“Ye-Yes…? So-Soft…? Eeh…?”

“…Focus, Luna. Do you want to go back to basic training?”

“N-No…! I’ll focus!”

Luna felt like her head was about to explode, but because she hated basic training, she tried her best to match Jun-woo’s actions.

‘…Mister’s muscles are really firm.’

Discovering a new aspect about him, Luna enjoyed learning swordsmanship during the training.

Meanwhile a pair of red eyes were watching their training…

Gnaw-

“Mi-Mister… Have you grown to dislike me…? Is that why you’re with Luna… looking so happy…? Ple-Please don’t abandon me… Mister…”

Biting the flesh of her fingers, Hare watched them from the window that wouldn’t open.

Anxiety and jealousy became firewood, burning Hare’s heart.

“…Luna is a thief… Wh-While I’m gone, with Mister like that… It’s too much… She said she wasn’t interested in Mister… Making such a happy face… Sniff,”

Hare’s eyes were bloodshot from having no more tears to shed.

Her gaze was fixed on the two people, and during her time in solitary confinement, Hare was realizing what her mistake was.

“I shouldn’t have been caught… I should have been more cunning and meticulous… so that Mister would never find out…”

Because it was not a crime if you were not caught.

She should have made the plan more precise, although the direction wasn’t right, Hare was reflecting in her own way.

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In Minerva’s library, where only owl sounds could be heard when Jun-woo wasn’t around.

There, Minerva was drinking coffee and catching up on the story so far.

“Her confinement is going smoothly! The thief will become closer to being a thief. It seems to be a very good situation.”

The book titled ‘Yuriana Hare’ was in Minerva’s hands.

It contained Yuriana Hare’s future and predicted that the confinement would have a positive effect on her.

Mainly, effects on Hare as a thief, not as a human.

“Having realized her mistake from a failed plan, next time she’ll make a more meticulous plan. Very good, right, Mieng?”

“Hoo- Hoo-”

The librarian owl of Minerva’s library, shortened to Mieng, nodded its beak up and down.

“Yes, I don’t like that her obsession with Jun-woo has increased a bit… But due to the anxiety of possibly being abandoned, she won’t try to kill her companions. Even if she actually moves, she’ll act meticulously so that it can never be detected.”

A thief must be meticulous for the future, Jun-woo’s experience of confinement in the ‘thinking room’ method was to make one realize their own mistakes and think in their own direction.

Even to Minerva, it seemed like an excellent plan.

“…It’s a bit immoral by human standards! But Jun-woo used what he learned from his teacher, so he’ll think it’s the right method, right?”

“Hoo-! Hoo-!”

Mieng agreed too.

Nadia Aina.

The name of the person who took Jun-woo as a disciple when he was in his first year.

She was a mage overflowing with talent, but she lost her life for Jun-woo, and it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that Jun-woo was influenced by all of Aina’s actions.

‘Four months. That’s how long I taught you, Jun-woo. Do you have anything to reflect on?’

‘It’s my first time, how can I be good from the start? Give me a little more time.’

‘My disciple is quite rude. I guess I have no choice but to make you realize forcibly. Now, go in Jun-woo.’

‘What? Go in where…’

‘The period is 30 days. Figure it out and come out on your own. If you can’t, you’re expelled.’

‘…What?’

Bang-

Aina, dissatisfied with Jun-woo’s magic progress, confined him in the thinking room.

For 30 days, Jun-woo was immersed in the pain of loneliness.

However, they say pain becomes nourishment and makes people grow.

Jun-woo, confined in the room, could accurately grasp what was wrong with his magic, what he was doing wrong, because it was a room made solely for ‘thinking’.

Recalling Jun-woo’s past, Minerva got goosebumps all over her body.

“Ugh, she was a completely crazy teacher. It seems Jun-woo has become strange from learning from a weird person…”

But well, the Hero’s party needed to defeat the Demon Lord’s.

There was no method more effective than that!

“And although Aina had a nasty personality, she did well for Jun-woo. That’s why it’s even more pitiful…”

“Hoo… Hoo…”

Mieng sympathized with that woman Aina too.

Aina, parted with her disciple whom she loved at the moment of her death.

Because she knew better than anyone that if she said she loved him, those words would become a curse and pierce Jun-woo’s heart.

She left the world without even being able to convey her feelings.

“Oh, I don’t know! Forget the past, the present and future are important! Mieng! Bring Jun-woo’s future right now!”

“Hoo-!”

Mieng saluted and returned with a book gripped in its wings, it was a fresh new edition of ‘Jun-woo’s Future’.

There are many variables in the world, and the biggest variable for Jun-woo was the ‘Hero’s party’.

Minerva had to check every time a new edition came out.

Jun-woo was originally a person who should have died, he was a person who escaped the fate of death.

Because the world wanted the end of him who defied death, Minerva always checked Jun-woo’s future.

If Jun-woo, the only human apostle, died, Minerva would be forgotten from the world.

Minerva began to read the book.

“The changes in this new edition are… Hmm…”

Let’s see…

Hmm…?

There’s nothing special until the middle…

The ending…?

“Jun-woo, why is he in Luna’s hometown ‘Arden Village’? And why does he die?”

Luna’s hometown Arden.

Jun-woo would meet his death there, it would happen in less than a month.

“Wh-What?! Damn it, how should I pose the problem so that Jun-woo doesn’t die..?! Ah, my head hurts!”

Minerva, who always thought of Jun-woo, got a headache.

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“Hehe, today’s sword training was fun!”

Luna swung her wooden sword up and down to remember the posture.

‘Use your whole arm, not just your wrist, to swing the sword.’

Luna swung the sword as Jun-woo had said.

“One!”

Whoosh-

“Two!”

Whoosh-

“Three!”

“Stop!! St-Stop swinging in the room…!! I’m going to die!!”

“Ah, right. I forgot Estia was here.”

I was too focused on the sword to notice…

Estia was crumpled in the corner.

Her heart was pounding because the wooden sword had just grazed her face.

“Th-There’s a person here! Huh?! I almost died!! I’m already on edge because there’s no holy water!!”

“Ah, sorry! Mistake! Mistake! I’ll swing more carefully next time!”

“…Does swinging carefully mean it won’t hit? Goddess. Please pray that I survive today… Pray that I don’t die from that vicious sword…”

Whoosh- Whoosh-

Hearing the sound of wind being cut, Estia prayed with her hands clasped in the corner of the room.

Luna couldn’t see the desperate Estia.

Luna’s concentration was at its peak, and she was dissecting her sword posture, so she couldn’t see the situation around her.

“Like this, put the leg forward… and slash sideways…”

Crash-

“Eek…!! Goddess…! I’m departing for heaven today…!! Please, give me one holy water before I die…! I beg you earnestly…!!”

Along with Estia’s cries, Luna’s training continued, and in Luna’s heart, someone’s voice was leaking out.

-Her…

Because she was concentrating, she thought it was Estia’s voice, but it was clearly someone else’s voice.

To that voice, Luna…

“If I change the posture like this, it might be more efficient? Or not?”

She didn’t hear it because she was concentrating.

As Luna’s swordsmanship gradually developed, that voice seemed to become clearer.

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