159 159 "Memory of Ferid ③" (2/2)

Above all, that which is demanded by people. That's what you were aiming for.

And so, even though he became a great hero, he continued to fight alone.

To be wanted by the people, to be relied upon by the people, and to be abandoned by the people.

What did he fight for?

What made him a hero.

A man who has lost his purpose returns to his original self.

It's a time when he was still smiling. A memory of a time when he was happy.

What was it?

Before she became a hero, when she lived deep in the woods with Mime and the demons who loved her.

She was despised by the villagers and had no human friends.

But even so, Ferrid was happy at that time.

He had a warm family.

He had friends who weren't people, but were demons.

So why did he leave it behind and depart?

The answer is simple.

Because I couldn't stand the stares and voices of the people around me.

A human should have human friends.

It's not normal to live with a witch or a demon. Strange.

Because he couldn't stand those so-called public voices anymore.

I guess it was Ferrid's own weakness of mind that prevented him from having the courage to stay there.

Oh, my god.

While becoming a great warrior, FERIDO is aware of his own mental weakness.

When he visited the forest where he was born and the hut where he once lived with Mime, he saw a dilapidated and abandoned house.

The demons that once gathered there were gone, and when he saw himself covered in demon blood, none of the forest's demons approached him.

And so Ferid set off on a distant journey alone.

There is no purpose.

Even if you become a great hero by sacrificing Mime, you can't grow the world.

Even if you worked hard on your own, it would be meaningless.

Then he meets Kyou.

It was there that he lived with the demon Felid had once abandoned.

He laughed through it all. He seemed happy. And above all, he was surrounded by his friends.

Oh, how I envied him.

This man became what he never was.

It was a far more dazzling sight than becoming a great warrior.

And so, after parting with Kyou, Felid met Semargul, the goddess' guardian.

He said.

For the world to grow, Kyou's growth was the best thing that could happen to it.

He and those around him are the key to it.

Hearing that, Felid realized that it was his turn to become like Mime.

For the sake of the world's evolution and, above all, for the role of a great hero, FERRID accepted the request.