The Banished Former Hero Lives as He Pleases: Volume 4 [Parts 1 to 11] by Shin Kouduki

Author:Shin Kouduki
Language: eng
Format: epub

An Unsatisfying Outcome

Allen sighed as he looked out the window. He wore a muted, gloomy expression.

“Looks like you weren’t satisfied with the outcome. Or maybe you can’t accept it.” It was Riese, standing beside him. She must have finished healing everyone.

He turned toward her. “Maybe. Who could?”

“I suppose you’re right. We can’t. The townspeople and adventurers can’t. Maybe even the Black Wolf Knights can’t. It was all over before anyone was able to understand exactly what happened.”

The blockade had been lifted, and the Black Wolf Knights had withdrawn. Those facts had been announced to the whole town. The reasons remained unclear; no word of explanation was offered. The people were relieved to be able to leave the city again, and those with business to take care of quickly departed despite their dissatisfaction with the lack of details.

Allen’s group hadn’t left yet. They had to make sure that everyone was healed first. Mylène and Noel didn’t have any life-threatening injuries, but they were still wounded. It was Curtis who really needed healing, though.

“How’s Curtis, anyway?” Allen asked.

“He’s sleeping. I don’t think he’s in any serious danger, but maybe you should give him a look, just in case?”

“Hey, I’m not a doctor,” he protested, but he quickly gave in and smiled. “Sure.” He looked toward the wall that joined their room of the inn with the one where Curtis was sleeping. The man’s wounds were too severe to be quickly healed, so Allen had carried him there.

With Allen and Riese to care for him, there was no need to take him to a hospital. Besides, any hospital would have struggled to do much for someone with a hole blasted through his abdomen, which was what the Black Wolf Knight had done to Curtis. Outside of magic, only a potion could heal such an injury, and those were magic items, not medicine. If they truly needed a potion, they’d be more likely to find one at an apothecary, and even then it would be pricey.

“To be honest, I feel the same as you,” said Riese.

“Oh?”

“You stopped that man from doing whatever he’d planned to do to Noel, to Mylène, to Curtis and all those people at the inn. But I can’t help but feel like...”

“We let him get away?”

“Yes. I can’t be satisfied with that.”

Allen hadn’t killed the man. He’d been stopped just before delivering the final blow. It wasn’t that he had any qualms about killing. In fact, he hadn’t given it a second thought, but in the end, it wouldn’t have been the right thing to do.

“It is what it is,” he replied. “What she said was true.”

It wasn’t force but the female knight’s appeal to his sense of law and reason that had stopped him. She’d warned him that, though she understood his feelings, as a condemned criminal, the man was effectively a ward of the empire. Killing him could have brought all kinds of trouble down upon Allen’s head—or at least provide a valid excuse for doing so. But that wasn’t the argument that had convinced him.

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