The Fake Hero Crashes the Party: Volume 1 [Parts 1 to 8] by Shinonome Kousyaku

Author:Shinonome Kousyaku
Language: eng
Format: epub

After a narrow escape from the knights, every nation called for my head for the crimes of impersonating the hero and stealing the holy sword Arianrhod. My party was pursued by knights and soldiers alike.

To make matters worse, the people we’d mistreated while masquerading as the Hero’s Party were out for revenge. Commoners who’d come to hate us were aiding the efforts to track us down.

Gladius and Mary didn’t stick with me for long. “Liar!” was the last word I heard from them. Later, I heard terrible stories about how they’d met their ends.

Not long after losing an arm to the Thunderbolt of the Eight Warlords, Gladius had struggled to defend himself when overwhelmed by an angry mob. He’d died at the hands of people weaker than himself. Many blamed him for the family members they’d lost and had wanted revenge.

Mary’s noble status had been enough to ensure her safety at first, but she’d shown no remorse and continued to mistreat commoners. The final straw had been her reaction when her carriage ran over a destitute mother and child. The people were enraged and rebelled against her. To quell the uprising, her family was stripped of all power and she was executed by the guillotine.

These outcomes weren’t surprising. The Hero’s Party existed to give the common people hope, and its status was the only reason people had looked past the way we mistreated them. Once we’d lost their support, the party was bound to fall apart. Neither Gladius nor Mary had understood this. My one regret was that I’d failed to make either of them see the errors in their ways of thinking.

Even before I’d been found out as the fake hero, I’d been losing the faith of nations and the people, because even solitary monsters had been a struggle for me as the holy sword’s power faded in my hands. Now that I’d been exposed as the fake hero, what little respect the party had was gone. Gladius and Mary had been doomed ever since.

Gladius and Mary weren’t exactly good people, but it was I who’d fooled them into accompanying me on my journey. I’d had no defense when they accused me of being a liar. Now that they’d both fallen to the wrath of the people, I was certain to be next.

“Haah... Haah... Ha ha ha. Things can’t get any worse than this.”

I was on the edge of a cliff with a magnificent view.

I’d been using the holy sword, dulled to the point of being black, to drive back pursuing soldiers without killing a single one. I struggled to stay on my feet as I felt an urge to collapse to my knees.

“I didn’t think I’d have to deal with monsters too. How’d they know where I was? Oh well, I’m just glad they didn’t hurt the locals.”

I’d lost track of how long I’d been fighting. It might have been weeks or a month. The days were all blurring into one.

It had been ceaseless. I’d faced the church’s assassins, pursuers dispatched by governments, and demons trying to steal the holy sword.

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