The Hero-Killing Bride: Volume 1 [Complete] by Aoikou

Author:Aoikou
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Light Novel, magic, battle, demons, cross-dressing, yuri, female protagonist, dark fantasy, combat nuns, antihero
Publisher: J-Novel Club (generated)

Chapter 5

When I was little, there was a landscape I’d see over and over in my dreams. I didn’t remember anything about my father or my mother, but I’d dream about walking all alone through a field blanketed in white snow. I didn’t know if it was a real memory or just my imagination. But every time I had that dream, I’d wake up the next morning with my fingers shivering terribly.

It felt almost like a warning—that if I were abandoned by the Gods, by the Church, that dream would become reality. Every time I was reminded anew of that terror, I’d try to stave it off by devoting myself twice as hard to my spiritual studies and my selfless service to the Church. I delved into orisons more deeply than anyone, and I did my best to live by the Gods’ teachings.

None of that changed when I became an inquisitor, and none of it changed even when I learned the true faces of the evil bastards who manufactured the Gods.

“Please, we haven’t done anyth—”

“Yeah, never mind all that.”

And as I answered, I pulled back the sharpened bible page I’d been holding against the trembling man’s throat, slicing his head off.

Just another boring day at work.

The truth was that there weren’t any Gods, but that didn’t change anything about my world. It just meant that the adults who ran the Church were the ones who’d actually taken me in and sheltered me. They were the ones I needed to keep on being useful to—not some invisible higher power. That was much easier to work with, all in all.

I wasn’t blessed with a particularly gifted intellect or a particularly strong body compared to anyone else. I had no connections I could turn to and no family I could rely on. There were countless children out there dying in the gutters, and I was nothing but one more of them. I knew the world, and I knew myself—and what I’d learned was that I had pretty much no chance of making a living without anyone supporting me. This world wasn’t kind or gentle enough for a woman to get by on her own.

And so, I hadn’t had any choice.

Anyone would stain their hands with blood and take the lives of others if that was what it took to earn their keep. We made use of whatever we could get our hands on in order to keep on surviving—that was just obvious. Nobody wanted to end up as pig feed.

After all, there weren’t any Gods in this world of ours. There were just people who tricked and exploited others. But no matter how many holy lies the bastards spouted, no matter how much they manipulated their followers, all I could do was keep living on their good graces. I had no hope of living my life nobly, selflessly, like some champion or Hero out of a storybook. This was just how people were. Such were the limits of these creatures known as humans.

We showered champions with so much fame and glory because they were our ideals, ultimately.

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