Not All Heroes From Earth Are Bad-Chapter 244

In the city of Cartesia, the capital of the Cartun territory.

In the center of this city, which is no less than any other metropolis, stands a massive temple.

Originally, a temple was a place to serve gods and preach their teachings.

Naturally, it should be more sacred than any other place.

“Ahhh~ Haaa~”

“Ahahahaha! Today is a joyous day! Ahah, alcohol! Bring alcohol! Ahahahaha! Alcohol!”

The massive hall inside the temple.

In this place called the chapel, people worshipped alcohol and drugs instead of god.

Moans filled every corner.

With every breath, an intoxicating scent that made one dizzy invaded the nose.

Naked men and women mingled together, washing each other’s bodies with alcohol.

“Aah, this is divine grace…! The grace of god!”

“Mmhmm~ Divine grace, you say? What are you talking about?”

“Isn’t this soft skin the grace of god!”

A place where sacredness cannot be found even if you wash your eyes and look.

This temple was at the edge of hedonism.

Showing how greedy humans can become.

And how ugly they can get.

At such an edge of hedonism.

“Cardinal~ How are you enjoying today’s party~?”

On the platform located at the front of the pleasure-filled hall.

A bald middle-aged man with a protruding belly like a mountain spoke.

His name is Ketel Tolson.

He was the lord of the Cartun territory.

“Of course. Thanks to the excellent lord, this old man lives so youthfully, I feel like I can easily go on for another 50 years.”

An old man with half-lidded eyes laughed.

He was Cardinal Maurizio.

Both the lord and cardinal were lying naked, surrounded by women who pressed their bodies close while serving them alcohol and food.

“Hahahaha! If the Cardinal is happy, what can’t I do!? I always trust only in the Cardinal!”

“Of course. Who in this Kingdom of Doisman would dare defy my words? My lord, just trust and follow me as you have done until now.”

In fact, the Cartun territory where the temple is located wasn’t that large.

To begin with, the Kingdom of Doisman where they were is the same.

A small land attached to the eastern part of the Holy Empire of Gatren.

It’s a small kingdom with a total population of barely 500,000.

The Cartun territory is just a small territory in such a small kingdom of Doisman.

“All of this is thanks to the Cardinal. I swear my loyalty!”

The reason why Cartesia, the capital of such a small territory, was reborn as the largest city in the Kingdom of Doisman was all thanks to Cardinal Maurizio.

Cardinal Maurizio settled down in this Cartesia 20 years ago.

The city, backed by the mighty power of a Cardinal, rapidly grew in size.

Around 10 years after the Cardinal’s arrival, Cartesia was reborn as the largest city in the Kingdom of Doisman.

It continued to grow even after that, and now after 20 years, it has reached the point of absorbing half of the Kingdom of Doisman’s population.

“By the way, the king is quite despicable. Not showing his face on such an auspicious day.”

“Leave him be. He’s nothing more than a puppet anyway.”

The trampling and burial of the king’s dignity happened long ago.

Lord Ketel Tolson’s power far exceeded that of the king.

He wielded absolute power as the kingdom’s highest authority.

All of this was possible because of the mighty backing of the Cardinal.

Well aware of this fact, Lord Ketel Tolson always prostrated himself before Cardinal Maurizio.

“By the way, Cardinal. About that engagement, you mentioned last time…”

The Lord brought up the topic in a subtle voice.

The Cardinal immediately understood what he was trying to say.

“Of course, with your son, my lord! My granddaughter is still a young girl spouting foolish things about love, but after a little while, she’ll understand reality.”

“Hahaha! As always, I’ll trust and wait for the Cardinal!”

The Cardinal and the lord shared sinister smiles, neither being the first to do so.

A deal to pass down their vile bond to the next generation.

With this, our kingdom will continue forever!

That’s what they thought.

Until the chapel door suddenly opened.

Clank-!

The one who entered was an ordinary guard.

Having run at full speed, his forehead was glistening with sweat.

The guard took a deep breath and shouted.

“Big trouble!!!”

“Ahahahaha! Alcohol! Bring more alcohol!”

“Ahnng~”

The guard shouted with all his might, but it was useless.

No one already steeped in drugs and alcohol paid attention to the guard’s cry.

The guard muttered with an ashen face.

“No… They’re coming…!”

“Ah, sorry. We’re already here.”

Startled by the voice behind him, he turned around.

A large man who seemed at least a span taller.

He grinned as he grabbed the guard’s head.

“Ah…”

In an instant, the world turned upside down.

The guard flew quickly through the air.

At the end of his trajectory were the Cardinal and lord who had been drinking together.

***

“Older sister. Is this that great plan?”

“Why? Got a problem?”

“No, not at all.”

“I have my reasons for doing this. Just go in without saying anything more.”

“Yes.”

Right after safely entering Cartesia.

Choi Hyun-seok and Park Hyun-a headed straight to the temple.

Finding the temple wasn’t difficult.

All the carriages coming from outside were heading toward the temple.

And with all the bright lights shining around it, it was impossible not to notice.

“Who…”

“Get lost!”

They instantly sent the holy knight guarding the temple entrance flying.

The two warriors who entered headed toward the chapel where music could be heard.

The holy knights and guards blocking their way in between were knocked down in less than a few seconds.

As the music got louder, they could feel the unpleasant smell tickling their noses getting stronger.

“We must escape!”

Upon arriving at the chapel, they saw a guard earnestly fulfilling his duty.

“It’s a waste of talent to be in this trash heap.”

Choi Hyun-seok grabbed the guard’s head and threw him.

Their targets were the old man and the pot-bellied bald man who appeared to be the masters of this den of debauchery.

Crash-!

“Kyaaaak-!”

The thrown soldier collided with the Cardinal and Lord, all tumbling together.

Nearby women screamed.

The feast continued.

“Ahaha! This is the best! The best!”

“Here, look over here too~ Ahing!”

Seeing the feast continue even after the Cardinal and Lord were knocked down, Choi Hyun-seok swallowed a hollow laugh.

“Haa… It really is a party.”

How mad must humans be to reach such a state?

Some people even snickered while looking at the tumbling Cardinal.

“No!”

At that moment, Rachel suddenly poked Choi Hyun-seok’s eyes with her tiny hands.

“Argh! Shit!”

“Warrior! Quick, close your eyes!” 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

“What nonsense are you suddenly spouting!?”

“Th-th-they’re naked! No! Absolutely not! This is R-rated!”

“Get lost!”

Choi Hyun-seok peeled Rachel off and threw her with all his might.

The targets were still the Cardinal and Lord who couldn’t regain their senses and were flailing about.

The thrown Rachel instantly burrowed between them.

“Kyaaak! Dirty! Dirty! Dirtyyyy!”

Rachel, buried between flesh covered in alcohol and sweat, screamed.

That’s when Park Hyun-a arrived.

Having just arrived after dealing with the holy knights, she frowned and covered her nose.

“What the hell… What is this?”

“It’s a party.”

“Tsk, filthy bastards.”

“Hueeeng! The warrior! The warrior made me dirty!”

“What’s wrong with her now?”

“Just ignore her.”

They ignored Rachel who was approaching while whining.

It seemed they needed to finish the job quickly before they went crazy from staying here any longer.

“What should we do?”

“This can’t be rehabilitated. We’ll just have to burn it all.”

Park Hyun-a stretched out her hand.

*Whoosh-!*

Blazing flames instantly covered the chapel.

Only then did people realize something was wrong and started screaming?

“Kyaaaaa!”

“Hot! Hot! Save me-!”

“Hehehehe, it’s hell! Heeeell!”

The end of pleasure was hell.

People running around while burning.

Amidst all this, intense holy power burst forth from a corner of the chapel.

“Seems he still had some sense left.”

In terms of holy power, it easily surpassed the hero.

Probably a defensive magic used by the Cardinal.

“I’ll take care of it.”

“Alright.”

Choi Hyun-seok lightly kicked the ground.

*Whoosh-!*

Instantly crossing the chapel and arriving in front of the barrier, Choi Hyun-seok extended his fist.

The barrier shattered in an instant.

They saw the trembling Lord and Cardinal.

“Y-you! Do you know who this person is to do such…”

The pot-bellied bald Lord Ketel, still not having regained his senses.

He died with his head exploding before finishing his sentence.

“You…”

Cardinal Maurizio stared at Choi Hyun-seok with eyes that looked like they would pop out.

He seemed to know who Choi Hyun-seok is.

Choi Hyun-seok asked with a calm expression.

“Aren’t you going to transform?”

“Transform? What do you mean?”

“Other Cardinals turned into muscle monsters.”

“… If you mean the Holy One’s grace, I haven’t received it.”

“That’s good.”

It was good news that he couldn’t become a muscle monster.

If he couldn’t transform, he was just an old man with strong holy power.

If they captured and took him like this, they could extract various information.

“For now, take a nap.”

Even a rotten croaker is still a croaker, as they say.

Since he had massive holy power befitting a Cardinal, they couldn’t just carelessly take him along.

It would be best to safely knock him unconscious before taking him.

At that moment, Choi Hyun-seok hesitated.

‘Will it be okay?’

The act of striking someone to knock them unconscious is very dangerous.

There’s a possibility they might never wake up, or become disabled.

It’s dangerous even for physically strong young people.

He worried whether such a frail old man could endure it.

“Hmm, not sure! Pray to god.”

Since he’s a devout believer, maybe god would help him.

If something goes wrong, nothing can be done about it.

After roughly rationalizing it, Choi Hyun-seok struck the Cardinal’s neck with the side of his hand.

Thwack-!

Cardinal Maurizio’s head bent in an L-shape and he collapsed.

“Okay! Success… Not.”

Upon checking, his heart wasn’t beating.

He had died even though Choi Hyun-seok had controlled his strength as much as possible.

“Uh…”

It seemed clear that this man had been abandoned by god.

“Hey! No time! Come quickly!”

Park Hyun-a’s urging voice could be heard from behind.

Choi Hyun-seok’s eyes started darting around.

“What are you doing!? It’ll be troublesome if we’re surrounded!”

“Older sister!”

“What!?”

“This old man died! I just hit him once and…”

“Forget it and just come! The Cardinals are all under restrictions anyway so we couldn’t get any information!”

“Ah, you should have told me that earlier.”

He thought he had just wasted an important source of information, but it turned out he was someone they couldn’t extract information from in the first place.

Choi Hyun-seok let out a sigh of relief and joined Park Hyun-a.

“Let’s go!”

“Yes!”

Just before leaving, Choi Hyun-seok turned his head and glanced at the burning chapel.

*Crackle, pop…!*

The hot flames turned the chapel’s interior to ashes in an instant.

The corpses were completely burned beyond recognition.

Only small embers remaining here and there burned lonely while releasing acrid smoke.

“What are you doing?”

“This much is a mission success, right?”

Choi Hyun-seok gave a thumbs up.

Park Hyun-a laughed incredulously.

“Stop messing around and come.”

“Yes.”

Following Park Hyun-a who ran ahead, Choi Hyun-seok thought.

Since when could I laugh in the face of death?

Since when could I kill people so easily?

Am I really a hero?

‘Well, fairy tales are just fairy tales. They’re different from reality.’

The heroes in fairy tales he read as a child weren’t like this.

They were always righteous and cool.

Of course, he knew it was ridiculous to compare fairy tales and reality.

‘But still. Isn’t this gap too extreme?’

The gap between reality and fairy tales.

Even defeating the evil Demon King doesn’t bring world peace.

Because real humans aren’t as good as the people in fairy tales.

When the Demon King dies, humans, more evil than the Demon King, run rampant.

A cliché love story where you rescue the princess and fall in love and get married?

There’s no such thing.

There are only princesses desperately struggling not to lose anything more, or princesses who have gone mad after losing everything.

A world where everyone is happy?

The nature of human beings doesn’t allow that.

After various thoughts, Choi Hyun-seok reached this conclusion,

‘What’s wrong is this world.’

It’s an era where textbook heroes can’t survive.

An ugly and filthy reality.

When you struggle to survive in a cesspool, your body inevitably becomes covered in filth too.

Therefore…

‘There are no bad heroes.’

There are only crazy heroes who adapted to survive in a crazy world.

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