Editing Hagure Yuusha no Aesthetica:Volume 2 Prologue (section)

===Part 3===

With that his eyes had awoken, in other words he had been sleeping.

Ousawa Akatsuki had understood what he saw was a dream.

It happened the day he left and the maids attacked him.

“To think I would see it in a dream... Seems I was pretty restless.”

While in Alayzard he had been surrounded by enemies a lot that's so even after Leon's death, fighting for his life or even if the situation had seemed desperate he had never hesitated.

But that farewell, he had let down his guard completely because of that, the whole thing seemed like a surprise attack with all the magic infused and shining weapons and on top of that starting with Valkuria all the maids were emotionless and in all honesty he was a bit frightened by it.


Scratching the back of his head Akatsuki slowly got out of bed, the room was still dark, while looking at the clock it was still in the middle of the night at 2:30AM.

Looking at the clock he narrowed his eyes and wondered to himself

“I get the feeling the shape of the clock had changed from before.”

The clock which was chipped as if it had hit something hard was made from artificial marble so he seriously wondered how that could of happened.

“Well it's all good it doesn't seem like it's broken.”

as he whispered that he faced the faint moonlight.


Opening the window, walking forward onto his veranda while looking at the night sky he thought to himself.

“Seeing that dream means that none of the things I've done there have been forgotten, those words I said to Valkuria definitely weren't a lie there’s no way I'd forget.”

The time he spent with those three, the war with the demon army and the days he spent learning Reikan Keikikou from the Fist Saint Granzes and reason why he went there in the first place... Leon's death.

“Because it was my fault.”

At the time Akatsuki had just been summoned to Alayzard and was just a young man without any abilities, Leon had shielded Akatsuki from the dagger of the demon king and thus lost his life.

At that time he had never cursed his powerless more, swearing to never lose someone important to him a second time. But in the end he still couldn't do anything. That tragedy gave birth to the rogue hero Ousawa Akatsuki.

He had starting thinking that his existence and defeating the demon king could act as a temporary relief

“Yeah right, as if it was that convenient.”

as he reprimanded himself.


Even if he had defeated the demon king and even if peace had come to Alayzard, Leon had died there was no way to change that fact.
As long as that fact was not overturned Akatsuki's guilt will never disappear.

For Risty who had known him longer than Akatsuki she would definitely be in more pain over that fact.

“I wonder what she's doing right now.” thought Akatsuki.

It's been nearly a month since he had returned to his own world but even though he's returned no time had passed at all.

But from the stories he heard while in the High Sanctuary the time that he now passes in this world will also pass in Alayzard.

Since it's been a month since the demon king was defeated, Alayzard is probably spending its days being restored.

Just defeating the demon king won't bring back the hope in people's hearts, but for Akatsuki who knows nothing about politics, he couldn't even imagine the hard work that was needed even so, with Zeks and the others helping it should be progressing little by little.


“I can't lose either.”

Akatsuki shifted his gaze filled with resolution from the night sky to the darkness covering the other side of the city.

This was a gigantic man-made island which was built upon an open section of  the interior of  Tokyo Bay.

This island was created to guide the people who had been summoned to an alternative world onto the right path.
 
To the east of the island was a mountain area filled with nature, to the west was a huge facility with cutting-edge technology and towns had spread around the facility.

There was also a landmark centered in the middle of the island which can be seen from any direction.

Staring at that landmark in the shape of a tower Ousawa Akatsuki made a proclamation-

“Just you wait old man and Sakuya, I will definitely rise to top and reach your level.”