I have become stronger, but also shorter [comprehensive]

——For this call, it is worth giving everything.

That was probably all Solomon was thinking at that moment.

Don't look at how fast he reacted when he saw the future through clairvoyance, when he planned everything and summoned Antaxia's sister, it seemed that he knew everything about the plan.

Heroic Spirit, who is honored as the king of magic, can't help but hesitate when facing the man who once gave him his "heart".

He was really too cautious, and he didn't have the confidence that a crowned caster should have.

He wanted to get closer, but he didn't dare to show up.

After finally taking a long time to take a step forward, after actually sitting down, his mouth opened, and all the words he had conceived disappeared in a daze, leaving his mind empty.

"This point, you still haven't changed."

Eric deliberately didn't look sideways at him. Apart from being vaguely uncomfortable himself, he was also thinking about the child—he always felt that if he looked directly at him, Jedidia would throw himself to the ground up.

The young man folded his arms around his chest, his eyes still fixed on the vast galaxy above his head.

"Being so silent in front of me, if you don't tell your true thoughts, it is impossible for others to know."

"...I've got it, Eric. It's just that, for a moment, there's—"

Solomon stopped suddenly.

He didn't realize until this moment that he still didn't seem to have made much progress.

There seemed to be something stuck in his throat that was difficult to swallow and could not blurt out. This was the biggest obstacle preventing him from shortening the distance between him and Eric.

His feelings for Eric.

It's really hard, it's hard to say it all in a few words.

As long as you know... the current Solomon still has a "fear" that cannot be resolved for a while.

He was very afraid that this was an illusion like a dream, just like when he was still alive, he dreamed back at midnight, dreaming countless times that the silver-haired man was sitting in the sea of ​​blood, his limbs were broken, and his breathing had stopped...

"I have convinced you, whether it is true or false, are you still not sure?"

well.

Eric finally couldn't pretend to look up at the starry sky coldly anymore, damn it, his neck was sore.

Jedidiah, who had grown crooked like this for some reason, was brought to him with his own hands.

Then, he did it himself——

"Have you touched it? Although it feels strange to say that myself——but I'm still alive and well!"

He pulled Solomon's arm over, and pressed the stupid kid's palm directly on his neck.

Of course by the pulse in the neck!

Pressing the chest would have been fine, but when Eric was planning to do this, he suddenly remembered something very important!

So I forced a turn and changed places.

The change was so quick it should have been subtle... well, it should have been.Anyway, there is no need to care about such a small detail!

The point is the pulse.

The Heroic Spirit who was forcibly pulled by the arm trembled slightly. The reason, of course, was that he felt the pulsating sensation coming from under his fingers.

The boy in front of him was undoubtedly human.

Just because he is a human being who is still alive, his heart will beat endlessly, and his pulse will keep beating, which indicates that this is a real life.

"..."

"Yes……"

Eric looked at Solomon, who was stunned as expected. Normally, if he encountered such a troublesome guy, he would have already lost his patience.

But there are exceptions to everything, and Jedidiah, who was brought up by him himself, is such an "exception".

The boy has recovered all his memories, and no longer separates his past self from his present self.

Facing the half-kneeling heroic spirit in front of him with a dazed expression, but even uglier than crying, there is only lingering guilt and helplessness in his heart.

In his memory, Jedidiah has always needed to be guided slowly, and even if he does something wrong, he can be indulged as much as possible.

He has always been tolerant of him, not to mention that Solomon came to this world in the form of a heroic spirit, and his appearance remained at the peak of his youth, which perfectly catered to the memories that moved him the most.

"Now you can believe it."

With an incomparable gentleness (saying it would scare to death anyone who has seen his impatient appearance), Eric thought for a while, then raised his hand, intending to touch the head of Jedidiah who was close in front of him .

After Solomon experienced some ups and downs in his mental journey, at this moment, joy and satisfaction were greater than anything else.

He finally couldn't control himself, and leaned forward, as if he wanted to muster up the most courage, and hugged the boy tightly...

Solomon (suddenly overwhelmed with murderous intent): "...!!!"

correct!This is not an illusion!

Without turning his head at all, the almighty magic king can know who is staring at him surrounded by black air behind his back.

Antaxia: "..."

Assassin's eyes at this moment can be called terrifying.

If it wasn't for the inability to kill the crowned caster with his eyes, and in front of the respected king, Solomon would have been incinerated by the angry witch and kicked back to the Hall of Valor.

Antasya is trying to bear it.

She would not comment on any of the king's decisions, but this was the only point - the king's unchanging tolerance for Solomon for thousands of years was something Antasia could never let go of.

In her eyes, Solomon was a shameless murderer who killed the king. No matter what reason she gave, even if it was "he had no hearts at the time", she would never forgive him for his betrayal.

Even if, even if His Majesty the Wise One personally——

"Antaxia."

"Yes!"

"Sit beside me too."

"Here I come, king!

Change your attitude in a second, without any hesitation.

The blackness in Assassin's eyes disappeared in an instant, and she walked over with light steps, and the joy was completely from the bottom of her heart.

——Just pretend not to know that she ignored Solomon, but stepped between the king and that who were very close, and forced the poor caster away.

Solomon, who was pushed to the far side, looked sluggish, but he didn't dare to rob Antasia, who was so fierce that she could really burn people, and he didn't dare to go around to Eric's other side in a grandiose way.

Eric is sure--you have to pretend not to know!What's wrong!

He is not partial.

Fully understanding "myself"'s original mood, and the sin of abandoning responsibility and leaving in a hurry, Eric's feelings towards Antaxia are naturally extremely complicated.

Although Antaxia didn't seem to blame him at all, and even defended him as before, he couldn't accept it with peace of mind.

Immediately solving the misunderstanding between the two of them would have been the best choice, but it looks like this...

Forget it.

Eric started to have a headache again, so he might as well not think too much on this rare day when he was in a good mood, and leave the problem until the day to think about it.

And so, under a different sky than the sky seen from Papara thousands of years ago, the people who were once like family sat together with the Heroic Spirit.

This scene can almost be called a "miracle".

"Is the warmth I feel, the you I saw with my own eyes, really real? Oh king, please forgive me for losing my composure in front of you again. I thought that since you..., I will not..."

"Why did you start it too? I've said it several times, am I not here, and I won't disappear like ice cubes melting."

After comforting this, and then comforting that, Eric finally regained the feeling of being a parent in a small place where he was a king.

It's about to dawn.

A lot happened that night, and Eric took the opportunity to think a lot.

He thought, after this time of life and death, the self who came here has indeed changed a lot.

The period of memory loss played a crucial role in this change.

It is precisely because he forgot the past that carried too much and the pressure far more than the precious things when he was first resurrected, that Eric had the opportunity to be "Eric" and take off the burden one step before turning back into that man.

This journey as "Eric" is generally full of luck.

The people he met at first were real heroes and young girls with innocent hearts. They made him soften his heart and reluctantly accept the completely strange world after "amnesia".

Just right, soul friends who completely matched him in strength and personality came next, or two at the same time.

So far, it is no exaggeration to say so.

Without the appearance of these people, it is hard to say what Eric would have become.

Probably because of meeting a completely different group of people, it will lead to a completely different development.

He may also be able to untangle his heart, but the road should be much more difficult, and there will be unexpected ups and downs... It's useless to think so much, another possibility, who knows what it looks like.

However, thinking of this, Eric suddenly missed his friends a little bit.

Let me declare first, there is only [one point]!

He also emphasized earlier that he didn't care what the two guys who thought of him as a free air conditioner were doing, and it was only [by the way] that he remembered them for the second time.

Well.

When the matter here is resolved, go back and have a look.

Maybe Saitama and Kusuo regretted being bored without him, because of the sincere regret——

Fine.

He still really wanted to see them.

To meet a friend who is indeed very important to him...

"Understood, the master's wish has been confirmed."

"How do you know—wait who made you act, what kind of trouble are you going to cause me again?!"

It is at this special time that no one can predict.

The hidden condition for the arrival of avenger Karna was definitely fulfilled.

This eclectic heroic spirit is officially launched!

It took less than a few seconds in total.

Eric, plus the previous life and the current life, failed to stop the "disaster" that was clearly in front of him for the first time.

In the next second, he was stunned speechless by a [familiar, important, friend's] heroic spirit that suddenly appeared in his field of vision.

It's true that I can't say a word.

Just like Solomon who hesitated to speak to him before...

No.

He is indeed the strongest man in the world.

Compared with Solomon, he is still much stronger.

At least under the steady gaze of those familiar eyes that almost made him lose his mind, he still called out the other person's name with great difficulty:

"kindness……"

"..."

"... Enkidu."