FERRID speaks. It's the story of how he became a brave man, and how he became a great brave man.
　It is also the story of what he lost on the way there.

　Originally, FERRID was an abandoned child.
　A baby abandoned in a village on the outskirts of a kingdom.
　His class was below that of a commoner, and the kingdom to which he belonged was a country with a strict class system, a country where birth was everything, as was common in this world at the time.

　A witch who happened to be visiting the town picked up the abandoned man.
　Her name was Mime.
　He didn't call himself a witch, though.
　In that village, that person was simply called a witch and despised.

　She lives with the demons deep in the woods, a short distance from the village.
　Living with a demon that attacks people is a strange fact for the country, and the person who could make such a thing possible could be suspected to be a person affiliated with the demon king, a witch.
　However, it is a fact that the person who occasionally comes to the village to sell valuable demonic materials, and for that reason, while despising her, she was not persecuted.
　Still, no one in the village approached her and tried to get close to her.

　Did she pick up the abandoned baby out of compassion or on a whim? Or was she just looking for a human connection too?
　Either way, she picked up the baby, named it Felid, and raised it with care.

　In the forest where Mime lived, there were many demons who loved her.
　There were jack-o'-lanterns, devil carrots, mushrooms and almiraj.
　They, too, adored FERRID and came to love him.
　And so, raised by Mime, he looked up to her as a mother figure.

　He also took her place and frequented the village, where he got to know some of the children and villagers.
　But none of them would be his friends, assuming that Ferid was a child raised by a witch.
　Some were frightened, some despised him, and some threw stones and bullied him for it.
　Felid herself shed tears and was heartbroken many times by the punishment.

　Why did he do this to himself?
　Can't I make friends and live a normal life like the other children?
　The demons and Mime occasionally comforted him, but he couldn't help but feel that his human friends were dazzlingly unavailable to him.

　Then Mime, who was raising him, advised Ferid.

If you want people to like you, try to be a hero.

　It was the only way for a person, regardless of birth or circumstances, to achieve greatness in this world.
　The brave system.
　The person who achieves a certain level of success or greatness in any field is awarded the title of hero by the state, and the person who obtains the divine skill called the creation skill is known as the great hero.
　It was the only way for the despised demon girl, FERIDO, to gain the attention of the people.
　Ferid immediately follows Mime's suggestion and she teaches him the means and abilities to become a hero.

　To FERRID, becoming a hero means to fulfill his ambitions. It was not about fulfilling his ambition.
　It was simply a mundane little desire to make friends and to be noticed by people.
　But such a small desire would drive him mad.

　In order to be recognized as a hero, each country you belong to has its own achievements and record of battle.
　Felid's country is a particularly privileged one with a privileged status system; for example, a nobleman and an ordinary citizen may or may not be considered brave for the same achievement.
　It is said that Ferid is an abandoned child and was raised by a witch.
　Of course, neither the guild nor the kingdom rewarded him for his achievements.

　As an adventurer, he had tried on several occasions to join other parties.
　But his background as an orphan. His background of being raised by witches discriminated against him here as well, and no one would let him join their party.
　On several occasions, he was allowed in, but he was treated as a bottom-feeder, a scaled-down version of the bullying he had received in his village.
　In the end, the only thing left for him to do was to become a hero on his own.

　To do so, he passed through the death line many times, killing countless demons and even high ranking ones all by himself.
　He almost died many times, but each time he stood up and continued to grow.
　Although he would normally be recognized as a hero, people who look at him are cold.
　I'm sure you'll be able to do better than that." "We could have done better." "We just happened to do better, that's all.

　Even when he returned to his home village, the villagers' response to him was dismissive.
　"You're doing reasonably well, but you're not yet a hero, are you?
　That kind of cold mockery didn't go away forever.

　Why am I missing. What's wrong. What's wrong with you.

　I want people to recognize me. Only with this single-mindedness did Ferid further train himself to go to the dead and forge beyond the limits.
　He was ten years old when he set his sights on becoming a hero, and for the next ten years he trained himself tirelessly until he was twenty.

　During that time, he had defeated S-ranked demons alone.
　He conquered unprecedented ruins that no one had ever found before.
　Occasionally, he fought off heroic title holders who wanted to sue him.

　But they still did not recognize him as a hero.

　How to be recognized. How do I get in that circle. How can I be treated like a man?
　When he was still troubled, Mime, who was in the forest where they parted ways, met him and whispered something to him.

If you really want to be a hero and be accepted by the people, there is only one way to do it.

　When asked how to do this, Mime replied quietly.

He said quietly, "You have to defeat the SS-ranked demons.