"Felid!　I didn't expect you to beat an SS-ranked demon!

"Oh no, I didn't know our village was going to produce a great hero!

"Congratulations!　Congratulations!　By all means, attend the party tonight as the star of this village!

"We're proud of you!

I knew you'd do it someday!

　The defeat of SS-rank Bahamut.
　It was immediately announced by the confirmation of the country and the direct descent of the goddess Mokosi.
　Ferid became a great hero and was welcomed not only by his birthplace but by the whole country.

　It is the accomplishment of being recognized by others that he had been seeking all along.
　Even his childhood friends, who had previously kept their distance from him, approached him as if he were a close friend.
　Once in the capital, he is approached by many adventurers and heroes who had been ignored until then, and they are friendly to him.
　When asked, many of them treated Ferid like a friend.

　But when he found himself in a position to be liked by those people, he found the feelings of those who approached him to be shallow.

"FERIDO. I have a favor to ask you. Recently, a dangerous demon appeared near my village, and I need you to do something about it.　Hey, that's for the good of the village.

"FERRID. Would you like to join our party?　Just because you're a big brave guy and you're at the party, that's all the attention we get.

FERRID. I'm trying to be a hero, but I'm having trouble getting points. So why don't we partner up with you and share a little bit of our achievements?　If you're a big brave man, you don't need any bravery points now, do you?

FERRID. If you would like to attend a banquet in the castle next time.　Not only that, but I would like to give you a title of nobility as well. But in exchange, if you would be so inclined, would you dwell in the castle for the protection of your country?

　Oh, I see.
　Being a great hero finally taught him that being a great hero was just a matter of self-gratification.
　That gaining people's approval was just a form of self-gratification.

　I wanted to make friends. That's how you gain a social status, a position.
　But when you get there, no one will be your true friend.
　Many will try to rub elbows with you in your high position and take advantage of it.

　He finally realizes such a natural thing when he gets there.
　But that's not the only mistake he feels.
　By becoming the Great Warrior, the people of this country have given up on becoming the Great Warrior.

We'll be all right with FERRID!
"He beat the SS ranks single-handedly.
He's good enough for me.
We'll get along with it and ask him for help.
He's a hero. He's a hero.

　The evolution of the world. In order to do so, people must grow voluntarily.
　But everyone else has "given up" on it now that FERRID has reached the goal of being a great hero.
　One hero in the country is enough.

　He stalled the country's, and indeed the world's, evolution for his own shallow purposes.

　The people demand that he remain a hero.
　When asked, he can't say no to them.
　He can't say no because he chose this path himself.
　Above all, he became a great hero by paying the great price of Mime.
　Then he can't just throw away his position as a hero.
　Above all, that which is demanded by people. That's what you were aiming for.

　And so, even though he became a great hero, he continued to fight alone.
　To be wanted by the people, to be relied upon by the people, and to be abandoned by the people.

　What did he fight for?
　What made him a hero.
　A man who has lost his purpose returns to his original self.

　It's a time when he was still smiling. A memory of a time when he was happy.
　What was it?

　Before she became a hero, when she lived deep in the woods with Mime and the demons who loved her.
　She was despised by the villagers and had no human friends.
　But even so, Ferrid was happy at that time.

　He had a warm family.
　He had friends who weren't people, but were demons.
　So why did he leave it behind and depart?

　The answer is simple.
　Because I couldn't stand the stares and voices of the people around me.

　A human should have human friends.
　It's not normal to live with a witch or a demon. Strange.
　Because he couldn't stand those so-called public voices anymore.
　I guess it was Ferrid's own weakness of mind that prevented him from having the courage to stay there.

　Oh, my god.


　While becoming a great warrior, FERIDO is aware of his own mental weakness.

　When he visited the forest where he was born and the hut where he once lived with Mime, he saw a dilapidated and abandoned house.
　The demons that once gathered there were gone, and when he saw himself covered in demon blood, none of the forest's demons approached him.

　And so Ferid set off on a distant journey alone.
　There is no purpose.
　Even if you become a great hero by sacrificing Mime, you can't grow the world.
　Even if you worked hard on your own, it would be meaningless.

　Then he meets Kyou.
　It was there that he lived with the demon Felid had once abandoned.
　He laughed through it all. He seemed happy. And above all, he was surrounded by his friends.
　Oh, how I envied him.
　This man became what he never was.
　It was a far more dazzling sight than becoming a great warrior.

　And so, after parting with Kyou, Felid met Semargul, the goddess' guardian.
　He said.
　For the world to grow, Kyou's growth was the best thing that could happen to it.
　He and those around him are the key to it.
　Hearing that, Felid realized that it was his turn to become like Mime.
　For the sake of the world's evolution and, above all, for the role of a great hero, FERRID accepted the request.