章 10: Hero...?
R.E.D. mounted Cinderella on M.O.A.V. while she was transformed into a motorcycle with an additional seat. Unfortunately, he couldn't ride at light speed as he did before simply because doing so would cause so much force that Cinderella would become a red mess of limbs and blood. Fortunately, though, M.O.A.V. could go at any speed she desired as long as it was slower than light, so she just needed to go at a good enough pace, which was around 88 km/h. The trip would still take months, no doubt about that.
**With the speed we can go now and account for the distance, it would take hundreds of hours to reach my destination... And the fact that I can't go any faster hinders everything... Is there anything I could do to shorten the time? I wonder...**
*Ding*
R.E.D. had received a message from God.
**... A mission? Right now? Even though I'm with his daughter?... Is he trying to trick everyone while they still don't know? Or is this a facade? Am I even supposed to make this mission? He didn't put any secret messages or codes on it... It seems like a normal request...**
R.E.D. pondered for a bit, unsure of what to do next.
**... I think I'm going to do it... It's better not to risk... I can protect the girl and do a mission at the same time!**
R.E.D. opened the details of his mission with his Machine. It was a simple one: massacre the goblin village nearby and steal all the money. A small note on the bottom detailed that if there were any attractive goblins, then R.E.D. was supposed to take them to a certain location.
**... Sometimes I wonder who are the people behind those requests... Well, not my problem.**
R.E.D. immediately turned the motorcycle and headed to the village. Since it was close enough, there wouldn't be any need to increase the speed. It would take a few dozen minutes.
Time passed and R.E.D. finally reached his destination, the goblin village. It was quite small with only a few residents, no more than a hundred.
"Where are we?" Cinderella asked as she left the seat.
"It's a goblin village... I'm here because of business... M.O.A.V. will take care of you meanwhile..." M.O.A.V. transformed into a cube ad stood at Cinderella's side.
"What are you going to do to those goblins?"
"... I am... Going to kill them... It's not something a child like you should watch... So stay here..."
R.E.D. then entered the village while Cinderella was left with M.O.A.V. The gates opened and closed as he walked through it. A moment of silence could be heard before the screams of horror.
"Why does he do this?"
"Are you asking me, little miss?" M.O.A.V. said as she approached her face.
"Yes... Why does that man kill others?"
"It's complicated, little miss, but he has his reasons, personal and not."
"Can you tell me then?"
"..."
**I suppose she will soon be heir to the throne of God. So she's going to have to know it one way or the other...**
"You see... Master has quite the complicated past."
"Oh?"
"You see the world around us now? How everything is rotted, destroyed, withered, and utterly chaotic? Master is the reason for all of that."
"He did it?!"
"Yes, he was the reason the world was destroyed, so now he is trying to fix it in his way."
"How?"
"By being a monster, in doing so he becomes hated and feared throughout the whole world, then everyone will one day... Kill him."
"... So he kills and destroys... So one day people will kill him?"
"Yes, that is correct."
"Then doesn't that make him... A hero?"
M.O.A.V. stood quiet as she was shocked. Of all the reactions she expected, this was certainly not one of them. But before she could say anything, the gates were opened once again. Not only opened but destroyed.
R.E.D. walked through the gate and behind him was a scene of raw destruction and death. Corpses every eye could see and blood in every nook and cranny of the village. On his arm, there was a giant bag with what seemed to be four or five goblins inside.
"Take those to the coordinates I'm sending you... Make sure to not drop them... The requester specified to have them at top condition..."
"Y-Yes... Master."
M.O.A.V. became a drone and grabbed the bag with a hook, then headed to the place R.E.D. sent.
"She should take a few minutes... It isn't that far away..."
"Hey, mister..." R.E.D. turned his head as Cinderella called him "... Are you... A hero?"
A heavy silence echoed through the place. R.E.D. was quite shocked by the question itself.
"... Me?... A hero?"
"Yes, are you?"
Before R.E.D. could answer, a small goblin girl appeared from within the gates. Bruised and burned all over, her eyes melted in her face as she cried while crawling on the dirty floor.
"... Listed child, I don't know how you could reach that conclusion... But..." R.E.D. approached the goblin child and with a motion of his foot, he crushed her head to the ground "I am not a hero..."
The little girl seemed to have a jolt on her body as he did that
"I am not a hero or a villain... I'm a monster, the big bad wolf that terrorizes the little village known as planet Earth... I attack at night and day and kill any unsuspecting victims that cross my path... No matter if they're children or women or men or elderly, they all end the same in my presence... I kill all... So one day they will get tired of everything... They will polish their spears, sharpen their swords, load their guns, and rise their shields... They will, in one bloody and violent battle, kill me and finally attain their so-longed peace... So no child... I am not a hero... And you better not call me one again, understood?"
Cinderella's eyes sparkled as she heard every word that came from R.E.D.'s mouth
"Then can I call you Mister Hiro?!"
"... What?"
"If I can't call you a hero, then Mister Hiro should be fine, right!?"
"... Did you... Even listened to what I say...?"
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