"Hero." I was the destined hero to protect the lands of humanity. The goddess chose me to act as her sword, I was projected to bring greatness to this world, save my people from the demon lord and minions. But it didn't turn out the way I had hoped.
It all started when I met him. Leonard. He came to us; when we first met him, his eyes were lit with fire, desiring to defeat the demon lord.
I thought he was someone like me, someone who wanted to protect the world, someone with a strong sense of justice. But I was completely wrong. He was disgusting. He only sought pleasure with women, and my party was no exception.
My party was filled with the women closest to me. Sarah my childhood friend. Isabella, the woman I saved from almost being taken advantage of. Ava, my fiancé and Emma my sister. Leonard stole them from me, one by one.
I couldn't do anything to help them. Not because I was weak but because he made them stronger. That was his perk, whatever woman he sleeps with the stronger they became. I tried to ignore it, but I couldn't. I slept every night in pain, thinking of what Leonard was doing to them.
But just when I thought I was in hell, I dropped into an even worse fate. My party went to my family's house and thats when it happened.
My mother. The woman who gave birth to me, the woman who loved me more than anything else in this world and the woman who didn't want me to fulfil my destiny as the hero, met Leonard.
The night when it happened, I had trouble sleeping and needed to get a drink. While walking out from my room, I passed my mom's room and saw it. Through a little crack in the door, I saw them.
Leonard was having his way with her. And her face was something I had never seen before. Her face contorted in pleasure, her eyes rolled back so far that I could almost see the back of her eye. She screamed like a beast, unable to hold her voice back.
That night I couldn't sleep.
The moaning was simply too loud.
The next morning my eyes were red, they burned from the lack of sleep. She told me that she would never betray me. But she lied. My heart was twisting itself apart. If I wasn't the hero I might have killed myself.
Just as I thought we were leaving to continue our adventure to the demon kingdom, I felt anything that remained of my heart shatter.
My mother walked out wearing her sparkling white bright armor. She was once a former knight for the royal family but that was long ago, she had retired from that life after giving birth to me.
But why now? Why now? why now? Why now? why now? Why now? why now? Why now? Ah I know why. Leonard. She did it for him. It made so much sense.
She rode in the carriage with me and my sister while Leonard rode with the rest of my party. She was saying something to me, but I couldn't hear her. I could only think of one thing and only one thing.
IM THE HERO. IM THE HERO. IM THE HERO. IM THE HERO. IM THE HERO. IM THE HERO.
I HAVE TO PROTECT THE LANDS FROM THE VILE DEMONS.
I didn't realize it then, but I completely lost it. Nothing would get through to me. I'm truly dead inside.
The months passed faster than I expected. My sanity was gone... completely gone. I was a shell of myself. I no longer slept. The last time I slept was God knows how long ago. I stopped bathing myself, let my hair grow so long that I could feel it reach my feet and stopped talking to anyone or anything.
My mother tried every single day to talk to me. But I never answered her. I lost all love for her and no longer saw her as my mother. I abandoned my sister and became alone. My dad was dead; my mother and sister were too busy fucking Leonard for me to care for them.
My engagement with my "Fiancé" wasn't officially over yet but I could tell both me and her were done, our future together that we envisioned was gone.
The worst part of it all...
They were all pregnant with his children.
With our upcoming raid at the demon king castle, I planned to die. I didn't want to live anymore. My purpose has been reduced to nothing more than a tool to fight against the forces of evil in this world. I wasn't going to put up a fight or anything. I was simply going to let the demon king kill me.
When we were at the castle I witnessed as the women, I used to love destroyed the demon army. I just stared at the ceiling waiting for my suffering to be over.
We finally reached the throne room where the demon king resided. Leonard held his sword high spewing nonsense that I should have been saying. The demon ignored Leonard's words and rushed toward Leonard's party. His large cleaver had quickly approached Leonard but before he could cut him down, I jumped in front of him.
Everything happened so fast. I could barely process what happened.
I saw my body lying limp, blood pouring out. I realized what happened. My head was separated from my body. Compared to what I thought death would be; this wasn't so bad.
I looked once more at everyone to see what their reaction would be. Mother stared at me unable to process what had happened, Emma had tears welled up in her eyes, Sarah was shook as to what happened, Ava was charging at the demon king shouting rambling incoherent words, Isabella fell to the ground crying nonstop and lastly....
Leonard smiled. His eyes were wide with excitement almost as if he was hoping for this result. I didn't care anymore.
I simply closed my eyes embracing the warm feeling of death and soon darkness would cover me.
...
I hastily opened my eyes, catching the scene around me. I was surrounded by white. My body was weak. Was I dead?
I slowly got up processing everything that surrounded me. The white room span for what felt like an endless abyss, never meeting an end. As soon as I realized what happened, I gripped my neck where I felt the demon king's cleaver cut me down.
To my Suprise my neck was perfectly fine. There were no slash marks on my neck, no blood trickling down, there was nothing wrong with my neck. I sat down thinking to myself about what I should do now. My life as a hero is over, I've lost everything and now I can finally rest easy.
... But did I want that? Leonard, that fucking bastard took everyone I loved. During the journey, I didn't even feel like the hero, I felt more like the porter. I let out a long sigh wondering what to do now. I have now left the life of the living.
While sitting down thinking to myself A large silhouette approached me. They wore a large white rob that covered their large robust figure, their face was covered by a shining white light that made it impossible to see their faces. As they slowly approached me, I could recognize the busy translucent figure. It was the goddess.
I quickly knelt on one knee, bowing my head to the supreme deity that I promised to worship. She didn't say anything to me, but I could feel her large warm hands touch my head. I didn't try to speak; I waited for the goddess to speak first before I opened my mouth. She faintly muttered one thing to me before my world went dark.
"I'm sorry. Please forgive me for putting my loyal servant through pain. I'll give an opportunity to live your life again"
"My head shot up looking at her with wide eyes. I could only say one thing "What?"
Suddenly everything went dark. The drastic change in the environment was sudden. The goddesses words rung in my head, repeating over and over again.
"I'll give you an opportunity to live your life again."
Was what the goddess said true? Did she bring me back from the dead? Just as I thought those words a bright shining star appeared from the distance. I narrowed my eyes trying to see what it was but it was simply too far away.
I slowly approached the star in the distance. When I came face to face with it, I could feel a warm comfort from the light but as I stuck my hand out to touch it, I had a vision.
The streams of pain and terror enveloped my mind. I saw hundreds of thousands of images of what I presumed to be the future. I saw death, bloodshed and an inexplicable amount of violence. Carnage littered the world, and one man sat on top of the others in the world of pain. A strange sense of familiarity rung through my body.
"It can't be. Could it be… Me?" I didn't want to believe it but no matter what I told myself, I knew. This was my future. If I went back to the realm of the living, then I would just bring pain and suffering. I didn't want to do that to others.
But then I remembered. Leonard and the rest of them. Anger ate away at me. However laughter soon consumed my thoughts.
I couldn't stop laughing. Ha… Ha, Ha…. Ha, Ha, Ha…. Hmmph….
Pfff. HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA. I see now. My eyes dimmed dark bloody red, my once golden blond hair turned charcoal black, and my face curved into a hideous smile. My once noble mind was gone now all that remained was thoughts of impurity. The idea of harming others couldn't help but make me laugh. I realized I was no longer a hero, the world had their hero Leonard, now I'll give them a true demon. I'll show them a new world.
I stepped forward and into the shining star. I was no longer a hero but that was fine being the good guy is boring. Now I'll try being a horrible person.