CH 90

The True Nature of Hermes

Translated by Mlzkzr

Edited by Mlzkzr

“――♪”

In the afternoon of the following day, under the clear blue sky without a cloud in the sky, my sister was humming in a good mood in the garden of the mansion.

“What’s the matter nee-san, did something good happen?”

“Hermes”

My sister turns around as I approach her from behind.

She was in an even better mood, and combined with her innate good looks, she was so beautiful that even I, her own younger brother, who was used to seeing her, was taken aback.

“I heard about it, about Hermes’ recent activities. Plus, it seemed that your strength has been doubled.”

“Ugh, wh,where did you hear that?”

“It doesn’t matter whom I heard it from.”

“……That’s bogus. Geez, I never thought nee-san was deaf. How can a human being suddenly become twice as strong?”

I shrugged my shoulders and shook my head.

I tried to deny it, but an unpleasant sweat was running down my back.

“……”

Nee-san stared at me like that for a while and then said.

“So~I”

With her usual dynamic form, she tossed something into the blue sky.

What the hell was that? Whenever my sister do something like this in the past, it was to cover something up.

Curious as to what she had thrown to destroy, I looked at the thing, which nee-san had tossed and was about to become a star in the sky.

“――!”

What the hell.

Kicking the ground, I jumped up and chased after the object, that nee-san threw.

It had already flown 100 meters, I caught up with it in an instant, grabbed it, and returned to the garden of the mansion where I originally was.

“Oh, to catch up with that, that’s amazing.”

“What are you doing, nee-san, if you throw something with this written on it, someone will see it!”

I shove the object I intercepted to nee-san.

It was a fist-sized ball of something.

On the ball, with nee-san handwriting, a “Hermes defeated the Demon King and obtained her powers” was written.

“I was surprised you could read the words on the paper. I threw it with all my might and with a lot of rotation.”

“Offu!”

I was set.

“You wouldn’t have been able to read it before, right”

“I,I don’t mind if nee-san finds out.”

Though I was shaking, I put my bravado in line.

Nee-san, on the other hand, was completely unconcerned about my bravado.

“Ah, as I thought, my eyes weren’t seeing things. Hermes is an amazing child, a child who could become even more amazing.”

Nee-san crosses her fingers to her chest and looks up at the sky, with her eyes sparkling.

“Haa……”

I looked up to the heavens, too.

In a completely different way than nee-san.

Fortunately, it’s nee-san.

It was nee-san who knew about my power from the beginning and had been trying to get me to reveal it in every way she could.

I have no problem at all if that nee-san finds out now that I am “twice as strong”.

……No, it should be.

Still, what is it that makes me want to look up to the heavens and sigh?

But occasionally that turns out to be for the better.

This time, it was that occasionally.

My eyes, looking up to the heavens, happened to catch it.

There was nothing there so far.

Then, a meteorite suddenly appeared in the clear blue sky, without a single blotch.

Ordinary meteorites fall from “above the sky”.

However, this meteorite was born suddenly from “the middle of the sky”.

This is obviously not normal.

That meteorite fell, at a tremendous speed.

In a straight line, it was falling toward the city of Pindos.

“Kuh!”

I jumped out.

I took off at full speed, even faster than when I stopped the ball thrown by nee-san.

“Kyaaaah!”

“Run away!”

“Mama, mama!!”

The city of Pindos was in a state of an uproar.

The people in the town are fleeing from the meteorite that is approaching at a tremendous speed.

At the very center of the drop-off point, there was one girl who had failed to escape.

There is a woman who tries to help her at a distance, but the people around her try to hold her back and pull her away from its falling point.

I got to the falling point.

“It’s fine now.”

I said that to the girl and pulled out the sword hanging from my waist.

Then, I jump up.

I confront the falling meteorite.

The falling meteorite was partly heavy, but it was not a particularly difficult opponent for me now.

I jumped up to intercept it, chopped the meteorite into tiny pieces, and then blew it away without a trace using my magic.

The meteorite itself was exactly the same as any that had ever fallen, and I was able to blow it away without any particular problems.

The sky is back to blue again.

I land directly under it as it is, look around, and make sure no debris or anything has fallen and caused damage.

Yeah, I’m glad everything’s fine.

“Amazing!”

“Hmm?”

“You’re awesome as I thought, Lord-ojiichan”

“You…… were at the time with the dorayaki……”

The girl who gazes at me with sparkling eyes is the one who witnessed the time I got entangled with blind jealousy right after I became the lord.

“Are you okay?”

“Yeah! Thanks, Lord-ojiichan!”

“Really”

I was relieved that nothing happened to this girl because I knew her face.

Rather than that, I looked up at the sky.

Now I was more and more convinced.

That meteorite was not a natural occurrence.

I hadn’t seen its “moment of occurrence” before, but I didn’t expect it was something like this.

More and more, I felt that I had to find out the cause of it.

“Fufu, as expected of Hermes.”

“Nee-san”

A little later than me, nee-san also came to the town.

Her face is grinning more and more.

“No, just now is……”

“I was wondering whether I should tell you or not, but I’ll give you a heads up.”

“What is it?”

“Hermes, can’t leave someone in need.”

“……Eh?”

“And there is power.”

“………………”

“So one way or another”

There, my sister cut off her words for a moment.

She smiled sweetly.

With the most beautiful smile of the day.

“It’s your destiny to be active in front of people.”

“……”

Gahn,

I earned that.

It was hopelessly, true.