Hagure Yuusha no Aesthetica:Volume 2 Prologue

Prologue

Part 1

Wind. It brings an end to the night, the purple sky accompanying the morning sunrise and the birds flying through the sky.

Underneath the birds view was the vast earth, the land Alayzard. Right now the birds were flying over the Kingdom of magic, Sherfied. In the royal capital Erdia, the castle built upon the hills, even the town which was built on open land, still the scars of war remain.

Five years ago Erdia was once under siege from the demon army and destroyed. With the royal lineage almost gone the situation had seemed bleak. Through gaining cooperation from the neighboring countries, Erdia had after 4 years finally begun to recover from that tragedy.

You could really say that the restoration progressed abnormally fast. Around that time, the queen's triumphant return had brought forth courage and hope within the citizens.

Now at the present time, the citizens of Sherfied were filled with joy. As every citizens wishes had finally come to pass, for the Demon king Garius who had descended with power thought to be absolute had finally been defeated.

Surrounding the castle was a huge forest spreading as far as you could see, in ancient times when the civilization had collapsed. In a region where animism was a popular belief, the believers had succeeded in making a pact with the four great spirits of fire, water, earth and wind. As a result, the majority of the land had begun to flourish with nature. With people gradually coming to live in these nature-filled areas, the country Sherfied was born.

In the eastern part of the forest, a temple to worship the four great spirits was built. Even now, people go there to pray for the protection of the four great spirits.

In the western part of the forest where the sun sets by cutting through part of the forest there lays a cemetery for the souls of those who lost their life's to the demon king.

In the corner of the cemetery there stood a gravestone different from the rest, a gravestone which was created two years ago surrounded with lots of flowers and cards, on it “Here lies the True hero Leon Esuperio” was engraved. Fighting the demon army and earning various war achievements, the hero Leon was Sherfied's true hero.

But he too lost his life from the siege five years ago. It was only three years ago that Sherfied could finally create a proper burial for him, even people still come to his burial with expressions filled with extreme sadness to wish that he's soul rest in peace.

Thus, the demon king had been defeated and a banquet was held for the heroes return. The morning after the banquet, there was a silhouette of a young man in front of Leon' s grave. He was a tall man with a firm build and unkempt hair that was black like the darkness even his eyes that had a bright shine in them was jet-black in colour. “...” The young man had just silently been gazing at the grave of the former hero without even twitching ever since the sun had started rising. As if reporting the results of the long and hazardous battle, he silently whispers “See ya.”

After finishing his farewell the young man picked up the sand-coloured bag beside him and swung it over his shoulders, turned around and started walking. The sound of his steps resounded throughout the cemetery. There was no one around since it was still the morning after the demon king had been defeated though once the sun has fully risen it will be the signal that world will wake up once again.

In front of the iron-fence surrounding the cemetery the young man had noticed two figures, a man and a woman. But the young man's pace did not change as he walked straight through them to the outside of the cemetery.

As the young man had passed the two of them the man had called out to him “You okay with that, Akatsuki?” “Yeah this is enough.” Replied the young man called Akatsuki. Ousawa Akatsuki. The young man had been summoned to this world five years ago,defeating the Demon king Garious and became the new hero of Sherfied.