The Hero is Disappointed in You – Chapter 67

Ch 67: Karen Achieved Death Point Breakthrough

“Huk, huk….”

Karen, watching the Hero and dwarves moving away, let out a rough breath.

Her mouth was parched, and her slender legs were trembling even though she was standing still.

Her usually clean clothes were soaked with sweat, and the wet parts were dirtied by the dust that had stuck to them.

In the first place, the place where the dwarves’ city was located was a place that human-made carriages could not even climb due to the limitations of their durability.

Naturally, the mountain terrain was steep, and Karen, who had never really exercised, inevitably reached her physical limit quickly.

“Slow. Who told you to walk like that?”

“Ah, no… I’m doing my best.”

Karen, seeing the Hero approaching on his horse, answered in a frightened voice.

It had already been several days since they left Kalian Territory, and Karen had experienced similar situations several times.

“Your best? Is that really so? Can’t you see that everyone is waiting because of you?”

“….”

Karen trembled as she saw the Hero clenching his fist.

Whenever Karen lagged behind, the Hero would come to her and say such things, and at the end, he would repeatedly punch her in the stomach.

When Karen was hit in the stomach and lost consciousness, the Hero would load her onto the back of the horse like luggage and ride on.

The routine so far had been that after getting ahead of the dwarves, Karen would wake up and the training would repeat.

That was why Karen’s face turned white as she watched the Hero waving his fist in front of her.

“Ah, no… I’m sorry about that. But this is really my best….”

“Not yet.”

“Keuk.”

Karen groaned at the terrible pain she felt again in her stomach, and soon felt her consciousness fading.

And in the situation where her consciousness was fading, Karen suddenly had such a thought.

‘It would be better if it just ended….’

The pain in her stomach was something that ended at once, but climbing the mountain was literally a continuous pain.

Being carried like luggage on the Hero’s horse was not a pleasant thing, but at least for the time being, she would be freed from the pain that felt like her thighs would explode.

^^^

“Don’t put on a show, get off. Karen.”

Karen, who was losing consciousness and being draped over the horse’s buttocks, heard the Hero’s voice.

She should have reacted calmly, but Karen, already intimidated by the Hero, trembled at the voice.

“Ah, no. I was going to get off anyway.”

In fact, Karen’s consciousness had returned several minutes ago, but she pretended not to know and continued to pretend to be unconscious.

Hanging around the horse’s buttocks was by no means comfortable, but it was still much better than walking on two legs.

But the ghostly Hero spoke as if he already knew she was awake, and Karen immediately jumped off the horse at those words.

Watching the Hero slowly driving the horse without saying a word, Karen started walking the rough mountain path again.

Thanks to the short rest, her legs were moving again, but every time she took a step, she felt a throbbing pain in her thighs.

“Hehe, look at that b*tch, she’s already exhausted.”

“Ah, a trashy b*tch with no stamina!”

The dwarves, who belatedly followed, said so as if mocking Karen, who was crying and climbing the mountain, and Karen didn’t even have the strength to respond to those words.

Her thighs and calves felt like they were on fire, and her blistered and burst soles were filled with stinging sensations every time they touched the ground.

‘Wouldn’t it be better to just get hit once and pass out?’

At that moment, Karen began to think that maybe the Hero’s words were true.

It was because she thought that she might get used to the pain of being hit in the stomach, even if only a little.

No, in fact, the feeling of a fist entering her stomach was never the kind of sensation she could get used to, but still, the thought that it would be more efficient to take that one hit cleanly rather than feeling this continuous pain dominated Karen’s mind.

“Haa…haa…I, I can’t walk anymore.”

In the end, Karen, who had come to that conclusion, stopped walking and said so to the Hero.

Karen cheered inwardly as she watched the Hero turning his horse’s head and approaching her.

It was because she thought she could rest again.

But the Hero, sitting on the horse and looking down at Karen, only looked at her with a strange expression, and did not punch her in the stomach like before.

“…Where are you trying to trick me?”

“What?”

“You can still run more, right? Why? Is it more comfortable to go while unconscious?”

“….”

Karen couldn’t say anything to the Hero’s words, which seemed to have pierced through her mind.

Karen’s brain, which had always shown its excellence everywhere, was not working as if it had broken down.

“Shall I hit you just enough so you don’t pass out?”

The Hero asked Karen, and Karen shook her head so hard that it made a buzzing sound.

The reason she was trying to get hit by the Hero was to ride the horse while unconscious, not because she had come to like the pain itself.

“Then, run. Karen.”

Karen nodded at the Hero’s words and started moving her legs busily again.

Her thighs were still throbbing, and a stinging, burning pain was rising from the soles of her feet.

^^^

‘Trying to pull some useless trick.’

I snorted as I watched Karen start climbing the mountain path again.

It was easy to read what she was feeling and thinking right now, as if I could see it.

That’s because this ridiculous training itself was not my first time in the first place.

In the previous life, Zenoa had ordered me to do this terrible training.

In the past, I had no abilities other than an immortal body, and then the Saintess and Zenoa came to me.

And then, the very first training that Zenoa ordered me to do was this meaningless running.

No, to be exact, it wasn’t meaningless.

If you keep running and running, and if you can’t run, you get hit, and if you repeat that, you won’t be able to think about anything.

Because you get used to the pain little by little, and you even have a strange venom.

Of course, in those days, I was only doing this while heading from Karein, where I lived, to Lorraine, the Imperial Capital, and Karen is heading to the dwarf city, so the difficulty itself is different in the first place.

Running on a flat forest path and climbing a steep mountain path are completely different problems.

But that’s not something I should care about, and I just thought that Karen might see the effects of the training a little faster than me.

“Heueong…Ueeeeeeck!”

At that moment, Karen, who was climbing the mountain while crying, was seen collapsing on the floor and vomiting.

Since Karen was busy resting rather than eating anything during her break, naturally all that came out of her mouth was gastric acid.

I stopped the horse next to Karen, who was throwing up sticky liquid on the floor, and quietly looked down at her.

Just standing next to her without saying anything was a situation that put pressure on her.

When my shadow covered Karen’s face, she was startled and began to reflexively get up.

And a strange laughter flowed from the mouth of Karen, who was walking forward again.

“Heehee…heeheeheet…Ah, it doesn’t hurt. Now. It’s amazing…heeheet.”

I frowned as I watched Karen walking precariously in a strange posture as if her joints were broken.

‘Death Point Breakthrough.’

It was because I roughly grasped what state Karen had reached now.

The human body is strange, so if you continue to be in a difficult state, you will eventually change to a state where you cannot feel the pain.

Zenoa explained it as Death Point Breakthrough, and I, who had experienced it myself, thought it was a state where the brain had gone mad.

“Isn’t that a bit dangerous?”

“Yeah. Even if she’s a b*tch, wouldn’t she go completely crazy if she keeps doing that?”

Even the dwarves, who had driven their horses and approached me, were looking at Karen worriedly.

“Heeheet, I’m a little strange, heeheet. I’m not even out of breath, am I? Heeheet. If I swing my arms like this, my legs get faster, and if my legs get faster, my arms get faster, and the ground passes by behind me, so I’m really fast!”

I frowned as I watched Karen muttering nonsense like a crazy woman.

It seemed like she had definitely achieved Death Point Breakthrough, but the state was a bit strange.

“Oh? What is that?”

At that moment, I saw the dwarf James, who was standing next to me, shouting in surprise.

“Huh? Is it a snake? Heeheet?”

A small lizard was seen on a rock near Karen, staring at her intently.

The problem was that the lizard did not have the reptile’s unique glossy skin, but was made of white bones.

Kwajik━.

And the lizard made of bones was firmly biting the finger of Karen, who had reached out her hand towards it.