Avatars (3)

"You couldn't think of anything better than this?" That was what the third avatar said when he appeared.

This third avatar had blue skin, jet black hair, and horns.

Even though he had the appearance of a demon, he still had quite the handsome face.

It was the kind of face that actually made me feel a bit inferior.

It wasn't as if Yulian was bad looking, it was just that compared to the two of them…

"Did I make a mistake when making the two of them? Did I accidentally put too many stat points into charisma instead of properly setting their stats?" I couldn't help asking myself.

It was just that Val Zahar had something else to say, "Forget about that, first look at what you've done about my name!"

During this time, Gran Jurad seemed to have a look of schadenfreude on his face.

It was as if he was happy that he wasn't the only one that would suffer the fate of having a chuuni name.

When Val Zahar saw this, he said, "It's still better than your name."

Hearing this, Gran Jurad couldn't help narrowing his eyes to look at Val Zahar before saying, "What did you say to me? Why don't you say it to my face?"

"It's still better than your name." Val Zahar said after moving closer to Gran Jurad.

The two of them just stared at each other like this, almost as if they were about to start fighting.

I was pulled out of my thoughts when I saw this.

I quickly stepped forward before the two of them could do anything and put myself between the two of them apart before saying, "What are the two of you doing? Why are you fighting with each other? We're the same person, remember?"

The two of them didn't break up right away when they heard this as they continued glaring at each other, but eventually they did break up. Not before they both clicked their tongues and gave a snort before turning their heads away.

I looked at the two of them with a strange look.

It felt like there was some kind of unseen grudge between the two of them with the way that they acted.

Seeing the way that I looked at them, the two of them revealed awkward looks before Gran Jurad said, "It must be because we're supposed to be polar opposite characters. I'm the hero and he's the demon king, so we just feel naturally antagonistic with each other."

Val Zahar slowly nodded in agreement before saying, "Right, it's not as if I want to fight since I know that we're the same person. It's just this strange natural sense of disgust, you know?"

I looked at the two of them with a strange look for a bit, but I just gave a nod and dropped this matter in the end.

It wasn't as if there was anything to gain from arguing with each other now.

What we had to do first was figure out what our next move was.

"Since I'm the hero of light, it's only natural that I go and do the hero ceremony, right? Based on our shared memories, that should be coming up soon." Gran Jurad suddenly gave this suggestion.

The two of us looked at him for a bit before I said, "The only problem is how are you going to join it? It's not as if they'll just let anyone join the hero ceremony."

"Can't you recommend me?" Gran Jurad asked.

I quickly shook my head as I said, "Of course not. I'm just the normal son of a count and a mob character. If I were to do something like that, don't you think it would draw attention?"

"Eh?" Gran Jurad said in a surprised voice.

I then explained, "For now, it's best if I remain in the role of Yulian just in case anything happens. If things go wrong, at least we have one place that we can hide."

The two of them looked at me with one brow raised as if they had their doubts about this, but eventually they nodded in agreement.

However, there was still a problem.

"Then how do I get the qualifications to participate in the hero ceremony?"

"The saintess!" I suddenly exclaimed.

The two of them looked at me with confused looks, so I explained, "The saintess will be heading to the ceremony as well, right? We can just do the save the saintess event and get her trust. If we do that, it shouldn't be a problem for you to join the hero ceremony."

"But the save the saintess event happens much later." Gran Jurad pointed out.

I pointed at Val Zahar as I said, "We have the demon king here, does it matter? We can make that event happen whenever we want. Not to mention that this early in the game, it isn't as if the saintess will be traveling with a heavy escort. It'll actually be easier to force this event."

The two of them seemed to consider it before nodding in agreement to this.

Once we came to an agreement on the plan, it was all about setting up the details.

I pulled a map from the desk of Yulian and spread it out for us to start planning things out.

"She'll be coming along this route, so this is the best spot for the ambush."

"You can control monsters as the demon king, so go and grab some to attack the caravan with. Once you cause a commotion, I'll come out and save them."

"Tch, I don't want to do it if you're telling me to…But I'll still do it."

With this, the three of us had come up with a preliminary plan on what to do.

The only problem was that we wouldn't actually be able to do anything today.

There was still some time before the saintess would be passing through after all.

So the only thing that we could do was wait.

"Well, I have a pair of twins waiting for me." I said as I headed out to look for those two twin maids.

I was the son of a count and I had these privileges, it would be a waste not to make the most of them.

"Boo!" Gran Jurad and Val Zahar said, but I just ignored the two of them as I left the room.