To Hell With Being a Hero!

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They preferred to focus on their own duty rather than being caught up in political battles.
The progenitor could be considered the model of a hero.
Though Yunael admired their progenitor in this aspect, they thought the times were different now.
They weren’t satisfied that this tradition was being maintained even centuries later.

Thus, Yunael decided that they would change things once they began acting as a hero, and they would make it so that the Tania family would be acknowledged as equal to the Celestial Lights or even superior to them.
With that goal alone, Yunael endured and completed many brutal training and was called forth by the Celestial Realm.
Thus they officially began their activities, but things weren ’t as easy as they thought.
There was the fact that the Celestial Lights had under their belt achievements and experiences comparable to those of the Tania family, but it was also hard for Yunael to free the image their family had built up until now.

Everyone took their achievements for granted and never placed them in positions of power or authority.
No matter what Yunael did, all they seemed to hear was, ‘Oh, that family was always like that’, and not much more was offered beyond that.
The Celestial Lights were always given priority, while Tania was pushed off to the backseat.
They were the constant outsider.
At this point, Yunael would need to be satisfied with simply getting good impressions, but no power or perks along with them.

Yet Yunael didn’t want that.
They wanted fame and privileges befitting their achievements.
Knowing that making mild achievements would only help maintain their current status, they decided to take special measures.
If they needed to break the image their family had until now, they needed to do something big.
Thus, after much thought, Yunael volunteered to join the tenth reinforcements.
It was what they had been thinking about doing for some time now because it was an opportunity to stand on the same stage as the legend.

The legend was the only one among the Celestial Lights who Yunael acknowledged and admired.
Furthermore, if they helped save Liber, they would gain much greater fame than before.
There seemed to be no reason not to go.
They had only been hesitating until now because the admittance rate was so low before, and they couldn’t risk failing the selection process after applying for it.
If they failed, others would have made comments along the lines of:

‘What? Even a Tania failed?’

‘Well, they aren’t even a Celestial Light, so it’s understandable…’

Thus, Yunael had been careful.
But after the seventh selection process, Yunael gained information that the admittance rate was rising bit by bit.
So Yunael applied and was judged as a suitable recruit for Liber in the end.
Though Yunael came to Liber with lofty dreams and goals, they were also able to exactly assess the reality of the situation.
Liber was a place where the World had died.
Heroes would only be able to progress with support in the beginning and go independent if and when they grew stronger.

Seven Stars was actually the one Yunael had set their eyes on from the very beginning.
The organizations led by the Celestial Lights were good places for receiving support, but Yunael’s biggest purpose was to put Tania’s name on the map.
If they joined Ho Lactea or Afrilith, they would only help boost the Celestial Lights’ fame rather than their own.
There was no need to do something that only favored others.
With these factors in mind, Seven Stars seemed to be the perfect fit for them.
The fact that it wasn’t established by a Celestial Light qualified it as an option in their books, and from what they heard, it seemed this organization was more highly-regarded than other organizations too.

It seemed to be the perfect place for them.
Yunael was sure that this organization was prepared for them by fate.
Of course, Yunael thought things wouldn’t be as easy as they seemed.
It was clear that there was something going on in Seven Stars if they had made more achievements than all the Celestial Lights combined.
Still, Yunael was confident that they would achieve what they came here to do.
They also had a plan.
The first step was to enter Seven Stars with Aida, but they wouldn’t accept the offer so easily.
They planned to make Seven Stars really yearn for them, and that was the reason why Yunael purposefully accepted only one coin from each of the organizations.
After making the organizations compete with each other fiercely, they planned to choose Seven Stars in the end, after all their efforts were exhausted.
It was to give the impression that Yunael was the one who chose Seven Stars and not the other way around.
They would make it so that Seven Stars needed to serve them.

After receiving special treatment like that, Yunael planned to create their own faction within Seven Stars.
Then they would rise to the top of Seven Stars after expanding their faction and establishing themselves properly.
If the situation didn’t allow that, they could simply use Seven Stars as a stepping stool for progress.
At least, that was what should’ve happened…but things took a strange turn from the beginning.

It started with the leader of Seven Stars only taking their friend, Aida, and not sparing a glance in their direction.
Even at the negotiation table, Chi-Woo didn’t come in person and instead sent a subordinate.
Yunael was shocked because they hadn’t imagined that they would receive such treatment, and no matter how much time they deliberately wasted, the leader of the organization didn’t show himself.
Though Yunael had tried to prolong the meeting as much as possible, it simply ended with no conclusion.
Was this really the end? But it couldn’t be.

[…Perhaps!]

Before the legend left, Yunael had asked.

[Are you not recruiting anyone, sir?]

In a way, it was Yunael’s last desperate attempt.
The Choi family was different from other Celestial Lights, as was shown by the way Chi-Hyun blatantly put down the Ho Lactea and Afrilith representatives.
Furthermore, Chi-Hyun was the legend, who was titled the greatest hero of all time.
Becoming his subordinate alone would be meaningful.
Thus, Yunael was attempting to overturn things, but Chi-Hyun responded frigidly.

[I’m not.
I was wondering why you all were taking so long…but I know the reason now.]

Yunael was still flushed red from what had happened just before.
The air around Chi-Hyun had been icy then.
It was understandable that Chi-Hyun would give them such a cold shoulder.
After spending so much time with the other organizations, Yunael turned out to be aiming for the legend in the end.
Everything was a mess, and this wasn’t the scenario Yunael had pictured at all.

‘Aida…’ A part of Yunael felt a bit disgruntled by Aida.
But Yunael knew that Aida did no wrong, and Yunael couldn’t really blame someone who had earnestly cared for them since their youth.
Thus, all these emotions were soon redirected toward one person.
The resentment they had always harbored multiplied and increased in size.
It was still clear in Yunael’s mind—the shock they had felt when their big plans were thwarted, and Chi-Woo indifferently walking past them.
Yunael clenched their fists.

‘Why must I be treated in this manner? How great is he that he didn’t even spare a glance in my direction and ignore me?’ It enraged Yunael the more they thought about it.
There were even some parts of them that imagined Chi-Woo had perhaps purposefully pretended to be indifferent when he actually cared a lot.
That would’ve been better.

Nevertheless, Yunael couldn’t just bide time like this.
It seemed they had already started off on the wrong footing with the legend, and if things turned in the wrong direction, they could lose their chance to join any of the organizations.
They needed to choose and pick one.
With the goal they had, Yunael had no intention to play into other people’s intentions.
If Seven Stars’ leader had really acted the way he did for some secret reason, Yunael needed to consider that.

‘They have chosen the wrong person to mess with.’

Yunael stopped walking.

“Excuse me.” Yunael heaved like an angry bull and said, “I’ve decided.”

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