# Side Story (Complete)
**Graduation.**
I rarely went to school because I had the Hero Party at home.
I only met the minimum attendance days required for graduation.
School was nothing more than a bedroom to me.
"I couldn't go to school because of you guys."
"Lies! You just didn't want to go! Don't blame us!"
"It's true, I wanted to go to school."
"Lies!"
"You got me."
Luna, this girl, knows me well now.
Actually, it was a lie.
I didn't want to go to school.
The reason was simply that I thought it was a waste of time.
*I just need to build basic knowledge from textbooks. And I have no plans to go to college.*
And the important thing is.
Sleeping at home is better than sleeping at school.
Going all the way to school just to sleep there isn't efficient.
"Well, at least I graduated, so that's good."
Hare nodded beside me.
"R-right. If you'd missed just one more day of attendance, it would've been terrible... You did well, Mister..."
Hare patted my head as if I were praiseworthy.
Somehow, it felt like she was acting as my parent who came to the graduation ceremony.
*Right now... it wouldn't be wrong to say she's a substitute for my parents.*
Now that the principal's speech and graduation ceremony had ended.
Students were gathering in small groups, taking graduation photos with their friends.
Naturally, I had no friends since I rarely went to school.
But I wasn't lonely since I had the Hero Party...
"But you guys..."
"What, Mister!"
"You're honestly too conspicuous."
The Hero Party caught the eyes of graduating students and parents with their appearance alone.
Was it because of their exotic looks combined with their unique aura?
Students couldn't focus on their own graduation photos.
"My graduation photo is being ruined!"
"M-my son can't look this bad in photos...! W-we need to edit it!"
Outcries erupted from all around.
I pulled the Hero Party toward me.
"Let's take our photo quickly and leave."
"Yeah, the stares I'm feeling are unpleasant, so it'd be better to leave quickly."
"I agree!"
Saten and Estia wanted to leave this crowded graduation ceremony quickly.
But we had one problem.
"But who's going to take the photo?"
One person couldn't attend this graduation ceremony.
There were too many of us to fit properly in a selfie.
*I should've brought a tripod...*
Would we have no choice but to exclude one person?
"Since you're the Hero. Luna, you..."
"Don't call me the Hero only at times like this!"
Luna immediately refused.
I didn't have any friends to ask someone else.
However, at that moment.
"Should I take it?"
Someone who knew my face and knew the Hero Party's faces appeared.
"Lee Min-chae."
The girl who was presumed to have liked me.
She took the phone from my hand and positioned herself far away.
"I'm going to take it, so hurry up and get in position."
At her voice, the Hero Party clung to me.
"The spot next to Mister is mine! Move!"
"I-I absolutely won't move..."
"Fighting over nothing, you really have no composure. I won't fight with you because you're childish."
"I want to go to the side! Me!"
Luna and Hare trying to secure the spot next to me.
Saten leisurely observing and stepping back.
Estia just excitedly hopping around.
Along with Lee Min-chae's voice counting 3, 2, 1.
*Click—*
Both the Hero Party and I were captured in the photo.
Originally, I probably wouldn't have had parents there or even a single photo.
"Let me see! Did I come out pretty!?"
"...I had my eyes closed, Min-chae. Are you trying to fight me...?"
"N-no! It was a mistake, a mistake!"
They were protesting to Lee Min-chae after seeing the photo.
But I felt newly grateful for these girls.
I separated the Hero Party from pressuring Lee Min-chae.
"Stop it, she says you're scary."
"M-Mister! Are you taking another woman's side right now!? You womanizer!"
"...Th-that's cheating, Mister. We're supposed to get married, and you're already cheating?"
"What exactly is your standard for cheating?"
I sighed and looked at Lee Min-chae.
She was flustered but also smiling at this situation.
"Graduating and getting married... congratulations! Who are you marrying? Hare?"
I should be honest at times like this.
"No, I'm marrying all four of them together."
"...Huh?"
"That's how it turned out."
"..."
Lee Min-chae didn't answer.
No, it would be more accurate to say she couldn't answer.
After hearing my response, she had a somewhat dazed expression.
It would be hard to believe in 21st century South Korea.
*But what can I do...*
It's the truth.
I'm destined to marry all of the Hero Party.
Lee Min-chae had an expression of incomprehension, but she tried to understand us and clapped.
"C-congratulations... marrying four people... wow..."
"...Yeah, thanks."
The atmosphere was strange, making it awkward to respond.
Still, on the last day of school.
The graduation ceremony.
The Hero Party and I successfully concluded it and left behind memories in the form of a photo.
This was all thanks to someone's blessing.
"Blessing... right?"
A feeling like I'd forgotten something.
No, a feeling that I needed to find something.
However, until the wedding ceremony began.
I couldn't find that answer.
The wedding was held in Korea.
If you ask how I could marry four people in Korea.
We had to proceed on as small a scale as possible to avoid rumors and use methods to reduce people's eyes.
"Nice scenery."
A vast meadow spread with bright flower fields.
And the white church where our wedding would begin.
Our wedding ceremony would proceed in a place not frequented by many people.
I asked the Hero Party one last time.
"Are you guys okay with this kind of wedding? It's not fancy, just a modest ceremony."
At that question, Luna shouted angrily.
"What's important about being fancy! What's important is getting married! I'm satisfied!"
Hare hid her lewdness in her heart and answered calmly.
"I-I'm fine with anything... as long as I can marry you, Mister... I-I'm okay..."
Those words "fine" and "okay" contained many implied meanings.
Perhaps because she's a Thief, Hare had become quite lewd since coming to this world.
Anyway.
Saten answered my question refreshingly.
"Marriage is just a formality anyway. I prefer doing it modestly. We're already no different from being married anyway. Right, Mister?"
"That's true."
Still, if we proceed with a wedding ceremony and get married in front of others.
The meaning would come across differently.
Finally, Estia shouted about the wedding.
"I like weddings! I like it even more because it's at a church!"
"Because you're a Saint?"
"Right! As expected, Oppa knows!"
The All-Things-Hero Theory followed by the All-Things-Saint Theory.
No matter how I thought about it, Luna and Estia had many similarities.
After hearing all the Hero Party's answers like that.
I made a firm resolution and shouted confidently.
"Go ahead and wait for me."
"Yep!"
"Yes..."
"Okay."
"Alright!"
The Hero Party answering in their own ways.
"Luna."
Starting with Luna.
The Hero Party began walking down the wedding carpet.
Luna, shining even more today with the sunlight falling on her.
Unlike her usual liveliness, she was completely demure.
That meant she was focusing on today's wedding ceremony.
"Hare."
Hare walked with light, soundless steps.
She seemed especially happy today, with restrained steps.
I prayed inwardly that this restraint wouldn't be released throughout our married life.
"Saten."
Saten, befitting her noble family origins.
Took elegant and graceful steps.
Perhaps because she alone wore a black dress, the contrast with white amplified her elegance.
It was a very beautiful sight.
"Estia."
Honestly, I was most worried about Estia.
She had a free spirit that didn't match with rules.
However, Estia seemed to be holding back a lot for today.
Unlike usual, she didn't have sleepy eyes but eyes filled with clarity.
According to the Hero Party, she occasionally showed smart sides in the old days.
Today seemed like one of those days.
And finally.
"Lee Jun-woo."
With the officiant's voice calling my name.
I followed the wedding carpet they had walked first.
Remembering each step.
Engraving today's events in my memory.
I walked the path they had created.
Then, before my eyes, four brides were waiting for me.
Those who had walked the same path, who would walk together from now on.
The entire Hero Party and I made eye contact.
I naturally spoke the words that came to mind.
"Thank you. I was happy because you were here."
"Not 'was,' Mister!"
"...I'm happy because you're here."
With those words.
We gathered in one place and became wives and husband.
Four wives and one husband.
The Hero Party and their teacher, with rings on their ring fingers.
"I love you, kids."
The last page.
The end of the Hero Party.
Recorded in the library and organized as a single work.
After marrying the Hero Party.
I opened a restaurant in Seoul.
I say restaurant, but it's just a simple snack bar.
Why a snack bar, you ask...
*Too many menu items would be a bit much. Things that require too much work are bothersome.*
I have to raise children.
I can't make food that requires a lot of work, can I?
So I chose a snack bar that requires relatively less work.
Luna occasionally comes out to help with my work.
But mostly she lies at home taking care of the babies.
*Still, I'm doing the work Mother mentioned.*
So it doesn't matter.
Hare helps with my work almost every day by my side.
Sometimes she brings the baby and works as if she has two bodies.
Once I asked her this:
*If you're going to do that, wouldn't it be better to just stay home with the baby?*
Hare answered seriously to that.
*I can't see you then... no, honey...*
Hare, always monitoring me.
Still, since she says she's happy.
I had no particular complaints.
If I had to pick one, it would be Saten's outcry to franchise the snack bar?
*Hero Tteokbokki has business potential. If we hide the fact that the Hero Party are married women and run a tteokbokki shop. Students will go crazy.*
Of course I refused.
But Saten continued to eye business venture items.
While continuing magic research in the modern world.
*Those idiots had children before me. So I'll have them later. I don't want to have them at the same time for no reason. My child will naturally be a genius.*
Postponing pregnancy for now.
She's living quite enjoyably, so there wasn't really any problem.
Last is Estia.
She still sleeps when I'm not around.
Still, unlike before, she's improved a lot.
She's reduced her sleeping time and doesn't sleep continuously.
If there's work taking care of children, she does that work first before sleeping.
*Estia keeps growing!*
Estia without pause.
She was on an improving trend.
But.
*Something...*
Something.
It's been a strange feeling lately.
Should I say it feels like being chased by something I can't identify?
No, should I say the world is strange?
"...Here it is again."
I briefly left the snack bar to get ingredients that had run out.
Looking around the alley, there was a strange door I'd seen yesterday.
It's not a door that should be in this location, and the material is different too.
*There are strange patterns too... and my head hurts just looking at it...*
What is this door?
Why does it follow me around asking to be opened?
With the Hero Party around, could it be a trap by a resurrected Demon King?
Such suspicions keep rising.
But I can't ignore a door that follows me around forever.
"...Should I try opening it?"
If something big happens, the Hero Party will save me.
It's a complacent thought.
But I trust and believe in the Hero Party that much.
"Ah, whatever. Nothing ventured, nothing gained."
What's good is good, right?
*Creeeeak—*
I carefully opened the strange door standing in the alley.
When I opened the door, there were wooden stairs inside.
That space extending upward was clearly...
"A library."
And an incredibly large library at that.
A nostalgic fragrance and the smell of books tickled my nose.
A smell I'd encountered often.
A place not in my memory but remembered by my body.
I slowly climbed the stairs and walked as my body directed.
And—
"So this is it. The place that kept coming to mind in my memories."
I reunited with them.
Finally.
The library looked like it no longer needed my records.
Because now I could capture it with my own eyes.
**I Kidnapped the Hero Party (Complete)**