Farewell to the Hero

“Congratulations on your marriage, Kaindel.” Isaac, who had been Kaindel’s lover—the hero who saved the world from the Great Calamity—learned one day that Kaindel was engaged to a princess. Exhausted by their already strained relationship, Isaac eventually decided to leave Kaindel, who had betrayed him. However, Kaindel wouldn’t let him go. In the end, Isaac fled, unable to endure Kaindel’s refusal to give up either the marriage to the princess or his relationship with Isaac. Not long after, rumors began to spread throughout the kingdom: the hero had gone mad. *** “…….” Kaindel read and reread the last line of the letter, but the words didn’t change. ‘Once loved.’ Isaac really wrot...