LIGHTNOVELSTORY chapter 41
41. Finance Yellow’s Mission Log
“Ah, my right leg is broken…”
My right leg is dangled limp and lifeless, feeling like a heavy burden.
“Will it heal right away? I can’t go home like this.”
The Filance Yellow hero suit is designed to be bright and cheerful, like a toy soldier. It’s a little childish compared to the other heroes, but I like the short sleeves and shorts because they’re easy to move in. However, it’s a bit Annoying injuries to my arms and legs are immediately obvious.
“I might have to go out on another mission tonight, so I’ll just force it to heal.”
In the past few days, there have been landslides in various places due to the heavy rain. In some cases, houses at the foot of the mountain have been buried in rubble, and there has been major damage, such as buildings being half-destroyed . Since the day before yesterday, I, Fiance Yellow, have been very busy.
Of course, the other heroes seem to be going out on missions too, but my abilities are the most useful for disaster recovery like this. The partner I’ve had ever since I first became Filance Yellow is a large drill with a handle that’s about 1.5 times my length. It looks like a top-heavy spear from a distance, but the tip rotates and can crumble most things like tofu, making it perfect for landslides, demolition work, and rescue operations.
Apparently, the only way for humans to get rid of large amounts of rock is to use something like a crane to carefully remove it from above, or to blow it up if it doesn’t matter if it collapses a bit, so my abilities are groundbreaking. I could also use the drill to dig small holes, but maybe because there’s no time for that when trying to secure safety as quickly as possible in a disaster, I’ve hardly ever seen it done.
Well, it doesn’t really matter to me how ordinary people manage, but the fact is that Filance Yellow has a weapon that can pulverize anything and the strength to lift rocks as heavy as a truck with ease. When I arrive at the scene, I use my incredible strength to remove the most obstructive objects, and leave the rest of the delicate work to the rescue team. I’m not very good at delicate work.
“hehehehe, I was thanked by a lot of people today too.”
Apparently, rescue operations become a lot easier when I’m around, so the doctor told me that I can count the people rescued at a scene where I was active as people I helped. It’s not like we heroes compete over how many people we’ ve saved or failed to save, and it doesn’t affect our salaries, but I’ve started to care about it since my big brother told me to help ‘as many citizens as possible’.
“I’ve been able to do a lot lately thanks to all the rain. I might have helped over a hundred people this week with this mission. Will my big brother praise me again? … Ah”
As I imagined my big brother praising me, the pain in my right leg suddenly disappeared. Not only the pain, but the exposed bone on my knee was completely covered in smooth skin. This is also one of the powers of a hero: we can heal our own injuries.
I can heal, but it takes time, and the moment I get injured, it hurts, so before I met my big brother, I was careful not to get injured as much as possible. If my arms or legs were broken and I couldn’ t work as a hero, it would be the end for me, and I wouldn’t be allowed to hurt my body, which didn’t belong to me. Besides, I thought that pain was love, so it would be wrong to cure it selfishly.
“The pain is gone… But is it okay?”
But now, it’s different. My big brother taught me. Hurting and being hurt isn’t love, and real love is doing what the other person wants you to do. My big brother said that he hated to see me get hurt and that he was happy when I did a lot as a hero. That’s why I’ll heal no matter how injured I get, and go to the scene as many times as it takes. That’s the effort I can make to be loved by my big brother.
After meeting my big brother and learning about love from him, I feel like the energy inside me is growing stronger and stronger. Like a small flame with a lot of newspaper and branches thrown on it, it burns fiercely inside me, and as that feeling grows, my abilities as a hero have become stronger.
Even the injury from earlier, where my bone was probably broken, healed easily when I thought about my big brother. I think that if it were the old me, it wouldn’t have fully healed for a week.
“I’m a hero for my big brother, and I can be a hero because of my big brother.”
When I think about it like that, I’m so happy that I feel like my very existence has become a part of my big brother. I don’t understand the difficult things yet, but maybe this is what it means to give and receive love. I hope that my love reaches my big brother even a little.
“I want to see my big brother soon…”
Before I knew it, the date had changed, and today was Wednesday. I think my big brother said he would come and see me during his day off this week. If I work hard for three more days, I’ll be able to see my big brother, so I have to work even harder so that he’ll praise me a lot then.