A Wish to Grab Happiness

The distance from Fort Medraut to the plains of Orion is two full days.

Nevertheless, it is only when the troops are moved, and it is about half a day if the horses are driven with all their might. In the meantime, there were no large mountain ranges with any slight ups and downs.

That's why it was already visible from the hills near the fort.

― ― Stronghold Giant Beast Zebrelilis walks wide.

Loose, loose, slightly stupid. I doubt the sanity of the fact that a building far larger than a castle fortress is indeed alive now.

Even the arrogant Richard, who had more unusual experience than people, leaked a bitter smile at the sight.

It was all the more strange because my teacher went to kill it than to kill it. After all, it's not what people think.

But it is also true that if we do not succeed, we will only be waiting for destruction. The new kingdom will collapse before Zebrellis can kill it.

I suppose a man named Lugis was always next to doom.

If you take one step wrong, if you don't have one hand, if you lose one moment. Everything must have been lost.

It's like he's always walking on thin ice.

Some would say he is a hero because he has the talent to overcome it, but Richard doesn't really think so. He's not a talented man who can handle things.

Richard was well aware of the extent of his teaching.

Lugis never had the talent to wave a sword. When I first met him, I thought he was a bad guy. I can't say that it is good. My mouth turned slightly and I only had the feeling of not raising the roots easily.

First-class fools, people who don't even know if their fingers reach the second-class. That's what Richard saw of Lugis.

"Now that's my life. I don't even feel fate, man."

Richard rests his horse and turns around, sitting alone on the hill. The bottle of wine left on my left arm fluttered.

"--That's what you're missing, villain. Fate hurts a man like you."

Before turning around, she was there. Pull the horse's strings and jump off the barrel to match Richard.

While unintended, Valerie-Britney did not seem to have lost much of her mood.

Valerie sparkles her magical armor and leaks her words indifferently.

"... Dore is my heart. It can be called half body. Without her, I wouldn't have been in the general's position. She told me to come. I didn't really want to come."

"Hey, I know you."

Richard replied lightly to Valerie's sudden monologue. Because we know who called her here and who prepared this meeting.

Richard led the way.

Anyway, her loyalty to Valerie is unblemished and authentic. That's why she can't imitate Valerie's honor.

Even against Valerie's will, Doré moves in Valerie's honor.

"A little of what I've done is coming to mind. That you betrayed me, that you betrayed half of me. You're not telling me to endure the third one, are you?

Emotions are thin. But it was a polished voice. I even have the impression that I will slit the other person's skin with just a cut.

"Don't be ridiculous, I'm not the one who tricked you. It's one of his beauty weaknesses. I can't betray what I believe. Sooner or later, he would have said the same thing to you. I just managed to guide him."

"You're as good at escaping as ever, you are."

Valerie sat next to Richard. I received the bottle that was handed to me, but I had to talk to him, so I cut it out.

There's no way I can't talk to you. Between defensive and offensive generals in battle, there are many negotiations, intentions, and plots.

Valerie also knew that the story to be told here was not about surrender. If that's the case, I won't call this place.

"I'm talking about the Zebrellis bastard. Valerie, you..."

"--No, I refuse."

So Valerie cut off and threw it away in one word. Temporary combats or harmony. Anyway, she didn't feel like listening to anything but surrender.

And more than Doré, Valerie knows about Richard. Sometimes you don't have a good opponent to talk to on your own.

That's why I opened my mouth first.

"I'm really disappointed in you right now. We're trying to negotiate because we're stuck and we're trying to put our shoulders in that great evil."

That's right. If you want to get to Valerie's side, you can talk to him after you hand over Fort Medraut. At a time when the fort is still tightly closed, Richard doesn't want to see Valerie.

That was not enough for Valerie. I have all these thoughts about why I betrayed my comrades.

"... why should I put it on that man? You might say you killed the Magus, but you killed the Great Demon. But I don't think a man as good as you is. I saw him once, but the next time I see him, I'll kill him and show him. I promise."

That's why Valerie threw up her bare emotions.

The Great Evil Lugis is nothing but a hateful enemy. It was the enemy of my country, and I hurt Richard. I can't really understand why I put a shoulder strap on such a man. And shake off your hand.

Without knowing, the words are getting rough.

"Let me be frank. More than me - this Valerie deserves more than that man! If I don't hear that, I won't talk to you!

It's like throwing it away, and it's a rushing voice. Richard glanced at Valerie as she slowly stood up and shouted. Valerie's sharp eyes are staring at him.

Talking to Richard makes me lie if I don't know what I think she's saying.

At the beginning of the fall of Wang Du. If Valerie, or his principal Roymets-Formall, had slain his ancestor and named himself King, Richard would have been on your side. There were many futures that would be hostile to Lugis.

--But that didn't happen.

"... Valerie"

With wrinkles between his eyebrows, Richard stood up and gazed. Valerie will not be able to retreat or move forward unless at least this question is settled.

She is of that nature. That's why Richard said it too.

"Do you believe in heroes?

"... what are you saying? Don't make a fool of me."

"Listen to me. I believed you. Ever since I was a hungry demon."

It was Valerie who came across the unexpected words of Richard. The strong emotions in her heart clouded her expression as she lost her way.

"My hometown is a poor village among garrisons. But, well, I was doing pretty well. I couldn't say luxury, and I ate meat a few times a year. The so-called modest happiness was there.

My father was a respectable fisherman and his mother was a working man. I'm just plagued by the evil of the Beast. I didn't have to take over the family business because I wanted to help my father, so I became an adventurer. "

Poor villages don't have the money to hire adventurers to crush beasts. If you become an adventurer, you can reduce food support, and if you do well, you can earn money.

Besides, if we can get adventurers, we can get them to work cheaply.

Fortunately, Richard was brilliant. Sword martial arts are natural. There is not a single person who stands very side by side with each other.

A magic beast, a demon tribe, or even a knight can't touch his blade. When he defeated the Great Demon Beast, the bard made his song and praised him.

"It must be a masterpiece. I thought you were gonna be a hero. I thought you had that kind of power and talent."

"I'm sure you've become..."

To the brave, Valerie inadvertently swallowed the words. Richard's eyes at himself were too dark. It's black enough to say I don't want to stare at anything.

"--I didn't, Valerie. Let me tell you something. The homeland of a fool who ran west to be a hero was wiped out a year later. While I'm drunk with my talents. It wasn't until six months later that I realized I couldn't get a letter from home. The village was already home to both beasts. No father, no mother, no brother, no sister."

One step forward, Richard. Valerie dropped unexpectedly.

I'm not under pressure. But what should I say now? It was as if Valerie had no idea what to do.

I can't even feel the meaning of what Richard just said. Even when we were together as adventurers in the labyrinth, we never talked like this.

After leaving Valerie in a state of confusion, Richard continued.

"Valerie, if you and Lugis are brilliant, you might be up there. You definitely have talent, and that's not what the Lugis guy does. No matter how far he goes, he may only be able to crawl forward."

However, with her left arm against the sheath, she opened her mouth.

"--That doesn't matter. Second-class, third-class, the only one who's done it is the hero! I didn't make it. I'm not a hero!

For Richard, that was the only truth.

It is only natural that there should be complain, dissatisfaction, misfortune and misfortune in living. Even the royal aristocrats complain of their own life.

It is only natural for a person without age or status to be subjected to the wind of unfaithfulness. Tasting humiliation and contempt are not unhappy routines.

For the majority, living is nothing but accepting all of it.

But if you can't compromise and accept everything and live with it.

Whether reckless or reckless, we must take a step. You must overcome the abandonment and avenge your own unremunerated life.

That path is reckless, reckless, and you will never get through. But if only someone had done it.

"- I'll call him a hero and bet everything. I know only one such person. Valerie, you cannot insult me."

After that, Richard pulled the black sword out of his sheath.