"- I thought I had swept away the fort I had prepared to surprise you, and this hurts me and makes me bleed easily. What children of dangerous people."

Arakune shoots me through with a strong gaze as he tells me so.

resentment for anger, fear, remorse, and a slight glimmer of sadness. Looking at me with her eyes full of complex emotions, she exhaled fine as she lay down her eyes.

To that attitude, which also appears frightened, the great spider looks up at Arakune anxiously.

"Mother?

"... I seemed a little proud. It's horrible out there in the woods that a race with nothing but fragile flesh has so much power."

'That's not true! Sometimes they just got lucky. Without that ice right now, those people would have been breathless without noticing our proximity. It is a mistake of some kind, such as the fact that a child of a person wins over a mother!

The big spider screams at Arakune's words, which also sound weak.

Short conversation So hard to determine if the words of the great spider are sincere or vain. But I know perfectly well that he worships Arakune, his mother, as an absolute being.

Though I don't know the look on the face of the big spider, that voice and attitude speak her words' I don't want to believe '.

The big spider, whose emotions seemed clear, wanting him to deny the earlier words, calls his mother with a deafening voice.

"Mother."

"No, it's not a mistake. These men's children are strong. So much so that I'm in awe."

But Arakune calmly told him so without moving one eyebrow.

She wrapped a shrug and thread around her bloody arm to stop the bleeding, and then the big spider's leg also gives her a hand. And then he turned to me and Jin again.

He didn't look proud of his face, and he seemed serious about how he could hunt us.

It would have been easier if you were overconfident in your power...

I pound my inner tongue at Arakune, who doesn't show a minute's gap.

Again, I should have stayed put on the earlier offense.

It seems to have alerted Arakune to the fact that they saw through and attacked their secrets. I feel impatient from her to throw away the grudge and confront us with all her might.

"- Terrible, but we have to fight and win. Seems to lose to these people, dreams such as leaving the woods and attacking a man's country. Then the children who believed in my words and scattered with the fort will not be floated. I am the one who entertains the country and becomes king. Something that gives in to the descendants of dry ads!

"Mother!

To that word of Arakune, the great spider raises his voice full of joy.

With her mouth slightly broken by a delightful large spider, she forms a rod-shaped weapon when she gathers threads in her palms.

Never look away from us in the meantime. She was also monitoring our behavior, just as we were alert to the movements of Arakune and the Great Spider.

Don't break your bones on this...

Think about that to Arakune, who's alert to our every move. At the same time, he abandoned the impression he initially had of her, 'a rather strong confident man who hates to follow others'.

Unconscious enemies are a pain in the ass. I mean, there's not much clearance.

Not to mention that the Arakunes are warcraft with the nature of spiders who are better at trapping and ambushing than cutting and fighting front. Once you missed it, you'd come fully prepared and do your best to fit in the trap. That makes this one more likely to be hunted.

It does not give a lurking gap and definitely butchers Arakune and the Great Spider on this occasion.

If you move your eyes to the side with such determination on your chest, the slightly frowning gin will appear in your sight. Arakune's opponent secretly exhaled at the look on his face, which said, "It's hard to do."

Is white, smooth skin with thin arms and lustrous black hair that feels saggy? Her eyes are a little tight, but if you look only at Arakune's upper body, she is a beautiful woman. It doesn't make her feel like she's ready to die.

Happy and upright, Gin doesn't like to fight people with seemingly weak looks like women and children.

- Looks like you're picking enemies. You can't go ahead, Jin.

They have as many enemies as they want to exploit their weak appearance. Sounds like Arakune won't be able to do it, he'll shrug his legs one day.

But on the other hand, I think that's the virtue of gin.

So I whispered to Jin.

"Arakune will deal with me, so Jin asks for a big spider. Don't let them get away with it, okay?

- I'll take care of it.

I re-grip Espada and Oreo, feeling indescribable to Jin, who exhaled in the words.

Help the weak and crush evil.

Such picturesque statues of the brave are favored by the people at all times.

They might say it's sweet, but I'm sure if Master Gray had, he would have made the same choice as me. Gin's straightness is at stake, but he can be a great hero in grasping the hearts of the people as long as he's ready.

But the readiness is not for anyone to tell, but for themselves.

Because I can't get over the difficulties I'm prepared to be instigated by people, and I'm going to leave an escape route that 'wasn't my intention'.

- I'll give you a little more time. Let's get to the stomach, Jin.

If you can't overcome it after graduating from Epis School, I'm not hesitating to kick you off the standpoint of 'Lady Gray's Side', but this is still fine now.

Well, even if I don't rub my mind that far, Lady Gray will do something about it. He's basically sweet, but tough on lazy people.

That's what I'm thinking, and they're ready for the enemy.

Arakune, holding a white trident spear, looks at us and screams.

"Sons of men. I take that life to fulfill my clan's grief!

"I'll feed you fools who defy your mother!

Cut that word off. I'm Arakune, and Jin packs the distance toward the big spider.

I'm your opponent.

"You're more of an ice man."

"Yes."

Play the protruded trident spear and dive into your pocket.

And he tried to slash it, but Esperda's blade, without reaching Arakune, was forced to change his thick muscles by a tenacious thread and stabbed to the ground.

At the same time as I take the impending trident spear with Oreo, I freeze the thread and restore Espada's freedom. I use [Shadow Cut] to stop the movement and aim at Arakune's feet.

Noticing my behavior like that, she rises high in the sky with a bar-high jump guideline based on a trident spear that had an oleoleole and a bite.

It was for a moment that I glanced at the incredibly mild Arakune movement from its body. I stacked about five ice walls over my head to buy time to intercept her falling down with the spider hair.

- That sucks.

Having made such a decision on a trident spear with a tremendous amount of magic, I take an interception posture with a magically resistant oreol accompanied by an enhanced espada to the limit.

There's no 'avoid' option in me.

Even a warrior with as much war history as his grandfather creates a slight gap after big moves.

That would be a blow to Arakune's body. If I could take that attack, I'd get a chance to pin her down for sure.

It is difficult to close the gap between Arakune, who is alerting us with his whole body and spirit in the wake of the attack on the fort. In the meantime, it is the pinnacle of stupidity, such as missing a good opportunity that has been explored.

Hair as thin as a ballpoint pen was sharp as a needle, and I managed to put a crack in one, two and a crushed third sheet of ice wall and stop. But the third, and the fourth, and the fifth, are crushed by her gains.

Tons of ice fragments and hair that didn't hit the ice wall poured down, shallow scratches all over her body, but never mind, I stared at her.

In the falling hand of Arakune, a trident spear wrapped around a frightening magic.

The influence of her magic, or the score that was white, was stained black.

"Be the food of my family, my son of man!

Take Arakune, who distorts and falls off his beautiful face like a night fork, with two swords.

At that moment, the atmosphere swayed.

The full-body blow unleashed by the readiness to die is heavy, and the impact of the bones in my body about to smash hits me.

I ate my teeth and endured the attack of Arakune as each other's scores on the bite played a discord with Giti.

And -.

"Neither me nor the people of Majesta will feed you!

I couldn't resist the shock that sounded all over my body, and if I said that and swung through Oreo, the tip of the trident spear would smash and scatter.

"Huh."

The moment Arakune watched, I swung through the reinforced Espada and slashed her.

Arakune, who falls to the ground with a slashed impact, tries to get up even as he roars low, "Gu."

But it was faster for me to pack the distance than she could get in shape.

"- Mother!

I thought I heard that voice, and the big spider who was fighting Jin would fly his hair at me to protect my mother. But most of my hair was burned down by gin, and only very few arrived at me.

With this number of copies, it won't be a lot of damage as long as the steeple is removed.

Having determined that, I proceed without avoiding any attack from the Great Spider and enter Arakune's nostalgia.

――――

Step back and step in with Jin's voice screaming for an apology or something.

If you stick out a magically resistant oreol to pierce it even if it's defended, it feels stiff at the tip. Seeing, it was just a stick and an accomplished black trident spear taking the cut.

"- Instead of going out of the woods and taking control of man's kingdom, I lost all my children. If I die, I can't even hope for the next generation. This is the end of my family."

Arakune, who was watching the big spider beaten by Jin, shrugged and dropped his gaze at me.

"... why not in my clan? Why can't my clan do that when the descendants and vulnerable of the inferior dry ads rule an incomparably large land outside the woods and sing raw. What difference does it make between us and you?

It was a roar full of anger and sorrow.

The wounds I slashed earlier in Esperda are deep, and there is spilled blood under the spider's body. There was also blood in her mouth as a result of the shock she suffered when she fell.

Even if you leave it alone, you'll eventually catch your breath. The more I felt that way, the more seriously she was wounded.

But more than anything else than such a state of Arakune, tears that convey her words and cheeks rush her chest.

I don't know because I don't know about what she calls' descendants of dry ads', but at least I don't think there's such a difference between Arakunes and people. They are so emotional that they have words and feel angry and sad that the Great Spider and others are finally defeated by Jin as a result of sheltering their mother.

He was halfway there, but he's also intelligent enough to build a fort and line up for a group fight. It would also have been possible for Arakunes and others to be interested in the country and optimize their prosperity if conditions had been met, such as being born in a place where there were no external enemies, before so many people.

Then why didn't it?

There may have been some reason if I stuck it in, but I'm not a scholar or a god for that matter. I have no reason to know.

"- Me and you don't seem to change a lot. If something is different, it must be the place where you were born, the times, your luck, that's the part where you can't help it."

"Don't be ridiculous! Is it because of such vague things that my family must perish? What the hell did we do? Didn't you just want the clan to flourish? Vulnerable people are forgiven, why not us!

Her sad cry is painful to hear.

If you don't try to lure me or Jin, if you don't try to attack Majesta, you have to meet a red-haired man.

If any of them were different, they might have turned out a little differently, but that would be all the more so now.

No matter how much they ask, all I can say is, "Arakunes were unlucky."

'Cause I'm not gonna die for them.

No matter how much Arakune and the others want to go out into the woods and take their place with humans living on the wide earth outside, they can't say, "Well, go ahead".

Majesta has a lot of irreplaceable things.

That's why I look at her and tell her.

"I'm sorry, but I don't have the answer to that question - so die resenting me fully. I'll kill you to protect my country."

If I caged my strength in Oreo, I made a slight noise with Pisces and a small crack in the trident spear.

At the same time, his gaze meets Arakune's pitch-black eyes, who stopped moving.

If I put more weight on the knife without distracting myself from the eyes that drip away, I could hear the slight sensation of the cutting tip eating in and a louder crack than I had just heard earlier.

and then Arakune slowly opens his mouth.

"... Son of man, what's your name?

To that word that came out of her mouth, I stopped my hand shoving Oreo in.

"Doyle,"

"Doyle......"

"Yes, I was born between a father and a mother in the name of the Virgin, who held the brave man of the Flaming Spear to his grandfather and was honored as the brave man of the Thunder Spear, and now serves His Royal Highness the King of the Kingdom of Majesta"

In spite of the fact that in a few moments Oreo will break Arakune's trident spear and pierce his chest, I will give him a name politely.

If you mean resentment, it's because I thought it would be polite to make it clear who it is.

There's something I can't give away.

There are people who want to protect them at all costs.

Sometimes you'll compete with someone for that, and sometimes you'll throw yourself into battle. One day comes not only the Warcraft, but also the time to take a man's life.

That's how my grandfather, my father, and my forefathers have all spinned the history of Majesta.

So I live with all the grudges and anger that I can direct.

Because I think that's my responsibility for choosing this path.

"Doyle von Aginis, heir to the Duke of Aginis family. That's my name."

If you tell her that as she stares into Arakune's eyes, she closes those eyes full of anger and sorrow.

- You're sweet.

It was a calm voice.

I shrugged pompously. That voice was so gentle that I thought it was misheard, I breathe unexpectedly.

But at the next moment, Arakune, with her eyes open, stared and growled at me with anger-stained eyes.

"The sin that held back my clan's grief is heavy! Even if this body decays, I will never forget the beatings I received! Let's carve this anger into our souls, Doyle von Aginis!

That must have been a scream that shook the last of its powers.

The moment Arakune finishes saying that, the black trident spear turns to white and smashes and breaks.

In a moment, a pitch-black knife pierced her chest.

In the middle of the abyss forest where I regained my serenity, I was hearing from Lord Argo about the situation there in the light of the incompatible sun.

"- It's a crowd of UAE with a lot of numbers, but no control and nothing. Some of the younger guys are snagging, but they're extraordinarily easier to hunt than they are in the morning. This is enough for old stock alone. He says there's no problem with the flaming snake, so take your time and you'll be fine. '

"No. This one's cleared up, so I'll be back."

"You get tired when you're too serious, huh? Well, fine. 'Cause I'm pretty sure it's easier with the Dukes.'

"I'll be right back, will you please continue your command? Lord Argo."

I'll take care of this one.

At the end of the word on which Lord Argo relies, the magic prop loses its light and ends its role.

Nostalgia and exhale demonic props for communication. Then looking for Jin, he was just offering the flowers he'd picked from somewhere to Arakune and the Great Spider's Tomb Mark.

After the battle, we started digging holes in the fort from either side.

Somehow, their bodies were brought back as proof of crusade, because they were left exposed to the occasion.

We dug each other's dirt magic, so we could quickly secure enough size to put Arakune and the Great Spider in.

Once the hole has been drilled, all you have to do is put the body in and fill it.

Arakune's hair and a broken trident spear, a big spider's foot, and then we recovered the hair released by the two as evidence of the crusade, and we buried the rest in the hole, and instead of buried it with dirt, we put up an ice column to make it a grave.

Sunlit ice columns will melt in less than a few days, but there is no need to leave their shape forever because it is a tomb without visitors.

... It's just self-satisfaction.

Well, it's better than not.

While I was mindlessly digging and burying the hole, the feeling that I was no longer having also subsided.

By the time we get home to the castle where everyone waits after cleaning up the elephant warcraft, we won't be able to remember clearly the indescribable emotions we had with Arakune and the others.

With that in mind, I approach and speak to Jin, who was holding hands together.

"We're going back, Jin."

"Yes!"

I grip Esperda too, looking at Jin as he pulls out the spear that stabbed him on the ground and turns around.

And walk out.

As the water dissolved from the ice column slowly stained the earth, me and Jin returned to the front of the Warcraft Crusade without looking back.