"You'll do it."

Quon understood instantly.

Graham and the others set fire to the mansion. The private residence of Knights Commander Graham Zan-Nordis was now being engulfed by the fiery fire of the Red Lotus. The momentum of tremendous flames can bring this magnificent mansion home to ashes overnight. The feeling of quon enlarged by the power of the shield coolly grasps the situation, which can be described as desperate.

I guess the reason I put a lot of Knights into the mansion was because of this measure - which I can't even call - and so on. Though large, the narrow manning of the mansion was not in anticipation of its outcome.

In other words, every member of the Knights who puts them in the Mansion is an obstacle to Quong's escape. It is a space with no escape. Engagement is inevitable. And even if I could finish all of that battle in a flash, I'm not talking about that being okay. In the first place, you can't even trump all your enemies to one sword.

Neither Quon nor Swirl are of any use in a battle like defeating an enemy. To escape while destroying the forces put into the mansion, Mana, Waldo and Illis alone did not allow it a little.

(No)

Kuon shook his head in his chest. If your opponent is just a Knights member, you have a good chance of winning. After all, this is the White Shield. It is a group of mercenaries called an invincible army, an undefeated army, etc. If Mana waves Stardust and Waldo slaps the Black Phantom, that must be all we can get out of this situation.

Beyond the bodies of the poor Knights.

Quon shook his head once again. That shouldn't happen. My soul is screaming. Then no.

The flames have not yet broken into this room. But the heat and smoke pouring in from the outdoors is about to repaint the world. A hell of a sight, because it wouldn't be too much to say. In the mansion surrounded by a fiery fire of red lotus, there is no escape, only the enemy is present. But nobody's making a scene. Nothing to scream about, nothing to mourn about. That said, none of them have the face of being on schedule.

The Knights were abandoned.

Graham's ruthless decision is going to burn their lives to the ground.

Still, is it because they know the nature of a man named Graham that they don't utter a single accusation against the Knights Commander, or not? Simply because I can't help complaining about things like this right now, maybe because I'm in tune with Graham's opinion. That is, the idea is also tantamount to the obsessive notion that if we do not end the Quons here, it will eventually be a great disaster for Berel.

The idea is not necessarily a mistake. But you knew that from the beginning. It should naturally be understood that mercenaries and others relate only to the duration of the contract. Otherwise, the very profession of mercenary ceases to form. Mercenaries are a common occupation in this war-torn continent.

Graham's idea is nothing more than to deny the way that mercenary is. Of course, he concluded that he would wipe out the Quons, partly because the strength of the White Shield stands out compared to others.

Quon sighed quietly. Too invincible may also be an idea.

"Master Kuon?

"It's a good idea."

Quon laughed lightly at Mana. A whirlpool of smoke and scorch stood up seemed to be causing her to lose her calm from her face. Surely you won't be able to stay calm. Kuon, the captain of the regiment, has given no more orders than to take some action. Regardless, more than the power of the shield is working, the heat is only felt, and there is nothing like being burned by the flames. But there's nothing I can do if they take the air away from me.

The Knights are not to be afraid of either. No matter how grievously prepared you are, you were not the enemy of the Quons who put up their shields.

It is only when the air that fills this space is burned out that the quons will run out of life.

I look out for the Knights. There were more than a dozen Knights in service indoors and countless men in armor who would have entered from the outdoors. They may have been equally desperate to lay down their weapons in this blazing heat, but they are also unsuitable to attack, and can only keep an eye on what's going on here.

We know the attack is futile. No matter how hard you use to slap your weapon, it won't scratch one on the Quons. On the contrary, it is the weapons that stick out that spill the blade and become useless. Now I can't do it.

Quon put his shield over his head. A pure white shield depicting a true circle. Make it a symbol of the White Shield, the root of power. Why he's here. Everything about him.

"Shield, hey."

As the gaze of his enemies and allies concentrated, he unleashed the power of his shield. The pure white shield emits a vivid glow. The bright and intense light, even in the space exposed to the flames of the Red Lotus, instantly dyed the world white. That's for a moment. The flash of brightness but not loss of softness illuminated the mansion only momentarily. But that was enough.

Quon nodded satisfactorily, acknowledging the same appearance, not knowing what had happened. It would also be natural for them not to understand. Kuon only knows what he did with the power of his shield. No, if you're familiar with the art of armed subpoena, you might get to the right answer. but at least, he didn't seem to feel Mana or Waldo. I'm looking for an explanation.

When Quon tried to open his mouth, the Knights suddenly disturbed the signs. The killer is flying towards the Quons. Maybe he cut the paralysis.

Burning mansion. There is no escape. No, as far as they're concerned, they're also not allowed to escape. They are abandoned pawns. He is an abandoned pawn and is responsible for one end of the strategy used to wipe out the executives of The White Shield. Even at the stake of his life, he must stop the Quons from escaping and be burned down with the Mansion. If you didn't like it, you had to kill the Quons as soon as you could.

There is no option to leave the Quons alone and get out of here. They will be part of the Knights. Disobeying the prospects of the Knights ruler Graham can be considered an act of treachery and treason to the Knights. It's not what I found out what kind of tricks await me.

It's not necessarily that there's no more miserable end waiting than burning to death in the flames.

Then there was no wonder - even if you decided to be ready. Regardless, Kuon didn't know that logic, and he didn't want to understand it. I just thought it was pathetic. If they can, they want to save, too,

"Whoa, whoa!

It was the knights wrapped in armor who had arrived towards Quong with a fierce roar. In the heat, the armor must be hot to burn correctly. Wild voice. Must be a man. He was about to shake the sword he had in his hand and beat it to a cuon. The opponent may not have known the power of the shield.

Quon did not react in any way because he knew the fact that the flash would never mutilate him, even though he could be seen by the fat muscles of the sword waved down with his temper. I don't even try to see the enemy blade touch my right shoulder. Rather, he was delighted that his actions had changed the indoor situation, which had stalled.

The Knights moved together. Both the men in service and the armed Knights will attempt to take a formation to destroy the Quons. vast space. It is not always difficult to surround the quons gathered almost in the middle of it.

A swirling flame coloured the edges of his vision red. We don't have much time.

A heavy metal sound shook Quon's tympanic membrane. The moment the Knights sword tried to touch Quon's shoulder, it was played by the power of a shield. What a surprise to see the eyes of the Knights, who were supposed to be hiding in the shadow of their helmets, open.

Several other sword trident tones echoed. Mana and Waldo would have been attacked, but they were definitely intact.

"Let's not"

Quon spoke to the man in front of him. The Knights seemed a little tight, but I don't mind continuing.

"As you can see, with your weapons, killing us is neither foolish nor hurtful. That's understandable, isn't it?

Kuon looked around at the Knights. A large amount of sweat was shed from the bare skin of the Knights in service. Sweating is something that takes away strength, but you will no longer have to worry about it in that regard. Protected by the power of the shield, the quons were not perspiring even in the blazing hot air.

The Knights in front of them are rearranging their swords bounced by the power of their shields. Are you going to not even have ears to ask, or not? Perhaps this desperate situation is responsible for that slightly shivering sword tip.

"Even if the prospect of Graham Zan-Nordis is our annihilation, you can't fulfill it. As long as the shield is protected, we are invincible."

"But if you hold back here......!

To the dialogue of the man in front of him, Quon just smiled.

"Sure, then you can kill us. Without air, humans cannot live. But that also means your death. Are you prepared to give up your life?

"If you're ready, you're ready!

"Right. But if that's what you want, we can't keep quiet, can we?

Such is Waldo. His fierce obsession may have been too much to shoot the Knights. It's not just a man's eye. It was an eye that was allowed only to warriors of hundred wars and smells.

"Right. I don't even want to think about burning to death here."

"Quon protects...!

Mana and Illis lined up to defend the left and right of Quon. The only thing that seemed to prevent the Knights from approaching was the killing they unleashed. They are also fierce warriors. I must have dived through the training ground more than Kuon and others.

Kuon looked back at the man in front of him after scouting how Swell was wiping his sweat behind Waldo's back. He was surprised by the change in signs here. Those who didn't even show a bare gesture to fight until just now, the change was too great, and some of them could lose their hips.

"If you're willing to risk your lives to stop us from escaping, that's fine. We're just going to get out of here over your corpses. We are the White Shield. Undefeated and invincible group of mercenaries. It doesn't matter what the situation is like."

Quon told her chilly. I just notified you of the facts. There is no way the Quons will lose in battle more than under shield protection. And if Mana and Waldo exercised their armed summons and Illis demonstrated that combat skill, the situation would change in an instant. The neighborhood instantly turns into a sea of blood and turns dramatically into a sight worthy of hell.

The future, though, is not his intention.

The Knights silenced as if they were barely pressured by Quon's words and actions. The fact that the blow all over him didn't work at all was weighing in on Quon's words. What's more, the track record that Kuons and the White Shield have accumulated up to today fuels it. And no one can deny the reality that happened in front of us.

I can't even fight it.

In Graham's deceptive schemes, they had to be prepared. There was no salvation where I took off this sea of fire, and there was decidedly not enough firepower to kill the Quons. And Graham must have also known that would happen.

They were nothing more than abandoned pawns whose quons were burned by flames and consumed as a time earner to die. You are expected to die. While they understood that ruthless fact, they could not reject Graham's thoughts.

Either way, we have to die here. I can't let the Quons suffer a single scratch trying to overwhelm me with the power of numbers. It became an obstacle and I had to wait for the quons to breathe out in the burning red lotus.

Pull or hell, move on or hell. Then we have to move on. That doesn't mean the blade arrives where you push it. It is best to interrupt the enemy's escape only slightly.

I can't help it.

I couldn't even find salvation.

But that's why Quon throws a merciful glance at them. In the fervour of a sudden swirl, my vision is shaking at all costs. but there's nothing like a flame wrapping around your whole body with pain. The power of the shield was preventing the fiery invasion of the Quons. In other words, the flames that cover the mansion itself are horrible or irrelevant.

It is only horrible to be deprived of oxygen.

Kuon stared into the eye of the man in front of him. I guess the eyes of the silent man show the Quons not breaking their spare facial expressions even in this situation.

"Together, would you like to escape from here?

……

The man in front of Quon let his mouth pound like a flash. I may have gone blank in my head over an offer I wouldn't make to be Quon's prediction. It could certainly have been a word I couldn't imagine. Actually, you'd be right.

"Hey, what are you saying?

"Run away with me," he said!

"Don't make me laugh! Where we escaped together, you are not the only ones to be saved!

"We're part of the proud Knights of the Kingdom of Berel! You deserve to die for missing you here!

The Knights have been screaming in their mouths. But the emotions shaking behind that cry were neither anger nor bewilderment, as if they were telling us that Quon's offer was not always immediately rejected. Regardless, some of them really raised their anger, but the vast majority did not.

It may be close to human instinct, no, as life, to want to escape this hellish tragedy right now.

"... if you're the kind of person who's proud to be a knight, I don't think you'd take such a sighing means"

That's what I said to myself, Mana. Perhaps I'm wondering something about the way I am as a knight. She was born into a famous family that was once powerful enough to shape a nation's policies, and was also deeply involved with such things as having the title of Knight. The house is now falling, and she had to learn the art of armed summons just to protect herself from the mistletoe.

Mana's eyes shine cold. He didn't seem to have much sympathy for the Knights either. Instead, he tried to kill the Quons for failing to negotiate, and even set fire to the mansion, revealing his disdain for that Knights Commander who was also trying to involve his men.

And those who have to follow suit also despise it. Even she must know that they are in an unacceptable position to argue. But if you try it on her, it's not beautiful, I guess.

Enjoy your destiny and don't acknowledge what it's like to give up the future.

as she herself is.

"You, fool the captain!

"Don't you feel anything?

It was Waldo who glanced at the furious man. His gigantic body looked bigger in the fire. It was like a giant.

"Don't you have any doubts about the way a man would do to kill a group of mercenaries cheaply just because he just couldn't control them?

Although Waldo questioned the rough knights, it was clear from his attitude that he did not expect a response from the end. If you try him, it doesn't matter how many Knights survive in this fiery fire. I'm not interested.

He is wholeheartedly committed to fulfilling the mission entrusted to him. That varies depending on the circumstances, for example, being the escort of "White Shield" Commander Quon, or the command of some troops, but anyway, he was the one who gave top priority to his task, and there seemed to be no room for sentimentality there.

The earlier question must have drawn the will of Quon, whom he said to the Lord.

Quon opened his mouth, anticipating that the fierceness of the Knights had subsided. The momentum of the flames has not diminished. I couldn't afford much time.

"Does His Majesty the King of Istria know about the negotiations with us in the first place or the aftermath if it ends badly?

"It's..."

The Knights looked at each other, but there was nothing like the answer that Quon sought from them. I'm just wasting my time. It's draining lives,

Not now, Kuon hastened to conclude. Anyway, I want to save their lives, too. But we cannot resort to coercive means. We can't break through the siege net by the Knights any more than we can deploy a shield. or so, releasing the power of the shield is consensual when we let them go. I can't do that either.

Save all the lives you can save.

That was Quon's creed.

"Nobody knows," he said. Then why don't you ask the Knights Chief directly?

"What a fool......!

It would have been natural for the Knights to change their blood phase. The opponent is the Knights Commander and Berel's powerful man. There's so much to be afraid of, such as asking questions, even though you can't even defy them. Horrible afterwards, as I was able to ask for the power of numbers. I don't know what means I'm going to use to retaliate.

Most of all, I don't think a man as small as the Knights Commander for so many years would be that much less fearful if he were to that extent.

"If Lord Commander is terrified, you can ask His Majesty directly."

Quon suggested, at an extremely calm pace, that the attitude seemed to have touched their inverse scales as well.

A woman in her service flashed the sword in her hand.

"That's ridiculous! Your Majesty will meet the Knights of the Sousuke!

"I know you're going to contact us verbally, but it's not going to happen."

"Yes...... It was only when we escaped together in your truck that we ended up here. Shortly after you leave the mansion, will you cut it off? Like that man!

Though the anger of the Knights, who had come to grill the mansion like a fiery fire, thought it best, Quon didn't even feel lightly imprisoned. It even makes me feel like I'm repeating meaningless questions. That must be a major cause of the situation in which they were placed.

I can't stay out of my mind.

The Commander disappears at some point, and if you realize it, it's a sea of fire. In an attempt to escape, there are subjects in front of us that should be obliterated, and they are protected by invincible shields. It is the same as renouncing the Commander's order, such as leaving it alone and getting out of here, and that is not acceptable more than being a member of the Knights. Or how to break through the White Shield's iron wall defenses. The flames envelop the mansion.

Death is sneaking in.

I have to go crazy.

Only in flames with the Quons was the last resort allowed to them.

That's why Quon pours a loving gaze on them. Poor souls who can only be prepared for an unsaved future and can't even find a way to fight despair.

Let's reach out.

"That's not possible. If it takes as much effort as that, we'll get out of here right now by slashing it and throwing it away. If you think about it a little bit, you know what I mean?

Quon smiled gently. They can't stay calm in this situation, which is out of the ordinary track. Only emotion is their principle of action. A passion dominates their psyche.

That could have been the case with Quon in their shoes as well. Can reason or other things be preserved before the realistic end of unreasonably poked death?

"... Indeed"

There was only one person who nodded at Quong's statement. Of all the Knights there would be more than a hundred, there was only one. But Quon couldn't help but be surprised with joy that there was one person who had not lost sight of calm rather than discouraged by the fact.

The same gaze concentrates on the voiced person.

I found out in my voice what a man is. It was a voice that went low and well. Young. That said, you must be older than Quong. In this case, it should be said that Quon is too young. The fact that he is wearing armor tells me that he was put in later. Long. I don't even know what kind of physique he is, but with his helmet visor up, I know exactly how he looks.

Hideyoshi, the word looked well suited. Those eyes look straight at the quon, reflecting the flames and glittering. It was as if I was trying to discern our sincerity.

(good......)

Quon, while strongly looked into his eyes, never felt uncomfortable. Instead, I get a good impression of being different from the rest of the Knights. I think it's great. I'm not losing sight of myself in this desperate situation, and I'm trying to figure out what to exchange. I'm not just following orders above.

Regardless, that also depends on the situation. Often, it is better for a soldier to obey his commands above.

But this time, it's like he was ordered to die. He was thrown into hell with arrogance. I know what makes you want to differ, and I can take it for granted that you want to survive somehow. Looking for a way to do that is right as a creature. Regardless of whether you are a member of the Knights ruled by law.

He has continued to stare into Quon's eyes.

"You're absolutely right. There is no more inevitability to deceive us than having the power to defeat the status quo"

"So, don't be fooled! They're enemies. Don't let the words of your enemies fool you!

"No, I think you can believe them"

The man glanced at the Knights who tried to hold him back. The voice was pity itself, accompanied by chills enough to feel cold in this hellish sight. Quon became more and more interested in him. His cool standing behavior was enough to make him think it was a shame to let him bury him as just a Knights member. Besides, there is no way we can prepare a more glorious stage than the Knights of the Kingdom of Berel. It wouldn't matter because it was prepared for it.

He is a member of the Knights of the Kingdom of Berel and at the same time a Berel citizen. Unlike the Quons.

And he looked around at his colleagues. Many of the Knights have a surprising look on their face. I don't understand what he's saying or doing. Naturally. Their consciousness is in a vortex of frenzy. It can be said that you are renouncing to think rationally. Of course, that's not what they did with their will. I was just cornered.

by the fierce fire of the Red Lotus.

A man said, "Who is it?"

"Don't you notice?

"What?"

"... in this flame, how can we be safe? How can you just stand there like them?

"Ah."

"It's..."

"Yeah? What's this all about?

To his inquiry, a reaction that was neither upsetting nor startling arose among the Knights. He was certainly right. The swirling enthusiasm is tremendous amid the flames that surround the entire mansion. Everything is about to burn out. Being able to stand flat in that is something that is not normally conceivable.

Quon loosened his cheeks to his sensible obsession looking directly at this one.

"You're protecting me with that shield power, aren't you? Quon-Kamiya"

"I want to save your lives, too. Is that something you shouldn't do?

That was Quon's honest feelings. sincere. The thought that everything that could be saved had to be saved was similar to some obsessive notion, but he thought it was something distinctly different.

This is, yes, a mission.

Hands of love on those who seek salvation.

Hope for despair.

Light in the darkness.

He genuinely believed that it was for that reason that he was raw in the world.