Armed Summoners - Black Spears and the Brave Men of the Other World

Episode One Thousand Thirty-four: Festival of the Fool (III)

"... was born roughly twenty-three years ago. After forty years of age, I was finally able to be a child. I remember very well."

Reserg looked away, staring at Sellis' dead face. The sleigh may be looking at the sights of more than twenty years ago. Maybe I'm thinking of Sheila when she was born.

"I, Sellis, and all those around me, rejoiced. A heir is born. Everyone thought the Aberd royal family was cheap. Everyone believed and blessed the birth of the prince. I can't forget that the whole country blessed me"

"But I was born..."

"... the birth of that was welcomed with an ostensible blessing. But neither I nor my wife are foolish enough to be unaware of the inner dismay of one. Everyone also knew that the birth of a prince was what they wanted. But I didn't mind. He is the only child of me and Sellis. of the memorial...... my child waiting. Whether you are a boy or a girl, you are no different than my beloved child. would be so."

Reserg's monologue continues.

Though the heavenly wing soldiers Sheila struck down rose up and came between the thrones, not while Setuna controlled them, they did nothing. I'm just running soldiers. Maybe he's going to concentrate his forces here.

"But there was only one problem. That I have no children. It was a miracle that I was born. So it was a joy, and it is only natural that the whole country wished for the birth of a prince"

I can't stand on one mouth, Reserg said. Talking about the absence of children in Reserg was an open secret, I suppose. So perhaps the fact that Queen Celis was pregnant made the whole country fussy and wished for the birth of a prince.

Innocent wishes.

"I have decided to raise him as a prince. There is no more prince to be born than the next son cannot hope. Then there is nothing more than raising a princess as a prince. It was not that Abad had no precedent for a queen, but there is an evil example of Juwain with the queen as his monarch. You can't make our country like Juwain. The ruler had to be a king, not a queen."

"I know. When I raised him as a prince and let him inherit the throne as king, he also realised that his essence had not changed anything. I also knew that it was just a hoax. I knew it, but I had nothing better to do than have no children. By doing so, I wanted to insist on the legitimacy of succeeding to the throne. Shallow."

"Father..."

"There must have been another way. It shouldn't have been a bad idea to silence the evil example of Juwain, raise him as a princess, and make him a queen. If you look at her now, it is clear that she has the qualities and qualifications to reign as queen. I guess I could have put Abard's future on that. Or you could have let the son of Iserd inherit the throne, not my son. I am the one who inherited the throne, but Iserd is also of direct Royal Abad lineage. The blood muscle was undoubtedly of the Abad royal family. The road fits as much as it takes. But I..."

"Me and Sellis were losing sight. I had lost my sight, lost my way, and I could only see one path. And there can be no such thing as opposing me and Sellis' decision. When he decided to raise such a prince, who could not appear to disagree as one, because I was king and Selis was queen. If you disagree with the King and Queen's decision, you have no idea what will happen. It's what I've been piling up until then."

With signs, Setuna glanced behind her back. I saw the moment Sid jumped in between the thrones. Sid Zan-Rufaus. One of Benoagard's thirteenth knights. It was as I had imagined Sid would come after the Setunas, but it was much earlier than I imagined that he would reach the Royal Palace. I didn't fly a horse. I don't think I can get from that place to the inside of the royal palace in this short time just because I ran a horse. Probably got this far with his legs. I see so much about the speed of his legs, the awesome speed of movement, that I don't like it on the battlefield. We even caught up with the Black Horse and outran him. Not surprisingly, if he travels at full speed, it will be quickly reached from that place to the Wang Capital. Of course, it is not surprising because it is not usually possible in a person's leg strength, and because of the perception that he is not a regular person.

He saw Setuna when he entered the throne room, but he pulled out his sword and didn't jump. He immediately understood the situation, meditated and thanked him deeply. They're mourning the death of Queen Celis. I didn't think it was purposeful, etc. Very natural action behavior. Maybe it was a sobering reaction to me as a knight.

"... That would have been because I was raised as a prince before I was tempted - I never questioned one thing, but grew up as a boy, as a man. Sirius Reus-Abbard. That was the name of the day. Remember that?

"Of course it is. It's my first name."

"... no"

"Huh?"

"At first, I named her Sheila. When I decided to raise him as a man, I made him change his name to Sirius. I don't think I can remember that."

"Yes... was it"

"That's right. So, Sheila. The name Sheila is the real name."

"True..."

"So you just have to keep your chest up. That was Sheila. She's the only daughter of me and Celis."

"Just one......?

"We have to talk about it. No, because that's the biggest cause of the suffering, madness and illness in Celis' heart."

So Reserg meditated.

The silence filled between the thrones, rather like singing, encompasses the world. Who was on the spot, didn't disturb the conversation between the two. The soldiers did nothing about it, Sid.

Sid.

He reached the Throne Room only after Queen Celis had made her self-determination. Maybe he doesn't try to kill Sheila because Queen Sellis, who would have asked to kill Sheila, is dead. Or is it because it is in the sight of King Reserg? King Reserg is Sheila's father. It is hard to imagine a knight who signs salvation, albeit a request, killing his daughter in front of his parents. I don't think Setuna would think such a thing would be salvation. Of course, it's just killing Sheila.

(Hell I think it would be better to die...?)

I remember the words Sid used to say in the arena.

Perhaps Sheila's situation is exactly as it is now.

My beloved mother nearly killed me, and yet the mother, somehow, self-determination. I poked him in the heart. Close to instant death. Saving Celis from death could not be anything. But Reserg said, as if the death were salvation.

"But as I grew up as a prince, I began to think that it was not a mistake. Those around him accepted and praised Sora as a prince. There was nothing wrong with being a prince of Abard and heir to the throne. Everyone understood and recognized that it was the prince who did so, and that all of them would be kings bearing this country. As for who, I did not raise my dissatisfaction. Because I was so close to perfection as a prince. Everyone thought it was impossible to hope for more princes than that, heirs to the throne, etc. I have deceived and justified my mistakes."

Reserg made the wrinkles on his face profound, as he pleaded guilty to himself. A harsh look. A harsh voice. Distress and anguish surface, making even the outsider Setuna uncomfortable.

"But Celis, no. Celis is my mother. I loved him with all my heart and watched him more than anyone else. It took longer than I was pursued by the government, so I had to behave as a prince, take him as a boy, grow as a man, and look directly at the swelling strain."

"Strain......"

"That was a woman. A woman can't be a man. It's nearly impossible to change what you were born with so that a man can't be a woman. I raised you as a man, and you can't change the truth about being a woman. That must have been hard and painful for Celis. He wanted to open up his name from the role of prince. I also, by the persuasion of Sellis, finally understood. I was only ashamed of my stupidity, my shallowness."

"Oh no... I..."

"That was good work. Really, I was doing great. No one would have been unhappy with the way they behaved. He was the ideal prince. Everyone was whispering that if Prince Sirius succeeded to the throne, Abad would be safe. That's how well I did it."

I have to pour it on Sheila from Reserg, it's sweet. Word seemed to tell me that you loved her from the bottom of your heart. Even if I love you, maybe it's politics that's annoying, or maybe it's the position of a king.

"That's what made Celis unbearable. It was nothing but pain as a parent that I couldn't give her happiness as a woman who was still born. So I wanted to open you up from the falsehood of a prince and make you look like the truth. I greeted my child."

Reserg lay his eyes down. That eye stares at the remains of Sellis. The look on Celis' face, who pierced his chest and died in pain, is painful. More importantly, Reserg's hand, which he touched to close Cellis' lid, was dyeing Cellis' face red with blood. Reserg's hand was pierced with Sellis' short knife, bleeding unstoppably. I can't stop bleeding right now.

It hurts.

Reserg's face was blue.

"If only a boy were born, I could open up Sora from the role of prince. No matter how many years away you are from it, a prince can also give priority to the right to inherit the throne. By doing so, we can return her to the Princess. So I needed to be a child. But I have no children."

Reserg, in a dark voice, told him. That's what I've been saying many times. With no seed, Sheila's birth was a miracle, and the whole country rejoiced, hoping to be a prince. I raised Sheila, who was a girl, as a prince, also because Reserg had no children and could not hope for a second child. Because it was hopeless. I still had to have a baby.

If we don't, we can't let Sheila go.

Setuna held her fist, thinking of Reserg, Sellis, and Sheila's mood. There's only one way to do it. It's about someone else. And we're talking about royalty in other countries. I can't pinch my mouth, and I don't want to pinch it, but I just felt like I could tighten my chest just listening. I can't breathe, I'm sad.

Does Sheila look like a jerk?

That's all I care about.

From time to time, I just reacted slightly to Reserg's words, and I felt that her appearance in Setuna's sight was getting somewhat smaller. I'm sure it's my fault, but that's not something I can ignore. The forged tough flesh also now seemed so weak that it was likely to break just by touching it.

"... in the end, between me and Sellis, there was never a child to be formed"

"Huh...?

Sheila looks up.

Reserg's remarks had to be said to be astonishing. Sheila has a brother. Sail Reus-Abbard. After Sheila's return, one of the reasons Abard became a bifurcated noise was his presence. It is no exaggeration to say that the presence of Prince Sayre, who can be said to have taken the right to inherit the throne from Sheila, heated the movement of the Sheila faction. The conflict between the Sheila and Sail (Royal Palace) factions led to confusion in Abad.

Reserg tells me to answer that question.

"Sayle is not the son of me and Selis."

"No... no..."

Sheila's voice was trembling. If you can poke at the hard facts to believe, you will, too. Even Setuna, an outsider, was stunned and his eyes were open.

"... lying, right?

"What happens to lying this time of year?"

Reserg denied Sheila's aspirations in vain. Deny it and say more shock facts.

"Sayle is the son of Celis and Iserd."

"Your mother and uncle's...?

Sheila freezes, but I could see it in the distance. I still know that he is not the son of Reserg and Sellis. There would be nothing wrong with someone drawing royal blood muscles. It is not difficult to generate the right to inherit the throne, he said, as long as it draws royal blood. As I said earlier, there must have been a hand from Lieserg's real brother, Iseld, to take one of his children as an adopted son. If you're not a prince, if you have to be a king, then that's the way it was conceived.

But Lisserg's answer was neither of them.

"Iseld had a seed. He had already had three children with his wife, so there was no mistake in that. So he made Iserd take my place. Iserd is my brother. As I said earlier, it's a legitimate blood muscle of the Abard royal family. If Iserd and Sellis are sons, so is my son."

"What..."

"I know. It was crazy. Everything was crazy. Me and Sellis were insane. He was taking a leap to free his beloved son from the curse of prince. The madness of Sellis was swelling, since it became decisive that the Son should not be allowed between me. You may not know that, but Celis was starting to break day by day."

"My mother..."

"There is no better way to save Celis than to free him. But you have to be a child to let that happen. I have no children. I asked Iserd to take my place. Both Sellis and Iserd would have been hard. It would have been painful. But the child was made."

Reserg tells, stroking Queen Sellis' hair.

"That's Sail. When she was pregnant and the boy was born, Celis was finally free from madness. A boy was born. Prince of the Memorial. I can release you from the curse of a prince. Finally. Finally. I relieved myself, too. Now everything works out. I thought so."

The emotions embedded in Reserg's voice were complex and it seemed difficult to understand everything. No, in the first place, Reserg's feelings are not understandable. It was just an idea that seemed crazy, as Reserg himself had said.

I know what it's like to let Sheila go.

I regret pushing the distorted role of prince, and I can also understand the sentiment of wanting to restore you to what you are supposed to be: a woman. That's why I want to be a child. But that's why I couldn't agree at all with what they did.

Madness.

"I don't know how impressed Sellis was when he regained his original appearance as a princess from the false appearance of a prince. Sellis was delighted from the bottom of his heart. That wasn't a big problem, though I used men's words and often dressed as men. The problem is that you can't suffer from falsehood and give you real happiness."

"I was happy enough, even as a prince..."

"If I did, I know I would answer that. Kindness, family thoughts, but I don't consider my unnatural position to be unhappy. I don't know anything so full of self-sacrifice."

"It's not self-sacrificing..."

Sheila went in a strong tone, but Reserg just stared calmly at Sheila like that.

"That's what I said. But from my eyes, it just seems like he's trying to protect the happiness around him, even at the expense of Mizu. If that's what the royal family does, then that's it."

"Isn't that right, Father and Mother?"

"... maybe. Is that the blood of the Aberd royal family?"

Reserg went emotional.

"Self-sacrifice. Sure it is. Both Sellis and Iserd, at their own expense, wished each other happiness. I wished for happiness and became a child. Though Sail was not my son, I was as loving as I was. For the heir to the throne had to be me and the son of Selis. You loved Sail, didn't you?

"Yes, because it's my first sister and brother"

"Me and Sellis, I said so, Sail - my family became four, and the royal family was at peace. Celis started laughing a lot. Even when we talk about it, we talk about it very happily. But every day, I couldn't wait to get feminine."

"... Mother"

Yet the question arises as to how.

Yet why did Queen Celis want to kill Sheila? If you love Sheila that much, shouldn't you have welcomed her back from Kruselk? That would have never happened.

At least it shouldn't have been like Gandhia invading Abad territory.

"Not much for eight years since Sayle was born. I thought the happy days would go on like this."

Reserg's voice seemed to have deep remorse.