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

Episode One Hundred and Eighteen: Enemies or Allies (II)

"Can I come in?"

Ruufa seemed anxious while softening, not because that was the royal palace. For him, the second son of the Barghazar family, to be raised to one of the famous houses in Gandhia, the Royal Palace was a place used to walking, and although it was nervousness that he remembered, it was not a place of anxiety. It's where I've been in and out before I even noticed. Most importantly, that was as far back as childhood, and the chances of entering and leaving the royal palace decreased as they grew. Eventually, he went for an armed summoner, thinking that he could not be the person he deserved as a person in Balghazar as he was, and that he might end his life without any involvement in the royal palace. That was about ten years ago. I spent ten years learning the art of armed summoning, getting ink from my master and coming back to the king's capital for a while, encountering the noise of the king's capital, which was my encounter with Setuna, and I could say it was the beginning of my good fortune.

By meeting Setuna, Ruufa can say that she has begun to march down the streets of good fortune. Without meeting him, nothing would have worked so far. Without being entrusted to the Summoner of the Royal Palace, he would never have been vice president of The Lion's Tail, nor met one of his beloved ones. I appreciate that, and that's why I love Setsuna, and I don't think I'd hate to get my hands dirty if it were for him, but right now, I was just in the middle of a nervousness to the point of awesomeness.

The rear palace, where Ruufa is now, could have been called a different world. It is a small palace built by the earlier King Sius Cloud for his wife and then queen Gracia, and is known within the royal palace compartment as a splendid building after the Lion Royal Palace. After the death of Siuscloud, Gracia, who became Queen of the Tails, was often held in the rear palace and often used as a hoard for the Queen of the Tails nobility, a world without ties to the Luufa of the Lion's Tail, which should be called the Leongandite of the Lives.

Not to mention that since the demolition of the Empress with Rhine's death, the rear palace has become a world of women. Beginning with Queen Gracia, Queen Nage Rae-Gandhia, Isra-Lewe-Berel, who should be the princess and hostage of Berel, and her maids, and even the women of the Gandhian nobility, were gathering to create a world just for women. On top of that, it has been the place of the pregnant nage, which increasingly presents itself as a paradise only for women, with a narrow shoulder for the man Ruufa.

"It can't be good, can it? I'm acting captain."

"That's true, though."

While affirming Miliu's statement, Ruufa even gave up that there would be no way to relieve the narrowness of her shoulders. Meanwhile, I feel tight about a word of surrogate captain. Until Setuna, who was badly injured in the battle against Niewe, recovers, his deputy, Ruufa, will lead the Lion's Tail execution force. Even so, Faria and Miliu are not the only ones.

The kind of story that sprang up down there that we should increase the number of Lion's Tail squadrons was sometime gone by. The Lion's Tail is a handful of elite guerrilla troops. It is its mission to ravage the battlefield, albeit the King's SS, and it can be called almost all of its tasks. That is the nature of the squad brought about by the battle abilities of Setuna, the captain, but apparently disappeared because of the reason that the greater the number of people, the less its free side might fade, and the ultimate reason that the armed summoner worthy of The Lion's Tail cannot be found so easily. Most of all, it would be difficult to get into a squad without a compromise in character, even if it is desirable in terms of ability.

"The Lion's Tail" can be said to consist of an exquisite equilibrium of personalized faces. Not everyone in the squad wants a new recruit there and the equilibrium breaks down. As long as that happens, we're just talking about getting excited and making it clear that being small is not the problem. Of course, if you're a soldier with no problems in character or ability, that's the best thing.

"That makes me nervous."

After much thought, Ruufa snapped appropriately. The three were in the depths of the rear palace, in the corridors of the area where Queen Nage and Princess Leona and Queen Gracia lived. The task entrusted to the Lion's Tail is the protection of the rear palace, and it can be said that it is in the midst of looking down for it. The three of us are looking around to see where it's appropriate to manpower the rear palace.

Naturally, I have completed my greeting to the main Gracia of the rear palace, and at that time, Nage and I exchanged words and were shown the face of the newborn princess. That is only allowed because The Lion's Tail is the Royal SS.

"Me too."

"And Mr. Faria?

"I'm nervous, too, for once."

"I don't think so."

"Why?"

Miliu flashed, but it just seemed unexpected to Ruufa. But when I heard her explanation, I also found out that she wasn't nervous or lying.

"If there's a crude phase, it might sound like Setsuna's reputation."

"I see."

"You're always Setsuna Setsuna."

"Not even Faria."

"Wow, where do I have such an element?"

"Heh, it's written on your face. He wants to finish his assignment and meet Setsuna."

"Hey, what are you talking about, you're not stupid? I'm not that weather wise."

"Oh, really?

"There's a lot to think about."

"For example?"

"Hey... about yesterday or something"

"About yesterday..."

Miliu snapped as he rebelled against Faria's words. The sound that just seems a little serious must be because I remember what happened yesterday.

Yesterday. Speaking of September 23rd, it was the day Giselcoat Lars-Kernall Krebourg came to King's Capital with private soldiers. Gisele coat is a collar uncle. It is an allowable right to have his own forces of war, and the fact that he has private forces is not in itself an issue. If that is the problem, then it will also be a problem for Setuna to have the power of Black Bravery or Black Beast.

Problems for them. Again, naturally, that's not true. It doesn't matter how much power Gisele Court holds. But the very content of that power has a lot to do with their lives, so you have to think about it.

"About yesterday, yesterday's... Ugh"

"Oh, did you also represent the captain?

I guess what Miliu has been asking is due to the fact that yesterday she was the best she could be about herself. It was a shocking incident for her and for Faria. And they are caused by different people in each of them.

"Yeah, well. There's a lot of things, a lot of things."

"A lot."

"True, fate is ironic."

"Ironic or something"

I remembered something I didn't even want to think about, and Ruufa, somewhat, was depressed. Though I don't even want to think about it, it's something I need to think about someday. It is also a reality that must not be distracted.

It depresses Ruufa's mood because there was a face he found out in the forces led by Giselcoat. Gloria-Ourelia. Being an excellent armed summoner, she was the master who trained Ruufa from scratch, who was only an amateur of armed summoners, and one of those unthinkable figures for Ruufa.

(No way, Master.)

The teacher was someone who did not like to belong somewhere. He therefore did not belong to the Continental Summoner's Church, nor did he have a nationality. I decided to apprentice such a person because I saw her overwhelming power, and if I hadn't come across a scene where she and the Imperial Devil were fighting, Ruufa would never have apprenticed to her. He should have applied for apprenticeship to one of the Association's armed summoners.

But it wasn't a mistake to apprentice to Gloria. Gloria was a brilliant and capable armed summoner when she was only overwhelmed by herds of Imperial Demons. However, for that matter, the training was extremely harsh and Ruufa was about to die more than once. That made me a fine armed summoner in less than a decade, so I can only thank him for his arduous training.

It's been over a year since I broke up with my mentor Gloria. I remember that shortly before I left my division, she introduced me to The Association and inspired me to belong to The Association. Even though I am not a member of the Association, I was an inconceivable person in recommending to Ruufa, my disciple, to belong to the Association.

And then, I haven't seen him once. A powerful armed summoner. I had asked Gandia several times if she was willing to serve, but each time she laughed at me with her nose.

I'm not going to be ruled by anyone.

I couldn't give Ruufa a convincing answer as to why she was following Gisele Court like that, and I've been stuffy since last night.

First reunion in over a year.

Gloria, when she broke up and there was no change in appearance, was still a good looking woman, and when she exchanged words, she seemed to have no change on the inside.

"Hey, apprentice. I hear you're active. As a master, I can't be happier than the work of my disciples'

I was happy with Gloria's attitude, which was no different from what it used to be, and although Ruufa broke up with her, she stopped laughing when she looked directly at the reality that she was under Gisele Court.

Gisele Court has suspicions.

What happens to Gloria if Gisele Court is truly betraying Gandhia and turning to Gandhia's enemies?

Given that, I couldn't sleep at night either.

"I have a lot of things."

Gloria's answer when she asked why she was under Gisele Court's command was one that got no guidelines, so Ruufa had no choice but to unnecessarily haunt her head. For whatever reason, that means that if Gisele Court becomes an enemy of Gandhia, she could also turn to the enemy.

Will I be fighting my master?

That's all I want to avoid. I want to avoid it, but if it does, I'll have to fight. And at that time, Ruufa should fight, he thought. You can't leave it to others because you don't want to fight. Luufa, who has been watching Gloria for ten years as a disciple, knows best how to fight.

With that in mind, I also had to think about the protection of the rear palace, and I could say that it was chaotic in Ruufa's head.