Armed Summoners - Black Spears and the Brave Men of the Other World
Episode 281, Serk.
"I had to think about Agatara's future when Dai-jun was put to bed with incurable illness and it turned out he might not have many more lives. I was a crowd and the head of the martial arts minister."
Serk had a serene look in the wind at night blowing through. An objective waist, as if you understood everything. There are no impurities at all, and they don't even look clear. However, it was sensory and did not actually confirm the eyes of the Imperial Demon as if it were emitting light.
"I discussed it with the Delks more than once. What should Agatara do if he passes away without you awakening? Should I ignore the precedent and appoint one of my two sons as my grandson? Or, as always, should there be elections, including for your two sons? Time flied without an answer."
I guess his sigh was directed at ourselves for not being able to find a clear answer. Hate can be drawn from deep sighs that contradict the sobriety of earlier days.
"That's right, I found out Ende was asking about this one. Sometimes there have been major changes in the order on earth since the world changed, and the Ende people thought it was time to expand their forces."
"What the..."
"Such a thing."
"If Ende ever moves, I stared at Agatara, who was hostile at first. Right now, Agatara lacks the pillar of Daikon and is in the worst shape. I thought Ende would have trouble moving me under these circumstances, and I tried to make contact with Ende. To learn Ende's insights and to delay the plan to invade Agatara a little bit."
Never to miss hearing every word Serk says, the two princes stare, clear their ears and listen to him. In the meantime, Setuna made sure and appeased that the Willeds of the Ende army fled the battle airspace to the north without waving their sides. Even though I had lost you, and had lost control, because not everyone, at first sight, would escape. If, even in part, we showed movement to reward one arrow, we had to fight in vain. Of course, even though it's impossible to lose.
I don't want to waste my efforts.
"Kerg-Asr, the Great King of Ende, was very pleased with my contact. He also stepped in because he wanted to know the truth about Agatara, and he would have been able to learn more about Agatara from me in the crowd. Instead of giving Agatara any irrelevant information, I pulled out Ende's information. You don't even know when you're going to leave the world. We had to hurry."
"Then why can't we talk about it?"
"That's right. What would be Serk, because..."
"Where I said, you who are spoiled by the position of your son would not have had the ear to listen."
Serk told him in a soft tone, so that he could not mock nor stir the two sons. I guess you two have something in mind. I had no objection from either of them.
"You're not the only ones. The people of your side, including Delk, and everything else. Everyone believed in centuries of peace as absolute and had no doubts about living in peace. Who should believe Ende is planning an invasion, etc. It falls to be thrown away with paranoia. But that's not grieving. Rather, it's something to be proud of. So long enough for Agatara to be peacefully bogged down, it means she's built a history of war and no connection."
Slowly, exhale.
"So I figured out a way to stir up your sense of crisis. That it will kill me by the Ende army. If I die and the remains are recovered by Agatara, you, the servants, will be greatly upset and cause a sense of crisis. And if you know it was Ende's hand that killed me, you must detect Agatara's predicament and take action. I thought so, challenging the Ende people who drew me into Agatara and tried to get me killed..."
Serk saw this one.
"That's when I got lucky and ran into the Millews."
"No, it's not bad luck or anything. My gratitude to Lord Elina is of indisputable sincerity. Lord Elina healed me and restored your consciousness. Your consciousness was about to give up what you would never return to. That's why I tried to inspire Ende to kill them."
"... So why did you come from there to talk about one of us being an inside man?
"Insider? What are you talking about?
Sarg-Osel did a good job on the Merg-Osel question. Sarg apparently knew nothing about the insider issue.
"Serk was making Lord Miliu look for me and you, either of whom might be connected to Ende."
"What?"
"In fact, Serk himself was an insider."
For a moment, Merg-Osel shifted his gaze from Sarg to Serk, whose luxurious and unseen shoulders he flaunted. Serk doesn't have to be bad, he says.
"I would have gone. That it was Ende's purpose to incite your sense of crisis. I was no longer through Ende. There's nothing I can do about all this fact. The information I gave to my Ende was the first thing that didn't matter, but it stopped working. I cut out Agatara's insistence, even though it was for Agatara. It is no longer nothing more than a clear act of trafficking. I had to be fought as an enemy."
"I see... so you used Lord Miliu to provoke us."
"And he wanted us to know that you were an insider."
"That will create a great name for me. I die as Agatara's enemy. It's like painting mud on your love... but this is how much I had to do to bring out your sense of crisis when I was at peace."
"Not at all... that you didn't trust us"
"I'm kidding."
"... I'm glad I didn't trust you."
Serk spins words as if to provoke his two sons once again. Sarg reacted greatly and Merg shook his head to do it.
"If I had trusted you, I would have let Agatara become a country that would have been wiped out for you. Daijun is an essential part of Agatara and the sun itself. It is no exaggeration to say that you exist for your people. But it is a great mistake for your people to throw their lives away for you. Then the kingdom will perish only if Dai-jun replaces it. There's no way I can have such a ridiculous story. You didn't cut your life to light Agatara."
Each and every word of Serk's spinning is passed on to the two princes. Looking up close, Setsuna couldn't help but feel relieved that Agatara's problem was about to be solved. Setuna is a combat fanatic, but not a killer. Fighting the Agatara will make it easy to kill them all. But as much as that doesn't make sense, I know.
I was sick and tired of fighting for nothing and killing for nothing.
So if Agatara's problem stays solved and we settle the problem with Setuna, there's nothing to say. But.
"To live healthy our escaped underground. That's all I wish for, pray for, and think about. We must reward that love. Never imitate your favor with vengeance."
"... Serk. Maybe you're right. I guess I and Sarg need a counselor like you."
"Uhm. That, I have to admit. We were certainly at peace. I was immersed in peaceful days that had been going on for hundreds of years. It was just a decoration, like my martial arts."
Both Merg and Sarg seemed impressed with Serk's words.
"But what Agatara's future needs is you, not me - you just... One of you who wants to be your successor, as the next great king, should pull Agatara. Elections are just as good as yours."
"Serk......"
"You deserve it, don't you?"
In such a word of Sarg, Serk looked for a moment like he had been poked in the void. But I smiled at you for getting myself back right away.
"Say what's ridiculous. I should have said it. That I am an inside man and a traitor. I still have to die. As Agatara's enemy, betrayed you, and passed to Ende."
"I don't know yet. Stubborn bastards."
"Not at all. Isn't that ridiculous?"
"It could be ridiculous indeed. But this is the only way I can think of a way to put a bully on it. Besides, if we don't do this, there's no way to put this anger away."
So, Serk, I've turned to Setuna and looked at her with red, burning eyes. Red light, like blood erupting from the holes of his open eyes, was like a flame of anger hidden within him. Murder mingles with anger, and magic wraps a vortex around his whole body. Setuna's flesh began to be unconsciously alert because the magic runoff, undoubtedly a mass of its killing intent itself, was the killing intent itself to Setuna.
"Are you serious?"
"I would have listened, Setuna-Kamiya. Daijun Marga-Asr was the only sun for us. It makes no difference that the sun is our sun when it shows shade and is completely separate. And I can't forgive you for taking the sun away from this land!
The blast blew its magic with Serk's anger, enveloping Setuna.