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

Episode Two Thousand Three Hundred and Nine: Kneewehein (VII)

"It's a very important favor that only you can do. Will you listen to me?

"There's no way you can accept it without even asking what it is. Except for the life of His Majesty the Emperor... that's not how it works, is it?

Setsuna asked, staring into Niewe's eyes, to decipher his thoughts. Behind a mask as beautiful as a goddess, I don't know what look he has on his face, and therefore I can't even imagine his emotions. But nevertheless, how is it that he doesn't take a mask when he says he's alone?

His idea that you can't show it to the rest of us is understandable. The alienated half is a substitute for the devil's that can be disgusting to one. That's why I know him well enough to wear a mask. But I was alone with Setuna, who knew the facts well, and I didn't feel there was any reason to keep wearing the mask that way.

That's what's been caught up since we were alone.

Just two indoors. The emperor's office is on the third floor of the Imperial Strict Palace, in the depths, where the other person's eyes are neither reached nor ears. If you can't let me be alone with Setuna, it doesn't mean you have SS on you. Neewe believes there is no way Setuna could betray him. It was the same but could be called a late reaction. Setsuna also admitted that he had some understanding of becoming one of Neewe's, and that he was a trustworthy person.

That's why I can't help but remember the unpleasant feeling.

"What the hell, you asked me to do that?"

"... there is no way I can be commanded by you, an ally, even if it is my life as emperor. That's why I'm asking you. I just have to ask you."

"So what do you want me to do?

When Setuna asked the same thing once again, he narrowed his eyes behind the mask. And try to remember, I'm coming.

You were just like me.

"Yeah?"

"Same existence. The other me that exists in the other world. Twins of the soul, with the same soul shape, colour. That was you to me and me to you."

"Not once. Not now. Neewe, you transformed yourself in the Edge of Thurst, and you're no longer one. That's what you know."

So far, Setsuna, there was something flashing. I can't think of anything else.

"... well. You know what?"

"Hmm?"

"So you want me to try and see if I can undo it with Edge of Thurst?

Setuna, using speculation as a word, was convinced. Niewe is hiding his right half because he transformed his right half itself into a different world by summoning the other world, the ultimate force of edge ob-thurst. Heil not only for him, but for his surroundings and for the Western Empire, if we can undo the alienated, alienated half body. It would be as much of an event as I would like it to be any more. He will be able to expose his face to the crowd. That must be what everyone in the Western Empire subjects want.

Isn't that what he himself wants most strongly?

And it can only be tried by anyone but Setsuna. Besides, it wasn't something I could do with half a lifetime of readiness. If I tried it, I didn't know if I would succeed, and possibly end up with more tragic results.

Isn't that what caused the unpleasant feeling?

Setuna's guess, however, came off a lot.

Niewe shook her head quietly.

"I'm not. It's not like that."

"What? Why?"

"Now, if you try that and succeed, that's what I 'm-"

His negative words contained a sound that seemed incomprehensible to Setuna. It's as if the lifting of alienation would be lethal to him. The unpleasant feeling increases in Setuna's chest.

"I want you to do something else."

"Niewe......?

Setuna had even billionaires to speak his name. But I can't help calling. I don't understand his thoughts. Emotions too. What are you thinking, what are you thinking, what are you wishing for, what are you hoping for, and what are you two for? All the bad things go past the back of my brain. And he's presented the worst answer I've ever expected.

Quiet.

In a deeper, sinking serenity than the tranquility in between.

"Setuna. I want you to be me."

"... what are you doing?

"Exactly what I said. Setuna."

He has told me softly, as if he were grasping the confusion in Setuna's head. Keep going, I'll keep going.

"You and I looked just like mirrors. Meetie's tattoo was on my side at 46: 00. Where you have replaced me, with the exception of a very small number of people, you won't even notice. So much so that I think my deformed body is back."

"What are you talking about...?

"You can take my place. You're me. The same soul owner as me. It's the growth process that's different, but it doesn't make a big difference in nature. Wouldn't you? You, too, make promises a source of life. I can't let the promises I made once go unhindered. No, if you break a promise, that's the only thing that will cut your life. Such a person. Me and you."

On one side, Setsuna fell into a wolf. A comprehensible word. A convincing line of words. But instincts reject that understanding. My heart rejects that satisfaction. If you admit it, will you have to take his offer?

"It's up to you, I can handle it. The meatiers, Sir Sanwu, will be convinced as well. The archdeacon and Nina, please. I want you to be happy. Because I can't."

"So what are you saying just now!

The emotions that overflowed with shouting and tapping the table were gone for Setuna herself and for nothing else. Unstoppable, words overflow.

"You're replacing me with you!? Why!? What are you talking about? What a mess! Isn't that the promise of life! You promised to become an emperor and lead one! You're gonna spend your life for that!?

"Right. Exactly."

He was calm. It's as mild as it is in conflict with Setuna's fury, and you admit it quietly.

"Even I really want to. Until this life burns and runs out, I want to devote every once in a while to one of the empires in this country. As my father did, I wanted to carve into this land a life that was not ashamed of the glorious achievements of the historical emperor, only to make the empire better. That someday became my dream."

"If so...!

"A dream is a dream."

"What?"

I don't have time for this.

He slowly undressed when he grabbed the mask with both hands. And the moment he saw his face exposed in front of him, Setsuna, he had nothing more to say. Too shocking, my head turned white. Various emotions erupt at once, and confusion ensues.

That was tantamount to despair.

Niewe's face has turned out to be a black, alien monster on the right half. That doesn't seem like a big deal, although I've been used to seeing it in a showdown with him, and I'm surprised it's been a long time. Accepted, but if I saw the incident on the left half, I would have had to lose my word with Setsuna.

The left side of his face was mostly white transformed. It is not as white as applying makeup all over white. Vivid, disgusting whiteness. You can call it unusual. It's not just discolored. It's a transformation, a perversion. The shape itself is changing. The eyes mirrored Setuna, but the rest of the area, especially the frown to top, was terrible. Even the scalp was white and cloudy, and it could be said that the hair was deformed

That, in other words, indicated that he was being invaded by albinism.