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

"I've never thought of Mizgaris as a brother or a family member."

Niewehein, first of all, told him so.

That's what I've been thinking since I was a kid.

"Yeah, it's not just Mizgaris. Even Mills and Elix do. Nobody was my brother. My brother, Nina, was alone, my parents, my mother was alone."

In other words, even the emperor Shiwelhein did not see it as his father. There's no way I can see it. Such a situation, such a life forced, who can look up to and respect that man as his father? My mother was abandoned, and he and his sister were treated the same way they were abandoned. From there, she aroused herself in return, and Nina took the throne of the Horseman, and Niewehein took the throne of the Struggling Lord, but if she could forgive Siwelhein for that, it was impossible.

Siwelhein was the object of hatred, and it was Niewehein's wish at the time to turn back on him, and I'm glad to say it was the driving force. Sometimes there was no other way to make Nina happy, but the biggest reason would still be hatred for a manipulation that I don't even think of as a real father.

The environment was good.

I was treated as a royal family, and there was a life of no freedom whatsoever. But the life was always like being in a bottom-cold darkness, I had to keep scratching algae for light, and I was gasping for air. Some would call it luxury. Maybe that's true, too. But if you try Niwahein or Nina, it wasn't a luxury concern or anything.

Soul screaming.

I kept screaming that no one would ever reach, that no one would ever hear.

Those who reached out to him like that are the ones who are in this place. Of course Nina, Lancelot, Charlotte, and two of Meetiers also leaned closer to Niewehein's heart. They were fundamentally different from those who followed just because they were Zaion royal people. It's just that you're on my side, and Niewehein's heart is at ease. That's not what happened after birth. Until I met everyone.

"The Zaion royal family was nothing. The only family I have is everyone here."

"Niewe......!

"Your Majesty..."

"I'm glad to hear it."

Nina said nothing as Sir Sanwu showed joy to the Trinity. Nothing, I'm just staring at Niewehein. It's complicated emotions that are embedded in the trick. I guess because she also has similar thoughts. I have no reason to doubt that. However, I understand how carelessly Nina thinks.

Because Yelkeim is not here. Yelkaim-Karlavia, a genius armed summoner in the history of the Empire, was a heartfelt pattern with Nina and a great master for Niewe. And he was also one of those people who recognized him like a family.

Yelkeim is dead. It was at the end of the World War that Setuna and the others called it the Final War that he lost his life while using the armed summoning technique that he had developed independently. It must have been discussed by the armed summoners of Gandhia, but neither Niewehein nor Nina would have scattered about it among the Setunas from Gandhia. Naturally. It was a war. And it was on the imperial side that Gandhia was about to be destroyed, and it is only natural that there will be war dead in the wake of a counterattack. There's no way you can fight or anything without being prepared to sacrifice.

Rather, it would be more astonishing and ungrateful for Setuna's cooperation in sidestepping her commitment to the Empire. I'm supposed to be resented and do what's natural. It was hateful and natural, and there was no way to do it if you didn't like it. Setsuna, however, besides Niwahein, also favoured Nina. That and this, because they were the same, I suppose.

Setsuna is not a family.

It's special, another self.

He may also be a more important relationship than his family in terms of being able to reveal secrets, albeit carelessly.

The back of my chest hurt so much that I remembered inadvertently that I was hiding something from people like my family. Niewehein has not told Nina nor the Lancelots the fact that he is suffering from albinism.

"It wasn't what Mizgaris or Mills found out, and so when I somehow was elected heir to the throne, it was what I thought. Finally, I can look back on those guys, and now finally, I can live as me. That's what I thought."

The driving force was to give back fathers and brothers who couldn't even think of themselves as family. And making Nina happy. Let's just say that it was everything and that was the only thing that supported his life. You got your hands on armed summons because you wanted power. And I actually got power, and I got a position. He was chosen heir to the throne after an extraordinary bend and encounter with Setsuna, perhaps prompted by that.

I can easily imagine what Mizgaris and Mills looked like at that moment. I must have lost my eyesight, too many words of amazement, and my head turned white. Because only three of them were candidates for succession to the throne: Mizgaris, Mills and Marian. Who among the three of us will be chosen? That's the only source of their competitive, struggling instincts, and they shouldn't have been interested in any other brothers. Not to mention that there can't be such things as Niewe being chosen who should have been out of the inheritance dispute.

Niewehein herself, I still remember the shock then, and I will never forget it, ever. Impossible things happened. It was like heaven and earth flipped over, like that. I doubt I floated first, but then I floated, that I would be able to protect Nina, and paying back my brothers was next in second and third. But it's also true that I thought I could give back my brothers. I can look back and look back at my brothers who have been looking down on me at last. I couldn't be happier.

Yet.

"But it wasn't. It wasn't."

Niewehein shakes his head. Quiet, many times.

"I became an emperor. That's because your father kept us alive. Because he managed to protect me from the aftermath of the Great Collapse. So we survived. I was allowed to survive. No, I was destined to survive."

In this world where everything is about to break and end, we must survive at all costs.

Siwelhein Laignus-Zaion's face as the father he showed at the end, as the national father, is engraved in his soul as something he will never forget. His, along with words of apology.

'I'm sorry...... Niewe. I was wrong. No... the Empire itself was wrong. Everything......'

Forgive me, I didn't say.

But Niewehein realized that at some point he recognized his father as his father and was forgiving himself. Siwelhein spent all of his life defending almost all imperial generals and transferring them to imperial territory, starting with Niewehein and Nina. It would be because even that fact was understandable.

And that's why there's also been a change in Niewehein's mood.