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

Episode Three Thousand Two Hundred and Eighty-Eight: The Parting of Each (8)

It was only fitting when the dawn approached that the chaotic surroundings finally began to calm down.

When I thought the battle was over, I wondered what would happen when a completely strange place, which was also thrown at sea, was suddenly caused by the phenomenon of spatial transfer, but I managed to get to such a situation, where everything fitted in round.

Elenia was watching him as he flowed quietly.

The man wearing the clothes of the deceased, somewhere far away, looks at the misery of a coalition position that can be considered a battlefield site. Wayne Bersein-Teulos. His return from the bottom of hell, albeit tentatively at the beginning, when he was supposed to be dead, was just amazing and Elenia still felt incredible.

Therefore, I didn't know what a good thing to talk to and I was lost.

So I was just staring, but she accidentally pulled my hand, and she looked down at you. It was Rain who pulled her hand. It's supposed to be the time you're asleep, but you keep waking up to this time as a result of a disturbance that turns the heavens and the earth upside down.

"You want to sleep?"

"Yeah......"

"Just a little more, be patient"

"Yeah......?

I bet young Rain had no idea why Elenia wanted that. Regular Elenia would have scolded him hard if he wanted to stay up late or something, because he would have prepared a futon and tried to put Rayne to sleep.

Rayne knows that very well.

So you must be wondering.

Elenia didn't want to impose this kind of patience on my child, but she didn't think she could do it all this time.

Definitely, it will be the first and last opportunity.

Normally, there can't be an opportunity to exchange words with the dead.

"But..."

"Just a little more...... please"

Elenia, as she gave in to the spot, hugged Rayne with both arms and held her up intact. Then he soothes his expression like he's relieved for a little while. In the mother's arms seems to still calm down. Elenia also consolidated her determination when she was relieved by such a reaction from my child.

Hold Rayne and walk over to Wayne.

Then the deceased, who was looking around, turned this way.

"Wayne...... right?

"... is that you, Elenia?"

Face to face, I can firmly confirm that its face and its voice are one of those Waynes back then.

"Didn't you notice?

"That's not true. Ever since the beginning, I knew."

To the words Wayne has said with a bitter smile, Elenia feels like she's back in time. I mean, my heart jumped.

"It's always been about you and what you're looking at. That's why I fought. I was able to help more than usual. That's because you were there, Elenia."

"Wayne......"

To Elenia, it was best to speak his name. Speaking of which, I felt like all my emotions would go into words.

"But what is it? It feels weird to ask someone who hits hate as an enemy to be killed until the end of the day to give them such an opportunity."

"Dear Setuna... you know, I called you out of hell"

That was something I knew from what Lux-Vein said.

"Dear Setuna, huh? Seems like a lot happened where I don't know."

"Yeah. There's been a lot going on. Really, a lot..."

"Right..."

"Good things, bad things,"

That made Wayne look a little harsh.

"Do you and Master Setuna get into good things?

"At least it's not a bad thing. What gave me the power to live."

"The power to live...... Right. That's important. Very, very important."

"Yeah...... really, I think so"

Elenia put her thoughts from the bottom of her heart into words as she embraced Rayne. What I feel through my child's body, warm and soft, is extraordinary vitality and willingness to live. It is the child who lives every day so hard that he feels a glorious future.

It is also because this is how we live that we have been able to realize such commonplace and obvious facts.

That day, Elenia was pardoned by Setuna, and because she survived, she feels and is able to think so. Because this is how Rain, a testament to his love for Wayne, lives right now, yes.

If, then, Elenia had been mutilated, Rayne had not been born.

In that case, Elenia would have gone to hell, hating Setuna, cursing the world and remaining desperate for everything.

Would Wayne have accepted such Elenia?

"... what about that child?

"Look, don't you see?

"Your child, I know that."

Elenia chuckled when she saw his reaction, which could not be more. Maybe I'm mistaken.

"Yes, me and your child."

"Me and... Yours..."

"Rain," I named him.

"Rain...... good name"

"Rayne, it's your father."

"Father...?

Rayne seemed decent. That would be so. Elenia hardly ever told Rayne about her father. Talk to me, I might say something extra. I may have unparalleled feelings for Setuna, a collar uncle who should be respected and pledged allegiance. Of course, I know it's one way of teaching, but what's the matter, if we're to talk about that death, we're going to have to touch what Setuna killed. That's not what I should be teaching you yet.

It is only at dawn, when Rain has grown and become able to tell things apart, that we should teach and explain.

Yes, she judged, and so Rayne knew little about her father, Wayne.

However, I know that children have a father as well as a mother. It's not like Enjour doesn't have kids his age. Those children had both a father and a mother. It's only natural for Rayne without her father to see something.

But Rayne rarely asked me about my father. Satisfactory. I know that extra prying hurts Elenia. So I don't ask anything. Nothing. That's why Elenia was so unnecessarily pitiful.

I didn't even think I would get such an opportunity.

"Wayne, please hold this girl."

When Elenia pleaded, Wayne looked like she was in trouble.

"I'm a dead man, I am."

"But you're the father, aren't you?

"... is that okay?

"Do you need rights or qualifications to have my child?"

"... thanks"

Wayne, who received Rain from within Elenia's arms, seemed to have accepted my nervous son with a merciful eye. In Rayne's big eyes, how did Wayne look?

"Rayne, you're me and Elena's kid."

"Father......?

"I couldn't do anything for you, and I won't, I won't do anything for you. But that's all I can say. Your mother is the best woman in the world. She's the best mother in the world."

"... yeah"

"So I'll take care of Elenia. You protect him."

"I... mamoru"

Wayne and Rayne's conversation continues as the morning burn approaches.

There was happiness in Elenia's chest staring at her like that.