Ashes and Kingdoms

Chapter Five

The sunshine steadily increases warmth, with slight signs of budding in the wind. I could never smell it during the freezing season, a unique smell.

- Spring is just around the corner.

Both the blue of the sky and the appearance of the clouds had changed slightly without realizing it. Everything glitters to see if the Spirit is playing in the downpouring light. People's minds also float naturally.

Under such a sunny sky, there was a noisy shout early in the morning.

"Kola! I'm not out of hand, there!

I'm reluctant to use the phrase 'lively' or something like that in such anger, but it was a voice that I could only say was actually true.

Around the streets stretching northeast from Comlis about two days on the regiment's itinerary, in the middle of a small settlement elongated and snagged on both sides, the Lord of Wrath has frequently scolded and skipped someone since just now.

The three men, Nellis, Fauna and Oandus, sat on an old bench at the tip of a qualitative dining room, looking at the condition with a saggy face.

"That uncle looks like he's having so much fun, maybe he's never seen it before"

"Hey. Maybe I prefer this kind of work to taking swords."

"I guess I'm glad to be able to use my background and skills"

In front of three blurry guesses, the face of the Tenryu squad was yelling at Valt, sperm in repairing the streets.

Of course, we can't do anything massive like bring cuttingstones or dirt sand. Find the stones that are off and rolling there, shape them and put them in again, and look out for and fill the gaps with affordable stones. On both sides of the road there is a drain, which is a mechanism for letting rainwater escape to the surrounding ground in small holes, but it is also roughly clogged, so I whisk out mud, rotten plants, bugs, etc., one by one.

If sand builds up in the clearance that the bedrock has been made of polished down, sweep it out, pull it out if the grass is growing, pull it out or cut it down if there are young trees growing by the road. Sharpen off the moss covering Ichirizuka, and if it's fallen, rebuild it.

With such distracting work, the line took five days from Comris to reach this settlement. It was Valt who was in command of the construction, assisted by Plast and others with long corps experience. Because most of the young men, even former legion soldiers, did not have time to become proficient in these civil works.

So, of course,

"My brother does it a lot..."

Finn would also be treated as a lower end if it were Dragon Hou. At the tip of Nellis' gaze, Finn is sweating on his forehead and fighting a drain jammed with seriousness itself.

Residents of the settlement, who were at first surprised at what was going on, were also happy to lend a hand when they heard that they were rumored troops of the Tenryu Marquis and were heading north while repairing the streets.

Troops and the men in town sneer at the construction, while Nellis and the others arrange accommodation, meals for the day, etc., and are now taking a break. In the meantime, the women of the town prepare drinking water and hand water by the side of the road, and when they find out if there are any good men, they creep and whisk. My twins waved and received Valt's fist bones instantly.

The women laugh, and the fellow construction workers tease the twins without offense. Despite such a bright atmosphere, Oandus was staring at his son with a stern face.

"Guess I wasn't asleep last night either"

"He said he took a little break from dawn..."

Nellis bites his lips, too, and really that stupid brother, poisons. Fauna sighed too.

"If you were asleep without helping with construction, you'd think it would worry us more. They're gonna tell you not to do anything you can't do."

"How stupid are you, my brother?"

Oh, no more, and Nellis shook her head in impatience.

- The way Finn tried to deceive the Dark Beast was to take the attack without driving them back.

Of course, prevent life-threatening attacks. Others dare to reduce their anger by accepting it. Naturally, we can't let normal people do the same. So he just asked his people to indulge in hatred.

"The beast of darkness... No, I want you to indulge in contempt and abhorrence of the family of darkness as a sacrifice. I want them to indulge in reason, not beat back with the same hatred, even if they attack with anger and hatred."

You're telling them our hearts are coming through? When Valt said so, Finn responded honestly, I don't know.

"I still can't say anything about not trying. However, if they communicate by empathy, our human emotions must also be acting somewhat. Even if they are full of consciousness with their own hatred, there will remain a slight gap.... I want to think it's still there. If you are told there will and emotions other than hostility, you have hope."

So Finn continued. I don't want you to think of them as beasts, as unspoken interracials,. I had no choice but to throw it back, and I didn't hate it.

Of course the rebellion was stronger. Don't be impotent, number one, can you change your mind if it sounds high because they say so, or what happens to the people they eat, etc. Still, thanks to Finn's patience and his persuasion to at least give it a try, even if it wasn't immediately possible, he was greeted with the night without leaving anyone who would disobey him.

And when I dawned the night, no one complained anymore.

Knowing that the person who made the unscrupulous demands on them did the most unscrupulous thing. And then again, realizing that the attack that night was obviously weakened from the middle of nowhere.

"You looked worse that morning than the beast of darkness. There were red and purple moles everywhere, and my cheeks were all over me... it was like a tombstone from the beginning, but it was a ghost stuck to the tombstone."

Nellis, who is still in bad shape, so that day was exactly what he cursed like a storm. Fauna cries, Oandus gets angry, and it was a lot of noise.

Finn, however, fell asleep in the sun, waking up in a frightening and dull mood. And as always, very seriously, if someone didn't create a gap in the consciousness of the Dark Families, they wouldn't be able to convey anything, etc., and they shut everyone up with reason.

His attitude still remains the same, but in the eyes of his family, it only shows that he is unable to do so.

Everyone was happily joining the work because it's a great opportunity to learn the civil engineering procedures, etc., and my colleagues admit it, but sometimes they always realized that he would be emptied up.

"Unless it's Dragon Hou or something," Oandus snapped with a small voice. "I don't even know what to do."

"... yeah"

Neither did Neris and Fauna blame Oandus for the truth he revealed.

If I hadn't been a dragon marquis, Finn would have died outside Winnea. We all know that, and I'm not resenting Lena. I just couldn't do it.

And to the three that were sinking, two women from town came together. In his hand was an unbroken pot of seal, perhaps wine.

"Um, I'm afraid, which way does the Dragon Marquis come?

One reluctantly inquired, and another daughter continued in momentum, even though the family looked at each other.

"It worked for Comris, too, and I've been hearing rumors about it lately! The Dragon Marquis came, and thus fixed the path. It's nothing, but I'd like to at least thank you!

You're probably unmarried, dreaming about your age because you're cheeky and your eyes are shining. Nellis turned away with a laugh and Oandus scratched his cheek a bit with an ambiguous look.

"Uh..., over there"

and vaguely shows the area where the fins are. The women all set themselves out for you.

"It's muddy..."

At the same time as I was about to say, I happened to wear a mud splash with the detachment of Finn pulling out the rotten straw, and whoops, I raised my voice.

"Now my son is the one who raised his voice."

Mm-hmm. So, the women wait. Just wondering if anyone around it is Dragon Marquis. Nellis leaked a muffled oddity.

"... that's it"

Chicken and Oandus close. The women stopped moving for a while, pompous. Slightly, huh? and blinked surprised, both of them staring seriously at Oandus.

Oandus, feeling somewhat in danger, hurried up.

"Hey, Phineas!

They call me Finn, and I look back. Come, come, he was invited, and he wiped the mud on his face with his sleeves and came across the road for a small run.

"What is it, uncle?"

"Oh, no, these guys," he coughed. You said you wanted to thank the Dragon Marquis.

"Eh."

Finn pounded for a moment, then noticed the twin ladies' sloths, and looked down at his own in haste.

"Ah... hey, sorry, now it's a bit, because it's dirty. I appreciate the sentiment, but can I ask you again later?"

The reason I spoke quickly was because I saw the look on the women's faces as not only surprising, but also, for some reason, a colour of blame. To Finn's words, it would be a lie, and just two women frown. Finally Nellis stood up and laughed out.

"Hahaha! Brother, don't break your dreams! He's like a dragon marquis, wearing that outfit and ordering everyone from somewhere in the shade."

"What are you talking about, you... Oh, uncle, excuse me, but in the meantime, can you respond on behalf of everyone? Ask me which one to ask later."

"Oh, hey Phineas!

Don't run, thin lover, and shake off all the shouting, Finn goes back to work. From next to Oandus, who was on his way, Fauna stood up and giggled at the two women.

"I'm sorry you're such a dragon marquis. But that's our proud son."

"Ha... Really?

The women were not convinced and were following Finn with persistent and suspicious eyes.