At the Northern Fort

After finishing the brushing of the Ilux, the commander of the legion hugged me and headed for the cafeteria.

However, along the way, I made a bowl with a knight with two eyes who seemed to be looking for a Branch Commander.

Leader of the Branch--

The knight with one eye approached me quickly while calling out to the Commander of the Corps, and at the same time noticed me.

Mill, you've already come to the fort.

"Yes, I flew to Hatachan-san today."

I see.

When he nods at me, he turns his attention back to the Branch Commander and makes a serious face.

"Commander, I need to talk to you for a second."

The head of the branch holding me glanced towards the dining room and said.

"Do you want to leave the mill with someone else and go to the office?"

"No, I don't mind." In fact, a message from the Knights had just arrived from the Royal Capital..... "

So the Knight of the Eyes relayed the information from the message to the Commander of the Legion.

Apparently, a strange phenomenon of blooming flowers is occurring in a certain part of Aridra country recently.

“It looks like two villages are currently covered in tons of flowers.”

"To a lot of flowers...?" What are these two villages? "

“It's a small village called Laska and Beeg to the south. It is located near the border with neighbouring Zeeland".

I was listening to the two of them, and I heard something about the story that I was supposed to hear for the first time.

("Zeeland", and "the village will be covered in flowers"......)

I immediately think of Saint Narcisse. Even in Zeeland, a neighbouring country in the south, there was an incident in which the village was filled with flowers, and the culprit was the flower spirit. That's why Sunnarsis went to speak directly to the Flower Spirit.

"I told her to go to the flower spirits and stop blooming. Then I straightened out of Zeeland."

I recall the words of Saint Narcisse, and I sweat.

Isn't this the flower spirit that was kicked out of Zeeland coming to Aridra next door and filling the village with flowers?

I don't know why the Flower Spirit does that, but I'm sure it does.

With that in mind, the Knight of the Eyes and the Commander of the Legion continue to talk.

"There seems to be no great harm because it is a flower." It has had some impact on the fields, but we have barely grown any crops now, and the cold will wither the flowers quickly. ”

"Does this happen with natural phenomena? Is it true that flower seeds came from somewhere and sprouted all at once?"

The knight with one eye returned it to the head of the group that twisted its neck.

"It's mid-winter now, and I don't think flowers would sprout if it were normal." The type of flowers in bloom seems to be fragmented, so it is difficult to think of it as a more natural phenomenon. Everyone on the ground suspects the spirits did it. ”

The local Knights and Knights Books are looking for the cause.

said the Branch Leader.

“So, what are we going to do?”

“Nothing in particular. It's not as if we're traveling from the north edge, and it's because of information sharing that this is happening in the country.”

“I see. If this disturbance was caused by the Spirit, I thought the Order was going to ask Snowlea for help.”

The knight with one eye denied the words of the commander.

"No, Snowlea is weighing in right now, so it seems that the regiment has shunned it." If anything happened to Snowlea or her stomach, we would have thought it was important for our country. If the damage and human disturbances continue to increase, the Knights will be willing to ask Hilgue for help. ”

I see. Well, I'm not sure it's the spirits yet, so we have to do something about it.

"Um......"

I opened my mouth there. The flowers are blooming in some parts of the country to convey that Sannarsis may have driven the flower spirits out of Zeeland.

I see. So it was the spirits after all.

After listening to me, the commander mutters.

Is the message still there? I'll tell the group about this. "

"Yeah. Right."

By the way--

Once the conversation was over, the Branch Commander looked at the Knight of the Eyes and said:

"I've heard of a village called Laska that was damaged, but wasn't it Grail's home?" I know you're from the South, and I think I've heard the name Laska before. "

"... yes, yes, Laska is the village where I was born."

I reacted with my ears pinned to the information I had never heard before from the Knight of the Eyes. The Knight of the Eyes was from the south of the country.

Speaking of which, I know the family of the support group leader, I know that Kicks has a lot of brothers, and I've eaten cookies as hard as a ghost baked by Tina's mother.

But I don't know anything about the family of the Knight of the Eyes. It may be that I didn't ask, but everyone else naturally gave me information about my family.

The commander speaks quietly.

"I asked Grail a question on Family Day, the first year I was in this fort." "It's not like I'm going home or giving gifts to my family, is it okay?" Grail can take a break and go home. "And you answered." My parents are dead, and there is no one at my parents' house. "

I opened my eyes slightly and looked at the knight with one eye. The father and mother of the one-eyed knight are already dead.

The Branch Leader continued.

Even if my home is vacant, if you're worried about the damage to my home, you can go home to see it.

No.

The Knight of the Eyes answered immediately.

“The local knights are here for us, and we're fine.”

"I see. If so, I have a friend." Where is the message waiting? "

"It's the usual room on the first floor."

The Knight of the Eyes answered, and the Commander of the Legion nodded and left me with the Knight of the Eyes in her arms.

Left alone in the hallway, I looked up at the face of the knight with one eye.

"This is the first time I've heard of a family member of a cicada."

Well, you don't even have to bother telling me you're dead.

The knight with one eye smiles bitterly.

Can I ask you something? When did you die? "

“Of course I don't mind. They both died when I was 14."

Why? Biaoki?

I thought it would be unpleasant if asked in too much detail, but I asked because I was concerned. Let's just hear this and stop.

“My mother was sick. I was weak and sick. The cause of his death... I don't know. It must have been a drunken life, so it must have been rattling on my body. At that time, I was already out of the house, but then I heard from my neighbors that I was suddenly dead."

"That's right..."

Damn it. I thought I'd stop asking questions, but I got another piece of information that bothered me. Why was your father sober?

No, but this is the one you don't want to be asked.

That was very good, wasn't it?

That's what I said, and I squeezed my mouth. I get nervous, but I suddenly squeeze my mouth so that words don't come out on my own.

Then my eye-knight, who saw me like that, laughed lightly.

"You're curious, aren't you? You don't have to talk about your family. It's been a long time since my parents died, and I don't care."

Really?

But when I talk about my parents, the Knight of the Eyes seems a little lonely...

I was wondering if I could ask more, but the Knight of the Eyes noticed that I was reluctant and told me his story.

"My mother has always been sick, but by the time I was ten, she was always lying on the floor." I was doing housework and field work while taking care of my mother. [M] Meanwhile, by that time, my father had increased the amount of alcohol and was no longer able to work properly. "

It looks like my childhood knight with one eye was a real pain in the ass. Ten years old is still a good age to be spoiled.

"I hated my bastard father, but I didn't want my gentle mother to die. That's why I pray to God every day. I hope you don't let your mother die. But God didn't grant my wish, and I died in the year I was fourteen."

I remembered the story of a knight with one eye who prayed to God but didn't get his wish fulfilled.

When we went to the temple in the village of Kolbi together, the Knight of the Eyes said, "I don't believe in God."

"I prayed to God, and I know that he won't give me what I want." No matter how much you pray, sometimes it's faster to train yourself and do something with your own strength. ”

I was talking about your mother. A sick mother couldn't help herself because her eye knight had grown stronger, but she probably had to do nothing.

"Soon after my mother died, I fought with my father and left the house. When I said," Stop drinking, "my father turned upside down. I lost my reason because I was drunk, so I took out the koji that was in the house and cut me. This is the wound at that time. It was a serious injury."

Having said that, the Knight of the Eyes pointed at the great wound that was blocking his left eye.

I say with surprise.

"Did your father do that?" I thought it was a battle or a war. "

"Normally you'd think so. I don't think there are any parents who would do such a big injury to a child."

The Knight of the Eyes is laughing like nothing, but I think he was very scared at the time. It would have been scary, painful and sad.

"I thought I couldn't be with my father anymore, so I left the house before the wound healed. I wanted to go to the big city, so I started living in the capital for now. But I was still old enough to be a kid, so I couldn't find a job. I started throwing and getting involved with bad people."

Huh?

A lot of unexpected information comes out. The Knight of the Eyes now has a proper job here, and even if she knows she's doing well, she's thrilled to see what happens next.

The Knight of the Eyes continues to speak.

However, my conscience couldn't work badly, and the leader picked up the part where I was half wandering.

I was relieved to see the light of hope in the life of a knight with one eye. The leader of the regiment is Gaussian. He is the greatest of the Knights of this country, and I know him well. The body is big like a bear, but the vessel is big, bright and luxurious.

"At that time, he was not yet the leader of the regiment, but one of several captains in the regiment. But for me, it was above the clouds. Still, you sympathized with my situation and were very kind to me. And they trained me by paying attention to the strength of my fight. He made me his knight, not the son of an aristocrat."

Surely, knights were often the second and third sons of the nobility. The second son of the Duke's family, the Commander of the Legion, should have been loading up from a young age as a knight.

But that's how the Knight of the Eyes became a knight. It was even more convincing to hear that the Knight of the Eyes admired the Commander.

"I think of Commander Gauss as my father." Some fathers don't want to cut the face of their real children, while others care about me, a red stranger, and are like the leader of a regiment who has returned me to the right path. "

That's right. It's good to see the Cancer Chief.

I rubbed my cheek against the chest of the knight with one eye.

"But I feel sorry for my cough cancer when I was little." I wish I could have stayed with you since then. "

It might have been useless for me to be here, but I could have cried with you when it was hard.

The knight with one eye smiles as I scrub forever.

"Thank you. You can comfort me by saying that." But I'm fine now. With my mother's death, I was able to leave the village and meet the Commander. Then I joined the Knights, and this is how I met Mill. I'm happy now. "

Yeah.

I stretched out my forefoot and clung to the knight with one eye, nodding.

I missed you when you were little, and now I'm by your knight's eye!