Battle against Rose.
It was a fruitful lesson for me.
Difference in strength between me and Rose.
Establishment of combat style using healing accelerating fists.
The result alone was a modest quote, I just snapped first, but I was certain that I felt progress.
"Well, shall we go see the captain?"
As soon as I woke up from my fainting, it was dinner time. Amako also invited me to dinner because it was just the right opportunity, and in the dining room, which was bigger than when I came, I had a dinner time that was not an exaggeration to say that it was the only time for a lifeguard to take a break.
But before dinner, Amako, Nair, and Ferm had a little bit of a bickering... What do you mean? You're a little surprised you were doing something like that.
Although I fought lightly against Amako, who was prefetching the movement with predictive magic and returning the two brilliantly, I managed to wipe out the demons and demons with the soft-faced fox and the semi-crying demons... but I was a little relieved that Fermu seemed to get along with Amako somehow.
"... I am the guardian of that child..."
After sending Amako, he whines so as he walks down the hallway leading to the captain's office.
I have a personality resemblance to mine, and I'm worried about it. Besides, I'm worried because I heard from Korga about the nature of the Dark Wizard and I know that Ferm has lived with solitude... no, maybe he's sympathetic.
"Emotion-driven magic."
To me, dark magic seemed terribly unstable. If you say so, it is dark magic that made you express your own negative emotions as magic.
Ferm is an inverted armor created by loneliness that no one can touch.
Koga is a restraint that binds beasts who find joy only in battle.
"So what's with the magic of the Ferms now?"
Right now, that kid's not alone.
I'm ashamed if I'm the only one who thinks so, but if she thinks so too... if the magic of Fermu comes back to life, does that dark magic remain the same from before? Or --,
"Slightly."
Because I was immersed in thought, I was about to hit the door of the captain's office.
Let's just put aside what I've been thinking. From now on, I need to switch my mind to talking to Rose.
Captain, it's Usat.
"Ooh, come in."
"Excuse me."
If you say no, then enter the captain's office.
Rose looked back at this one as she looked out at the window and put her arms around the chair.
"Sit down, too. It's gonna be a little long story."
"Ha..."
Sit back on the chair that was placed in shape to face Rose.
It's a long story. Is it important?
"First of all, you know I got a call to the castle yesterday?"
"Yeah, could it be about me?"
"That's right. You may have only heard the story, too, but soon it has been decided that talks will take place in the four kingdoms of the kingdom of Ringle, the Kingdom of Samarial, the Kingdom of Rio to Karm and the Kingdom of Nirvalna in the magical city of Lukvis. As the representative of the kingdom of Ringle on its way there, Sigles the Knight, Welsey the Exclusive Wizard, Suzune and Kazuki the brave, and you have been appointed"
It was quicker to make a decision than I thought, but is that right or am I going to go too?
Well, I'm the one who gave Samaritan the letter. You'll need a bridger with that side.
"When are you leaving?"
"It was sent to States to the effect that talks would already take place. You have to leave late for a week."
A week from now, you don't have more time than I thought.
It will take a while if you take a carriage from the Kingdom of Ringle to Samarial, so maybe you also considered it there.
"Lord Lloyd says if you say no, you won't be forced to."
"No, I'm going. I'm the one who gave Samaritan the letter, so I'm going to be responsible until the end."
I can't even throw it out on the way.
Besides, seniors and Kazuki will be there. I had some anxiety if I was alone, but if I had two, I would be fine.
Rose nods one thing to my answer.
"Then you can't be a lifeguard forever."
"Heh? What do you mean... WOW!?"
Rose threw something at me trying to ask you a question.
When I took it aggressively, it was a bright white hooded coat I hadn't seen in awhile ---, a team uniform.
"Ah! You fixed it!"
"I'm glad you asked me to fix it early. We can't just wear the right jacket for the meeting."
Nodding at Rose's words, he puts his sleeves through his uniform.
Ask about the words I said while I was happy with the comfort I was used to.
"Thank you for fixing it. So, what do you mean by" title "?"
"It means exactly what it means. You're not just gonna be a lifeguard from today on."
I don't know what it means more and more.
You're not just gonna be a lifeguard? I mean, what's that supposed to mean?
I'm called a lifeguard because I belong to a lifeguard, and that means I'm not going to be... am I the only one being moved from a lifeguard to another...?
Fearing at the thought of getting there, Rose smiled at what could also be considered a belligerent as usual.
"Actually, I've had a hunch since I've been working out you chick. No matter how abusive you are, you will stand up. No matter how many times you curse me, you don't break my heart, you bounce back at me."
Am I being blamed for this? Or is it complimented?
She seems happy to talk to me, but it's a strange situation where she appreciates a lot of businesslike things from me.
"When I first saw him, I thought he was a kid everywhere, but when I opened the lid, he was a hell of a guy"
"Stop saying it like he was a bad guy from the beginning..."
"There's no way a normal kid can stand my training."
Why do you have to be treated like a trained tenant?
"That's why you're the best"
Rose laughs deeply at me confused.
While swallowed by a different atmosphere than before, wait for her next word.
"Usat Ken. I'm going to appoint you as lifeguard, deputy commander."
"... eh?"
My head turns bright white on words that have been said too abruptly.
After a few seconds or so, I gradually recognize her words and the thought stops again.
Deputy Head of Mission.
I didn't even know I had such a title before.
No, I didn't even think the lifeguards had a sequence other than the captain in the first place.
"Don't you have much to be surprised by?"
"And isn't it too sudden!? I can't believe you're such a deputy commander, all of a sudden..."
"Oh? I told you before we had a mock fight." I'll see to it you. "As a result, you've exceeded my expectations."
I did say I was going to identify, but I can't believe I meant to determine if I was going to be worthy of the deputy commander.
Seeing me in total panic, Rose is smiling funny, but there's no way to tear up the word as a joke.
He's really going to appoint me as deputy head of the lifeguard.
"This is what I was going to do from the beginning. Ever since I started training you. Did I tell you? Make you my right arm."
He did say.
But that was just a joke...
"But I can't believe I have a vice president... Instead, will those strong men admit me as deputy commander? I think they're going to be aiming at the bottom right away."
"... Ha, not at all"
Rose, with a grin somewhere frightened, stood up from her chair and walked right in front of her, slamming a decopin in my forehead.
A star plays into my sight in a powerful blow. I'm about to fall, but I look up at Rose with a good grip.
"You think I'm gonna appoint a guy I don't deserve as deputy chief? Usato, I thought you could handle it, so I guess I chose it."
"Me?"
"Besides, the Aleks admit more about you than you think. Still can't believe it--"
So he stops talking and puts his fist in front of me.
"Let me admit it. Like you did to me."
……
A title that is too big for me as Deputy Commander.
But I mean Rose appreciates me enough to let me have that title if I return the back.
Honestly, this is how I was told to face to face. I still don't know if I deserve a deputy commander.
But it is. It's not like me to be worried about Uzi forever after being told so far.
"I am hereby ordered to assume the post of Deputy Commander."
"Ooh."
Rose nodded contentedly at my words.
I sat in the chair in the captain's office and left my body behind.
"In the future, don't be ashamed of your vice president's title. You can go back."
"Yes."
Once again, he realizes he has become deputy commander and tries to exit in a courtesy to Rose, but fuzzily remembers the words Rose uttered during today's battle.
I can't believe I ate the attack.... since "he”? '
The opponent who fed the attack to Rose, who could not have fed the attack without releasing a one-time hidden ball called the Healing Fist.
It can't be bothering me.
As I lowered my hand on the door and looked back behind my back, I decided to ask him about it.
"Um, I need to ask you something..."
"What?"
"Who was the man who attacked the commander before me?"
!
I saw Rose, who opened her eyes slightly to that question, and I think it's gone.
Is this some kind of translation of ants? No, they're opponents enough to hit Rose. Rather, it may even be wrong to assume that it is a human-type organism.
It's even possible that he had more giants than that evil dragon.
After about a few dozen seconds of silence, one nod Rose finally opened her mouth.
"... let me tell you something"
Some heavy tone.
I am deeply perplexed by a completely different atmosphere than before.
"The one who attacked me was a demon."
"Are you saying you were wounded during the war with the Demon King's Army?"
"No, you don't. We were against him before the Demon King woke up from the seal."
Before I woke up from the seal...!?
Isn't that before the lifeguard was created?
It doesn't matter to me that I can't keep thinking, Rose keeps saying things.
"The man's name is Nero Argens. Demon Swordsman to control the wind. And..."
So once separated, she meditated on her eyes only once, then stared at me to shoot through with a caged eye of strong will, and uttered the word away.
"It's also the name of the man who scratched my right eye"
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"Nero Argens......"
After Rose told me his name, I left the captain's office behind. No, Rose didn't tell me any more, if I were to be exact.
Lie down on the bed and squeal the name of the demon swordsman who scratched Rose's right eye as he stared at the ceiling.
Rose's right eye wound has always bothered me.
Occasionally, the same goes for having hands on her right eye like a habit, and I was wondering somewhere in my mind how she could use healing magic to leave her right eye wound.
"... and"
When I heard his name, I remembered that Mr. Alc manipulated the flames he fought in Hinomoto, the kingdom of the Beast Man, who apparently named him the man's apprentice.
I fought Koga and could not see Mr. Alk's battle, but the Third Army Commander wrapped the flames around him like armor, and he said he had overwhelming firepower and strength.
At a time when I am discipling someone powerful enough to ascend to the Commander of the Legion, my strength cannot be counted.
"I wonder what happened."
When I revealed Nero Argens' name to me, it seemed like Rose was only a little different than usual... I felt that way.
"Wait for me to talk to you"
"I'll tell you everything sooner or later," Rose told me as she left the captain's office.
Instead of not being determined to talk, I guess you're thinking that I'm upset so that future talks won't get in the way.
Then I should concentrate on what's right in front of me without thinking deeply.
……
Second, look at the repaired group clothes that are hanging on the wall.
It was repaired so much that I didn't know what the original wound was. That looks the same as before, but now that I'm deputy commander, when I put my sleeves through my uniform, I felt at once the weight of being the one standing on top.
Expectations from Rose.
Anxiety about yourself.
The weight of the title Deputy Commander.
I was about to be crushed by all of it, but I decided to carry it.