Common Sense of a Warrior

"... Long time no see"

I was looking out the view from the tower and Louis showed up.

It's been a long time since I've seen him, my heart dances.

To this place of my favorites, I don't say every day, but that's when I was in King's Capital I came quite often.

Still, it's been months since I've seen Louis.

Louis, whom I hadn't seen in a long time, felt like he'd grown a lot taller.

"Louis!"

"Did something good happen too?

To a sudden inquiry, I lean my neck.

"It says on your face that something good happened."

"... was that easy to understand?

To my inquiry, Louis smiled.

In view of his reaction like that, I open my mouth.

"Before this, I helped a certain girl. I'll skip the details... but the stuff I've been piling up in the government building from that kid wasn't for nothing, because it makes sense. I felt like I was getting some kind of affirmation... so, so happy."

Walk in the invisible darkness ahead, one way.

I think people's lives are like that.

What happens, what awaits... I don't know what lies ahead, even if it will be minutes and seconds away.

And I can't even go back and start over with that thing that happened.

That's why people regret that it's 'oh I wish I had' and 'this is how I should have'.

No one walks in the invisibility beyond that.

A goal, a dream, a little light in your hand.

But that's why I get anxious from time to time.

Was this a good idea of the path I have taken?

Does what I've done make sense......

It was not the path that had been taken with half-baked readiness.

Blood-soaked paths, and still I've come as a good one.

Even if they gave me a chance to start over, I'm sure the path I'd choose wouldn't have changed.

... Still.

I didn't know being affirmed my way by someone was such a comfortable thing.

Most importantly, I never tasted the fear of mourning... and he said it was really good.

I thought from the bottom of my heart.

Out of those relief, I guess I wept then...... and now I think.

"Right. Good for you."

To Louis' words, I smiled.

"Yeah."

For a moment, gently look out at the view.

He had the same view next to me.

Two, I stare at his face nearby.

Soft expression, like a ho relieved.

That world, staring with deep blue eyes, came to mind as if it had become a poet, wondering what it looked like.

After watching about him for a while, I open my mouth wondering how it was.

"Louis. Are you tired?

"What happened suddenly?

"Somehow, you look pale."

I hesitated. And for a moment he was stuck in words and sat down.

"Uh... well, yeah. Maybe I haven't slept much here."

"Huh! Then maybe I should have slept without you here? Or go home and get some sleep! It's bad for you."

In a hurry to say so, he laughed couscous.

"I don't know... I don't always feel like I'm being chased without time"

"... time? What do you mean?"

"Well, that's simply how much work I have. Most of them, presumptions. I've been chasing my father's back.... for when I inherited my father's trail one day, no, because I want to. … but the more I chase, the more I feel the difference with my father."

blurry, looking out over the distance he tells him to whisper.

"I'm missing nothing. Knowledge, experience, imagination... above all, talent. That's why it's not enough. We just have to think and learn to fill it up."

It comes to my mind when I wanted to win a mock fight with your father.

Me, too, I did.

Not enough nanica. To bury it, we have to look for Nanica.

"If you're not talented enough, you'll have to learn and wear it to fight it, won't you?... time is finite. I have to do everything I can to carry on my father's trail... and when I think about it, I feel chased away because I don't have time."

"... although you may think I found out... but I know how you feel. Because I, too, in the process of learning the sword, thought I would have to bury the missing nanica many times. It's because you learn swords in women."

To my words, Louis smiled just a little.

"But what I don't understand is... why do you have to be cornered? Although time is finite, there is still time left for me and you to grow up.... That's not what I'm supposed to say as I see it with nothing to inherit."

"No. I'm sure you are. I'm just in a hurry because I think so myself. But yeah... I need it to be like me. Once it's broken, it could stay flushed and end halfway. Then forever, he stays hidden in his father's great shadow. If that happens...... I won't be able to step out of my dreams' If I were a father, I might have done better 'because I got a position where I could do it that I want to be the support of this country. That's what scares me. That's all I don't like. If only I had... if I had taken it more seriously, I wouldn't want to regret it."

I won't forget when he says what he wants to do.

And when he spoke of it in this tower.

Because that one is rooted in me, too.

... fulfill, how much has he resisted?

Stand in front of what he wants to do, the wall.

I guess that's too big a shadow of a father for him.

… even if his father's intentions were not.

"... that's your first battle."

"Right."

"... but no, then you should sleep faster. You broke your body, you didn't have an ex-child, did you?

"That's right..."

He separates words and looks away again.

"People have a view that makes them want to go home."

To the abstract words, I lean my neck.

"It's the mother's word. … for example, time for a family meal. That's when I spent time with my friends. And the sunset you see when you're home after playing. That kind of everyday casual time feels more beautiful than anything and more loving when you grow up."

Louis' soft voice dissolves in the evening city air and disappears.

... Somehow I thought so blurry as I listened to him, saying it was uncut and beautiful.

"The more you stack that up, the stronger you can be when you grow up. No matter how much I grew up to see a dirty world... no, that's why the memories I miss shine and still say the world is beautiful... he said it seems that way.... In summary, I interpret it as important to play like a child when you're a child."

"... you ask me beautiful things"

"Right."

"... but I repeat, if you fall down, you have no ex or child."

"I know you do."

That's what he says, he laughs bitterly.

"Somehow, I don't have the body to sleep. Though I'm not going to blame my mother for her words... I don't know, I only remember those words when I'm too busy to help. That makes me want to come here asexually. I guess this is where I want to go right now."

"Hehe... I know what that is"

"... if you come here, I'll see you too"

I found myself blushing to the point of boiling at that unintentional word.

That's cowardly......

With that in mind, I hope you think it's because of the embarrassment and the sunset.

"It's an honor."

That being said, I looked out at the view to distract.

"This previous promise, remember?

Of course.

"I want to get out of town with you. I want to stack with you a lot of things that we can only do right now."

When the heat cools a little, that's what I say and speak to him.

"Right."

That's what he said again, laughing.