- A new brave man.
Only the voice can be heard in a cloudy consciousness.
- Let me give you some strength.
The voice speaks unilaterally.
- I want you to have a sword that cuts through the darkness.
I don't know whose voice it is.
─ ─ If I may, I want you to protect people with that power.
Finally, I don't even know what's going on.
Until peace comes to the world.
I'm dreaming.
I thought so.
Two, the light jumped into the raised consciousness. Open your eyelids so you can be invited to the lights that are just dazzling.
For a moment, when your vision is covered in white and you close your eyes to the glare, your eyes get used to the light and begin to color. Dikuld opened his nearly closed eyes again.
The first thing that popped into that vain eye was the wood on the ceiling. Like a thin cloud flowing through the sky, it's wood running from end to end of sight.
"This place..."
The head I've come to know for sure. In its head, evocative as the last memory was the black monster and the divinely glowing silver sword.
Sure, I...
"You noticed, Dikuld! Great... I'm so glad."
Tears heard on the futon side. Nostalgia, to his trembling voice, Dikuld stopped remembering his memory and tilted his neck.
"Alice......?
Nostalgic hair color and wet eyes in tears. The trick of wiping away that tear with the back of your hand and a look full of joy wrap around some gorgeous beauty.
The undisputed appearance is that of a former deputy. A being who has taken swords together from an early age and has transcended rigorous training.
Why is she here before Dikuld, who was in the undeveloped district? He put it straight in his mouth.
"How could you..."
Moment after moment, Pickle and Alice's face strained strongly. And as I look at it, its righteous face fills with anger.
"Why? Why did you just say that?
Alice's face, which wiped off tears and raised her face, was frizzily nicked. In fact, Dikuld saw that grin, felt an unspeakable chill, and shook his body in a freak.
Alice reached for his face with kindness to Dikuld, who showed such fright.
"Ki Mi, but it's because I'm lost."
"There you are!
I grabbed my cheeks up and got furious.
"When I finally got the information and thought I'd finally found it, I was worn out, bug breath! How worried you think I am! I don't know why you're licking it.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Come on. Aah!
Not a mummy, but a cheek that was pulled straight up so loud that it sounded like a butch. Dikuld's resisting temper to accept it with tears as it is done has already been beaten to pieces at an early age.
"Keep him around...... Alice"
A voice, including a shudder, flies from behind. When I saw it, I put my arms together, and a blonde knight stood waving his head at me, for Christ's sake.
"Uh, uh, Ca, Mr. Carambel"
Alice was a little shy when she showed the revered senior knight where she disturbed herself, pah, and let go of her hand.
Then Dikuld dropped his butt on Zdon and a soft bet according to the weight. Bright red swollen cheeks and tears as you hold them down with your hands are painful as if to withstand the difficult pain of tooth decay.
"Well, idiot apprentice. Wake up and be quick, but there are more commands out there than the Knights Commander"
"Phew, phew"
"Hey, wait a minute, Mr. Carambel! That's too tyrannical! Dikuld is weak on this street."
"............... right"
Alice broke in to shelter Dikuld, who could not speak up well because of the stretched hoppe... but she looks weak, probably because she is frightened of Alice. But while it took a long time, Carambel nodded back without a heart.
"... but this assignment is Dikuld. You're the best fit. Besides, whatever it is you're sick of, you're part of the Knights. Do your duty."
"Yes, Master!
Carambel's words that sound harsh at first sight. But there was the trust of a mentor there who could not break even trying to pinch a two-year blank, and Dikuld, also as one of the knights, was willing to do so, without having to be told to do his part.
But on the other hand, Alice's mood is complicated when she first saw Dikuld dying the other day.
Of course I know what Carambel is saying. The situation in the undeveloped districts still does not permit forecasting. Dikuld's power would be a great help.
But that's why I thought it was a harsh story to wake up and drive Dikuld, who would be both mentally and physically a mess, on an immediate mission.
However, I can't deny the feeling that my nerves are getting a little over-sensitive.
"I...... disagree. I think this is still the time to rest."
"That, I know. I'm not telling you to fight anything demon. I'm telling you to find a simple person who can even get sick."
"Looking for people......? I don't have to leave that to you, Dickird."
"The searcher is an infant of Dikuld."
Carambel covered her words as if to silence Alice as she tried to put them on something and get them to rest. Then, immediately reacting like that, Dikuld gazed at Carambel with eyes mixed with anticipation and insecurity.
"Did Ray do something? Do what we have to do."
"I did, but there's nothing you should worry about. The Knights Commander was told to look for him because, in solving this case, he came to the conclusion that his power was necessary."
"This one thing...? Is something wrong?
It was something I didn't know much about Dikuld, who had left public opinion for two years and was in an undeveloped neighborhood without people. I never dreamed that the place I was in was in a state of tension that was considered a danger zone and the Knights of the Kingdom were eyeing.
For that reason, he briefly explained to Dikuld, who had not been able to swallow the story, what had happened while Alice was missing.
"... I see it was such a big case. Sure, the number and strength of demons in undeveloped districts were not comparable to anything else... but that's why I just thought it was an undeveloped district"
"... well. More than that, do you have any idea what you lived in that place? To cause this to happen."
The last two painful days of being asked and reminded of the cause. In it, what is the answer Carambel seeks is the beginning in the first place.
It was when he killed the head of the giant.
"... Curse..."
Dikuldo spinning his words out flatly. The face of Carambel and Alice changes.
"What is a curse?
"I don't know. It's just that the head of the giant Warcraft said the curse took away the reason of the Warcraft."
"A curse that takes away the reason of the Warcraft...? That means we're threatening the area now..."
"A warcraft that has lost its reason, you mean. I see, there are many new species in reason."
Alice, who had not confronted him directly, had conjectured from Dikuld's words and spoken of the demonization of the Warcraft, but Carambel had thought about demonization from a different perspective.
Never seen a new kind of demon confronted more than once. And I just think I created it myself, a weapon made of stone or wood.
Carambel nodded deeply, deeply questioning where that intelligence was in the army of demons that exposed the desire for stripping without any shards of intelligence, when the point was made.
"Is there anything else you know about that curse?
"No, nothing. But I met something strange. Crystals that emit spooky signs and glowing swords. And it's a black shadow in the shape of a person."
The only thing that evokes is the beginning and the end. It began with a curse, and there was an unmistakable end to calling it one wonder after another.
"Shadow...? When I discovered you, perhaps we saw what you said about the sword and the crystals. Indeed, the crystals emitted spooky signs and the sword was a strange object that would not even fall off the ground. But I haven't seen the shadow of a black man."
"Really...? But the shadow was definitely there. Because I almost got killed by that shadow. So, the moment I touched the glowing sword that happened to be in the blown room, I saw a black shadow melting in front of me... and here it was when I realized"
That shadow in Dikuld brings to mind the idea of not being the root of the curse, but without the art of ascertaining it, I'm not sure what happened to that shadow.
Carambel and Alice, on the other hand, who did not see the shadows directly, can't get the crystals out of their heads that emit signs of remembering the chills they saw when rescuing Dikuld.
I don't know the details because I gave precedence to Dikuld, who was a bug breath, but I can't help but think that the crystals I actually saw were more the cause of the curse than the shadow Dikuld said.
However, the only thing that could be said to either of us was that we did not leave the realm of speculation and we did not know a clear solution.
The most realistic solution now is to inform the King's Capital progression similar to this situation as soon as possible and to ask Ray to cooperate in supposedly eliminating the cause.
If Ray, he knows something...... no, he might have the answer to lead this matter to a solution.
But it's worth a search, maybe.
"Master, I'm going to find Ray."
"Oh, come on. Alice, just this guy, there's a new problem. Follow me, too."
"Yes! Got it!
Alice, entrusted with the amulet of the lost, made a strong vow not to take her eyes off again, hands on her chest and saluted her.
"And, as an extra matter, I have a request for backup from your father. After you tell them that, welcome them to the search."
"Is it to your father?
"Oh, things are so urgent. Recently, an SSS class and a demon were discovered."
"SSS..."
SSS class that can sometimes even destroy one country.
As far back as the past, it does not reach 100, such as an example of the discovery of a demon called SSS class.
Whatever your name is, it's a threat you're afraid of, so much so that once SSS shows up in public, it's normal to work together beyond the country. Unlike dragon-like warcraft with comparable power, the bad tachi does not want a solution through dialogue, and there is no other way to take it than to be a demon.
"As it stands, the 6th Knights, engaged with SSS-class demons, are almost devastated. The 6th Cavalier also bears the deep hand, and the return still takes time. Plus, there's no guarantee that you can crusade all the Chivalry Chiefs from 1 to 7 plus the Chivalry Chiefs."
"So take my father..."
Once, before Dikuld was born, he led the team and defended the King's capital from the attack of the Fire Dragon, said to be SSS-class, the leader of the Blue Knights, who allegedly contributed greatly to the victory.
That power was about to be thirsty again now.
"And to avoid confusion on this matter, I forbid any out-of-mouth conversation. Welcome to the village of Sierra as soon as possible"
"I understand, Master. Alice, I'll be right out."
"Yeah, I'll take care of the prep"
Miscellaneous business revealed his habit when he was vice-knight chief of, Alice, on a small run, headed to secure horses and food.
And in the meantime, Dikuld, who pulled the bandage off and equipped it, noticed something.
"The sword..."
Yes, the sword of love that I have fought with Dikuld has become unbroken in sight compared to the new armor.
"If you're a sword, you can use what's being paid for. Now would not be the time to say luxury."
"... Yes"
Dikuld bids farewell to a sword he has fought with for a long time when he puts his new sword on his hips.
"Thank you. I survived because of you."
With such gratitude, Dikuld put a rattlesnake of only half in his sheath.
"Mr. Dickold, we're ready."
"Yeah, okay. So long, master. I'm coming."
"Oh."
Thus, Dikuld went to the land where he spent his childhood.
To a disaster that is not an easy search for people.
Oddly enough, they were involved.
Two weeks later...
─ ─ Ignor, the capital of the kingdom of Lykeberg and king, was destroyed.