Grimoire x Reverse ~Reincarnated Demon Romance Tale~

Episode IX: The King's Capital Delkar I: Past and Present

- Someday somewhere. A small city.

The city was filled with "white" everywhere.

By the time it's pathological, not so much.

The white road was a little brown with many shoes and wheel marks, and the white-built buildings are even blackened with coal and dust. The fountains of a central square-like place, the objects and abyss were white but the water at the heart was naturally clear and transparent, and the hair color varied, even if the clothes of the people on the road were more or less based on white.

And most importantly, the sky was filled with blue.

Still, if anyone visited the city, their first impression would be "white".

"If there was a visitor, I'd be talking about it."

"What's going on?

One child sat down in the fountain and poisoned him.

The child, wearing wild glasses, is troubled from time to time with his hands on his mouth as he writes something like a small difficult formula with a feather pen on an extremely crude scroll.

In addition to Central Square, kids his age seem to enjoy themselves when they have to. The boy glanced blurry with his eyes like he looked down at them and seemed to be facing his own challenges right away.

"What's the matter?"

"... what, smear"

"What?"

The boy looked up depressed. The girl standing in front of the child with the sunlight on her back.

She - Smiley glances at the scroll at the boy's hand so that Smiley can look at him, muttering a word "uh-huh" and turning back to him. That look often says, "Are you doing that again? It said."

She gently pulls the boy's arm as she hears the colored shortcut hair as her name suggests.

"It's better than that. Let's play with me."

"Ha, I don't give a shit. Players would be all over the place. You can swing the stick with them. That would dissipate Temeer's wasted energy."

"Why are you being so mean! I want to play with you!

Pointing to the sword Smiley had put on his back, he pointed his finger at the children who were caught in the middle square. With the way she swells her cheeks at that treatment like she made a little fool of herself.

"You want to play with me? Unfortunately, I'm busy right now. I have no choice but to work here because I can't get back home. Don't interrupt."

"Play with your friends till evening, you mean you can't go home."

"... how the hell do you know that?"

"I checked with your dad." Fine, let's play!

"Ha..."

The extra thing, my fucking dad, he's talking.

To speak for himself, I care that as his father, he doesn't have any friends to play with. It was impossible for parents to worry about a boy who would not even go outside after a day at his desk.

Malicious boys scroll around all the time with no way to do it.

"I'm sorry that you're playing with Temeer's sword. Tired."

"Uh."

To the smear pointing his lips, the boy thought to himself, "All right, keep going."

I don't know what to do, she brought her index finger to her mouth and looked up at the sky and thought for a while.

"Well... talk to me!

and sat down next to the boy.

"What?"

"Er, yeah. What do you want to do in the future?

"Scholar"

"Uh, yeah. Thanks for the answer as expected.... you don't admire adventurers (Braver) or anything?

"The Adventurer"?... Ha, that's no way. "

"Why?

Did you both just say 5,6 at most around the age?

A child of this age really wants to guide future dreams in the direction of moving the body. The Duchy Adventurer (Braver) and others are the most popular, and there have been rumours recently that the youngest C-rank Adventurer (Braver) has been born, and there have been verses where everyone admires the profession of fighting and naming warcraft.

A girl named Smiley is no exception. And I was intrigued by the profession of Adventurer (Braver) because I was sometimes the best at handling weapons in this age.

That's behind the thoughts of an innocent girl who thought we were all together, and the boy in front of us is terribly realistic.

"Stupid. We know what we can do where we wield our power."

"Uh."

"Academics are great"

Raise your wild round glasses, he says.

Those eyes over the lens had definite light and heat, and the truth is Smiley liked him like that. No other child has a certain path. A strange charm, different from your own.

"If what I'm thinking now becomes a reality, things will change."

"What do you mean?

"Right, for example, where it's easy to understand... you won't need a horse from a carriage"

"It's not called a carriage."

"Ha, if the shape changes, so does the name. Naturally. The idea of a new axis that moves the body of the vehicle using airborne magic as the driving force. With this, the carriage moves without the need for horses or anything"

"Heh, how do you operate it?

"I'm thinking about it."

"Oh well. Hope you can make it happen!

Smiley smiling with an uncontrolled look, the boy turned slightly that way. As much as she turns away from the light and the smell, she knows it by the way. Then I tease her, she says.

"But you're weak, aren't you? The kids around here beat me up with sticks before."

"That has nothing to do with scholars!!

Taking out the sword, she turns to the boy as she lovingly embraces it.

In fact, it was she who kept driving away the boy who did not break his busy attitude from being assaulted by his children all the time.

Even if I know that, I can't say anything from pride or gratitude.

I'm not asking you to thank me as her, so just smile and always follow the boy. Such a relationship.

"... Ha. What can you do with force?"

"I can do it."

"What?"

Smiley laughed and went on against the kind of boy that thrust away. I repeat it aloud so that I can say to myself, "I can," then. Briskly.

"If I work hard like this, one day I'll be able to protect you and something important to you."

That's right! And the boy looked at her as if she had been drained of poison, waving her sword with one hand while sitting. He turned away from me again.

"Is that it? Why can you light it?

"Ugh. If you don't understand, do some academics."

"Eh, academically irrelevant..."

"Ugh."

"Uh."

But if you say so.

"Will you tell me?

I don't know what else to do.

"You're going to tell me the truth for what I'm feeling depressed about."

"Depressing is a fervent motor solicitation. And I don't hate teaching."

I did, and Smiley stood up. Start hurrying the boy to get up early.

By the way.

"Why, do you like teaching?

Right.

"Joy when you didn't know anything about Mana, but you understood. That's the fun part. When you do it yourself, someone will give you what you've learned."

I woke up.

"Ah?"

"Ah."

On the bed. Digirre's sleep minister is right if he says he's a good sleeper or a bad sleeper, but he doesn't "make it slight".

It should be weird if it's not the last view I saw yesterday when I woke up, than I slept on my back exactly facing the ceiling.

I was wondering why the orange-haired girl was in front of me. I wonder why it's on the bed in such a way as to break between the ceiling and myself. A question mark that runs around in an instant.

"What are you doing, Temee?"

"I'm late for breakfast, so I thought I'd wake you up."

"So, what's that firecracker?"

"Trying to wake me up"

The relentless Iron Claw attacked Justa.

"Ouch. Ouch."

Justa looked like he was under the bed. When he landed on the ground in his own clothes, he just said, "How's it going?" V-sign.

I have a headache in the morning.

"Damn. Remember to calm down, you fucking kid."

"Hihi. It's okay, it's a kid."

A girl who seems to be in a good mood, turning around on the spot when she twirls.

Speaking of which, it was a trip on the Devil's Train until yesterday. She was in a great mood until night, even at the hotel in Wangdu, as she was, watching the view without getting tired of it until the end.

I remember falling asleep in a flash when I entered the room.

"Speaking of which,"

Justa solidified like he flashed something,

"Digire's been that fucking serious since he was a kid?

"Ugh. You haven't changed. One thing."

"That's right, that's what I do."

When I heard just that reply, I laughed delightfully and left a word "I'm going first" and went outside the room. You won't have to wait for yourself anyway, you'll just be at breakfast.

"... Oh, my God"

One word, I groaned to mock myself for the words I threw up earlier.

It was an unpleasant dream.

I think I'm alone as I get ready for the morning.

Why did you dream like that now? I don't know why.

If you insist, yes.

Do you think that childhood tame figure was weirdly worn as a fucking kid?

The color of your hair, the situation you hold, your beliefs. I can count as many places as I'm different, but I'm not.

Somehow, the atmosphere. It was definitely similar.

So what's the story?

Finally, holding the black coat, Digire slowly goes down the stairs.

"Ohh. I'm eating first."

When you reach the dining room, you will find yourself and see a young girl for breakfast.

Coffee and breakfast set for the clerk who came to pick up the order, then sit down on a small round table while asking for the newspaper.

Speaking of Justa on the front, all that remained was about soup at best.

"What are we going to do after this? I have a lot to look into."

"Various?"

"I don't know where Renault is, what he's doing in the kingdom right now, or if anything weird's happened in the kingdom, and then, you know, I wonder if some other magic conductor's already here."

"Right."

Digire replied lightly, looking at the coffee and newspaper offered to the clerk.

First of all, we could have come all the way to the King's Capital.

Strange dreams aside, work should be done as a top priority.

Slightly switching his head, he puts his eyes through the newspaper. There was no particularly dizzying information on it. Sounds like Town magazine in King's City, and I hear the kingdom is heavily censored. It would be something like this.

"For once, this is the same thing, but it's information-gathering."

Knock on the paper. Even though I couldn't use it, the choice depends on the hand. That's common sense.

I'm going to clear my mind while I eat this breakfast set that arrives.

"It would have to be around here if he was there to hit Renault's crusade. There's more to him than the Demon Wolf Squad."

"Right. But you've been looking into that area at Imperial College, haven't you?

"No, I don't know if Renault existed, but Astarte didn't dare do a detailed investigation," he said.

"Oh, really?

"If only the Empire was cheap for him, so be it. Keep Renault swimming in the kingdom and thoroughly investigate only the weaknesses of the Demon Wolf Squad. It was all about creating a situation in which the empire would not be invaded.... Thanks to Astarte, he said, 'How many Demon Wolf units have developed and if there are five general employees in the Book and Mahall, they can crush them'. I didn't ask for the details, but I can generally predict the system. If Sole had been completed, the Empire would certainly not have been affected by the Demon Wolf Squad."

"So, but it's..."

"Yes. I can just crush the Demon Wolf Squad and it has no effect on the Demon Wolf Squad itself. Both the kingdom that uses the Demon Wolf Squad and the demon kingdom that stops it will fall together. That's what he thinks."

"... you're the same."

Well, it's convenient not to have to worry about the Empire. and Digirre whilst pinching words.

"Renoir is dead, so they... people like the Pay Dawn Regiment will be moving forward in earnest. I still don't know exactly who the Pay Dawn Regiment is. The fucking demon ghost from the source said the goal was to get to the sanctuary of the goddess, but Pai Dawn, Pai Dawn..."

The name of the group whose purpose is to reach the sanctuary is Pai Dawn.

Digire thinks a little bit about what the hell you named it.

Or so you can't possibly find the answer.

Justa finished his soup, checking this and the luggage on the porch.

"Let's just go around the tavern and all that. I've been here once."

"... no, you said you were here once or something"

"Yeah."

Try Justa, it's a bitter memory.

At that time (Chapter 6, Lesson 7).

'You knew...!? As much as what attacked where I lived......! After the Empire attacked and took over. It was as if there had never been a republic from the beginning, they attacked the former republican territories as "empires"...... take those guys!!

"A prince can't be a class person who doesn't know!? You were going to shut up and face your people!! LUDIUS FOSSALENA GRANDGAREA!! '

- I don't know why I'm here with you guys anymore!!

That being said, it was Delkar, the king capital of this kingdom, who broke up with them.

"I have to apologize, to all of you"

Unexpectedly, words leaked. A word popped out of his recollected memory. So Justa surprised himself.

"... apologize?

Digirre, not knowing the circumstances in detail, asks with a frown root.

"... I might have said it once before. When Digire and I met on the boat (Chapter 6, Episode 10). I originally popped up apart from the prince of the kingdom and the godson of light."

While continuing to eat silently, Digirre seems to be saying "Keep going" with her eyes.

There's nothing more akin to that kind of fear of being "left behind" or "fooled around again" against Digirre. Justa keeps talking.

"So. They seem to be showing off their experiments with the Demon Wolf Squad in Wangdu in various ways. I'm so mad at the prince for letting him continue experimenting with the Demon Wolf Squad, knowing what I was on the journey for. So, I just ran away."

"... so why apologize"

"It's, you see"

In retrospect, Lyudius looked spicy that day.

He had eyes ready to accept all of Justa's curses. Sweet enough for that, just say what you want to say. So, it was me who ran away.

How much will Lyudius be involved in the politics of the country because he is a prince?

Think now, and you'll find out soon enough. I wonder if politically important people are traveling with the Divine Son of Light.

"... maybe I could have believed Ludius then. I haven't even been able to corroborate it."

"Right."

When I gave him his face, Digire looked a little surprised.

Why? And Justa tilting his neck.

To her like that, Digirre laughs small and flattens a slice of her last piece of bread.

"It's essential in investigating Renault about the Demon Wolf Squad. Maybe it's not a good idea to find out how attached the royal family was."

And that's all I whined about.

That, I'm sure, means something. Synonymous with the fact that they're telling me to try to face the prince again myself.

"... eh. Yeah! Right! They're coming!

That's what Justa said. No, he popped out of the dining room.

Looking behind him, Digirre shrugged alone.

"... watching someone learn is still the best reward."