Hakai no Miko

After finishing his affairs that day, the Ethereal Horse rolled out to the city with one Shemru.

Of course, that's to meet an old man named Solon. At first, if he was a Ethereal Horse, lord of the city, he could also do people and call Solon. But the Ethereal Horse, who had remembered a strong interest in Solon by a story told by an old man who was a famous man, thus wanted to go see him himself.

And Shemr, following such a pale horse, was secretly strained.

That's not just the first time a pale horse and two people have been out in a long time. In fact, she also had some recent problems.

Aoima, his own "you under the umbilical umbilical", began as a guest of the "Fang Clan" and became the lord of the city of Bornis, wondering if he had become a guest of the clan union, and the other day he ran up to the king of the clan of Zoan at an eye-catching speed.

Compared to that, however, I am no different than before, only the caretaker and escort around the Ethereal Horse. Besides, Shemr, am I good as this? And I was anxious.

More recently, it is also significant that the care of the Ethereal Horse around him and the Elf women had become involved.

As the Ethereal Horse consolidated its ground in the city, there were more opportunities to meet with various human beings. More and more was left in the hands of Shemr, who did not know how humans behaved, such as dealing with such visiting humans and selecting accordingly the clothes of the Ethereal Horse, and he really had to use the help of the Elf women. Those facts were causing her to burn.

Also about the escort, Shemr is aware that his own strength as a warrior is not so high.

Especially in addition to leading warriors like Galam and Zoog, there are even monsters these days that can be ridiculous to compare with Jahangil and others. I never thought I'd be able to line up my shoulders there at last.

But that's not why you'll soon find what you should be aiming for, and for now, Shemr was hoping to have a full body spirit in her role of escort now.

As the Ethereal Horse with such a momentum Shemr asked people, Solon's house, finally found, was a raucous little house in a district inhabited by less wealthy residents.

"I'm sorry. Shit!

The Ethereal Horse speaks up in the house, but there is no reply.

Looking through the house through an open door wondering if he was absent, I could see an old man lying on his sleeping table in the back room.

"Oh, my God, you're here. All right, I'll wake you up."

Saying so, the Ethereal Horse stops Shemr from trying to enter the house.

"Wait, Shemr!

At this time, behind the brain of the Ethereal Horse, a flash came.

Isn't this an event for heroes when they welcome sages?

Tai Gong Hope, famous as the warrior of King Zhou Wen. Wen Wang says he kept waiting, not disturbing the fatigue of fishing.

And a tribute to the famous Trinity of Trinity. To welcome Zhuge Confucius Ming, who was almost anonymous at the time, Liu Bei Xuande visited Yan (Yi Wei) three times himself. All that or when I visited him for the third time, he said that he was taking a nap, sprinkling Zhuge Confucius Ming, and kept waiting outside the oven until he woke up.

And both Taikong and Zhuge Confucius were impressed by such behavior and served their respective masters.

The Ethereal Horse shudders little by little wondering if the event had finally come to her as well.

Pushing the excitement into her chest, the pale horse soaked her face and told Shemr.

"We came without any promises. Don't interrupt Dr. Solon."

Shemr said spookily to the Ethereal Horse, who suddenly started to get weird words.

"... Soma, did you even eat something bad?

I said I was going to be Wenwang Zhou or Liu Beixuan De, but the Ethereal Horse mistaken for something around the food is a bit muggy.

"Fine, wait for me to wake up here!

If they say so, Shemr will have to obey too. The two were to wait in front of the house, shoulder to shoulder, until Solon woke up.

At this time, however, Solon had decided to sleep in a raccoon.

In fact, this was the usual way to get rid of Solon's debt.

If you have opened the door of the house and decided to raccoon from where you can see it, then naturally you will step in without any rejection if you take a lot of debts from the rough guys. And when they try to beat themselves up, they jump up ahead of it and scream out loud.

"A break-in robbery! He's a murderer! He's gonna kill me! Help!"

An old man who thought he was asleep jumps up and screams in front of him. Most people snort. In that gap, you run out the back door screaming the same thing.

When they do this, they can't go after the debt taking either. If we go after him or something, he'll be mistaken for a robbery or something, like Solon said, and we'll make a fuss.

Today's debt taking, however, has been on its own different than before. You know your usual hand, you're not going to step into the house, you're waiting for yourself to wake up in front of the house.

Well, that's a tough one.

Solon, who had taka that one day he would give up and go home, kept raccooning. But then I started being utter, and when did I really fall asleep? If you notice, the sun that plugs through the window will also be blue, and the sun will soon set.

Well, he was a solon who tried to wake up his body to buy some booze before sundown, but he was surprised to hear voices coming from outside the house.

"Hey, Soma. Let's give up and go home now."

"No, wait until the teacher wakes up."

"So what's that disgusting tone?

What a surprise, those two are still waiting at the entrance to the house.

Solon got stunned that they were free. But it will soon be sunset. You can't just not leave if the sun goes down. Let's settle for some more raccoon sleeping.

That's what I thought Solon was, but I felt anxious.

It inspired urination.

I had a bad drink before I took a nap. More and more the urine intensifies and leaks as it is.

Solon finally jumped out of his bedroom impatiently.

"Ah. Are you Dr. Solon?

I realize what happened to me and the boy courtesy me.

But urine no longer reaches the limits of patience. We have to get rid of this boy early.

"Today, it's already sunset. Come back out."

The face, desperately putting up with urine, looked terribly serious from a pale horse who didn't know that.

Besides, the Ethereal Horse is hazy.

At that time, it was the anecdotes of the famous Zhang Liang (today) and Lord Huang Shi (this way) that came to mind by Aoshi.

This is the story of Zhang Liang, a young man who later became the famous staff member of Gaozhu and Liu Bang (Ryuho) of the Han dynasty, when he tried to cross the bridge. When an old man threw his shoes under the bridge, he ordered Zhang Liang to pick them up. When Zhang Liang picked up his shoes as he was told, this disrespectful old man told him to let himself wear them the next time. But neither was Zhang Liang angry, but he knelt before the old man and made him wear his shoes.

Then the old man left, telling him to come here five days later in the morning. And when Zhang Liang came to the promised place five days later in the morning, an old man was already waiting. The old man scolded Zhang Liang, "It is not good to keep the elderly waiting," and left, telling him to come again five days later. The next thing I know, Zhang Liang goes to the promised place with the sunrise, but the old man still comes first and once again walks away after scolding Zhang Liang and telling him to come back out five days later.

So Zhang Liang kept waiting for the old man in the promised place this time from the night before. Then, the old man, who came later, finally praised Zhang Liang, saying that he had given him a soldier's book of Tai Gong Hope.

This is surely an event for the future famous warrior to give wisdom to the wise!

The Ethereal Horse gets excited with a small fist grip.

But he was furious at Solon's attitude to get it back out without asking him anything about the mention that Shemr made his "you under the umbilical" wait so much for next door.

"Is that the attitude of the guy who kept people waiting?!"

The Ethereal Horse thanked Solon when he stopped Shemr trying to eat and hang him.

"Yes, I'll see you later"

And after Solon's house in an upbeat mood.

"Hey, Soma. There's plenty for you. Yeah, you just have to say" gutsy "and make him listen."

"No, that shouldn't be. Thank you, wise man."

"... so what is that disgusting tone?

As the Ethereal Horses walked away talking about that, Solon rushed to add something for himself in the urinal kettle he kept outside the house. And sigh of ho relief, then shake your neck.

"Absolutely, some weird debt takers."

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And then some time later, again, the Ethereal Horse visited Solon's house.

Then it seems to be absent this time. I haven't heard back from you when you tried calling from the outside, and it doesn't look like you're looking in the house from the open entrance or taking a nap inside, like the other day.

"If you're not here, you have no choice. We'll do it again."

That being said, he was a Ethereal Horse who tried to return to the Lordship's residence with his heel back, but noticed a shadow walking down the Fuji Road this way.

It is an old man with characteristic long eyebrows and a white beard draped all the way to his chest like a immortal. You said it was daytime, but you were already drunk or your face was red.

The old man who was napping in this house the other day - must be Solon.

The Ethereal Horse who thought so waited excitedly for Solon to come this way.

But as soon as Solon realizes this one, he'll have a slight face. And when I wondered if the vigilance was obvious on the spot for a while, I turned my back on this one.

"Huh! Ah? Huh?!"

The Ethereal Horse gets stunned by Solon, who shows off his healthy legs and tries to run away at a tremendous speed that he doesn't seem to be an old man.

"All of you, motherfucker! Let him go!"

The other day, Shemr, who had a grudge driven back by the much-awaited citation, ran out on four legs just wondering if he was going to let him get away.

But as soon as I run out, there's a voice of a pale horse on its back.

"Hey, wait a minute! Shemr!"

To the voice of the Ethereal Horse, Shemr stops stepping on a bump.

No matter how much the whole city, it's a time when you can never say you're safe. Especially these days, many outlaws have been pouring in who have dreamed of grabbing a thousand dollars or building up. In that, I couldn't leave one pale horse unattended to fight because of grace.

"Yes! Come on, Soma! He can get away with this!

Soon Shemr pulled the arm of the Ethereal Horse and chased Solon.

"Hey, hey, Shemr! My hand hurts!

"Patience, Soma! If you have time to slap your mouth in vain, run faster!

The Ethereal Horse complained of the pain in his arm to be pulled, but Shemr had to shut his mouth because he had been told back with a tremendous sword screen about how much he was boiling his business.

No matter how much you don't run on four legs, your opponent is an old man. I thought I'd be caught soon, and I didn't. It seems that Solon leads to the geography of the lower towns and slums, and even if he thinks he's cornered the trail, he can't catch it one step later, diving through a tiny hole in the wall or between the house and the house, or through someone else's house.

"If here!

The chase with Solon came as far as the road along the river flowing through the center of the city. The road along the river is straight and ideal for harnessing Zoan's leg strength. Moreover, there are no suspicious figures within sight, and there will be no problems away from the Ethereal Horse for a while.

That's what I thought. When Shemr let go of his hand from the Ethereal Horse, he ran out on four legs at once.

In an instant, his distance from Solon diminished, and in a few moments he tried to jump and push him down on his back.

Solon suddenly threw himself into the river when he noticed Shemr's sudden approaching.

I thought this was a suicide in the water when I was ready?! I got a puffy head about in the river. And swim straight to the opposite shore with Swissy. Safely swimming off to the opposite shore, Solon ran out again as he squeezed his wet clothes like a rag.

"Wait, you fucking grandpa!

Shemr shouts a curse, but of course there's no way Solon can wait. I had to run back to the bridge across the shore when I grabbed the arm of the Ethereal Horse again.

And it wasn't until soon after sundown that I finally cornered Solon.

The three of them, who kept chasing after the whole city, were exhausted by the heap. That's right. Shemr is also getting sweaty and breathing rough on his shoulders.

The worst of them all was Solon. Four narrow spots with wet clothes. I ran away with them, so I don't know whether they are clothes or worn rags anymore. He seemed to be lying on the road dressed like that, if he didn't hear the rough breath, he couldn't help but think he'd drowned.

"Soon the sun will set. Come back out again."

Answer Solon, interrupted by a rough breath, with a rough breath, too, Ethereal Horse.

I'll see you later.

The Ethereal Horse, who was exhausted, did not even know the strength to be angry.

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And this is the third visit.

By then, he had just begun to realize that the Ethereal Horse was strange as well. Isn't there some absurd mistake? When I visited Solon's house with that in mind, I just looked at Solon, who came out of the entrance to the house.

When he saw the face of the Ethereal Horse, Solon screamed small, and fled as he was stripped.

"Persistent Debt Removal! Golden deceased!

The Ethereal Horse was surprised by the curse of the fleeing Solon.

"Hey, wait a minute! No! It's a mistake!

But Solon doesn't stop. When the Ethereal Horse takes the purse wipes out of his pocket, he throws them to Shemr. Shemr, handed the wipes, immediately observing the intentions of the Ethereal Horse, squeezed them with his right hand to ascertain their weight. Then, as you step out your left foot wide, you gain momentum to rotate your hips, shake your right hand sharply and throw the wipes toward the solon. The wipes thrown by cutting the wind didn't aim wrong and hit Solon's back.

Although the wipes with coins are small, they weigh quite a bit. Solon, who took that direct hit on his back, was dangerously glaring and about to fall, but still managed to stay on his feet.

But that's when the metal noise popped into Solon's ear that kept ringing.

"Money?!"

It was the impact that hit Solon's back, the sound of bronze coins and silver coins falling zero from the Ethereal Horse wipes. Solon returns his heels to pick up some money. However, he immediately returned to me that it was not the case and tried to return the heel he had returned. But that sudden braking impossibility hits, or Solon slips his legs as he looks back.

As he shrugged, Solon, who fell at the forehead, occasionally struck his forehead and sparks scattered in front of him. On the ground in front of Solon, who was too stuffy of the pain, a hook claw was grown and a leg covered in hair made a noise and was unloaded.

"I finally got you, you fucking grandpa!

If I looked up with a nod, there was a shaped shemur who was still going to eat and kill this one and a pale horse who looked down with a dry grin on him without knowing how to deal with it.

"Help me, sir! Have mercy on this poor old man! I don't have the money to give it back now, but I'll give it back even if I work as your servant for the rest of my life, so only my life......!

The Ethereal Horse leaked one sigh to Solon, who begged for his life without shame or hearsay.

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"Hey, this is sushi, sushi. I thought I owed you money."

Anyway, in an attempt to explain the circumstances, Aoima set up a place for discussion at a nearby liquor store with a solon who begged for his life. So when I found out that the Ethereal Horses were not in debt, I even demanded alcohol with a crude face, so much so that I tried.

"Look, Soma. What do you mean," Thank you to a wise man "?

To Shemr, who imitates herself, the Ethereal Horse just had to laugh bitterly. An event occurs to welcome the Sage! I thought so, but they actually mistook me for a debt taker and they were getting away with it, so I don't want to laugh bitterly.

"Are you talking about me, Sage? Well, you have a lot of eyes to see."

Shemr, who is filled with tea from the side, strips his fangs and intimidates him.

"What, that attitude! Soma is the lord of this city!

To Shemr's words, Solon's attitude changed. Until then, she seemed in a good mood, but she looked at her face and behaved like a jerk.

"What, lord? - So, what the hell can a great lord do for such an old man?

Controlling Shemr's attempts to raise his voice of anger again to a rude (grumpy) statement, Aoima conveys the requirement to visit Solon.

"Actually, I was looking for a teacher to teach me how to study."

And Solon, like a little fool, said, "Ha!," he chuckled.

"Sorry, sorry. A great lord's teacher can't do this to an old man like me. Find something else."

I shook my hand as if I were going to get rid of even the wild dogs. Besides, the Ethereal Horse makes me laugh bitterly.

"I'm in trouble because there's no one to take care of it."

"If you're a lord, you should pile up the gold with mountains. That way, there's someone else who can do whatever it takes."

It is an out-of-the-box sign of will that I am sorry even if I am piled with gold. In addition, Solon said in a tone that reversed a person's nerves.

"As much as I tell your lord, I'd rather teach those orphans."

An orphan who is a city troublemaker is better was a terrible insult. But it is more convenient for the Ethereal Horse.

"Then I was just fine. Actually, I need you to tell those orphans."

In the words of the Ethereal Horse, Solon was often taken aback.

"Teach the orphans? What do you mean, teach?

In the Continent of Cerdeas of this era, orphans and beggars are imposed as a duty of the powerful and the millionaires, but it is rare for the powerful to do so. It's no longer unimaginable, let alone an education, if it's about food.

But that doesn't end up being the only thing that makes Solon angry.

…… It's a letter or a calculation?

For Aoima, who has lived in modern Japan, reading and writing calculations are only the basic education in the basics.

In this world, however, reading and writing calculations are still one of the advanced upbringing of only some nobles and officials. Teaching it to the orphans, the city's troublemakers, was something of an astonishing land.

"But for what...?

Solon had also heard rumors in the city that the lords were gathering orphans again. But I just thought it was something that was bringing the orphans together as a workforce. And that's not just Thoron's assumption. For many city people, it was the same.

Because in this world, that was common sense.

"Isn't education for children the cornerstone of the country's and the city's development?

But the common sense of the Ethereal Horse, who was a modern Japanese, is different.

In the Nagaoka clan, which was in distress (Konku) after the Etsune War, we did not divide the rice of the hundred mounds that had been given as a visit to the clans. "The rice of the hundred mounds would not be easy to eat, but if it was for education, it would be ten thousand or one million mounds tomorrow", and so on. Even if Aoima didn't really understand how important basic education was, he knew that it would be the basis for the development of the country and the city.

It would have been more normal to give basic education to orphans if they had taken such a pale horse.

Solon, who was explained those things, went arm in arm.

I do understand what the Ethereal Horse is saying.

But just because you educated the orphans, that doesn't immediately make the country or the city develop. It is ten or twenty years after the orphans grow up that that investment will bear fruit.

But now there is no indication that the Holmeer State will attack in, but still it is not necessarily what triggers another crusade. The situation in which the Ethereal Horses are placed is so dangerous that it is not surprising when they were attacked and destroyed by the Holmeer country.

In such a situation that he might not even know tomorrow, Solon became troubled by the fact that he could invest in something that he did not know when it would bear fruit.

A pale horse asks Solon, who has become silent, with an anxious face.

"So, will you take it on?

Often, Solon silently entertains a liquor pot.

It's easy to say no here. Besides, it was perfectly unforgivable to engage with the powerful and others. But to say no, I feel a curiosity that hasn't been around for a long time for Ethereal Horse's suggestion.

When the Ethereal Horse is asking but doesn't try to answer, but Shemr, who has been more and more scorched, begins to chirp and fang, Solon finally said.

"... the orphans aren't the only ones who teach, are they?

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The Ethereal Horse was in one of the rooms inside the orphanage, teaching the children in front.

Some of the children in the orphanage were of the same age as the Ethereal Horse, but every child stares at the Ethereal Horse with a glimmer of pure curiosity.

"When the fire burns, oxygen in the air couples with carbon in the tree, and there's carbon dioxide."

The Ethereal Horse puts a lid (lid) when the lit candle is placed in a small pot. After a while I opened the lid and took out the candle, the fire was out.

"Does anyone know why the fire has gone out?

The children answered loudly saying dull things or not knowing.

"This is because the oxygen in the air that was in the kettle is gone. We ran out of oxygen and couldn't burn."

The Ethereal Horse shows the children in the kettle.

"Right now, this pot is full of carbon dioxide stuck with oxygen and carbon. But I don't see it colorless and transparent. But there's a way to find out if there's carbon dioxide."

So the pale horse took out the clear water that crept up from the nearby barrel. When I knelt it and soaked it in the kettle, I put on the lid of the kettle, then held it tight with both hands, and began to descend hard.

"Inside this barrel is water dissolved with baked lime powder. Put this in the kettle and mix well. - Then."

The Ethereal Horse tilted the pot with the lid removed over the wooden barrel.

Then, from the inside, the water, which was transparent, came down white and cloudy. The children cheer as if to see the magic trick.

"Oh! What is this? What principle, kid! Explain, explain!

Though overwhelmed by a loud squeaky voice, the Ethereal Horse explains.

"Eh, the water I put in is called lime water, and I dissolved the grilled lime powder in the water. This is white and cloudy when you inhale carbon dioxide."

The kids said, "Ooh!," he exclaims.

"And people's exhaling breath also contains carbon dioxide"

So he straws the straw out, and the Ethereal Horse breathes into the lime water. Then, moreover, the lime water began to cloud white. Again the children cheered loudly.

"Well, let's all actually do it"

Arrange the small pots and straw that were prepared in advance on the desk and the children arrive to kill to do it first.

"Out of the way, kids! Not from me! Let me do it first!

When you push those kids away and step forward, you take the straw from the pale horse's hand and just breathe it into the lime water.

"Whoa! It's true. It's white and cloudy!

Said the Ethereal Horse to the old man, who was shaking heavily in white, cloudy lime water with his own breath.

"... Hey, Mr. Solon. What are you doing?"

"Isn't that good! That's hilarious. It's also really hilarious to dissolve iron with the hot sulphuric acid the other day and make something that 'suckers'!

Solon shook his white beard for a long time and laughed at his tease.