Hyaku Ma No Aruji

"Chau-Jules Sherwood", who had broken up with one of the Mereas and acted differently, was waiting for someone on the cafe terrace near Rave-Opera.

Pinch a ceramic cup in one hand, bring it to your mouth from time to time and pour in the clear red brown liquid inside.

The other hand was on a small round table in front of him, holding onto some thin vegetable paper that was spreading over it.

"- Hmm, that's not good."

I couldn't tell if that was an assessment of tea in the cup or referring to what was painted on the plant paper on the desk.

Then a while later, one man comes to Shaw.

- It's over, Kim's dead.

The man is a clown. - It was Caesar.

"Really?"

Caesar stood in front of Shaw with a hard look on his face. Behind the cafe terrace with no guests other than the two of them, and a tired seating position. A slightly different situation remains, but no one is suspicious of it.

Shaw did not shake as if he had been spoken by Caesar, and poured another bite of the tea in the cup into his stomach. The gaze still remains pointed at the vegetable paper on the desk, not even a glance at Caesar.

Then Shaw pointed to the other chair in front of him with his jaw as Qui,

"Go ahead."

I urged Caesar to sit down.

"... I can't believe I'm sitting here talking to you..."

To Shaw's urging, Caesar looked blurry and uncomfortable,

"Sit down."

I sat down following Shaw's cliché.

Stand one elbow on the round table and stick your cheeks.

"So?"

Shaw finally asks with the white magnetic cup on his desk, finally pointing his gaze at Caesar.

"It's my win. I made a promise to you."

Caesar shrugged his shoulders and said.

Then continue further.

"Kimi's eyes were 'Savings Hole'. He wasn't quite as good as you are. Indeed, he is not like a normal human being. You must be someone who can do something big.... but still can't beat the biggest wave. He had no choice but to drown in the very large waves created by what is now called the 'State'. This is the result."

- Hmm.

Shaw nodded so small.

"So, 'you can't leave her to the kids'. If you were tough enough to protect her from those things, you could have secretly given her to me. I want her to live better."

"Ha ha, Caesar, you are too serious for a human being. I know you're waving more into that impulse than you can handle, but it's the same."

- Shut up.

"Because you were the one who always picked up the abandoned dog on a rainy day"

"Don't bring up old stories. It's not what it used to be."

"No, it's the same now and in the past. - We're the same."

Shaw laughs small and reaches for the cup of tea again.

But Caesar took it first with his hand and kept it away from Shaw.

"Don't afford it that way. You have always been. Even then... when you run out of homeland, you don't cry one tear -"

"My clan perished to perish. My country died trying to die, too. So I didn't have to be more upset than I had to be. That's all."

Unexpectedly, there is a sharp light in Shaw's eyes that draws a line from the past.

A hard look that I don't usually show.

But there, rather, there didn't seem to be much emotion on it either.

And soon, that look disappears.

A look that contained the usual casual plagiarism returned to Shaw's face.

"Where are you crying? That's how you always have a demonic grin."

"Anywhere. Or maybe it's a little easier to cry in this place right now. Maybe he'll be okay if I lean over."

"No, he also fell into Juliana's 'eyes' again"

"- So were you still the type of demonic eye that senses the spirit"

"... yes, I am"

When Shaw said slightly round his eyes, Caesar told him to keep an eye on it.

"Oh, you assured me"

"I've already revealed it to you, and it doesn't seem to interfere."

"I see."

"This also crushed your wish. You should put it back out. You're the only one who can still get away with it."

Caesar says with a strange face on his face again.

The opposing chau

"Ha."

I laughed at that with my nose.

There was still a faint grin on his face.

"I run away? There is no such choice on this occasion. I'm a golden deceased, but even I have some 'will' for that. I, to my surprise myself, have thought that I can live and only give my life to someone once. It was triggered by a very recent incident."

……

Caesar returned a suspicious look to Shaw, who abruptly began such a story.

"Well, listen. - The man did something I couldn't do."

"What? If you can't put money in it, I think it's going to be pretty limited."

"It's easy."

Shaw cut the words with a grin and took a breath like a lot, then said.

"I almost overwhelmed the Mooseg kingdom with one of them."

"- This is ridiculous. Impossible."

Caesar threw his hands out.

But Shaw goes on.

"Besides, there was Celias-Blood-Mouseg on the spot."

"Oh, that genius child of rumors. It's also odd to say that you're a spouse of your time. Even though times are created by people, they just say that it's like God loves them. The people do not understand that it is they who are spoiling him"

"But the more I could describe, the more talented I was."

"... it's like you've actually seen that fight."

"I saw it, didn't I? Honestly, you don't want me to stand in front of you either. Well, as much as I have just given my life to someone, I have some thoughts about you."

"... hey, stop saying that a lot and tell me. I can't catch up with you earlier."

"It's silly, isn't it so easy to understand? You know that too, right? Rumor has it that Mooseg 'retreated' some time ago near Lemuse."

"... no way"

Caesar finally closed his eyes there. He seemed to have found something.

"Do you really believe that that was caused only by the tedious military power of Lemuse and the forces of the three countries that barely made it?

Shaw continued with his hands thrown out to emulate Caesar before him by raising some hands.

"- That's impossible. That battle wasn't like they could do it properly and win. Mooseg even had a red scaled adult dragon."

"Indeed... I heard rumors that there was a creepy ground dragon body that broke in two..."

"I did that. It's him."

"... what?

Caesar opened his mouth wide and tilted his neck.

"So it was that 'white-haired guy' who did it. Besides, he was alone in the war nearly half an hour before the Three Kingdoms came to reinforce him."

"Are you joking?

"I joke in places like this, it's not very sexual."

"Unbelievable."

"Well, I know it will, too, while I say this. But it's true. It would be helpful if you thought carefully about the meaning of the phrase" I thought I could keep my life. "

"Assuming you can do that, he's not human anymore. A monster."

"You wouldn't be wrong, though. On the battlefield he was called 'Demon God' by Mooseg"

"Oh, that word is easier to understand. Though the god may not be enough. - I'm serious."

"I mean it."

Shaw replied with a serious face to Caesar, who asked him to stab him at the end.

So, there was just a few moments.

Sin, and the silence begins to air.

Then, less than a few seconds later, a certain change visited the two of them.

From the other side of the cafe, I hear voices.

Then the footsteps approach.

It approached the two of us early enough to finally show who they were.

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"Hey, is Caesar with you?... so I guess you'll give me a proper explanation? The Golden Victim."

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[Fist Emperor] Salman.

The figure of a young man rocking his saggy sandy hair was there.

- That's a lie.

I don't care if you're lying.

Turning and looking back at Salman, Caesar stopped looking and moving in dismay.

The opposing Salman raises a single eyebrow and spills the words "what are you talking about, this guy".

"Hey, it was a disaster, Sal-kun"

"Hey, you did something back there."

And when he saw Shaw raising one hand with a full grin, Salman stopped by Shaw after a loud sigh.

And keep your face close to Shaw.

I was grabbing the chest barn of the clothes.

Shaw laughs a little troubled in the wake of Salman's slightly angry act.

"Yeah, yeah, well - just a little bit?

Shaw remained in that state, bending his thumb and index finger to show him the trick of "hey".

"... ha.... when? On the first night, just the night you came to the City of Arts, you talked to Caesar and came up with some information and a way to get closer to the corresponding Queen of Enchantment. So, you hit me with a quick hand that day. I was in the vicinity, so I wouldn't find out, too good a hand."

After Salman took it and sighed loudly, he quickly wrecked his words like he was good at it.

And again, with a sharp gaze, he shot Shaw in the eye, and said:

"Come on."

Shaw had already noticed the meaning of the word and what would happen next.

So, just slowly, Shaw also nodded with a serious face that he wouldn't normally show again.

Salman, who saw it, finally opens his mouth.

"... were you thinking about when you failed?

"- Yeah."

"Is there a reason you didn't dare tell us what to do this time?

"Yes."

"By not daring to say that, we feel guilty about putting the Twins and Eyes at risk, anyway."

- Yes, sir.

"But you thought you needed this to help the Demon King."

"Yes."

"Have you informed Melea, by the way?

"Not all, but to such an extent as to suggest a possibility. If you decided that there was no chance at all that Merea would just get over this one, I would not have taken this method. - But"

Shaw said with a true face.

"If you have to hold your hand to this extent, there is no 'possibility' in the future Merea in the first place. What Melea is trying to do is get stuck in a dream story. I have trouble getting people to stay to this extent in order to really try to accomplish that. -" The world is wide and times are spicy ""

……

Salman still looked straight at Shaw, who said so without shaking one expression.

It was like looking for an unspoken answer in Shaw's expression, such a trick.

Then Salman eventually opened his mouth.

A voice with a shiver and heavy sound from its mouth is emitted.

"- Then if Melea fails"

To the words, Shaw was answering without getting her hair in between.

No hesitation whatsoever, it was the answer.

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"I will die, too"

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……

"That is the consideration I impose on my own way. I am this kind of person, so if I think it's a good idea, I will use a means like this one without hesitation. - Do something back there. Yeah, if you need that, I'll do it. If you need to fool your allies first to fool your enemies, you will do that too. But that's not why I'm not ready there. To me..."

Say.

"- There is an insistence that he is only a member of the Union of Demon Kings (Meer-Nesaiah)"

It's

"When I reached Lemuse after that escape, the 'thoughts' in me were just getting there. I wasn't as stuffed with chopped wings as you guys. I have money. The ground called the Sherwood Chamber of Commerce was also still there. But still, as I headed to Lemuse about that guy named Melea and watched that stupid guy nearby along the way, I unexpectedly wished. I wish."

Said Shaw.

"He wants to see the moment when that man completes that desire,"

So,

"I made a decision when a man named Melea accomplished that unscrupulous escape with his power and will"

Shaw laughed at the end.

"This man is' as good as gold ', he said, a man worthy of dedication"

At the end of the day, Shaw shut his mouth.

I said what I wanted to say, and that was how I kept saying it.

Salman stared at Shaw's chest barn as he grabbed it.

And...

"... ha. - You're difficult, too," Shaw. "

Salman sighed loudly, calling Shaw's name, releasing the chest barn that was grasping him in the hand.

And with his face in trouble,

"You're too weird. Oh, no, I can't talk about people, either."

Salman is holding his forehead with one hand and sighing again as he points at Shaw with the other.

"Nothing, I didn't even sincerely doubt you. I was also thinking somewhere in my head that I needed a role like this. Melea will undoubtedly be the strongest of us, but that strength of will depends on letting us look straight ahead. Just to push forward, even, the path you seek. - So, if possible, we need to avoid the obstacle at the end of his path."

"Right."

"Not only does it make you correct when the direction you're going is bent, but it's also something we have to do to try to rely on Merea's help to make it easier to follow. You're probably better suited for sex."

"Could be"

Shaw laughed uncontrollably.

Really rare to see, it was an innocent grin like Shaw's child.

Salman sees it and sighs again.

"Ha...... But, well, you know, you need to stab a nail like that this way over here. Maybe this is how we need to balance each."

"I know. So I answered your question, as it were done. - It's always a tough role to play at a loss."

"Ha, which mouth says"

Salman laughs at Shaw's words with his nose.

On its face, however, was a slightly more enjoyable grin.

"- All right, let's get this situation sorted out very quickly. Merea and the others are after the Sisalis now. I was flown to your watch. Melea was worried that something was going on over here."

"Damn, I'm going to drown in there because I'm too nostalgic"

"Stop it, stop it, it's a disgusting expression when you say man"

"Wow, wow."

That's how Salman brought a rough, near-field chair and lowered his hips between Shaw and Caesar.

"Um..."

So Caesar finally raises his voice.

He seemed to peel off the makeup of the clown and gazed at Salman and Shaw.