Hyaku Ma No Aruji

"I'll follow you, too. With the name of the Demon King."

"- Right."

Benarez took Merea's outstretched hand.

Warm.

Before anything else, Benares thought so.

"Then I'll help you as much as I can. The way you want to go, so you can walk."

Merea said with a soft grin.

"Ha, it's okay. The path I want to take must coincide with the path you take."

Benarez looked up at Merea and burned the figure to his eyes.

- I'm sure you won't forget this day.

Now, this is the day I was reborn into this world.

"Merea."

And, as Benarez let go of Merea's hand and tried to gaze at Mira when he woke up, Lilium called Merea's name on the fence.

"My teacher..."

When Merea looks at Lillium, Lillium looks behind the alley.

Merea and Benarez, when they shifted their gaze so that they could follow it, there was an old man figure there.

"Mr. Cairn?

Benarez looked familiar.

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Lord of the Old Library of Blue Roses, which has been decided to be demolished.

He used to teach at the Blue Rose School (Meath Eyes). The old man was known for his bigotry, characterised by gray hair and long beards of the same color.

"Did the Benarez boy stay here too... did he... did he still..."

Old man - When Caion came to the spot with his breath absurd, he seemed to understand everything at once by looking at the situation of the Merea's.

"Mr. Cairn, this place is dangerous. Run away with your students quickly. I'm sure there's still room in the shelter."

"Old-fashioned, short old man's life. For me to go in, you should let in one more student who hasn't escaped yet."

That's what Cairn said and slapped Benarez on the shoulder.

"Besides, I have things to do"

That's how Caeon cut his gaze off from Benarez.

The person who turned around was Merea.

"I see him as the White Demon King who binds the Demon King's Union."

"- I don't know."

It's a new name, Melea said, grinning inside, while nodding to Cairn's words.

"I have something to tell you."

Caeon approached Merea and slowly put his hands on both of those shoulders and said:

"- The Sisalis and the Mooseg kingdom have entered a state of war"

Merea's heart bounced big again.

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"It should also be noted that the Kingdom of Remusse, which tried to enter arbitration, is in a rather difficult situation"

"Stupid......"

Other people are on their way to the Sisalis.

No, I'm just entering the country and gathering information about the Demon King.

"The first battlefield is the sea on the eastern edge of the southern continent. The pirates of the Pirate City broke in with a large army. The aim was to bring Cysalis to his home country, one Demon King."

Melea felt her hair squirm.

"The Demon King was taken by Mooseg."

"- Damn it!

Once she looked up to heaven, Merea threw up so loudly around her.

"In addition, rumors broke out in Virgilia, the city of art, that a black ship was seen approaching in the form of a large bypass through the eastern continent."

"Museg...!

Artistic discipline that cannot be done without considerable military strength and the resources to keep its soldiers.

It's a push that made the name of the mighty nation say something to its overwhelming power.

"Mariza! Call Noel at the Dragon Flute! I'm going to Sisalis right away!

By the time I heard the story, Melea was already unable to stay or not.

"Wait, it's White Demon King."

"What!

It is difficult to stop Melea from doing this.

Where everyone thought so, Cairn stood on its heels blocking Merea's journey.

"Take this"

That's one thick book Cairn gave away.

"Information on previous Demon Kings in the Western Continent is compiled"

Melea opens the book she was forced to hold in her hand.

It also seemed to say something about "The Stone King" there.

From now on, I will send you information on the Western Continent.

"... how do you get there"

Melea and Caion meet for the first time.

Unlike Benarez, I don't know what this old man is like.

"I was once unable to save one Demon King.... No, I abandoned him."

That's how Caeon saw Lilium only for a moment.

"This, at the very least, is the destruction of that sin. The only atonement I can make for being old and short."

……

Melea stares into Caeon's eyes.

And I saw a burning light in its eyes.

"... ok. Then I'll be thankful for this"

"I would appreciate it if you would. And give this to your girl."

In addition, Cayon walked over to Lilium and handed him a fine, finely crafted copper coin.

"It's a tool to keep in touch with my comrades scattered all over the world. If we expose this copper coin to the eyes in a set procedure in a set place, the comrades will surely find it. Read the notes for the exciting usage."

……

Lilium received the copper coins and notes with silence, then looked up at Caion's face.

"Thank you"

"... please, be healthy"

That's all I said, Cairn quickly turned his heel back.

"Benarez. - Benarez Boy"

"Mr. Caeon......"

At the end, go to Benarez, who holds Mira.

Cairn sneezed Benarez's white and green hair, and said.

"Good luck, etc. I'm not saying irresponsible things. Just live with your heart. As I said before, you have 'heroic qualities'. … No, you're already a hero when you don't care about yourself and try to save your students in this riot in Iose."

"What will the teacher do now?"

"I thought I'd live to the point where I could. Atonement doesn't mean living."

Cairn's expression at that time was the grin of one gracious old man, neither bigoted nor anything.

"Okay, you're safe. I wasn't taught anything, but I won't forget the days we spent together in that library. And don't worry about Sally. That golden-haired dog is out with me. - Thank you for staying with me until now."

"I..."

Benarez tried to say something, but Caion controlled it by hand.

And slowly walk away from the scene.

"Dr. Caion!

But one voice stopped the back.

- How are you?

It was Lilium's voice.

"I liked your lecture the most"

"Ha... If there is a God of salvation, don't just pray now"

The old man's back, getting smaller, was somewhere lonely - but somewhere, somewhere, happy as well.

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Thus the western continent was slapped on the shoulder again by a great battle fire.

Each (Heavenly Tower City) contending for hegemony, as well as a group of fortified nations, moves heavily toward the border one incident in Iaus.

This full-blown war trend was rumored by the (Black Country) Museg pulling the thread behind it, but it was long after the truth came out of the world.

And Merea and the others, the Demon King's Union, also take advantage of the incident in Aios.

In later history, this day was sometimes referred to as' the first day leading up to that historic incident '.

The world made a big move.

Or maybe that was the biggest and last - Great War in history - the word "Demon King" wreaks.

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