◇ [Selas Ashlein] ◇
When the night gets deeper...
Selas Ashlein lowered his hips on the edge of the bedroom and prayed.
(Princess, good luck...)
Squeezing is a necklace handed to me by Princess Cattleya on the day of her breakup.
Toka, who had already been lying down, called out to Sellas' hindsight.
"After all, are you worried?
"Yeah. If you say you're not worried, you're lying."
A bitter cellus.
"But the princess also has the Holy Knights. They will protect the princess."
"You trust me."
"The princess has her way - I have mine. Now we just believe in each other's paths and move on."
"... you've broken up, haven't you?
"Yes, at that time, if we hadn't exchanged words of goodbye with each other... we might not have been able to stay so calm"
Cellas stood up completely and headed towards the door.
"Excuse me, go wash your hands"
"Either way, you don't have to say no"
"Hehe, you did"
Leaving a bitter smile, Sellas left the room.
▽
Cellas stopped a little down the hall, softly, doing his hand to his chest.
"- - Huh."
(Princess, Sama...... ugh)
The intense feeling of being tightened was swirling inside his chest.
Yes... there was no such thing as a calm mind.
That hand on his chest holds the necklace handed to him by Cattleya that day.
We're done breaking up.
That's what I told Toka.
but the Bakuos soldier - and that Pendragon man was imminent.
There can't be time to spare a long goodbye.
(That day...)
I interacted with Cattleya trying to let myself escape, the last word.
'If the days I've had and even their memories are irreplaceable, isn't that enough? Good afternoon, then.'
He said he was the one who stayed in the dead.
With such a grand smile, she said that to Cellas.
But if you're a cellus...
(As I thought, I couldn't say goodbye...)
…………
Participation of the Nair army led by Cattleya himself.
When I heard that from Erica's mouth, I was deeply upset inside.
The extent to which the enlistment is required can be said to be within the expected range.
but I didn't know it was going to be a fight to get the country back......
I didn't expect it.
Surely there must be no chance of winning.
Cellas' Cattleya review shouldn't be wrong.
However, only half (...) minutes (...) of Cattleya reviews were communicated by Sellas.
(That one also has the audacity to go to a bet he thought out when he said, "This is the only place”. Not to mention the princess...... if you find it necessary, you don't even hate to throw yourself on the bet......)
Will Katrea be safe after this battle?
Retrieving Nair from the hands of Bakuos......
Yes - this battle is also a one-of-a-kind opportunity for Nair.
(Conversely, if I miss this opportunity, I don't know when such an opportunity will come next...)
If only here, didn't Cattleya think so?
Katrea and I have grown up together like real sisters.
Is that why......
I felt like I knew what she was thinking, what she was determined to do, to take it.
(But I can't get along. So please...... please, be safe......)
Now I am a knight who gave his sword to Toka Mimoli......
He is entrusted with the vice president of the Fly King no Battles.
I do my job.
(Yes...)
We must also avoid getting caught up in the Toka.
He's amazingly smart.
(So -)
In the future, we need to be more attentive and conceal ourselves.
Not to let him take unwanted care of you.
I made a vow - to give myself this.
This body must be used by him to fulfill his purpose.
This confusion, too,
This sense of impatience is also
This, too, feelings.
It's all in the back of your chest.
(... I lost my emotions, even though I made a mistake once)
but only then.
(Yes, my feelings, etc... you just have to tell them when Lord Toka's journey is over. Until then, still as a loyal knight of his...... as a sword -)
Kill yourself.
That's what I mean when I serve.
It must not become a trap (crumple) for his purpose.
Well, at least until he gets his revenge on the goddess.
…………
(Goddess......)
Is the story of Nair independence something that was held up from the goddess side?
(Assuming the goddess flirted with the princess... if something happened to the princess as a result -)
I'm sure for the rest of my life, I won't be able to forgive the goddess.
Once again, Sellas offered a deep prayer.
…………
If each other was fortunate enough to be safe when Toka achieved her purpose...
(At that time -)
To see you, let's go.
To the Princess.
And when he vowed so to his breasts, he was even stronger, and Selas clenched his neckline.
"Cellas."
(Huh...?
My heart jumped.
Soon, a little further behind me,
"... Toka, my lord?
Toka was standing.
"How was it done?
I was wondering how you were.
…………
Sellas calmed her mind.
In my head, I assemble the words.
"How am I doing, sir? I did listen to Nair, and I just got a little upset. But..."
Slowly, I wear the necklace I was holding on my chest.
"It's okay now."
endeavor and serenity, Sellas said.
"Whatever the outcome of this battle, the princess will surely bring Nair back into its hands one day. Besides... I thought you said that, right? Now I am your knight - this body is already, once dead. I will not look back on the past any longer. Now... this power of mine is for you alone"
"Just for me, or - is that true?
I've been spotted lying.
Sellas noticed that.
- Doc, um...
"Also...... sorry, no. Exactly, the story of the Nair Holy Country that once gave itself away...... I admit that my emotions have been dragged down in the past a little bit. But don't worry... I..."
"Come on, man."
"Uh... Toka, my lord...?
Toka approaching, I could tell by the distance of the footsteps.
I can see you remember the frustration.
There are no lies in his words.
Toka was seriously annoyed.
It was also the first emotion directed from him to Sellas.
- My heart beats faster.
Toka's right behind you, stopping.
"So..."
Cerus closed his eyes.
".................. ugh"
"What are you crying about, you?"
"..., - eh?
Now Sellas has noticed.
If you look at the floor with seeping vision, a lot of water droplets are falling......
Since when?
When did I ever get so...
Were you crying?
The voice should not have trembled......
The tremor must have turned it off.
At that time,
Pom.
Toka's hand was placed on Selas' head.
"-"
"I'm sorry... it's not your exclusive patent to see through the lies"
"Toka, my lord...?
"Hey, Cellas."
"Yes -"
With a trembling voice, respond to the gavel.
"You're weird, after all."
"Huh?"
"The experience that pissed people off with feelings like earlier was that I wasn't even with my aunt"
(Aunt, ma'am...?
"I've never felt this way... honestly, it was the first time I was born"
I'm telling you it was frustrating.
From Toka's voice, the frustration had already disappeared completely.
Instead, the voice had kindness.
And some confusion.
He himself felt surprised by his emotions.
"So long, Cellas."
"Yes..."
"Come on - you say about one of your selfishness"
"-,... Huh?
"Maybe you're talking about listening to me say anything just once... you completely forgot"
"Oh, um... Lord Toka? Now, what..."
"You... you really want to go help, don't you? To help the princess... but you don't say you want to go help. No... you can't tell me, can you?
"- Huh"
No, I can't.
This is no good.
"Yes, what... I 'm-"
"At dinner, I told you not to point it out because there was Erica or something... but you'll find out"
"Uh-huh."
"I can afford to see how important” princess ”is to Cellas. You say I look different when I talk about my uncles..."
Toca said somewhere, trying to overlap herself.
"When we talk about the princess... do you know what you look like?
"Mine, face......?
"If the princess who makes you look like that is going to go to battlefield where she doesn't even know if she's going to survive with those conditions... don't upset her feelings, it's impossible."
"Oh, that's..."
"I appreciate you serving with all kinds of emotions in mind, knowing strongly that you are my sword. But holding back even emotions directed at people you really care about... you're not."
Sneezing his face, Cellas manages to spin the word.
Somehow, I try to hold it back.
"- Lord Toka, I'm with the princess... and I've done my goodbye..."
"You're not."
"Huh?"
"If you're really getting a convincing breakup, you have to look neater. Ma... Cellas is still acting."
Eat your teeth off.
At least - I can whimper, trying to stop just tears.
Doubts abound, I can't stop.
How did you...
Why, this guy.
So much for yourself,
You look at me, I guess I am.
"I know very well the spiciness of not being able to break up convincingly."
A convincing goodbye.
Sellas took a breath.
- Oh, well.
That (...) Ugh (...) (...).
”Valued people" for him.
He has not yet completed a satisfactory farewell with them.
"If you want to exhaust this as my” sword, "as I swear... that's fine. But... it's not too late to say goodbye to the princess in a proper and convincing way."
"But..."
"I heard Allecore from Erica after the meal. I hear Princess Cattleya's integrated Confederate army hasn't entered a full-scale battle yet."
"Initially, they were moving evenly... I'm talking about the army of the Great Demon Emperor, who is now invading south, is still at a time-consuming distance before the main forces collide with each other compared to the rest of the east and west armies. Besides... I heard there were a lot of mercenaries in this fight. Then you can use your hands to get into the Confederate Army, trapped in mercenaries."
"Lord Toka... really, to...? Really, to the battlefield to fight against the army of the Great Demon Emperor... - No, but... here, deep in the Demon Belt..."
"We went into the demon belt and we broke through the demons here and we got here, didn't we? If so..."
Toka is behind it now.
In the back of Sellas' brain, that fierce smile of his was clearly floating.
He said, "You have to get out of here. It's crazy."
"I... of......"
"Let me get this straight, Cellas. You..."
Toka rested her hand on Selas' shoulder.
"I'm good at seeing through lies... but I'm bad at lying"
"I, am..."
"You cannot (...) kill yourself (...) enough to fool yourself"
Hung, and Toka snorted.
"You lost when you thought you could hide it from me."
――――――――
I felt like I could take what I was holding onto - running through Cellus's body.
... it doesn't seem to make sense to hide it anymore.
I don't think I can hide anything in front of him right now.
Probably as my mind goes, I'll answer anything.
"You want to help the princess. And at the very least, I want to say a proper goodbye. That's... that's what you want?
Overflowing with a whimper, a tear of tears.
Wipe it desperately with your left and right palms.
But - that amount, on the other hand, increases.
Wipe it, wipe it.
With violently shaking emotions, it became more and more overflowing.
"Yes... yes, Lord Toka... uh-"
I felt a little strength in my shoulder-placed hand.
"That's fine."
Toka takes her hand off Cellas' shoulder.
"Let's go."
He passed beside Sellas.
And when I got out in front of Sellas - he said over his back.
"It's (...) Quasi (...) Ready (...) of War (...)"
Cellas responded to his back with a thorough grin as he continued to shed tears that no longer forgot how to stop him.
"Yes - Yes, Lord Toka..."
"To be (...), to be (...)"
Toka put his neck around it.
But he did not look back towards Sellas, and his dark eyes, deep in the cave, were directed against the sidewalls.
"It would be..."
Those pitch-black eyes that drained his warmth - looked somewhere far away, not here, unconsciously.
"To the (...) machine (...) meeting (...) of Ko (...) (...) (...), crushed (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...)"