I Was Caught up in a Hero Summoning, but That World Is at Peace

Under the bright moonlight, sit down alongside Mr. Lilia.

Mr. Lilia looks at the brilliant stars in the night sky for a while and is silent, then slowly opens his mouth.

"Mr. Kite knows I'm a former princess, right?"

"Yes."

"I was in a very delicate position as a princess. Brother...... 18 years apart from the current king, two of the first princes and the first princess of this country are closer in age. I think Luna used to talk about me and my brother being belly-up brothers and sisters"

"... Yep"

"I am the Queen's Son, and my brother is the Side Room Son."

"Huh!?

I'm quite surprised inside by Lilia's words.

The current king is the child of the side room, and Lilia is the son of the queen... I honestly thought the opposite was true.

"I know you can imagine, but I hear my brother rubbed it pretty good when he took office at 25. I was the queen's long-awaited first child who had not been blessed with a child for a long time, and a faction existed claiming that I should be seated on the king. In the end, it seems that I was still a young man and that my brother was to reign."

……

"I wish it was all over, but now I can rub it with my older brother's children about their next inheritance rights."

"... that's, uh, what should I say..."

"Oh, let me tell you that there is no misunderstanding, but we were just standing around, and our relationship itself was good. My older brother adored me like my son, and princes and princesses adore me like my sister."

Having said that, Lilia smiles slightly and then gives a serious look... something to regret the past.

"Perhaps I already know...... today I am not named Sinfonia as a royalty, I am named Alberto. The reason for this is simple… I ran away from an inheritance dispute…"

"... Lilia didn't seem very interested in the throne or anything..."

"There wasn't. But various people expected me to, and I didn't want to betray that, and I've been in a much vague state. That is the biggest failure of my life... if I had made it clear earlier that I would not succeed to a clear throne..."

Lilia bites her lips with regret.

Apparently, that's the most important part of the story.

Mr. Lilia was not interested in the right to inherit the throne. But around...... those who push Mr. Lilia wanted Mr. Lilia to be king.

As a result, Mr. Lilia was involved in an inheritance dispute?

"... Me and Sieg have been together ever since we were meant to be. Ray used to be a court magician at the Royal Palace, and he used to play with Sieg from a very young age."

"Lilia and Sieg are childhood friends, aren't they?"

"Yeah, it's Sieg, too, who taught me the sword. To me, Zeke is like a sister, a master of swords, and an irreplaceable best friend."

So Mr. Lilia stops the words once, turns her gaze to the sky again, and begins to speak on with some distant eye.

"The truth is that the division chief of Division II should have had a Zyk, but he pushed me because he was sure it would be a good experience for my future, and he supported me as deputy chief. Sieg was really always worried about me for helping me and being in a complicated position... and yet I..."

……

"Zeke has advised me that if I'm not interested in succeeding to the throne many times, I should make clear my intentions, but I remain ambiguous and that's the worst that can happen."

"... the worst result, is?

Somehow, I got an imagination.

Mr. Sieg used to belong to the Knights and lost his voice because of the wounds he sustained at that time.

And now about the inheritance dispute that Lilia has told me, and the look on her face that she regrets the past... that is...

"At my invitation, Luna, who was an adventurer, joined the Knights for the second year."

"... Huh? Is Luna a former Knights member, too?

"Yeah, well, it didn't seem like he had anything to do with becoming a knight, and when I got the title and quit the Knights, he quit and followed me."

"Say it sounds like Mr. Lunamaria or what..."

"Yeah, really...... me, Sieg and Luna were always together. It was like Luna made fun of me and I got mad at it and Sieg laughed bitterly at me... and that was the relationship."

Mr. Lunamaria has been like that for a long time, and somehow the sight came to my mind.

Would it feel like you said right and thoughtful best friends to each other, seeing Lilia's face tells me that you really care about both of them.

Ms Lilia opened up again for a little while there and slowly began to cut out the main point of the story.

"… one day, divisions I to III were to work together on what they called a massive outbreak of demons crusade. There are many powerful demons and preparations are overwhelming… based on the information given in advance, each of them deployed in three directions and took control."

……

"We moved to a safety zone that was discovered by a preliminary investigation, and I left the command to Sieg to hold meetings with other divisions with Luna. And that's where we discovered the fact."

"A fact?

"Yes... the information given to my division was' switched objects', and the place my division deployed was' next to the demon's nest '"

"Become!?

I hear and marvel at what Mr. Lilia has said.

That means that Mr. Lilia's division was ambushed by demons where he was alarmed because he thought it was a safe zone.

"As I said earlier, the demons that were the subject of the crusade were quite powerful and numerous, and not something that only one division could handle. Worst of all, it could have even been wiped out... but it didn't."

……

"What Luna and I saw when we rushed back to the formation was... a figure of Sieg sheltering the wounded knights and fighting massive demons all by himself, bloodstained"

"Mr. Sieg..."

"Soon me and Luna joined, and the other divisions moved quickly and the demons were able to crusade. My division is also really fortunate, thanks to Sieg's desperate fight, but not one of the dead came out. However, Zeke… was so badly wounded that he couldn't heal with healing magic that he wandered the border of life and death for days."

I don't know much about the battle, but isn't that how you used your body as a shield to fight the other knights from the demons enough to respond in the three divisions?

It could really be a miracle that the dead didn't show up.

"And after a few days of regaining consciousness, Zeke was... losing his voice because of a deep wound to his throat"

……

"I didn't find anyone who switched prior information after all, but thinking in time, I didn't want him to earn me any more medals now, it was more likely an assault by a prince or part of a princess..."

……

"I'm sorry... because I wasn't clear... because of that... Sieg is..."

How can I tell you? If you listen to me now and Lilia asks me if I'm bad, I don't think Lilia is bad.

But Mr. Lilia, who has a strong sense of responsibility, will not be convinced of that.

I can't think of a word to give back. With me on my ass, Mr. Lilia moves on.

"Sieg didn't blame me. Both Mr. Ray and Mr. Fier, and ourselves more than our daughter forgives, have forgiven me. But I can't forgive myself."

……

"And I got a title on my brother and fled the inheritance feud. My loved ones get hurt any more because I couldn't stand it... and at the same time, I managed to find a way to get Zeke's voice back... but none of the means to find it was realistic"

"Maybe, so, the fruit of the world tree..."

"Yes, the fruits of the world tree are tremendously valuable. Even I, the Duke, have never even seen the real thing..."

Talking that far, Mr. Lilia goes silent without further words.

Cheng Cheng, that's why Lilia changed the color of her eyes when she heard about this winning prize... because that's what Lilia has been looking for, something that can undo the lost Sieg's voice...

"... Lilia"

"Yes?"

"I can't tell you what I cared about... but I don't think Lilia's too bad."

"... thank you"

The conversation did not continue any further, but I felt that Lilia's tingling sensation had eased just a little.

Dear Sir, Mother, Father - I have learned a little bit about Lilia's past. Lilia and Sieg were... childhood friendly.