Proceed to leave the city at the East Gate. Even so, I just read the steka as usual. It's really convenient.

Once that was done, me and Daniela decided to head north first. That was upstream of the river, so it was my suggestion that there might be something interesting.

"I wonder what's upstream of the river"

"This river is huge. Doesn't look much different no matter how far we go..."

The two of us walk and chat. It's been a long time since I've had these leisurely moments. Watching Daniela hang around the stick she picked up appropriately makes me feel nostalgic at the same time I remember doing that when I was in elementary school. The quest I'm doing now is like an adventure, and one person whines in my heart that such a situation would go hand in hand.

Would it be about 30 minutes to walk upstream? I found a tributary. A small thin river leads from the mainstream to the plains. Now I decided to walk along that creek.

Daniela, there's a fish.

"Hmm, you're small. This won't make me hungry."

"Right. Let's make it work until we grow up big."

Oh, my God, as I peeked into the river and talked, an intruder came into the sign sensing area. Look Daniela in the face and pull out your hips sword. Significantly, it's goblin. But the numbers are a little high.

"Maybe more than one herd merged."

"I see. In the direction of coming... that way. You must have come around here for a drink of water."

"Then let's hide behind that rock."

Nodding at Daniela's suggestion, the two of us hide in the rocks and sneak a peek at the other side. From the shadow of the windswept grass, I can see a small but goblin figure. Looks like he's waving the worn sword in his hand as he rattles and cuts the grass.

Soon afterwards, the goblins arrived at the creek. By the creek there are few grasses and the soil is exposed. So now I see the Goblins in full view.

Two goblins with weapons. There are 4 of them asking around. And five smaller ones. Is it a family...... it also looks like parents are giving water to wary kids.

But I can't leave you alone. That's going to hit people any day. I feel a little guilty about picking that bud while I'm at it, but this is another world rule, too. Cruel, but I can't help it. If I resist this, I will no longer be able to live as an adventurer, as a resident of this world.

"Asagi, can we freeze the water in the river?

"Oh, I think we can do some if the water's beside us"

"Then suppress the little guy's movements first. When you can get away with it, you trick me into finding it."

"Okay."

Follow Daniela's instructions and gently flush blue magic into the creek water. Freeze the pacifier and the surface. When it reaches the face of the child Goblin, increase the amount of magic at once and freeze every face. The parent goblins, who notice how Goblin, the child who rambles to pull his face out of the ice in a great panic over the sudden event, come back with something, so slap him where he is with Daniela.

Throw a dagger pulled from behind Daniela running like a wind. I flew straight. That pierces the back of a weapon-held goblin and glides through the ground with the momentum of the throw. Daniela skewered one from behind again with a fine sword where her gaze shifted from the child to that goblin.

Suddenly frozen child goblins. Successive dead parent goblins. Four of the remaining parent goblins who noticed the boulder strike at the weapons and branches that were falling on them. Handle it with Daniela. Hands with swords, poking at empty torso, cutting and rolling feet, and putting swords up against their backs. I finish all the goblins that move around without alarm, and now I look back at the frozen child goblins.

"And then these guys..."

"Right."

Raise your swords in turn on that defenseless back with Daniela. The life of the child Goblin disappeared due to a sword that passed from his back to his belly without any resistance. Though I knew it, it still didn't feel good.

"Look at the face of the rabbit and you'll see what I'm trying to say."

"Sorry... sorry for me"

"That's not true. A life merciful heart is more important than anything else. If you lose it, people are gone."

"But kill it. I don't know what else to do."

"Still. Because choosing between life and evil is what people and demons do."

Will the emotions that make it difficult for me to fight Forest Wolf because I am a person but a member of the Forest Wolf's family lean towards the Goblin side if there is a grant from Goblin after all? I think about that. If I became Rachel's family, would that worry go away?

I must have been a weak creature enough to talk to Daniela about that problem.

"... right. There is also a situation and emotion placed on the rabbit so that I have the emotions that sprout by fighting my fellow countrymen. I find it very difficult to solve that"

"Can I be Rachel's family, for example?

"Because I describe him as a family member, the rabbit refuses. What do you say we think we're allies?

"An ally..."

I realize the word 'family' that Rachel uttered was unexpectedly caught on my head. The moment they said "allies," I felt it was good, too.

"Allies of the Divine Wolf. I think I'm good."

"If you ask me that, I'm not in a bad mood."

There are places where friendship with that Fenrill leads to confidence.

But if it does, will I kill Forest Wolf again without hesitation?

"A grand tour is exactly what this is about."

"Emotions really stink..."

"You know what? The only reason I love you is because you have feelings."

"When they say it, it doesn't make any noise."

"Gu......"

"Why does Daniela make a grunt noise...?

"That's a belly bug. Let's have dinner."

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Take a meal break and then strip away the Goblin crusade proof. I asked Daniela a little before, but I checked again in the file room. The proven site of the goblin is the "left ear," which packs 11 left ears into a leather bag removed from a vain bag. When I put it in a vain bag and re-carried it and turned to Daniela, Daniela was there looking in the direction of the day after tomorrow. What the fuck are you doing?

"Do you see anything?

Standing next to each other, place your right hand over your eyes and limit the amount of sunlight to look in Daniela's direction of view. but I'm not sure.

"No, I was thinking about life like a rabbit, too"

"Really?

"Oh... I was taken from my family by demons. So I had nothing in particular to think about taking the demon's life. Ning Ro, I even had a hatred."

"I guess so..."

"I guess that has faded somewhat by living long...... killing demons was part of my life. Is it a means of living, or should I say part of life, everyday? More and more, the value of demonic life has declined and diminished"

Daniela keeps staring at the distance.

"But yesterday, I was surprised to see Rachel. You look like a human being, you use human language, you had the same emotions as a human being, and that's what you say is formerly a demon. I've lived a long time, but I've never seen such demons. That's human."

"Sure, Rachel's human. But Daniela, that's an extremely special case. His soul is the same world as mine, a soul that has been reincarnated from the same country. Even if the body is a demon, the contents are human."

"I guess so...... if you don't have a human soul, a demon won't be able to be a person, etc. You wouldn't even want to be."

I was stabbed by a robber and flown to this world in the abyss of his death, in a critical place.

What if he was dead and reincarnated as a goblin?

Demons are still good. What if it's a bug or a tree?

What the hell happened to me?

"Neither did I think anything of seeing Beowulf or Arthur. I met the abnormal evolutionary individuals of Forest Wolf, the abnormal evolutionary individuals of Oak, and the demons that just couldn't explain it. At the same time, I wondered what demons were."

"So...?

Daniela gazes at me from afar.

"Same life, I thought so"

Stay out of sight and watch the goblins roll behind us.

"People and demons are the same lives, the same creatures. Demons are also worth their lives, just as people value their lives. There is no life to take unilaterally. But some lives I had to take, I thought so."

"There are good guys everywhere and bad guys everywhere, even in the same person."

"Oh yeah...... What I thought and felt didn't change what I would do. I just think I saw that for a clear reason."

Daniela said with a neat face that something like an explanatory reason had been done so far.

Why I shouldn't kill you. Why I have to kill you.

Ethics, moral reasons, they don't change from person to place to situation. It's the same thing when killing is justice during a war.

Then in this world?

If the world changes, so does ethics and moral reasons. Demonic life is lower than human life, and the weight of human life is different from modern Japan, which is light here.

But that's why life is still worth it. Nor can it be taken lightly. But even my life is a life that will be taken lightly.

Then how do you live?

I had no choice but to take it. Before your life is taken, take it. Before someone's life is taken, take it.

In the end, it's a world where you have to pay for the firepowder that comes down on you, but I didn't think it was a bad thing to be careful not to let the firepowder you paid ignite someone.

I also felt that the reason for killing demons was sprouting. Instead of killing it without darkness, we make an intermission to contain later damage... I also thought that would be a way of life in the other world.