About fifteen years ago.

If you try to remember the old days when you were like everyone else, you will remember the loneliness first.

I remember the family that I was supposed to be with, not the smile that was supposed to be warm, but the ugly death of being part of the Nitrix.

So it's just a strange story to try to remember.I've told myself many times that it's a clever way of living to forget.

Still, I guess it's a mistake to try to remember when it's nothing.

"--Kola, Dokora! Are you listening to me!?"

Ahn?

The loudness of Hayde, made from alcohol, brought me back to a relatively uncomfortable reality.It seems that what I did was a little drowsy from the dusk mood from the drunkenness.

I've been drinking since dusk, so I'm in good shape.

"Oh no, this is it, Shisei-sama."You can't listen to people like me who have a straight down life? "

“I'm sorry, I didn't mean to ask, but I fell asleep.”

"Where is that bad!?"

Well, of course I don't want to hear it, but it's my fault to fall asleep and not hear it.

Hayde is a bad alcoholic, but he has a surprisingly interesting story to tell when he starts drinking, and he doesn't get bored.I'm a problematic person in the dark, but I'm a second-rate sake seating figurine.

"If you follow your own tricks, you'll admit that you didn't do it sooner."

"I don't have anyone close to me. If the refugees were to survive, I would have to take care of myself."

My hometown, Spine, was destroyed by the Undead, born of necromancy.As a guard apprentice, I felt helpless and arrived at Megis as a refugee.

In order to survive, we need to find a way to work.I learned everything I could, and I was able to enlist in the dark side of the Megis, using my country's lost status the other way around.

"Oh, oh, that's fine."Isn't that the trick? "

"No. The trick is to keep your feelings to yourself."You're too excited about the fight, Haydée. "

"It's a condition of the darkness that you can kill people without hesitation."

It's harder to kill people than it is to be raised by people.So if you can kill your emotions or you're not the kind of guy who enjoys killing, then I won't do this job.

I don't think we can rely on important information to kill people because it's fun.

"- Well, it must be. If someone tries to use the dark side just to kill me, will I be in my life too?"

Then you'll be able to use people like me on your jaws.

"That's a dream story!"That said, considering the next candidate for archbishop.... "

Dreams are coming to an end.

For now, there are only two people, Eupalo = Rosaleo and Serraes = Justo.They are both orderly types, and I don't think they will use anyone who enjoys murder like Hayde.

Well, Serraes felt a bit of darkness.If it's a tool for removing obstacles, Haydn may still have a way to succeed... but I don't think it fits my personality, so Haydn won't go down there.

"Then it's not bad to go under a beauty, is it?"Look, Maria from [Exterminate All] or Philia from [Meteor Fist]!Isn't that possible? "

"You idiot. Even if these heroes are born, they don't have the darkness we have."

"Shit."

"Besides, Philia is already married and has children." Let's be on the rise route. "

”Seriously... I was secretly admiring you...”

"I'm glad you stayed secret."They say they're fighting a Knight of the Turys. "

As her partner, Philia, moved to Taiz, Maria left the front line and moved to a branch in Taiz.Therefore, being the next pope or archbishop in the vicinity of Mejis is definitely a bastard.

You're familiar with the dark side, aren't you?

"Did you just find out?"

Actually, I'm just a little sorry for that.Maria, the "Exterminator", is the benefactor who defeated my hometown, the Necromancer who destroyed Spine five years ago.I had the feeling that I would have been better off under her if I had served her.

”Hah... I don't think I'll find anything to live for other than enjoying my mission if I work under a man like you”

"You're not going to die like this, are you?"

"Maybe. But it would be a good way for me to die."Well, I'll let you live longer than you do. "

If I'm going to die before this guy, how much of my future will fall on the road?

"I've properly contributed to the cause of my country, so I'm going to live longer than you."

"I don't know. A guy like you suddenly fucks up?"

"I'm done for when you tell me."

Then he threw the drunken Hade into the alleyway and headed home.

You can cry for entertainment, which is one of the few places where people drink alcohol.But it's also pathetic to have someone who seems to be better than me.

”... actually, it's better than that”

I lost everything and was at a loss.That's why I'm drinking while making fun of fools.It's not a very good life.I need to do my best to contribute to this country.

I laughed at the unusual loyalty with my nose, and when I walked in a comfortable mood, I felt the flow of magic power with a hint of wind.

Do you use magic in places and times like this?

Wake up intoxicated before anything unusual happens, and check your current equipment.Since the Spine incident, intelligence activity in each of the major powers has intensified.Some came from the deteriorating slope of the relationship, while others came from the evil side of other countries, saying that the Mejis had some kind of information from the story that they had defeated the necromancer.There's no reason why these people use Wazzzpinator magic.

"I should have drunk more alcohol..."

I've also been instructed by the upper echelons to capture a detective with the intention of killing him.It's best to catch them, but I'd rather use the body as evidence than let them escape.

Reconfirm the surrounding terrain, and there is an orphanage nearby.It would be troublesome if you ran away in your direction and took the orphan hostage.We're dying here in one breath.

"... what the hell is that?"

Where there was a magical reaction, it was a material storage yard that was not currently in use.And the girl who was about ten years old was the one who peeked ahead.

Looking at your loose clothes, you must be a kid from an orphanage nearby.The personality is too dark for me to play alone during the time of day.

After a while of observation, it seemed that the girl was practicing magic.Gather magic power slowly, build it slowly, and activate it.

It was a small light that emerged.That's what the instructor will show you when he teaches you the first steps of magic.

It was as if there was an amateur there, and he was politely activating his magic.Repeatedly, lights of exactly the same size are lit again and again.

"- What kind of play is that?"

"Waaaaaa!?"

I noticed that I was approaching the girl behind me, and I called out to her.I made a diagonal scream, and used my detection magic around me just in case.... looks like it's going to be okay.

"I'm sorry. I'm surprised."

"Eh, eh, um... where's Uncle?"

"Oniisan, oniisan. Ah... don't worry, I'm a Yogurt."

The orphanage is run by the Yogurt.And as an organization, I'm part of the Yogurt faction.You don't have to be scared, you don't have to lie, you don't have to answer.

"Are you a Yogurt?But how come you don't have friends in such a lonely place? "

"Yes, I just dumped it in the alley."

"Cool!?"

"Is it a magic exercise?" Although it was quite preliminary to that. "

"... is that so? I'm practicing the magic I saw when I was being taught by oneesan and oniisan at the orphanage before...."

I see. If you're around ten years old with little stable magic, you won't be trained in magic.Sometimes people who mediate with the orphanage a little bit older teach simple magic in order to investigate the appropriateness of magic... but you've seen and learned it from a distance.

"Mon, you could've done that a little bit."If you're going to do it... no, at your age, you can't even teach me proper magic. "

"... yes"

"I don't know how to do that."The use of magic that uses a lot of magic power, such as complex construction, is quite a burden on the body.If you're going to do it in that year, your magic balance will soon break down and you'll never be able to use magic again. "

"... yes"

Even at his age, there were quite a few people who were practicing magic.But that's only if there's an adult around who can properly watch it grow.

If a child growing up in an orphanage forcibly tries to train in order to become stronger, his or her magic balance will break down, and he or she will often have bad results instead.

That's why the age for teaching magic and strengthening magic is well established in orphanages.The girl must have gotten that explanation, too.

Why are you practicing magic so much?

"I think I can do it like this..."

Scratch your head. It's just like you saw it.This girl has some clumsy impression.Somewhere it looks sloppy, and there's no such thing as an atmosphere of excellence.As far as I can see, I'm sure that my life will be over soon.

At this age, I am aware that I am inferior to my surroundings.I've accepted such a cruel fact.Do I still deserve to stop doing this?

"... haha. You'll be fine at this scale, won't you?"

Slowly build up magic power and cut the barrier magic into weeds that were growing a little further away.A girl with rounded eyes looks at a cut grass.

"Wow..."

"It's an application of barrier magic." The barrier magic was adjustable in thickness, and as long as it was activated, it unfolded faster.If you expand it thinly and quickly, it will become a fine blade. "

"But it's quite sharp, isn't it?"If you cut it with a stone, it will still cut cleanly. "

"Shut up, I'm throwing, kid"

”Piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

I wasn't concentrating on anything, so I was fighting with dark weapons as the mainstay.

If you're a skilled cleric, you probably have the cutting power of a real blade, but if you try so hard, you'll have to train a knife.

"This isn't a real-life technique."It's one of the magic exercises that improves the accuracy of magic building and activation by expanding thinner and faster.It's a little more connected to the future than the magic practice I've been practicing. "

The barrier magic is simple, but deep.The Knights of Turys unfolded a clothing-like barrier around their bodies, and the Mejis clergy unfolded as a wall that blocked the claws and fangs of the demons.

For those who were immature in their magic training, I could train them thoroughly in barrier magic.This should be enough to get the kid to do it.

……

"Try it, or do you want to see it again?"

No, no, I'll try!

The girl took a big inhale and began to build her magic.It would be nice to expand the barrier and have some grass swaying, but...

No, no, no, no.

"Ehhh..."

The girl had no difficulty in releasing her barrier magic and mowing the grass.Its accuracy and sharpness are almost identical to what I released."No, not that it makes no difference..."

It's done!

"... hey kid, try releasing your current magic faster and thinner"

"Hah, hahihi..."

The barrier magic that was unleashed then cut the grass faster and sharper.It's not far from my magic-enhanced knife, but it's a few steps sharper than the blades that kids handle.

I still have a lot of understanding of magic, but I have a lot of concentration when building.How the hell did you concentrate so far...?

"... hey, kid"

"It's done! It's cut cleaner than my uncle!"

"Hmm."

"Piiiiii!?"

In the meantime, she threw the girl into the grass and checked her surroundings.All the footprints around us belong to this kid.However, I noticed that there was not a single weed growing on the road that people walked by.

It's not strange that weeds originally grow in the material storage area, where no one uses them.

But since this girl goes through it over and over again, it's beautifully evened out like the way it goes.Wherever he looked, traces of other people were filled with traces of this girl's footprints.

Not for a week or two.For many months, if you weren't good enough, you would have practiced magic in this place for the first time in a year.

An unpleasant sweat ran down my spine.If this girl had been a little smarter and tried to learn any other magic, she would definitely have lost the balance of her magic power and died.

”... it's a sin to abandon this.”

Moving to the grassy area, she pulled up the girl who was turning her eyes.Then he stood up sharply and slapped his cheek lightly to wake him up.

"Ha...!?"

"Hey, kid, you got qualities."When you leave the orphanage, aim for the clergy. "

"Priests...?"

That's right. To be honest, you stink, and you'll probably remain incompetent until you step on it a lot.

"Cool!?"

"But that quality is real."If you don't forget the training I taught you today, there will always be people who will realize its qualities.I don't increase my magic power, I only polish my accuracy, and then I can become a fine priest. "

I have a magical talent, but I can't take care of it because I don't have any magical talent in the dark.Still, if anyone in the clergy could feel this feeling I just felt on my skin, his talent would surely shoot.

"... can I get paid if I become a priest?"

"Ohh!"

Can you eat a full meal?

"Ohh!"

"Can I use someone like my uncle on my chin?"

Shimekora no Shimekora

”Piiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!?”

Dangerous, I've got my neck tucked in with a conversation with Hayd.I felt like I was in a difficult situation with this guy, but he's still alive.

"Well, if it's great, there's a possibility."But that's what a great guy has to do with it.Are you responsible for shaping the future of many people? "

"I don't want to carry that kind of thing on my back."

"Damn, you're trying to live for yourself so much that you're annoyed."But I like it. What's your name? "

"...... Rakura"

"I see, Lakra. You'll be a good woman."I'll see you when I'm a good priest.If you become a nice woman, even as a man, you'll have to deal with it. "

"... but by the time I'm a priest, my uncle will be even more..."

No, no, no.

"Piiiiii!?"

I threw Lakura back into the grass and left it behind.I felt a strange feeling, like I was destined to meet that girl somewhere again.

At that age, that personality.I'm sure you'll be a lot of finished women, but I'm sure you'll be a clergyman who thinks I can keep my back.

Finding an unexpected excavation made me feel a little more exhilarated, and my drunkenness came back.Let's just hook up another drink and go to bed when we get home.