Kaiko Sareta Ankoku Heishi (30-dai) no Slow na Second Life

Dawn overnight.

The second day began with the welcome of the brave to the village of Lax.

Well, what the braves should have done here was done by yesterday.

All I had to do was bracket the taka that I should be relaxed and let down until the weapon was complete.

But it was a sweet recognition.

"I wrote to the Center Guild."

The brave man said it first thing in the morning.

There is something like that in my hand.

"This is a letter of request for you to issue a compulsory collection. If this is accepted, you will have to join my party regardless of your will"

"You're very strong again."

So.

"What's the point in getting a buddy that way?

If they scorn their will, they will never trust such an opponent again.

There's nothing more pointless on a battlefield where life and death hang, than a fellow who can't keep his life.

"... you're right. I only want you to join my people of your own free will."

"It doesn't change my mind. The most important thing is here."

"I know. So I've been meaning to talk about something else today."

"Another story?

"It's not a good story to talk about easily. Because it's a story that involves the inside of someone. But I'm going to talk to you because I think this is the only way to convince you."

"Someone? Inside?"

"Aranzil. This is Aranzil, a former brave man."

Someone who was a brave man before Lady.

A legendary figure who is regarded as the strongest in history and has fought many times with his predecessors, the Four Heavens.

"Master Aranzil is the longest in history, even during his time as a brave man. They say it's been over thirty years. There was, of course, a lot going on in that long period. Happy or sad."

But the saddest of them all...

He said he killed his family.

……!?

The brave speak of a topic that is not calm.

"That is that Master Aranzil has just been appointed a brave man. That one was married to a female adventurer who was partying with her. One child as well. He said it was a happy family with nothing missing."

But that happiness was broken...?

"He said the Demon King's Army attacked him, aiming for his absence, where his predecessors were marching to crusade the Demon King. Your wife, who was a former adventurer, fought resolutely, but was killed, and your child, who was still a baby, was taken away."

……

"The predecessors tracked down and finally killed one of the then Four Heavenly Kings who was the main culprit of the raid. But I can't find your son, whose enemies are supposed to have figured it out. He says the enemy killed him on the way out, and the body was desperate with something he dumped somewhere."

My chest hurts.

Even more so now that I'm a father too. There must never be anyone who makes battle a living thing, such as putting those who do not.

Isn't it only by killing each other that a fighter's pride can be established?

"'Since then I have become a ghost'. Yes, my predecessor said. I dedicated everything to battle because I lost everything and there was nothing to protect. I was able to move on to the Demon King crusade.... but it wasn't the right thing to do."

A brave man approaches me.

"If we leave the demons alone like this, there will be another tragedy like that of our predecessor, Lady Aranzil! Please help me to prevent it!!"

I was nowhere near accepting her wishes now.

Because from memory, the shapes of the dreaded brave were resurrected in clarity.

Aranzil, an ancient brave man.

I've seen him straight away many times.

On the battlefield as an assistant to the Four Kings of the Demon King's Army.

His impending way of fighting. Was there such a secret in the strength of God?

The pain of losing something important, the strength that grief creates.

That's one of the most important reasons for strength.

I was convinced of various things.

But......

"I don't believe that story."

"Huh!?"

"The Demons are a proud species. Those who will be chosen as their culminating Four Heavenly Kings are especially"

Will such proud people resort to despicable means such as targeting their families, even though they are enemies?

Perhaps it happened long before I became assistant to the Four Heavens, and the executor doesn't know me, even though the Four Heavens were even older than the previous Four Heavens.

But I don't want to believe or think that anyone who gets the title of Four Heavens King would run such an ugly run.

"Why are you, the human race, sheltering the demons?

"Anyway, I didn't know back in the day, but the Demon King Army of today's generation doesn't do such dirty things"

……

It's okay. It's okay, right?

The Four Heavens are all right now, aren't they?

"That's why it's not the basis for your claim. I'm not leaving Lax Village to protect my precious things."

"... then I have no choice"

Brave Lady put up a letter in her hand.

"Contact the Center Guild to have you issue a compulsory collection letter. It is impossible to refuse this!

"Are you sure?

"We need you! You'll understand if you start traveling with us. the significance of our battle! We can be trustworthy companions!!"

"I don't think I can do this at the moment."

I turn my back and leave.

If a compulsory collection letter and dots are issued, it's going to be a real hassle.

The least effort to stop it is to take or break the letter she has here and now.

But let's not.

Empowering is not smart.

"Let me tell you one thing"

"What?

"You said you needed my help, but the truth. Isn't it the power of you, the brave man, that you really need?

A girl called the brave one could see her eyes open for a moment.

"Brave men are the only force that cannot be replaced. There are as many replacements as there are for the people around it. You can't accomplish a purpose with a core named Kimi in your hands, can you?

".................. ugh!

Without saying back, the brave man left the spot.

Not yet. Then it's not going to reach my predecessors.

I really wanted to tell her from the front.

You're still weak.

and.

It is also true that for me, at least I have seen the fierceness of an earlier brave man straight away, her skill feels almost inadequate.

But I can't tell you.

"You're weaker than your predecessors." I said to Meng, "Where did you see your predecessors fight? 'Cause it must be a stream.

It's not about pointing out my past until it brightens up, so I decided to keep it quiet.

Rumor has it that she's a 'Genius Beyond Her Predecessors' or something, but who touched the big picture?

Whether or not, I can barely compare my predecessors, who have accumulated more than thirty years of months as brave men, to the newcomers of Hyoko.

What she needs is more than a new weapon, more than a new companion.

Maybe it's something else.

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Then another few days went by.

In the name of waiting for the weapon to be completed, it was obviously waiting for a letter of coercion to arrive at me requesting it to the center guild.

And finally, a call came from the center guild.

It was just a reply from a very different face than what the brave man had expected.

"Looks like you've been tricking me a long time, Lady."

Dispatched by the Center Guild was a somewhat physically fit big man.

"If you want company, you can let me come into the party, okay? An invincible man who once fought for you and the throne of the brave. Noltiya!