Konjiki no Moji Tsukai (WN)

The day before the suncolors enjoyed the feast, in [Beast Kingdom/Passion], the Beast King Leaud, who had returned from [Valar Wilderness], had lost his words to the sight that now spreads.

Before going to the duel, [Pacion] was a country covered by a truly stunning green nature, but now its greenery has been destroyed and carburized that would have been burned.

Not only that, but also traces could be found everywhere that would show the slaughter that was apparently received with a sharp blade. Is it the moment the fire is extinguished, or where there is coal smoke?

And what stunned everyone the most was the changed appearance of the Tree of Beginnings Aragorn, a symbol of [Passion].

The great tree, which houses lustrous greenery all year round, has never withered, and its immense presence had given us the kind of mercy that is gently wrapping everyone's heart.

But now it wasn't the big trees full of life and so on that were reflected in their present, it was the sole that didn't make them feel as lively as if they had been cut down and left alone for decades.

I could not discover a single leaf that had grown bright and thick, and the branches that had succeeded were so thin that they seemed to break just with a little effort.

And what everyone feels at first sight.

It's... - This tree is already dead.

Everyone wants to doubt what they're seeing.

But this is undisputed reality, and what made it happen...

"... cockroo... ugh"

Leo Wood muttered unconsciously. It is a grunt of outrage that maximizes anger and killing.

"... okay, you guys hit the wounded and rescue."

When Leo Wood gave instructions to the soldiers who had returned with him, they moved out of the spot as if they had been played.

"We're going to King Tree. I heard from the people that Kokuru entered the King Tree once. I'm worried about Bransa and the others."

And so Leowud and his princes went early enough to the Tree of Kings.

Muir and Anold were also on their way to rescue the people, as were the soldiers.

"... terrible"

Muir looks at the wounded and falling people all over his body and puts on his face.

Some of them were young children. The house is made of great trees, but some of them are cut down and underlaid.

And some of them are wrapped in flames and have lost their dwellings, and some of them have suffered great burns with their fire.

"How could this happen..."

I can't measure the thought of the person who makes such a tragedy.

It's crazy. It's crazy.

Anold also has anger in his expression. He was chewing his teeth tight and moving his gaze to see if there was a place where rescue was needed.

I hear screams and groans from all over. The voice of a mother who calls her child's voice or vice versa. Flying without the painful screams lingering.

"I won't forgive you......"

"Uncle......"

"Doesn't the story mean it was the same beast man who did this! How could I do this to my own people!

"The Beast Nation" is a stiff tie of races.

Above all, the beasts who treasure bonds never betray those who once recognized themselves as companions.

"I wonder if that person... didn't have any friends or acquaintance in this country..."

All I could think of was that.

"... I don't know. But whatever happened, it's never gonna be a good reason to do this."

"... right"

"... this is it if you think your alliance is in good shape because of it!

An alliance between the 'Demon Nation' and the 'Beast Nation' that has been in contention for years. It is not a mistake to decide that it has come to an end, at least one step closer to peace.

And yet now it's like the betrayal of the 'Beastmen' who are supposed to be allies. The joyful mood gained in the alliance has been ruined.

"And anyway, let's save one, uncle!

"Oh yeah!

The two pushed their anger down their chests and now they did their best to prioritize saving their lives as soon as possible.

When Leo Wood entered the King Tree, he quickly rushed to Brantha, his wife.

Bransa was just having a live embrace, Anold's sister with injuries to both hands.

"Mother!

Mimil and Kukulia are all together and hug their mothers. Bransa is also relieved to see her two daughters safe and relieved of her expression.

"Bransa......"

"You..."

Leo Wood and Bransa stare at each other and nod small.

And Bransa's mouth told everyone what had happened in the country.

"Well... he still... does Kokuru resent me"

It was the second prince Lenion who picked up that whine.

"Dad, who the hell is that cockroach?

But naturally, Leo Wood and Bransa are returning only a harsh look. He was wondering how to explain it.

Everyone understood that the rest was between Cochroe and me.

"... why don't you tell these kids everything?

"But Bransa......"

"You'll be fine about me, thank you you you"

"Ugh, um..."

Still, is it hard to say? Put your mouth in one letter and stare at just one point and solidify. Everyone is waiting for Leo Wood to open his mouth and watch.

And finally, Leo Wood began to quietly open that heavy mouth.

"Kokroo is the eldest son of Galeos Kaenich, dubbed the right arm of Rendock, the previous Beast King. And -"

Leo Wood put aside a few moments,

- I'm here, Bransa's brother-in-law.

An astonishing truth was told.

"Oh... oh..."?

I don't know who sent that whine. But the word was a question that was not strange for everyone to say.

When I see how Bransa is, I find out that's not a lie because she's quiet about being silent too.

"Kokroo was an orphan that Galeos picked up on the battlefield."

Leo Wood explains it to everyone so they can chew it up.

This was still a story before Leo Wood crowned the Beast King.

It is about a time when his father, Rendock, was ruling the country.

After all, there was still turmoil in the world, and one great war broke out with the 'human race' as the constant days of battle tormented people.

It was done in the beast world. It was painfully the beasts were able to triumph, but it was also devastating. Several towns and villages were sacrificed and many lives were scattered.

And a small village called [Aegma] was also driven to destruction by its war. Galeos Kaenig, who had bound the Three Beasts back then, was terribly heartbroken by his failure to save the village.

Fortunately, however, I hear information that a certain group of families is still alive.

I rushed to check, and there was a sister and brother protected by my father and mother from the attacking 'human race'.

We would both still be about five or six years younger. Both had bright white hair like snow.

But at the moment of his rush, his parents were killed by the humans, and at last his fangs tried to reach his sister and brother.

Galeos managed to protect them from that evil blade...

"His sister and brother were the survivors of the village"

My sister's name is Nelay.

And my brother's name was - it was Cochroe.

"War Disaster Orphan... Was it"

Similar words flowed to the whining of First Prince Leggles.

Leo Wood continues the conversation with a slight nod.

"Galeos decided to adopt those two unaccompanied"

That was the best thing Galeos could do, coming from a loss that couldn't help his parents.

Fortunately, he wasn't even in a position for life to be chopped up where he had more two children, though he was the only one who could do it.

And he had one daughter who was seven years old.

That's...

"My wife here... it's Bransa"

Everyone's eyes turned to Bransa. Now Tsuji fits what Leo Wood said earlier. Sure, then it's not surprising to be my brother-in-law.

All of a sudden, the story of the adopted son broke in, and the cockroaches were confused, both at first. But as time went on, gradually, but I became accustomed to life.

And around that time, Galeos took three young men to greet Rendock, then king. So Leo Wood met the cockroaches for the first time.

"When I first met him, Kokroo was a child who seemed weak to see. By then, the eagle had already passed ten, and the cockroach looked extra small because the training was done more than anyone else. But only the eyes had sharp powers. I remember you looking at me like you were trying to be weak."

Bransa also narrows her eyes a little nostalgic for Leo Wood's words.

"Nelay was also a beautiful child when she said she was still young"

"Yeah, right."

Bransa agrees with her eyes closed.

"Besides, she was a very good girl. He was also a smart, courteous, and above all a strong heart."

Bransa says as she recalls, and Leood also says as she adds to it.

'Cause that Uhit was enough to wrap your tongue around it.'

I could speculate that Uhit, the brainchild of [Pacion] everyone admits, would have been so clever that it was incomprehensible to the usual.

Then I started playing with the four of us again and again. Especially poor Kokuru, who often exchanged swords and fists to train himself.

Bransa and Nelay watched it happily.

That is how the world is at war, but there was peace between the four.

An instant ten years had passed, and the four had grown healthy in mind and body.

Especially Kokuru, who had struck and changed from the beginning to become a successful body, had risen to such heights that he could not even reach Leo Wood, especially if he was the arm of a sword.

Kokuru, who had also begun to participate in the war, had also become known and feared by his enemies as the 'White Blade' along with fear.

Nelay and Bransa were opposed to the two of them participating in the war, but they still said they were fighting for the country.

Kokuru was also running through the battlefield with his sword along with Leood, wanting to give back his favor to the country that saved him and Nelay.

"But that day... that incident happened"

A sudden epidemic spread to [Beast Kingdom/Passion].

I didn't know what caused it and desperately the Uhit and Larasyks made a leap to figure it out, but I couldn't even get a very effective means.

At first it took the people, and that penetrated like a donkey poison. While many people suffer, Rendock also tries to run to nearby towns and villages to investigate the cause at all, in order to eradicate the disease, but everything ends up in jail.

For some reason, it seemed to spread only to [Pacion].

The disease is called Exhaustion Disease, and once invaded, the body's moisture decreases with each day it follows.

No matter how moisturized, it could only slow the progress a little, and its ferocious poison eroded the country without the art of becoming.

With many dying, Uhit finally succeeded in developing the drug.

But because it was made by frying rare herbs, only a small amount could be purified, but all those who managed to suffer from the disease could be given it, and its progression could be stopped.

It was thought that hope would be brought to people and that this would save everyone.

But it's about arrowheads like that. At a time when the medicine was almost gone, now Blanca and Nelay developed "depleted disease" at the same time.

Naturally I immediately told Yuhit to give me the rest of the medicine........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Whether Rendock organized soldiers and tried to direct them in their search for medicinal herbs, unluckily the invasion of the 'human race' began.

If you break soldiers here, you may lose the battle.

But Rendock's desire to save both of us is very strong. Either way, I was going to marry Leo Wood's wife.

In the meantime, Galeos raised his name. He told me that there was no such thing as an obstacle to this war, and decided to embark on a journey to find herbs.

On the day Galeos traveled, he said to Cochru, who was not drinking and eating and was nursing, "I will be sure to make it".

Cochroe asked in tears, believing the word.

I would have liked to go looking for him, but I still didn't like to leave Nelay. Besides, Galeos, one of the strongest men in the country, thought he could be trusted.

But as it turns out, Galeos never came back to the land in time. I don't know if he was hit by a vicious monster on a drug hunting trip, or by a lurking human being.

Days went by with no grasp of Galeos' news at all, and at last the limits came to the Blansas as as well.

Their skin, which was always magnificent, was pale black and discoloured, becoming crusty as if it were a dead tree, so that they could not even speak freely anymore.

Their faces, which were beautiful, were so ugly and transformed that they seemed to cry just to see them.

The medicine is for one person. Koklu pleaded with his real sister, Nelay, to administer it without even shaking her side. Because Nelay was progressing faster.

Not being able to see Kokroo, who was trapped in despair, Leowood decided to ask Kokroo to take care of him in his cell for a little while under Leowood's authority because he thought he could not get his hands on him as he was.

After an unexpected and unintentional blow, Kokuru skipped consciousness, and when he realized it, he was in the inn.

And Leo Wood, who came to the chamber, said unto him:

'I'm fine. I'm sure Nelay will help.'

Cochroe also gave himself up to a sleeper who suddenly attacked him because he had not slept for days, whether he had regained some calm in the words of Leowood, who turned a serious eye.

And Cochru woke up, and when he heard the words from Leood, who came to the chamber again, dyed his face in despair.

'I'm sorry. Bransa was the only one I could save.'

It will be at this time. What went wrong with Cochroe?

Crying rang out of the barn all day, and three days later, his hair coming out of the barn had changed into a white and black speckle pattern.

Everyone breathed like that change, but he said something.

"I want to mourn your sister."

And when they uttered it all, they agreed, and they mourned him severely.

The rain, which should be cold at that time, felt hot for some reason.

The rain lasted a long time and didn't show how to stop as if someone kept crying. Then the glad news jumped in there.

"Galeos is back."

Everyone who was listening to Leo Wood takes a ha-ha-ha breath.

"There was definitely a herb in that hand. But...... it was too late"

He didn't make it. His body wore out with mud and scratches, and he returned with a full, creative body, but he...... did not make it.

Then suddenly, a glimmer of light ran.

When I realized it, Cochroe's sword was piercing Galeos' body.

"Oh no......!?

Mimil puts her hands on her mouth.

"Then he started attacking those on the spot indiscriminately."

Its shape was so distorted that it did not seem to belong in the world, it was as if Shura was manifesting itself. White and black flashes run at speeds I can't even stop seeing.

Leo Wood is relative to stop his rampage, but so much so that he was accidentally pressured by its force.

But I shouldn't have.

At that moment, Leo Wood was slashed and carved into his body, and Kokuru stuffed him straight into Rendock and stuck that blade in his chest.

And Cochroe said a word,

"It's all a lie."

That's what I said and jumped out of The King Tree.

"Then I searched desperately for him but couldn't find him... Washi took his life, but Galeos almost died instantly, and his father's wounds left the world behind. And at the perfect time, now the Demon Clan is attacking."

Although he managed to successfully defend himself, he suffered a great deal.

And he succeeded in squeezing information out of the captured 'demon tribe'.

Cochroe said he created an opportunity to spill information and attack the 'Demon Nation'.

"He's been trying to crush the country for real. Not only that once, but many times. But with the help of the Three Beasts and Lara at the time, I managed to cut through..."

Still, the things I lost were huge. Cochroe's rebellion inflicted tremendous wounds and pain on the 'Beast Nation'.

"After a while, he stopped showing up. Sometimes I wondered if he was dead... but he was still alive."

I finished listening to Leo Wood, and silence ruled without anyone saying a word. I wouldn't imagine it too much. I don't seem to be sure how to react to what I've heard about the past.

But here Mimil never opens her mouth.

"But Mother, I did hear that Mother's father was sick and in other worlds."

Not only Mimil, but that was what Bransa taught all those people who didn't know about Cochroe.

"Right. As it turns out, I would have lied to you guys. Those who know that abominable case were already mostly killed by Kokroo. For a while after that, I was told that Kanich's name would call for misfortune, and I immediately threw away my wife's name to this man, too."

"Oh yeah...... but how come your mother or father didn't tell you the truth?

Turn to the two of us so that we can all ask for that answer.

"... because I didn't want to tell future generations that there was a traitor out of our 'Beast People'. Fortunately Cochroe was judged dead and I thought the truth would keep lurking in the dark"

But Cochroe, not dead, had just lurked his form until now.

"I believe that the ties of the beast man are so strong that they are not comparable to the 'human race' or the 'demon race'. Even if you try to string history together, there's just the fact that one of those cockroaches started a rebellion. That's why I didn't make it a good idea to let the darkness know and make my bonds remember my anxiety............ apparently that was wrong"

Leo Wood lifts his face and narrows his eyes so that he has distant eyes.

"No matter how much you hide it, it all becomes obvious. Besides, I'm not the kind of beast man to rock with that. Certainly an abominable past is now causing disaster to this country. Only then can we defeat the scourge through our bondage."

Look around everyone's face with powerful eyes. They are also nodding small enough to answer that.

"Cochroe is not the only opponent. He is obeyed by Avoros, the previous demon king."

I can hear the name and breathe.

"Either way, this duel was huge what we got. The powers of the previous demon kings are different digits. Besides, all the men he was leading were equipped with an atmosphere that was not a glimmer. But this time, we, the Beasts, will fight with the Demons."

"Ah... Dear Hiiro"

Leo Wood also slightly breaks his cheek in such a Mimil grunt.

"Oh, if Hiro, who defeated me, could also lend me a hand, I'd never be more comfortable"

"But Father! Cochroe is a beast man!

You don't like the idea of relying on others, Lenion says in a grumpy manner.

"I know. Cochroe will end with the eagles, the Beasts."

"Dad... you know what I mean"

"Whatever. The Beast Man's problem must be solved by the Beast Man. But Kokroo is not the only opponent. Perhaps if it were war, the previous demon kings would put in quite a bit of war. We alone are likely to be in a tough situation. So much for that Avoros.................. strong"

Most people swallow their saliva at the fact that Leo Wood admits so much.

"That's why we need to keep in close contact with the 'Demons' from now on to improve our fighting power"

No one can say anything to the legitimacy of that proposal. But you ever wondered, Lenion opens his mouth.

"... hey, I'm not even gonna tell you how to put your hands together with all the 'humans', am I right?

…………

Deeper causes than the Demons are the Humans.

They only see themselves like livestock. That's what the majority of the Beasts think.

"Oh no, Master Hiiro is human too!

Lenion tongues at Mimil's scream.

"I know that! But from what I've heard, he's from another world, isn't he? I mean, I don't think it's a" human race "!

"Oh, that's..."

Sure, as a classification, the Japanese color would go into the 'human race', but there is no basis for determining him to be a 'human race', as Lenion put it.

Mimil has full faith in the sun color thing, but it's coming from somewhere unrelated to him being a 'human race' or something. Even if he is human, it doesn't mean he can trust all human beings.

She also listens to what humans have done so far. That's why I'm anxious. You know how Lenion feels, too.

"Hey, what do you think, Dad?

Ask Leo Wood to urge him.

Then he shivers his lips quietly.

"I am not willing to join hands with the kings that rule today."

"I thought so."

Lenion who seems a little happy.

"But"

"What?"

"If the country is going to change, maybe we can negotiate"

"... Ha!? Hey, what are you talking about, Dad?

Lenion, who was completely relieved, yells unintentionally at what he's just saying.

"Listen to me."

"What... what is it?

"Indeed, King Rudolph's unifying nation today has no credibility. It's like a country that's been painted with lies. Alliances don't know when you're gonna get stabbed in the back."

"Well, then you need to think..."

"If people change, so does the country"

Everyone sees the person who uttered the word and looks out for him. Only Leo Wood, jizz and the person...... staring at Leggles,

"Explain it, Leggles."

I asked him to explain.

"Yes. If people change, countries change. You know what I mean, Lenion?

…………

glance at him in silence without answering,

"Look, the king today is a fool in itself, even from me, who is still immature. Brave summons, talks broken, they're probably... connected to the previous Demon King."

"Become!?

"Ho, did you notice, Leggles?"

"Yes. Otherwise, I can't explain everything from breaking talks to going to war. Perhaps the predecessor Demon King used some means to negotiate and plan with King Rudolph. We rode it in the form of a ride, but there were some verses that were always moving to put this sleeping neck on."

Everyone is surprised, but Leo Wood roars "ho ho" to impress.

"Because I thought I was up to something, this one also exchanged promises with the 'human race' in the form of a temporary truce rather than an alliance. Promise not to interfere with each other more than necessary."

"... so?

"King Rudolph agreed to it lightly, as if he had no intention of alliing with us at all from the beginning. King Rudolph only contemplated killing the Demon King on that occasion. If you think for your country, you should also recommend an alliance in form, and you should also take our hand in killing the Demon King. Yet he has not disputed this request in any way, but has sent the brave men and us to [Demon Nation] just to kill the Demon King. He's already been since then...... no, I guess he wasn't a king anymore for a long time"

…………

"Probably just resentment...... it just seemed like it was moving under obvious personal resentment. That's why Father didn't want to actively allie with them, either, is it?

"Oh, you're right. But it's also true that I thought it was a good opportunity. Now I thought I could drop [Heros] and it moved. But here and there, one irregular failed."

Regardless of the color of the sun.

"There is no way a king who moves with such personal grievances can lead the country in a better direction. The country ruled by the foolish king, who cares nothing about his people, will only gradually become depraved."

"What does that have to do with the country changing, brother?

"Yes, the country changes. The only way to change is for people to change. Aren't you, Lenion?

……

"If those who love their country more, love their people and love peace, not King Rudolph, stand on top, the country will surely change"

"Keh, but there's such a guy in the human race!

I don't know.

It was Leo Wood who answered that.

"But in today's national politics, it will never be made. I guess that country would be different if those with the power to blast their roots didn't get to the top."