Kuro no Maou

There was no such thing as an unfortunate break-in with Simon, and knocking on a worn door that seemed to fall if you knocked, he immediately responded and welcomed me.

Then Simon starts by saying,

"Um, why is your brother's left eye turning red?

And I myself was surprised by the change in appearance that I tend to forget.

The explanation for Mia's protection will be left behind for now, and we will first rejoice in a long time's reunion.

- I'm sorry, I didn't get to see you right away.

The greeting was there, too, Simon, who had expressed such an apology.

"No, you had a situation with Simon, too, never mind."

While I responded without difficulty, I couldn't hide my surprise in Simon's outfit, which appeared on the inside.

Because Simon, who was supposed to be a girl, was wearing a men's uniform.

Ever since I came to Sparda, I've seen a lot of people in black blazer-type uniforms at the seminary, and I thought Simon must appear in this red tie and checkered pleated skirt for a female student, until the moment the door opened.

Why are you wearing a men's uniform with such a tight tie, Simon?

You're telling me Simon was a man?

Sure, this uniform looks pretty much like it, and this way I think he's a neutral pretty boy who's critical and about middle school.

I couldn't tell right away if it was a man or a woman the first time I saw it.

No, wait, remember, Simon is an adventurer at the same time as a student, and if so, it's not impossible to talk about a woman faking her gender as a man.

I have heard that because of some magic and martial arts, men and women are almost equally capable of fighting, but there are sometimes adventurers who falsify their gender because men still can't lick them better when they see them.

And it is the manners of adventurers, just as they do not pry into the past, who do not pursue against those who seem to falsify that kind of gender.

All right, I get it, Simon, if you mean you're faking your gender until you're in a men's uniform, I'll accept that.

That's how Simon. When he completes himself on the men's clothing issue, he finally begins to focus and talk.

"You really sound like a student here, is time okay now?

I'm in the middle of a class now in the morning, at a time when lunch break might start in about two hours, if I think about it as a high school student.

"It's okay, I've got a lot of things left to do, so it's only been a couple of days since I left for class."

Then don't worry, you can calm down and talk slowly without being chased by time.

When I walked into the room where Simon was sleeping, like one day I was in a chair and Simon sat down in bed.

This room is not as overflowing with objects as the storage lab.

I'm sure there will be more things to come, with a learning desk, chairs, and a clo-zet on the bed and only the minimum I need now.

The Alsace Village Adventurer Guild room that Simon was using was quickly filled with objects.

"In the meantime, shall we start with a status report on each other"

When Simon affirmed, he started talking to me first.

As is often the case, there are leading aristocrats with great power in Sparda.

They call that especially the four nobles here, etc.

One of them is the Baldier family.

Does its source date back to the ancient era, called more than three thousand years ago, and originate in a man named Freesia Baldier, the first and most powerful knight to serve the ancient demon king Mia Ellord?

No, you should now call it a pillar of the 'Black Gods' of the Pandora continent rather than a 'person’.

Even if those granted the protection of "Dark Knight Freesia" are limited to one Spartan country, there are a significant number of them, which can be described as a fairly major god.

It is one of the four great nobles of Sparda, the Baldier family, who have in their ancestors such a great knight who climbed upon the throne of God.

However, there is no solid evidence to prove it because there is a ‘dark age’ between antiquity and modernity, whether it is a direct line or, no, whether it really contains even a small amount of Baldier's blood in the first place.

At least the direct ancestors who were interested in the Bardier family of the Sparda aristocracy claimed to be of the authentic lineage of Freesia Bardier.

If you think such a self-proclaimed, bouldering event was more than 300 years old, the weighting of wonder and history increases and it foils even more with the glory of the Baldier family today.

And it was this Simon who was welcomed as an adopted son by that Baldier family.

Therefore, Simon's full name was Simon Friedrich Baldier, a subtle name with a middle name.

"Oh, really..."

After I finished reporting on my situation, I asked Simon, who would have Spartan's general as my sister, what was going on in the house.

And it is this explanation that came back.

However, Sparda, on the contrary, for me less than a year after coming to this world, nobility. Whatever they say, the awesomeness of it doesn't come by a pin.

As the word goes, yes, I guess all I can say is that.

"So why was such a great nobleman doing an adventurer in the village of Alsace?

I can see, however, that nobility is in such a great capacity even in the light of modern knowledge.

At least you shouldn't be living a life like painting mud and challenging herb collection quests.

"That's, uh, longer when we talk..."

"No, I wouldn't ask if it was hard to say, would I?

Adventurer's manners, but Simon shook his head and went on like this.

"Yeah, to your brother, I wonder if you'd like to hear it"

I'm glad to hear it, but you kind of trust me a lot.

If you say so much, it might reveal why Simon ended up dressed as a man.

"You know, when I was a kid, I wanted to be a knight serving Sparda."

That was also about ten years ago when he was taken as an adopted son by the Baldiers, Simon says.

"The Baldiers are famous for producing so many excellent knights, and, uh, my sister Leah, Emelia, the captain of the unit who picked me up at my sister's."

Do you remember? return affirmation to the question.

You'd be a bigger heavy knight than me in that black full-body armor (full plate armor), that presence and intimidation can't be forgotten at first sight.

I see, was that guy named Emelia?

"The guy was a little special among the elves, and he was already a hell of a strong guy from the time I adopted him."

At that time, Emelia was twelve years old, the minimum age for admission to the Royal Sparda Seminary, and she was a sixth grader in elementary school if I was more easily understood by the Japanese.

From that time on, he said he was able to exterminate a bunch of Rank 1 monsters with his bare hands without difficulty, and was good enough to crusade a giant monster of Rank 3 by himself if he was armed.

Sure, that's a horrible elementary school boy.

"That's why I admired a strong knight, but..."

Simon let her face down just a little bit and went on with the words.

"I didn't have the talent. On the contrary, I didn't even have the strength to be an elf."

Elves are famous for being the most magical of several species.

Its combat ability is therefore heavily dependent on magic, and even when it comes to using martial arts, it specializes in granting attributes with primary color magic rather than physical enhancement.

"It's still good if you just don't have magic, but I didn't have a big body like your brother, and no matter how much I trained, I don't have any muscle strength at all."

Originally, unlike Dwarves, Beastmen, etc., elves that were less muscular, among them, were not particularly well endowed with their physique.

Even humans look much younger than their age, like my father for example, but the elf sole is said to be remarkable in circles.

I've never heard of Simon here before, but Simon's real age is sixteen, and how dare he differ from me by only one.

But her appearance is almost the same as that of the girl Lily in middle school.

"Still, magic and martial arts worked really hard."

"Maybe that's why you're familiar with magic rituals?

Simon affirms.

Alchemy is a completely magical discipline, if Simon had done just that since he was a kid, he wouldn't have been able to make a weapon that incorporates magic technology like that ‘machine gun'.

"I still remember quite a few techniques, chants, magic formations, some but I can even read ancient letters.

But I can't activate anything because I don't have the magic to do it correctly. "

A person who has enough magic to exercise magic is a minority that varies from race to race but cannot be said to be very numerous.

Probably more than half the elves in the magic specialty.

If you're going to live as an ordinary person, you don't have to use magic or anything, but if you're going for a knight who makes battle a living, that's too deadly.

If you don't have the strength of a sword, including martial arts, to compensate for magic, it's even worse.

"After more than five years in the Baldier family, I finally realized that I can't be the fine knight this house deserves."

Magic has nothing to do with it, he says it was only then that he began to learn alchemy.

"I'm an adopted son, and I think I was lucky to be in an easy-going position where my brother would never be asked to be his heir because three of them have one youngest sister."

If this meant adopting Simon to make him inherit the trail, he would not have been able to live up to the Baldier family, the knight's fame, its‘ expectations’ at all.

"But at least I wanted to be fine enough to repay the favor you've raised, and I left my parents' house at the same time as I went to seminary."

I see, so far.

No, wait, I got the solution of being a student, but it still doesn't explain why I was doing the adventurer.

"Oh, that's, uh, embarrassing, but I was going to pay for my own tuition, but I didn't make enough money, and I'm too enthusiastic about researching alchemy for credit... haha, you're really embarrassed!

I look straight at Simon, who's turning red on the bed to the tip of that pointy ear. Although I'm more embarrassed.

Summarizing Simon's story while pretending to be only calm, he submitted a suspension delivery for two reasons: he could no longer pay tuition & to concentrate on his alchemy research.

Simon, who became free, became an adventurer as a convenient position to earn tuition and conduct research at the same time.

Simon's father, the current head of the Baldier family, is also convinced through the conversation that he has chosen to act.

But,

"Sister Leah, I don't know what to say, she's a lot stubborner and tougher than your stepfather.

So it was tough from the start, but since you gave up the knight's path, you've been tougher on me, and you always tell me to stop alchemy.

Even the seminary reluctantly convinced me that I was going into a magic engineering course, not an executive course, when I said I was suspended... "

I could be killed, so I decided to do the adventurer secretly in Daedalus, which was out of my sister's sight, and Simon cummed me out like half angry and half frightened.

"Well, there were complications, you know, with all kinds of things."

It is best for me to say this.

It's unfortunate to say that you have family problems, but it's not something that others can easily point out.

However, I am fortunate that Baldier's house is properly Simon's home because he seems to be doing well with his father, who is the Lord.

However, I didn't know you and your sister were such bad friends...

I sincerely sympathize with Simon, who, unlike Mana Kurono, the fruit sister who has baked my care since I was a child, did not fall for a kind and understanding sister.

"Without that, I'd still be studying lazy alchemy in a storage shed in Alsace."

"You know what?"

"Oh, I'm sorry, that story..."

Simon, I'm going to fix this in a hazy way, and I think you've made me feel awesome.

"No, it's okay, it's a lie when it comes to not caring, but I've already sorted my mind out, so no need for weird care"

"Yes, what..."

Speaking of which, we haven't even told Simon what happened when we met with the surviving villagers and about the escort yet.

Apparently you're getting worried, so now I'll tell you more about my circumstances and my mood.

Simon also revealed what he could tell others in red.