Kuro no Maou

At noon on the twelfth day of the month of Red Flame, Simon had just finished his usual lunch alone in his room.

About the rest of the meal, the door was knocked when I left the room and went to the lab.

"Hey, Simon, you there?

The voice belongs to Chrono without mistake.

This run-down storage shed is a similar building, but was previously used as one of the dormitories, albeit small.

But now that I'm using this place because of my sister, Simon, there's only one, and there's no caretaker, so I can get in through the open doorway without Chrono.

Only my room and lab lock up during the day, so there are only visitors to Simon, well only Chrono, but it was only natural to be knocked here if there was one.

It was an unappointed visit, but Simon opened the door with joy, in a state of waiting and waiting.

"Hello brother, you're back from Dakia already -"

Simon, who had roughly heard Chrono's plans for the quest, uttered those words, but there stood Chrono and the unexpected other figure, who opened his eyes and became stiff.

"Oh, that, maybe this guy..."

Seriously, look at the person standing next to Chrono.

A red-haired, blonde-eyed, thin executive candidate man, quite neat, but not with a stand out look.

Still, I knew enough about what he was, even Simon, whose friendship was equal to nothing in school.

"Prince Wilhardt!?

In response to Simon, whose name and identity were mentioned precisely, Wilhardt responded with an arm-wrapped grand pose.

"Whatever, I'm the great Sparda's -"

"Oh, you and Will just got to know each other there, it's a corner, so I thought I'd talk to you together, was that annoying?

Hey, my friend's with me, okay? Simon was struck by further shocks by a chrono of light things like that.

(Eh, what are you talking about, brother, the other guy is royal, and he calls me Will so nicknamed, and he said we met earlier or something, why are you breaking up so much!?

There are many things I'd like to say, but no matter how many of the same students, you can't behave badly in front of the royal family.

"No, it's not that I don't like it or anything... you know, uh, just go up?

He invited the second prince of Sparda, who somehow appeared with Chrono, into his room.

I guess it was originally a two-person room, in Simon's own room, which is quite large, with three men, sitting straight on the floor facing each other.

"Hmm, I hear your name too, Simon Friedrich Baldier, but you are more famous as a legendary man than as the four nobles."

Wilhardt single-handedly cut out the tea Simon had served.

"The legendary man?

Although I ask, Simon did not try to answer by dyeing his cheeks and turning that way.

"It's natural that Chrono, who has just arrived in Sparda, doesn't know, that Simon there..."

And, once again, listening to Will's words, which taught him a roundabout tone, but then cordially and politely, Chrono learned how Simon was called the legendary man.

The story is that the Royal Sparda Seminary, for the first time since its inception, will knock out an all-performing written exam, while also earning its first all-zero practical exam, but also for the third consecutive year.

"Simon......"

The results of the exam were three consecutive years of failures, as Simon said before, so it was hard to honestly praise the genius for the results of the full written exam.

Instead, Chrono feels terribly sad when he imagines Simon trying to roll out martial arts that could not possibly be used desperately with his sword in his hands in the people's environment.

"I hope you don't talk too much about that."

"No, Sman"

If you say that with a worried look, there is nothing else than an acknowledgement.

"But it's really puzzling, I didn't know Simon, the legendary man who insists that he's just an adventurer and nothing he doesn't know in seminary, was this kind of cordial,"

"No, that's, well, Simon was an adventurer, too, and all sorts of things?

"Oh, yeah, yeah, there was a lot going on!

As for Chrono, he was cautioned not to brag about what could be called a massacre by the Adventurer's Guild more than he was having a bitter experience in fighting in the village of Alsace.

Most importantly, it's not an instant favor to the Spartan army because we talked about it, but as things stand, I'm guessing the Crusader-related information that happened in Daedalus only fuels public anxiety, so I restrained both Chrono and Simon quite a bit.

But,

"Hmm, don't have too much trouble insulting me, if you have my power, you can know what happens as if you've seen it with this eye, yes, by a secret information network (Secret Network) that spreads into the darkness of Sparda.

I mean, I already know you're ‘survivors of Alsace'!

Wilhardt looked brilliantly at the circumstances of Chrono and Simon.

"... how do you know?

"What, simple reasoning -"

Nobody gets into the secret information network.

"- You said earlier that you were from Daedalus, and you also know rumors that it was also Daedalus that Simon was suspended from school and headed as an adventurer.

And while this is truly secret information, I hear that in a village called Alsace in Daedalus, an army called the Crusaders and a group of adventurers played a dead fight to miss the people. "

Apparently, Chrono suspected that the person named Prince Wilhardt, in this reluctant tone of performance, was quite informative.

Well, if you do know one thing about Alsace, you can easily speculate that Chrono, coming from Daedalus, is an adventurer who took part in the emergency quest.

"I thought the battle in the village of Alsace was quite exaggerated because it was so absurd, read in a report made based on the testimony of an adventurer who survived an emergency quest -"

So Will pinched a monocular (monocle) with his index finger, a motion that he cited as Qui, and then mouthed the continuation of the dialogue.

"- Chrono, if you say you did it, you can't say it's paranoid."

Only four people now know the battle of the village of Alsace, except for crusader soldiers.

It is hard for Russia to believe that only a hundred adventurers there fought a fierce defensive battle that cost their opponents a great many thousands of large legions that they thought would be there.

Not to mention the Chronos "Element Master" and Simon all had Adventurer Rank 1 at the time, of course their strength, and their ability to testify could not help but be greatly questioned.

Still, it couldn't be broken that it was a whole lie, because there was also a pattern called Simon's Baldier, which could still be fitted by Matomo.

At the same time, it is believed that the battle in Alsace was‘ there 'because the Spartan army, or even as an Adventurer's Guild, had some knowledge of Daedalus's inner affairs beforehand about the messengers he had sent earlier.

But in addition to that, Wilhardt saw Chrono's strength in saving him the desperate predicament of being cornered by a rank five monster.

No, I've actually only seen the goblin fight for the first time in that fight, but it's definitely obvious given the circumstances that I fought Larspun, and besides, if I can show you my chopped right arm, there's no question about it.

"The Crusaders, the mysterious army that destroyed Daedalus, to prepare for the threat, we Spartans are on the lookout, including Fortress Galahad, but..."

And, says Wilhardt, flipping the red cape.

"I can't wipe away a bad feeling, a crusader who suddenly appears, whose insides are completely unknown, so to speak, an unknown enemy!

But I'm not trying to properly fit the story of you adventurers who were the only ones to have fought the Crusaders because they are low ranked, this is not it.

So I think, the Black Nightmare Mad Warrior (Nightmare Berserker) Chrono, who accomplished the heroic act of saving my predicament, there is no doubt about your power already, then there is no lie or falsehood in the words spoken, at least this me, Wilhardt Tristan Sparda, believe!

"I mean, Will, you want me to tell you more about the fight against the Crusaders,?

Exactly! Just because you got my will, Will screams satisfactorily.

Chrono gets a little lost.

What happened in Alsace is not something that can be told to those who are interested.

But Wilhardt is one of those people who knows some circumstances and has a sense of crisis against the Crusaders.

And more importantly, the height of his identity as the Second Prince, and possibly even the Spartan army can be urged to pay greater attention through him.

That is something Chrono, who is only an adventurer no matter how far up the ranks, can never do.

"Fine."

In the end, Chrono made a decision immediately.

I only had enough time to drink my share of tea in one breath to worry about it.

Are you sure Simon's okay? and turn the inquiring gaze, but you will understand the benefits that Chrono conceived, that worry is precisely Chrono's own emotional.

No, Simon, who lost a beloved woman named Suse, is probably the hardest part of this story.

"Uhm, let's hear it!

And Chrono talks, in a small village in the countryside called Alsace, about how he retained the great army of the Crusaders and how the adventurers passed away.