Kuro no Maou

Soon the moon of dawn will pass, and time will shift to the icy moon that hits February. It is said that although the moon seems to be a cold name with 'Ice Crystal', it is actually the coldest time of the year. It's a change that doesn't matter if it's the southernmost part of Pandora all year round, but at least that's the way it is in Daedalus, and I remember hearing chatter from Nyaleko before.

Maybe this tavern seat I'm sitting in right now is exactly the same place as the Guild liquor stadium seats I chatted with Nyaleko every day.

"Hey, hey, he's got a dark face, priest."

It was Ryan, who, by the way, single-handedly had a jock in which the barley wine (ale) was soaked, that got tangled with a fuzzy voice.

Why, he and I had such a cheap relationship that we could normally call ourselves boyfriends. After all, does that mean that beating each other is the best way to deepen friendship between men? Humans and werewolves (warwolves) aren't that different.

"I thought it was time for the snow to melt"

"Hmm, really? How long have we been talking about this? Well, it's still fucking cold."

Ryans, the pioneers, haven't lived here for a year yet. So you still haven't figured out what season the year might move into.

But I do. The ice-crystal moon is the coldest of the year, but at the end of the month, when the snow starts to melt, it gets so rapidly warm. Well, this is a Nyaleko takeover and sale, too.

"Hey, Master Chloe. When the snow melts, he says he's leaving this village... really, what death?

It is Leki who sits next to me who has inquired in a darker, sinking voice than I do.

I'm not very impressed with bringing my child's girlfriend to the liquor store, but today is the day before the Seventh Sabbath, which is ordained by the Cross. The vigilantes, who were mostly bogged down by my hands in harsh, real-life training until sundown, all roll out for drinks to the tavern. With rapport, I'll be with you most of the time.

Of those, it's pathetic to be one of the same trained people, and to be out of company with only the hardest working Leki, so I won't let him drink, but I'll give him a meal or so.

For the record, I haven't remembered the concept of 'Sunday' in a long time since I came to this village where I live in the customs of the Crucifixion. Of course, in the days of human experimentation, neither the village of Iles nor Sparda regularly sandwiched holidays, and there was no such culture.

"Oh, it's true"

There's no reason to lie when it comes to me leaving the village. No, but I always felt more distressed that the bright leki was an openly depressed look than I thought myself.

"Ugh, Leki, Master Chloe hasn't hit me yet, Death."

"Leki is improving with great momentum. Keep up the good work and you might be able to guess before I leave."

"Non! When Master Chloe is gone, Leki can't be stronger than that, Death!

Lift your eyebrows up with a crisp, barking reaction of leki. Maybe she's more troubled than I think.

Obsession with being strong. Besides, you admire me a lot. She is only a child. Breaking up is hard.

No, no matter how many times I go through it, I know very well that breaking up with people is a hard thing.

"Leki, what I still want Lord Chloe to tell me, a lot of Death...... practice more, and one day, be strong enough to beat Lord Chloe...... Until then, we'll always be together......"

"Hehe, if you don't want to say goodbye to your beloved priest so badly, why don't you stick around?"

"Ryan!!

Gao, and Ryan grins like a mean kid general at Leki, who growls his dog ear hair upside down.

"Hey, priests don't mind, but one or two of the kids, you can take care of them."

"No, don't be impotent..."

"Seriously, you realize that Leki is getting stronger than the other guy, don't you, Priest? And then let Choi and I build up our experience in action. Oh, mercenaries, adventurers, whatever. Well, as a Sister, it's a good place to disqualify!

Gahaha, and laughing like the rest of the HR, Ryan drinks the jock in his hand looking really yummy. How many glasses do you have? I don't even know if I fell down, because I can't use healing magic.

However, Ryan is also right. Leki actually has enough skill to get me and non-Ryan vigilantes beaten down with little problem. Even though she doesn't teach you anything about the iroha of swordsmanship, she is currently giving up her skills in a progressive fashion.

The speed and sharpness of the sword increasing from day to day, the strength felt in moments of impact, truly remarkable. I mean it, not flattery, and I think I can grow up just to get me a blow before I travel.

"But that's the problem."

"Leki is Death, who can't go with Master Chloe. I want to go, Death... but Leki has Ur"

Ursula, who makes me her best friend and also thinks like her sister because she's one younger. Leki got stronger just because he wanted to protect her.

If you acquire combat skills and are Leki, who is even better at stamina than an adult in line, you will be able to do the normal journey without any problems, and if you want to do it, you will be able to challenge the dungeon offense. But Ursula is a normal child.

Leaving aside all the circumstances, whether it is purely possible or impossible, my journey, precisely my escape to return to Sparda, will be possible if Leki is capable. Ursula, on the other hand, is impossible without even thinking about it.

And it's also impossible for Leki to be separated from Ursula. I think about it now. I was wondering if the two of them came all the way to this pioneering village just because they weren't taken away because they were second-degree gods of different ethnicities. I wonder if the guardian, Priest Nicolai, also brought his two children far into the land of Pandora, even after some imposition, because he thought they should not be separated.

"Oh, yeah. Ursula is protected by Leki. Keep working out, even if I'm gone. You already know how to be strong, right?

"... Yes"

I think I'm going to cry now, but Leki, who wept and didn't even say Wagamama, just squeezed out affirmative words, is great. Really, what a good boy.

Unexpectedly, I was stroking her dog-eared blonde hair.

"Hey, you're making me cry, priest."

I decided to give Ryan a tight shot at training tomorrow.

On the day before the Sabbath, it was customary for Chrono and Leki to have dinner at the liquor store a month earlier. It was also something that Saliel and Ursula, the church's answering machine, were already used to quietly surrounding the table for two.

Even this one is a very dear personality Ursula against the silent Sariel. Awkward, I thought you'd be surrounded by such silence that you're not on a level, surprisingly, you're not.

"The Adventures of Abel the Brave, Episode XII: The Encounter of Destiny"

After finishing the meal and cleaning up early, Sariel says so when Ursula returns to her seat.

"Remember last time?"

"Abel, who was dropped into slavery for covering up a pagan master, is on his way to being transported to a paid down slave trader, and sees a gap and escapes. I killed all the merchants and the escorts, but Abel's a wreck and a pinch."

Ursula talking about slurs and exact alas. Sariel knows her brilliance in understanding and remembering perfectly once she listens. Therefore, the question to Ursula is just like a promise.

"Now let's begin -"

What would have prompted Saliel to start talking about Abel?

In the first place, she had a conversation with Ursula and Matomo about the day Chrono had his first simulated battle with Leki. Ursula, who did not participate in the training, spoke to Saliel as to whether she was spared time or of little interest.

The content was exemplary for apprentice sisters to question regular sisters.

"How did Renault, the saint I learned in today's class, get broken when he was such an amazing man? The book only says you broke the commandments, so you don't know what you did to get broken."

To her question, Sariel answered instantly.

"Because he was a homosexual," he discovered.

"Why did you find out?

"It was a well-known fact. But the problem surfaced when he raped a midnight boy who was serving the Cardinal. The fact that the boy was in a deep mistress relationship with the Cardinal made him particularly angry, instant bankruptcy and deportation."

Without embarrassment, Ursula said this to Sariel, who lightly exposes the embarrassing history of the Crucifixion.

"Thank you, for telling me the truth. Sister Yuri, I like you."

Sariel saw a blurry, faceless Ursula smile for the first time at this time.

As such, Sariel, liked by Ursula, continued to answer her questions every time. The answers were complex interpretations and logic that were incomprehensible to children, or even cruel facts that should definitely be put off if they were legitimate adults.

But Sariel's answer, which never lies, has increasingly led to the acquisition of Ursula's favor and respect, and a sort of trust. Saliel was also admired by Ursula, as Leki always admired Chrono for taking all his strength from the front.

Ursula like that came across this question one day.

"What is the legend of the white brave Abel... is it true?

As always, Sariel answers instantly.

"The legend acknowledges some perversion, but all the achievements of the Second Apostle Abel are true"

Sister Yuri, who is not lying, affirmed. For Ursula it is the moment when a magnificent legend, which she thought was also very suspicious to the child's mind, became true.

"I need to know more about Abel."

"So let's get right to the story I know and tell it."

"Story?"

"Yes. Titled -" The Legend of Abel the Brave ""

That's the same name as the story Krono once wrote when he was Mahogany Kurono. But its content is not a fantasy fiction of good and evil, full of dreams, courage and hope, conceived by the child Mahogany Kurono.

Abel, how did a man by the name come to be called the 'White Brave'? It is a record of reality, painted with blood, malice and despair.

"- Abel continued wandering through the snow forest for three days and three nights."

The story of the brave man who told Ursula had finished his harsh childhood edition and was entering the juvenile edition.

At the time, the fourteen-year-old Abel boy has gone on to the point where he began to flee, painfully slaughtering slave traders and escort mercenaries with his bare hands, stealing equipment and money.

Abel, who committed the great crime of killing a merchant, his husband, on top of a slave, left the streets and divided them into deep woods to escape the eyes of the Knights and the Gendarmerie. But there is the northern limit of the national territory in the Sinclair Republic at the time. It is a pioneering area on the border, where half of the year is closed to snow. Besides the season is winter.

Whatever you think, it was a situation of absolute desperation, with nothing more than wild drowning to death.

"So Abel meets one girl"

He miraculously found people in the woods.

"Girl in red headscarf with clear platinum hair and shining jade eyes"

"... I know. He even knows Leki."

In other words, in modern times, celebrities enough to know their names even for orphans without schooling. No one in the Sinclair Republic knows his name.

"Yes, the girl's name is Alice. Real name, Alice in Godland Sinclair. I am the queen of the ninety-ninth Sinclair Republic."

And she was the girl who would be Abel's wife. Right, fate meets...

"Are you sure, really?

"It's true."

Saliel still responds instantly to Ursula's realistic cold gaze as a child, which is too convenient.

But even the servant Sariel couldn't say "I've heard it from him" at that time. I don't lie, but I can hide things.

"But if it's true... hey, you look like Lord Chloe"

"It is a coincidence that you will be hidden in a pioneering village before you escape the danger of your life."

Alice was, of course, not just a wacko walking in the depths of the snow forest by herself at the time. Just that Abel accidentally went out to a place where there was a village that was admirably exploring the forest.

Second Apostle Abel himself said.

"When I saw Alice, help me, I just said one word, it was the limit. He fell on the spot, and the next time he woke up, he was on the bed."

Saliel remembered that Abel's face, presenting the wine single-handedly to Mass and Maribel, who gathered memorabilia from far centuries ago on the spot, had the tired look of an old man who was a young, fierce young man but who had decided to hide in neglect of secularism.

"The book I read before only said that the village was soon lost due to the invasion of Barbados. But when Abel spent time in the village, there must be an important episode hidden that grabs Alice's heart. I want to know."

Ursula's blue eyes sparkle with curiosity, more like glitter. Sariel can't tell if it's a girly sensibility from the time she loves to talk about love, or if it's a carefree desire to uncover the stories of the legendary brave man's naked love.

"I don't know if it meets my expectations, but I know how life is in the village and some stories. The first is..."

"I'm home."

"I'm home, Dace"

Two voices arrived with the sound of the chapel door opening, interrupting the story.

"That's it for today."

"It was a good place."

After a slight spill of dissatisfaction with a slight pointy tip of his mouth, Ursula took a seat to welcome the two of them.

"Ugh, I'm tired today, so I'm going to sleep first, Gunnay"

It's always unusual for a cheerful leki to say that and just pulled into the room.

The day is already gone, so it's a good time to go to bed any time now, but the usual time to go to bed is just over an hour away. It's not a wack we're staying up specially late at night.

Without magic, lights like lamps and canteras are the lights, but their fuel, alchemy oil (oil), is inexpensive and somewhat of an evening in every house. It was the same in Sinclair and Sparda that the system of mass production of alchemy oil (oil) had been established.

"Sorry to leave you always, you see, today's souvenir"

It is also my custom to bring home some knobs offered at the tavern.

On the table, place a baked treat like a subdued sweet cookie and one bottle of commonly priced wine.

"Oh, it's still burnt."

"Thank you, brother"

I drink with Sariel once in a while. There's no big reason for that, but if you insist, is it one of those performances that keeps Leki and Ursula from questioning our relationship?

Even if you don't have much room with Sariel, there's a chance you'll be taken into account. Especially since Leki is sharp and Ursula is oddly sensitive.

Well, maybe you two are finding out so much about my lies...

Speaking of which, you two got along pretty well.

I waved that story as I surrounded the table in the face of the three rarely missing Leki.

Sister Yuri will tell you anything.

"Heh, what are you teaching me?

"Bible, history, details not in textbooks"

"Ursula is keen to study."

I thought it was a bit more obnoxious. No, although I can't imagine Sariel having stories that would make a fool out of a child.

Ursula seemed somewhere into the wind of her interest in eroticism about how interesting the romantic novel I bought her... but maybe she has a clergy talent for what the crucifixion relationship is at the heart of her interest.

"Ursula is a very smart kid. I'll remember what I taught you once."

"Oh, I think that too. Leki is still an extra deduction, but Ursula is already a four-rule operation in the fraction."

The classes I'm giving in the morning are still as long as the students miss just two of our kids, but that's why they also allow man-to-man instruction. It was at first that I taught the same range at the same pace, but the academic difference between the two was obvious in three days, and I decided earlier that it would be more efficient to teach individually.

Even Sariel can teach you how to study without hands and feet. My experience as an apostle is battle-only, because Mr. Shirazaki's memory is packed with the same knowledge as mine or more as of his sophomore year in high school.

Anyway, Ursula's academic achievement grew unceremoniously as a result of a one-on-one, dedicated tutoring state in this world that would only receive about noble children.

"Hmm, it's embarrassing when you're so praised"

Ursula's face, munching with both palms on her cheeks, can be seen faintly loose.

This child is usually as boisterous and faceless as Fiona and lacks change, but for some reason she is childish and the joy and sorrow is clear. Now, I guess it's because you're intellectually curious and Ursula smart enough to accurately understand adult stories, that you can hang out with Saliel, the puppet-like.

"I think I've been dealing with Leki most of the time, and you never really talked to Ursula. I'm sorry if I seem so grumpy."

"Yeah, Leki seems to enjoy it, and I'm happy with it. Chloe is the only one who can deal with Leki at all costs."

It would have been the role of parents to take all of their children. But you shouldn't say that, and you shouldn't let these kids care.

"Me too, it's fun to work with Leki. That kid is a genius. Every day, no, even during a single battle, you can see the movement changing visibly."

No mentor feels so grown up and not happy about it. Perhaps it's more about Leki's talent than my mentoring is great.

"Dear Chloe, there is no forgiveness these days. I saw Leki fly when he kicked me all I wanted."

"That's how I'm getting caught off guard."

If you fight back half-baked, it's not weird to eat a handached counter. Leki can't be stopped without some damage or impact.

"Maybe it makes me look like I'm bullying Leki?

Second, such a question passes my chest. As far as I'm concerned, I'm always serious, and I'm going to do my best to train with Leki, but from the villagers I see flying around all the time, do you think they seem to be letting the girls you want get extreme shigoki?

I'm the one who just took Rinfeld hostage for a little while and gets a sleigh like the big bad guy in heaven, a livestock outer road from an enemy ally as well. It's not an impossible story.

"It's okay, I know exactly what I'm doing."

"Well, that would be nice"

The boulder is Ursula. Understandable and helpful.

"I also watch Leki, kicked by Chloe, jump up with a very happy face. Leki would love to be kicked, so you can kick more."

Wait, is that understanding really correct?

"Hey, Leki wasn't happy to have been kicked otherwise -"

"It's okay, I know exactly what I'm doing."

Exactly the same dialogue just now, but I wonder why, the impression I get is completely different. Watching Ursula with a confident expression strikes me with the same anxiety I felt when I saw Fiona with Doya's face.

Well, if I poke at this topic any more, I feel like I'm going to be a snake. Let's get out of the way.

"Speaking of which, after all, Ursula, aren't you good at exercising?

"... I'm not happy to be kicked"

I won't kick it. Do I look like a crazy person with a head over a very bad person who would kick anyone's ass if I saw him as a child? I want to hope I don't see it.

"It's okay, 'cause I'm not inviting you to training. Because people are bad at what they do."

"Yeah, I don't like to move"

"So what about magic? He's smart, and he seems apt."

That was just something I said, with little thought.

However, Ursula's change was remarkable.

"... magic, I can't"

(c) In the next moment, when he looked so surprised, he mumbled like that, nagging with a dark face.

Um, maybe I, uh, stepped on some kind of mine?

"Ursula doesn't have magical aptitudes," he said.

In an instantly awkward atmosphere, it was Saliel who made the flat statement.

"Really?

"Yes, I've heard that before, and I'm very sorry about that."

I see, was it exposed to Sariel?

I guess I admired the magic quite a bit in making it look so depressed.

Whether there is a magical aptitude or not, various ways have been created in a world where this presence of magic has become widespread.

I've seen most wizard-like crystal ball measuring instruments in seminaries, and at the Pandora Temple, I can get a fitness test with a shelter and a set.

Normally, I don't have to measure aptitude to figure it out for myself. Even I, the Japanese of the perception that magic is fantasy, could feel magic if it was modified, and I activated the pile bunker during various manoeuvre experiments.

Therefore, it is unclear what measurements Ursula has taken before, but if she even bothered to test and say "aptitude nasi," then she has zero magical talent and qualities.

"I'm sorry, you reminded me of something I didn't like."

"Yeah, nothing, I'm fine."

Even if it's just a strength, Ursula would be a strong kid to say so.

Still, I just had to look for another path, like Simon, and I didn't feel like saying anything about following him right away. It would be auspicious to change the subject here.

"Oh, yeah, they're coming back next week for the traffickers. You can give Ursula another gift as she works hard to study. What would you like? Shall we make it another novel?

"True! You know, Lord Chloe, I..."

Seeing Ursula, who seems to be fishing with things and whispering guilt, but looks honestly happy with her clear blue eyes, that doesn't bother me at all.

That's how we continued the fun chat that evening until a little later than usual. It's okay, because I'm off tomorrow anyway.