Across the world trees, the backtown is located on the other side of the Royal Alheim Castle. This backtown is dim even at noon because the sun's light is almost blocked by world trees.
An old drinker in a corner there. A muscular man, rare as an elf, was drinking to be bathed alone.
"Damn, why me?"
The man who squeals so fought Hurt in the first round in a militant tournament that determines who will marry Tina, and was a defeated former (...) General of the National Army.
He was blamed for a light loss to Hart after the tournament and had lost that position.
It's not like he was weak.
The other guy was bad.
In fact, the former general was the strongest in Alheim, except King Elf and Salion, the deacon who serves the king.
It was on his own that the nobles decided to let the former general fight Hart in order to get Hart out of the way of the tournament.
But it wasn't a bad story for the former general either. Defeat a man's boy and abstain from complaining of his ill health before his next battle with his noble son.
That's all we were going to get.
But he lost.
It's also in a self-destructive way.
The angry nobles, who carried the matter according to plan, advanced the replacement of the general.
King Elf tried to stop it, but decided to force the General's discharge without any difficulty because he lost too lightly and because all ministers were in favor of replacing the General.
And he's here now. My eyes dazzled by the large sums of money piled in front of me and I lost my job.
And the nobles paid no more.
I lost, so...
He had no family.
I have put my heart and soul into building up my own martial arts and men.
But he wasn't a complete samurai.
The salaries he had earned in the post of general were mostly consumed for women's play and alcohol.
The house was on loan from the military, and now that I've been discharged, I've been kicked out.
Received a modest retirement pension, considerably reduced by disgrace discharge, and he is drinking here and now.
It made a noise that was about to break and opened the door of a drinker that was still about to collapse.
"Admiral, was it this way!
An elf with an eyelid came in one eye.
She was a former general's subordinate.
"You or I am no longer the Admiral. Don't call me that."
"But I..."
The ex-general had noticed that the elves in his eyelids admired themselves.
Once upon a time, since I helped where the demons were attacking me, I had worked out that I was desperate to give back my favor to the former general, and even climbed up to the deputy commander of the National Army.
"You'll have a job. Go back. Maybe the next general will have you."
"You're the only one in charge of me! I don't need your loose army. I have also beaten up and discharged the nobles who fooled you earlier!
"You... do something stupid"
With that said, the former general was pleased.
At the same time, I am ashamed of who I am now.
No house, no money. I was just a drinker in a backtown like this.
"... vengeance, don't you?
"Hey, what are you talking about?
"The reason you're seeing this is because of that man's clan! It's King Elf's fault! Of nobility, it's the minister's fault! It's this country's fault!!
An eyelid elf stuffs the former general.
And I took that eyelid off.
"Oh, you, my eyes!?"
Once upon a time, the eyes that were supposed to have been attacked by demons and blinded glowed red, staring at the former general.
Hate overflowed from the bottom of the Admiral's heart.
Hate.
I hate the people who put me to shame.
I hate King Elf for having me discharged.
The nobles who plotted me hated the ministers.
I hate this country. I hate it.
The general's heart was anointed black with hatred.
"I want revenge on this country. Can you give me a hand?
"Absolutely."
"What are you guys talking about?"
The drinker's husband, who was listening to this conversation, tried to escape.
But a few steps forward and he collapsed onto the spot.
A dagger thrown by an eyelid elf pierced his back.
Despite the fact that his men killed citizens, the former general thought nothing of it.
"I want revenge as flashly as possible. Is there any better way?
"I'll take care of it. Let us give despair to all who live in this country."
"Oh, that's exciting"
The former Admiral and the eyelid woman Elf disappeared into the darkness of the backtown as they left their husband's lost drinker.