Master of the brave.

"You've been here quite a while."

"I'm glad Leena's looking good."

"Let's not go face to face again"

"Then I'd love to invite you, too."

Three people, Winn, Leticia and Cornelia, who had resigned from Laura's house, were walking on a small trail stretching between the grazing land and the farm.

Between the ridges of the mountains you can see in the distance, you can see the leaning sun.

"But after all, the people who were caught in the Glades were the ones who could use magic."

The victims of the disappearance in the Glades that Laura heard about were still many of them capable of using magic.

Some of the incidents seemed separate, but they still occur more frequently.

The wizard who lives in the ghetto is a deserter, or he who can no longer live in the city, or his sorcerer was his parent.

They provided the technology they could use to eat, even if they never worked in the city.

Medical acts by magic, astrology, and sometimes rough things like caution sticks.

Some of them taught letters and arithmetic in exchange for a small amount of money - and simple magic such as "Ignition" and "Light" for everyone to use.

Mages are treated with some respect and awe, even those who live in slums, because they wield a power called magic.

If they are also parties to the disappearance, it will be rumoured even in the ghetto, where the disappearance of some people is routinely rampant.

Laura was particularly sensitive to rumors like that, not only because she does business in and out of the Imperial Capital, but also because it is a situation where her daughter, Iferina, could be targeted if known to the bad guys: the wing race.

Thanks to this, the Winns were able to get a lot of information from Laura.

Of course, not all of Laura's information is correct, so we have to listen and retrieve it in the Glades, but the difficulty of investigating it will change if there is no previous information.

"Want to tell Mr. Rock about this and visit someone Laura introduced you to?

Laura seems to know someone close to one of the disappeared magicians, and she drew me a map of where the person lived.

Winn nodded at Leticia's inquiry.

"Right. The Wizard who lives in the Glades will stand out, for better or worse, and if he disappears, it will be a rumor. I just..."

When Winn said that, he saw Leticia and Cornelia.

Wynn never lived in the Glades, but he used to go in and out several times when he was working as an adventurer.

It is a city full of large numbers of unemployed and inhabited by many people in simple huts using waste materials.

They are all who spend their time dressed up.

Win and Rock are still fine.

Since the two men were originally civilians, they would not be suspected if they wore plain clothes or wore servants who came to buy them out of the city or even dressed as worst adventurers.

But Leticia and Cornelia.

A biological nobleman.

Even in the city of Imperial City, the presence of the two stands out.

I just put on civilian clothes like Wynn and Rock, and I wouldn't be able to hide my growing up.

I wonder if the Glades are too dangerous for Master Cornelia.

"Is it dangerous?

Cornelia looked at Wynn.

"A ghetto is an illegal zone of robbery, murder, kidnapping, its rape and anything else if it goes a little off the road and into the back street. Even guards and knights can't walk alone."

Leticia is still good.

Whoever tries to impugn her imitation will, on the contrary, learn a painful lesson.

"To walk over there, you must always be attentive to your surroundings. Never forgive the inhabitants. Even if they're children, alarm is an enemy."

"Even to children......?

Winn nodded.

When crops fail in many rural areas, children are sold or the elderly abandoned to reduce food support and to obtain money for the time being.

They also flow to the ghetto, where they can see their children dressed like bollows, with their vain eyes.

They're desperate to live like that, too.

In order to get a small amount of food, money, they dye their hands at criminal activities such as pickpocketing, putting away, and sometimes the children form a prison party to create a robbery group.

Children without power in slums can be the gateway to violence in adult outfits.

Fishing for leftovers and working for stealing, they are easy to buy the hatred of the city's people, and the majority of children often lose their lives before they grow up.

Even the few who survive will live as criminals, with the exception of a very small number of those named after adventurers and others.

"Not everyone is born a criminal. But I can't live without dyeing my hands in crime."

"If my destiny was a little crazy too, I might have been," Winn laughed lightly.

"Still, why don't you come and show me around?

"Master Cornelia?

In Cornelia's tone, Winn looked back at her as she stopped her leg, feeling some real sound.

"I've been thinking about it for a long time. If it is eighteen, I will also begin to carry out official duties. You will become involved in government affairs. That will surely make freedom less advantageous, as it is now. No one will ever let me see the shadow..."

Cornelia stared straight at Winn.

"It's the only time. An opportunity to see its shadow. As someone involved in the affairs of the Empire, I need to see it......

It is because of us, the rulers of the empire, who are distracting themselves from the shadows of it, that we are savouring our subjects so much hardship that they can only live in a poor place. "

To survive the battle against demons, the Empire once concentrated power on the royal family to the nobles to the Knights.

We had to choose a system of unanimity.

But how long has too much power been allowed to grow into something that only exploits the subjects?

With the exception of some nobles, they have made sacrifices to their subjects just to fatten their own private bellies.

In order to unlock the situation, Cornelia must now look at the current situation.

"That's not all..."

Leticia, who was walking ahead, stopped, said in a quiet tone.

"That's not all. There is an incredible disparity between the areas damaged by demons and those that were not."

Even in the Lemursil Empire, near the northern border - where, by demonic raids, many cities had become burning fields.

The fields were lost and numerous villages were separated.

In addition, the murders caused by weather irregularities that occurred a few years ago occurred, and starvation struck people.

But ironically it was also the military that was saving those people.

People who were chased home were able to get food by volunteering for the military.

As I mentioned earlier, the country, because mankind needed to bet its survival on fighting demons, had supplies replenished at the top of its pre-construction priorities.

For this reason, even if he were to eat up, he would not have had trouble eating.

Of course, many lose their lives in the battle against demons.

But if it is a starving fate that cannot escape and an army that, with luck on its side, may be able to survive, the choice becomes one.

But...

"The defeat of the Demon King collapsed the demonic dominance, and the Allies against the Demon Continent lost their need for it.

But that's not about losing the military power we have right now. The country, which remained enormously wary, began to look for new places to turn its spearhead.

It is also true that the merchants were moistened by the war. But the end of the war has led to the loss of huge consumers, stagnation without selling things, and massive numbers of unemployed... and the confusion still doesn't show any signs of subsidence "

Leticia had her face in the direction of the setting sun.

Leticia's golden hair, illuminated by the sunset, was reddish and radiant, whilst gently playing with the wind across the meadows.

The figure is unwittingly beautiful by Winn and Cornelia, and gives a sad impression somewhere -.

"The land of the north, which was ruled by the Demon King, is still stretched out by the earth, which has become barren by its temper. The army, which was the receptacle, has no room to accept new people, and people who have been chased home, who have lost their jobs, flow to countries in the South with little hope…"

Leticia speaking in a quiet tone.

"Hey, brother. People all over the world call me the brave one, and they call me the savior, but I'm also the one who created the mess in this world today."

Leticia looked back.

As the sun is shooting in from behind, its expression is shadowed and invisible to Winn and Cornelia.

Many were saved by defeating the Demon King.

Some will rejoice that you have taken your vengeance.

On the other hand, suppliers that have lost demand - the battlefield - have created massive unemployment.

Demon King - In a country that did not directly relate to demons, they smell everywhere to wield stored military power without draining it, and refugees are experiencing massive outbreaks beyond the acceptance tolerances of each country.

There is no doubt that some of these aspects of social turmoil were created by Leticia, the brave man.

But...

Those who have lost their homes.

Those who have lost their jobs.

who will die in the war that is to come.

Being weak, they simply continue to give Leticia their heartfelt thanks without realizing or realizing that the culprit who created the situation is a brave man.

"Did I really save the world?

Did I really do something to be appreciated?

I'm really just like the Demon King, and I guess I just added more misfortune to the world?

"That's not true, Master Leticia."

Cornelia says in a strong tone to Leticia, who asked so.

"The world is indeed in disarray with post-war processing.

The unemployed and refugees have overflowed the city, security has deteriorated and a country exhausted in the fight against demons has become a spearhead in the military power of a country that is not.

It's the same as the Empire - our country is losing a lot of talent, and Petersia is reaching out to invade our country with tiger vision. "

Cornelia lay down her eyes there for the first time, but then gently held Leticia.

"But these issues are not one for which Lady Leticia should be held accountable.

Master Leticia has removed a great difficulty beyond our control. That's a problem that we exchangers could never solve, no matter how hard we try.

But things are different now. Indeed, the chaos in the world is very great.

But these problems can be solved by us - no, the next thing we need to do is work on them. "

"Hey, Letty."

Leticia looks at Wynn as Cornelia hugs her.

"Do you remember Mr. Poulat saying, 'Our child has become a world where there is hope for the future'?

"Yeah."

"Letty says the defeat of the Demon King has caused a lot of social chaos and created a lot of new misfortunes again, but I think Mr. Poulat's word is everything.

The chaos in the world should be rectified one by one. We just need to move forward towards a world where we can all be happy. That's a very difficult thing to do, and I know it's not something I can accomplish right away.

But when there was a demon king, people were in a situation where they couldn't even think about that. Some people couldn't see tomorrow. Some were ruled by despair - "

One of them is Sarah Ferrule.

A person who lost sight of his faith and tried to end the world once and for all by summoning a destructive god.

"But not now. The demon king was defeated, and people had time. Even if difficult problems cannot be solved in the present generation, they can be entrusted to the next generation.

Letty gave that opportunity to so many people in the world. "

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(I don't know too much)

Cornelia monologues in her heart.

It was curiosity that followed the Winns.

I wanted to see a market full of vibrancy to listen to just the stories.

I wanted to walk outside the Imperial City on my own feet and experience the air, its breadth.

Locke went to the Adventurer Guild to help the Knights with their assignment, Winn and Leticia, and Celi introduced me to Laura to hear what was going on.

Only myself, while giving the reason that Winn is his squire so he can move, really just followed me for the selfish reason that I want to satisfy my curiosity.

Cornelia steals Leticia walking softly forward.

Leticia's monologue...

I wonder how much she sees when she has been celebrated as a brave man at a time of many feelings and has seen the world.

She is two years younger than Cornelia - but what carries on that little back is far heavier than herself, the Empire's Empress.

Defeating the Demon King, saving the world - even fulfilling a feat no one could have achieved - continues to haunt the chaos of the world that strikes afterwards as something they themselves have invited.

(I don't know anything)

Alfred, my brother, told me to go to Knights School.

There, a large number of knights were passed by aristocrats and wealthy students who aspired to be mages, some of them even civilians, like Wynn.

The outside world was first met outside the palace by Cornelia, who was dearly raised in the deepest part of the palace.

Visiting Wynn, who became my friend, I went out to the city as well.

Cornelia's world of knowledge seemed to be expanding slightly, but it still seems to be narrow.

A ghetto where crime is more common...

A city created by those who were chased home in the battle against demons, those who lost their jobs and made it to the city to live in search of work.

There hunger, disease and violence prevail, and powerless children and the elderly are trampled down, losing their lives as they do every day.

Even under Cornelia's feet, there is such a world spread right around the corner.

The people who live in the Empire, it's the same people who live in the Glades. I have a duty to protect them as one of the leaders of the Empire.

Cornelia decides as she looks at Winn and Leticia's back as she walks closer to him.

From Alexei, my father, as before, my brother, Alfred, tells me not to act, but to my own volition.

On that day to come, so that we can form something as empire princesses.

- More, let's see the world with our own eyes.