Monster no Goshujin-sama

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Someone important to you.

Or the world?

Choose one.

When they ask you that, there won't be anyone who can give you an instant answer.

Beyond being a question of both, the question is the same as' choose which one to cut off '.

Now if anyone can answer that lightly, it's almost like a monster.

At least, I couldn't do it.

Open your mouth, close it and repeat several times.

Breathe like a gasp.

But then I answered.

"... I want to live in this world with my people"

Clearly, I said.

"There's no way I can get dumped"

I ran out of words.

For a long time, the answer had been decided.

It just took courage to say it.

"... right"

Maybe Harrison expected this answer.

This man understands me.

Or maybe that's why I've been trying to kill you.

"Then you are the evil that does the world harm"

With hostility, Harrison broke off.

I wasn't going to be able to deny it.

I just want to protect something important, and I've never fought for your great righteousness to protect the world.

It didn't work on the axis of justice or evil.

So even if it was an evil and a cursed act, you can't throw away what matters.

I couldn't abandon my people, even if the world and the balance put them on.

For me, my people are heavier than the world.

That's what Harrison pointed out earlier.

"Destroy the world with your ego."

So there's no other way to be told.

That's what I was saying.

... though it was another matter of whether to affirm it.

"Don't say anything unsolicited. I'm not going to destroy the world."

"... what?

I looked at Harrison with a suspicious face from the front.

I didn't mean to be all told.

"I'm not going to throw away anything important. But that's why I don't care about everything else."

It was a natural story.

Some people have become close to Akel.

I have a place that you accepted.

No. Even the uninvolved can't possibly seem to sacrifice for themselves.

As one of the "and many others" once, there is no way that a person who is dying casually and unharmed can do that.

"I can't be that arrogant to sacrifice anything else."

"... then what will you do?"

"It's decided."

And I answered the inquiry, which was raised with a groaning voice.

"I won't let my people kill me, and I will avoid the debacle of the world. Find a way to lose them both."

If you compromise and only choose one, you don't need to bother to squeeze your courage.

It took courage to speak of it because we would choose the most difficult path not to lose either.

Nevertheless, such a response may have felt uncomfortable, depending on how it was perceived.

Or even a declaration of war.

"... give me a licked response"

The heavy pressure being directed has become so strong.

"I told you to choose one."

Sharp light no longer makes itself feel even physical pressure.

If you're a weak-minded person, you'll probably fall apart. But......

"What do you know?"

I truncated the words from the front.

There was just a reason to do so.

In the first place, this is not a question of choice.

Because if this world is gone, neither of us can live.

Harrison's inquiry is in fact nothing more than 'choose between letting the lilies die or dying with the lilies'.

Either way, it doesn't change losing an important existence.

I'm sorry about that.

You don't have to choose which one to live with Lily and the others.

We have to do something about both.

No matter how difficult it is.

"... Ha"

Harrison gave a dry laugh.

"He said he wasn't arrogant. Don't make me laugh. Do you know what you're talking about? That's what heroes do."

"What's wrong with that?"

Bump words from the front.

I won't take a step back.

"If we all need it to live, we'll do whatever it takes. It has always been and will always be."

The great language is above understanding.

Still, this was an occasion to say the least.

Besides, I wasn't alone.

"Actually, it's possible, right?"

Kato opened his mouth.

She always follows me beyond my reach.

Everyone else does, too.

That's why I was brave enough to take a path that neither of us would give up.

"If the earlier reasoning is correct, an elf contrary to the 'worldview' should be strange if it has not been eliminated. But the elves are still alive. Rooted in this world, it is accepted as normal. How could this be? Isn't there something we haven't talked about earlier?

……

Harrison did not answer.

Whatever you say, maybe you're feeling like you're going to be spotted.

Nevertheless, it was not possible to escape the pursuit in silence.

"I don't mind if you don't answer. As a matter of fact, I have an idea. Perhaps the elves have already been incorporated into the Worldview?

"You..."

"Otherwise, it doesn't make sense. In other words, the" worldview "set by the first brave man can be changed. Of course, it must be very difficult because if you can easily change it, you should be making it more suitable for the present. but never impossible"

"Or," Kato smiled.

It was a beautiful grin with no emotions.

"If not, it simply means that all the stories up until earlier were lies. For example, the head of the Knights of the Diocese will even have a sense of creation. Oh, I've come up with a good thing. Why don't we just enjoy ourselves and spread this story around the world?"

"Stop."

Harrison uttered a bitter voice.

If we do that, that's what people's 'worldview' will be like.

Harrison will never get past this.

"You're absolutely right. The presence of the elves has already been written in the 'Worldview'"

I admitted Kato's point.

"It's about the Great Breakdown. The elves came into contact with the cornerstone of the world. It is believed at this time to have rewritten the" worldview "via the" cornerstone of the world ". But I didn't know what I was doing at the time."

"Didn't you get it?

"It was a long time after the Great Break that we got the least amount of information from The Foundations of the World. As we looked into the truth about the unprecedented catastrophic catastrophic debacle, we found that the cause was the elves, and the Cathedral Church at the time moved secretly to destroy them so that the same thing would never happen again. That was the war between empires and allied nations in the past. The Empire fought the allied nations on the border sheltering the elves - as a result, once again, destabilizing the world"

"By then, the elves had already been incorporated into the Worldview."

"That's right. So the church, having grasped the full story for the first time, stopped the war"

"As a result, the elves continue to live to this day..."

Mr. Kato has been eye-catching.

I snorted back.

This was a harvest.

With your loved ones, this world.

There is a way to take them both.

The key is the 'cornerstone of the world'.

It's a magic tool kept by the Cathedral Church.

"Are you going to rewrite 'Worldview'"

In response to the inquiry, I turned again to Harrison.

"It's possible we don't have to miss it all. You can't just give up."

"... right"

Unlike earlier, Harrison didn't say anything to blame.

He uncovered the circumstances of the world, poked out the difficulties of the situation, and inquired as much as he was prepared.

This conversation was thorough, an 'attack' to make me give up.

Conversely, there's no point in continuing to attack more than finding it still unshakeable.

Harrison just looked at me a little dazzled.

"Do you fight to not lose anything? It's not a hero's vessel, it's not meant to be a hero, but it can be a hero if it's for something important. Again, you..."

I don't know what sentiments were included in the zero words.

It's just a glimpse of this steel guy.

I could deduce that the emotion was something big.

... Whatever that was, the man's beliefs never wavered.

"Then you are my enemy"

Harrison said as he grabbed the treasure ball of fist from his nostalgia.

The will of steel was there.

"Just because something's worked out before doesn't mean it's the same this time. There can be more fatal glitches than touching the backbone of the world. I must eliminate the danger beyond the possibility of losing everything."

Don't you give up because you may not lose anything?

Do you make me stop because I could lose everything?

If you are in a different position, the options to be prioritized will change.

Harrison-Addington is the keeper of peace in the world.

He swears he will protect the world, just as I have decided to protect his family no matter what.

Harrison has decided what needs to be done more than the surest means of solving the problem is' the annihilation of Takahiro Mashima and his family '.

I will not be flushed by emotions.

He was calm.

"But now... you can't do this any more"

Harrison said the hostility would never fade.

"Let's get out of here."

While we were talking, I guess I was ready.

He worked on "The Foundations of the World," the treasure ball of fist magnitude that Harrison had in his hands.

"Once again, get out of the way."

Whatever it was, I was fine, but it wasn't an attack.

"This is..."

I remember this feeling.

Same as before, when the fog was lifted.

The contours of everything in the eye unwind.

If even the feeling of the ground beneath your feet becomes obscure, you can't move properly.

I was only aware of the weapon for a moment, but in the end, I held Kato's body tight to keep her from leaving.

Among the obscuring worlds, only humans retain a clear contour.

The scratchy man who confronts me looks to me only as an enemy.

- I was sitting in the wilderness.

Kato with a distracted face in his arm.

Looking back, Salvia has shrugged her shoulders.

Apparently, he was ejected outside the other world.

In other words, it also meant that he was freed from the world in which he was imprisoned.

"... were you able to escape"

Tapping through the feel of the pass, we all seemed to be escaping from the other world, though it was only the distance.

I can feel confused about the too abrupt change of circumstances, but I guess I noticed right here.

Start moving.

The rendezvous is easy unless it is separated by a passage, as was the case earlier.

Yeah, we'll be able to rendezvous without taking time.

If he pulled his sleeve and dropped his gaze, Kato was smiling in his arms.

"It's our victory, seniors"

"... right"

You can call it a victory.

Sudden transfers and obstinate raids all dialed away.

Kanahiko, who had been deprived of his freedom, was freed, and Kato, who had been grabbed, was thus able to regain it.

Nothing was lost, on the other hand, we got the information we needed.

... Or should I say I was told?

Even as it was, we could have reached the truth of the world on our own.

But it could have been halfway.

The worst case scenario is that it touches how the world works with semi-productive knowledge.

That's the thing, I don't know what's going to happen.

I guess that's why Harrison talked.

It was an attack to make us give up, as well as time to convey the right knowledge.

Thoroughness, only to make the world less likely to lead to a crisis.

"Seniors..."

I gently hugged Kato, who was getting close to me, calling me worried.

"It's okay."

Whatever you think, it doesn't change what you're supposed to do.

At any rate, we could have known.

And then there's how it's going to work.

"Meet me first."

Meet Lily and the others to make sure everyone is safe.

Even Silan, who would be taking the captain out of the Imperial City, must rendezvous.

We'll all get together and talk about the future.

The truth about the world is heavy, but with everyone, I'm sure I can do anything.

"Shall we?"

"Yes, seniors"

I walked out of Kato's hand.