Reincarnation Monarch

"Hey, what are you doing? Colin."

Colin, who had always been suddenly called out by cheerful Edberg and had been delayed (fluttered) by his thoughts, was unintentionally vicious.

"No, I'm not bluffing. I was just thinking."

Colin always relied on elderly Edberg while he was a colleague.

Because Colin's reputation within the SS was not very fancy because of his too robust character, and only Edberg's presence, arguably his only friend, had barely prevented Colin's isolation within the Squad.

Speaking cheerfully to everyone and liked by everyone, Edberg had second voice in the squad to the captain, and because such Edberg called Colin a friend, it was the current situation that other members of the squad reluctantly put Colin in their circle of companions.

"Hmm. Didn't you even think about the little hard stuff again anyway?

I joked a little bit, Edberg said.

But as a matter of fact, Edberg deeply respected Colin, who was said to be such a stubborn man and was repelled by his peers.

Because in character, Edberg did not fall into the afterlife (carrot), but intelligence and sword skills were average, and people and Colin were so much better than the captain, even within the SS, who had talented talent to make their brains clear and sword skills second only to the captain.

So Edberg called Colin a close friend who was about to be isolated in the squad.

In other words, it was said that the two were complementary relationships, headlining and complementing each other with things that were not one another.

"Well, that's the place."

"Hmm. What the hell were you thinking?

Colin hesitated for a moment on Edberg's question, leaving only a few moments open before answering.

"... about the earlier assassination of a general..."

At that moment, Edberg looked around in a hurry to see if anyone had asked him, but fortunately the two were walking in the back row of the squad and a slight distance from those walking in front, so Edberg stroked his chest down relieved.

"Hey, don't say anything rare. There was no such incident. We just confirmed that."

Edberg said to Colin with caution, whispering as he weakened the speed of walking to further open the distance from those who walked in front.

"Oh, I certainly didn't think I'd agree to that earlier. But this is still an illogical act."

"Seriously, an act that doesn't make sense? I guess that means the Gorkos did what we've been looking at scattered, huh? It was an act of humanity for him to wear the authority of the present Pope. He was a jerk to spit on! No, it was nothing less than a kedamono!

"But it's the general. And our superiors."

"He's not human!

"Maybe. But we're not supposed to be the ones to judge it."

"Nothing. We didn't judge him. He's the one who ruled. It's Chester from Valentine."

Edberg said, pointing Chester far ahead with his jaw.

"No, you're not. He didn't judge. He didn't kill to try the general for his crimes, he just became an assassin to protect his superiors according to his logic."

"So who is it that you judge?

"That's why I told you earlier? We're the ones who ruled. It's not because we couldn't stop the General from assassinating him. As soon as we pardoned the assassin, we tried the general on our own."

"What do you mean... what do you mean?

"Why have we pardoned our assassins? They killed your superior officer right in front of you. Normally, I would be furious and chop it up because everyone wanted to, or I would push my anger to death and hang it up. But we didn't. Why?"

"That's... I mean... because he can't help but say that the Gorkos bastard was killed!

"That's right. We've made our own decisions. I mean, we've been judged."

Colin continued his long and wide tongue, approaching the baffled Edberg.

"Ready? At that time, we were able to raise wolf smoke to save 5,000 friends. Since General Gorkos has been under his command, he has never been allowed to do anything useful for others. That's why we were floating. That sudden assassination play and speech there. We were completely swallowed up by the air because we wanted to escape responsibility for the easy assassination of the escort. And we decided, after discussion, that there was no assassination in itself. General Gorkos decided to die as a result of a thousand years of dragon raids..."

"Swallow by the air..."

"Oh. The General was indeed an outrageous man. It could be less than a kedamono, as Edberg would say. But we are the general's escort."

"That's right, Colin, but he tried to drive 5,000 of his people to the dead to help himself, didn't he? You agreed to this when we discussed it as a very hostile and traitorous act."

"Oh, I sure am. It would have been a serious loss to the nation if five thousand of its compatriots had been wiped out by the dragons for a thousand years as it were. The general tried to do it intentionally, so naturally I think it's an act of enmity and a traitor."

"If so!"

"But! That's why we don't have the right to judge it! It's justice that does it, not us. All we have to do is detain the assassin Chester and send him to justice with General Gorkos."

"But..."

Edberg covered his face with both hands and was annoyed (soldering) as he shook it into small pieces.

Colin held Edberg's shoulder like that and whispered (sayingly) quietly in his ear.

"Remember, Edberg. Then who set you up so that there was no assassination first?"

"... who?

"Captain. The captain justified Shester's assassination as an emergency evacuation."

Edberg finally got there after desperately following his memories as he shook his face-covered hands into even smaller pieces.

"Oh... I did... I did"

"Hey Edberg. Why do you think the captain justified this so quickly?... that's because the captain is the biggest person responsible for the assassination."

At that moment, Edberg, who had covered his face with his hands until then, looked up all the way.

"Right! We have a responsibility, but the first thing they do is take responsibility."

"Oh, yeah. Which means the captain defended Chester of Valentine to escape his own responsibility."

"Were we put on the captain? Colin."

"That's right. As a result, we acted against reason. So! We have to get it back to the way it should be! Edberg!"

"What are you doing?

"It's settled, isn't it? We need to capture Shester and the captain and send him to justice!