Lawrence Reinhardt's father was an alchemist.
It was my job to make an alloy of misthrills to be used for mining tsuruhashi, and I was wholesale that to the tsuruhashi workshop.
My father was proud of Lawrence.
My father's work was never the kind of thing that touched the eyes, but I thought it was a job that supported this country.
It was when Lawrence was seven that dark clouds began to drift in my father's way.
I didn't really know what had happened to young Lawrence, but I remember a terrible looking debt taker starting to visit the house day after day and my father was grumpy and drinking more than usual.
At one point, Lawrence broke in without thinking later to help his father, who had been beaten to death by three adults.
Lawrence vowed to take the opportunity to become stronger, although he did not seem to have been hurt badly.
If you think calmly, it's visible that getting rid of debt with martial arts can be an extra hassle, but that was what the child thought.
To protect my family...
The hang-up the Yanchan boy took the sword was just that simple.
Lawrence, who knocked on the dojo gate open to retired Royal Palace knights, was to be taught the sword for free instead of helping with the dojo work.
So Lawrence revealed a glimpse of his head.
Eventually, the grown Lawrence will know.
My father couldn't cope with the change in the national system and the standard of alloys available for mining equipment.
As a result of pressure exerted by the merchants of the Confederation to sell things to Ciel-Teira, a treaty was established to align the system within Ciel-Teira with that of the Confederation. One of the hundreds of items included in that treaty was its (...) and (...).
The Federation with the Golem Soldier Corps also has a day long in magic alloy technology using alchemy and generous research support from the state. The Ciel-Teira craftsmen were unable to cope with the new standard based on that Federation. The workshop, which was my father's customer, had to rely on imports from the Federation.
When I said an alchemist, he didn't eat in one alloy without much knowledge or skill. My father was losing his job, studying to meet the new standards while doing unfamiliar load-carrying work, and he was finally destroying his body.
My father burned his life out so that the lamp fire would be a little smaller, and he died.
Is it my father's fault that he couldn't make it through the changes of his time?
If you want to blame me for not being skilled enough or not having enough business talent, you can blame me as much as you want.
But for Lawrence, it was too much to hate the Federation.
The sword, which was to protect the family, someday became the sword to slaughter and kill Federation soldiers.
Lawrence, also recommended by the dojo owner, was already taken up by the Knights of the Royal Palace at the age of 15, when he was to be an adult. To help her mother, who supported her household with one woman, Lawrence jumped to this clerk's story without one or two.
But that's where I was waiting for Lawrence.
Lawrence's first job as a knight was.
It was a Union reinforcement to the war.
A country just about the size of Ciel-Teira, near Ciel-Teira, had a skirmish with the Federation, a battle to make it painfully visible and under control.
Lawrence made many martial arts medals during his first battle. But Lawrence didn't know what he was fighting for from start to finish.
Even then, with much doubt and dissatisfaction, Lawrence devoted himself to the country as a knight.
Even if you can't fight the Federation, believe that your battle will be for the good of the country and protect the interests of the country… and therefore many.
And.
Lawrence...
"Ahhh!
Strike of slaughter after activating "Heavenly Break".
A cut into the cobblestone slipped diagonally as the shop behind Rene was slashed.
Rene, who crooked that blow, packs the distance straight.
And the next blow of the horizontal giraffe...... is on the verge of coming.
"What!?
Rene disappeared.
Precisely behind Lawrence was "short distance transfer (short warp)".
Rene's swinging red blade plunges into Lawrence's armor.
in the orbit that cuts the chest into rings.
"Ugh, ooh, ooh!?
Lawrence twisted herself.
Avoid a deep blow instead of spinning your body against the slash and getting your chest cleaved about half a circle shallow.
At the same time, slap Taylaayul.
"Ha!"
Rene took a blow all over her body. "By Sacred (Conception): Taylaayul, who received it, sharpens the red blade and scatters the red spark." Blood in Return of Repentance (Bad Blood) "seemed to have almost shredded its power as magic already, and had become just dirt that did not weaken its holy temper.
But Lawrence's blow is mild. No, Rene's power is getting stronger. It's because Rich, mixed with the siege, is flying reinforcements (buffs) to René, after he's empowered by eating his soul.
Lawrence also received enhancements (buffs) until he gave up his talisman, but Rene was now in a better position for simple power.
Lawrence sees that he can't win by force. Switch policy immediately.
Drain the shoulder blur for a moment and cut back the sword as Rene disfigured.
Having decided that it was impossible to avoid or accept, Rene avoids it with a metastasis.
I tried.
"Let it!
Lawrence read it.
'Heavenly Break' was imminent where Rene was already at that time when he circled around with a transfer to Lawrence's oblique rear.
"Yikes...!
Flashes like pruning legs.
Rene turned sideways as she held her head into her chest.
Shallow cleavage of the left shin, burning pain running.
- What is it now? What are you talking about? You say you read the destination in my sight!?
But... it's only the second time I've shown you a short warp!? So you can handle it!?
Stepping on a bump, Lawrence rolls out a thrust of standing from his waist down position to Rene, who lags behind.
Distance that is not supposed to arrive. But the poke flies.
Slippeds off to the side for half a step. A poke jumps through where Rene's head was.
Stand back. A poke jumps through where Rene's dovetail was.
Fly directly next to each other for two steps with "Short Distance Transition (Short Warp)". A poke jumps through where Rene's heart was.
"" Impulse Resistance Barrier (Shield) "!
"No!"
Gagin, and a spark scattered in front of Rene.
A barrier of light stretched out in front of René prevented the 'heavenly break' from penetrating.
Translucent walls with cracks.
I knew it wasn't a sword.
Rene shrugs to be sure of something.
René, who became Durahan, possesses the instinctive swordsmanship skills he gained as Durahan, but that skill does not extend to Lawrence.
"Turtle Formation" is as strong as ever.
I also tried my hand at generating a ground crack and swallowing it with the magic of "The Elongation of the Earth (Grand Crack)" as a method other than breaking it directly by magic, but it was immediately defeated with the magic of "The Town of Earth (Earth Cancellation)". It's a little harsh to fight Lawrence and endure until the knights' magic runs out.
... If we do it normally, we'll talk about it.
"Have you finally understood the difference in strength? But more than he came out in front of me and Nokonoko..."
"I wanted to win straight from the front, if I could.
… From here I flow. "
Ignoring Lawrence, who was about to say something, Rene snarls her fingers.
The armies of the undead, watching the battle slightly farther afield, moved.
You thought it would strike at the same time. I feel the vigilance from the knights.
Hate, it's not such a sweet story.
"Stop! Stop!"
"Take-!
I heard screams echoing in my ears from among the undead.
Skeletons emerged from the rear through the army. In that hand, holding a crying girl. A little over 10 people in total. They're all about the same age as Rene, and the difference in degrees is that they're all good-looking kids who grew up pretty.
As the knights stood, the skeleton that came out stood the girl she had held in the front row of the army, poking her sword at her to hold her in.
A voice rises from The Turtle Formation when he sees it.
"Sasha!?
"Jillian!!
It seems that both the knights around them and Lawrence understood what was going on in that voice.
I wonder who they are.
Rene talks to the frightened girls with this gawking cat.
"Good boys! Welcome to Rene's Fun Fun Kill Showtime -!
I was slashed with whips, my fingers crushed, baked and pushed, needled in my mouth, stuck in my head in the water, and killed with guillotine after everything else was done - but never mind at all, I died (...) with no (...) and (...) have fun!
Whenever René mentioned the disaster that had befallen him, the girls were trembling with a frozen look of fear.
There's no way Rene hasn't complained about doing that.
... Now, where does Rene's grievance go in this situation?
They must have heard rumors flowing to the king's capital, too. What did the knights do?
I can no longer be in other HR.
Because I was dragged up to the stage of a revenge play.
"Come on, let's say your name and your father's name, in turn, from your best friend over here -
If you can't say it right... you know what I mean, right?
"Ah, ah..."
The girl with the red blade poked at her by Rene was incontinent with trembling.
"Ah, ahhh... Jillian... Grevi.... Your father... Aston Grevy..."
"Jillian!"
"Oh, my father, wowwwww!!
A knight about to pop out of "Turtle Formation" was pulled back by the knights around him.
Girls pulled by the skeletons. They are all daughters of the First Knights.
There is no such thing as family registration in this country, but the Knights still know the residence of the Knights affiliates in the King's Capital because of their various contacts. I was getting that list in the name of the Duke of Gerald.
Tearful introductions follow.
Rene was feeling anger, impatience, and despair from the knights.
- Five people were responding in particular. Other than that, he reacts in "Your Father's Name".
Yeah, well, a kid who knows is more shocked than a kid who doesn't know who it is.
It is not always convenient for the children of the "Turtle Formation" participants to be secured. That's why Rene thought about it was the hand of making him say his father's name.
Whenever a colleague's name is mentioned, it is psychological damage.
"... oh?
Rene stops trying to stick her sword at the next child.
Among the girls brought here, there is a face that I knew would be.
Girl looking at this one with her face up, even though she looked threatened.
Long hair in glossy nectar with ash and red odd eyes. He wears a relatively snug (but sufficiently overdecorated by civilian standards) outdoor dress.
Catherine Margareta Keeley.
He's the one who was escorting Rene as an adventurer's job while he was replacing Illis.
- Why are you here...?
Uh, with that said, the families of the Hordes are gathered in the King's Capital. I wonder if someone went out to someone I know and got caught with them.
Rene would kill Catherine, too, if necessary.
But she is not the object of revenge. I didn't have to kill him in particular, and now he was just purely out of the way.
"It's useless because he's not a Knight of the Royal Palace. Throw it out properly."
It was Rene, who commanded him, but Catherine looks out for him when she hears the words.
"............... how do you know?
"Huh...?
I didn't think Catherine had the guts to say that under the circumstances, Rene.
No, that's not a problem.
Sure, if you think about it, it's unnatural to know who Katherine is.
How can I answer this Katherine question without breaking the scenario Rene can complete the theater... Rene worried about it for a moment.
"Trouble is, you suck shoe to shoe..."
Catherine whines with a trembling voice.
Much more Rene realizes. This is René's scum. Catherine also told me to fix it...
- This is... no!
"Take him!
"Iris! Aren't you Iris!? Hey! What is this about?!?
Catherine was dragged by Skeleton as she raised her voice and vanished into a herd of corpses.
René shakes his head (or moves his hand with his neck that way) to regain his mind.
That was a minor broadcast accident. Don't erase it from your memory. Now it will be time to never see Catherine again.
"Well, then, my next friend. You're the last one. What's your name?
"Carla Pracken... is... your father... says Higu... Harm..."
"Yes, well done -"
When the last one finished introducing himself, René turned to the knights.
"Come on, what do we do? If you're gonna die, they can give it back to you safely, okay?
"Outer passage......!!
The anger also barks at Lawrence in the open.
"It's an outside road? Then what happens to me when they kill your mother?
Don't you think I'm kinder than you just don't kill you without asking questions?
"Turtle Formation" doesn't look like a big mess from what I've seen. But the knights' hearts are in a state of calm.
You perceived the agitation of the rear guard, Lawrence yells at René to let him live without taking his eyes off him.
"Calm down! If the hostage dies, he loses his shield. It can't be easy to get your hands on it! Just think about taking him down!
"I've killed one at a time randomly, and I've got my hands on it."
"Besides! If anything happens to swallow his demands and we sacrifice ourselves, His Majesty will be his next target! It's the end of this country!
"... that's undeniable."
Has the word of Rene come true? Either way, Lawrence storms in.
I know he's not hostile with his sword, but Rene confronted him head-on.
Divine Speed Triple Strike, Crush, Raise, Poke, and 'Heavenly Break' if you make a slight break!
Furthermore, the "Holy Arrow of Light" (Holy Arrow) from "Turtle Formation" also flies, but it was not focused or it was a hyoro ball. Rene steps into Lawrence while offsetting with "Painful Cry Whip (Pain Wip)".
"Short-range transfer (short warp)" to fly behind, making it look like it's moving up 3 meters!
"Nun!"
The moment Lawrence shook up, making it look like he slashed it from the top.
Rene threw her head up gently, which she had in her left hand.
"What!?
Rene sees himself and Lawrence fighting like a bird's eye view from above. There is no blind spot for this, and no gaze is read.
The head dancing in the universe is only a good mato at first glance, but in fact, even if they destroy this, it's 'they just did the main camera'.
The body moves. Magic perception tells us what's going on around us. And if Lawrence gets his hands on it, we can kill him in that gap!
Rene transfers and slashes behind Lawrence's oblique back with his torso alone.
But at that moment, Lawrence switches Taylaayul backwards and releases a 'heavenly break' thrust behind his back so that he can twist his own armpit!
"Ah......!?
It was like my body exploded in pain.
Rene's body was deeply pierced by an invisible poke.
The impure magic that was moving the body is dispelled by the holy temper of "Sacred Separation (Conception)".
"If you threw your head up..."
I mocked Lawrence for winning.
"Isn't it natural to think that we'll transfer to that falling point and take it?
Losing his power, Rene's torso fell, and the head he threw up fell on it, bouncing and rolling.
Take a beat and cheer from "Turtle Formation".
"Ooh, ooh!?
"I did it, they did it!
"That's Lord Commander!
The situation of being cornered and, without joking, a crisis of national survival.
It's a victory for the dead and dead that hero Lawrence grabbed in that.
It was still at an unbelievable pace, but the knights were euphoric for their dramatic victory.
But in it, Lawrence stayed on guard. Surprisingly look around.
He must have defeated Rene, who was supposed to be the culprit, but he seemed suspicious that the undead wouldn't even waver.
"... did you miss stabbing Todome"
Looking down at Rene, who fell down, Lawrence shrugs.
The Lawrence, Rene glanced at her neck just rolling over the cobblestone.
"If you think that's it, congratulations, brains."
"Are you going to kill the hostages?
Try it. My sword chops you up faster than that skeleton sword moves "
"Hostage. Hostage..."
Rene laughed low.
"You're thinking about licking it. … that's something nicer."