Sairin Yuusha no Fukushuu Hanashi

Episode Four: The Moment of Disappointment

In a quiet magic workshop.

Lewsas' face, with the knight's sword poked at him, turns earthy through the pale.

"What's up, Luisas? You look like a ghost."

"Ho, really... are you really an amateur? So... because you are."

"Did you kill him?

He understood that I was an amazon by saying information that he could never have known at Tianjin Yi Wei.

I opened my eyes wide and started yelling in a trembling voice.

"Impossible! I must have summoned a brave man! Why are you here? What's that look like?!? Why..."

"Shut up."

"What, ahhh"

Stabbing a demonic knight sword doesn't penetrate Lewsas' body completely.

Apparently, the robe this guy is wearing is endowed with some pretty advanced defensive witchcraft.

"Wait, Amatsu! Please don't kill me!!"

"... kill me, isn't that too much to say?"

You think I'll forgive you?

You gotta be kidding me.

"No, you're not! Oh, I was fooled by Dionis and the others!!"

When I heard that name, I stopped the knight sword movement I was lifting.

Dionis and the others tricked you?

"Lucifinas told me that if I kill Amatsu, I will have the honor to kill the Demon King!"

"... hey, if over this period you still start to lie"

"No! It's true! Really, that's what they brought me!"

In a desperate phase, Lewsas explained.

A few days before boarding into Demon King Castle.

Anticipating the timing, let's kill Amazu.

Towards Lewsas, the two said that's what they've brought.

"Besides, did you ride?"

"Ah, ah...... But I'm not the only one! Some of the guys who were in support of the battle at Demon King Castle are in on this story!"

A coalition of humans and subhumans to defeat the Demon King's Army.

Several people of different races, such as the ghost and werewolf species (Wearwolf), who were in it, said they were cooperating with the plan to kill me.

Luisas talked to Bella about their names.

"Oh... those guys"

When I heard the name, I immediately remembered.

Because every one of them was the one who approached me to agree with my ideals and spare no cooperation.

I still remember the voices of the people who have smiled and applied for cooperation.

Such people took part in killing me in return for my money and honor.

"Kuku......"

Cooperate with humans for peace.

I believe in those guys who said that. My laughter overflows unexpectedly in my own funny way.

I want to beat the crap out of me for being recognized as a brave man.

"- So?"

"Hih!?

I laughed out and urged Luisas to continue quietly, retreating to me.

"So, we did exactly what Lucifina did."

The Subhumans followed our party and stopped the humans who were about to board the Demon King's Castle in support of us under the guise of the Demon Clan.

Create a situation where no one can come and help me.

"Oh... so you couldn't get a backpacking army in"

Convinced by the words of Lewsas.

It doesn't look like you're lying from the look on your face or from what happened.

And then it's just as I know it.

At a time when I am fighting the Demons, I will slash off the right arm where the power of the brave resides.

Lewsas' magic is enough to defeat the weak Demon King.

So I can replenish the magic I consumed in the battle against the Demons and dispose of it even more.

"... I see"

There is revulsion on the two of us who set up such an operation, as well as on the Luzas and the Subhumans who rode it.

"So, what the hell did you say you were fooled into?"

"Dionis and Lucifina were spies of the Demon King's Army!"

"... what?"

Those two spies from the Demon King's Army?

Unexpectedly solidified by words without clapping.

But Luisas' expression was desperate and he didn't look like he was lying.

"After I killed you, Dionis struck me by accident.

If I could just kill Amatsu, you'd be out of use!

They betrayed me too! "

That being said, Lewsas has turned his hem and shown his arm.

There are deep wounds inscribed there like they were decided upon.

By Dionis, he said it was a scratch.

After they killed me, I hear those two put a cut on Luisas.

Throw out your promises to the other sub-people.

Then why are you alive?

"Lucifina said, 'We need someone to tell us that the brave have lost' and made Dionys stop the attack...!"

Lewsas was missed on condition that he would tell the human being 'defeat of Amatsu', and 'betrayal of Lucifina and Dionis'.

"Lucifina and Dionis betrayed him and killed Amatsu," reported Luzas, who fled back to the kingdom.

I can't help but laugh around you taking yourself off properly.

"So, Lucifinas, and subhuman. Where are the people who agreed to this operation now?"

"Rufina and Dionis are the Demon King's Army. The ghost tribe got to it, too. The werewolf species has been truncated and is now certainly in the hot spring city of the Union...!"

"Heh..."

There is no guarantee that what Lewsas is saying is true.

But if it's true, I'm also convinced that the two names had disappeared from the book.

A brave man was murdered by his companions, etc., which is very unlikely to be publicly available.

Well, it would be even worse if there were an elected knight of the kingdom among the traitors.

It fits all kinds of things.

"Hey, I'm not bad! They tricked me! I'm a victim too!!"

At your feet, Luisas is calling.

If the story is true, I'm sure both this guy and the sub were fooled by those two.

Both Lucifina and Dionis have been acting to fool me, and all I can think about is intent on killing.

But.

Still, it doesn't matter what Lewsas betrayed.

There's no way I can forgive you.

"Work with me, Amatsu! You're gonna kill those two people who betrayed us! You can even avenge the subtlemen who betrayed you! So now it's time to defeat the demon king's bastard! With you, I'm sure I can do it!"

Luisas reaches out with a drawn grin.

In contrast, I...

"Shut up."

I waved my sword down with momentum.

The meat protected by the robe is slightly slashed and blood is blown out.

"Ah, ah...! Blood... Amatsu, what..."

"You thought you'd be forgiven?

Intimidate and crush Lewsas' rebuttal.

Surely this guy must have been fooled.

But.

It doesn't change the fact that you betrayed me.

Was I keeping my back with a guy like this?

It makes me laugh at my stupidity.

"... Luisas. Tell me during the ritual and how to seal and solve the treasure trove."

Important places are carefully sealed by magicians.

The only way to solve this is to either hit a magic trick that surpasses it or mouth a predetermined wording.

"Sealed?" Why?

"Say it because it's good"

Poking his sword at him, Lewsas mouthed a way to unseal him in a screaming mixture.

From the look on your face, it doesn't seem like you're lying to me.

Now everything we need to hear from this guy.

But one more thing.

"... let me hear it one last time"

Listen, it doesn't mean anything's gonna change.

But still, there was only one thing I really wanted to ask you.

"I... the goal was to end the war and create a world where all races could coexist. Lucifina and... I thought you guys were fighting with that in mind. But the truth is, were you laughing at my thoughts like that...?"

There were three of us, so I could keep fighting.

For the first time, I was able to find what I wanted to do, not get flushed.

Was it all a mistake?

"... I thought it was an impossible dream. We can't live together when we defeat the Demon King."

said Luzas.

Humans had no intention of coexisting with demons.

Kill all who disobey, and enslave those who surrender.

That's the kind of future I was waiting for before that battle.

"Oh well"

I got an answer in me.

What coexists - sounds stupid.

In the end, I was just being flushed by the ideals my people told me about.

It was a groundbreaking story to coexist with a multitude of races, even though we couldn't even do it well with the same people.

Oh, I'm disappointed.

I believed in you guys, to myself.

"I want to ask you something."

"Oh, yeah, Amatsu. I have something I need to show you."

He blocked the words and pointed to the shelf behind the workshop as he was in a hurry.

"... what?"

"Ru, it's about getting involved with the Lucifinas. It's quicker to look than to say."

"Okay. Walk to that place."

Keep your sword pointing and let Luisas walk.

What lies ahead is a shelf lined with research materials.

"I didn't think you were alive... How did you survive that? And the body."

"... Walk silently. I have nothing to teach you."

As much as I want you to know.

I guess my life has something to do with the second summons the kingdom made.

Because there is no fine dust in thanking the kingdom.

"... it's here"

Reaching in front of the shelf, Lewsas opened the door and stuck his hand inside.

"Hey, Amatsu. Didn't I just tell you I can't have symbiosis?

That's exactly what I thought then. But not now. "

With Gossogoso and his hands in motion, Lewsas said so.

"Since then, I've known you were right. I've always regretted killing you, too. I wanted to sin...!"

With my voice and shoulders trembling, I just listened in silence to what Lewsas was saying.

"Hey, Amatsu. You're leaving the kingdom, aren't you? Then let me help you. I can get you out of here safely! Please, I want to help you!"

"... do you really think so?"

"Oh! It's true!"

"... right"

While we were talking, they found what they were looking for.

I put my hand back where Lewsas was sticking it in the shelf.

"Let me see."

"... one thing before that, I have to say"

That's how I grabbed something. Luisas looked back,

"- You've been too sweet for a long time!!"

He wrapped his magic around his hand and protruded at me.

Reinforced by magic, its fingertips have blade-like sharpness.

"Baaka!"

The blade of the finger being protruded.

If I hit it, it would tear my body apart easily.

If you hit it, yeah.

"Become!?"

The knife never hits me, cut the sky.

I was on alert for the attack on Lewsas and was in a position to flaunt him immediately.

"I haven't changed. You're nothing."

I knew it.

About saying things are going well, and you're going to be deceiving me...

This guy is good as a mage, but he wasn't good at melee.

Because I'm old, or because of the wounds caused by Dionis, I'm also moving dull.

To the extent that I can do this, I can do it now.

"Hih."

I pulled my face apart and Lewsas screamed.

Attack, aim at its neck and try to stick out the knight's sword - at that moment.

"Ko, look at this!"

Ba and Lewsas roll their robes.

Behind the robe was engraved a glowing crest on the red lotus.

"At the same time I'm dying, I'm planting a magic trick to blow up the whole perimeter!

If you kill me here, you'll be a Buddha with me!? "

How much magic have you accumulated?

From the red and glowing crest, I can feel a disastrous amount of magic.

If you kill Luisas, there will be a real explosion, on the scale of a whole castle blowing up.

"Hi-hi, hi-hi"

Seems funnyheartedly funny, and Luisas laughs.

"Besides, you're not just gonna die. Everyone in the castle will die! I'm not involved in the subpoena. Still think you can kill me!?"

Changing from the frightened look he's had so far, Luisas has a grin of niña and strength.

I find myself unexpectedly impressed with how ugly human beings can be to this point.

"I can't kill you, can I? I can't even kill the demons who were enemies, because they're sweet!"

Lewsas comes packing the distance, showing off the crest and making himself look like a jerk.

It's like deliberately sticking your neck in a blade, showing off your bare hands.

"Try it, if you can kill me! Hey, Ama -"

A kick rolled out slipped into Luisas' face.

It conveys the feeling of a broken nose bone.

"Ooh hey hey!?"

With the kicking shock, Lewsas hit the ventilation window that was behind him.

Breaking through, falling head-on from his head.

"Ghaaaaaa"

A scream like a severed demon caught my tail and eventually I couldn't hear it.

This room is quite tall.

If humans fell down, they would certainly not help.

But there won't be an explosion.

Even if it falls from this height, that scum is still alive.

Thirty years ago, he was also the most powerful class of magician in this world.

It had faded considerably, but there was no reason to die to this extent.

"Disgusting trust."

I see, as long as we have that robe, we can't kill Luisas.

From what I've seen, they're starting to trigger tricks even if they're forced off.

Besides, I wouldn't be able to beat him if I fought one-on-one right now.

I made it a success this time, but I don't think an ambush will make it through again.

"... you need to regain your strength."

If you regain your former power, you can stand it even when that robe is activated.

Fighting from the front will kill him.

Plus, I have to go see those two, that they were spies of the Demon King's Army.

I have to thank all the subordinates who got their names from Lewsas.

The future policy was decided.

Reclaim your former power and avenge those people.

I've already come up with a formula to regain power.

To that end, let's move on to the next action.

I still have a few things to do.

I must thank the kingdom for summoning me personally.

"Oh, yeah"

I come up with a souvenir to put on the fallen Lewsas and laugh small.

I don't know if it will take him, but he'll be glad to try again.

"- Wait."

That's how I squealed and left the magic workshop behind.