Sairin Yuusha no Fukushuu Hanashi

'- Oh, you haven't noticed that they're looking down on you. On the contrary, I wonder why you don't think they're looking down on you. You think there are people who don't look down on the disdressed missing who don't have what everyone normally has? Even if I accepted it without looking down, that's not kindness. That's what parents and childhood care think. - What a pathetic being, it's pathetic to watch, so let's at least be nice to him, okay?'

When I was a little girl, I had the same dream over and over again.

It's a dream where you talk about that in a dim room, with yourself in the mirror.

Even if I can't stand it and try to escape, the air wraps my body like mud and I can't move a step off the spot.

Until I woke up, it was heartfelt tight to even have to keep hearing my mockery.

The world is kind, everyone likes and is interested in themselves.

Repeated dreams crushed such childish thoughts without a trace.

It was also when I started dreaming that others became jealous.

Everyone has something for granted, only they lack it.

Aware that I was literally a missing person, I cried again and again.

'Cause that's something I can't help.

It's a difference that can't be filled with effort, a ditch that can't be changed by hard work, and it's a common thing for others.

I couldn't help but envy the obvious that I wouldn't get it no matter what I did next.

All the words my family hangs on me come from the sentiment of 'pathetic'.

The gaze the villagers turn to themselves consists of 'pity'.

It seemed as if all the sights I had ever seen were lies.

But I'm not bad.

The bad news is the parents who gave birth to themselves as missing people.

These heartless villagers are turning their pathetic gaze.

So one day.

I will avenge the world that has pushed such suffering.

Until then, I'll put on a mask as a good hard-working kid and look back at the deceitful ones.

That was the first strong emotion Dionis Harberg had.

And the second is -.

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Hold the sword borrowed from your parents and perform a routine gesture.

In the quiet woods, only the sound of the blade cutting the wind sounds.

Listening to that sound, I hated waving my sword, I strongly thought.

Sweat gets your body dirty, your arms are tired, and you're out of bad things.

When it comes to the only good thing, it's enough that you can feel used to the handling of swords day by day.

I started to have a sword, and it's been a year.

By this time, it was already the best of the children of the village, only for the battle with the sword.

"Ha... how come there's no way I can be quick and strong"

After finishing his bareback, he puts down his sword and moves on to his magic workout.

It is the magic of the most proper water attributes that we deal with.

I am proud to have become the village's best when it comes to the magic of water attributes thanks to loading magic books from all over the village.

Though this magic workout also makes my body feel weak because of the drain of magic.

In conclusion, I hate training. [M]

And there's another reason I don't like it, here I come.

"Good luck. You really work hard every day without missing it"

There was a woman scratching the trees and walking into a secret workout, purely.

The concentration is interrupted and the magic that was gathering in the palms is fogged away.

"Hey, Sherley. It doesn't make sense if you don't keep working out every day."

Frustrated by being disturbed, I smile at a girl my age who has hidden her true intentions.

A brown-skinned girl with thin brown hair at her shoulders - a shirley.

Two horns growing from my forehead went into my sight and I felt terribly uncomfortable.

"Oh, yeah, right. My father said I had to work hard every day. But Dionis is amazing. I can't keep working out hard every day."

- You say that, and you're laughing at me the missing one anyway, right?

I don't give a mouthful of words that come to my heart.

Because he decides it's the earliest moment to kill the villagers.

"I'm not great. I just don't have enough of them than the others. Instead, we have to work harder than the others."

The laughter to show, the attitude, everything is false, but, abominably, only the words were sincere.

"... well"

Dionis is amazing, Sherley repeated.

I don't understand this woman.

Why are you following me so persistently?

When I'm working out in the woods, I make up my mind and this woman calls out.

It's uncomfortable, and I don't know what the intentions are and I don't feel good.

"I'm sorry to interrupt. Go on?"

"Yeah, I will. I'm sorry I haven't been able to deal with you much."

Sherley keeps staring at me as I resume my training.

Really, I don't understand.

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Then a few years went by.

Having crossed fifteen, I was allowed to participate in competitions that would be held every few years.

This tournament compares witchcraft, swordsmanship, and physical skills.

I took part in it and won as a matter of course.

My parents rejoice in tears, and my sister blushes with excitement and waves at me.

Those who can beat me no longer exist in this village.

This is the result of continuous training.

I kept being looked down on, and I chased them through the lazy ones.

They proved to be inferior to me, the missing ones.

Yet.

Why, I'm not happy.

Cheers, praise, and the fact that you won don't care about everything.

"- Oh, you don't realize that they're looking down on you."

I hear voices.

Repeatedly, repetitively, thought-eating, sweet poison stains the brain.

I couldn't stand it, and I disappeared from the venue.

It was in the usual woods.

Sitting on a rock, staring at the ground without doing anything.

In the aftermath of my ear, I almost threw up.

- I knew you were here.

I heard voices, like scratching off the aftermath.

If I looked up, Sherley would have stood.

"I was hit by the heat of battle, and it was a little windy. Look, it's quiet here, and it's cool, right?

"- The truth is, you're not happy, are you?

Making sure he could put it on his repaired words, Sherley hesitated to say those words.

For a moment, my thoughts stopped.

"... maybe I was worried. If so, I'm sorry. But it's really nothing."

"Then why are you looking so spicy?

Even if you put your hand on your face hah, it's the usual look there.

Fixed it, the usual fake look, it should be.

Yet Sherley's eyes felt like he was looking under such a manicured mask.

"What?"

"I've always been scared, I couldn't ask.... but when I saw Dionys win the tournament, I thought if I didn't say it now, I wouldn't be able to help anymore"

"So what?"

"Dionis, you're always lying, aren't you? To me, to my family."

What is it?

What the hell, this woman?

"I knew it. That Dionis has always had an attitude toward everyone. Because it looks spicy."

"... you know, Shirley. I'm not sure what you're trying to say."

"Say what you don't want to say and smile that you don't even want to float, Dionis always seemed spicy"

"So I don't know why. I wonder if you could stop."

"Anxiety... what is it? I don't know what everyone thinks about me."

"- Huh"

I lost my word in those eyes staring at myself.

"So no matter what everyone tells you, you can't take it. I'm anxious that you're all lying to yourself. So Dionis is lying to everyone too, trying not to tell the truth."

"... don't"

"The reason for that, I'm sure. - The corner, right?"

"I'm telling you not to!

I was screaming when I heard the words.

I can't contain what was accumulating inside my chest, so I can sprinkle everything.

"Anxiety? Anxiety!? Who are you talking to about stuff! Why do you have to have all those feelings about what I'm thinking about you guys all the time!? Don't be ridiculous! Sure, I don't have a horn! But still, I'm stronger than you guys! While you guys were walking around on two horns, I was looking down on you! There's no way I feel uneasy about those people who are weaker than me!

"... yes. That's the real Dionys."

"Ha! Oh, yeah. This is who I really am. You're looking down on me pitifully. You're cheating on me and looking down on me the other way! What do you say, Shirley? The way you've seen me, it's all a lie! You're shocked, eh!?"

So roll it up and ask how Shirley reacts.

What did this woman think, that everything was false?

That's what I wanted to know.

"Sure, I was a little surprised. But I like Dionys now, too."

- Suki?

Like, gap, like?

"- Ha, ha!? Anyway, like, ah?

Don't be ridiculous, my bowels boiled back.

My vision stains red with anger when I feel how far I can fool around.

"It's a good addition to looking down, Sherley!

I can't stop myself anymore.

I can scatter all the nature I've been hiding.

"You guys always do! You fool me because I'm a missing person, pity me, look down!! You think you like me and I was born in such a body!? Even I wanted two horns! You guys have it for granted. I wanted to have it for granted! But there's nothing I can do! What's wrong, you can't get another horn!! So I'll be stronger than anyone else. And I'm going to poke you guys with the fact that you're even inferior to the missing corners!!"

"I didn't look down."

"Oh!?"

- Nobody's staring down at Dionis.

What are you talking about, this guy?

No one's looking down on me?

I don't think so.

"Oh, what do you know, oh!? I know! You always come here to look down at me sweating and working out!? It's ridiculous what I'm trying to do with the missing!?"

"No!"

"You're not! Then why do you always come to see me like this!?"

"That's what I..."

I hear voices.

"- Oh, you don't realize that they're looking down on you."

Everyone is looking down on me.

I'm making a fool of myself.

Shirley's looking down on me anyway.

I hear voices.

I hear voices. I hear voices. I hear voices. My voice...

"- Because I like Dionys!!"

It's like scratching off a resounding voice, growling.

Right after I saw the leaves fall from the trees to its voice volume.

My lips felt soft. [M]

――――

Right in front of me, there was Sherley's face.

!? !???!???????

What? What have you done? What have you done now? Why are you so close to me? I don't know what you want. I don't know what you're talking about. I don't understand.

Sherley, who cheeked me up, takes my face off me. [M]

After a few seconds, I finally understood what they did.

And sooner than I say anything,

"- I like Dionys"

Shirley repeated the words.

"I've been working out for a long time. I admired Dionis. Me too, my parents often make me do all sorts of workouts. I know I have to, but it's tough, it's hard, I want to stop... so I've run away from home to this forest. So I found you working out."

――――

"You may not have noticed, but Dionis looks so nasty when I'm working out. So I didn't know why you didn't like it like this, but you were working out. You weren't watching anyone, but you kept working hard. Someone didn't blame me for stopping, but even if the weather was bad or the wind was strong, Dionis didn't stop working out. That's right, I thought you looked great. Because it's hard to keep up the bad stuff.... and then I started wanting to watch Dionys all the time... and when I realized it, I liked it"

"I don't have enough horns, fool."

"At first I was looking at you from a distance, and I didn't realize there were no corners. Sure, I didn't know about the horns the first time I liked you. But... I haven't changed my mind about you since I found out I didn't have enough horns"

"Lies,. Look, even if it's true, I don't know how I feel about missing horns."

That's what he said. In front of me, Sherley reached for his corner.

And boggly.

I broke one corner for nothing.

- Now you're in line.

When she looked at me, Sherley laughed.

Because of the severe pain, I have a large tear in my eyes.

Sweat seeps into the skin and its body is shaking small in pain.

Yet Sherley is laughing.

"You... what are you doing"

"At least I wanted to know how Dionis felt, so I did this."

"How?"

Still, I hear voices.

"- Even if you accepted without looking down, that's not kindness"

That wasn't my voice anymore.

I don't know whose it belongs to.

My voice echoes on my head like a curse.

I don't know.

How could this woman, until she threw the horns away?

"Why are you doing this?"

"I told you earlier. I like you."

'Anyway, I just stopped by because you won the tournament. Inside, you must be looking down. Are you sure you want me to believe this?

I hear voices.

"... incredible?

Shirley snorted at me.

――――

With that body, I hugged him.

"- I like you, Dionis Harberg. That's why I want to be with you. So I want to help you."

I want to help.

Those are the words that come out because they look down on me.

- I didn't think so.

The warmth that comes through the skin, the words, the moist eyes, the broken horns.

When it was "real," somehow, it was believed that way.

"Do you like me...?

"Yeah. I like it."

The voice that was ringing, it goes away.

"You don't have a horn, do you? And that's who I am, isn't it?

"I'm with you now that we don't have horns. Besides, I like the way Dionys keeps trying. I'm glad to know why you kept trying."

"What the hell, that. Fold it to the corner, you're not stupid...... You don't have a bad taste...?

"... I'm starting to like you, you can't help it"

"What, I reopened it. By and large, you..."

On the lips, soft things touch.

Words are interrupted.

"I only do this to people I like."

――――

I don't know.

I don't know, but I can't look directly at Shirley's face.

My head is going to flat.

He's suddenly going to kiss me, or what are you thinking, or break a corner, or something?

"Hon... by the way, idiot... then, no"

Something I'm not sure about doesn't stop overflowing my eyes.

My vision is distorted and I can't see anything.

It's intrusive.

But somehow, I didn't feel bad.

- On that day's border, I stopped dreaming or hearing voices.

There was a lot going on after that.

The fact that the horns of Sherley broke or the heart I've been hiding from everyone.

All of it, I went to my parents.

"Dionis, even with one horn, you're a fine son of mine"

"I'm just glad you're healthy."

After my parents said so,

"But I'm sorry I didn't notice."

That's what I said, I broke my horn.

Not for anything, just like Shirley.

Even my sister, who was watching it, tried to break her own horn.

So I finally realized.

Everyone was nice to me, not because I felt sorry for them.

It was only natural that I could finally realize that.

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- I remembered that during the battle.

Right in front of you, you have my people.

Sweet little, but well-rooted amatsu.

Meaningly, my strong, but well looked after Luisas.

Trying to run right into self-sacrifice, stupid, gentle Lucifina.

Face to face, I won't tell you.

Awesome, dear fellow.

Silver-haired demons are fighting my people like that.

Orteguia van Zarefeld.

It's the Demon King, trying to destroy a non-demonic race.

Humans and ghosts were to join hands and fight the Demon King's Army.

I am now boarding the Castle of the Demon King with the highest human power and fighting the Demon King.

Orteguia was overwhelming.

Even if we bump into each other in four, we can't take them down.

On the contrary, I had lost my sword and fell to the ground.

Amatsu and the others remain full of creativity and continue to fight Orteguia.

"It's impossible, such as coexistence between all races. You really think you can make that sweet dream story happen?

Overwhelming the Amatsu and the others, Orteghia said.

Oh, and I snort inside.

It's too sweet, it's a dream that's going to throw up backwards, really.

"But he really thinks he can make it happen"

In my sight, I could see Amatsu rolling down the ground.

From its front, Orteguia is about to unleash a thrust by the Great Sword.

Amatsu can't move.

Neither Lucifina nor Lewsas can make it.

I'm the only one who can make it.

The sword is broken, no more.

There's very little magic left.

But there is this flesh that I cultivated as a "ghost tribe" -!

"but...... ugh"

A great sword pierced my stomach.

The fever that runs in your body stains your consciousness white.

"Ol, teguia"

……

Ortegear tries to pull through the blade, but grabs the blade with both hands to stop it.

"Coexistence of all races. You know... and it's a stupid dream. Me too... I think so."

"… Then why are you helping Amazu?

"I wanted to make a world like that, too."

No, you're not.

"Because I have someone who wants me to live in such a sweet world."

――――

"And it's our victory. Orteguia."

Amatsu is not the man to waste this time I've earned.

Right behind me, I found Amatsu activating "Demonic Fallen (Eclipse)".

"You......!

Orteguia throws his sword away and tries to escape the spot.

But I won't miss it.

Squeeze the last force to activate the magic of the water attribute.

"-" Big water polo ""

For each of me, I trapped Orteguia in a giant sphere of water.

Opponents of Orteguia, the time you can earn is for a moment.

But that was enough.

I can see the pitch-black light coming towards us.

- I like Dionys.

I remember what Sherley said.

Defeat Orteguia and the long lasting war will end first.

Ahead, I believe Amazu and the others will create a peaceful world.

Even if I'm not there - if the Shirleys make you happy, that's fine.

Will everyone be sad when I die? [M]

Loosen my cheeks to the obvious answer, I said at the end.

In the end, because I was embarrassed and couldn't tell him in person.

- I love you, Sherley.

Full of feelings, I was in the light.