Seirei no Moribito

"Ensign Goldie."

Harnoin, in a good mood and singing his nose, looked back at that voice that calmed him down sharply.

"What the hell are we doing here, Deputy Claire?

Claire returned brilliantly to sanity and gathered enemy information and came back intact, looking nervously at the paperwork.

"What is it, this report? I don't want to see if I can make this operation work, I want to know what it is. Isn't this just a picture diary?"

"Yeah. It's very easy to understand, isn't it? Eileen set me up, let me go, disappeared, and found me in a state of amnesia. See, even idiots know it's super concise and nothing more..."

"Please also be approximate to kidding me. I'll throw you naked into a herd of“ protectors. "

"... here we go."

Apparently, Claire, whose nerves are pointy with ex-post processing and organizing reports, relentlessly kicked Harnoyn's joke with a genuine killer in mind,

"... a mercenary who seems to have been present until the end... sure, did you say Cain? Did you make contact with him?

"They said it was over empty-handed. Anyway, that 7th division is about to rise in total strength and become uncomfortable."

Cain's footsteps could not be grasped at all, even with the total strength of the Seventh Division, which brings together those who are proud of their biological talents to thoroughly hunt down and shake down their opponents, such as intelligence and pursuit.

"In the first place, some sort of" technique ”seems to have been erased, and the two parties are all together and amnesiac! Besides, Eileen has little power... well, she's not as hectic as someone else. She doesn't even have magic power or" spirituality, "she quotes, right leg and... left arm? Well, anyway, I had no arms, no legs, no body, blubber! Oddly honest and disgusting... there seems to be something behind this and I can't even investigate it satisfactorily, Deputy Claire."

"Thank you very much for the posterior report, Ensign Goldie. By the way, Commander Goldie suspects you're chewing one too."

"Whew... it's a horribly wild prospect, my sister.... Oh, I'm leaving early because I've got business to do, good luck to you, Deputy Claire."

"Please fill in the current contents of the document again so that there are no errors and submit it again, by tomorrow."

……

Claire, who had never raised her face from the paperwork from start to finish, walked away cleverly avoiding the crowd by putting down such a bomb at the end.

And Harnoyn, who had a floating grin on the surface, walks out to abandon the act as well as to leave early with a sigh.

"... no matter how many soldiers, I can't tell you that... to anyone."

Harnoyne, who knew only one end of this backdrop and kept it secret from anyone, remembered the day with a blur as troubled.

Two weeks had passed since that raid.

Without letting Lily and Asbel escape outside the city, Harnoyn used his best connections as a nobleman to hide the two of them in the villa they were purchasing and using to deceive the chaser's eyes, and now Harnoyn went to the place where Lynn and Cain were fighting as Knights men.

Naturally, no one was there, and the place where we desperately traced the traces of intense fighting was a cave that existed in the old and lonely, weathered walls surrounding the city and assimilated to the forest, as forgotten.

Towards that point, he proceeded without defying the flow of the "Spirits” trying to gather together as a grain of dazzling light, and met Cain again.

Immediately entering the battlefield, Harnoyn, who was placed in a skillful conversation, was taken by Cain, but went straight into the cave - and saw the sight.

A magic formation depicted with blood that supposedly activated phosphorus, who should have died Emilia lived and breathed and lost all her power.

Having witnessed the success of resuscitation of the dead, Harnoyn immediately questioned Cain and learned how.

Even if the price is in this state.

On top of that, Cain and Harnoyn exchanged certain promises.

A very convenient promise for Cain and for Harnoyn.

"Just now."

Harnoin, disgusted by his depressed sister and father and returning to the villa he had purchased with the money of the house so that he could live alone, said yes, on the surface he greeted him well before heading to his room.

Throw the documents you brought back on your desk, take off your knight's clothes and scatter them and change into simple personal clothes, Harnoyne opens the door to the popular room on the ground floor.

"Ah, Brother Hal, welcome home."

There were Lily and Asbell in a state hidden by Harnoyn.

The two of them were amicably armed, writing on maps and materials that were spread out on their desks, and Sang Asbel was still writing something with a fountain pen in one hand.

Harnoin has waved Lily back the same way before peeking into the map,

"What do you say, Mr. Asbel?

"You can't. It's completely besieged. If we're going to break through this, it's not going to be possible without ten more fighters than Eileen."

"Yeah, yeah. That Cain is an unusual mercenary. He broke through the siege by himself and let the two Elves escape almost intact... Eileen the boulder is an impossible artist."

The map that the three of them are peering into is a detailed description of the Wang capital and its surrounding area of approximately ten kilometers.

There are no gaps around the main streets or escape routes that indicate that they are being monitored by the "Protector". The state of surveillance of the street in a slight gap in the blank drawing line was written in bullets, and the last way Asbel was writing correctly now.

Lily sighed and looked at a map that said it was impossible to escape all the streets and the way out,

"Even so, that's an unscrupulous promise, Brother Hal? We can't take the boy away right now, so I want him locked up there until he's ready.... Hmm, what are these selfish people, huh?"

Lily turned that way in a grumpy manner while imitating Cain's tone,

"... well, instead, he said he'd shut up about us, so maybe it's not a bad deal."

Lily says in a thorny tone that she has no idea now whether she appreciates or disparages the promise Harnoyne made with Kane, and continues as if to mislead it.

"What was that? Mr. Cain wanted me to shut up about the resuscitation skills of the dead, and Brother Hal wanted me and your brother to shut up. So here's the deal...... here's the muscle. Breaking through the siege of the Knights, we fled the" Protector "beautifully, scattered along the way. Me and your brother are missing, Mr. Cain and the 'Elves', and the rendezvous Emilia and Irene hit the end of a fierce fight. The" healing magic "I used earlier when I ran away with my life healed myself and Emilia's wounds, but at some price Emilia lost her memory, Irene lost her memory as well, and the" 5th Division ”I found protected her."

"Yes, yes. The captain suddenly lost himself... I mean, I missed the chase because of my thoughts, and I desperately chased him, but I didn't make it to the fight to find Irene and Emilia Shenti and put him in touch. Lily and Asbell, you escaped or died correctly. Life or death is unknown, I don't know anything else. Okay."

the two of us to reconfirm the contents of the report, white-white and half-mixed with lies and truth,

"Now it's time for me and your brother to sneak up on the perimeter surveillance in order to escape safely, and Mr. Cain is ready to flee again in a non-play that doesn't seem to be Irene's recapture - and Brother Hal is a true traitor and insider - right?

"If I find out, my sister will kill me... I think she's about to notice in the wild. I think I'm chewing one."

"Wow, the boulder is Sister Shall. It's only a matter of time before Brother Hal finds out if the residence report that Brother Hal falsely declared, or Sister Shall, knows it's a lie?

"... I don't know. Sure, my sister's inquiry is horrible, but she didn't seem to be investigating Eileen at all... maybe I can't afford to distract her this way ~"

Phew, and siblings sighing and depositing their backs on their backs.

Asbel, who was looking at a series of conversations with her eyes that she said were similar to each other,

"... with that said, Mr. Harnoin. Eileen and...... how's it going after her he was obsessed with?

"... hmm? Oh... Irene hasn't changed, I guess."

While recalling the reports he received and the fact that he went to a direct interview to make sure that

"Really, it's like someone else, Eileen... no, 'Ridinal Eileen' is. I don't have a problem with his origins and identity because they were properly stored in HQ, but the person... there's no point in interrogating him more than I don't remember, and there's no point in even experimenting with human beings if they're losing their power. I'm in the basement early and left alone, but I'm not dissatisfied or complaining at all about it, and I'm impatient or hectic... and I'm lazy every day with cloudy eyes like a dead man."

"... Hey, Brother Hal. Is that really Irene? Irene is the one who smiles and laughs with pleasure only when she's with Emilia... and always turns her negative emotions to the limit?

"So it comes down to being like someone else, silly sister Lily?

"... if you don't look at me with these eyes, I can't believe it."

Lily shook her head saying she couldn't believe herself staring at Harnoyne with suspicious eyes,

"But Emilia hasn't changed much, has she?

"Yes, she is. Ignorant, intelligent, helpless, hard-working, healthy, willing, innocent. I'm always laughing. With two pieces of information: Eileen is missing because she lost her memory in that raid, you're playing as usual to keep Eileen from talking about it. But..."

"... you don't look like you're laughing from the bottom of your heart, that's what you said"

"... yes, what is it? I don't know the details, but who is it?... whoever. Someone pointed out that it wasn't like her."

"That's... because Eileen's not here, isn't it?

"I guess. Someone in my face said something was missing... I'm unconsciously looking for Eileen, and I have Eileen's sword on my skin. He knows that swordsmanship and swordsmanship are completely unusable."

"Huh... you're smart, Emilia. The knife I had even though I couldn't use a knife. You instantly see that your amnesia has something to do with it, and you're looking for someone who won't talk about it in an unnatural way."

Lily nodded at the impressed wind, and Asbel groaned that she was always the way she was and glanced back at the map again.

Harnoyn lays her body on a fine sofa and meditates her eyes,

"... the problem is that we have to keep hiding the facts that only we know. From enemies and allies... from Emilia Shenti"

"... Is this all I feel sorry for? For her sake, the people around to hide Eileen's presence."

Lily also meditated her eyes by keeping her head on Asbel's shoulder.

"... So, what do you do in the end, Brother Hal?

"... please maintain the status quo. Lily."

The similarities were two people who didn't tighten somewhere.

Lieutenant Colonel Albert Schneidel, captain of the “Fifth Division," had one person leaning his neck uncomfortably in the assigned office.

"... I don't know why you're here..."

The raid two weeks ago.

"The Elves" Elise, who shifted her gaze to Schneidel, did say so by seeping some confusion, strangely.

And Schneidel, even though she didn't remember, complained that her memory knew her.

I've never met or seen or even heard of him before, but I know that there's nothing missing or that doesn't fit.

Schneidel, Elise, knew each other.

"... I don't know what I haven't cared about before, but I'm starting to wonder..."

Schneidel scratches her hair looking troublesome and thinks about the fact that she has the only idea why there is one hassle in compiling the report.

Harnoyn said it was a memory tampering, but Schneidel's thoughts were close to that.

That is, amnesia.

Schneidel didn't have any memories of him before he came to 'Merlin, the king's capital'.

He was a boy at the time. The current Knights chief found him falling in front of the Knights, and was seriously wounded. He managed to connect his life.

Following the recommendation of the Knights Commander, Schneidel took the entrance exam for "King's Capital First Educator Gate High Ministry" and passed the back, and remained enlisted in the "King's Capital Knights" after three years of defending the “Chairman's” seat.

Why I don't remember, why I was found in a state of serious injury, and who I am. Schneidel didn't think too deeply about the natural questions that had plagued him from time to time.

Given that the lack of memory was probably closely related to what was found in the state of serious injury, I was forced to convince him that it would be better to live longer without pursuing it, and that the simple and important question of who he was, even if he remained in “chairman” status for three years and became famous, he gave up resolving it when he had not heard from anyone who knew him.

I wonder if those who know him no longer exist in this world.

I don't know who I am, I don't even know how I could have borne such a deep hand, and then Schneidel crawls up in the organization trying to live as she pleases anymore, and that's how she's in her current position as captain of the "5th Division”.

Schneidel's personal greed - kicking down an unusual obsession and hateful "Spirit Tree” by any means.

I have known from the outset that complete elimination is not possible. Then you can plant your distrust of the existence of the "Spirit Tree” and sharpen its power off.

For this reason, Schneidel, who has kicked other people down and sacrificed himself, could be said to exist in different colors among the "5th Division”, where the children in question gather.

If Claire or Harnoyne uses others for very personal matters to act as if they were selfish, Schneidel manipulates the Knights of the King's Capital at the expense of others for personal reasons and as if they were emotional.

Schneidel just needs the Spirit Tree to disappear.

I don't care how many people around me die, dye their hands at inhumane things, but I don't care what happens when they act like emotions.

I never even questioned why, but Schneidel would have been happy with it.

"... I thought... I can't believe I was involved in that... before I lost my memory, even my family was killed by the Spirit Tree?

For example, I can convince you that no one knows who you are and that you think the Spirit Tree hates you.

"But hey... saying that the 'Elves' knew me hooks me up"

Until now, I even cover the assumption that I thought I was human.

But there's also a reason I didn't think of any possibility that Schneidel was an 'elf'.

"Swordsmanship was unconsciously moving..." Spirituality ”could be used as soon as the principle was known... The Spirit, at first, could not be seen... Above all, neither the captain nor I thought about it because there was no mask and pointy ears that pictured an animal that could also be called synonymous with the" Elves ""

However,

"I was an 'elf'. But the“ guardian ”assaulted me and I took a deep toll, and I did everything I could... The next time I realized I was losing my power as an" elf "and I didn't even remember..."

It was a great possibility.

Schneidel roared with his head, wondering why he was the boy's figure, whether amnesia had anything to do with the loss of power, or whether the mystery remained the most powerful possibility.

"... I just have to find out... Huh"

In addition to the mystery of securing Eileen and the trend of the "protectors", Schneidel was reluctant to work on finishing the report, with more work to be done on her origins.

"You've failed"

The place where the "Spirit Tree” resides in the mountains that cut through the forest. In its center, where the many believers who dwell with the earth can rest their feathers, Iseria groaned so, glowing her dark and sharp red eyes.

Two weeks after failing to secure a "tribute” entitled the raid.

Surrounded by the elephant “protectors” gathering in the lake, the "rainbow wings” sitting on the stump look at her with jito eyes in Iseria, who smiles of mercy as ruthless as the devil if he sees it as the Virgin Mary.

"... if you say so, you didn't ask. Iselia, what is that?"

"... right. I expected it, but it was also a branch that I thought would never happen."

Iselia smiled at the countless “spirits,"

"Eileen offered herself for my greatest masterpiece…" The Spirit Tree ”and for childhood tampering, which she couldn't truncate. Until now, as I expected… but Eileen didn't seem to give up."

She exhales whenever she says she's in trouble.

"Eileen knew better than anyone about the future of childhood taming throwing itself out. But at the same time, it suited Irene's only survivable future… an abominable human flair ruined my plan."

"... he said she was dead before she threw herself out?

"Yeah. That's what I was reading,“ Rainbow Wings. "So I sent you and" Red Lotus. ”You'll never lose... and with Red Lotus, you won't even be able to fail.... it's even been overshadowed."

Close your eyes to stare at the far side.

The "Rainbow Wings”, who know that the trick is a sign of her utmost frustration, overlap words with care not to irritate Iselia.

"... how do you do it?

"It's been decided. Eileen is mine. I know you're alive, so naturally, you'll move again for the Spirit Tree,“ Rainbow Wings "?"

"... with orders"

"Then please take care not to kill me and bring Irene in, will you? … oh, that was the word to say for" Red Lotus ”"

Iselia still didn't seem to allow me to execute the Red Lotus Wing, which promised to kill me just by mouth.

Unusual for her, the "Rainbow Wings” opened their eyes to a surprising wind against the seemingly obsessive toy,

"... so I guess“ Red Lotus ”killed..."

“Rainbow Wings” could easily have guessed how Iselia, who was killed by a toy, would summon it, that "Red Lotus Wings” must have wanted to see how it was.

And most of all, Iselia herself knows that.

"- You're not dead, please forgive me, Iselia."

From the sky, that's what happened to the two of us.

Hiding his anger and laughing gracefully, Iselia raised her face to the sky without hesitation,

"Isn't that about outcome theory? Do you think I'm convinced of that, Red Lotus?"

Then the "Rainbow Wings” also looked up in the air.

The "Wings of the Red Lotus", flashing their glowing wings on the Red Lotus, removing their masks and smiling gently, rocks their green-covered black hair and quietly descends to the ground.

Nowhere was the arrogant attitude that pierced the sidelines with disinterest, like at the time of the raid, and the "Red Lotus Wings” laughing now in front of me was like someone else.

But the true same person, the Wings of the Red Lotus, turned his gaze to Iseria,

"Iselia, you thought I didn't know about your pleasant torture? I know you were feeding that boy a Spirit, and I know how tame your body is to the Spirit to withstand the attack. Otherwise, Iselia, I wouldn't be foolish enough to buy your anger."

“Red Lotus Wings" laughed with a calm expression because they had no hobby to rejoice in.

"Either way, your plan was decided to fail, Iselia. The Wings of the Rainbow were a long way off, but I knew it from the beginning - when Cain Tills was there, our defeat was a matter of decision."

"... If you had noticed, why didn't you tell me sooner"

"Is it convenient for you to hide me? Until you take the risk of exposing yourself, you won't be part of the losing battle... and, Iselia, you were thin with it. I wonder if he's alive."

"... the boulder is" Red Lotus, "right? When did you notice?

"From the beginning, right? I missed him, so I just checked and he was there... but I was surprised, too? I can't believe I'm going to come back to life as a human being without being a servant of the Spirit Tree like us."

To the words uttered with irony, Iselia smiles away and smiles slightly.

In the dark, Iselia gave a rare, non-grinning look to "Red Lotus Wings," who said she knew she was a convenient pawn for the "Spirit Tree,"

"... it's unpleasant"

"That's unusual. If an angel-skinned demon had stripped me of its ugly nature, it would have been worth losing my hand."

"... you were out of hand"

"Otherwise, there's no reason for me to lose my target and kill an unrelated child, is there? Unlike you, I don't kill people meaninglessly."

"… in which mouth is the pleasure killer stating"

"Don't you want to be told by cat clothes that love bad tastes?... leave the light mouth in this position. Iselia, what are you gonna do with this kid named Cain Tills and Irene?

Without breaking the harmless, honest, serene grin of humans and animals, Red Lotus Wings deliberately changed the subject after defeating Iselia.

"It's been decided. Eileen is my greatest masterpiece. I'll definitely get it and show it to you, even if you lose your powers, but honestly the other one will be tough."

Immediately answering without staying in her hair, Iselia smiles gracefully with a grin on her face again.

"If the Spirit Tree Guardians, including the Rainbow Wings, are all hit, they will be able to definitely serve. But he has something to ask. I don't need you to be an abandoned person..."

After a while of thought, Iselia slapped her hand just saying it was a name.

"- Let's use" Black Wings. "

To the words, "Red Lotus Wings” raise their hands to cast their magic into the unconscious to cast "Spirituality," and "Rainbow Wings” quietly stop it with their own magic.

For the first time since I was stopped, I realized what I was trying to do. "Red Lotus Wings" bitterly warped my face and stared at Iselia,

"... are you serious?

"Of course. I'm more than qualified to catch Eileen and him."

Iselia, if you release the Black Wings, the king's capital will be destroyed.

"I don't mind. If those two are going to get it, no matter what happens to Wang Du or anything... no, turn off the Ning Lo's obscure Knights of Wang Du and it's two birds a stone."

"... it is the Spirit Tree who is troubled by the annihilation of the King's capital? You really... oh, I don't care"

“Red Lotus Wings," I realized I meant it, gave up persuasion and shook my shoulder,

I'll leave you to the Red Lotus Wings and the Black Wings.

“Red Lotus Wings" exasperates with an awfully unpleasant look on Iselia, who tells her so with a winning face, just saying it was revenge that she missed in an argument earlier.

But he sighed at Iselia, who looked in the direction of the day after tomorrow, saying that he was not willing to give in at all, and the wings of the Red Lotus fell over his wings and vanished into the sky.

The "Rainbow Wings” who watched over that series of intercessions send a sharp gaze that Iselia is not very popular.

"… Iselia"

"... I don't like it,“ Wings of the Rainbow. "Nothing, just harassment made me go“ Red Lotus. "

"- Driven (...) by the hatred that killed me (...), and then will you kill“ Black Wings ”too... I find out that's what you're thinking"

Iselia and "Black Wings," “Black Wings” and “Red Lotus Wings." Everything was expected for "Rainbow Wings," which I know has a causal relationship that is not small.

But even though I knew it, I didn't stop it because I had the same idea about the delusions and dangers of the Black Wings as Iselia.

"... don't be rough"

"... Either way, it's the only thing that's ever going to happen."

They looked up to heaven together.

Each one has his own thoughts in his chest, and time passes.

A month after the raid.

"Merlin, the king's capital," which begins reconstruction. Pulled from its lively hustle and bustle, in the corner of a back alley closed in the dark like night, the boy and the girl meet.

To plan, the ruin that hates the world.

Visiting, eternal living hell.

Still, boys and girls walk out to teach lessons about a past that cannot be erased forever.

Aim, "Wangdu Knights" headquarters underground.

I know what I need to do now.

The two of us keep walking without exchanging words. Two, a boy with his eyes on a wild bird that flew away from the sky stops his leg, and the girl who was walking next to him stops walking again.

Bitterly smiling at the girl tilting her neck wonderfully, the boy waves his head and walks out again.

But the girl who spots the hidden sincerity in the trick mutters her thoughts on behalf of the boy.

As always, it's a city closed in a narrow boxyard.

♪ To be continued ♪