Seirei no Moribito

Underground world ③

"There you are!?"

"No, he's not over here! We're going around over there!!"

"Damn, where did you get away...!!"

The roaring sound of a chopped feather behind his back and multiple footsteps cross away, causing him to resume breathing, which he was stopping unconsciously.

After peeking into his face from the shadows and making sure it was completely unpopular, he - Eileen - sat down on the spot.

"Huh... why am I running around now...!

I think I hear my heart beating, and I hold my hand and I breathe desperately.

"Ha, ha... Damn, I want to yell at you, this way"

I rubbed my cheeks abusively with a dirty hem with return blood and squeezed again that it was better than no bloody sword broken in two on the way,

"... wind and dust running through the sky, spinning deep green shadows." Hydroer ""

Apply a small chant of “magic" to make it harder to detect existence, and then Lynn rises.

There is no place to go, no purpose, but it is better to resist and be killed to the end than to surrender like this and be treated like good to The Knights of the King's Capital again.

Besides,

"... if you're out there, you just move whatever you want"

Lynn walked out in unreliable footsteps, remembering a raging event up to the moment.

That may have been cut off by the fact that a spark that even he did not realize had never burned without a spark, or that the unselfish behaviour of one person created this situation as a result.

The beginning of the mistake came from a dispute that really didn't matter.

"Yay, Eileen"

Speaking to Lynn, he was a young man wearing knightly clothes and a sword.

The young man, characterized by his blood red eyes on his loess hair, was the first person to bring Lynn into this basement, as well as the one who helped to seize Lynn when she broke out,

"Quick, but why don't you come outside with me for a second?

- Faster than anyone, he was also the person who tried to use Lynn.

I thought Lynn gave up because she didn't show up for a while, and she turned an absolute zero-degree gaze at the young man who named hernoin.

"Unfortunately, today, unlike always, it's not because of my selfish personal lust."

The floating grin stays put, but unlike usual, Harnoyn says, looking genuinely enjoyable.

"... Oh, no, you're not going to change the place on my own. Hey, I'm just trying to use the Roses."

"... you're the one who told me where I was, Harnoyn?

"Well, you know what?

He pulled Lynn's right hand and forced him to stand,

"Remember the first thing I said?

"... are you trying to use me to keep me from them trying to use me?"

"Using Eileen... rather than giving the“ Witch of the Spirit Tree ”that I want to keep aside as a tool, I made a pact with the" Elves "under certain conditions before I lost my memory."

"... I remember that the result is this. But I'm not upset about that."

"I guess. But there's one more thing about that story, isn't there?

Looking directly at Lynn from the front, Harnoin tells.

"I made some promises, too, on the assumption that I would cooperate with that covenant. If Irene before she lost her memory, maybe she figured out what I was trying to say... well, save it because it doesn't matter what someone else's family situation is. I don't know who it is, but the outsiders are underground... and the Knights of the Kings have found out that they let them break in with their hands... I'm suspected by the killer, besides, there's a lot more to it than that, and my eyes are a little tight on surveillance."

"... I mean, if you miss this opportunity, you won't be able to live up to that promise, so you're taking me outside right now?

"Damn, Eileen said she left the rest to you before she lost her memory, so it was only because she agreed to take Eileen outside."

"... what if I refuse?

"Come on, I just want to say... I'm not very good at it. Besides, it seems like I still have a conscience, and at least I don't want to be forced to take Irene away from me by involving people who have nothing to do with this."

Harnoin flaunted his shoulder,

"So, what do we do? Follow me closely and resist who obeys me."

It has nothing to do with me right now. You can do whatever you want. "

Because it doesn't even matter.

You heard Lynn whining so small, Harnoin laughed like trouble,

"Then I'll finish another errand."

I looked around the underground world.

For a while, Harnoyn stares at each and every child, including those who are hiding, whining about something, and approaching one child.

The child, who realized he was walking towards himself, shook his body as frightened but stared at him with his face out of the shadows of the other children, and Harnoin crouched before that, where several children were gathered.

"Hello"

"... Kon, we have..."

The child, while returning to Harnoyn's words, hides his fear in his back in the open, unable to wipe his vigilance,

"I'm Harnoyn. What's your name?

"... I, a red child, they call me that..."

"... red, child.... bright white, beautiful silver hair, pure red gemstone eyes... yeah, maybe you are"

Only one person is characteristic, and Harnoin groans,

"Are you interested in the outside world?

Listening to it, Lynn convinced me that the first time she talked to the child, the words she whined about were this.

Tired of continuing to stand on his left foot rather than on his powerless right foot, leaning against the wall and just watching. Ahead, Harnoyn asked that, the only "Spirit spoiler” in the underground world with a bright color,

……

Confused, I nodded small.

As relieved by it, Harnoin exhaled,

"Good... if this turned me down, I'd be responsible for a single stick called kidnapping... because I don't want to be locked up in a boulder with a kid's kidnapping..."

give back powerlessly nothing to a child who leans his neck strangely,

"... of..."

"Hmm, something for me?

"... brother of the knight, is... good, knight...?

To a question squealed out of pure doubt, Harnoyn lost his word.

Keep your face down and think of something,

"... unfortunately, I'm never a good man. What a meal for someone, a big villain with a flat hand in crime.... there's no way to save him from regretting it."

Laugh masochistically and wear the original made mask.

"It was a girl named Elise who tried to get you out. I'll take her place. I'll take you out to the outside world and turn you over to her, and that's it. Okay?"

"... so, but... now reaching out to me is my knight's brother,"

"... don't bother, that's the kind thing they say. Mine's just a job. It's not even hypocrisy."

Shake his head, for Christ's sake, and Harnoin offers his hand.

"Will you take my hand? 'Cause I'm gonna get you out into the outside world."

He was still a frightened looking child, but stood in front of the harnoin while letting his legs be held back by the gentle eyes around him and the words of the child who was hiding on his back,

"... thanks, guys.... Oh, of... Nice to meet you..."

And he reached out, and held his hand small.

exhale a sigh of relief even once in a while,

"... All right, that's all I'm gonna do! Everyone in the basement, please don't tell me I'm here."

I smiled deliberately, sounding my sword, threatening him one last time,

"Bye, Eileen. I want you to come outside with me."

I was wondering if the farce was finally over, and Lynn let her back off the wall with eyes that seemed uninterested,

"- Too bad, Harnoin. I didn't know you were a traitor."

Lynn and Harnoyn froze themselves to the voices of third parties, to the killings and to the signs of the masses.

Aggressively Lynn tongued unconsciously trying to put her left hand in motion,

"... thanks for this, Sister Charles"

Talk to a silver-haired woman who turns her sword to him without alarm, staring somewhere with a bitter expression.

The woman Harnoin called her sister wrapped her sparkling partial armor in blue silver and, unlike her brother, laughed with blue eyes.

"... I knew Sister Charles didn't trust me. Though I'm a belly-up, I'm just one brother... and I'm gonna cry, aren't I?

"Will you shut up now, Harnoin? I don't want to kill my brother without question."

"... of, for your sake, you're killing me?

"If we just take that kid out, I'll help you out, too. But you know what, Harnoyne?

The cutting edge of the sword remains pointing toward Harnoyn, looking at Lynn with a sharp eye to increase vigilance,

"He's one of the“ protectors "who attacked the" King's Capital "... and I have trouble getting clues that might lead to Lily gone. Me, the Knights Commander... and my brother."

"... the way you put it, it's like Lily's alive, but how many years do you think it's been since then? If you were alive, you'd have found a clue. That doesn't mean... Lily's dead. I take it for granted that you think so?

"... Ha. HARNOIN - You're as white as ever. Lily's alive... No, I need a hand in Lily's conspiracy. Is that what you're saying now?

frightened by the knights who suddenly appeared, she looked over at the underground inhabitants shrinking in the corner,

"... I don't have anywhere else to think about this situation either. Even though the Knights are rotten, this is too much. But..."

knights pulling out their swords in complete armament and pointing their cutting-edge at each of Lynn and Harnoyn. Now look over,

"... Sometimes there are rebels like Harnoyn, so this world doesn't go away forever. This place, which has become Eileen's cage... it is your turn to be imprisoned next, former (...) Ensign Harnoin Goldie"

"... there's no way to put a knight who just helped the important reference escape into a place like this. That means Sister Charles knows I've committed the sin I deserve to end up in this hell."

"I know the involvement of Lily Goldie and Asbel Ethel in the“ wind discipline commissioner, "and then the upside about the two of them... the fact that you talked to me as if you were a party, and the rest about the intrusion a few days ago... there's more to it, but should I say it all?

"... No, that's fine, Colonel Charlina Goldie... Speaking of which, how did you get promoted to the first rank?"

"Of course, I realized your betrayal, and I succeeded in preventing it, and I reported the attack on Wang Du by the Guardian, and the confusion you committed."

"... Oh, yeah"

Did you find out everything?

Yes, Harnoyn sighed and shook his head so loudly,

"I'm sorry, Eileen. I think I'm in trouble."

"... this is why the Knights"

tongue-beating, Lynn thinks about what to do from a situation where the place is frozen.

(… Even though it has nothing to do with me now, if I really said so before, there is a possibility that this situation will come again. But if Harnoyn gets caught and finds out about this, security will be tighter... the opportunity to escape will never come again)

That is why Harnoyn took action without regard for danger, and found himself in a critical situation.

(... if I had the strength, I would have gotten out of here with some forceful hands...)

Lynn doesn't have the means to crack this situation right now.

They also understand that, the vigilance directed at Lynn is somewhat loose, and the vigilance is stronger in Ning Ro Harnoyn and the atmosphere is likely to pop up even now.

If you want to escape, Harnoyn will have to do something about it, but Harnoyn doesn't have the means to do it either.

"... is over, Harnoin"

With a mixed mockery of contempt and pity, Lynn said away toward Harnoyn,

"... zahn. Me, the boulder, this situation is under assumption. Your hands are hidden until the end, Eileen."

He laughs for the utmost pleasure, not even in a completely cheerful situation.

"... I'm sorry, Red... honey? I wanted to get out of here in peace if I could, but it could get a little rough."

"... yes, no... I can get out of here if... whatever, I'll stand it"

"Wow, did you hear what I just said, sister? I'd love to hear it from your stupid sister."

"... Harnoyn, that'll be the last word they say, okay?

Charlina stood quietly with her left hand up,

"No arms, no legs, no magic. Naturally you can't say" magic "in that state, but there's only one way to do a miracle."

Harnoyn talks as if to snort as she turns her face to Lynn.

"The Spirit is a place of hope and despair for mankind. But there is no good or evil in the Spirit. That's why you might answer me if I offer you another possibility"

"... you, what the hell...?

"If you don't have magic - you can substitute another power. That's how Mr. Cain went about his life as a mercenary. Now, if this is going to pass on to Irene now..."

"- Cheng Cheng, is that what you mean?"

Lynn found out how Harnoyn was going to escape with two foot wraps and why.

(If you don't have magic... you can devote a power comparable to magic... to the “Spirit” by cutting your life)

Lynn raised her mouth crooked that she was even a hateful avenger to herself,

"... hahahahahahahaha!

Lynn raised her voice and laughed at how she didn't realize the possibility sooner.

I warped my face like Charlina and the other knights and confused by Harnoyn and Lin, who suddenly laughed out of nowhere.

I mean, in the end, there was only one way to get there.

If everything doesn't matter, Lynn has decided to choose the path where this hatred clears up at all.

Reading that determination, Harnoin gradually pulled out his sword with his right hand holding the child with his left arm,

"The sun radiation of a pouring sensation of universe." Flare Line "!

"Queen's mercy, waves of blue steel." Blue Ecstasy "!

They both say "witchcraft” and “spirituality” at the same time.

"Behold, you have lost your power... HARNOIN, YOU ARE!!"

Charlina watched over the impossible phenomenon, but soon popped up realizing that Harnoyn's words were responsible, and at the same time, countless lines of fire pierced the waves that spread to cover the ceiling, making loud noises and evaporating.

"The mark of righteousness, it is the mourning of the fool who protests." Forcefield "!

Water vapor temporarily snatched away their sight. That gap was not missed, and the "spiritual art” that Harnoyn spoke of spread around the place where the knight was concentrated, turning the junction preventing the attack into a cage to trap them.

Lynn suffered such severe pain that she was eagled of her heart by the alternative "spiritual art" she had used for the first time,

"Eh... wind and dust running through the sky, spinning deep green shadows." Hydroer "!

Because he relied on the Spirit, or only slightly, he used the magic sent by the Spirit to dilute the signs.

"Wait, Eileen...... will you betray us, HARNOIN!!"

With Charlina's grieving fury behind her back, the three of them escaped from a narrow underground prison.