Shadow Brave's Readventure - Re-Tale of the Brave
Episode 347: An Untold Story
Long before Kate became a brave man and returned to Earth. Still this is before Kate became a brave man.
"... a long time ago, then... far more so than it is now... yes, about 400 years ago."
A pure white princess, called the noblest in this world, never opens her mouth. But the princess was not the only one on the spot. Both the Queen of Gold and the Empress of Crimson were there.
What they're trying to talk about is that no-one in this world anymore knows, that's the erased history. It was erased. That means it was erased with some intent.
"I don't understand everything yet... for once, tell him from you"
My voice sounds, and the princess of pure white nods. We have to talk. That's why they came together here. And so the stories of the past, which almost no one but them knew anymore, began to be told.
"Somebody, help me..."
Weak, fine voices echo in the deep woods. It belonged to a man of his age who was quite young, no, still barely able to be called a boy. When I was a year old, I would still be in a place called Middle Teen.
He wanders through the deep woods leaving traces of blood with a desperate look and asks for help. But that doesn't reach anyone. There was no shadow around him, and even if there was a small shadow, it was the figure of the devil who could never resist if it were not him or the ordinary.
He dyes his silver hair, his sterling face, his neat flesh the same crimson as his eyes, whipping his torn body about as much as his worn white simple clothes.
But still, he was desperately holding the golden beauty in his hand. The woman had no noticeable wounds, but her face was bright blue and her exhaling breath was shallow, and whoever saw them were on the verge of death.
"... I'm sorry... I'm sorry..."
Apologize for the woman you hugged as the man wept. The only words that are repeated earlier with a beautiful voice that suits a fair face are an apology and a small voice asking for help that I understand will never come.
'Somebody... help me!
When the forest finally got deeper and even the shadow of the devil was gone. He finally got on his knees. I cry big tears, raise my voice and ask for help, but that never reaches anyone.
No, it arrived. It's just that it wasn't the person he wanted. Naturally. He has no reason to know, but this is the home of the mighty. Something powerful, even from his eyes, came down in front of the man.
'... sorry. I can't protect one of you...'
The man sees a giant with the overwhelming majesty that appears in front of him, and understands that it's over. Well, I have no choice. Whatever came down, even if it wasn't him, the mighty ones living in this place would recognize him as dead.
The man who thus gives up, in order to shake off the giving up, mouths to the woman he holds. That's how I see a man hugging a woman hard, I think. I thought you'd try to protect a woman even in such a situation. I wondered if you loved that woman that much.
"Hey, one, will you listen to me"
says the man. Metaphor. I wanted to bet on a few possibilities, even if I knew it wouldn't be heard. He looked at himself and thought he couldn't even do that. Naturally. I am, death-rightening. That must have made sense to him when he was dying.
'If you want to eat me, don't worry about it. So... only this guy has to help me.'
I didn't give up living, but to keep him alive, looking into his calm, then strong, willing eyes, I took an interest in a man. Thus, for the first time in tens of thousands of years, I spoke out with my own mouth, surprised at myself for my interest.
'Let's ask. Do you wish to help the woman, not yourself?
The man was aware. That the woman already in her own hands can't be helped by any deceptive means. But still, I opened my eyes to the query I was asked.
'!? Are you going to help me!? Please, help this guy!
Hugging a woman who was scratched and getting cold gradually with her worn hands, she jumped at the hope that the man had come down and gushed. I have no desire to see myself there, and I am even more interested in it.
It was a laugh that floated in that way, I no longer remember, but maybe, it was a laugh. But there's one thing I remember. There was a light in the man's face that seemed hopeful.
You're gonna die, aren't you?
That said, it's self-righteousness to just help. That's why I ask for consideration myself. That was a question of interest.
The man seemed to think that the woman in his own arm was the corpse, but from his own eyes, the man was more dead.
'Well, I'm in trouble... because this guy helped me. And...'
The words that followed were told small with a slightly lit face, and that was the answer that I wanted. That's one of the biggest things I didn't understand, even when I saw the world of the Frost Man. So, hearing the small, but clear answer, the man bows his head.
'So... please!
So I don't mind. I am even more interested in words spoken out of words. That was well worth the price to me. In so doing, I decide to arbitrarily exercise my permissible powers in this world for the first time in quite some time, perhaps hundreds of millions or trillions of years.
That said, that seems to have miraculously appeared to him. Well, I don't think so. Anyway, it's easy to help both of you who won't be able to help you anymore. Besides, the man only opened his eyes and embraced what had happened.
"You're lying..."
In the man's arms, the woman's face, which was bright blue, regains her blood temper, and her shallow, short breath also turns into a calm one. Then, even more, the man noticed the anomaly that had happened to his own body.
His body wounds, which were full of physical slurs, had disappeared and he was back in strength. Blood and various stains stain, worn out clothes change beautifully, regaining a simplicity somewhere resembling experimental clothing.
'... that?
'I'm not saying that I can only help one... I'm in a dead place and yet I try to help a woman. What happened to that emotion?
A man who was flattered that he was back to normal, but raised his face to the existential question that helped him.
"Huh?... uh, love?
With some illuminating look, the man who regained his blood answers bossy. Apparently, the only reason it was a small voice was because it was physically limited and never because of will.
That said, I had one of the most incomprehensible things in the world called 'love'. Therefore, I will continue to ask further questions. For myself with an infinite time, only the lust for knowledge was one of the few leisurely times. It was well worth the price to me.
"How is love?
"What? Hmm... what is it?"
To his own inquiry, a man looks up into the sky and tilts his neck. Indeed, if you think about it now, there is no one who can answer the question of what 'love' is in all seriousness. That said, he seemed to be starting to think seriously too. So, for a while, the combination of these two people was going to tackle a problem where there was never an answer.
Then, for a while. Myself and the man decided to discuss it. It was trivial to me after a long time to see how many days had passed, but it would not have been for at least a month or two. This day, too, we were discussing it again.
"Hmm... I've never been around anything like that."
This is how I'm talking to this man. I'm interested in myself this time, and I want to discuss it with a naughty man. The guy helped me. Did I miss myself, or I'm happily enjoying talking to myself with a nostalgic grin.
After that, he lived in a qualitative cabin that he had made - by his own standards - in a corner of the woods with a woken woman. Fortunately, this was actually the safest place in the dangerous woods. There is no such thing as a dangerous animal or a demon of great power. Well, it's my residence, naturally. So it was customary for men to visit below themselves sometimes when they had time.
"Oh well..."
A man replied only slightly unfortunately to the words told him to think of something. Apparently, he has a lot of those. So, laughing, I look at my face and ask.
But I'm your friend now, right? He's the first friend in the world. "
The man who told him that puts a nostalgic smile on his righteous face and laughs at himself. Besides, I get a different grin from him.
"Kuku, with me and my friends?
'Huh?'
I laugh arrogantly at myself, making a man look just a little hurt. Again, this is a surprise. I had no idea I was being arrogant like this.
No, I've probably been taking it for quite some time, but this is the first time in a few starry months that I've noticed that there are other people who aren't me.
That said, this arrogant grin floating around here is a joke grin. I'm just making fun of a guy. I was also an object of interest in making jokes like that.
"Chi, no?
"Well, hey."
That's how I smile at myself, and the man slowly realizes he was just teasing me, and I get a stubborn face somewhere. So, a few more months. At last, the time came. That's natural, but it was time to break up.
'What are you going to do?
'... I'm coming out. I'm going to fight... but I don't want to bother my friends.'
The man who hears the news tells himself in the face of the man who has decided to do so. At the time of departure, he came to say goodbye with the golden beauty who had saved him.
"... wait a minute"
I know I can't go with you, I know I can't go with you, I know I can't go with you. No, the man probably grasped it by intuition. So, for the first time in a long lifetime, I spoke out for a being that I could call my own companion of my own free will. First of all, I'm surprised you came back.
'Surprised... I thought I'd fallen asleep'
'... don't worry. If you're asleep, you're still asleep... I didn't know you'd call me.'
"Hmm... I think the concubine is awake. So, what, what if you suddenly say the world will end tomorrow? I say it all the time, but I say it a little sooner. There are men of the heavenly and divine tribes who keep a little eye on them. We must not forget him."
With surprised emotions, the voices of the three women echo. It seemed unusual for me to speak up so far. I laughed a little bitterly at them, not realizing myself. That said, you never notice yourself like that, and the conversation goes on.
'That won't be there. So far the geology and the great spirits have not said anything strange'
'Hmm... well, that's good. None of them have any roots... there is no special damage where this world has perished. "
'Sure. So, what's the requirement?
Two men voiced their opinions on the woman's words and gradually questioned themselves.
"Anybody got some spare time? There's someone I'd like to help you with."
To my inquiry, now everyone exposes their surprises at the same time. Well, it can't be helped. Anyway, this has never happened before in our own star frost. Thus, after a brief consternation, with a pleasant laugh, one of the women ran for office.
"Ha ha! I didn't know I could hear those words from you! All right, let's go!
In this group, two women were quite involved in the world. So one of them easily rode this request.
Well, either way, we're free, no matter what happens to the world. I guess I thought it was a good time to be as present as I said I wanted to lend a hand.
"Where?
"Where I am."
"There... there was someone there who could have gone to a great place."
So, the six-member conversation breaks off. Either way, that concludes the agenda. Apparently the two men weren't even interested, and the two women decided to leave it to her, and I guess I thought I'd listen to them later. Immediately afterwards, a crimson giant appeared that I could not see the whole thing even looking up in front of me.
"... to?
The man suddenly appears in a giant crimson dragon with a dumb face. But that's just men. The woman realizes who she is when she sees the crimson giant that flew in, and then sees herself. Its face was engraved with amazement, and the awe held by all who lived in this world against themselves.
"Awesome! Who! '
"... hmm?
A man asked himself with a glowing grin. Thus, a crimson dragon tilted her neck at what the man had asked herself. It was a question of being in this world without knowing who I am.
At first glance, it had a style that just showed that I was the one. It was only natural to question him for realizing that but not getting to the answer.
"Interested?
"Why don't you know the rest?
I tell the dragon, a woman of crimson, that I've been waiting for her. I still remember the look on your face at this time. He had a pretty proud face.
He's better than the rest of the world.
"Well, that's unusual..."
"It's not unusual that you just don't notice. Pebbles have been transferred and replaced even two days ago, to be exact '
In some fun voice, the female dragon sees herself uncommonly. At that time, I didn't realize it, but it wasn't that I was saying this man was rare, it was that I was the one who seeped emotions.
That said, the female dragon doesn't point that out. That's why my answers were pungent stuff. And so the dragon woman of crimson inquired against herself.
"So. What else do you want me to do?
"What, I need a little help doing this. Against the world, he says. '
'Hmm?'
The crimson female dragon looked closely at the words to observe the man. As such, the man shot through his crimson eyes looks uncomfortable somewhere.
"Hmmm......"
That's how she now took the look of a woman with crimson hair and a hell of a beauty with eyes.
'Shall I ask? Fight it, what do we do? How do you fight it?
'Huh?... What's up?
"Mm..."
He didn't think about what to do with it, even if he had decided to fight it. The man thought only a little and asked himself openly beside him. That's how I take it and lean my neck unexpectedly myself.
A crimson woman was caught in the boulder. As a matter of fact, I didn't actually think about myself or the man until now. I didn't dare to think that someone would lend me wisdom, I just thought.
"Oh, hey......"
'... what are you going to do?
Ask the man if he is uncomfortable with the boulder, stared at by a crimson woman. Because I can't move from here, I relied on being who would help me.
So you can't decide exactly what you're going to do, and now you ask a man too. So, after a while, a man looks up and decides on a policy. That was the natural logic.
'In the meantime, think after you run away. First, we have to run.'
'Mm... sure, it must be. So, who are you running from?
"Er... what the... Mango Empire?
If you ask me, it made sense. Anyway, they're being chased and they're trying to escape. Instead of saying, I just ran under myself, too. After that, he died for a while, but in some way his survival was confirmed.
Then first of all, nothing starts unless you run away from this scene. It is certain that the pursuit is imminent. That's how he did it, a man who answered the crimson woman's question with rather little confidence, but a correction came in from the golden beauty who was beside him.
'Ha... it's the Mars Empire. In the words of the opening emperor, apples, they mean. When will you remember your name properly? We've been over this a few hundred times already, right?
'Oh, that's...' cause it's hard to say. In the meantime, we need to escape that empire '
'What, you were fleeing the empire? I didn't mean to go all the way to such a remote place. What did you do?
"Uh, yeah, sort of."
The man, questioned by a crimson beauty, tried to say with a slightly lit face, it was going to be a long story - or I have had several long stories - so I stopped feeling frightened.
"The chaser is close. Talk to me on the road...... glaia. That topic gets longer. If you want to hear it, be prepared. '
'Well, if that interests you, let's hear it on the road. Orientation?'
The Crimson Woman is not lost in Glia's inquiry, but points in the direction where the chaser is approaching. This forest is my realm. I couldn't possibly have known.
"Stupid......"
When I saw the direction pointed at me, Glaia sighed. There's no need for her to be scared. In any case, it was a habitat inhabited by numerous mighty demons. If we were to pass there, we would be making a lot of sacrifices.
'Oh... that's all they're prepared to say... then go'
In recognition of Glaia's words, it would be a waste of time any longer, and I use magic to create just a small portal of transition through which three people can pass. It's to get out of the woods. People would call this super technology, but it's just a comfort level for me.
'... thank you. Unnamed, the greatest man in the world. "
Thank you, then. I'll be back. "
"Whatever you want, but good"
At goodbye, a man tells himself with a slightly lonely face against a golden woman with her head firmly bowed. I still don't know what I looked like.
'Then let's leave the rest to us. He's the one you were interested in. Let's avoid letting him die in vain. "
'Hmm... well, just so you don't die, if you will. Okay, I asked for it.'
"Oh."
Finally, Glaia tells herself. So the three of them disappeared.