Shi ni Modori, Subete wo Sukuu Tame ni Saikyou He to Itaru

- Eric is sweet, so I thought he'd be upset when he fights me. That's why it was so easy to take them down.

I got down on my knees, and that's what the guy in front of me said.

Ugh...!

- Because I couldn't live straight. Because I've lived bent, twisted, rotten.

I could see emotions swinging in my eyes only then someone who had ever been faceless.

Rotten, lived...?

- I could have attacked you for a purpose. You may have been my friend for what you prioritized, but I prioritized Purpose.

I felt that in that shaky emotion there was a firm purpose.

Purpose, what...!

- It's been fun. I'll see you somewhere. At that time, we were enemies.

I felt like the last time I saw a sad smile as I lost my power and fell.

You really enjoyed it...! That's not a lie, either!

"Elena,...!

Unconsciously speaking so, he is forced to open a very heavy eyelid.

Her eyelids are heavy too, but her head hurts heavier and worse.

I manage to get my upper body up, even though I feel like someone is hitting me in the head directly.

"Eric! Are you okay!?

I heard that voice from next door.

You'd be worried about me. Voice, but I'm getting more headaches than that because it's too loud.

"Yulina, …"

Even my voice somehow figured it out, but I look at the face next to me and say so.

"Oh, it's me. Wait, I'll get some water."

That's what Mr. Yulina said, then she walked away from me.

I'll look around and try my best to see what's going on with my head I can't think much of yet.

The first thing I slept in was a stiff bed.

Looking around, this looks like a hospital room.

I remember being explained before that there was a very large hospital on the side of the royal palace.

But why am I in this hospital room...?

My head hurts too much to remember.

It's a slightly cramped hospital room with only about three beds.

There's one bed next to me, and there's nobody there right now.

Probably Mr. Yulina's bed.

And before me, there's another bed.

Still staring into the sumptuous eyes, Tina was still asleep in that bed.

"Tina......!

Here I was finally able to remember everything I've been through.

That he came back with Mr. Viviana, knowing that this king's capital was under attack.

Things went well along the way, but the sudden explosion caused the situation to reverse all at once.

And... about Elena.

Yes, what happened after I was defeated by Mr. Elena?

There must have been Tina behind my fall.

Could Tina, who looks asleep in front of me right now, be killed by Elena -!

I tried to get close to Tina by forcing my heavy body to move,

"Eric! Don't push me!

Mr. Julina stopped me when I came back.

I can gently restrain my body from trying to get up.

I can only feel a little power from Mr. Yulina, but my body doesn't move so much that I can't push it back.

"Is Tina...!?

"I'm just asleep, I'm not dead. Don't worry."

You perceived my concern, and you answered that.

Good, really......

I'm relieved, or I'll put up with losing my strength and about to fall asleep in bed again.

"The three of us, not deeply wounded, didn't seem to wake up all the time. He's been asleep all day or so."

"A day..."

Have you slept so much since then?

"I was poisoned by someone. Perhaps that's why I've slept so much"

In those words, I remembered what Mr. Elena was saying.

Sure, Mr. Yulina too......

"Eric... did you get hit by Mr. Elena?

"... Yes, it is"

"Well... so is Tina"

"Probably, I think so.

I don't know about the aftermath of the fall, but it would be easy enough to scratch Tina, who's passed out behind me.

Confirming that to me, Ms. Yulina looks down with her face distorted.

"Who is Elena? On the verge of my falling, that man was saying that he was on the Devil's side. Is he a traitor?

Seems painful, Mr. Yulina spitting out what I've always thought in my heart.

I don't know that either.

How the hell has Elena been feeling and spending time with us?

Was that uncontrolled smile all a lie?

"Does Eric know anything?

"… I spoke with Elena for a moment"

"What were you saying?

I told Yulina what I heard back then.

That Mr. Elena is a demon and that he came to this country as a spy.

To be unsuspected, having joined the Knights over three years as a Knights Apprentice.

That it was Elena who circulated the information for this surprise raid.

And the next time I saw you, what you said you were already enemies.

"Right..."

I heard it to the end, Mr. Yulina, while distorting her face to my explanation.

"You weren't betrayed, you weren't on your side from the start..."

I don't see any words to say to Yulina, who is about to cry.

Perhaps Julina and I were best friends.

They had been close to me since I was an apprentice, and Mr. Yulina would have been one of the few seniors I could respect.

Elena was also close to various people, but she seemed to have a lot of fun with Yulina and talked to her in the most friendly way.

"Sounds like fun," "Sounds like the friendliest"

I can't be sure, it's so painful.

"I have a brother or brother, but there was no woman in the family but my mother. So, I think you admired Elena for being your sister on your own. Heh, he's a man, but he's a woman. I thought it was rude..."

Yulina said so with a slight loosening of her mouth, but there were no tears from her eyes.

"Liar, you were...! The kindness directed at me, the smile, everything......!

The words that spat out so as to squeeze them out echoed vainly in the hospital room where I, Mr. Yulina, and Tina were still asleep.