The Branded Female Fencer
Those who travel our way, Part 16 - Those who martyr in ambition ③ -
"There are twelve good reasons to fight. That's the third reason. This is the biggest reason for me."
"Because you can't tell me why?
"I've never told anyone. Even for Monkey Maru, Ziyuan, and Shouk. But it's a big reason. More than paranoia, more than revenge. Might as well call it my origin."
"Don't you suffer"
"That would be the same for you."
Poetry annoyed Bai Le's words. I am aware of Puritanical White Fun. Poetry remembered. This man has always been on the front line and dawn into battle, and he says there's something oddly sharp about it. I remembered that I was an unafraid opponent. I lied this far at the expense of everything. I couldn't be enlightened until the end, but do you expect puritanical leisure for everything?
Shino sweats again. I got as upset as I could, but White Fun just laughed thinly and had nothing to say.
"What are you talking about?
"That's fine if you want to blur it. But don't just do it to the load, if you want to do it, even deceive yourself into doing it. Whatever it is, it is. If we end it halfway, we'll lose what we sacrificed, what we need to help, all of it."
"Thank you for your words. But why would you do that to me?
"Well, I wonder why. At this age, did you want to leave something in the world without even a pattern? Am I old too?"
"If you want to leave me, I'll take care of you."
"That's my son. Even if I don't say anything, I understand me. I don't want anything from him. No, let's do what we want."
That's what I said and laughed. The face of Puritanical White Fun was strangely calm, and even once again, Shino remembered strange emotions. Poetry asked overlapping.
"May I have just one more thing?"
"What?
"I think this one time, that's just acute. It would have been nice to spend a little more time and be careful. Without even thinking about the pattern of the great names of the countries, it is difficult to gather them together and make a feast or anything, just to contact them. Some of them swept up or declined invitations for a variety of reasons when they were far away. After all, we only gather about 70% of the total. Now let's get in the way of the future. It would have been better if we had spent a little more time, at least until the beginning of spring, summoning the great names and doing things."
"I thought the same thing. But we don't have time."
"What do you mean you don't have time -"
No puritanical leisure would have answered that word of Shino.
"I'm afraid I can't teach you right now. And there's nothing you can do about it."
"... that's got to be enough credit for me"
"I'll give you a clear answer too, sparing what you can say in front of me. You're right, you haven't earned my credit yet. All I trust is the woman in my arms or my slave."
"I'm sorry for both."
"Would it? That's why you keep it beside me. I have nothing to do with a woman who turns herself over easily. You are still immature, but only with your faith and obsession. Don't let me down at best, help me."
"... I don't know if it meets your expectations, but if it's something I can do for you, I'll try"
"Fine. Shall we?"
Finally, the words, Puritanical White Fun and Poetry were headed for the hall where they were intended without exchanging words. Although Shino's inner heart was intertwined with anxiety about what was to come and his determination about his own responsibility to swirl, the creed of Puritanical White Fun could not be seen from behind. I just always felt like the back of a man who thought he was just magnificent looked small or big enough to think about it.
A little later, the four famous houses of the Association of Puritanical Baihan and Exorcism had invited great names and famous generations to celebrate the feast of victory. It is, of course, a celebration of the completion of the ghost crusade.
The crusade of ghosts is supposed to have been made by the elite of the nominally Crusading Demons Association, but of course not the fruit of it. Purity White Fun has held the real power of the Demon Society for more than a decade. In the meantime, the family of ghosts he attacked and destroyed directly destroyed four families, and one later with a measure of separation. But the other five families were destroyed by Dragreo, Bradymaria, and Titania in only a month.
There is no way that the great names can be suspicious of the consequences of all this. Now the great names sent their subordinations into each ghost's territory to confirm its main battlefield, but they were all reported to have been specifications of destruction unlikely to be the cause of men. The great names naturally questioned the sudden actions and effects of the Demon Society, but the Demon Society said, "Our elite destroyed it. They are the ones who worked out for this day," he only announced, not informing them of the details.
But there can be no such thing as blades facing the Demon Society, which had the power to end the centuries-old war in just about a month, and promises and fame only obey. And some doubted the beauty that appeared near the hour around the puritanical leisure, but there was no way to confirm it.
All in all, it was thought that peace on the continent had been made here. There were plenty of haunted ghosts, or lands full of curses because the ghosts killed too much, but it was huge that there were no more clans hostile to humans, even after subtracting them. It may also have been significant that the long-lasting war had raised the mood for disgust to great names. Many great names saw the situation as such.
The banquet was very exciting. There are no enemies, and this is where human disobedience has become central. Seeing the great names to be relieved, Puritanical White Fun was also smiling like no other. However, what those who approached him saw the expression of white pleasure today was something that Daimyo didn't even know.
The feast even rose, and the small maids brought the delicacies of the mountain sea to the banquet table, and as a pastime, the girls were dancing along three lines. Only in it, Monkey Maru did not eat secretly, he refrained from sitting in the front seat beside Puritan Bai Le, carrying a long knife on his left hand. Purity White Fun was already sitting around, tilting it with liquor in a large cup so that it could be brought loosely to the elbow.
Continued