The Branded Female Fencer
City of Pleasure, Part 92 - Sword Wind ② -
"... okay, it'll be a statute of limitations already. Dryan is doing a martial arts training for the beast man who put the continent on top of him, which is rare at the time. These are more prejudicial times than they are now. It took a lot of courage to walk in places that were not under the control of Groussard or the countries. Whatever it is, it's hard for us to get the information and things that are easily accessible to humans. Sometimes he was taught lies, sometimes he was sold food for extrajudicial prices, and even up to the city, he was paid in advance.
We've been around a lot, haven't we? You've also gone a bit to the prairies, the marshes, the snowlands, the volcanic belts of the western countries and the eastern continent. The ship broke down and ended up swimming, but was about to be eaten by a giant beast. No, I was in a hurry. Dreyan was a masterpiece when he turned bright blue. "
"You guys are just unplanned, aren't you?
"Ugh. Anyway, less than 10 of them accompanied him on the journey. We're all in the military sync. Especially me and Dryan and the last few of them are rotten from the kid thing. What do we have in common? Did we teach Gora's grandfather? We were all strong, weren't we? I guess he was stronger than the beast generals are today. I got one from Kaple's old man at the time. Everyone was as strong as that, and Dryan was a pretty big guy. We worked together until our bodies stopped moving like every day, but Dryan was like reading and fishing for human society books in the shade there. I thought we were strangers. But he was making decisions about wonders and things. I guess everyone thought his judgment was right. Since then, I have had the qualities to lead others.
He said he wanted to see human society, so we decided to pause and walk away from the army and see human society. You don't have our names left in the army, do you? We were only about 10 people long at the time. There was strength in the individual, but no contribution in the military yet "
"I see..."
"There wasn't much war then, either. So we had an adventure. Along the way, humans became companions, other species became companions - and Dryan had a hand in hand with the king of the bloodsucking species. That was so strong. Anything like we can fight each other with Grandpa Gora or something. Yeah, you traveled with Arnelia's pilgrimage lady, too. You were that woman beautiful - I still don't even see any more women than that in this taram. A woman of other races, but I fell in love with her unexpectedly. It's a single-digit number, so heaven gives you one or two. I know she's alive, but I don't know what happened."
Rosanna stepped on Cayman's foot at that moment, as Cayman tried to remember the old days, but the underside of his nose was stretched. Cayman hurts all the time jumping up. Apparently, Seite was convinced that that was the relationship between these two.
"I'll skip the details, but I met the people who decided our fate in it. One of them is Almas. They're the ones who are manipulating the war from behind. From that time on, the world of the Beastman also had constant skirmishes. We've done this with Almas many times, thinking that the cause might be Almas. Of course you fought the Almas elite, which is said to be numbered. And we talked to the Whisper bastard, and we talked to him."
"Whisper? From what I've heard, they're manipulating Almas from behind, but he's been around for a long time?
"I wonder. But maybe we're the only ones who heard what Whisper really said. I don't know how far it's true, but what he said - there were two guys in the human world who shouldn't have happened. Now that the surviving Great Demon King is so inactive, the order of the human world is kept in moderate skirmishes. I heard that word, and Dryan's pissed off like he's never seen it before, huh? I don't care. I wonder if you've ever seen a human or beast man die in a skirmish.
That's what Whisper said. You guys are too righteous, I'm sure you'll be able to see 'that'. He said that 'that' would not allow the current course of history to change dramatically. The beasts said they shouldn't come out here.
I didn't say what 'that' was. It's just that Whisper has been involved in the battlefield for a long time and said he saw a number of strange events. When there is an uncontrolled war, and more victims are likely than necessary, there will be a 'existence to force an end' to that war. "
"Forced? What's that?
Cayman calmly answered Seite's query.
"One said 'silver heir'. They replace this one on a regular basis, but he said it was useless to put in one division of the military no matter who came out. He doesn't know much about the other one either. But you said your role was to find and raise people who could defeat it. He said one day he would create an organization that could defeat it. But at the end of the day, he said it was no use putting in any kind of force at the moment. We thought it was an excuse. And with the numbers on the spot - we ended all the single-digit numbers at the time and pushed Almas one step ahead of the devastation.
- And I found out. We were resting that night in preparation for tomorrow's battle. Gauron's neck, who was on the lookout, rolled in - and I don't even remember where he was going from there. My left arm and left leg were lost then. I didn't even have time to fight. We, the Beast General, couldn't do anything. It was just me and Dreyan who survived. "
"Why, just the two of us"
"Well - but Dryan said later. He was probably human, at least in appearance. But he said it was too strong. Until then, he said, it was as if he was an opponent with a different roots from the species he considered human. When asked why he did not kill himself, he said he had been answered: 'I will not yet die in the king's vessel'. I guess that opponent thought that Dryan would eventually be King of Gruzaldo. He also said that Drean was prepared to die more than he saw his face, but that's why he didn't have to die. I'm glad I fainted without knowing, or I guess that's the only reason they let me live.
We survived. We went back to Gruzaldo. But I lost my limbs. I had no way to live as a soldier. Having even lost my everyday life, I relied on Rosanna's sister to re-enter human society. I was wondering if he could make something that would be my left arm, my left leg. And Dryan remained in Gruzaldo - even training like crazy, rose with strength to become king. Dryan lurks behind the continent, he sees a real threat. I'm trying to make a country ready for that. I'm guessing that sending you to the human world would be an addition. I grew them apart just in case you couldn't keep an eye on them. "
"Well, you know what?"
Seite roared. Because I didn't expect that to be the intention. Gruzaldo is not royal, and he never thought of himself becoming king, but he is patriotic. He wanted to talk to the king once, and he was starting to think about it now.
But it always occurred to me that I was concerned, so I asked Cayman.
"But if you were one of those strong people, the rumors are likely to remain? Groussard has a strong warrior's tomb and a habit of showing off his strength."
"Is the grave a corpse or would you need to put your belongings in it? Otherwise, our souls will have returned to the wind and the earth, and we will not make graves. That's common sense, isn't it?
"Right."
"I didn't even leave my belongings. It was completely dusty. You can't just take it home with blood on it."
To Cayman's words, Seite learned a tingly disgusting word.
"You think it's fine dust?
"Oh, it's fine dust. I don't know how you're doing it, but the guys who fought him got completely dusty. And my left arm and my left leg. Otherwise, I'll take it home and see if it sticks with magic. To bring it back, I didn't even leave any of my people's belongings. They even took care of my belongings.
He didn't even want them to know he existed. No matter how much I contacted the human guild later, there weren't even rumors of such a guy. It's just that some of the people in the guild who went out on the battlefield can be gone for no reason. Hiding them fairies, falling into the distortions of the world, some of them were taken away by the sky. But the closest thing to the rumor was that sometimes sword winds blow on the battlefield. Later, they say, only the accumulation of blood can remain. Sometimes they say that blood buildup takes the form of a person. Rumors have been around for hundreds of years, and the guild's drunkards laughed as a battlefield suspicious tale, but only we knew it was true. Probably Whisper too.
You scared the shit out of me? It's possible that the owner of all that skill is living normally somewhere. He said he was out on the battlefield before this, right? What the hell, with a client... "
"The Battle of Vesel."
"Oh, that. No. Were you guys there, too? You didn't run into him, did you?
"If you had, you wouldn't be alive by now, would you?
"That's right."
"But to my people, maybe... no, I might have run into you this time."
"Huh?"
"Cassandra testifies that in the field verification of the fight, after the Demon King was rampaged, it suddenly became fine dust. Many of the demon kings collapse and die, but never disappear into dust. Besides, Cassandra tells me there were probably two of them who defeated the demon king she was chasing. Even King Dryan feared that opponent - isn't he in Tarram now?
To Seite's words, Cayman was dropping a liquor bottle. But the field was silent, and no one even tried to keep an eye on the broken liquor bottle.
Continued