"Your luggage is almost safe."

"It feels like I'm here before we start looking. Well, if you had stolen something, you could have taken it back, and it wasn't a problem."

I looked at three people, Akali, Tedra and Frakt, as Alhardt and Sirtina checked into the carriage and were coming to their place without life.

"What do you think?

Alhardt inadvertently asked Sirtina. The gaze remains directed at the three of us.

"Thank you very much. If you take them with you, you will destroy yourself by involving the Virgin."

"Right. I thought you didn't need them."

"If it helps at all, we can't still hunt one animal by ourselves. I wonder what the Knights are teaching apprentices?

"The king has often allowed such weak people to accompany him."

"I suppose you thought that no one in your own country was going to be physically ill."

"At last, if you want me to follow you, you have to show the people that you have a place."

"Yes. No matter how weak you are, if two people with the titles" Prince of your own country "and" Second son of the Duke's family "go, at least your possession will be preserved. The King weighed the body and pride of his country more than the lives of men."

"If you two die on the way," he said, "if you died protecting the Virgin, it would be honorable." You're going to say something and celebrate as a hero. I don't suppose you realize what happened to the royals of this country. "

"It's been foolish for a long time. Since the Virgin arrived, there's just been a thud over it."

"Uh, but maybe that" hero "can be done surprisingly quickly."

"Huh?... Yeah, really."

It was the moment when Sirtina showed satisfaction with Alhardt's words.

"Wait!!

A boy holds a dagger with both hands in front of the acaris stands up.

"How dare you!! Oh my God, I won't forgive you!!

"Huh!?

"Cah!!

"Oh, do you avoid women? Great."

Alhardt praises the boy who went into the fract next to him, blind to Akari.

I meditated on my eyes and protected my head with my arms. But the pain didn't strike me until hours later.

"Tedra.................."

What was reflected in the dreaded open eyes was the appearance of Tedra preventing the boy's dagger with her own sword.

Kin, and a dagger that was bounced off the boy's hand dances through the universe with a high sound.

Tedra's excited sword cleaved the boy mercilessly with its sharp blade in a slight gap where the boy pursued the dagger with his eyes.

……

"……… ho."

"You slaughtered him of your own free will."

Unlike Frakt and Akali, who open their eyes without words as if they had seen an incredible thing, it was Kreutz and Alhardt who raised their voice of admiration.

"Prince, are you hurt?

"Ah, oh, no. It's okay."

"Good."

Tedra turned to the boy again as she turned to the fract and checked for injuries.

……

The boy, who fell to the ground and was overflowing with blood from his slashed wound but still managed to breathe, is staring at Tedra.

With such a boy in front of her, Tedra opened her mouth a few times and repeatedly closed it, then looked at the boy as if she had decided to.

"I don't feel bad for slashing you. I won't regret it. But I'm sure I'm also involved in the cause of what happened to you. So, that's all… I think it's bad and regret that I drove you all this far. Sorry, sir."

Deeply lowered head.

"Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!"

In contrast, the boy laughed like crazy.

"Ha, now... now that I'm apologized... I don't even want a verbal apology!! Give us back all the things we lost!! The village, the house, my sister, my dad!! Give it all back!!

…………

Seeing Tedra shut up in her own words, the boy gives a mocking look.

"Haha, don't apologize for not returning anything, just because you want to be forgiven... you just have to lose a country like this..."

That was the last time.

……

Tedra still didn't turn a blind eye to the end with a sad expression on the words of the boy who had run out staring into the void.

"……… Really, I think you might."

The words he whimpered small were, by and large, consent to what......

The line that left the place after a while was wrapped in an unprecedented strange silence.