"Now, we're going to go buy it out, so please keep the rest of you company here."

Migliane was the only one who nodded at Sirtina, who said so following Alhardt and Tedra.

"... what happened to the others?

"Ah, uh, the Virgin can't come out of the carriage, and Master Uto and Master Frakt, later Mars, you are there..."

"Is that so? So, what time is Crowe stubborn?

Kreutz, sitting looking like a black cat on a tree a little further away, shook his tail with no words.

The atmosphere alone tells me I'm grumpy. If Sirtina laughs at how he looks like that, the tail is shaken by Piscilli again.

"You can't help it. We're not all going to the escort."

……

"Crowe was seen by the city people yesterday, right? I have manpower because it's a buyout, and Crowe, whose face is found out, can't walk in people's faces. Then I'll have to ask you to leave a message."

……

"I asked for the Virgin's escort to come home as soon as I could. Afterwards, let me have a good breakfast. Because I haven't eaten anything since yesterday. I don't care if they fall down."

……

Siltina again smiled bitterly at Kreutz, who kept waving her tail silently at all of her words, turning to Migliane, who was anxiously watching the two exchanges.

"I have an attitude, but what I asked for will be done properly, so I'm sorry, but I'm going to ask you and Crowe to do the Virgin thing."

"Ah, yes. Uh, be careful and come."

Waving in response to a drop off from Migliane, the three headed to the city of Firminan.

Uh-huh.

Uh-huh.

- I'm sorry.

Yuto thought that it smelled like a bottom-of-heart pain and that the clams were not slightly moving with his face down on his hugged knee.

It's already been an hour since he came here to do something about the acari he says he doesn't want to get out of the carriage.

In the meantime, Akali remained silent and began to uto and did not react in any way to the words of Frakt or Mars.

Come on, I'm not concerned that the look on your face that looks like you said "I'm worried" is going to peel off.

Now, when I breathed out a small breath about what was going on, the carriage door opened and Kreutz appeared.

"Breakfast is ready. Eat fast."

……

"Oh no, are you listening?

"…… I don't need it"

"What?"

"I don't want it. I don't have an appetite..."

A wrinkle leans between Kreutz's eyebrows at the word of the clam.

"I don't care if you have an appetite or not. Silty told me to make sure you had a good breakfast."

"You say you don't need it!! Get out!! Don't mind me!! Everybody out!!

……

"A, Acari, calm down"

"Shut up!! Doesn't Yut have to be nice because I'm the Virgin anyway!? Everyone needs only my" power "and I don't care about myself!

"Acari......"

The hand stretched out to forgive the sudden roaring clams was shaken away.

For the first time in a long time, his face is sadly distorted, and his eyes have tears in them.

"That's not true, Akali. I care about you, and you care about yourself. Even if Akari isn't the Virgin or doesn't have a special power, I think I care about you.

"Liar, I don't..."

"Why is that?"

"Because,"

"Hey, Acari. I have nothing to gain from accompanying me on this journey."

"Eh?"

"Unlike Akali and Mr. Sirtina, just because this journey is safe doesn't mean I have any reward. I didn't ask for the guild, the king didn't ask for it. Do you have any idea why I'm here?

……

"Because it's important to you. Because I wanted to protect you."

"Yutto!!

He held the clams and laughed small.

"Akari! I'm with you because you matter too!!

"I love your sister too!

"Fract, Mars...... thanks!

Saying so, now Akari hugs you both.

A drop of tears accumulated in his eyes, conveying his white cheeks, fell.

What an inspiring occasion.

With a smile on his face, Ut looked at the three people holding each other.

Saving the Virgin, who had been wounded by the unscrupulous behavior of the heartless people and had become a suspicious ghost, were the traveler who had said she was "special" at first sight, the prince of a country who was in sincere love with her, and the little child she had saved.

It is a very, very moving, what a beautiful and beautiful, nasty farce.

"…… Ah, that sounds silly."

The smile remained intact, and the small, whining words seemed to reach only Kreutz, and from the moment this farce began he made a slight grin in his mouth as he meditated his eyes on the door, reluctantly concerned.

"Come on, Acari. Let's go for dinner. I'm worried about us if you're not well."

"If Ut says so"

Akali leaves the carriage with her hips held by the fract and Mars pulling her hand.

"I don't know."

Kreutz opened his mouth in anticipation of being the only two in the carriage: Ut and Kreutz.

"What?

"It's that girl. Why would you want something in return from someone else?

"It's human beings who want something in return for what they've done."

"However, the daughter has been prepared from the beginning in full return for the" due reward "at the dawn when this journey is over. And yet why would you want something in return for the others?

"She wants to be loved by everyone, I'm sure. I want to be loved, praised, worshipped, appreciated, and needed. That's how I feel about being the only one for many."

Even though I never do my "only" to anyone, I can't stand the fact that the "only" of others is not me.

"So even though I lean on the existence of" Ut, "I sometimes go to the prince and satisfy my self-esteem with a foolish, honest affection that is directed at me."

I do not doubt that I am loved and cherished by anyone.

Therefore, I do not think that being hostile towards myself is "wrong".

"She still thinks of this world as the world of games. The hero (heroine) naturally thinks he will be unconditionally loved and cherished from all over the world. I wish I could have noticed at some point the existence of a double-wing sword (such as me) that would never favor her. This world is not what I think it is."

"If you can do that, you will realize it at the time Silty was placed in the escort in the first place. According to Clarina, the face of this journey already consists of people far from the game world."

"Uh, if it was indeed the world of games, would it have been the flow of Lady Jin and Mr. Eight and you joining me late, Rain?

"Ah."

"You're an idiot. Rayne, the prince of a country and Gilmaster couldn't have taken up escort duties for a single Virgin, but she believed in it. That's why Miss Silty seemed pretty upset when she found out she was called in for escort. Miss Migliane taught me."

"If you notice anything there yet, you still believe you're the hero (heroine) and don't doubt it, and that's why you're messing around and making a scene when things don't go the way you think they are..."

"The people are grateful to themselves. That is why I am welcomed and receive all kinds of charity as a sign of gratitude. I guess she believed that this time. But when I opened the lid, the welcome was certain, but it was far from what she wanted."

"That girl still doesn't understand what's going on in this country. You can't even feel pity at first."

"They just want each other. He thinks that if he seeks love, he will be given it, and if he seeks salvation, he will get help." Because I've done this for you, "" Because it suited my eyes so badly, "" I'm having such a hard time, "" I've lost so many, "I just complained and can't see anything else. If I say that, I wonder how much you and I will get in return..."

If you say that you will only get what you have spent and what you have saved...

If you are saying that there is only a portion of salvation that is lost and only a portion that is scratched...

"If there's such a hopeful world, we wouldn't be here."

"…… Right."

Whether you applied it or saved it, nothing came back.

Even if I only lost it and scratched it, no one could save me.

That's why we're in the Alliance.

Because I despaired of a world where nothing would return and I was disappointed in a world where no one would save me......

They created their own world (guild).

"They still don't get it. The misfortune and despair and fear that are pouring down on us right now are still a gentle joke. That there is no real salvation for them who hurt a part of our world. When they realize it, they finally despair of the world."

You'll be looking forward to it, but Uto, who laughed at it, is called by Akali to leave the carriage.

"What do you see at the end of despair? Stupid people…………."

At the end of despair are those who created their world (guild), "Then hope for ourselves".

Then what do the people of this country think at their end, when they are driven to despair?

"Well, I'm not interested in that stuff."

They are completely uninterested in what they think and do ahead of them when they plunge into despair.

If you insist, keep despairing forever, that's all.

"Now, do you even take a nap until Silty gets back?"

The Virgin's watch is left to Ut, and Kreutz, whining, turns the figure into a black cat thing and goes outside.

In the carriage, where no one was present, only the closing noise of the door sounded small.