The Traveling Hero Won’t Let the Innkeeper’s Son Escape

"Um, so Mr. Cyrus... what is the situation now? What will happen in the future?

That's what Ruth was most concerned about.

I also know Tommash isn't going to leave it because he recovered his slimmed cyrus. According to Curtis, artificial soldiers other than Nurf are being sent back to the lab, but I can't imagine what would happen to Cyrus, who turned out like that.

"Cyrus just goes to sleep like this."

"Sleep...... then you mean alive, right? Don't you ever wake up?

"Unless Cyrus tries to get up again, he's just asleep all the time"

"... trying to get up, what is the situation?

"It means the way it is."

Tomarsh's explanation does not mesh subtly with Ruth's question. Ruth didn't understand the meaning well. Too few words really, as Naughty would say.

You spotted Ruth's mood like that, and Naughty came into the conversation again.

"Mr. Ruth, Cyrus is just in dormancy and will not die. He can live semi-permanently, as long as it doesn't break his core."

"……… unless they break the core."

Ruth recalls two spheres that were in the body of a slimmed cyrus. It is the same form of Phantom Core that Ruth receives from the Spirit King and attaches to Orha. That brilliance was clearly different from the core of the Zeros.

"High-performance magical phantom crystals (phantom cores) once inhaled a person's soul and lived inside"

Ruth thought of the nature of the Phantom Core that Gio, who was interacting with, had taught him in his magic book.

"Maybe... is there a soul of Mr. Cyrus in that phantom core?

Cyrus' body was no matter how he saw it. But the artificial soldiers, whose whole bodies were made, were different in nature. I can tell from the stories of the Nurses that he's special. If...

Nurf paused slightly to Ruth's question and then shook his head vertically.

"... Mr. Ruth is aware of the existence of the Magic Phantom Crystal (Phantom Core), right? Yes, they both call it 'core', but what Cyrus has is called Phantom Core, and it's not of the same quality as the core, which is the nucleus of an artificial soldier (us)"

Core, the core of the artificial soldier, is packed with a lot of magic in the magic machine, and the magic phantom crystal (Phantom Core) is enclosed with magic crystallized by a special technique. I feel the same way, but there seems to be a difference.

Normal cores don't have that much output, but they are versatile and can be changed to various objects like Zero used Disnaff's core for swords. On the other hand, Phantom Core is difficult to handle for high output minutes, and they have a lot of harm in keeping Orha from making normal moves.

"But a high-quality Phantom Core that contains particularly advanced magic can even retain a person's soul if it works - and the artificial weapon Cyrus uses a Phantom Core with a person's soul in it"

However, there are only eight people in history who have really been able to retain their souls, six of whom are still asleep and have never woken up. He doesn't even know he's going to wake up. As it stands, it seems that only two people can be considered successful.

"It's just unlikely he'll wake up again."

"Why………?

"Souls in Phantom Core are prone to instability and need a" reason ”to stay awake. There's a reason to exist.

"Reason?"

As Ruth listened back, he changed the face of the crop a little lonely.

"You were the reason. Why Cyrus Exists"

"I'm the reason..."

Nurf laughs at Ruth snarling.

"Anyway, Cyrus won't be up for a while. Given the nature of Phantom Core, I can't force him to get up, so I'll keep him asleep. Then the Doctor won't even give Cyrus a hand with any artificial weapons. Cyrus is a masterpiece made by the Doctor."

"The greatest masterpiece... is Mr. Tomarsh the one who makes Mr. Cyrus such a body?

"Yes, the artificial weapon Cyrus is the first one in which the Doctor has successfully discovered a soul that has entered the Phantom Core to connect to a magic machine. I've made improvements many times since then to settle into the current, sprit-shaped that I can change my appearance. Currently, he is the only successful transplant to this split-type. So you'll never get your hands on it."

Nurf ran out of confidence. But Ruth was more concerned about something else than that.

"... After all, Mr. Cyrus is a real person"

"Yes, that's right"

Ruth asked nervously, but Nurf's answer was surprisingly light.

"Mr. Ruth... have you ever read the book of Cyrus Drovandi, a hero who has spread as a story in modern times?

"Of course."

"The artificial weapon Cyrus is the hero Cyrus Drovandi."

"Huh!?

"………… I knew it."

Alec and the others raised their voices in surprise at Naughty's words.

Ruth, who was on Cyrus's side, had a lot to predict from his story, but I'm guessing Alec and the others are new to it. They say the book of hero Cyrus Drovandi has long been famous, and everyone must have read it about once.

"... Then why is that hero Cyrus Drovandi looking like that? It's not your intention, is it?

Cyrus, who regained his memories, said he was not what he wanted when it came to his appearance. If so...

"That is……"

Nurf gave Tomarsh a slight glance at the question, but he makes no difference just staring at Ruth. I turned my gaze to Ruth again as I gave up on the way it looked.

"…… the hero Cyrus, no, because Cyrus Drovandi, who was a man, lost his body before becoming a hero"

"Uh... did you lose your body“ before "becoming a hero"?

"Yes, Cyrus, who was a man, was discovered as soon as Leitol fell into the hands of an enemy country - stabbing himself in the stomach with his own hands, cold"

"- What, stab yourself in the stomach? …… is that……………, suicide………………?

"…… in general, would that be the interpretation"

Behind Ruth's brain, a smile emerges of Cyrus laughing brightly.

(No……………)

I suddenly felt my feet shake and my body fluttered as I sat in the chair. I realize Alec is reaching out from the side and grabbing it by accident. I can't breathe if my breathing is getting rough.

(Mr. Cyrus -?)

I can't connect the end of Cyrus, who Naughty taught me, with his trouble-free smile.

Speaking of the time when Leitol fell into the enemy country, in the book of the hero Cyrus Drovandi it is at the beginning. As Naughty put it, it was before he made his name known to the hero and the world.

"... is it true?

"It's true."

"... why did Mr. Cyrus commit suicide?

"We don't have the information you can answer. There was nothing like a suicide note at the time, and we still haven't figured out why. To the artificial weapon Cyrus. Doctor asked a few questions, but it is on the record that there was no answer. … but not long before the country fell, his son..."

"-Narf."

Tomarsh, who kept his mouth shut until earlier, talks about Naughty. "Excuse me," Nurf said silently, bowing his head.

"For those reasons, his body is no longer a person. I may have another question for you, but the heroic acts of Cyrus in that book belong to the artificial weapon Cyrus brought back to life by the Doctor."

In the story, Cyrus continues to be the general of the enemy country and to achieve merit in order to save the people of the country that was attacked and fallen by the enemy country. Moreover, it absorbed many countries in a way that did not shed as much blood as possible and eventually prospered with the northwest of the central continent as one country - all of which, he said, was done by Cyrus, who became a man-made weapon.

(But...... if you do say so, there is no consistency in the behavior of "hero Cyrus” before and after the country falls)

Cyrus, who had dropped another country by force, hated the battle to shed blood after his country had fallen. "I looked back on my actions," the story said as such, but there's too much difference. Without some major change in mood, it should be so hard to change your behavior by now.

"Is that also why Cyrus in the story changed the way he fought?

"Yes. Cyrus, who became a man-made weapon, had lost his memory for several years of the war. So I thought it would be a good idea to recognise the original purpose of the war and think that there has been a major change in behavior."

Leitor, who was dawning in the war, must have also been fighting to enrich his own people in the beginning. I wasn't attacking an enemy country because I wanted to wage war.

But when the battle prolonged, we lost sight of our original purpose. The book also said that Leitol would originally invest his budget in weapons, but not much, and the country was about to lean back.

The actions of Cyrus, who was a person, must have also gone away from their original purpose as the battle prolonged. So with the forced reset, it's the original purpose. It is likely that he went into action to protect the people.

"But that's why you turned Mr. Cyrus into a man-made weapon? He wasn't bad enough to have to fight even after he died, was he?

Cyrus, powerful enough to drop other nations, was likely a symbol of popular hope. So you can't lose it, I know how it feels.

But the fact that he committed suicide must have meant that there was a hard reason to live. I thought it was not normal to force the dead to come back to life once and let them fight for their country again.

"The artificial weapon Cyrus, no, Cyrus Drovandi, is big, cut for the Doctor......"

So Nurf separated the words. And with a complex look that I don't think is a machine, I stare softly at Tommash lying next to me. The condition is very different from that of a real person. If his skin had been the same as a man's, he wouldn't believe it was all a crop.

Tomarsh, on the other hand, had a cold gaze at Ruth who still didn't know what he was thinking. I even feel stared at.

(Ah -)

Its eyes resembled Cyrus, who was looking up at the sky. The look on Cyrus's face, who can't think for just a moment - Ruth realizes she has a fuss.

(... That's Tomarsh... yes. Tommash! “Tommash Drovandi"!)

Tomarsh Drovandi - Ruth remembered that name.

That was written in the book of the hero Cyrus Drovandi [author name]. Due to the fact that Cyrus and his last name are the same, Ruth had a wearing view that this “Tomarsh" might have written a story as if his family was a celebrity.

"Perhaps, Mr. Tomarsh, are you... of Mr. Cyrus' blood?

Tomarsh moves slightly to Ruth's question.

"…… yes. Cyrus is my son."

Looking at the quiet orange eyes with no emotions conveyed, Ruth felt a breathless cold.

"… did you use your own, suicidal son as a weapon………?

I wouldn't say that anyone else can do anything.

But I didn't understand Tommash's sentiment to force his own son, who committed suicide, to come back to life and make a body that wasn't a creature before heading back to war. Because Ruth would like to put you to sleep quietly.

Tomarsh touched the remainder of his human face with the same white hands as the Nurses. That's when his face creates strange distortions and realizes that his skin is an artifact.

"... When Cyrus' body stopped moving, he realized he was lucky enough to have a soul in the core I made him have. So I hurried to make my body and bring it back to life. No parent would overlook a dying child, would they?

"The body stopped moving…… at which point Mr. Cyrus died………"

"The soul was in the core. He's not dead."

With Ruth and Tomarsh, I felt the story not meshing. I think the world is different when it comes to seeing things differently.

"... but at least we didn't make it a normal person, we made it a" man-made weapon, "as you call it, right? And you kept letting them stand on the front side of a country in contention, didn't you? Until the Central Northwest is united."

"It just turned out that way. I don't remember forcing Cyrus to fight. Besides, all the people were happy to see Cyrus. You didn't do anything wrong, did you?

"Keh, but maybe so... did Mr. Cyrus want that?

Tomarsh frowned slightly when he didn't change his expression. Eventually I stood up from my chair when I meditated quietly on my eyes.

".................. Naughty, I asked for the rest. Rest a little."

"Oh..."

"Yes…… I understand, Doctor"

Tomarsh left only words for Nurf, leaving the room without even hearing from Ruth and the others.

I lost my unconvincing emotional destination and when Ruth was stunned, he held my hand.

"Ruth, are you okay............?

"Oh..."

For the first time, Ruth realized she was unusually excited. As Alec unraveled the fist he was holding tightly, I felt the heat that was all the way up to the back of my neck cooling down gradually.

"Oh, sorry. I'm so excited to be alone... you said something bad to Mr. Tomarsh."

Ruth sits down deep in her chair with her back to sigh.

(What am I talking about... that guy, Mr. Tomarsh, says he's Cyrus' father. Even if I don't tell you, you've got a lot to worry about...)

Thomas, who was speaking earlier, had a verse he took for granted for resurrecting Cyrus as a weapon. I didn't even see hot emotions like "I didn't want you to die". Not to mention there was no sign of regret or hindsight. I had no idea what I was thinking.

(But I think Mr. Cyrus was a long time ago, and he's already sorted out his mind, and he's calm, and I just couldn't read his emotions...)

"Ruth."

As Ruth looks down in regret for his remarks, he is sidelined with his hand on his cheek. Green eyes glowed with a slightly worrying color in front of me.