In the grey snow, she was picking up the snow.
Originally it was the house where her family lived.
It was a normal house in a corner, in a city without a strange philosophy, surrounded by warm cheerfulness, with many people leaning on their shoulders and living.
The magic, the flames, took everything from her.
It's just that this place just got caught up in the vortex.
There are no words.
Is the sound, too, all sucked into the ash snow?
It's so quiet that I don't like it.
That's when I heard footsteps from behind.
"... you're a survivor, aren't you?
……
The girl turns around.
There was a young man with brown hair, who looked sad everywhere.
"Uh... what words should I say..."
"... help"
"Huh?"
"A brave man will avenge you, won't he? This is so hard, it's not gonna happen anymore, is it? The brave man... he'll help you, won't he?
Unlike what I thought, the youth looks a little surprised at her for some mature thought.
And after a while of thinking, he opened his mouth.
"... oh. He'll do it."
This world, with magic, was supported by the essential being of the brave.
After a while, the young man took her.
The young man's name is' Michele '. Her name is' Dahlia '.
They were spending their days in the corners of a developed city, powered by many machines by the power of magic.
"Morning, Dahlia. Did you sleep well?
"... yeah. I slept."
"Oh well. It's a day for the brave men to visit this country, isn't it? I was wondering what I'd do if I couldn't sleep with pleasure."
"Treat children, don't"
Dahlia gently punched him in the head with one hand.
He blinds himself to the view through the window as he rubs the beaten spot.
People hanging out in colorful clothes in a city filled with brown bricks.
There were also carriages and other round trips, which felt more lively than usual.
"Look, Dahlia. Everybody's gonna have fun."
"... Michele. Is that fun?
"That? Oh, does this mean looking outside? Yeah, it's a lot of fun. When you look at people who look like they're having fun right now, don't you feel like they're going to have fun all the way up to you?
"Michelle's weird"
"It's not weird. Even Dahlia will soon realize this pleasure."
"To"
She laughs like she made a fool of herself.
Young people don't care if it's the usual thing, and they look straight under the window.
And he talked to Dahlia behind him without looking back as he was.
"No pinching, Dahlia."
"Not enough"
"So shall we do our best tonight? Because if you don't work hard, I'm gonna starve to death, too."
"The way you put it, it's a little nasty"
"... I won't ask you what you thought. Well, maybe the same thing about less publicly available professions."
When he says so, he gets up from the chair where he was sitting and puts a coat on his shoulder that was nearby.
Dahlia, who saw it, also rose out of her chair.
"Then it's time to go. I rarely get to meet a brave man."
"Yeah."
The two of us open the door and walk straight to the center of the city.
After a while I got there, there was a crowd like I'd never seen before.
"Wow, that's so popular. Daria, can you see me?
"I can't, maybe."
"... shoulder car?
"Disgusting"
Michelle laughs like trouble when she sees Dahlia disgusting from the bottom of her heart.
A while later, from the woman who was before me, I heard yellow cheers.
"Oh, you're here, apparently."
"Mmm... I can't see"
"I can't see either. Nice, I was wondering if anyone in the front row could hold hands or something."
"... I wish Michelle had gone out sooner"
"I might have thought if Dahlia was stronger in the morning... oh, apparently we could see it too"
In the direction Michelle pointed, there was the figure of a brave man, on something like a platform a step higher than around him.
That's when the traveller-style man behind them leaks a voice that looks unexpected.
"Come on, isn't that brave? How dare you be here...?
A man who was next to Michelle as well turns around to answer that question.
"What, you don't know? The brave man stopped the next country from attacking the city."
"Huh? Why this city?
"This city lives by magic. Water, flames, even industry, depends on magic. It's evil because it touched their scales."
"I see."
When the traveller-style man nodded as he was convinced, after a while, a blonde young man called the brave man waved.
Someone around me noticed the intent, and after a while it quieted down around me.
"Thank you all for taking the time to come for me. I wanted to thank you for bringing you all together."
Rituals.
It's surprising that it came out of the mouth of the brave, people around them start to blur.
After waiting a little for it, he continued the conversation.
"I was able to lose that country because, for one thing, your cheer, and your smile, braved me. I really don't have a word of thanks."
With that said, the brave bow their heads deeply.
People who see such a polite attitude start to freak out about what's going on.
But seeing it keeps him talking as if nothing had happened.
"I, as you all know, have been interested in fighting with a philosophy of wanting to eradicate warfare by magic. But as it is in this city, it has had a huge impact on me."
With that said, he spreads one hand and shows a factory fueled by magic.
"Look. Make magic the foundation of your life, which was only an instrument of war by nature. It's a really great idea! The magic that could only take lives supports people's lives. I was realized that this was the truth."
Already, the people around you are obsessed with talking about brave men.
But only Michelle looks at his eyes, not just at the tip of his hand.
"... excuse me, I'm so excited. But now I'm in a situation where a pioneer of peace who should be named in an age like yours is listening to me with his eyes and ears shut. I know that some runoff would be great if you looked at it."
Thank you for listening, brave man who cuts off from the platform and disappears into the crowd.
Dahlia continued to look at its back with glorious eyes, and as she tried to convey her current feelings, there was a figure of Michelle tilting her neck.
"... Michelle, what those eyes"
"Oh, no. Let's just go around the store."
"I want to go around, but you have money?
"Even if there is. I've been saving for a long time. I have to scatter today or so."
When he took the hemp bag out of his nostalgia, it did swell a lot more than Dahlia had ever seen.
"Michelle, you were able to save?
"I'm not that rough on money.... maybe."
"But even before this, I was buying a hat I wasn't sure about."
"I'm about the same age. It's fashionable."
"With that? 'Not in his mouth, but with Dahlia on his face beside him, Michelle looked somewhere.
When Dahlia looked in that direction, there was a man who had been noted earlier...... a brave man stood there.
But he hit me and changed. The outfit was brown and he was dressed in something that gave a plain impression somewhere.
"Hello, both. Earlier speech, did you hear me?
"Oh, uh, why is the brave man here?
"Shit. Because I'm being patient now. I was wondering if it was just the two of us. What about your father or your mother?
"My parents are not here..."
"... oh, I'm sorry about that"
The brave man wears a brown hat deep and hides his expression.
Dahlia, who saw it, even followed it, and spoke her own words.
"Nice to meet you... My name is Dahlia."
Michelle unwittingly blows out at the sudden appearance of Dahlia.
Listening to that laugh, she turns back to the brave man whose eyes are dotted as she steps through Michelle's foot thoughtfully.
"Oh, um... you can eradicate magic, right?
"Yeah, yeah."
Is it obvious that a brave man who doesn't know about Dahlia is also doing something she can't do, unlike when she talks to Michelle, which has been followed and revered?
"Well, it's more about the eradication of war by magic than the eradication of magic... so I'm not gonna get my hands on this city"
"Really?"
Dahlia lowers her chest as if relieved.
When the brave man who was watching it laughed at Kusuri, he looked at the two alternately.
"You're fun people. If I see you again, I'd be glad to talk to you."
"Yeah. Thank you."
"No. See you soon"
When the brave say so, they disappear into the crowd.
After a while, Michelle, who was holding her legs back, looked up.
"... Isn't that terrible, Dahlia? No, even... heh."
"Die."
"Die, 'it is'?
"Uzu. Don't get on with it, Michelle."
"Well, whatever you want in that store, fix your mood."
"... well, then"
Michelle pushes the desire behind her heart to still make fun of Dahlia and enters the store.
There were many people in the store who wanted to see the brave men outside at first sight, and no customers.
He looks around and then takes his seat at the far end.
"... so, what. Don't be mad at me. I hope you ask."
"Don't worry. I'm already mad."
"Oh well. Then don't worry."
He laughs and nods at her words.
Then I shut up for a while and then started talking as if to ask around secretly.
"... the speech of the brave? Speech? Well, either is fine."
"That's what?
"Wasn't something weird?
"Weird?"
"No, I don't know... if that content meant you didn't have to go out of your way to get everyone together. No, maybe everyone got together on their own. Still, I don't know... it felt like we were trying to like it."
"... it's not your fault?
"I hope so. But something..."
frigid.
He didn't have the courage to utter that word right now.
After a while, Dahlia grabbed a menu table that had long been there.
"I also know how Michelle feels about being jealous"
"Not so! No, I might feel that way..."
"Look at that."
"... but there's only one thing I think is odd about this. I can see it."
"What?
……
Michelle opened her mouth with a snack after wondering for a moment if she should say it.
"... he was laughing when he heard I didn't have any parents"
As the moon hid in the clouds and even the large adults were still asleep, the two were visiting the places they met on the battlefield.
There remains a body still untouched and abandoned.
The job they got to live with, no strength, no wisdom... was to rush those corpses.
……
There are no words for both of us.
We were both familiar with each other already.
Whether you look at an untold corpse or the amulet you would have received from a bloody family, to the point where you don't feel anything.
After a while, Michelle gets up.
"I'll look over there"
Dahlia hasn't even looked him in the eye, and she's unconsciously laying dead bodies on him.
Michelle doesn't even care about that reaction, she walks away.
That's when it was.
"... not until late at night. You blame it, both of you."
With that word, Iron Fist flies into Michelle's face.
Seeing, there we met during the day, a brave man stood.
"Battlefield fishing is a pleasure. I don't know, there's no excuse. It's pretty skilled, isn't it?
"Yu, brave man! Sorry, this has..."
"You don't want to hear it. But I have something to say to you."
He grinned so ugly that his nearby look broke nearby Michelle, whose balance was falling apart.
"Your parents were alive."
"... Huh?
"Yeah. I was alive. to neighboring countries. I even wrote your sketch and looked hard for it"
"Well, I cut it off"
A brave man who laughs when he says so himself.
Michelle didn't even know what was going on.
"Until the time of death," Michele, "" Michele, "he said. Kuck, especially after I died holding your sketch, when I dragged it out and tore it apart."
"... what are you talking about?"
"But I also have mercy. You relied on that torn sketch to ask all the kings around here, didn't you? Well, I hit it in one shot."
Well, finally, when he laughs a little, he pulls out the long sword he was putting on his back and hits him in the neck.
"I'll let you get back to work in hell. Be defeated by the brave, demon."
"Hey..."
"Isn't that because it's fun? I got stronger to look down on people. When he was different, he became stronger to decide he was pathetic."
So, Michelle finally realized.
He's crazy, he said.
"Dahlia, run!
Scream.
Just her, trying to get away.
But even that.
From the brave, it was too late.