When I woke up, several people gathered in the conference room, each sitting in a chair.
Besides those I saw earlier before I lost consciousness, Gazelle, Rufaus, and Emil are gathered together.
"Wake up, Lazareth."
Watch this one as the gazelle holds her arms together.
To a heavier atmosphere than usual, all I could do was snort.
"Listen, everyone here is the survivor of this country."
"... Huh?
"According to the wolf's intel, no one else is surviving."
Several people react thoughtfully to Gazelle's words.
I let my face down, I turned away, it was really different.
I didn't understand the situation.
"What, are you saying...?
No one answers.
That silence was nothing more than a confirmation of the authenticity of the earlier words.
"Lazareth. I want to ask you, too."
"... what"
"This country is doomed. What are you going to do now?
"What did they tell you to do..."
I don't know.
There can't be a country that accepts me right now.
Besides, there was a strong will not to leave this country.
Rufaus opens his mouth when he thinks about how to answer.
"Hey, sire."
"He's a former king. You can call it what you want."
"… Your Majesty. This guy just woke up. Isn't it impossible to decide so suddenly?
"Right. Take a short break. You can use anywhere in this castle. Rest as you please."
After the meeting room, I saw it in the next room.
It's like a dining room there, and there's just a chair.
To think alone, it was great.
"… what to do,"
Of course, you will continue to operate as a fang.
I don't mind if I come to Bethenburg.
But with Yu at the head, what will they do?
"Oh, my God, you're in big trouble."
With that word, Leonard sits in the chair in front of him.
"... Leo"
"Whoa. What's Lazareth going to do now?
"I'll go with the wolves. I was hired as a fang."
"Oh well. You've decided what to do with Lasalles."
"Well. What's Leo gonna do?
When he scratched his head like he was in trouble for my question, he laughed a little.
"Actually, I haven't decided yet. I've always lived to serve this country."
……
"Nothing, you don't have to look like that stinking face. One dream just broke."
"Leo, isn't it hard for your people to die?
"Hardness."
When Leonard stood up, he approached the only window in the room and looked at the sky.
"It's a tough one."
"... so you don't cry or anything?
"Cry? Cry or something for those guys here and now, you'll be laughing over there"
"Really?
"Yes. Besides, it's better to send them out at their usual rate, 'cause I'm sure they'll be relieved, too, right?
"That's how our army works. Lazareth."
The moonlight illuminates Rufaus as he walks from behind.
The expression was as calm as Leo's.
"Captain, tell him to dress up."
"Awkward. A kid like you dresses up and what is it to you? Say those words when you're about my age."
When he says so, he sits in the chair where Leonard was sitting earlier and puts his arms on his back.
And the liquor bottle I removed from my nose was opened all the time.
"Captain, weren't you sober?
"Ha. This is for them. I'll drink what they couldn't drink alive."
"That's what you said, you just want a drink, right?
To his words, Rufaus laughs lavishly.
It was the usual landscape, but I couldn't forbid loneliness.
"... what's the captain going to do?
"I have a wife, so I can't be impotent. In a village around Mactoria."
"Hiding... I can't imagine the captain's hiding."
I laugh at those words unexpectedly.
I recall Rufaus being told among the soldiers that even as I know him, he is a man who doesn't look good in the top class with two letters: hiding.
"Keh, laugh. Does Lazareth follow that wolf or something?
"Yes. For now, so far,"
"Heh. Can he be trusted?
"I've been saved by him a few times. Then you can risk your life for him."
"Right.... Good luck."
"Yes."
Rufaus slaps me on the shoulder and now he turns to Leo.
"Leo, what are you gonna do?
"... I'm not thinking. I was only thinking about serving this country."
"You're right. That's it. You haven't changed since you were a kid."
When he takes a deep sigh, he stands up and leans against the wall on his side, mimicking Leonard and looking out the window.
"Look, you're still young. If there's anything you want to be, what can you be?
"So if they ask me if I want to throw it away here and go somewhere, you know?
"Leo, you look light and surprisingly stubborn. Who does it look like at all..."
Leonard laughs at those words.
Watching those two even made me seem like a parent or child, not some upward or downward relationship.
"Well, for now, we'll see if there's any enemies around tomorrow. It's my last job, so be comfortable."
"... oh"
"Well, I'm going back to my former Majesty. Neighborhood guards are part of my job."
When he says so, he goes back to the door where he came in.
At that time, as he passed next to me, he eared so loudly that Leo couldn't hear him.
"... ask him"
"Huh?"
Soon after he hears back his sincerity, he leaves.
Instead, now two Yu and Lynne came in.
"Uh, okay now?
"I don't mind... what are you so nervous about?
"Oh, no... I was waiting for something to get out of my way"
"Nothing, I didn't mind you coming in..."
I get up and give them the chair.
Instead, he leaned against the wall on Leonard's side.
He doesn't even look at this one, he looks at the moon floating in the sky.
I looked back at him like that and asked them.
"What are you two going to do now?
"... I don't know. And Lazareth?"
"Follow the wolf. Maybe I won't see you all for a while."
"Right..."
Yu leans lonely.
... Do you think I'm lonely?
careless, but I felt happy about the emotion.
Likewise, I miss you.
"Thanks a lot. Everyone really taught me a lot. If it weren't for all of us, I'd probably stay the same forever."
"... come on, I'm embarrassed"
"Ha, I'm embarrassed too. But I wanted to tell you."
Really, how many times would it have been saved thanks to them?
I'm sure you won't be able to thank me.
"Has Karen slept yet?
"Oh, I've been so tired."
"Oh well. He saved me many times."
"... really, you're going"
Nod.
"I have perimeter alerts tomorrow, so I think the departure will be the day after tomorrow. Neither of you should hide yourself from here because it's not necessarily without an attack from Isel"
"... Lazareth, I'm going to stay here"
"You weren't listening? This place is already a battlefield. Now you could die!?
"I know! I know... but I can't leave my brother where he was!
Yu's strangulation clings to this space.
Leonard, who had been puzzled by things until earlier, also looked at this one with his eyes round.
"I, for me, this place is all I have! Something you can leave behind!
"Yu......"
"Even that place, everyone who was there, was dead in this place! If it's enough to leave here, I...!
At that time, Lynne slapped her cheeks thoroughly.
Can't you understand that reality, Yu stares at Lynne with a glimpse.
"... I'm not talking stupid, Yu."
"Lynne......?
"Will you die if you lose everything!? So, what happens to me and Karen when you die? Yeah? Can I just say I lost everything and chase you back like you!?
……
"Even I'm hard, it's painful! I want to throw up even if it's weak! But for Karen, there's only one adult we can count on...! Under the circumstances, we can't cry first..."
Yu leans over and shuts up.
After a while, she left the room in silence.
As she stares behind her like that, Lynne snaps.
"... oh, shit. You've done it..."
"Lynne......"
"I wonder if Karen's guy will piss me off. They always tell me not to fight."
Lynne smiles unusual.
No, I'm trying to float.
"... I guess I'm wrong. Maybe it sucks to force someone to get excited."
"Yu will know for sure. It'll take some time, though. Besides, I didn't think Lynne was wrong from me."
"Really?... but it wasn't yuu-like to make weak noises. Equivalent, I guess they're cornered. To Yu like that, I..."
She silences herself.
After a moment of silence, Leonard opened his mouth.
"'If you can make a weak noise, you can still afford it.'"
"... what?
"It's the captain's cliché. That guy, he's telling me this is the limit, and I'm trying to force him to keep going, right?
My eyes are on me.
It was so sudden that I could only nod too.
"So we stopped making weak noises in front of the captain. 'Cause if I throw up, I'm gonna die tough on you."
There was a verse in his words that came to mind.
I remember that, and I laugh bitterly.
"Right. I've also been caught in that" Deadly Tight Eyes "in the first place."
"Right? But don't throw up when it's weak. I'm gonna throw up. But if I throw up, they'll kill me. So, what do you think happened?
Lynne puts on her little neck.
When I nodded, Leonard laughed a little and continued.
"Absolutely ticks. Only in front of someone you can trust, you make a weak noise."
"Right. That was really all I had. Even so, it was rarer to report it."
"Well, that was pathetic just to watch. He doesn't have a human heart. Not so fast."
I laugh at Leonard's words.
With that, Leonard laughed himself off.
It was a really crap, fun day.
After laughing for a while, I turn to Lynne.
"Hey, Lynne. From what we've seen, he trusts me to make weak noises. It's the weakness I showed you."
"... Ha, what the hell is that? It sounds stupid."
"Oh, because Forse's soldiers, including me, were captains and idiots. Everyone kept fighting over crap, laughing at crap."
"That's true. I've always wondered why Lazareth was called a wise man and I wasn't."
"You wanted to be called?
"No, it's embarrassing, no"
... Was the title Sage an embarrassment?
With my doubts in mind, Lynne laughed with tears in her eyes.
"... Ha, ha! Something came up when you guys were watching. Thanks, both of you."
"Oh. If you're feeling better, talk to Yu again. It's not like you two are fighting, is it?
Lynne smiles and takes the words that Leonard unleashes.
That was her heartfelt smile the first time I saw her, trying to come to this castle.