"Now we have to ask."
Graham asked around in the middle of a room illuminated by the moonlight.
There were four people around, Leonard, Yu, Linne, and Karen, each focusing on Graham.
After confirming that, Graham's mouth opens.
"Lazarus may not wake up, as you know. And... they're not our enemies."
"... what are you trying to say, Graham?"
"In light of the above, do you want to run away... or resist? Please select"
Graham's words calmed the world down.
After a while, the words leaked from the linen.
"... isn't that what you've decided?"
……
"I'm sure we're... sorry, but we're going to die anyway. Then... I'll fight you until the end."
Leo nods at Linne's words.
But Karen was shaking her head.
"... I don't want to do this anymore"
……
"You-san, Linne-san... neither Leo nor Graham-san want to be hurt. I didn't even want Lazarus to get hurt."
Her answer was correct.
Everything around me is quiet.
Then Graham broke his knee and aligned himself with her eyes, saying.
"You're so sweet.... I'm sure I was afraid of you, but apparently I was worried."
"... eh..."
"That's fine.... but I'm sure he'll fight when he wakes up, even if we don't have anyone left. I can't leave such an idiot alone."
"Stupid...?
Karen leaned her neck with a suspicious face.
After seeing her face like that and laughing a little, he went straight to the window and said, looking out.
"It's Lazarus. Apparently, according to my friends, they will always wake up."
"... what is that? I told you I'd never wake up."
"... Kuku. Sometimes I want to believe in miracles."
A miracle.
It was a word Graham wouldn't say.
But somewhere.
Somewhere in my heart... perhaps it's starting to change when I touch her with straight eyes.
Smiling in his heart at the fact, he looked up at the moon.
That's right.
While singing that word in your heart.
And Zar turned to her without turning his eyes, as he turned to the burning tree in front of him.
"... thank you for saving me today"
"... nothing"
Like Zar, Meir brings out firewood.
Ferres is already resting on Meir's lap.
It was no exaggeration to say that the guard against her in Ferres had been lifted.
"What were you originally going to do with her?
"Milord... Betenburg told me to kill him. That way, our victory will not be too loose. That's what they said."
"Betenburg...!? What does that mean? He died in previous battles....."
"I was alive. Originally, that old man's body was created by Sylvia. Besides, Betenburg always gave us the smallest information we could betray, so we don't know what it meant."
……
"Hey, I don't even know when I stare at you. I don't know. And there's no point in acting for them anymore."
"There it is. Why were you acting with them?
"... evil just needed an evil savior."
Unwanted life.
The words didn't mean Zar had nothing to think about.
That's what I thought, but Mare opened her mouth after a while.
"Just hang out a little bit. We'll be together for a while. Maybe we don't like each other."
Talk to me.
"... this world is made of two kinds: witches and humans. But I'm here. Because I'm a witch, I'm going to kill a human being for a reason."
"Because I'm a witch....."
"Yes, we are indistinguishable from witches at first sight. Even though there is no emotion because the witch is made of magic, not to mention slipping through if she touches it. That's why I was rampant. Long ago, there was a murder."
……
"I was originally from a small village. Some childhood boy who only said crap had a dramatic sister. An uncle or aunt who was always kind to me when I asked her parents.... it was such a small village that everyone knew each other."
"That's why it didn't take long to be destroyed."
There is a sound of burning trees.
The wind was shaking and making a chirping noise.
"Of course I was about to be killed. If the man who destroyed the village remembers his face, it will be troublesome. So I used my courage to ask them."
"'How could it have been this village'... how are you feeling?"
"Then what do you think I said?" I thought this village would be good, "he said.... that's funny, right? Because only a few people had my destiny and the destiny around me."
But she keeps talking.
With a little smile, I feel lonely.
"Betenburg... helped me like that. You raised me. Laugh together when it's fun, cry together when it's sad.... and even made me feel angry about my situation."
……
"... I wonder when it started. I began to endorse his dangerous ambition... 'to destroy this world and put an end to grief'"
"You guys...."
"'Raven'. We, and the enemies of the world. That's what we call Betenburg."
After she uttered the word, Mary knocked her back and turned her face to the starry sky.
Zar murmured without looking at her face.
"Are all ravens like you?
I don't know. Don't feel like Sylvia just agreed with his thoughts.... but he's... not Fiodora... "
"... that's right."
"Thank you, Zar. You looked straight at him, didn't you? It wasn't like I didn't have anything to think about, either."
Saying that to her, Zar breaks his expression.
And after a while, I asked her what it meant to confirm.
"Can you... point the blade against Betenburg from now on?
"What, are you worried? What a surprise."
"No, I don't want the blade to blunt when I'm aggressive.... so you can point the blade at me?
"... I don't know. Betenburg was a good person from my point of view, and you're probably a good person."
"Me?
"Oh, you confronted Fiodora, didn't you? That's why... you should just relax your shoulders and live.
"... you have your way, I have my way of life. I can't change it now."
"Well, then, what do you want to be?
"I...."
Zar closes his mouth and turns away.
He is certainly shaking now.
His days as a Knight Commander were a pleasure.
In a tavern forced by his men, he listened to strangers, interacted with people in the bakery he went to, and talked to a boy who wanted to be a knight.
And above all, the men around him... each one of them was a unique person.
But... he took everything.
But I'm sure he's still fighting.
It was because he understood that Zar opened his mouth.
"... and yet I can't forgive him."
……
"If I die here now, what happens to everyone's carelessness? I am a knight. It is your responsibility to clear up hatred and carelessness. I... live for them now."
"... so gentle. But you're clumsy after all."
……
Zar lay down on his back against the fire, as he said he had nothing more to say.
To such a man, she let go of her words.
"Either way, we have to see Lazarus. I heard from Betenburg that I shouldn't let her see Lazarus."
"... is there something?"
"If you know, you can tell me.... for now, please say hello, Zar."
She didn't speak any more.
On that day, the sound of the burning tree was strangely loud.