Unnamed Memory

He arose consciousness out of his dreams.

It's the usual morning. I don't feel bad.

Reaching next to a wide sleeping table, he holds the woman still sleeping well in his arms. Thin and warm. Sliding her hand on her smooth back, she shuddered and shrunk as she tickled. In that ear he whispers.

"Wake up. It's morning."

No reply. But the voice reached into her sleep. She glanced. I would have lay my ear down if this were a cat.

When he sighs, he lowers his hand more, which was touching his back, squeezing her thigh.

"Wake up. You got a job in here today, too."

"I was there."

She opened her eyes with a small scream. I stare at him with my eyes mixed with drowsiness and blame.

"What are you doing...... ――――

So he woke up.

"Wow."

That was the first voice of Raju that jumped up. He holds his own head and prepares his breath.

On the pillow, the black cat gently raised her tail, but she didn't wake up. The boy looks at the figure with difficult eyes to describe.

"What are you dreaming about, me..."

It was a strangely realistic dream. I still feel clearly in my arms, the feeling of her twilight that I'm not supposed to know. Raju dropped his shoulder because he seemed pitiful in some ways because of his sleep.

"... uh... let's take a bath"

No one in the room is awake yet. For a moment he almost felt mean about throwing a well-asleep cat into the hot tub, but when he realized the vain of winning eight, he went to the bathroom alone.

Tinasha, who was having lunch with Maurau, raised her brow lightly when she heard the news. Hear back the man who is about to open a liquor bottle from noon, magically restrained.

"Are you reassigned?

"That's right. No, you're in trouble suddenly. Tomorrow is our day. Will you follow me when I'm assigned elsewhere?

"I'll leave you with a clean memory, so don't worry, go alone."

"You're such a killer! What am I going to feed on?"

You know what?

She took up the liquor bottle as she said and turned it off somewhere. Undo the topic you derailed.

"So the newly assigned general here is someone you know?

"When it comes to knowing each other, you know each other. It was well compared because the family pattern is the same and the same generation. Compared to him, I'm incompetent... a terrible slander."

"Isn't that true?"

If you ask me, that general, who has moved directly from the castle capital at this unusual time, is quite the cutter and the royal eye. Was there any change in the situation to deploy such a human being to a castle fort near the border? She becomes an imaginative face when she wasn't even aware of her political situation.

"Hmm. Mostly, there's a lot of things about being a general and a cutter... I haven't had any wars lately. In the Dark Ages, that was the genius, the genius, and so many people showed up, but I find it ironic to think that even they showed up at the head because they were turbulent, and that their talent didn't reveal itself in ordinary times."

"Millard is just a sexual evil. Sexual Evil."

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Tinasha closes her eyes with one hand on the cup of tea.

I do not intend to be involved in the politics of this country.

So if something comes down on us, we'll just deal with it then. - Most of all, that "ourselves" didn't include the man in front of us.

Tinasha sighed lightly as she narrowed her eyes and saw a smiling man she couldn't help.

The sound of the sword trident is echoing the training ground.

Well sunny cheer, but it was comfortable to spend time outside without being too hot.

As the soldiers worked their way into each training, Raju was taking a step towards his archaic counterpart, Defas. The boy punches his sword into Deface, who blinds him if he exceeds his expected speed. The man who barely took it said "oops," ni, three steps.

Deface retains the raju he tried to chase with his free hand.

"Wait, wait. Surrender."

"... have you lost your hand"

"He said he didn't pull it out. I can't do this anymore."

To him answering that with a laugh, Raju looked suspicious for a moment, but lowered his forehead, where the other was his superior officer. Deface shrugs his shoulder when he wears his own sword.

"You've really been pulled out. You should deal with someone higher up there. The next general will be quite skilled."

I've never seen you before.

"I don't know because I'm an aristocrat. I was just listening to you."

Deface left the training ground saying "I'm going to take a break" as it was. Raju looks back and speaks to the soldier in his room who was watching the game.

"So, Gart, you want to do it?

"Shit. When I do it with you, it dimples."

A man four years older than him shakes his head sideways with all his might. The boy regained his sword when he breathed on his shoulder in an awesome refusal.

"Is that me?"

The woman's voice was something that showed that happiness prevailed over fright. Raju nods and looks at the woman with the double sword.

It is difficult for me, just the youngest and not a martial officer, to ask an archaic counterpart from a general with no faculty whatsoever. But everyone he knows doesn't deal with me these days by saying, "I can't."

As a result, she was the only human who had quite a few arms and didn't hate being able to cross swords with him. Tinasha looks around the meadows after noon with no one around her.

"No one will ever be able to deal with you again. Not to mention a castle fort on the border."

"Even if they say so. Should I even go to the castle?

"Would you rather travel with me than that? What you get in action is a lot more than what you get by doing double time auditions."

"No."

"Ugh."

The roar and at the same time she kicked the meadow. I wield the dagger on my right hand gently. When Raju received it with a long sword, she threw the dagger on her left hand from up close.

The boy distracts himself from the dagger with a gauntlet. but a few seconds later, with a shock to the back of his head, he shouted "Gu".

Tinasha is laughing happily in front of her when she sees it.

"I said no attack magic."

"I didn't use it. That's the magic sword. He said he'd come back to me on his own..."

"Tell me first."

"That's why you say you'll be better in action."

Raju picked up a dagger whose pattern clashed against his head with a bitter face. Hold on to your bumpy, aching head.

- I know it's a little hateful, but I know she's right.

I accumulate archaeology because it was in action, but I can't complain "because it was different from archaeology" because I encountered unforeseen circumstances at that time. More than the condition of "no magic" has already sharpened the bulk of her power, she should have dealt with about the sword's movements on her own.

Raju returned the dagger to her and took the distance again.

"One more favor"

"Fine. Will you marry me if I win?

"Don't"

"sloppy......"

There was resentment. Apart from the words, she's grinning with her belly about what's wrong.

Raju stepped in from his own side this time as he laid his sword on the flashing mood that was coming up from where.

After a few breaks and an hour or so of working together, Raju sat down next to Tinasha, who was rolling into the meadows.

Hi. She doesn't seem to have much strength, which causes her to shorten her breath immediately. He put his hand on her forehead as he closed his eyes, wondering if I could force him a little.

"When and where did you learn that sword from?

"You don't want to say it someday!

".................. well fine"

Raju wondered what he had to hide now because he was over a hundred years old, but if he told me about the Dark Ages, I would just pull it off, so I decided not to poke it any further. Tinasha answers the remaining questions.

"I learned the sword from someone who was a general at the time in Tayri."

"... the country is already doomed."

"Oh, oh, shit!

Raju remembers the continental chronology in his head in a big mess. That country, which was once a great power, should certainly have been destroyed about a hundred years ago when it was torn into what is now the Great Power Medium. At least now it has become clear that more than a hundred years ago she was learning the sword.

Tinasha is rolling over the grass screaming "Migi" etc. at her own lapse. I don't even want to go further in and frustrate you when you see how it goes, but for now, what I want to hear is something else.

Raju stopped spinning when he gently tapped the woman's head as she rolled over.

"Was that the kind of sword technique that dominated Tairi? It's a little strange though."

"No. I was taught by a former runaway assassin. The truth is, they only teach one successor. The guy was already washing his legs when we met, and he wasn't going to teach his kids, so he seemed like he could get married. Instead, I learned."

"Are you an assassination skill!

"Yes, but I didn't have the arms to do that."

Indeed, her double swords tend to place more emphasis on offense than defense. It's like having speed as the main focus of a blow from a blind spot to a steep spot.

But until now, I was wondering if there was such a school. I never suspected it was a form of assassination skill that would never be on the ordinary table.

Raju starts thinking with his cheek cane on his knees.

I do feel uncomfortable. But it's as vague and shapeless as it is in a dream. I can't remember it well. I wonder what the hell this is. The boy looked down at the woman lying next to him, holding an inconsolidated thought.

"Raju."

She smiles and reaches out her hands at the same time as she meets her eyes.

A defenseless, soft smile. - That smile revived the dream I had this morning.

"Whew!"

Raju jumps away reflexively. I stood up holding down my reddening face.

Look at that little reaction. Exactly. Tinasha rounds her eyes. She tilted her neck like a cat when she woke up.

"What's wrong with you?

"Doesn't matter."

"But something's wrong."

"It's not weird. It's not weird. Become a cat because I'm leaving now."

"Even though it's still daylight"

She began chanting to change her appearance despite her dissatisfied face. But ten seconds later, Raju complains when he sees Tinasha, who has four legs.

supple body and black, lustrous fur. But the graceful figure doesn't belong to the usual kitten. Much bigger - she was in the shape of a black leopard.

The leopard jumps on his back as he turns behind Raju, who is stunned without footsteps.

"I can't! Because I can't ride! Why a leopard?

"Because it's tiny and boring!

"You can't take a leopard home! Cat!

"Yah-yah! It's always a big mistake if you think it's a cat!

"He said you can't go home to the fort! What about dinner?

"You don't have to go home anymore. Let's go somewhere else."

Two people following an unexplained parallel line.

It was this next day that they would face the slightest change they had visited the fort.