episode_0094

1.

I twist my stiff body and stretch.

“Keuu …

Today is the first day of school.

That means, starting today, I have to go to work too.

That’s why I went out to the Rukia River early in the morning to wash my body.

“Huh?”

“Kang!”

“What is it? Taina?”

But at that time.

Taina appeared.

“Kang!”

“…What is this? It’s not the beast Taina.”

“…Ahem.”

I can tell what kind of condition she’s in just by looking at Taina’s intelligent eyes.

Taina was acting.

It’s a visual that’s hard to fool, even if you want to, because it’s imitating a fox with claws that don’t work.

“Taina. If you don’t know what the beast state is, don’t try to imitate it.”

“…yes.”

It seems like he thought of it as a desperate measure.

Since you can’t see your own face, you can’t imitate that embarrassing behavior.

Taina, with her fluttering tail and rosy cheeks, stood before me.

“That… Taina…?”

“Just a moment.”

It’s not even close enough to touch your nose if you fall.

The distance is just before your nose touches your chest.

The sniffling nose and perked ears are a bit burdensome.

“Please answer my questions now.”

“Suddenly?”

“What did Kai and Yuli do during their break from the academy?”

“Huh?”

I stopped by the witch’s city.

We rescued kidnapped children and took out thugs.

You invaded Professor Casselina’s office without permission.

‘How is it that I can’t say anything about all three?’

What I could say was limited.

“I was just at the academy. I didn’t have time to go back home.”

“…Lies.”

“What?”

Taina’s ears perked up as if she was shaking something off, and her nose touched her chest.

He’s up to something.

“Don’t lie.”

“A lie… right?”

“I know everything. Don’t try to fool the fox’s eyes or hide it.”

Taina approaches with a forceful attitude for a moment.

“Really, really, it’s nothing, really. I just wanted to know a little more about you, oppa, I’m really curious. ”

I realized in an instant what Taina was trying to do.

This is lie detection.

The red fox tribe has senses several times greater than those of humans.

If such a race of people were determined to find signs of lies.

It would be so easy to detect a lie.

‘This… might be a bigger crisis than expected.’

Originally, blue started from one doubt.

Because those suspicions lead to one truth after another.

If the fact and suspicion that I am not a typical cleaner is engraved in you.

It provides an excuse for one’s identity to be revealed.

“So, what’s your question?”

Taina’s stance is not light enough to just take it out.

I don’t know what it is, but I have to cooperate as much as possible and find out what Taina wants.

“…I asked what you did with Sister Yuli during the academy vacation.”

“I said I was at the academy.”

“Lies. There’s something else besides that.”

Are you asking me to tell you about things outside of the academy?

Why?

“To get straight to the point. I’ll ask you a detailed question. Did Yuli and Kai ever save the daughter of the Shukeros family?”

…i get it.

It was about safely returning the daughter of the Shukeros family.

“Did your brother intervene and resolve the conflict that arose during that process?”

Phew.

The most important thing is the difference in the amount of information.

The reason I’m asking such loose questions is probably to get more information.

Besides, the fact that Taina is pressuring me like this means that she’s anxious.

‘You probably aren’t sure.’

Asking questions is like revealing what’s inside me.

This is what I wonder and this is what I need.

That is, I wonder if I have ever helped the young lady of the Shukeros family and that this fact is necessary for me.

“Hmm… Do I really have to answer?”

“I don’t think you can avoid answering that. It’s just a simple question.”

When I saw the doctor, I could see that Taina was very nervous.

I wonder what it is that you are so curious about, why do you feel the need to dig up my information like that?

‘Well, Altina was like that too.’

Let’s think of it as a special trait of the red fox tribe.

I almost got caught by Altina and found out that I was possessed.

Any further silence is rather poisonous.

“Actually, I wasn’t just at the academy during the vacation. I went somewhere.”

Throw away the words and avoid eye contact.

It’s easy to think that the way you look at someone is evidence that they’re lying.

But who am I really looking at?

-widely!

“The story you told is probably my story?”

“Yuli, sister?”

Yuli fiercely intervenes between Taina and me.

There’s no need to be this rough.

“During the academy break, Kai and I went on separate trips.”

First of all, Yuli separated me from the ‘Sukeros Ga Youngae Kidnapping Case’.

It was a great help.

Yuli spat out her words, perhaps thinking that her rough intrusion had upset her pace.

“Actually, I am the one who brought back the young lady of the Shukeros family.”

“Huh!? As expected, it’s my sister and brother!”

“But… I didn’t get it myself.”

“…eh?”

Taina made a dumb sound that didn’t respond.

“There was a house that was burning. But I heard children crying? So I rescued the children from the fire pit, and among them were children from the Shukeros family.”

“Uh…”

“I was going to leave them at the Echo Orphanage and go because I had something to do, but well. The kids were stubborn, so I just took them to the Shukeros family.

Yuli’s candid statement.

It’s not a lie.

The job that Yuli was asked to do was to rescue the children.

“But, why did you leave so soon! I wanted to give you proper compensation for the damages you suffered from our family!”

“I had something to do.”

Taina’s face was already crushed.

The thing to do was sophistry, but I didn’t notice it.

Is it because Yuli is a holy sword, or is it because she was a little overwhelmed by the sharp momentum?

“Well, then. The black-haired man who carried Tir and Tim…isn’t that your brother!? The investigation results say that he dealt with the human trafficker…”

What on earth is the Shukeros family?

He used a shield to obscure his face and blurred his memories through the fogging effect of his memory.

Besides, I felt relieved because the world was viewed from a child’s perspective in a distorted way.

I couldn’t just leave the Shukeros girls alone, so I got involved for the last time.

Of all people, it was the Shukeros family that got their tails stepped on.

“I’m sorry for coming at you a little too forcefully at first. Actually, I did it because I wanted to know more about you. I wanted to use this incident as an excuse to know a little more about your inner thoughts…”

Taina continued speaking a little pitifully.

I didn’t think there was any need to go this far to set the mood, but that’s what was on my mind.

‘You want to know more about me.’

The fox tribe doesn’t reveal their true feelings very well.

That’s why I rarely reveal my purpose when doing work.

Unless it’s that desperate.

“Just tell me. You’re the one who saved Tir and Tim, right? I just wanted to thank you. It doesn’t mean anything.”

“…”

“Those who do good deeds should naturally be rewarded.”

-Shudder

Taina has touched my heart once again.

‘Those who do good deeds should naturally be rewarded, right?’

It’s a word I’ve never thought about since being selected as a warrior, so it feels a bit unfamiliar.

When a little greed raises its head, Anne’s words come to mind.

‘A warrior should not expect a reward. The moment you expect a reward, you are no longer a warrior, but a mercenary.’

Phew.

Maybe it’s because the seal on my memory has been released, but Anne’s words still ring vividly in my ears.

Ha, I get it, I get it.

“Anyway, that person isn’t me. It’s probably another black-haired person.”

“Really…?”

Taina’s gaze became a little sharper, so I had to respond to her.

The fog of memory surrounds the constellation.

As much as possible.

“Yeah. Really.”

Short answer.

But the inside is not like that at all.

Even when doing good deeds, I must not show my face.

Did you call him Daddy-Long-Legs?

People who do not seek fame through good deeds that others do not know about, but simply quietly accumulate good deeds.

I’m talking about people who stick to their beliefs even if their efforts aren’t recognized or if they’re considered foolish.

It’s okay if you don’t get recognition for your work.

‘This must be what a hero is.’

So I silently followed Anne’s words.

Not for my own safety, but to follow the example of a warrior who does not reveal his good deeds.

2.

“Whew… That was dangerous.”

“That’s right. I didn’t know it would be like this.”

After overcoming the unforeseen danger, Yuli and I breathed a sigh of relief.

Only then did the Witch of Memory’s request come to mind.

‘But you should also think about keeping your distance. Okay?’

An expression that the string of fate that I have been holding onto could eventually strangle me.

This is also a piece of advice that came to mind when Taina questioned me.

But Anne’s words were so clear that it felt like they were buried.

In the end, it must have helped you make the decision to distance yourself from Taina.

‘It must be forgotten from everyone’s memory.’

There is a reason we struggle to keep one seemingly simple condition.

‘I have no choice but to do it because I absolutely need it to die.’

One of the saints, immortality.

Never die, never grow old.

That’s why no matter how many swords pierce my body, I won’t die.

I haven’t tried anything like cutting the throat, splitting the body, etc.

Because it hurts.

Anyway, he doesn’t die.

There is only one way for me to die.

[Absolute Power]

[Absolute power] is a power that must be achieved in this world.

“…What are you looking at?”

The absolute power of the Ego Sword and Holy Sword called Yuri, which [will surely cut down all evil].

It doesn’t matter how powerful the being is.

The evil one is cut down by Yuli and meets death.

“If you’re grateful, it’s okay to say thank you.”

“Thank you.”

So there is only one way I can die.

Caesar, the symbol of goodness and warrior, is erased from everyone’s memory.

In a world where Casselina has passed away and Driss has ultimately chosen death, only I am left.

You condemn me with small evils.

Then, I am evil to those who live in this world.

Being judged as evil.

Dies through Yuli’s absolute power.

I can’t think of him as a warrior.

Through the miserable but final rest of suicide through the Holy Sword.

This is the end of my story.