episode_0021

“Who did that?”

Her question was cold and hot at the same time.

The heat I feel from the burning anger towards those who caused my lips to bleed is probably the cause of that heat.

The monstrous ruthlessness that appears to them may be the cause of that coldness.

It was just hot and cold.

“Aha.”

She smiled in understanding when she saw the person named Neil who had hit me and the soldiers behind him.

“It’s you guys.”

“Ka, Camilla…!”

“Do you know me?”

“Je, I am that Neil Feehen. The military minister’s maternal nephew…! Didn’t the military minister treat me well and send me in charge of this fortress…!”

“Oh really? But unfortunately, dad doesn’t care about you. The reason you became successful was because you guys were paying attention to your father and farted.”

Did that really happen?

She came up with a clear answer that I had never thought of.

With this, I felt like my heart became lighter because the nagging question that was in a corner of my heart was resolved.

It was just a trivial question, like who would win if a bear and a lion fought.

“And the important thing is not who you are. What matters is what you did.”

“Camilla… Because the author is a madman in the village and dared to inflict violence on me…!”

“No. It doesn’t matter what happened to you. Even if your limbs are cut off and your eyes are gouged out.”

Camilla held up a spear imbued with blue electricity and approached him little by little.

“Again, the important thing is…”

As Camilla twirled the spear, the blue electric current became small lightning and spread out like a blind arrow.

They scorched the ground, tore down the walls of fortresses, and burned the proudly flying flags of the empire.

“What did you do to whom? That’s it.”

“Who on earth is that person…”

“He’s a person you can’t even imagine. If you knew who that idiot is, you’d turn a blind eye.”

Soon, Camilla got close to Neil, and she was giving off an air that it wouldn’t be strange if she stabbed Neil to death at any time.

It had been a while since I had seen her this angry, so I had to stop her.

Even if it incurs her wrath.

“Let’s leave it at that.”

“You know what I’m trying to do and you’re trying to stop me?”

“Aren’t you planning to kill him and kill his subordinates as well?”

“I know it well. Then it’s gone.”

When she raised the spear, it emitted an even bluer and brighter light.

“You probably don’t understand this situation at all. Just die. In the first place, even death is incomprehensible.”

Just before she swung the spear, I violently ripped off the chain and immediately kicked her spear, changing its trajectory.

The blue lightning that spewed out from the window whose orbit was reversed turned the walls of the fortress into powder and disappeared.

Only the blackened ground proves that something was there, but it is impossible to know what was there.

Neil and the soldiers, seeing the black soot, fell backwards as if their minds had turned white.

“Get out. Because this is about you.”

“Have you ever thought that it sounds somewhat contradictory?”

“Because you always choose the wrong answer when it comes to things about yourself. That’s the real contradiction.”

“Discussing it between those who have contradictions will only lead to running parallel paths. So let me tell you straight.”

It was a shame that they died, but that was all.

I will never take that sadness to bed and it will not have any influence on how I lead my life.

However, there was another reason why I stopped her.

” Anything more than that is going too far.”

“Is it too much? This is your job and mine too. You touched my friend. Is there anything more to say?”

“Even so, it doesn’t change that it’s too much.”

“Are you siding with those scum and not me? How dare you in front of me?”

“I’m not taking their side, I’m doing it for you, Camilla.”

It’s such a shame that they die.

“I don’t want you to suffer the stigma of killing a soldier because of a personal matter.”

“It doesn’t really matter, right? I also don’t want the people who touched you to live and breathe.”

“The argument is based on altruism, not mutual selfishness. We have no choice but to turn parallel and collide.”

“Are you okay? Are you trying to beat me without a wand?”

I was able to swing my hand blade and strike away the spear she threw at me.

She laughed and swung her spear with amusement, and I also blocked her attacks with my echo-enhanced hands and attacked when I saw an opening.

So the fight continued. We exchanged attacks to the point where it seemed like a good reason to start the fight.

Hoping that her anger would be carried away by the flow of battle that could end up costing her life.

After sweating for a while, she also looked refreshed and put away her spear.

“… That’s enough. If I fight with you any longer, my hands will only hurt.”

“My arm is really tingling.”

“I swore that I would just kill the bastards who used violence against my friend.”

“If so.”

If harming her close friend was a crime worthy of death.

“Shouldn’t you kill me first?”

“Are you still doing that…”

“Camilla. Just as there is a difference between a crime and an attempted crime, there are also differences between those who are willing to commit it and those who are not. So leave them alone.”

“Okay, I got it. You’re saying you don’t want to get blood on your play house.”

Playing house… might be a pretty appropriate expression.

As children who have become parents pretend to be their mothers and fathers while playing house, I too was playing the false identity of Raoul Muska.

okay. This might be the last play house I play in my life.

Just like playing house that ends when it’s time to go home, this playing house will also end when I receive the call from heaven.

“Still, it’s annoying to just ignore it.”

“They will have to repair the fortress, so wouldn’t that be enough punishment?”

“Hoo… that would be fun. Of course, the idiot who kicked you will also be made to work together.”

“Ask someone to do something…?”

“I’m going to stay here for a while and join you in your playthings.”

When she said she would stay here, Neal and the soldiers became thoughtful, but Camilla was not a great person to care about such things.

In the first place, she was the type of person who didn’t pay any attention to anything other than what interested her.

“… Well, don’t bother me too much.”

“You still don’t know me. Even if they kill you directly, they don’t harass you in a mean way.”

“It would have been perfect without the electronics.”

“Wouldn’t it be difficult if I were perfect up to that point? People who are too clean die young.”

“… I am not clean.”

“No, it’s clean, mainly in terms of tact and speaking skills. Yes, it’s too clean.”

She smiled as she brushed the dust off my clothes.

I loved the smiles of these friends more than any other sight.

On a battlefield where blood and internal organs grew like plants, they were the only beautiful things.

“Hehe, then since we haven’t seen each other in a while, shall we have a drink? It’s been almost half a year since we met.”

“From what I remember, it’s been less than 15 days since we said goodbye.”

“It’s a story about how you feel time. When you breathe comfortably and then put your face in the water, one second feels like an hour. You are that kind of being.”

“I’m sorry, but I don’t understand.”

“… Anyway, you are a tactless bastard. Anyway, hurry up and show me to the bar. Because I feel like I’m dying of thirst.”

Then she turned her head towards Neal and the soldiers under his command and warned in a cold voice.

“Prepare a place for me to stay while I drink with this idiot. If you feel anything dirty or strange… what ended as an attempt will no longer be an attempt. Got it?”

“Yes, yes! We’ll prepare it for you!”

“Good. Then shall we go?”

“It’s quite a distance from here.”

Since it was a two and a half hour walk, I felt like I needed to give notice.

“Which one.”

I pointed in the direction of the village and she nodded understandingly and began to relax her hands.

“If you are that close, it is difficult to control your strength. There are many cases where it flies farther.”

“I have no intention of participating in your unreasonable behavior.”

“And I have no intention of asking your opinion.”

When I heard the words “fly” and “flight,” I was tilting my head, wondering what they meant.

I had no intention of participating in the madness, but Camilla’s left hand snatched my collar.

“… You are becoming more and more like your teacher.”

“Isn’t it natural for a father and daughter to look alike?”

She threw the blue shining spear in the direction of the village,

He jumped up at the same time as throwing the javelin and landed safely on the hilt of the spear.

“I’ll say it again, Camilla. I cannot understand this absurd behavior.”

“I know. Do you feel dizzy and want to vomit? I sometimes feel something similar when I talk to you.”

I think the flight lasted about 6 to 7 minutes.

Just as something was about to rise from within, the spear struck the forest near the village like a lightning strike.

Naturally, the surrounding vegetation was reduced to ashes, but she did not care at all about the damage to nature.

“Anyway, it really is the countryside of the countryside. Is there a bar?”

“There is an old bar. It felt like they would give me cheap distilled spirits and water instead of wine.”

“The person you drink with is more important than the alcohol you drink. The wine I drank with these pretentious people stinks.”

“I didn’t know you hated wine.”

“Ha… you tactless bastard.”

As I entered the village entrance with her, the residents who saw me began to make a fuss.

Some people cheered me as if they didn’t know I would come back alive, some asked me the secret to surviving, and some were worried and asked if I had gotten into some kind of accident there.

To me it was undeserved treatment, but to them it seemed natural.

“It’s quite noisy for the countryside.”

And the presence of Camilla I brought with me seemed to have become a new fuse for rumors about me.

And the person who drove that wedge was none other than Camilla herself.

It all started when Cecilia, hearing the news that I had arrived, came running from far away, and without even breathing, came up to me and spoke to me.

“Ha… Ha… My lord, are you okay…?! Didn’t that pervert do something to your lord? If that’s the case, I’ll go and see that bastard’s face…”

“It won’t be meaningful if you go, so stop. Isn’t he someone who can be touched in the first place?”

“Even so…!”

Then, as soon as Cecilia saw Camilla’s face, she flinched as if she was a little surprised.

“This person…”

Camilla looked at Cecilia as if observing her, then tilted her head and asked a question.

“Oh, is this the woman you were talking about?”

“Yes, but. Is there a problem?”

“Well, I was a bit surprised when I heard the story… hmm…”

Then Camilla smiled lightly and said:

“After all, a story is a story. I almost got excited because a topic that I didn’t need to worry about was being inflated.”

Of course, Cecilia, who was left behind after the storm, didn’t seem to be in a very happy mood either.