Vol 3 Chapter 10 (2/2)
Alliance of the South! Long live the Alliance of the South!
——— Beneath a Tree, under the Moonlight
Leaves sway
The Hero: “…”
Leaves sway
The De: “Hero”
The Hero: “De”
The De: “…”
The Hero: “…”
The De: “Could you sit beside me?”
The Hero: “Yeah” Shuffles
The De: “…”
The Hero: “…”
The De: “Tired?”
The Hero: “Yeah”
The De: “Me too”
The Hero: “…”
The De: “…”
The Hero: “I lost”
The De: “Me too”
The Hero: “I don’t understand”
The De: “Yeah”
The Hero: “Why do in and why do we lose?”
The De: “Yeah”
The Hero: “De”
The De: “?”
The Hero: “Do you regret?”
The De: “…”
The Hero: “I asked you About the black powder”
The De: “…Yeah”
The Hero: “…”
The De: “It’s my fault”
The Hero: “…”
The De: “…”
Branch breaking
The Hero: “Ah”
The Female Paladin: “Thanks for your hard work”
The De: “I’m sorry”
The Female Paladin: “But I’m useless too, I lost”
The De: “It’s my fault …”
The Female Paladin: “On that battlefield, I had hting for worth all this blood? I questioned if eren’ta pointless sacrifice”
The De: “It was an unnecessary sacrifice Today, at least thousands have died If I had paid my attention, it wouldn’t have…”
The Female Paladin: “…”
The De: “…”
The Hero: “Hey”
The Female Paladin: “?”
The Hero: “…I have an important question for the both of you”
The Female Paladin: “What?”
The De: “At this time?”
The Hero: “Stepping onto the dew soaked leaves, I ran along the grassy plain The sky was illu sun The world stretches endlessly in all directions, but I only know the path on which I have walked Even though I wanted to go everywhere, I could not io anywhere”
The Female Paladin: “…?”
The De: “—Well”
The Hero: “What is on the other side of the hill? I’ve been thinking about that”
The Fe about?”
The De: “—”
The Hero: “It’s simple What will happen on the other side of the hill? These aren’t the words I asked e first set out If we h all kinds of difficulties… But is that it? What are we aih the streets To reach that hill, we have to clierous and far away But what if we cli we have never seen before?”
The Female Paladin: “…That’s—”
The De: “Not dew, this is blood”
The Hero: “Even then”
The Female Paladin: “—”
The Hero: “That’s why, I haven’t been running I’ve been working hard not to run, so I can admire the scenery… But I have no choiceI want to see that so I have never seen before I co else”
The Female Paladin: “Hero…”
The De: “…Hero”
The Hero: “Well”
Wind blows
The Hero: “Shall we go together?”
The Female Paladin: “—”
The De: “—”
The Hero: “It’s a bit e I can do alone And I want us to be able to look into each other’s eyes as we are standing on top of that hill We can’t do this alone”
The Female Paladin sniffles
The De nods
The Hero: “What do you think?”
The Female Paladin: “Good No, I’ve always hoped for you to acknowledge that”
The De to me I would never throw you aside”
The Hero: “Yes — Yes!”
The Feh you don’t worry enough about yourself”
The Deood and loving heart”
The Fe?! What do you know about that!”
The Des that belong to me!”
The Fe-boobed bimbo!”
The De-boobed bimbo?! Well that’s much better than a waterfall”
The Fe?”
The De: “If you look at it from a vector’s point of view, then it is!”
The Hero: “Oh no, save me”
The Fees with e to be by your side Let’s pledge! Let’s pledge now!”
The De to force him into?”
The Feious ritual from the Holy Order of the Lake”
The Deious rituals to your benefit whenever you feel like it! Have you no shame!”
The Hero: “Hey, u?”
————— The Kingdoht, the Most Opulent Room in the Palace
The Holy Patriarch: “…The Black Knight… escaped…”
The Leader of the Hundred Paladins: “I apologise He seems to have been taken away by those pesky mercenaries…”
The Holy Patriarch: “…Fine… It’s fine…I think And…the fly…has he been dealt with?”
The Leader of the Hundred Paladins: “He has been executed, Your Holiness”
The Holy Patriarch: “Heh He did not know his place …”
Cleric Master: “Your Most Exalted Holiness”
The Holy Patriarch: “…What?”
Cleric Master: “As requested”
The Holy Patriarch: “…Haha, haha, hahahaha”
The Leader of the Hundred Paladins: “What are these?”
Cleric Master: “These are consecrated…they are treasured gems”
The Leader of the Hundred Paladins stares
The Holy Patriarch: “Hurry… Hurry…in my hands…”
Cleric Master: “Hahaha”
The Holy Patriarch: “They are inshi+ne… This abundant ical force… This incessant radiance…”
The Leader of the Hundred Paladins looks confused
The Holy Patriarch: “The eyes of the Sigiled King…”
——– Epilogue
Her light slu in her chest
The remains of her terrible drea flesh; floated away into theher liether in order to endure the pain which was ripping apart her mind
It would be a mistake to think that she was able to sleep despite the unbearable pain It was because she could not bear the pain that she chose to sleep
Couish, by the inevitable pain and sadness which accohtmares
But the Hero was born
The world would once again have a Hero
Her lips mouthed that forbidden name
Of course, that was already not the name of the Hero That was the name of the one who had been by her side, those hundreds, those thousand years ago, when she could still feel his body warmth on the surface of the earth
(Even so…)
For hundreds of years, she hoped to meet him
For thousands of years, she hoped to meet him
Amidst her eternity of pain, in the darkness she called for him
A single teardrop, like the countless others which had co a warmth only she could understand
When she opened her eyes, the land was plunged into the fires of conflict She could see many formations, each a battlefield of death The Hero she was so anxious for moved from battlefield to battlefield, from chaos to chaos, from destruction to destruction, and left tranquillity in his wake
She searched for the Hero in the flames of violence, reached out to him amidst the fire and transainst swords, of shouts and yells, within the evil of war, her bright red burning, like forged steel, was felt by him
This as her sin, her crime
Her children who had spread across the world now called out in desperate dejection, each cutting her flesh like innumerable swords
The cavalry which charged across the land on their steeds
The infantrymen who took the brunt of the attack on their spears
The world was plunged into chaos and anarchy As power-crazy nobility and kings fought over control, they left only a sea of destruction and ruins behind them
She looked with pain and sadness to the Hero ould bear these for her
The only one who could prevent the world fro into a wasteland was the Hero She would definitely support the Hero, as he fought to fulfil the hopes and wishes she herself was never able to
For the pain-filled world
For the hurt-filled people
Hoping for salvation to coht and flames shut her eyes Tears rolled froain, but she was used to them, and replied only with the repetition of that forbidden apology