Chapter 38 (1/2)

THE REBELLION DEEP AT NIGHT

The reason for Asty´s absence was much more stupid than she had expected

After going out of Asty´s rooh

Today, Asty didn´t co her subordinates, Asty could be said to be a very diligent person She would enter the training field before the sun had risen and would keep swinging a sword or spear But today alone, Asty didn´t show her face

Riku herself didn´t really care whether she would be co to train or not However, she was Riku´s subordinate, and she was also entrusted to her by Gortoberuk Riku wondered that perhaps she had got high fever and couldn´t leave her room But if she was to only say this and leave it just like that, it would become bad to Riku´s position, and it would also affect Leivein´s reputation That´s why she ended the training early and gave a visit to Asty´s given room

But in the end, it was all needless worries

“Yo, ojou-chan”

Turning around, she saw Vrusto, as leaning at the wall Probably he aiting for Riku to co to hi side-by-side

“And then, what is the reason for that girl to be absent? Was she sick?”

“…Self-confinement”

Riku dropped her shoulders

It felt to her as if she had suffered some kind of loss just for how she had been worried about Asty and had gone after her Asty wasn´t suffering from any sickness She was healthier than she could ever be She was reading a book of strategies while sitting on a chair

“Haa? Confinement?”

Vrusto raised his voice in a surprised

“Yes It looks like she thinks she has responsibility for this last battle”

Froht she had responsibility as she was the one to make reasons for the troops to be dispatched to Karkata plains, and so she wasn´t going to leave the rooht time

Of course, it was a fact that she had part of the responsibility However, all she did was nothingher opinion The fault lied on Kraut, who accepted it without seriously thinking through

“I told her she should go polish her strength rather than doing that self-confine to let her be for at least three days Anyway, it seems the Gortoberuk house has some familydeeds or so”

“I guess this is diligent? What to say… ”

Vrusto was showing a surprised face It also felt like Riku had a face similar to his

“Even though there are things more important than family mottos…”

Rather than family mottos, Riku hated family itself For the pride of her family, Riku was throay, and ended up with sadhow she was able to ood thing But in the end, even after ten years had passed, she still looked at the Barusak with hostility

That day fro betrayed by her father, engulfed by the waves of the sea and being carried to the seashore were as if a thinit She didn´t remember the details, but she felt she was full of resent at the depths of her heart Even after ten years had passed, the fence called Barusak still restrained her Probably, if this were to continue, she would become its prisoner for the rest of her life

Thinking about that, her mood became a bit dark

“Who knows?”

Vrusto´s ansas extrear that was at his breast pocket, he started s it Riku hated the smell of smoke Not only she hated the sht at the moment Riku was about to open her mouth to complain, it happened…

“Hm?”

Suddenly, she felt a suspicious gaze onto her back

Looking behind her, there were three soldiers The three were very si armor of the Demon Lord army, they were definitely demons She didn´t mind too much about that point, but she didat her It was a bit different from the looks of despise she had already beco of surprise that was being given off was stronger

“What´s the matter, ojou-chan?”

Looking at the Because they didn´t have a face she remembered of, she knew they weren´t her subordinates, but soldiers from Karkata But even so, it felt they were involved with so

“Did you see those three o?”

“H at you? …Aren´t they just jealous of ojou-chan because ojou-chan gota human?”

“It would be good if that was the case”

Perhaps she was a bit tooabout it, she shook off the suspicions from her mind

——-

It was at today´s night that the incident occurred

By the time theraised fro pen

“It´s a rebellion!!”

“There is a traitor a us!!”

“It´s fire!! It´s burning!”

Together with these words, the blazes of the fire were going up to the sky The straw spread at the pig pen had suddenly caught fire, noith the fire dazzlingly illu watch, by seeing the fire and the voices that were saying it was a rebellion, became confused and made their own commotion

“How noisy, really”

Wearing her arht as she turned to a corridor, she saw Vrusto and Roppu, who had gatheredover to her room