Chapter 86 (2/2)

「Minister-sama, everyone!」

With a surprised face with deep wrinkles like Cliff's, theover to me

「Eclair-sa so everyone afraid! Minister-sama as well, if Cliff isn't stopped then!」

「It cannot be helped, he has a duty to answer the principality's denore that, so we have no path in which we can survive……」

In the church, everyone prayed wholeheartedly for husbands, for lovers, for sons who had been sent to the battlefield

They shouldn't reach their hand out all the way to the town or the church but, given just that they'd invaded this far in, the one who these people offer their prayers to is……

「I will, go stop the the minister-sama's voice of inhibition, I flew out of the church

Before the battle begins, I will convince Cliff

From there, I will also convince the principality

I will finally stop running and hiding

Having returned to the nored the cha on my horse

I somehow heard from the chamberlains that the battlefield wasn't all that distant

And so in a region of continuous hills――I finally reached the edge of the battlefield

――To start by saying the conclusion, I wasn't able to arrive in tiht my eye first was, the dead body of an ojisan who often picked delicious vegetables

Besides hi

The eccentric ojisan who did blacks……

The dead bodies of house Steard's soldiers and their territory's people stood out to an overwhel extent

That's obvious……with only the soldiers in this frontier territory, that they would fight the theocracy's army is……!

「……You must not, Eclair-sama……Hurry, youthat they were all dead bodies, a flower seller ojisan who still seemed to have his eyes shut even now called out to me

I knew the flower seller well since he frequently came and went from the mansion

I rushedly descended froether, please keep it together!」

The flower seller had a wife, in the church……

How should I word it when I report this to her……

Perhaps I am cursed

Perhaps I really a ill fortune……

「……Haave I properly protected, the town and, the country as well?」

「You protected it That you protected is, decided right!」

「I seee, I really, wish I couldonly that, the flower seller's breath was taken aithout time for heal to be used

……After I closed his eyes for him, I turned my eyes toward the center of the battlefield filled with shouts

As the violence struck s became unable to move, as they always had

Even so, my heart that wanted to protect won out

I forced back my fear and, ran toward the battlefield

The people who live in this re by nature, thatlike a horn or a fang, their appearances have special characteristics depending on the person

In my case, it's the 『Demon Eye』……

And so naturally Cliff is also a demon

I really don't think that, the theocracy will offer mercy to him

――And so finally, I arrived at the location 『That Was』 the central section of the battlefield

There was already, no battle there

What was there were confused and fleeing Steard soldiers being chased about by pursuing forces

It was atheir backs, or soiveness, and the indifferent soldiers of the theocracy

Indifferently and indifferently and indifferently again, they continued cutting them to death

The Steard were, a er broke out of my body

「――Turn, to flaaaaamht my eyes

Maybe I stood out too much, as such the revenant like enemy soldiers rushed at me

……I felt like that also, was fine either way

Itback to the flower selling ojisan, I resolved as such

The rushi+ng enemy soldiers

I who seemed like she would be crushed by their massive quantity, was saved by a fla toward that, the person I wanted toall the way to this sort of place, you're quite the troublesohter」

Even with a face covered in injuries, Cliff faced randpa

「Cliff! Let's retreat already!? This, isn't a fight any me, Cliff's body wavered……and then I saw massive amount of blood on aze is wandering

My expression froze at a bad preaze, from Cliff's face that expressed a s through the armor on his back, it sprouted froht I'dout is――

「Ah, eh――?」

My comprehension, couldn't keep up

As I was left dazed the ene to cut ain

「I won't be pulling back, they would continue like this and come to burn the toay What, until reinforcements come fro for a short walk

Cliff laughed out such a light statement

Arrows flew at us, from every direction

Those were, all received by theme in his ee isn't it, humans, even if they're stabbed this much, are they still okay?

Even if this much blood co from Cliff's mouth struck my face, and I saw that

――The necklace was, pulled to shreds

I ht that I wanted to disappear already

Orat that time

A moment later, I ed by a cri to dissipate away, I heard a voice

――Here, please look here

I recognized those words, at the edge of the faint traces of my conscious

Guided by that voice, I looked at her

『Good day, lovely ojousan』

There was, a beautiful elf with silver hair and silver eyes

『Be firm, your name is?』

「Name――Ecl,air?」

『Eclair?』

「……Eclair」

As her voice checked, I nodded while feeling that that was so

『Right, then you ly, I am Eclair』

The silver elf, called out to ht of who I was, Eclair, Eclair, she kept calling out to ht, Eclair Don't be iht You are yourself Iood Eclair is Eclair you know』

Confir that naely, I noticed that I had vaguely grasped my self that had seemed like it would ht, people gather a sense of reverence and, call ician……I used to be』

「De that Demonic Flame, stroked my――Eclair's head

Fros within ht, this sort of thing was possible because it was this person

I closed my eyes as I was invited by sluirl replied to such an Eclair by, giving her a sad see smile

『It has been entrusted to me』

she said as such with a kind voice

The next time I came to, I was surrounded by Sacra necklace that should have been shredded was placed on my neck

「Eclair, is it」

「……Leoneil?」

It was azed upward a recognizable face obstructeddown onin rest

「……Come back, Eclair That power, should be used for the principality shouldn't it」

「It's a fearsoht beside irl with silver hair and red eyes

「……What, what, happened?」

「If you're asking about the theocracy's soldiers they've retreated I suppose that they sensed that ould arrive, they were quick to escape」

「Before this side arrived, it seeirl looked at Eclair while see that, I had continued to embrace Cliff since I fell asleep

「Cliff?」

Even if I called out to him, even when I shook him no reaction came

「……To the hero who protected the country fro a s soldiers of the principality saluted

「――」

I, understood

「What, is……a, hero」

The tears, overflowed

「Because, you didn't coh!!!!」

That wail pointlessly, truly pointlessly echoed through the remains of the battlefield――

「――tsu, u」

At some point, it seems like I fell asleep

My pulse was fierce, my body was stiff

――My tears, wouldn't stop

There was a warmth that enveloped, such an Eclair

「Alice……」

「Hai」

「Aliice」

「Haai」

Without asking anything, Alice just embraced Eclair, and stroked her hair

As Eclair endlessly continued to cry, Alice always stayed with her

――Aah, Alice is surely strong enough to protect so in battle

That felt slightly frustrating

That I felt that frustration made me, relieved

Because that is, the proof that I still haven't adh I can't do anything about the past, I won't waste, this life that you protected for

Because I'll becoer and, so that I can protect sohter

「Alice……」

「What is it?」

「……Because I won't lose okaay!」

「Eeh!?」

My rivalry suddenly flared up and, Alice beca as her eyes filled with surprise

――Really, that was adorable

「To, today only, I'll pamper you, Alice But don't misunderstand okay!」

「Cu～te, Eclair」

「I, idiott!」

「Nfufuu」

She's a really worrisome rival――――