Vol 2 Chapter 86 (1/2)

Chapter 86

c86: Interlude　Crimson Vow

nakedsingularitytrans Alice TaleMay 9, 2018 17 Minutes

The night progressed

Obtaining slightly calmer temperatures with the season, this is a place of repose since it’s within the bed

I’m bad with pitch darkness

Inoff a diht

But there’s so different from normal

「……Please pardon me, Eclair……munya」

「You don’t need to apologize even in your dreams, mou」

Since the silver girl sleeping next to her had started sleeping she’d occasionally apologize in this manner

She came to meet me with a flushed look so, I became surprised

But what drives me mad is that woman

There’s a distinct and eye catching mark on Alice’s porcelain like smooth white skin

I tried lightly reproducing those traces left on the nape of her neck with er

「Nn……」

Alicewell and there were no signs of her waking up

「……Leaving a mark so as to show this to meShe intends to provoke me, doesn’t she?」

I absolutely won’t forgive her, that wooman!

Thinking such a thing, I’m completely unable to fall asleep

Since I’m completely completely unable to fall asleep!

「Since on that note you also, let your guard down too much or such don’t you?」

The anger I had taken control over once ca back up

I understand that, you, idiot Alice!

「……Heal」

I touched the nape of her neck with ic and, cleanly wiped away the mark

「Please at least, keep you personal appearance in order okay……idiot」

I stabbed her forehead lightly

As always for how sheappearance, she’s full of openings

What is this unbalance?

Making a bitter s happy to the ceiling

I wonder how long it has been, since I wasn’t alone, and――――

I have held a demon eye since birth

My ave birth to me, and soon died

I heard that she was a person with a weak body to begin with but, probably, I can iine how this demon eye could have effected her

That’s why I am――parricide

Sacrahter

Parricidal demon eye holder

That is my title

But, that sort of thing is not once officially announced to the world

「It’s the crimson unwanted child-sama」

「Ooh, scary scary」

Passing by knights or civil officials in the castle, I ca frequency

They didn’t even pretend to take the attitude for facing a royal daughter but, there was a reason they called me 『Unwanted Child』 and despised me

Because it’s said that in history froo, a person of this country who held the same sort of demon eye betrayed the nobility, and drove the family into a corner

Since then, demon eye holders have been detested in this country

It is a taboo

Enough that if I act carelessly I could be executed just fro truth known

To speak of that point, I’ protected by my position

……To begin with, so to be welcoh

In any case, it’s certain that I couldn’t pass irl properly

Because of such a thing, it didn’t take all that long before I felt like I’d come to hate other people

My self fro around me as an enemy

If everything reflected inin this world become

An ephemeral, child’s rash blind action

Taking off the necklace my father had toldoff a joke

――In a moment, the world was dyed crimson

Originally, soe isn’t a major incident

But tomajor

When I came to, the necklace was placed on my neck and I had fallen to my knees in the castle’s courtyard

I was dazed

I still felt like I was in a trance, the truth before my eyes was hammered into me

Within the influence of a fire that wasn’t groeaker…………two unidentifiable objects that had turned to ash were scattered before me

「A――A, AA―――」

I don’t remember what came after that well

――As punishht to the battlefield at an age where I hadn’t reached 10

During that time the principality was in a ith the land to its east

Sacrament is a country made by demons

The ruling nobility are all demons

Of course if you look at the ratios the hureater in number but, it’s built on that sort

of foundation

That’s normal in just this country but, the race called 『Demons』 are despised by many

Perhaps they didn’t think well of this country’s systems, or perhaps that was simply a pretext and they really had political reasons, the eastern theocracy caan called a crusade

The battlefield was a wasteland of whirling dust

In such a battlefield, all I saas a body clad in elegant criht to the furthest forward line

Looking at it fro but an eneet

That was the intent of the principality

As they couldn’t execute et rid of the problem in a plausible manner

I’m not afraid――I shouldn’t have that sort of empty bravery

Drinking in the battlefield’s air, I was in a state where I couldn’t even walk

「Are you tre in excitement, princess Eclair」

The voice that came from on horseback was, from an old man with red hair that had mostly turned white

Of all things, supreme commander Cliff Steard advanced his horse all the way to my side on the furthest forward line

Baronial house Steard

Even though Cliff is the head of that fae person

A person for whom such rumors circulate

Though he’s a personage with enough vigor to command from the frontlines, the wrinkles carved into his face are deep

To be sure he should have lived for several hundred years by now

「I, I am, not scared!」

「Hohho, that’s why, I said as such」

At the relief I was given by that voice, I reflexively displayed my empty bravery

As such Cliff looked ata cheerful old man

While I was surprised that he would still put on such a display

「If this is your first battle, just feeling this air is fine isn’t it?」

I shook ave me a kind smile

「Tha, that’s wrong……wrong……」

That isn’t so that would be accepted by the country

I will――die henceforth

That’s what is desired of me

What was never desired, was that I was born

「Fuumu……The battlefield is, not a place that a child should be sent to iss itThe adults and the country who made that happen, are foolish」

A person with a position was judging his country but, strangely, the soldiers watching over the surrounding events weren’t surprised

Aah, this again is it

I think they watched our affairs with such an impression

Withoutmuch at all, Cliff descended from his horse and placed his hand on my head

「Princess Eclair……No, EclairYour body passed away on the battlefield, how does that sort of thing sound?」

「……Eh?」

Cliff facedup a prank

「Hohho, and from this day you will, be just Eclair」

「……Just, Eclair?」

「That is so, if you don’t like that……How about so like, Eclair Steard?」

That was, how I and Cliff met

The baronial house Steard is on one part of the principality’s eastern border territory, a noble family entrusted with a truly small domain

It seee person but, I couldn’t see anything particularly strange about him as a person

Only, he was certainly a little strange given that he was a noble with many matters of his own safety to consider

The day I first met him for example

That he sheltered the troublesoave the country a false report

Hisad

One episode in his territory for example

How, he becahtheartedly, alongside the people of his territory

I had never seen a noble that farmwork suited so well

At another ti prey after he said he was going out to hunt in the mountains with a hunter

Despite having such easygoing and vigorous aspects, he likes flowers

This person has probably, forgotten that he’s an adult

But I quickly ca Cliff

「Cliff! I finished it!」

Having become someone who died on the battlefield I, entrustedthat time

On such a day, I was doing work in the mansion’s yard with my hands covered in dirt

Cliff looked after the flowers in his yard well but, he coarden

So building it fro the earth, I prepared a quickly assearden myself

It was soardless of

of anything, I wanted to make it with my own hands

「Ooh, it’s wonderful! Do you intend to drive this old to death from happiness!?」

As planned, Cliff rejoiced flamboyantly

Since his face becah toat him

「Fufun, since if I take on thisat all!」

It wasthat it made Cliff happy so, it beca it

Looking at me as such, Cliff became narrow eyed

「But you’ve becoht, this old man shall offer to wash your back in the bath」

「I don’t want to! Cliff you idiot! Ecchi!!」

「Mu, muu……such an intent is to this old man」

「Fun」

「I see, you’ve already reached that age then……I seee」

「?」

Soazed at me

As if he was seeing someone else as not me layered upon me

「……But well, I could at least grant you permission to stroke my head? It’d be pitiable otherwise so, it can’t be helped you see!」

「Hohho, that is an honor」

While laughing, he stroked my head with his coarse hand

Granddaughter and beloved grandpa

Our relationshi+p was that sort of thing

This, competes within my memory over whether it’s the most or second most eudemonic time

That this livelihood would continue forever, so I felt

That this happiness would continue forever――――

「――Eh?」

This is, a letter I found in Cliff’s room when I snuck in with a mischievous heart

In the desk drawer that I opened after losing against my curiosity, there was a ton of similar letters inside

The emblem is star and wolf……Sacrament’s

Fearfully fearfully, I took one which had been put on top of the desk

What ritten there was, content of the sort that made me doubt my eyes

「What is……this……?」

In the letter, there is that the eastern theocracy came to invade

The principality’s strict coh that forward position

That, until reinforcements arrive, Steard must hold out alone

「……Why, is it so quiet today, why?」

I noticed it, for the first time then

The lively sounds outside the mansion from the territory’s people’s daily life were too quiet

The number of chamberlains was also too low

Furthero Cliff said he had to set out to do some work and vanished……

「――tsu」

With an ile, I jumped out of the room

Recently, the soldiers gathered here while saying they were doing exercises

Training for when the need arises is i such a carefree thing

――The tiht now, is when that need arose!

As such I left the

Running around the territory, I realized anew that the territory’s people were clearly few in number

Those who could take refuge were taking refuge

Beyond my position, I didn’t notice since I didn’t leave the manor often

Having run around enough that I was covered in sweat, I remembered a familiar minister-sama and flew into the church

Within the church, I finally saw the forreat number of the territory’s people

The majority omen, children and old men

「Minister-sama, everyone!」