Vol 2 Chapter 86 (2/2)

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

「Eclair-sama, you must not leave the mansion!」

「Why is he doing 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 demandA heavy punishnore 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 them!」

Ignoring 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 time

It was already a depiction of hell

What caught my eye first was, the dead body of an ojisan who often picked delicious vegetables

Besides hiood natured ojisan who did tailoring

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, you must escape」

「Ojisan!」

While I had been thinking that 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 from my horse and ran over to him

「Ah aah……Keep it together, 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 am, an 『Unwanted Child』

Perhaps I bring ill fortune……

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

「You protected itThat you protected is, decided right!」

「I seee, I really, wish I could meeet my wif……」

「――」

Saying only 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 my eyes, I stood up

My legs 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 reion are mostly demons

Their ic power also crystallizes physically into so, 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 a massacre

Soldiers throwing away their weapons, turning their 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 moment from annihilation

The scenery was too er broke out of my body

「――Turn, to flaaaaamme!!」

I haphazardly burned away, the eneht 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

It means I can take even one more person with me

Re 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 flame attack from their flank

Turning toward that, the person I wanted to meet the most was there

「Cliff!!」

「Co all 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 anymore! Already……?」

Approaching me, Cliff’s body wavered……and then I saw massive amount of blood on my hands

――Eh?

I?

I’m, injured?

My gaze is wandering

My expression froze at a bad premonition

I slowly lowered aze, from Cliff’s face that expressed a smile like always

There’s an arrow stabbed in, breaking through the armor on his back, it sprouted froht I’d misread it

The a out 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 toayWhat, until reinforcements come from the homeland, I will stand firm one last time」

I’ 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 embrace, by Cliff’s back

Huh……?

This is strange isn’t it, humans, even if they’re stabbed this much, are they still okay?

Even if this much blood comes out……?

「I, am……Eclair……rosary……」

The blood dripping 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

Orht come if it

I can’t re at that time

A moment

A moment later, I ed by a crimson world

When it see 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 tome

Even as I was losing sight of who I was, Eclair, Eclair, she kept calling out to me

「I am――Eclair?」

『That’s right, EclairDon’t be ihtYou are yourselfIoodEclair is Eclair you know』

Confir that name, that was a ritual to confirm my self

Strangely, I noticed that I had vaguely grasped my self that had seemed like it would melt away

「Eclair is, Eclair……You are?」

『Me? I aather a sense of reverence and, call ician……I used to be』

「Demonic Flame……」

Saying that Demonic Flame, stroked my――Eclair’s head

Fros within my conscious

But regardless of what’s said about past sight, this sort of thing was possible because it was this person

I closed my eyes as I was invited by slumber and, beseeched Demonic Flame like a prayer

That girl 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 Sacrament’s vast army

At so necklace that should have been shredded was placed on my neck

「Eclair, is it」

「……Leoneil?」

It was my unlikeable ani with an unconcerned face

As I gazed upward a recognizable face obstructeddown on me

It so in rest

「……Come back, EclairThat power, should be used for the principality shouldn’t it」

「It’s a fearsoht also die」

Right beside irl with silver hair and red eyes

「……What, what, happened?」

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

「Before this side arrived, it seeh」

The s deeply interested

「……? Cliff, Cliff?」

Saying 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 small force, salute!」

At Leoneil’s words, the surrounding 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 someone

That wasn’t to say that she’s strong in battle

That felt slightly frustrating

That I felt that frustration made me, relieved

Because that is, the proof that I still haven’t admitted defeat within my heart after all

Though I can’t do anything about the past, I won’t waste, this life that you protected for me

……Cliff, I will surely beco

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, AliceBut don’t misunderstand okay!」

「Cu～te, Eclair」

「I, idiott!」

「Nfufuu」

She’s a really worrisome rival――――

c86 Interlude Criularitytrans Alice Tale May 9, 2018 17 Minutes The night progressedObtaining slightly calmer temperatures with the season, this is a place of repose since it s within the bedI m bad with pitch darknessInoff a di different from normalPlease pardon ize even in your drea next to her had started sleeping she d occasionally apologize in this mannerShe came to meet me with a flushed look so, I became surprisedBut what driveshtly reproducing those traces left on the nape of her neck with erNn Alicewell and there were no signs of her waking upLeaving a mark so as to show this to meShe intends to provoke ive her, that woo, I m completely unable to fall asleepSince I m completely completely unable to fall asleep Since on that note you also, let your guard down too er I had taken control over once ca back upI understand that, you, idiot Alice HealI touched the nape of her neck with ic and, cleanly wiped away the markPlease at least, keep you personal appearance in order okay idiotI stabbed her forehead lightlyAs always for how sheappearance, she s full of openingsWhat is this unbalance Making a bitter s happy to the ceilingI wonder how long it has been, since I wasn t alone, and I have held a deave birth to me, and soon diedI 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 herThat s why I ahterParricidal de is not once officially announced to the worldIt s the cri by knights or civil officials in the castle, I ca frequencyThey 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 o, a person of this country who held the same sort of demon eye betrayed the nobility, and drove the family into a cornerSince then, demon eye holders have been detested in this countryIt is a tabooEnough that if I act carelessly I could be executed just fro protected bylike a de to be welcohIn any case, it s certain that I couldn t pass , it didn t take all that long before I felt like I d come to hate other peopleMy self fro aroundreflected inin this world beco off the necklace my father had toldoff a jokeIn alike a child returning a grudge isn t amajorWhen I came to, the necklace was placed on my neck and I had fallen to my knees in the castle s courtyardI was dazedI still felt like I was in a trance, the truth before my eyes was haroeaker two unidentifiable objects that had turned to ash were scattered before meA A, AA I don t remember what came after that wellAs punishht to the battlefield at an age where I hadn t reached 10During that time the principality was in a ith the land to its eastSacra nobility are all dereater in number but, it s built on that sort of foundationThat s normal in just this country but, the race called Demons are despised by manyPerhaps 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 crusadeThe battlefield was a wasteland of whirling dustIn such a battlefield, all I saas a body clad in elegant criht to the furthest forward lineLooking at it fro but an eneetThat was the intent of the principalityAs they couldn t execute et rid of the problem in a plausible mannerI m not afraid I shouldn t have that sort of e in the battlefield s air, I was in a state where I couldn t even walkAre you tre in excitement, princess EclairThe voice that came from on horseback was, from an old s, supreme commander Cliff Steard advanced his horse all the way to my side on the furthest forward lineBaronial house SteardEven though Cliff is the head of that fae personA person for whoh vigor to command from the frontlines, the wrinkles carved into his face are deepTo be sure he should have lived for several hundred years by nowI, I am, not scared Hohho, that s why, I said as suchAt the relief I was given by that voice, I reflexively displayed my e a cheerful old manWhile I was surprised that he would still put on such a displayIf this is your first battle, just feeling this air is fine isn t it I shook avethat would be accepted by the countryI will die henceforthThat s what is desired of meWhat was never desired, was that I was bornFuumu The battlefield is, not a place that a child should be sent to iss itThe adults and the country who made that happen, are foolishA person with a position was judging his country but, strangely, the soldiers watching over the surrounding events weren t surprisedAah, this again is itI think they watched our affairs with such an i much at all, Cliff descended from his horse and placed his hand on my headPrincess Eclair No, EclairYour body passed away on the battlefield, how does that sort of thing sound Eh Cliff facedup a prankHohho, and from this day you will, be just EclairJust, Eclair That is so, if you don t like that How about so like, Eclair Steard That was, how I and Cliff metThe baronial house Steard is on one part of the principality s eastern border territory, a noble family entrusted with a truly se person but, I couldn t see anything particularly strange about hiiven that he was a noble with many matters of his own safety to considerThe day I first met him for exampleThat he sheltered the troublesoave the country a false reportHisadOne episode in his territory for exa the fields while chatting lightheartedly, alongside the people of his territoryI had never seen a noble that farmwork suited so wellAt another ti prey after he said he was going out to hunt in theand vigorous aspects, he likes flowersThis person has probably, forgotten that he s an adultBut I quickly ca CliffCliff I finished it Having become someone who died on the battlefield I, entrustedthat ti work in the mansion s yard with my hands covered in dirtCliff looked after the flowers in his yard well but, he coardenSo building it fro the earth, I prepared a quickly asse that would be fine to leave to the gardener but, regardless of anything, I wanted to make it with my own handsOoh, it s wonderful Do you intend to drive this old to death from happiness As planned, Cliff rejoiced flamboyantlySince his face becah toat hi at all It wasthat it made Cliff happy so, it beca at me as such, Cliff becaht, this old man shall offer to wash your back in the bathI don t want to Cliff you idiot Ecchi Mu, muu such an intent is to this old e then I seeeSoazed atsomeone else as not rant you permission to stroke my head It d be pitiable otherwise so, it can t be helped you see Hohho, that is an honorWhile laughing, he stroked randpaOur relationshi+p was that sort of thingThis, competes within my memory over whether it s the most or second most eudemonic timeThat this livelihood would continue forever, so I feltThat this happiness would continue forever Eh This is, a letter I found in Cliff s room when I snuck in with a mischievous heartIn the desk drawer that I opened after losing against my curiosity, there was a ton of similar letters insideThe emblem is star and wolf Sacrament sFearfully fearfully, I took one which had been put on top of the deskWhat ritten there was, content of the sort that made me doubt my eyesWhat is this In the letter, there is that the eastern theocracy came to invadeThe principality s strict coh that forward positionThat, until reinforcements arrive, Steard must hold out aloneWhy, is it so quiet today, why I noticed it, for the first time thenThe lively sounds outside the mansion from the territory s people s daily life were too quietThe number of chao Cliff said he had to set out to do so like le, I juathered here while saying they were doing exercisesTraining for when the need arises is i such a carefree thingThe tiht now, is when that need arose As such I left thearound the territory, I realized anew that the territory s people were clearly few in nueBeyond my position, I didn t notice since I didn t leave the h that I was covered in sweat, I remembered a familiar minister sama and flew into the churchWithin the church, I finally saw the forreat number of the territory s peopleThe majority omen, children and old menMinister sama, everyone With a surprised face with deep wrinkles like Cliff s, theover to meEclair sa like fighting, even though it severyone afraid Minister sama as well, if Cliff isn t stopped then It cannot be helped, he has a duty to answer the principality s demandA heavy punishnore 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 battlefieldThey 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 churchBefore the battle begins, I will convince CliffFrom there, I will also convince the principalityI will finally stop running and hidingHaving returned to the nored the cha on my horseI somehow heard from the chamberlains that the battlefield wasn t all that distantAnd so in a region of continuous hills I finally reached the edge of the battlefieldTo 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 vegetablesBesides hiThe eccentric ojisan who did blacks The dead bodies of house Steard s soldiers and their territory s people stood out to an overwhel extentThat s obvious with only the soldiers in this frontier territory, that they would fight the theocracy s army is You must not, Eclair sa that they were all dead bodies, a flower seller ojisan who still seemed to have his eyes shut even now called out to meI knew the flower seller well since he frequently came and went from the mansionI 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 cursedPerhaps I really a ill fortune Haave I properly protected, the town and, the country as well You protected itThat 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 usedAfter I closed his eyes for him, I turned my eyes toward the center of the battlefield filled with shoutsAs the violence struck s became unable to move, as they always hadEven so, my heart that wanted to protect won outI forced back my fear and, ran toward the battlefieldThe people who live in this re by nature, thatlike a horn or a fang, their appearances have special characteristics depending on the personIn my case, it s the Demon Eye And so naturally Cliff is also a demonI really don t think that, the theocracy will offer mercy to himAnd so finally, I arrived at the location That Was the central section of the battlefieldThere was already, no battle thereWhat was there were confused and fleeing Steard soldiers being chased about by pursuing forcesIt was atheir backs, or soiveness, and the indifferent soldiers of the theocracyIndifferently and indifferently and indifferently again, they continued cutting them to deathThe Steard were, a er broke out of my bodyTurn, to flaaaaaht my eyesMaybe I stood out too much, as such the revenant like enemy soldiers rushed at meI felt like that also, was fine either wayItback to the flower selling ojisan, I resolved as suchThe rushi+ng enemy soldiersI 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 troublesohterEven with a face covered in injuries, Cliff faced randpaCliff Let s retreat already This, isn t a fight any me, Cliff s body wavered and then I saw aze is wanderingMy 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 upAs I was left dazed the ene to cut ainI won t be pulling back, they would continue like this and come to burn the toayWhat, until reinforcements cooing for a short walkCliff laughed out such a light statementArrows flew at us, from every directionThose were, all received by thee isn t it, humans, even if they re stabbed this much, are they still okay Even if thisfrom Cliff s mouth struck my face, and I saw thatThe necklace was, pulled to shredsI ht that I wanted to disappear alreadyOrat that timeA moment later, I ed by a cri to dissipate away, I heard a voiceHere, please look hereI recognized those words, at the edge of the faint traces of my consciousGuided by that voice, I looked at herGood day, lovely ojousanThere was, a beautiful elf with silver hair and silver eyesBe firm, your name is Name Ecl,air Eclair EclairAs her voice checked, I nodded while feeling that that was soRight, then you ly, I am EclairThe silver elf, called out to ht of who I was, Eclair, Eclair, she kept calling out to ht, EclairDon t be ihtYou are yourselfIoodEclair is Eclair you knowConfirely, I noticed that I had vaguely grasped my self that had seemed like it would ather a sense of reverence and, call ician I used to beDe that Demonic Flame, stroked my Eclair s headFros within ht, this sort of thing was possible because it was this personI closed my eyes as I was invited by sluirl replied to such an Eclair by, giving her a sad see smileIt has been entrusted to meshe said as such with a kind voiceThe next time I came to, I was surrounded by Sacra necklace that should have been shredded was placed on my neckEclair, is itLeoneil It was azed upward a recognizable face obstructeddown onin restCome back, EclairThat power, should be used for the principality shouldn t itIt s a fearsoht beside irl with silver hair and red eyesWhat, what, happened If you re asking about the theocracy s soldiers they ve retreatedI suppose that they sensed that ould arrive, they were quick to escapeBefore this side arrived, it seeirl looked at Eclair while see that, I had continued to embrace Cliff since I fell asleepCliff Even if I called out to him, even when I shook him no reaction cameTo the hero who protected the country fro a s soldiers of the principality salutedI, understoodWhat, is a, heroThe tears, overflowedBecause, you didn t coh That wail pointlessly, truly pointlessly echoed through the remains of the battlefield tsu, uAt some point, it seems like I fell asleepMy pulse was fierce, my body was stiffMy tears, wouldn t stopThere was a warmth that enveloped, such an EclairAlice HaiAliiceHaaiWithout asking anything, Alice just embraced Eclair, and stroked her hairAs Eclair endlessly continued to cry, Alice always stayed with herAah, Alice is surely strong enough to protect so in battleThat felt slightly frustratingThat I felt that frustration made me, relievedBecause 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 forBecause I ll becoer and, so that I can protect sohterAlice What is it Because I won t lose okaay Eeh My rivalry suddenly flared up and, Alice beca as her eyes filled with surpriseReally, that was adorableTo, today only, I ll pamper you, AliceBut don t misunderstand okay Cu te, EclairI, idiott NfufuuShe s a really worrisome rival