Chapter 42 (1/2)

What started it all was a single letter from Alpha There was only one sentence on the letter

”If you're free, then come to the Holy Land”

That was it

Due to half the acadean early, so I a from experience, Alpha's invitations do lead to fun events the majority of the time, so I set off for the Holy Land the very next day after I saw the letter

Lindwurm, the Holy Land

Actually, I've been there once before It is one of the holy sites of the ion of this world, The Word It is a ion that believes in Beatrix, the Goddess who had granted powers to heroes in the legends

Getting froe It's within the country, and actually not that far away

I was torn between dashi+ng there at e as a ently be a , is what I toldon airs in an affected manner

Now I really want to punch that past me

I should have just ran If I did it seriously during the night, it would have taken no time at all

The result of not having done so is that I a to the Student Council President, Rose Oriana

Inside the extravagant and spacious and co a cheap carriage to an inn town, I had coincidentally bumped into Rose, who then enthusiastically invited e I had refused I did refuse, but ended up losing to the power of royalty and thus ended up having to go to the Holy Land together with her

According to her, there's so to be held there, and that she had been invited as a VIP to said event While thinking that that's probably what Alpha's invitation is referring to, I continue listening to Rose

But it's just that about halfway through, she loses me completely

”Soallant as Sid-kun's truly must not die in an incident like that”

So says Rose with a gentle s, and since when have we been on a first name basis? But no matter, at least I can still understand her up to here

”The day I heard that you had survived, I felt that it was fate The fact that the day has coain like this surely ”

This is the part around where I start to get lost I don't even believe in fate in the first place, and what the heck does sheto the faction that sticks up our ers to the world

”Our path will surely be one filled with thorns With no one to bless us, and no one to acknowledge us”

Didn't you just say that the world is blessing us?

”But the great hero in the legends who received his strength from the Goddess is said to have been a coh wealth and fareat country The path ht be full of thorns, but there surely is a blissful future on the far side of it This I truly believe”

Is this soious doctrine? The part where an extreme example, the hero in this case, is raised in order to bewilder the average person is really religion-like

”Overcoress down that road of thorns I, too, would be able to tell allant boy”

Guess whoever overcomes that trial would be a lucky fellow indeed

”That path of thorns ether And thus each step would engender deeper and stronger love that is tied all the tighter”

So, like a three-legged race? That ious doctrine

”I haven't told anyone else yet, but let's work hard, for a happy future”

”Sounds good”

Rose offers me her hand, so I shake it I really don't know about all that religious ree with the part about the happy future Happiness is important, yep For me, I mean What do I care about other people's happiness?

While feeling Rose's fiery gaze and slightly sweaty palirl I don't ion, but it's just that the difference in temperature is a bit hard to bear I think everyone would be happiest if people on fire stick to hanging out with others similarly on fire