Vol 14 Chapter 1 (2/2)
So he thought this city was dangerous
The Queen Delbone The nor their stable lives
These three points One of theht of it a bit and felt that reality wasn't that far off
”Uh, I'ain”
He pressed down the hair blown messy by the wind as he complained, then he jumped for his own home
Delbone rounded the corner and entered a patient's roo with Minse The scenery inside the room was no different from others The walls and floor hite One bed was in the roo food and drinks What was left was thethe patient's condition
The patient on the bed was connected to a drip But bandages wrapped up this patient's entire body
(Grand a heavy Diamond Dite Three flakes hovered above the bed It was difficult to discern the gender of the electric voice that echoed in the roo while, Els the person on the bed But she couldn't tell his expression as he rapped in bandages Only in this room had Delbone decided not to use Psychokinesis
(How have you been?)
”I'ht it wouldn't be possible)
”Because you think I'd die first?”
(I've never wanted grandht I'd die in battle before we e ined I can feel you've been in h your Psychokinesis You've accumulated much experience”
(Thank you)
Silence suddenly ca any dissatisfaction to Delbone She was only giving her grandchild enough ties were blue and they rapped around Elsrandchild Delbone atching He said this price had allowed hie
(Grandreed to the operation Though I'irl should still take care of her own appearance Else you'd lose what you've obtained with soof that anyiven up that name)
”Then pick it back up Elsiven up the faht to pick it up”
(But he)
”Then take it that he also wishes for it”
Silence ca this ti has already been decided The suitable reward has also been prepared They will accept the reward It's up to the in Grendan as a Military Artist or become a traveler once more”
(I see)
”But you will not return to the Mercenary Gang?”
Silence
”Ryuhou Gadge's adopted son is the one to inherit his will But he's not here”
”I've already heard of hi But no inheritor appeared after losing the leader The organization has already died at that time”
(That's true I understand)
”But even though the organization is dead, even though the Psychokinesist na you can do, so that Elsmau can do”
(What do you anticipate of me?)
Delbone paused and breathed in deeply A very deep breath It felt like she had waited a long tiris for that It was like a child who should have already died but did not Not because she was a worandmother She herself had not hardened her heart and made a calm decision at that ti it to fate
Everything was for the sake of waiting for the right ti so she could say what she was about to say
”I want you to inherit randdaughter's entire body Delbone quietly watched her reaction
(Why let h I don't know your personality, I'm also a person I can stretch the limit of my flesh but it's not possible to do so for my brain and Kei vein”
(But)
Elsmau wanted to move but she couldn't The drip contained different nutrients and also nu operation
So she couldn't h she would not die by directly contacting the pollutants and she could sense the coh her sense of smell, the Psychokinesist of the Salivan Guidance Mercenary Gang, Fermaus, was a female As a female, she had chosen this kind of road This was all done to e She left Grendan when she was still a girl, entering her days of battle It was the saht were battles But it was different with the Mercenary Gang They had the quality that differed froht in the city
The end result was the birth of the Psychokinesist named Fermaus
(Why is it me? If you're to choose from the family, besides me)
”Not that I have to choose from my family But I can't find anyone suitable Besides, the other people know me too well You who have always been outside are different”
(Even so, randirl is irl I irl has excellent talent Even now she's trying to interfere withher deceive herself now”
Delbone couldn't help but sirl The troubled expression she held because of her ie Why could soe her fate? This doubt only vanished till her father's death, when she decided to follow in her father's footsteps She couldn't re very important but she failed to remember it Delbone had consciously sealed off some of her memories or sealed them off She had also buried her memories of how she ca lived over hundreds of years, she had nurandchildren She found iton her memories to support her This was the truth What happened in the past was no longer important for her
But the little irl It was a reality that Delbone held goodwill towards that girl
”It would have been good if she could stay beside me and I could nurture her for a year”
(Then)
”But I don't think that's what she wishes Besides, the time I have left is less than one year”
(No way)
”A hu at Els-what-to-do expression, Delbone decided to leave it at that Besides, Elso the operation Her feeling ood to be too impatient
”But it's true that I don't haveit Please don't see o before the result is out”
(I understand)
Delbone had conveyed her intention That was enough
She blessed her granddaughter and left the roo
Layfon stood on the spot, spaced out The girl appearing fro basket, Lucia, had walked straight to him Layfon didn't move as he was shocked but Lucia only stayed surprised for a very short ht to hiht
If he was to evade, no, if it was Layfon, he could avoid it subconsciously But the fist in front of her long and delicate hand had landed on his head
”Uu”
Lucia was a norh for hieez, just what did you do?”
Layfon touched the place he got hit and couldn't say anything
”I decided to buy so the commotion has stopped Who knew you'd be here Did you cause that commotion?”
”Even if it's me, I didn't do it because I like it”
”As I thought, it's you”
Layfon got hit once round
”Listen to me, Lucia-neesan”
Tears leaked from the corner of his eyes Was this a habit? Or was it formed subconsciously due to a childhood habit? Layfon looked at Lucia with an expression as if he ronged
But his sister was heartless
”I don't have the tio inside There won't be enough things at houys s took the priority over her little brother Lucia pointed at the house she eed from and left them
”What an incredible sister”
This was Sharnid's conclusion Everyone in here probably held the same conclusion
And that wasn't the only surprising event for the three
After entering Lucia's house honestly, they heard loud crying
”It's a baby's crying voice”
”A baby's here”
”Seems so”
Felli and Sharnid confire with each other On the other hand, Layfon see a baby's cry Of course, this wasn't the only surprising thing Suddenly, someone headed for them from the direction of the cry The closer the person was, the louder the crying
And
”Ah, Lucia Did you forget soood that you're here This child just keeps crying I wonder whether heunco the child suddenly stopped all movement
She looked at Layfon and the other two
And Layfon, Felli and Sharnid all looked at the girl
Then all four spoke out
”Why are you here!?”
The child in Nina's ar
The child was passed around and it stopped crying the moment it was in Layfon's ar a shower The clothes that Layfon and Sharnid wore underneath their fighting clothes see it Felli had taken Lucia's clothes without permission and noore it
”Why?”
Nina glared at Layfon with dissatisfaction
”That child must have felt your tension”
Layfon knew of the real reason, even though Nina put it that way Even a baby had people that he liked and disliked This was nors at the orphanage Even so, the way Nina held the baby was very dangerous
Layfon and the others were in the living room The baby's cradle was also here All the tools were available Luciaafter the child here
”No Let's just put aside that problem for now” Sharnid said with an exhausted expression though he understood her bitterness
They caht they'd see her so easily, and she was looking after a baby Looking at the reality of her being kidnapped, Sharnid could never i after a child as one of the possibilities He would really want to meet with the person who let her do this Just how did Nina coet it
Layfon wasn't the only one perplexed Sharnid was the same so he couldn't blame him
”Layfon, let nore me!”
”It's noisy here”
Not only was Felli ignored but he was scolded by Nina Sharnid wanted to cry but no tears fell Layfon didn't knohat to do Anyway, best first give the child to Felli
”So light”
”He's still just a child About three months old”
”Don't cry”
The baby let Felli hold him with his head on Felli's face His handher silvery hair
”His neck has enough muscles It's easy to hold hi when I held hilared at Layfon
”Because you were treht?”
”What did you say?”
”You were tense? He didn't want to be held by someone tense”
”Uh”
”For someone who came to Grendan and had to look after a baby, it's inevitable that she'd be tense”
Felli held nothing back in her words that were sharp like a blade Even Layfon could feel the thorns in her words Suddenly speechless, Nina didn't knohat to do
”Then what are you doing here?”
”How should I put it”
”We want to know the reason behind it Why is so after a baby in an unfamiliar house And it's so Out of all the areas, I don't want you to criticize !”
Felli and Nina talked to each other as she held the baby Layfon and Sharnid exchanged a glance
”What should we do?”
”Anyway, it's useless till the two of them have calmed them”
”Then”
”Escape Escape There's no other choice but to run away froht”
”Ah”
Layfon found his observation very correct He was concerned about the baby but he'd get their attention if he took the baby from Felli Besides, the baby didn't seem dissatisfied to be held by her
”Then let's escape!”
”Yes”
The two of them sneaked their conversation behind the other two and slowly prepared to leave the living roo opened ca rooood that I made it back in time Really, I missed the sale for diapers because of a certain idiot”
Lucia was back One hand held a bag of diapers, the other held a shopping basket full of food
”What are you doing?”
”Uh”
”Preparing to escape a war beto that foolish Layfon, co”
”Ah, yes”
”You two If you got time then come and help”
”Uu”
”Huh? What is it?”
”They don't kno to cook,” Sharnid said as Lucia was perplexed with their attitude
”Sharnid”
”I don't want to be told of that by you”
”Huh? Me? I can make small dishes”
”What!?”
”Impossible”
Sharnid responded to the question with a matter of fact expression His attitude shook the certitude in Nina and Felli
”But in the camp before”
”I didn't think I needed to help having looked at Layfon and Meishen's cooking”
”Uu”
”What the The ones who can't cook are the girls? I can't look at this anyirls without softening
”Never uys just help e his diaper”
Not only the girls, but Sharnid also wasn't familiar with this term diaper But Lucia s you have to do anyway Why not learn it now?”
Lucia's kitchen gave Layfon a faed This was a feeling he had once he stood here He knehat she wanted tobasket He took out the vegetables fro Lucia didn't say anything after looking at hiuess
The baby Layfon heard from Lucia that the baby's name was Marukuto From behind came the confused voices of Sharnid, Felli and Nina and the baby's dissatisfied crying
”You look to be in good spirits” Lucia said as she chopped the vegetables ”It seems you also have your own friends This is better than anything because your social abilities are just too horrible”
”Are you still mad, Nee-san?”
Layfon looked at her as he peeled off the skin of the vegetables Her ars were delicate Her face was proper She would be a beauty if she was to put some make-up on But she didn't seem interested She exuded a manly feel rather than a woman's Her personality was quite casual and even her clothes leaned towards a e as him She had left for hen Layfon was still in Grendan
Lucia was the one who used to cook for Layfon and the others and change their diapers Layfon grew up looking at her back and he had learned how to cook froed now, the person who used it hadn't The knives and boere placed in the same positions Saain reic past in here
”Rather than beingAnd now you suddenly went on a raive up on you?”
”Uu”
”Besides, for those brats ere affected by you, it's inevitable that they hate you after being betrayed”
”See about it The round matches The public's condemnation on you has quickly disappeared because of it The condemnation is pushed onto society I think there was some manipulation of information Anyway, those brats know of this, and thanks to it, our foster father could reopen the dojo Do you know about hi the dojo?”
”Yeah, I already heard of it”
”From Leerin?”
”Yeah”
”Geez, I don't knohether to say that child is spirited or stubborn Anyway, have you two met?”
”You haven't heard?”
”What?”
Layfon looked behind hie the diaper Lucia said angrily ”That child will catch a cold!” and made the three more confused and tense
”So what's happened? I haven't heard anything from Rui”
”She was in Zuellni till now”
For her to use the nairl was and if that's the case, Nee-san had Layfon continued his explanation as he pondered
About Leerin co him the Psyharden Katana About the co Leerin back to Grendan
”She was brought back by Her Majesty? Why would she do that?”
”I don't know either Her Majesty didn't tell et involved”
And he had denied her request but he couldn't do anything All he saas the distance of strength between him and Lintence
”So that's why you came? Really The e is you Are you still rolling down the slope of life?”
He couldn't retort to her words as he felt the sahed helplessly
”You're here now but you still have such an expression Ah, I think I ht understand why Leerin said what she said”
”Eh?” He was surprised
”And?”
If she knew and understood, he also wanted to know and understand
He still couldn't believe himself of that time Why did Leerin refuse his help? He knew she wasn't so trouble to others He was very clear about her personality But the Leerin of that ti hi him? Did Nee-san understand?
Then
Lucia looked behind her and saw the three had safely changed the baby's diaper She sighed in relief
”You Did you plan to rescue the girl called Nina too?”
”Eh? Ah, yes”
”Then you've already reached your goal Return to Zuellni”
”Eh?”
”Perhaps you don't have to see Leerin any about h he himself wasn't sure what it was
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Gorneo was feeling the wind
After that event Gorneo had been chasing after Shante after the fight with the nuiants in front of the secret research laboratory of Zuellni He had kept chasing her and finally arrived at Grendan He missed the opportunity to enter Grendan due to ill luck While feeling frustrated and wondering how to get in, he saw several Military Artists of the Luckens School in the crowd and had successfully entered Grendan thanks to theht have escaped successfully but the only place to escape was Zuellni
As long as this was inside Grendan, there h one person did not have to belong to one single school, many Military Artists came to this city to study the Luckens hand to hand combat skills in addition to their skills in weaponry
Besides, Gorneo didn't think Shante had returned to Zuellni In that case, it was more efficient to search for her in Grendan
As such, he had returned to a ho here The tomb in Grendan
The family tomb where each family member was buried Before the tomb stood the wooden plaque carved with names The most recent dead were carved on the wood and the plaque was to be buried many years after It was impossible to make a tomb just for one person on lieny were immediately disposed of
The wooden plaque before Gorneo had the name Gahard Baren carved on it Gorneo had heard of Gahard Baren's death from Savaris And he had heard of the truth behind Gahard and Layfon after returning to Grendan
He finally knew of the truth
He could not hate Layfon any the truth
”You chased after my brother too much”
Savaris, a representative of one chasing after desire and fight was the condensed product of the spirit of Grendan's Military Artists Gahard Baren wanted to be like hie school like Luckens, problematic children like Savaris shouldn't have been allowed to be born Even Gorneo, as his brother, thought so Other disciples in the school were influenced by Savaris, thinking theytheir skills Gahard was second to Savaris
Perhaps Gorneo, who escaped fro with other Military Artists He probably became like this because he found his brother scary and that he would neverto chase after powerful strength had been taken by his older brother Perhaps Savaris had taken away this gene passed from their father
And because of that, he had never thought of surpassing Savaris Or he could say that this iht of never surpassing Savaris had entered his subconscious as he had always been around Savaris, feeling the strong pressure from him This was probably an easily explainable problem from a doctor or scientist's viewpoint
But Gorneo didn't care for the reason anymore The attraction to Savaris that stith had caused Gahard to take the wrong path Or one could say he had used the wrongbefore the tomb of the brother he respected
This wasn't the wind blowing past hi in his heart
He had been clashi+ng with so had been clinging to him till he realized his fury had calradually died The hatred he held for Layfon disappeared bit by bit and as left was confusion and a little bit of anger
(This isn't the time for this)
He stood a while before the tomb and left This wasn't the time to look into the emptiness inside his heart
He had to find Shante That hy he returned to Grendan
”Really Just how much ht of the reason behind theShante
Why did she suddenly head for Grendan?
She was originally a perplexing girl She was raised by wild beasts in the Forest City Erupa for some reason so sometimes her actions were like that of a beast Her actions weren't suitable to a hu this, Gorneo recalled how he got into trouble for tidying up the commotions she caused But her action this time How should he put it? It felt different from usual Her actions till noere difficult to fatho fro at theafter thecourse This was the same for incredible events that involved the City Police as this was the habits of the wild beasts that raised Shante in Erupa
In that case, so that tie coe But Shante usually sat on his shoulders That was how delicate and sone unbelievable growth after touching the Heartseer fruit that was native to Erupa Though that body ht even have surpassed a body of her original age What had Layfon said back then?
He see restricted Her Kei vein was restricted and that restriction was released after she touched Heartseer Shante regaining her original body size proved Layfon's speculation h? No Layfon's speculation was not enough to explain the scene back then
Layfon and Gorneo who had lived in Grendan could accept the explanation of the flesh being restricted Internal Kei could control the growth of the body to soree and kept the body in its best condition And what if a greater poas used? Such as a Heaven's Blade or the Queen's strength that surpassed a Heaven's Blade? He heard the Queen retained her girl forh she had lived many years But he had never heard of the Queen suddenly turning frorowth but it shouldn't possible in Shante's case that involved speedy growth and shrinking Bones, e so suddenly Kei wasn't ic It couldn't not leave any traces and it couldn't es on Shante at that tiic — a phenoe guys that appeared beside Shante? Those guys hadn't appeared since then but would they appear now? Did Shante come to Grendan because of theht of this now He had thought of itin Grendan It was difficult to fathoh she would attack without orders, she had never left Gorneo in a battle without saying a word Her action at that time was different
The current abnorave an answer This answer e to arrive at it
”Just where did she run off to?”
Not si to himself, one could clearly feel the anxiety and impatience in his words
The sun had traded position with the night sky There seemed to be a commotion somewhere but it had died down Gorneo's nuan in order to find Shante
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Everyone quieted down after dinner
”I think you guys have a lot to say so I'll return to the workroom”
Lucia carried the child and entered the workroo of which, what does that nee-san do?” Sharnid said
”She's a Dite Technician,” Layfon answered Perhaps she was influenced by their foster father, Lucia was very interested in Dites She becae She also looked after Layfon and the siblings in the orphanage everyday as she was female But now she had her oorkroom
”That's incredible”
She had used practice as excuse to adjust Layfon's Dite before he became a Heaven's Blade successor
”Then let's end the conversation of that topic here,” Sharnid tossed his gaze at Nina
Layfon and Felli also looked at her
”Though it's not bad to find you so easily, we still want to knohat happened if possible”
Nina lowered her head, thinking so
”And if possible please don't say it's a secret? I don't dislike you but