Who is crying?

As a result of destroying almost (mostly) of the castle like the one created by cutting off the rock skin, the ceiling was gone and the sky was peeking. The sun shining brightly in the sky with dazzling eyes, a clean breeze would have been comfortable if it had been. But now, all of them even felt depressed.

The sound of a sword trident, the sound of a magical explosion, the sound of the surrounding terrain being destroyed, the laughter of a damned monster, the desperate voice of my friends calling me right beside me - all of which is irritating.

You can't hear me.

Her last voice.

Now it disappears in my arms, - the voice of.

"Sorry."

With that said, the woman in her arms laughs like trouble. Though they say there is bright red blood overflowing from a body torn from a dark demon god. Still, she laughs. Don't make me worry. Like the last look on your face is not a crying face or a face suffering from pain - a smile.

It's painful to look like that, and I can put my strength into the arm holding her.

Even so, the fellow who calls my name right next door shakes my shoulder as if he doesn't think about her or anything. Loud, call my name.

"I told you I'd protect you. I promised to protect you."

Also, she laughs. Now smile, shake your head to the side.

The golden hair shakes and the jade eyes loosen softly. The smile was the peaceful expression itself that occasionally gave me, so beautiful that my body would likely fall in love if it wasn't bloody painted. Red of blood colours beauty. Even red, the source of life, makes her stand out beautifully.

When I stroked that cheek, my mouth moved small. There are no words. I can't hear you. Only the mouth moved.

Oh, why am I, like, always like this? I can't protect anyone I want to protect. Just protected, the weakest hero. An incompetent man who has been given the power to fight but is unable to use it. Why, why, why - why did I want this power? If it's so sad, if it's so painful, if it hurts so much......

―――

There is noise in the memory. I can't remember. I can't remember her important words.

Extreme sorcery rocks the world. A glimmer of brave men and demon swordsmen, the breath of the ancient dragon (Brace), but the blow of the demon king turns the castle of the demon god into a rubble that cannot be called a castle.

Everyone is working hard together. They're trying to defeat the world's enemies. Even so, with a weapon that can defeat the world's enemies, I take her hand, not a weapon.

Hold that little, soft, slippery, warm hand in the blood. I should have overlapped it many times, but I felt like I'd never held my hand before then.

- I feel like it's not the hand of, and I lean on my cheek so I don't forget that feeling.

"It'll get dirty."

"Do you mind? It's your blood."

"... as usual, you're an idiot"

Oh, yeah. I'm an idiot. Big idiot. I can't protect anything I wanted to protect, you fool. And I still wish to protect him... an irremediable fool.

He told me that I was... That's me, so... he told me. That's why I swore I wouldn't change this way of life.

More than my people, more than the world, more than the demon gods, I chose the woman in front of me.

And the woman in front of me smiles back.

"Don't cry"

With that voice, I finally figured out who was crying.

I'm the one crying. I was the one crying.

"... don't cry, fool"

Even though he's dying, - his voice is as gentle and warm as usual. Power falls out of the gripping hand, so use your strength to hold that hand. Even though it clenches painfully, - instead of raising the voice of pain, it doesn't even distort your face.

He just smiles and looks up at me.

"I prefer a smile to your crying face..."

Laugh. Smile, smile I like, say so.

Till the end, smile. With a dazzling, painful smile.

"So don't cry"

So I promised.

When you open your eyes, a familiar ceiling enters your sight. Wooden ceilings with luxurious chandeliers. Turn your neck to the side, a thick curtain that you know is expensive because you see it as a glazed window.

The fire seems to be burning in the fireplace and the room is reasonably warm. It looks pretty cold out there due to the water droplets on the windows.

Turn your vision to the ceiling again and you will exhale.

"Ermenhilde?"

I'll call you, but I haven't heard back. Apparently, he's not around, and he's sighing again about it.

Somehow I can predict where this place is. This is - this is the room that was addressed to me. The room I spent while summoned to this world to learn common sense of different worlds. I miss everything about the line of furniture and the view peeking through the windows. Withdraw strength from a body that was nervous without knowing, and sink into bed.

But I don't know why I'm here. After the battle in the Rotten Spirit Forest...... what happened to those fucking bones (skeletons)?

――

When I try to wake up my body, the pain runs in my right arm. Turning his gaze, the bandage was wrapped. Speaking of which, were you damaged by that skeleton?

After that. Join Amida - I don't remember going from there. Probably fell. I remember feeling terribly ill after this right arm wound. Maybe he was also poisoned. Is it the effect of the poison that makes your body so terrible? It's even a hundred million bucks.

I think you lived a lot, making sure you were feeling well. Miss Francesca, as well as Ami and Faerona, cannot use the magic of detoxification. The magic of detoxification means nothing if you don't fully understand the ingredients of the poison. No matter how much Ami is a genius sorcerer, she's only eighteen. Moreover, it is impossible to understand the components of poison in the knowledge of this world, where medicine is lagging behind. It's the poison of the demon god's family, there won't be anything like an antidote. Like a game, there's no such thing as a universal poisonous grass.

So Yayoi may be the only one in this world who can detoxify the poison of the demon god. If this is the royal castle of Imnesia as I expected, the Witch of the King's Capital must have detoxified it for me.

"Huh."

When I think about it a lot, I feel drowsy and stretch (yawn). Are you physically tired or do you oversleep and still want to sleep? I don't know under what circumstances, but there shouldn't be an urgent problem that it didn't happen. I finally realized someone was in the room, trying to keep my mind on drowsiness.

The person has dark hair, sits in a chair placed near the center of the room, sleeps cleverly with his arms as pillows and in such a way as to keep his body at his desk. The sleeping face looked familiar. I mean, there's only one person I know.

"Hey, Ami."

Calling, but no response. He seems to be asleep so deeply. I think you're going to hurt yourself if you sleep in that position.

Call me a few times and give up on waking me up. Well, the room is warm. There won't be anything like catching a cold. He's going to get mad at me for seeing me sleep later or something, but, well, that's when. Nothing else to see, so observe Ami's sleeping face. Usually Rin, so this kind of defenseless appearance is precious. I'll tease you later.

Closed eyelids, small shoulders that rise and fall as you breathe. Normally, Rin's expression also feels softer because she is asleep or appropriate for her age. I know the usual look on Amy's face would be more adorable with a sleeping face like this. At the School of Magic, we talked about honors, but are you sleeping or something in class? Well, how many boy students the hell know about this sleeping face?

But I got tired of it right away, and I turned my gaze back to the window. There's no response to my call, and I can't get a response. I'm sorry to say this, but I'm used to seeing Ami's sleeping face. When you were traveling, you always slept before me.

It hurts to wake up your body, and for now, let me dazzle you.

……

Wangdu Imnesia. The largest city, in the heart of the continent of Imnesia. Set in four major cities, east, west, north and south, the capital inhabited by the king.

From the forest of rotten spirits, where I was at the end of my memory, even horses take five days. He said he had been invaded by poison, but he lived a long way to trace it.

Thinking that far, they knock on the door. As it was, some familiar woman peeked into her face through the door that was opened without waiting for a reply.

"Oh, I was awake."

I can speak up as if I were going to talk to the public. For once, I was asleep with a scratch. Well, when I say that, you deserve it, or you're going to annoy Amy and the others, and vice versa, so I'm not going to say anything.

You can't win with your mouth. It's the end of something like bad consciousness because you always lost.

The woman closes the door with her back hand as she rubs her flax hair dripping from her left shoulder with her fingertips. I don't think I even heard a little noise to keep Ami awake. It's clever, I admire it.

Unusual glasses in this world in a magician-like black robe. The slightly reddish eyes, as if they represented the strength of my mind, look back into my eyes without being slightly distracted. I guess I'm not the only one who finds that gaze a little scary. I thought walking soundlessly on the carpet was like a witch in a gay tale. If I were to say that, I would not know what sanctions could be imposed.

When I wake up physically because it is bad to stay lying down, I feel that the woman's expression has become a little brighter. Were you worried about me?

Somehow I think so. The atmosphere and gaze are scary, but I know this woman isn't that cold. Maybe he was giving me a little worry about me falling. But, well, the fact that this woman is here means I wasn't wrong. While I'm unconscious myself, I get a sigh of relief.

"After all, this is the royal castle of Imnesia"

"Yes, he was brought in with a terrible wound, Mr. Yamada."

With that said, the Witch of the King's Capital strokes Ami's sleeping hair to comb - Utano.

Ami also feels like Utano's fingers are good or her sleeping face is a little loose. That sounds like a close family and makes me smile. And is it easy to understand? Ami asks Utano to be dear as her mother. I've talked to him as soon as I had a problem for a long time, and I'm sure he still does. Such a relationship between the two, I'm a little jealous.

You noticed my gaze, Mr. Utano turns to me when he comes up with something mean.

"If you look at a girl's sleeping face so seriously, you're gonna be treated like a pervert, right?

"That's rude. It's not like I was taking it seriously."

"Hehe. I don't care what Yamada has in mind for this girl."

As it is, the hand that was stroking my hair moves to my cheek. Ami looks at herself like a cat.

"My loved ones saw me sleeping. It's very important."

…………

I divert my gaze from Utano, who said that.

Because I somehow have predictions about what I'm going to say next. So out of sight, looking out the window at the view. Oh, where did Ermenhilde go?

"Take care of him"

"I care about you. Me too."

That gaze is cold, sharp and pointed at me. But that's why there's nothing I can do.

Me and Ami are vague about what each other wants from each other. Even if you step in like that, you just fail. Maybe.

"After a year, the hedgehog didn't heal."

"... hiccup. I don't mean to be that hectic."

"All I don't know is who I am. I'd go straighter."

"Well, it's Mr. Utano."

Like you, I'm not strong enough to believe in myself. Ami... I don't know.

I stuck it straight in and smashed the balls, then it won't even be a joke. Well, that's just an excuse. In fact, it's also true that I'm just being hectic, as Utano said. I know Ami's favor. It's just that I'm avoiding that favor.

If Ami doesn't know what she's looking for from me, you can look for her with me. Ami was only eighteen years old, a sixteen-year-old when she was able to favor her. It is wrong to ask such a child for an answer. But I asked. And still, I'm sweet on Ami's favor. The answer... even though it came out a year ago.

"I was worried about you, Yamada. Were you crying?

"Right."

"It sucks to make a girl cry."

"I know."

Shoulder to shoulder, a frightened sigh.

Is that because I'm weak? Or because you don't take Ami? I'm sure, both. Oh, sure, I'm a heck of a bitch. Ermenhilde tells me that the damage is completely different.

"And so do I."

"Hmm?"

The following words were small and I missed hearing them.

So I turn my gaze to ask back, but there's just the usual cold gaze witch there.

He said, "You broke out in the Rotten Spirit Forest?

"No. Ami stabbed me in the todome when I was running away from the demon"

"What, that. That's not what I'm listening to."

In the end I decide to reply to her words to an atmosphere that I can't seem to hear back.

Then he shivers his shoulders as he hides his mouth with those soft looking hands. The trick gives Ami and Miss Francesca a sense of femininity that they don't have. Though the breasts are beaten by two, the atmosphere is still an adult woman.

"It's true."

"To you, yes. But it must have seemed a different breeze to Ami. Look, isn't someone you like pretty much something to beautify?

"Ami wasn't there in the first place."

Reminds me of that fucking bone that reminds me of that spider. Ami wasn't there, but it was Ami who stabbed Todome in that skeleton. From the basement, he wiped out the half of the demon god's family from each formation with high-output shelling that he shot at the ground.

Being shown such an attack makes me realize how weak I am.

He's smart, he's beautiful, he's got a good personality. What I'm beating Ami will only be about my age. What a sad story.

"Then it would be unfortunate. Because you're special to this girl."

"That's what's bothering me. I'm not a special person."

I turn my gaze to that sleeping face as I have a whispering conversation to keep Ami awake.

"So, why am I here?

"Don't you remember?

"Unfortunately. I haven't remembered since I fought my demon god's family in the forest of rotten spirits."

"Oh. Looks like you missed Ami's crying face, too."

"I'm glad you didn't see that."

If they show you that, you're going to be driven by self-blame.

I don't want to see you cry. If that makes you happy and cry, fine. However, if you're sad and crying... I don't want to see it.

"I'm a crybaby. If they make you cry, you'll cry to me."

"Right."

Heck, he deflects his face so that he escapes from his gaze. How can you only turn such a gentle gaze at a time like this? Again, I'm a little bad at Mr. Utano. Sometimes I think it's fun to talk, but it's as if I'm being enlightened inside.

"The coat carried it for me. From the forest of rotten spirits to this point."

"The sweatshirt?

I get a name that I can't think of, and I hear it back.

Knitting. Scarlet Yong Knitting. A demonic girl, one of those summoned from another world like ours. I didn't know where he was now, but was he lucky to be near the Rotten Spirit Forest?

"He was originally in Elflame continent, but it looks like you brought him here. In advance, Yamada seemed to see a future in which you would die. Maybe I should say thank you."

Where do you think you're going? Even though I'm just surprised by the names of Knightshirt and Kotaro, the future of my death... Lucky Taro again? That bastard. If you saw such a future, you would have told me to tell you.

Well, I was spending time in the country dazzling my whereabouts. I'm sorry, too. How come I'm dead every time he sees me in the future? Are you that weak, me? He thinks he's stronger than the average adventurer in this world, but is that just what I assume? It's a fact that makes me cry a little.

I don't know what you thought of me like that, Mr. Utano, who shivers his shoulders by hiding his mouth with his hands again. Ami remains asleep.

"What's Kotaro to you... are you going to let Wang Du bring us all together?

"Well. Events are close, but I don't mean to."

I say around, emphasizing where, perhaps someone is moving behind.

Who created this world, for example? Or an irrational fate? Well, that guy's a goddess, not a human being. I also have a bad feeling that it's my fault. The trouble that that guy brings is really troublesome because it's all troublesome. Besides, he tries to get me involved in almost everything. Am I the only one who thinks it's any closer to harassment?

You know what I think, Utano's expression turns into an interesting smile.

"Good luck."

"Ya. As of a year ago, I worked hard for the rest of my life."

"It doesn't matter. She's a goddess. And it was always your job to get what she asked me to do."

What reason? Funny. Doesn't that mean I'm gonna keep getting caught up in her for the rest of my life?

Ignore me dropping my shoulders, Mr. Utano gets up.

"But sure, we're all about to get together again. It's like some kind of will is working."

"Give me a break. The demon god is dead. The most troublesome thing is over... the battle is over."

"I agree. I have a lot to do in this country, too."

The voice felt like it was sinking a step deeper than it had been in previous conversations. I'm sure you're sinking in thinking about what you have to do.

She doesn't really show up on her face, but she's an easy woman to understand.

"... sounds like you're working hard, a lot"

"Yeah, because someone disappeared early and ran away"

Someone decides to look at Ami's sleeping face, pretending not to notice.

I think it's bad. I ran away from trouble, I ran away from Ami, I disappeared from before my people.... I've left it all to Mr. Utano.

Even so, Utano doesn't say anything bad about it, and this is how he talks about it as before. Do you know how happy that is, this woman? Even though I can't help being complained about.

"Hehe. In the meantime, heal your wounds first. Because we're safe here."

"Give me a break. I'd like you to at least let me take the inn in Castle Town."

If you're going to rest in a royal castle or something, there's a good chance the people who found out will find you. I've been speechless for a year, what more face do you want me to see you now?

You know that, Utano's gaze is cold. Very much - absolute zero degrees or something. I can point my gaze at you like that.

"I can't do that. Everyone already knows you're here."

"- What?"

"El is insurance. Without her, you will not escape the royal castle alone. Right?"

Pokan, and see Utano's face.

There's Utano with a kid's smile like a prank succeeded. Before I thought it was a rare (rare) look, I only felt chills.

Mr. Utano, I have a question for you.

"May I help you, Mr. Yamada?

"How long have I been asleep?

"It's my fifth day, so maybe a hundred hours?

Cover your face with your left hand. Well, your body translates to Dalouis. Some of them must have been tired of the forcible forces up to Wang Capital, but I never expected them to be so asleep.

"The fact that Ami is here means the others... where are the Faeronas?

"We met. Elves and beasts to the noble lady. Looks like you're traveling with some interesting people again."

"Are you safe? Good......"

Firstly, it is reassuring. I thought the others were safe because Ami was safe, but I worry that it will be five days after that on the boulder.

He won't be in the royal castle, so he probably even rents an inn in the castle town now. If I fall out later, I think I'll go see him. Well, I have to find an inn to stay in first.

"Don't worry. I'm going to use it and invite you to Royal Castle tomorrow."

"Oh, yeah."

Can you really read your mind, this guy? Or am I just plain to understand? I want it to be the former if I can.

"Nevertheless, you brought me another troublesome one"

"Hmm?"

With that said, it was the black crystals that were removed from the nostalgia. It doesn't look familiar, but I don't feel very good watching it. Besides, that color - it reminds me of that fucking monster somewhere. I feel amazingly sick myself because I had an old dream earlier.

The look is uncut, it just looks like a beautiful gemstone crude.

"What's that?

"An animal named Mululu brought it from the Elflame continent."

"... Mululu?

Or is he from the Elflame continent? We should have to come by boat to the continent of Imnesia, but how did we get here? I didn't really understand the value of money either.

Let's hear more about it next time we see each other. Even if I think about it now, I don't get an answer.

"So that's what the Spirit God asked for"

"I was frightened. Didn't you know?

"I won't show you anything other than Mr. Utano. It was a strain. I was wondering if I should see it with Mr. Utano."

Actually, I thought I'd run away without seeing you. I'm not going to say anything around here.

Honesty would be a virtue, but stupid honesty is just stupid.

"So, what's that?

"It's a piece of heart. of the Demon God."

Oh, so? What makes you feel so bad? I shouldn't have known, but there's no upset in my mind when I was taught about it. On the contrary, I have a strangely convinced self. If Ermenhilde had been beside him, he would have slaughtered him without hesitation. You said earlier that I wouldn't run away, but I guess that's why Mr. Utano kept Ermenhilde away from my side.

So far, so abominable.

"Will the demon god be resurrected?

"No, I won't let you."

Reminds me of what the Demons were saying in the magic city.

But a powerful voice of denial from Mr. Utano. That's all I'm comfortable with.

"That's why we're here, Yamada."

He says in a confident voice as he walks away from the window and sits beside the bed. Those reddish black eyes look back at me from a much closer position than earlier.

Is it my fault that I think it's too close?

Ami's not gonna wake up.

Out of sight, turn to Ami.

I don't even have a bare look to wake up talking about how tired I am.

"Yeah, something magically asleep"

"Nah."

That lip gets blocked sooner than I ask what you're talking about. Soft, with women's lips.

Just touch it, mouthfeel like a child. And just for a moment, I'll be away soon. Even so, it was very sweet and smelled good.

Soon when the lid, which had been closed, opened, overlapped Utano's eyes and gaze, which were only slightly moistened. That too for a moment. I immediately get up from the side of the bed and head to the door early enough. I guess it's lit. Even though he's aggressive, he's like a beginner when things are over. Looks like the same place.

"Then ask Ami's opponent, Yamada."

Pattin, and my fingers are ringing.

Then she wakes up physically as if Ami was asleep, as if nothing had happened. He is stretched out with sleepy eyes because he slept to keep his body at his desk.

"Morning, Ami."

"Oh - yup..."

That's it, my body hardens as if I finally realized what was happening. The look also varies and I never get tired of watching it.

If I told you about watching me sleep here, what would that look look like?

"I'll get you a meal. You're hungry, right?

And leaving all the problems behind, she left that alone and quietly walked out of the room.

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