Episode 147
“…iced coffee.”
As Enoch escaped, Mylus regained control of the body moments later.
Of course, before he regained his senses, his shattered arm and leg were restored.
What has been restored
-proud!
Dirge was toddling near me, smiling brightly as always.
It can’t be that he’s really a carefree guy.
-master! Payoff demand!
“Oh yes.”
I tossed the seed fed with divine power that I had kept.
Dirge took it and began to mumble, eyes twinkling.
-thanks!
“okay.”
I would say that she resembles me and is a very polite fairy.
Set, who had returned to his petite form, asked as if it were absurd.
[…] …Aren’t you sorry for Dirge?]
‘Oh, I’m not sorry.’
Set looked at me with a puzzled expression.
But did people say that humans are animals of adaptation?
The reaction of the set no longer hit me in any way.
I’m just getting used to this look.
[You didn’t even pay attention in the first place.]
‘What do you think of my fragile heart?’
Am I the owner of a weak mind who couldn’t kill even a bug in my childhood?
Only now do I have a firm mind, but I was once a romantic who was soaked in melancholy counting the stars in the night sky.
[Ehh, let’s say that.]
Set nodded with a resigned expression.
By the time I finished that small conversation.
“…Warrior.”
Mylas dragged her immature body toward me.
Even if you recover, you cannot completely get rid of fatigue and aftereffects accumulated in your body.
Now he would have a hard time even walking.
[You did it, right?]
‘Because it was your best?’
How could I have wanted to beat Sir Mylas like a piece of shit?
What’s best for the circumstances.
But then.
flinch.
“…Big uhm.”
At my words, he reflexively took a step back.
The set seemed natural.
[Anyway, it’s strange that he reacts normally when he beats himself like that.]
‘I believe in Sir Mylus. I’m not the type to be afraid of things like this.’
As soon as I had hoped, he came to me and thanked me.
“Thank you. I received great favor from the warrior.”
‘Look, that’s right.’
[Your fingertips are shaking?]
When I sneakily looked at Sir Mylus’ fingertips, he was actually shaking a bit.
glanced at him
Quietly, he averted his gaze and glanced slightly to one side.
[…] …than up. It’s karma.]
I quietly followed Sir Mylus’ gaze.
The one at the end of my gaze was the staff I was holding right now.
By the way, the red blood from Lord Mylus is still dripping at the end of that staff.
“hmm.”
Come to think of it, I was lacking in consideration.
I quietly hid the staff inside the subspace pocket.
Then his expression brightened a little.
Of course, what he expresses here is an act completely uncharacteristic of a warrior.
I said with a warm smile as if I hadn’t noticed anything.
“I just finished my mission, so there is no need to worry too much.”
“ha ha ha…”
At my words, he smiled with mixed emotions.
Then, after a moment of silence, he opened his mouth with difficulty.
“very little…could you give me a little time I feel like I need to organize my thoughts.”
“It is.”
I waited until he calmed down.
Fortunately, it didn’t take too long.
A few minutes later he looked at me with a calmer expression.
The expression was very strange.
It was the same as laughing and the same as crying.
“Are you okay?”
“…You have no face.”
My fingertips were still trembling.
But it’s a different trembling than before.
A deep sense of shame and trembling with sadness.
Of course. Because it’s such an embarrassing situation.
He was betrayed by his own brother.
To the family I trusted more than anyone else.
He also betrayed himself to the point of giving his soul to the great devil after falling for the devil’s tricks.
It’s a tragedy that wouldn’t be strange if you just sit down and give up everything.
But instead of despairing, he rather asked for my understanding and bowed his head to the three who had blocked him before me.
I also watched it quietly.
Because he thought each of them was the process of grabbing hold of his own heart.
[Hmm, I came to my senses sooner than I thought.]
“Because I was originally that kind of person.”
After he finished his thanks, he turned back to me.
I didn’t even feel that slight tremor anymore.
“Are you okay?”
“Fortunately, things have gotten a little better. I still can’t help but feel miserable.”
He didn’t bother to deny his miserable feelings.
He hesitated for a moment, but then asked cautiously.
“But my brother…“
If it were the vice-captain, I think the settlement had already been reached with Milium.”
Vice-captain Kier.
His powers basically come from his master, Enoch.
Since Enoch had failed and escaped miserably, of course, his strength would have been greatly reduced.
The same goes for Kier and the renegades who followed him.
There was no way he could beat his master, Milium.
I could have said something nice to hear, but I didn’t.
For Sir Mylus now, such ‘nice words’ are of no help at all.
That’s just deception.
“It will be disastrous. If you’re worried about your brother… …”
“Nothing like that.”
Mylus replied firmly.
“Of course, my brother’s betrayal is a great tragedy for me. It is not something that can be easily abandoned.”
but.
He looked straight at me.
His face was very tired, but his eyes were clear.
“I know better than anyone that I have to quit when I have to quit.”
“…Is that so.”
Then you should respect
Obviously, the sight he wants to see is not pleasant, and it may even be a memory that will haunt him like a stigma throughout his life… ….
“Let’s go Sir Mylus.”
I’m sure this Mylus is a race that won’t even refuse to go to hell if it’s the right way.
* * *
Traces of fierce battles were left intact everywhere.
The barrier the defectors were confident in was shattered terribly, and all the trees that were densely packed around were crushed.
The corpses of the renegades were scattered all over the place.
Except for one, there were no ‘renegade’ who survived here.
Vice-captain Kier.
The one who received the ‘stigma’ from Enoch.
“What.”
He was now looking at the hole in his chest, trembling.
The feeling of hopeless loss was clearly felt in him.
Because the ‘grace’ that made him strong until now was leaving.
And that means… ….
“No no it can’t be! It can’t be! He couldn’t have been defeated! No matter how brave you are, that’s impossible… …!”
“I bet you didn’t know.”
Milium looked at him in a miserable state with cold eyes.
Considering what he did to his son, Kariaman… …To be honest, it’s not cool to have an egg here.
But the reason it didn’t is simple.
His son had the choice of what to do with Kier in this situation.
“Vice-captain.”
Cariaman looked down at him with a bitter expression.
He was once the most respected adult along with the leader.
I dreamed of becoming a person like him.
But reality is always like this.
The truth you didn’t want to know has been revealed in its most terrifying form.
I didn’t feel the slightest bit of relief that my enemy had become like this.
Only a feeling of loss that is difficult to express in words filled a place deep in my heart.
“Did you sell your soul to the devil just to see something like this?”
“….”
“Should I have betrayed my wonderful older brother and sacrificed him?”
“ha ha ha…At that,
Kier giggled weakly.
“you…I don’t know anything. I have no idea. Me, who always fell behind and had to look at the back of the older brother who was ahead.”
“No, I know.”
“I told my brother that it was because of his parents’ unfair death, but hehe haha! You know what! my parents! Until the moment I die, I didn’t expect anything from me!”
Kier glared at Caria with red bloodshot eyes.
“Until the end, Mylus Mylas…I only cried out my brother’s name! You must save the family. You are the only hope… …”
“….”
“I wasn’t there! From start to finish! For the first time that day, I felt fortunate that my parents died first!”
He told his story as if screaming.
What kind of responsibility did you have as a child and how miserable you lived? ….
“That’s why I trusted you! I thought you harbored the same hatred as mine, though in a different direction… …!”
It wasn’t until the last moment that he fully revealed his true intentions.
It is natural if it is natural, but it was an extremely selfish and ugly inferiority complex.
“I am…!”
“Let’s go there.”
But the words didn’t follow.
It was because of the voice that rang in everyone’s ears.
Kier’s face contorted horribly when he looked up and saw the owner of the voice.
“Warrior…!”
It was Mikhail who appeared.
Kier immediately lowered his head as even the hope he believed in completely collapsed.
Mikhail looked at him quietly.
There was no longer even hatred or contempt in that gaze, as if it had no value.
“The renegade talks a lot unnecessarily. Just say it openly. I wanted to take my anger out on others.”
“shut up!”
Saying that, Kier forced himself to stand up.
However, the already hopeless body collapsed from below.
He thrashed the ground miserably.
“You know nothing! If I had a chance… …!”
“I must have sold my soul to the devil in the same way. If he was a good guy, he wouldn’t have done this in the first place.”
At those words, Kier’s eyes trembled.
He tried to say more, but in the end he couldn’t refute Mikhail’s words.
because it was true
I didn’t want to admit it, but if I tried to refute it more, I would have known that it was me who would become ugly.
Mikhail said no more.
“Well, Enoch was beaten like a dog and left, and you are the only one left….”
“….”
“It’s already over, but let’s finish it cleanly at the end.”
With a voice that was incomparably cold, Mikhail stepped aside.
Slowly dragging his tired body, Mylus appeared.
“…Kier.”
“ha ha ha…”
The two brothers looked at each other.
An overly harsh ending.
Either way, it was clear that the ending was not what I wanted, but what can I do?
even if you don’t want to
In the end, one way or another, it has to come to an end.
“Where did you come to criticize me as an older brother? heh haha… …quit Thinking of listening… …
“I didn’t come to see my younger brother, Vice-captain Kier.”
“…!”
At the firm words, Kier raised his head.
His older brother had a face he had never seen before.
Sadness, pain, despair… ….
All of them were hidden under the mask of being the owner of the Condor Mercenary Corps.
“You voluntarily succumbed to an evil being you should never have intervened in, and sacrificed and corrupted many mercenaries. this is…As the leader, it is a crime that cannot be ignored and must be punished.”
“….”
“According to Rule 3, Section 1, which we have established, the only punishment for those who commit such a heinous crime is death.”
Saying that, Mylus raised his sword.
The two hands holding the sword trembled, unable to bear the weight of the sword.
But even so, he did not let go of the sword with his superhuman mental strength.
“The vice-captain cannot be punished by ordinary members. After all, the only one who can punish you is me, the leader.”
“Brother…Are you going to cut me?”
“It will. It should be.”
The tip of the sword trembled.
After a while, even the shaking stopped.
“I will die soon anyway. Are you still going to cut me? Haha, is that also your brother?”
“Because that’s the rule.”
A mercenary group was born with the desire to protect freedom.
But freedom without anything is just indulgence.
So they set their own rules.
Rules that must be followed.
“I must cut you down before you die.”
“ha ha ha…At those words ,
Kier weakly laughed.
I guess so.
His older brother was such a person.
Those who stand above anyone else know the weight of what they are carrying.
know.
Parents and everyone else.
He trusted him because he saw the obvious.
it’s never weird
The warrior’s words are not wrong.
If he was a decent person, he wouldn’t have made the same choice as himself.
tuk tuk.
Raindrops fell from the sky.
Funny enough, it was fucking raining under the most fucking circumstances.
Kier laughed.
“Okay, Captain.”
He reached his brother, crawling on the ground with his crumbling arms in place of his missing lower half.
Then he stuck out his neck.
“Do you have anything to hold on to? Hurry up. Rules are important.”
“…Was this for the best?”
“It wasn’t the best.”
Best is… …what was it
Offering his brother as a sacrifice and killing the hero as planned, then giving the mercenaries perfectly to the Great Devil?
or not.
To make efforts in a more constructive direction without losing to inferiority complex from the beginning?
I don’t know.
But for some reason, neither seems to be the best.
There may have been more realistic and better options.
perhaps….
“haha.”
Kier closed his eyes.
meaningless story now.
“Please, Captain.”
“…okay.”
yeah it doesn’t make any sense
What has passed cannot be picked up.
What is past must be left as it is.
The sword fell down along with the diligently falling rain.
squeak.
The renegade’s body collapses.
The incident surrounding the mercenary corps came to an end.
Great mage who transcends by regression
