0.01 Second Sword Master

1 Second Sword Master Episode 44

“ruler. Here’s a warm stew colonel.”

“ah······. yes. thanks.”

“Ho Ho. Bon appetite.”

Eltihi blinked several times and looked down at the stew in front of him.

Is this your first time eating this kind of food?

Or is it because this is the first time something like this has happened?

I spoke in a soft voice so as not to offend her temper as much as possible.

“Stop staring and eat. It cools down.”

Of course, the words didn’t come out warmly.

I took a spoon and scooped up the stew.

The village stew here is delicious no matter when you eat it.

Can you feel the warm and cozy feeling from head to toe?

“You seem to come here often.”

“It’s a precious time for me to eat this stew with the people here at the town hall.”

If you finish all the quests and eat a bowl of stew like soup, the fatigue of the day will be relieved. That’s why I always stop by this place when I go around castles and villages and do quests.

It was my bloody sweaty stew to get gold.

“Right. You are a bit different from the people I know…”

I was very concerned about Eltihi’s behavior of nodding his head and not eating, but fiddling with the spoon.

At first, I tried to ignore it, thinking it was because I couldn’t eat human food.

“So, when are you going to eat it? Then the precious stew will rot.”

This guy’s bravado couldn’t stand it and shot Eltihi.

“Tsk-. don’t rush I’ve never eaten anything like this before.”

“If you can’t eat, you don’t have to eat. I have no intention of forcing you.”

“huh. Who said you couldn’t eat it?”

I knew that she was a proud older sister, but is she showing pride in things like this?

Eltihi slowly scooped up the stew with a spoon, pondered for a while, and then put it in his mouth.

“…!”

I can tell just by looking at your twinkling eyes.

Hurrup-.

She immediately ate the stew again.

Perhaps he liked it so much, he emptied the bowl in an instant.

“How many days did you starve?”

“Poem, noisy.”

I smiled and raised my hand.

Then a woman who was walking around the hall and was serving stew came running.

“oh. Have you already eaten? Here’s the new stew.”

“no. I’m done now…”

“And if you eat the stew and bread together, you will enjoy it twice as much. Then enjoy your meal~!”

“…”

Eltihi glanced at me while handling the bread the woman had given him.

“You don’t know how to eat bread, do you?”

I tore the bread first and dipped it in the stew.

Bread and stew are a delicious combination any time.

“…”

She followed me in tearing up the bread and dipping it into the stew and popping it into her mouth.

“!?”

He was a person who revealed a lot more with his expression than he thought.

How the hell do elves usually eat their meals, so they make that kind of expression on just this kind of bread and stew?

“Are we okay?”

“I can’t eat it because I’m protecting the queen right now.”

“Ugh. Don’t do that, eat it. How delicious this is.”

Then a commotion was heard from behind.

The friendly villagers were offering stew, but the elves were vehemently refusing it.

Then Eltihi, who had been eating bread and stew almost as if he was possessed, suddenly came to his senses.

“Hmmm.”

She coughed, as if embarrassed, perhaps realizing too late that she had been eating too ungracefully.

“Lyrie. Lorna.”

“Yes, my queen.”

“Enjoy what they treat you to eat. The stew tastes great here.”

“ah······. Yes. queen.”

The elves were bewildered and ate a spoonful of stew,

“Ugh!”

“This can be so delicious.”

“Ho Ho. delicious right? I said it was delicious.”

Like Eltihi, he was hurriedly emptying the plate.

Could this be a problem with the elves’ usual diet?

Do they really live on only dew?

“Aslan.”

It was then that Eltihi called my name for the first time.

“You must have something to talk to me alone.”

I don’t have anything to share, but…

“Move your seat.”

“… Follow me.”

Reluctantly, I took her into a room where we could talk alone.

‘I don’t know about anyone else, but I have to be alone with Eltihi.’

Didn’t you see the power that wiped out the monster army at once?

Eltihi didn’t even have to lift a finger.

He was a character who could blow up a village with just a blink of an eye.

I was left alone in the room with such a terrifying name,

Flutter~!

Armed with Aslan’s bravado, I sat down in my seat, even fluttering my cloak in style.

Also in the upper seat.

“…”

As if not expecting it, Eltihi also sat down.

Then I slowly got lucky.

“I don’t trust humans. no. They hate humans.”

I knew at least that elves had bad feelings for humans.

“You humans have always been like that. We betrayed our goodwill with evil. I once dreamed of an era where humans and elves could interact peacefully… In the end, you guys only suppressed us.”

300 years ago, when almost all races on the continent joined forces to defeat Techina, the relationship between humans and elves was not as fierce as it is now.

They interacted with each other and seemed to gradually blend in, but in the end, conflicts grew and quarrels broke out, and there were signs that they were about to spread to a major war.

If the continent’s heroes hadn’t intervened at that time, either the humans or the elves would have come to an end.

From that day on, Eltihi cut off all contact with humans and has reached this point.

“I don’t think you guys will change.”

However, it is difficult if this distrust continues.

In a situation where you don’t know when the Techina tribe will try to take over the continent, it will be very difficult if Eltihi doesn’t step forward with the elves.

I don’t think it’s possible for Alexander to step in and reconcile the two races because the story hasn’t progressed much and hasn’t matured yet…

then,

“It was 300 years ago.”

“So, is that the difference between then and now?”

“no. Not different. Just like elves, humans are always the same. Conspiracies and betrayals are rampant, and all sorts of conspiracies lurk. But-“

If there really is no one but me to convince Eltihi,

“Didn’t I just meet you too? those innocent people. Did they discriminate against you because you were an elf? Or did you treat them badly?”

“that’s······.”

I wanted to make sure that the game’s story wasn’t ruined, even if it was by taking advantage of Aslan’s psychosis or by throwing myself into this boiling asshole bravado.

“They were the same as they were 300 years ago. The pure heart of human beings is always, always the same. It’s just that greedy things got into trouble when they seized power.”

So that humans and elves can unite and defeat the Techinas, so that I can safely return home and get out of this game.

“So, are you different from those greedy rulers?”

I met her cold eyes calmly.

“yes. I am different. More than you think.”

“Do you think you will send Raphael under you? How dare you take an elf as your subordinate.”

I replied in an arrogant manner, “What are you talking about?”

“You sound strange. I have never accepted Raphael as my subordinate.”

“what? Then why did you accompany him?”

“It’s just that Raphael persistently followed us.”

Eltihi frowned.

He muttered that he was destroying the elf’s pride.

“Then there is no need to talk about this. I am here because of Raphael.”

wait for a sec.

If this happens, isn’t the story that I’ve been dragging along all of a sudden cut off?

If Eltihi drags Rafael back, I won’t get anything.

But worry for a while.

“Anyway, that child will escape the elves’ nest to keep going out into the world. As if this is not the first time, it will always be like that.”

The seething bravado did not let Eltihi go.

“do not worry. This time, I just need to make sure they don’t come out again.”

“The more you suppress the desire to be free, the more it will only increase the repulsion.”

“It’s none of your business.”

Before long, something tingling rose from my back as if being stimulated by electricity, calming my hurried mind.

“What are you so afraid of? Are you afraid that the elf will suffer severely in the outside world? or not······.”

The bluff, which started rampaging once, got out of control in an instant and looked straight at Eltihi and said.

“Is it because the child has demonic blood?”

“!?”

Eltihi looked at me with surprised eyes.

“You… what the hell are you?”

“What do you mean?”

“How the hell do you know that…?”

Blue magic was gushing out of Eltihi’s body.

“Say it straight. How do you, a human, know that? There’s no way that kid would have said something like that, right?”

“I never talked about it.”

“But how do you know that?!”

The voice filled with magic shook the room and even the town hall outside.

‘crazy. I can kill people with just my voice.’

It was a tremendous force.

It felt like my body was going to pierce just by looking at me.

But the bluff that took over my body was surprisingly calm.

As if that kind of thing doesn’t even fit into the threat axis,

“Don’t scream. It’s not classy.”

Rather, he blamed Eltihi.

“Do you think I am joking?”

“I just see what others don’t see, hear what others don’t hear, and know what others don’t.”

It wasn’t a meaningful word… it was just bullshit.

But, surprisingly, this nonsense

“Hmm-”

It seemed to be eaten by Eltihi.

Why?

“I heard rumors that you are the Knight of Light. They use the light of Rahal. Even when I bumped into you briefly earlier, it was definitely an unusual light. you······.”

She leaned over to me, slowly calming the rising mana.

“What’s your relationship with Rahal?”

what is this again

“… it has nothing to do with it.”

At my honest answer, Eltihi burst out laughing.

“yes. I can’t tell you that much, is this? I understand. You can’t just tell me something like that.”

Something seemed very misunderstood.

“But that doesn’t mean I can’t entrust Raphael to you.”

“It seems like you’ve been misunderstanding since before, but I never asked you to leave it to me.”

“…”

“I’m just giving him advice to trust him. I got it after spending a few days with Raphael. The child’s upright and kind heart and the great talent rooted in him. Aren’t you afraid because you know that talent?”

I slowly got up from my seat and said to Eltihi, who had a dazed expression on his face.

“I believe in the heart of the child. And I also believe in the spirit of the strong elves.”

“The spirit of the elves?”

“yes. If it was only enough to fall to the devil’s blood, the elves would have been destroyed by the Tekina. It is because of their strong spirit that the present continent exists.”

“…”

I thought it was going well, but this morbid bravado that was excited today also touched the nose hair of a sleeping lion.

“But it seems that you are not. I’m sorry. A queen so distrustful of the elves she rules. Even I, a human, have faith in elves.”

“!?”

Without stopping there I

“If you do that, there will be no progress for the elves forever. The moment the Techinas break the seal and come out to the ground, this time they will not be able to avoid destruction.”

“How dare you say something like that…!”

It pushed Eltihi’s patience to the limit.

this crazy

You did a great job today.

I forced myself to face the entrance before letting out more crazier sounds.

But even at that moment, Aslan’s bravado,

“The choice is yours, Eltihi. Will you believe in your kind, or will you believe only in your strength and fight this time.”

I did not forget to flutter my cape and turn around.

‘Now I’m behind.’

The moment I thought so and walked out of the room as if running away.

[You have completed the hidden quest.]

– Improved diplomacy with elves

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