Contract and the Demon King

My first memory started from discovering the boy standing by the window.

I can't remember anything other than that, not only why I'm here, but I don't even know my own name... Even so, it's not like I don't know anything at all.It's just that the incomplete and blurred image-like things are really not like memories, and even if they are, they are only seen in dreams occasionally.

The name Yue is what the girl in the dream called him. I don't know if it is his own name, so I just use it as a title.

Sitting in a chair outside the orphanage, Yue looked at the town in the distance.

Because of the lack of funds, the simple orphanage could not even be opened in the urban area, and could only be located in such sparsely populated suburbs.Besides, it is said to be an orphanage, but the actual number of people is not too many. Apart from the three of Yate and the others, there are about seven children left in the orphanage.

Thanks to a certain amount of donations and subsidies from the city, the orphanage has finally been maintained until now, but it would be a lie to say it was not hard work.

"Brother Yue, you are here."

A boy's voice sounded from the side.Yue turned her head to look and found that Art and her younger sister Mei were walking this way.

Both of them are still children... It is obvious, but he feels something different from other children in the two of them.

"I'm sorry just now, because I lost so thoroughly, Teresa got a little emotional as a result."

The boy said with a wry smile, and the girl next to him also wrote "Please forgive me." on the notebook.

"No, it doesn't matter."

I didn't care about it, but looked in the direction of the city ahead again.

"It always feels a little different."

"Eh?"

"No, so the orphanage is better, but this place seems to have a lot of strange machines.!."

Those people in the video need to do farm work by themselves in order to make a living. Farming and other things are taken for granted. If they want water, they have to go to the well.If you want to make a fire, you need to chop wood first, and there are various things that need to be done step by step by hand.

Although there are some strange techniques... By the way, it seems to be called alchemy or something.But it should be only a very small number of people who have just been created and are still full of unknown and immature things.

"Brother Yue has recovered his memory?"

"No, that's not the case. Although it's said that I dreamed some intermittently, but those are not so much memories as the degree of influence."

It was like flipping through someone else's incomplete diary that had been burned, but he couldn't express that feeling accurately.

"Eh——, um, but it's only natural. Brother Yue is also from another world, after all."

The boy who said that sat next to him with the girl.The benches were originally designed to seat four grown men, so even then it wouldn't feel cramped.

"I was also taken aback when I first came here. After all, compared with Roland, the civilization here is much higher."

"Roland?"

"Ah, it's the country where Mei and I were born. Speaking of which, it seems that no one has ever told Brother Yue about this world."

"No, the dean has already told me the general situation."

A city built by gathering human technology and power, a paradise where human beings are allowed to live in peace on this land.In this world full of dangers, in order to survive.Where the last remaining humans banded together in the world to build.

"We call it a winged beast."

This time was a few days ago.What the director of the orphanage said to him.

"It is impossible to study exactly when it appeared, but at least it is longer than the human history of this era. Some historians support that the winged beast is the culprit that directly leads to the end of the world in an era. Its form has passed through history. Evolving continuously over time, and winged beasts are the collective name for this race."

According to the director, about half of the orphans in the orphanage came here because their parents were eaten by winged beasts.That girl named Theresa seems to be one of them

When I first learned about this a few days ago, I was seriously told by the head of the orphanage that I must never leave the city without permission.

"That's right. If you say that, you also know about the winged beast."

"Well, the reason why the city was able to avoid the attack of the winged beasts is entirely because there is a protective cover for concealment around the city."

However, such measures are by no means foolproof.It seems that there are quite a few cities where all the citizens in the city have been turned into food for winged beasts because the protective cover was breached and destroyed.

"If the protective cover is breached, is it just waiting to be eaten?"

"How is that possible. It is said that there is an 'army' in the city dedicated to dealing with winged beasts. It seems that if they gather together, the winged beasts can be dealt with with a few clicks."

"Is that right?"

"Uh, it should be..."

The two who also came from other worlds and had never even seen an army from the beginning to the end looked at each other, and then decided to put this topic aside.

"Speaking of... Speaking of which, what is the world that Brother Yue was born in? It's the one that Brother Yue would occasionally dream of..."

"...It's just an ordinary village. I don't know the details, but it seems to be a place with many things."

It is better to say that the one with many is just a room, and the other is the home of an old man in the village.Other than that the place is nothing special.Really have to say something -

"The eyes of the villagers are a little strange."

"Eyes?"

"Ah."

Yue considered how to describe it.

"Very disgusted, very scared, the eyes that want to do something but don't dare to move at all... probably that's it."

"Eh?"

Arthur froze for a moment.

"In other words, Brother Yue is also..."

"The dreamer seems to have said something, and I think that's probably the reason."

Although no matter how I think about it, I don't think it is my memory, but it is something that exists in my mind after all, so it doesn't seem to have nothing to do with me.

"Really? It turns out that Brother Yue is also..." Yate showed a complicated expression. "I understand, I will never say anything about this matter."

"Ah."

Although I feel that it is okay to say it, but there is no need to specifically refute it here.

Compared with these, he cares about another thing more.

"By the way, speaking of it, there is actually a sister in the orphanage who is also from another world. Like Brother Yue, he also lost his memory, but he is not in the orphanage now..."

Art, who changed the subject, said, but the topic did not continue.

The source is at the gate of the orphanage.

A strong collision sound and the man's angry curse interrupted the chat between the two.To be continued. .