Bijo to Kenja to Majin no Ken

Cacon -.

Cacon -.

A creepy sound echoes around me as I carve out my regular rhythm.

The deep darkness surrounding the forest was being shaken away by several beams of light that the morning sun radiated.

And - what you hear from between the standing trees is the voices of the little birds announcing the arrival of the morning.

If you clear your ears further from it, you will be able to notice the spiral of water reaching slightly.

Cacon -.

The sound of it echoing into the back of the forest is clearly not born in nature.

It was not even like it would disrupt the harmony of this scene.

Strongly speaking, the sound blended into the scene every morning in the last two weeks or so -.

Perhaps the birds who exchange morning greetings are already used to the sound. Listening to the sound of the woods never showed any signs of escape.

"- Ceres, don't get all worked up in the morning."

Hearing that voice, the woman, who was about to wave down her right hand, looked back.

There's a beautifully cracked firewood around her, but a lot of it is scattered.

Fluffy, floating, golden hair reflected morning sunlight and sparkled.

When the woman, called Ceres, looks back at the Lord of her voice, she exhales one more breath and wipes the sweat of her brilliant forehead. And loosened his expression slightly towards the Lord of his voice.

"Morning - Kay.

This is my role.

The cold weather is getting a little closer. I wasn't aware when I was near the Wang capital or the border, but the climate of the mountain players is still unstable. I'm sure it won't snow, but if you're ready, don't worry about it. "

Hearing the words, the man who spoke to her smiled furiously.

The morning in this world (Florence) is early.

People start their activities with the dawn, and if the sun falls, they get to the floor of sleep.

But that's Florence's general family story.

Especially the magic that exists in this world - what we call magic here means the magic of the most preliminary light source (light) - but it has a great impact on people's activities.

If there are enough lights in the darkness at night, people can naturally spend more time on their activities.

The number of people who can use magic in this world is roughly one in four.

From that point of view, people who can operate day and night are never in the majority.

Fortunately, however, the man known as Kay was on one side of those four.

He picks up the scattered firewood one by one as he rubs his sleepy eyes that remind him of staying up late at night.

"- What, were you napping again at night?

a woman called Ceres asked. Voice color is never to blame. Either that or it was a tone that cared about men.

"Sort of. I can't help it because I have more to do.

- We're all busy, though. From a variety of standpoints, you can't make a sound like this. "

When Kay said so and laughed niggardly, the woman smiled back as she responded to it.

Celestia Pascalis is of regional nobility.

In a knightless aristocratic family without boys, she learned her sword from an early age and naturally began to strive for knighthood while bathing in the expectations of the house.

Nevertheless, the path of a sword that interacts with a man is never an easy one.

It took several times more effort and hardship than others for her to stand.

But as a result, she blossomed her talents brilliantly and grew older and became a full knight.

In the first place, it is unusual in this country (Harland) for a teenager to become a full knight.

In addition to her young age, Celestia was a remarkable woman.

When she became an Orthodox Knight, the Western Knights she joined had no female knights other than hers.

There is therefore no reason why its existence should not be noticeable.

Despite being a knight who was awarded a medal in a regional city, her rumors soon came to the ear of the Harland Royal Palace.

And the Harland Royal Palace, which was trying to strengthen the Knights, only sought to exploit its presence in an ultra-natural stream.

By the time Celestia was eventually celebrated as a Knights flag and the Knights appeal that turned her into an advertising tower began, she didn't need as much time as she did.

In fact, Celestia, as one knight, has unparalleled abilities.

However, the treatment of the advertising tower led many people to underestimate her strength.

A woman who, even though she has no strength, has only risen to a high position because of her rarity -.

Focusing on the non-Western knights to whom Celestia belonged, she gradually became so despised and insulted by the people.

And when words and acts that lacked courtesy became visible in the royal palace...

It was Olga Len Lennox, Harland's female prime minister, who created the opportunity to show people her exceptional abilities and spiritually saved Celestia.

Since then Celestia has interacted deeply with Olga and now admires her like her own mother.

"Kay, I need to talk to you."

Celestia cut it out with a slightly more reminiscent expression.

Celestia and Kay, who finished their work, are at the morning table.

Two more women were supposed to sit at this table, usually. But now that those two are absent, Kay and Celestia are at the table to face each other.

When Kay raised her face to her voice, they just took on a commensurate shape.

"- What is it?

Celestia put the tree spoon (tsp) on the table and, as she said, changed to Kay before she started talking.

"It is something that I have been talking about before, but it is time to report back to Olga on how it has been.

I should have returned to you immediately after that struggle. "

That struggle she refers to is the one that became the cut off for the Kays to live in this settlement.

Kay and Celestia, who played a death fight with the demon Jilbale, had to continue to stay in this settlement to turn down future worries.

- No, it was precisely Kay who stayed on the spot and made the decision to turn down future worries.

Celestia herself has no obligation to keep staying in this settlement in tune with him.

Indeed, before travelling here, the military nationality of the Kingdom of Harland had been surrendered. So now she will not be tied to the trend in the Kingdom of Harland. It's just an adventurer acting on his own free will, and instead not being guaranteed tomorrow's life.

Nevertheless, if she returns to the king's capital, many will surely welcome her. There was also a great chance that I could return to the position of Knight once I returned it.

But in the form of shaking them off, Celestia remains in this settlement.

The reason for this was somehow floating in her mind.

However, she cannot hide her confusion in its existence. Because it was something she had never experienced before in her life.

That's why she kept desperately denying the existence of something like that sign that was getting bigger and bigger in her.

"Again, you want to go directly to the report"

Celestia nodded quietly at Kay's definitive dialogue.

Immediately after the struggle with Jilbel, he asked for a letter and a message via the Adventurer Guild, reporting the situation to Olga.

I didn't bother to rely on the Alliance to report it myself because I could not initially risk being away from the land for a long time.

And now - about two weeks have already passed since that struggle.

Everyone was already enjoying their new lives in this settlement, little by little.

We are also beginning to get used to the distracting duty of having to continue to extensively destroy the resurrecting metastasis gates, whether broken or broken.

Celestia herself was accustomed to life here and began to rejoice in her daily awakening.

It can water its positive flow -.

Predicting that her own hopes would never be welcome, she had cut out this story by keeping her eyes slightly down.

"I'm sorry when I need a little hand to develop the settlement.

If I go alone and go home, I think I'll be fine for a week round trip.

That period can be annoying. "

When Kay heard Celestia speak, she realized for the first time then that she was about to head to the King's Capital (Ansel) on her own feet.

Normally, you have to walk about a few days to get from this settlement to the King's Capital. Given the return journey and the report to the Royal Palace, Celestia is right, we need to spend at least a week or so on days.

However, Kay can use the magic of opening the gates of space magic. With the magic of this gate, you can transfer to the place where you are hitting the wedge in an instant.

The wedge necessary for the transfer was also struck by Wang Du. Therefore, with Kay's help, it is only a matter of a moment before we head to the Wang Capital (Ansel) to meet Olga.

Nevertheless, Celestia is about to head to the King's Capital on her own feet.

She must have had some reason to get to that idea. However, when I look at Celestia's slightly reminiscent expression, the obvious pursuit of the reason is silly.

Kay said with a smile as she lay her eyes down and looked at her never trying to get her gaze together.

"Ceres, I wouldn't be so frightened.

It's necessary, and I've heard that hope for a long time. "

"I'm sorry -"

When Celestia dropped her gaze further and spewed out words of apology, the front door inadvertently opened and a woman appeared.

That's a beautiful woman with black hair tied up and dressed in a clean black coat.

"Grace, welcome back"

When Kay spoke to the woman who showed up, the woman known as Grace gave her a nickel and a grin.

"Kay, Ceres, I'm sorry to keep you waiting.

I have been promised a meeting with the Autonomous Lords, so please report back. "

Kay is happy with what she has said.

Kay and the others were planning to cut and expand the forest behind this house for the development of the settlement.

The forest was handed over cheaply from local landowners a few days ago.

Regardless, given that it is the land I own, I can argue that I am free no matter how I pioneer it.

Kay, however, was trying to pioneer his pioneering recognition of an autonomous lord who did not dare to be imperative.

He says that it's easier to create a relationship that shows consideration to the other person in this way and get permission later when he really needs the permission of an autonomous lord. Apparently, he meant to root for himself.

According to Grace's report, the time to meet with the Autonomous Lords would be the following week. Everything is at a bad time this week, and the Autonomous Lord seems to be absent.

"Next week...

I was hoping to hurry, but this is all convenient for them. "

As Kay shrugged and conceived, Grace looked at Celestia and spoke up.

"-Seres? What's wrong?

"Oh, oh."

Although I lifted my face, I get a subtly unresponsive answer back.

Apparently Grace just saw Celestia's expression and reaction and realized what she was thinking.

"Ceres - you want to go to Wang Du?

――――

Celestia returned neither affirmation nor denial to Grace's question.

But the silence in this case is tantamount to a substantial affirmation. Seeing the exchange, Kay opened her mouth to shelter Celestia as she overflowed (spilled) a small laugh.

"It's what Ceres has wanted for a long time, and we do need to report to Olga.

Hey, about a week high.

That amount of time, it won't be long. "

"A week -"

Grace repeated the words Kay had said.

A week, not a day or two.

It seems Grace soon understood what that meant, too.

Grace remained silent and stared at Celestia.

Their gaze crosses for a moment, but Celestia turns away first and escapes their gaze.

Then Grace exhaled a small sigh and opened her mouth to Kay.