Do You Think Someone Like You Can Defeat the Demon King?

"Ga, Mr. Gadio, did you have children?

"No... you're telling me not to call you Daddy about me, Halom"

Gadio said as he stroked the head of the girl he called Halom.

The way I'm used to it is from wherever I look at it, it's the parent's and the child's - but denying it doesn't mean blood is connected, I guess.

"My dad is my dad. Mom approved."

Halom swelled her cheeks in anger.

When a troubled gadio is laughing bitterly, a red-haired gutsy looking woman appears this time, supposedly about his age.

"Welcome back, Gadio"

"Oh, I'm home, Keraina"

That exchange still only looks like that of the couple.

But I guess the fact that Halom is not a child means that a woman called Keraina is not a wife either.

"Come on now, can you just admit how you call me Dad?

"I can't, I'm sorry about Soma"

"Not just for Soma, but for Tia, right? Totally. He said he had a lot of manners."

"... you can talk about it later, I have visitors now"

"That's it."

Keraina said, "Shit."

Looks like I finally noticed the existence of the flam.

"I'm sorry I let you have a meaningful conversation all of a sudden. Oh, could you be Fram? Gadio used to talk to me. He said he was good."

I didn't think I was known.

The flam is kind of lit up.

But a good muscle is not too flattering.

At least on her journey, she said her stats were all zero and she couldn't use Knight Swordsmanship (Cavaliers Arts) at all.

"What are we talking about here, and get up and get up. Gadio, can I have a guest room?

"It's going to be a story of getting in, just the two of us. Can we get the Kerainas to stay somewhere else?

"Oh, we're talking about a tangle over there. Rikai."

"Yeah, I thought I could play with my dad because of it -!

Gadio held up Halom, pointing his mouth and spilling complaints, handed it to Keraina.

I think it weighs in there when it comes to being seven, but we both treat it mildly.

On Keraina's revealing arm, he saw something like a scar.

I guess she was also originally an adventurer.

So did I just say that my relationship with Gadio was between former fellow adventurers?

"Yes, yes, my dad will play later, so let's play with my mom now"

"I'm tired of playing with my mom -! I want my dad!

Halom barks over Keraina's shoulder whilst casually saying terrible things.

But Keraina was frightened, and the two disappeared behind the mansion.

Flam, who said he was left... or couldn't keep up with the story, stunnedly drops off his hindsight.

"Let's go, Flam"

Without explanation, Gadio enters the mansion.

"Ha ha...!

Flam chased that big back with a small run to avoid being left behind by him with too many different strides.

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The walls of the rooms are decorated with a number of paintings that look expensive, with chandeliers hanging from the ceiling.

The couch was also slightly fuzzy, my butt sank more than I could imagine when I sat down, and Flam accidentally shouted "whoops".

Everywhere you look, it's full of luxury goods.

A little bit of a gold hobby - to Gadio today, it seemed like an unlikely taste.

"I was going to just give you my gear."

Gadio, sitting across from the flam, said in a sigh mix.

"Gear?"

"The warehouse of this mansion is stocked with equipment collected by us (...). There must have been some curse gear in there, and I was wondering if that would help Fram."

"Can I have it!?

"Never mind. Originally, there was no use for curse gear."

"Thank you. Then don't hesitate."

The extent to which many adventurers throw away, such as curse gear, or some heavily cursed objects are placed on the market as preferences (...).

That, too, is a very small number.

Flam also occasionally views an outdoor shop lined up on Central District Boulevard, but so far has not met anything to her satisfaction.

Or where a pile of bodies like the lab stacked, etc., couldn't possibly be - Gadio's offer couldn't be more thankful to her.

"But that's behind you. You must be worried about the kid and the woman just now, huh?

"That, of course,"

I live with Keraina, who's not even my wife, and you two.

Besides, Harom says he's not Gadio's kid.

I imagine all sorts of complex relationships, and Flam's head is on the verge of punk.

"Briefly, Keraina is my best friend - Soma's wife, and Halom is a child that I made between Soma and Keraina. And Soma is losing his life during a battle with monsters six years ago"

With all those words, Fram's brain, which was about to burst, was brilliantly organized and he understood more or less the circumstances.

I mean, Halom is about six years old from what I've seen, so I barely see his real father.

Gadio has always been the father's replacement.

So I'm calling him my dad, and maybe Keraina...

"Was that soma, too, strong after all?

"Oh, he was stronger than me. He led everyone as the leader of the team and fought bravely. As a matter of fact, the armor and sword I've been using for a long time is the shape of Soma."

So - he kept using legend quality gear.

But that's not a beautiful story about passing on Soma's thoughts, etc.

in order not to forget his sins.

"You were teaming up, right?"

"Once upon a time. Me and Soma, Keraina, Tia, Jayne and Lowe - three of them are S-ranked, the other three are A-ranked as well. I was complacent that wherever I went, whoever I dealt with, I would never lose."

No - that's never narcissistic or anything like that.

Even though the S-rank is a threat at the point of the three, the other three are A-ranked.

At the time, it should undoubtedly have been the strongest team in the kingdom.

Enemies are good where other adventurers have bundled up for the kind of opponents they defeat.

"This mansion is also remnants of those days. I built it for the six of us to live together, but at the time, it was just too big and you spent too much money, and I laughed."

"Were you that close to living with me?"

"Right. When I was with those guys, that was all I enjoyed. I just got a deal with Tia, too, and it was the height of my happiness."

Gadio said, staring at the face of the table with a vain eye.

Well polished. There, his face is reflected.

"What's a contract... marriage?

"I've been in a hurry for a long time, but I guess I didn't want to lose any soma back then. Even though Tia died right after she vowed to protect her forever."

Gadio throws up in mockery.

"Six years ago, what we received was a request to crusade a large dragon in the southwest of the kingdom. If it's just a dragon, it should be an easy win, let's get this over with and go home to the king's capital, we were laughing and talking about that. In the Wang capital, Keraina waited for her to give birth. But - when I ran into him, he wasn't just a dragon or anything. My face was swirling."

of the face, whirlpool.

There's only one thing that that means.

"... could that be"

"So did a boy named Nekt who engaged the other day. Now I think that was the result of the Church's research."

The voice was calm, but slightly angry emotions.

All this time, Gadio may have thought he was just a monster of mutation.

But now that I know that it was made by the hands of the Church, that hatred should be right for you.

"First we were ambushed and devastated. So Jayne and Rowe died. Soma fought pretty well but was minced in armor in front of him. At the end of the day, Tia sheltered me, shot me through the heart and died... only one of me survived"

That carelessness still doesn't disappear after six years.

No, Gadio will probably carry it for the rest of his life.

Even if someone told me "Gadio isn't bad”.

Nothing else. He can't forgive himself.

"Waiting for me when I fled for my life and returned to Wang Capital were people and colleagues who called me a“ coward ”. Yeah, they're certainly right, I was definitely a coward. My buddies, my best friends, my wife abandoned me and I came back for it, such a hipster - nothing but cowardice!

Gadio eats up his teeth and grips his fist hard.

A blood vessel floats firmly on the back of your hand and your arms tremble into small pieces.

If it was any atonement, I went back to the place where I was attacked and tried to find the body and mourn it, but all that remained was Soma's armor and sword.

From then on, he struck even into the path of the sword by himself and also increased his strength as an adventurer, but his emptiness did not disappear.

Fram can't put him in front of him like that and say anything.

He's the only one who knows these days, and it's only natural that he can't find the words to call.

Still, I kept looking for words to call, and I finally found...

"Whatever happened in the past, Mr. Gadio is a hero to me. I'm not a coward."

That was a word that was neither poisonous nor medicinal.

Flam learned a toothpick at himself for not being able to say what he cared about, but Gadio seemed to have received enough feelings.

His expression loosens slightly and restores some serenity.

"... disturbed, I'm sorry. Fram is sweet."

"No, no..."

"I told you this story, and I'm going to tell Eterna again later - but I need to tell you something about the Church's research"

"Didn't you tell me everything the other day?

"I've tapped the contents of the material I found into my head from one end to the other. Put aside some time and sort out the cause and effect of the information, or else I don't think I'll be able to speak well."

I don't know, I didn't have time.

Cathedral security was never loose, it was just a life-threatening infiltration.

Most of all, even if they were discovered, it would have been an easy victory for someone as good as a church knight, no matter how many bundles they got.

But as a price, I will never be able to enter the King's Capital again.

That's all I wanted to avoid as a gadio.

Therefore, cautiously and quickly, he abandoned wasted thought and devoted himself solely to remembering the lines of letters.

"The crystal lens that encloses the power of Origin, the Creator God, that's the Origin core. The church folks used this core to launch three research teams"

"Three... one is Spiral Childrens, the spiral kids, right?"

"Yeah, it seems like it's often abbreviated as“ childrens “inside the church. And the other two -" Necromancy ”and“ Kimyra. "

"... just the name, I have a bad feeling"

Just to be able to imagine the seriousness, Flam felt an unexpected chill and held his body.

"The details of the study and the location of the laboratory could not be seen, but it can be inferred from fragmentary information. First of all, Necromancy is a study of reinvigorating the dead as soldiers loyal to orders by embedding cores in corpses"

Hearing that, Fram remembered that it was a research facility near Enicide that he explored with Saila.

A swirling corpse on his face, which was set as a trap inside the facility.

Oh, I said. Is a blasphemous tool using the dead produced in large quantities?

"And Kimyra combines a multitude of lives to explore a body more suited to the core. It seems that the results are now used to improve the core and create a core that is slightly more suitable for humans."

"Which team made the monster that attacked Mr. Gadio's team?"

It is also believed that he used the body of a dragon, or that he was an individual who combined another monster into the dragon.

Either way, the logic was through.

"It was Kimyra who was doing the research using the monster. Perhaps that dragon was created by them too."

In other words, Kimaira had been conducting research outside the Wang capital for six years.

The research facility near Enicide was also - a place abandoned about a decade ago - likely used by the Kimaira team.

The helix-faced orga was probably an achievement of that as well.

"Um... does Mr. Gadio want revenge on the church?

"If you say you don't want to, you lie. It's my own sin to abandon my people. But it's not like I don't hate that monster who killed us all."

At present, we do not know if the monsters that attacked the Gadios still exist.

It is possible that it has been discarded.

But Kimyra, the research team that created it, is still active, I guess.

"How's the flam? You think revenge is just vain?

Asked, she immediately shook her head to the side.

Imagine.

If Milkit, his family in his hometown, and his dear companions were killed - I'm sure Flam would try to kill the killer for revenge.

Like Dayne's men who attacked me in Enichede, or Dayne himself.

"I don't think it's prudent to say this...... rather, I think it's reliable. Because I think it's better to have a clear purpose than an ambiguous sense of justice or mission, because people can use their power."

"Well, then don't feel comfortable taking revenge."

"That, what would you have done if I was shaking my head vertically?

"There will be no significant change, but I would have taken some account of it. Don't show hatred in front of the flam."

He's right, that's not a big change.

But on the battlefield, even a slight swing of readiness is a lifesaver.

Gadio gained extra strength when Flam pressed his back.

It may be an exaggeration, but it is an indisputable fact.

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At the end of the conversation in the guest room, Gadio leads Flam to another room.

The warehouse on the way is where the example equipment is.

Flam walks on a stone floor that reflects and shines light.

The walls are decorated with paintings again, and the windows are so beautifully polished that you don't realize they are there if you don't touch them.

The hallway was decorated at regular intervals with pots, vases and chest statues and the doors of each room were puzzling enough to see if it was the same piece of art.

I'm going to sigh just watching.

I'm sure even one pot lined up must be the price at which you can buy the house where Flam lives.

"We're going down."

As they say, I'm going down the stairs.

Apparently, the warehouse is in the basement of the mansion.

Is it possible that it is equipped to the basement?

The closer I got to the bottom, the darker my surroundings got.

And at the end of the day, I can barely see anything.

When Gadio touches the switch on the wall, the whole room finally lights up and reveals its full contents.

The interior was lined with a number of wooden torsos, wrapped around various types of clothing and armor.

They come in a wide variety of sizes and designs, from robes to dresses to leather armor to plate armor.

In addition, the shelves were lined with helmets, tiaras, gauntlets and leggers, boots, brooches, and equipment that I said was a ring.

All kinds of weapons are decorated on the walls, including one-handed swords, two-handed swords, spears, hammers, mace, canes, bows - and more.

If Flam uses scans at all costs, it's surprising because all of them are legend or epic quality gear.

It should be worth far more than just the equipment lined up here, not the noise of the pot.

"Shh, that's amazing this..."

"If you don't want to use it, you should dispose of it, but I can't let my memories get in the way"

Some of the equipment showed signs of use.

I guess my buddies, my best friends, and what his wife used are also mixed up in this.

But this is not where Flam should see it.

I just put on some epic gear and it just reduces my status and makes me unable to move properly.

The curse gear seems to be at the end of the door on the edge of the room.

As Gadio opened there, a slight iron odor stuck to the nose of the flam.

Smells like blood.

The small room was stacked unconstructively with a number of items that presumably seemed to be curse gear.

A steel gauntlet filled with blood, with a flam hanging on the hips of shorts - just like that, I guess it contains many things that you can't take blood from washing.

They have to look for the gear they're looking for out of this pile of metal scraps that nobody would want to touch if it were normal.

"That's what Lowe's guy was collecting for his hobby, so I think he's got all the weird gear."

"You were such a freak, that person"

"You used to tell the others to throw it away. I never thought I'd be useful in this way."

Gadio misses the past.

This mansion is stained with memories - happy, and I guess that's why the hard memories are so many.

The flam reaches out to the mountain of equipment.

And scan every piece of equipment that has blood on it, stains in the shape of a person's face, or that can hear strange voices when touched.

It was an unexpected flam to the face, but it was a much easier task than when I looked for gear from a pile of bodies in the lab.