Isekai Taneuma

Having reunited with Mary, Feng succeeded in getting her out of the border. However, as soon as they emerged from the border, they were distracted and unfortunately found by Kazya, who was patrolling the castle.

Feng was in a hurry... but Kazuya, who found them, did not panic and lied to the soldiers on the same patrol that there was no abnormality, keeping them away. The tricks and the footsteps of the soldiers fade away. Eventually the sound stopped, Feng exhaled his unconscious breathing.

Tensions subsided and Jeanne and Guillaume entered the scene as if they were weak. Feng, who was also sitting on the ground with his hips pulled out, said to Kazuya, staring at him with a gentle gaze.

"Long time no see..."

"Oh, it's been a long time. It's been three months."

"Why did you do that? What about Avirl and Leroy?

"I'm fine. I tried to get in touch, but I wasn't expecting you to sneak in... surprised."

I see. Actually, we tried to get in touch and sneak into this castle a few times... but it didn't work out, and it was so close. "

"Hey, what if I wasn't the one who found it?

"Thank goodness... have you changed your mood?

Feng said so, Kazuya showed a jiotong expression as if she had been poked with falsehood only for a moment, but soon returned to some calming adult face.

"Really? I don't know myself... but you haven't changed much. I didn't know Jeanne looked so tough."

"Leave me alone... Jeanne is an adventurer now."

"Adventurer...?

Did you see that Kazuya was interested in the word, or did Jeanne push the phoenix?

I see. There was an Adventurer Alliance in this world. These are your allies. Actually, I've been trying to get in touch with you guys over and over again. Even if you run away from here, you're out here, so why don't you run away from this castle and play an adventurer with me?

I see.

"You wanted to have that kind of adventure, didn't you? You can do it if you want. Don't you find it fascinating?

"Hmm...."

Kazuya didn't seem very interested. Jeanne, who said he was going to run away with him, never looked at him in the eye, but only replied. Based on that attitude, I don't think I can expect a reply. That's why Jeanne, who recommended leaving the castle, became more vocal.

In contrast to Jeanne, Kazuya stood quietly and looked around behind her companions without listening to her desperate words. And when Guillaume and the old man came and found Mary, his gaze stopped.

"Ah, it looks just like Emilia... I see. Isaac was hiding this."

That's what Kazuya said and stared at Mary's face. She hides behind the old man in surprise. Feng murmured suddenly during the conversation. Why does that name come out of Kazuya's mouth? Without realizing the upset of Feng, he was too alone.

"No, but he doesn't even know about our people (Sofia)... so why did he have to hide it? The relationship between Emilia and Sofia is only legendary in this world, and no one should know until then...."

"Hey, hey, hey!

Feng rushed into the corner of his mouth as he poured bubbles.

"Why did Emilia's name come out of your mouth!? You only know Sofia in the game. But why did you name my childhood friend....."

Then Kazuya exhaled a long sigh and stopped walking right in front of Feng, telling him to stare into his eyes.

"After all, you don't remember... look closely, Asuka. No, Phoenix. Can't you remember when you saw my face? Actually, we were just like elementary and middle school, right?

"Eh...!?

Feng stared at Kazuya's face in surprise. Even if I thought about it, it was the first time in the game that I saw his face up close, even though I was together like every day. Feng searched his memory as he told him. Then I remembered that one of my elementary school game buddies, somehow, was a boy who looked like him. Surely his name is.....

"You, no way...."

"Oh, you, Emilia, and a couple of other guys, we'll go back to school and play games and just hang out."

"Kazuya... was that Kazuya?"

Feng was stunned. Kazuya is a common name, and I didn't think it was my acquaintance. It is often said that online dating is as rare as lying, but I can't believe the person we've been playing with until now has always been a childhood friend.....

Apparently, the opponent was silent while knowing it. Why didn't you call me? When Feng tried to protest against the accusation, Kazuya said an apology first in the guise of controlling it.

"I'm sorry, keep your mouth shut."

"It's true. Why didn't you tell me?

"That's...."

When he touched Feng's words slightly, he strayed from his sight and tied his mouth... he played with his fingers with his forehair hanging from his eyes to think about something for a while, and eventually raised his face as if he had decided to do something.

"I'm sorry, Feng...."

"... what?

"It's the last day of the world over there... I told Sofia where to meet you, and I guess I missed you.

"Oh, that. I don't give a shit."

"That's what you might say, but I've always cared. The truth is, I should have apologized right away at that time, but you're gone, and I can't find you even if I'm looking for you... it's been so late. I'm really sorry."

Fine.

Now, instead of blaming him, Feng decided to forgive him for saying so. No matter how much I blame him, he won't come back then. But why did you do that? I think it's too much to flirt with... he's scratching his head again, looking bad.

"I loved Emilia...."

He said.

"I knew you called her, and the devil sent me... I knew I was doing something bad, and I really meant to follow her up. But now that this is happening, I can't take it back anymore...."

"... is that so?"

"I'm really sorry."

That's how he lowered his head. The appearance was somehow very spare, and I couldn't cut myself like another person. Feng hurriedly approached him, urging him to raise his head.

"How long have you known?

He asked when he realized that he was used to elementary and middle school. Kazuya looks sorry for being caused by Feng.

"... a long time ago. It was just a coincidence that we met again in the game. At first, I didn't know who the Déjénéro bird was. I realized that because there was Sofia next door. You are, aren't you? Look at that burning sophia, ah! Isn't this Emilia? I guess that's what I thought."

Feng nodded.

Yeah, that's right.

Because "Sofia of Burning Eyes" is a TRPG character that Emilia thought of when she was in elementary school. At that time, she borrowed her name from a Lanobe character who was obsessed with it and played a painful role-play in which she usually had blue eyes, but when she took it seriously, she turned red. It was Sofia who used the gimmick to play the same role as the TRPG character, because the other race of vampires had the characteristic that their eyes became red when they took blood.

Feng heard that Emilia had come to see her in the wind, and soon after she logged into the game, she found a character called Sofia the Burning Eye. She came close to discovering that she belonged to Jeanne's guild, the rugged Penguin Regiment.

"I was the same. I saw Sofia in the server, maybe? That's why I joined the guild, where I found you. I didn't know who it was at first, but I immediately noticed the attitude towards Sofia and the conversation between them. Huh? I thought this was Feng... I thought you were hiding it, but they found out about your attitude toward Sofia.

I wish I had revealed myself right away... because you two were close, so I felt a sense of alienation. Over time, it became harder and harder to say... and on the last day, I heard from him that you called Sofia... so... "

"Is that so...?"

I'm sorry.

That's what Kazuya said and looked far away. The tip of his gaze immediately hit the thick walls of the dungeon, and I'm sure he didn't see anything in his eyes, but he could see the other side of the world that he couldn't see... that was the eye that bothered him.

He bit his lower lip and said he regretted it.

"Actually, maybe you shouldn't have. But if I thought this might be the last time I'd see you..."

"Please don't say what you miss the last time...!

Jeanne could not wait to scream, but now that she was in hiding, there was no way she could be allowed to do that, and soon Guillaume sealed her mouth. Jeanne with tearful eyes complains of something too much.

Feng took his place.

"Hey Kazuya, Jeanne is right. You can have fun in this world. If it's enough to cross a shitty bridge, why don't we run away together? I don't care anymore, so you should definitely do that."

I can't do that.

"Why? Isaac doesn't even have to do it. I don't know about you, but he was actually trying to kill me. The summoning was a failure. The summons was actually a ritual at the expense of someone's life. I saw the bodies of people killed in the basement of this castle. That's why Isaac tried to kill me."

As for Feng, this story was meant to change Kazuya. But when he heard it, he smiled with little change in his expression.

"I know that."

Huh?

"Isaac is just trying to use us...."

"Then....!

"Well, listen. We haven't done anything in the last three months that you guys have been greeting in the outside world, we've been doing a lot of research. Especially if we're really brave....."

The daily life of the remaining companions of the castle seemed relatively free except to hold a filled woman. In the meantime, they were raising their level, dating the woman they were holding, and so on... but eventually they got tired of it, and they started looking into themselves.

"At first, I was happy to have a woman, but then I realized that there was no woman who really wanted to be held by me. Some of them didn't want their parents to order them to come to me. Even if I don't have to go home like that, it's troublesome even if something goes wrong, so I sleep next to the woman crying all night....

If you keep doing that, you'd think so. They're holding me because I'm a brave man. If I'm not brave, I won't let you do anything. It doesn't matter who I'm dealing with. No, in the first place, am I really brave? I mean....

If you think about it that way, it's strange. Neither I nor you are amazing people in the original world. There is no reason why I should be chosen to come to this world. Then, at first, I thought it was like an easy rising novel, and I became more and more worried that I didn't even notice it. I want to find out why I was summoned to this world.

To suit you, Emilia and Sofia's names glitter in this world. Ah, that's it... I'm sure they'll find out why I was summoned while they were looking into it. That's what I thought, and when I started looking into it, I immediately got a rumor about the Brave Summon Monster.

The Empire originally had rumors of summoning brave men. In fact, the emperor has failed to summon the brave many times in the last 300 years. Of course, isn't it? If it succeeds, Isaac will be able to save the gods that are about to be extinct, so there's no reason not to.

But it was all a failure. All the heroes we summoned were as capable as we were, but they were normal people. Even if they left their offspring, the priest would not have been born.

I mean... we're going to follow the same fate...

That's how I started looking into it, and I found a few inconsistencies. I soon understood how to summon a brave man. Summoning the brave always required sacrifice. It must also be a priest or descendant of a brave man. The sacrifice you used when you summoned us, didn't you?

The old man who was listening to Kazuya's words nodded silently when confused. That said, the five who disappeared were the brave townships... descendants of the brave.

"That's why we caught Isaac one day and asked. Then he admitted it lightly. We were angry. Why were you lying to me? The reason was simple and clear. It was because the current bravery was weakening so much that the system couldn't be maintained."

I've heard that story from the old man before. As a matter of fact, the five victims were merchants who were about to switch from the brave to the conservative, and as they passed through, the brave left the Hermes and Isaac became isolated.

So he killed five people... and hid the body at Mary's juncture to cover it up. Then I thought it was useless and tried to summon the brave one. As proof, when Feng was summoned to this world, there was no one around, and soldiers gathered to eat bubbles. That was the truth....

Feng shook his head.

"If you know that much, you don't have to stand up for yourself. Isaac was just trying to use our abilities. I bet you raised her to make sure she didn't get away from here. That's enough, then. Let's get out of this shitty castle and start a funny alien life with us, shall we?

Kazuya gave a dry laugh.

"Ahahah, that's why I can't do it."

"Why!?

"... I'm having a baby."

The moment I heard the words, there was a heavy silence that seemed to have changed the surrounding air. Feng couldn't say anything and instead Jeanne said something, but after all, she kept her mouth shut without saying anything.

Kazuya looked at the attitude of the two, and as he polypolized his cheeks in a bad way,

"Well, that's what I'm going to do... the priests who gave us their first gift that day really believe we're brave... and there are a lot of other women who got pregnant on our own. But we're not brave. The children who will be born will certainly be ordinary children. Mother will struggle... and yet... what if she finds out that her father ran away when the child grew up?

It was Isaac's fault... and Feng swallowed the words he almost said. What will it be if you say that? I'm sure that when they grow up, the children will be able to learn from the situation. But that doesn't mean you can't hold back on your father.

Kazuya said as carelessly as any other HR.

"... no, I didn't think I'd die like this since I came to this world. There's no such thing as a story... that's right. This is not modern. No convenience store, no TV, too little information coming in. I'm incapable of living, and I have a lot of trouble. If we use our power, we'll buy grudges... and we waved too much power innocently.

But if you don't do anything because you're afraid of dying, what's different from the days you smoked in that world? I think this was a better life than running away and living in hiding somewhere.

Hey, you know what I mean?

I don't know.

Feng replied in a reflective manner, but I actually felt a little aware of the feeling.

Life has no meaning. Only a very few blessed people can live by doing what they want to do. If we have a goal, it's just to live normally, and everybody lives somewhere giving up. Rather than that, it's more like a fireworks battle and scattering...

All he knew was that if he escaped now, he would surely regret it.

"Maybe I'll die, but I think it was a much better life than dying alive."

When Kazuya was so alone,

"Kazuya-sama! Where are you, Kazuya?

I heard a soldier calling him. After Kazuya replied to his voice,

"Looks like you talked too much. It's time for the soldiers to get upset. If it's true, I'm the cousin who sent you to safety...."

"That's fine. There's a hidden passage when you come in."

"Hmm, well... do you mind if I ask you where it is? There's a security problem."

When Feng looked back at the old man, he agreed in silence. Kazuya took a note wondering if there was such a place, and turned again to Feng and Jeanne.

"Well, I'll go... Do you have any messages for AVRIL and Leroy?

"If they want to escape, please come to me and tell them. I'll do my best to support you."

"Oh, let me tell you something."

Kazuya asked with a clean look. No matter how much you say, you will no longer be able to overturn his determination.

Kazuya looks straight at Feng's face. Before the childhood familiar adult expression, Feng thought it would be a snake's foot to say something that would blunt his determination any further, and beat him lightly, as usual, with no obstacle.

I see. Tell Leroy to remember to leave, Cass. And what's your name on Avirl? What? "

Oh, come on.

Kazuya laughed silently as she said so. Hugh and the strange sound of inhaling breath only resonate. Feng glanced at him blurrily and said that he had a very good smile, engraving his face in his heart.

After a short farewell, they split up and left the scene. Kazya went first, and grabbed the soldiers, and Feng escaped from the dungeon at his side.

The castle was still filled with soldiers, but the magic of the old man never blamed it. When the party quickly escaped from the castle, they hurried away from the castle before the eastern sky became bright.

The early morning castle town was quiet and there was no sign of a war. But the silence before the storm might mean something like this. Eventually, as the sun rose and the 100,000 crowds surrounding the castle raised their voices, a battle began over Sir Hermes' castle. It was said by later historians to be the last battle to determine the defeat of the brave.

The war began early in the morning and continued intermittently for three days and three nights thereafter. The Imperial Army did not allow Ser Hermes to cast a cage without using his hand, and he seemed to be trying to push it off with a straightforward tactic that took advantage of the crowd. Interceptors responded with an ambush in the city centered on a long-range attack from the castle. After all, resistance from the cage castle side was fierce, and the battle soon fell into a state of fixation, but the heroics gradually became disadvantaged. The reason was simple and clear, and the numbers were too different.

Among them were those who stood up to triple their enemies. When the three of them kicked away the armies lined up, they showed an unparalleled activity that temporarily forced the Imperial Army to withdraw from the castle. Aren't you a god too strong? It was rumored that it was a human being, which prompted the Imperial Army's confusion.

And because of the casualties in the Imperial Army priests, it was until a truce was considered… On the contrary, it seems that the casualties set fire to the Imperial Army. When the Imperial Army, which took a turn in the offensive, began to attack without fear of sacrifice, many defenceless heroes were unable to support the front line, and finally the corner, which had shown unparalleled activity, collapsed, and it was one-sided.

The brave men who had shown resistance until the end fell down with one and one, and the Imperial Army finally reached the gates, before long Sir Hermes' castle fell. While the bodies of those who were leading the troops as generals were exposed, the mastermind Isaac seems to have fallen behind. Maybe Feng and the others used the way out.

Was it good or bad to teach Kazuya about the escape... Under the circumstances, the Imperial Army has naturally launched an attack on the township where the castle was closest. Feng and his companions were still dragging the shock of the battle to death, and he had to strike a generation of great battles against the army.