Kuro no Senki

Episode 2: Leila the Half Elf, modified

A week was about to pass since I ousted the Royal Army of Argo.

Apparently there are no signs of re-invasion, either because Tilia and the Marquis Elakis are laying a strict posture near the border.

The only remaining concern is about the treatment of his men, but this was also treated by the doctors all in the same way as humans thanks to the order that Tilia had written.

There were so many people that it took the form of occupying hospitals and surrounding inns, but this I had no choice.

I knew I didn't see anything.

Looking up at the hospital's thin dirty ceiling, Chrono shrugged in a dark mood.

According to doctors, a high-ranking kamikaze can cure it, but it's synonymous with being declared blind more than a limited number of high-ranking magicians in the country.

"... you just didn't get the infection"

The treatment Chrono received is to the extent that the wound was carefully washed and sutured with water, but in Europe he poured boiling oil on the wound for disinfection until recent times and pressed a burnt iron stick against the wound for blood control, so it's a decent treatment compared to that.

Chrono got out of bed and quickly changed into a black based military uniform.

As soon as he got out of the hospital room, Chrono hit his deputy Minotaur...... Mr. Minot.

Are you seeing me again? '(Bubba Bubba?

There's nothing else to do.

Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

"... Easy to Offer" (Bukusa ~)

"Oh, thank you"

For some reason, the deputy scratched his head in the light.

Involve the deputy officer and go down the stairs.

The hospital is a solid stone building.

On the ground floor is a hall lined with nearly a hundred beds, and upstairs is a private room.

Meals are cooked, laundry is done, doctors and pharmacists are sleeping in separate buildings.

You're thinking about the people at Arre, and Chrono tried to revisit his assessment about the Marquis of Elakis, but it seems that the city of Hachel developed on a first-to-third merit, not just in this hospital.

After the fourth generation, ratings also declined as generations descended, especially contemporary...... the reputation of the Seven Erakis Marquis is poor.

He buys luxury goods, raises taxes, stops donations to poverty homes, and does whatever he wants.

It feels like a bad part of the feudal system has been represented, but even such a man is superior to Chrono.

As I descend the stairs, my murmured voice becomes clearer.

The moment Chrono stepped into the hall, Pittari and the conversation stopped.

Do they hate you? and it was concave at first, but I'm pretty used to it now.

Well, I guess this is the normal attitude to nobility.

Blah, the deputy is taking too much of a shattered attitude toward Chrono.

"How's it going?

"Ha no! Hey, I'm... I'm not well!

When Chrono calls out, Dwarf (Lori's daughter) openly pulls her face apart and answers.

"Yes... if anything happens, don't hesitate to say it"

"Ha, ha!

As Chrono moved to the next bed, he heard Lori Dwarf's sigh of relief.

I went around speaking to my men in the hall, but everything is fine, at this rate.

The beast man also rounded his tail and looked frightened somewhere.

Then I moved to a separate building and even speaking to the doctor returned the same reaction.

Hachel is a city about a kilometer in diameter surrounded by fortifications.

Originally built as a military base, it has a very integrated structure.

The city centre is surrounded by Elakis Marquis Mansion, surrounded by hospitals, commercial industrial districts and residential districts.

The busiest is the Commercial Industrial Zone… The Chamber of Commerce, with its branches in the Kepheus Empire, has shops lined up with dewstores to fill even the narrow roads.

Do you still want to go on? '(Buba ~?)

I need to meet my men in the inn.

As I was laddering through the inn where my men were, my deputy said in a fed up voice.

Is the Admiral blunt?

"No, I know as much as I care about my men."

"I know that."

The deputy dropped his shoulder at the top of his head.

"... next or last"

The last thing left was a silver-haired elf...... Leila.

"Are you not comfortable with Layla?

"That's not why I thought you hated me."

Leila is cool enough for Chrono to have trouble reacting.

I also helped her to try to push the blame, which is hard to face.

What about gifts?

Looking around, the flower seller girl stopped at me.

Is she a human girl, about ten years old?

My hair is brown, my skin is pathologically white.

Not beautiful, but a strange and loving face.

However, the colour of fatigue is dark now.

The piece is thinly dirty and the sleeves and hems are unraveled to indicate the girl's impoverishment.

It hurts my chest to know a modern Japanese child.

"Hey, can you sell me some flowers?

"... Huh!

When Chrono spoke casually, the girl drew her face in the same way as her men did.

"Duh, a piece of copper coin,"

"Thanks"

Giving a piece of copper coin in exchange for a bouquet of flowers, the girl gave the look of being taken aback.

Yeah? And Chrono turned his back on her, tilting his neck.

After a short walk, I arrived at the inn where Layla was staying.

Correctly, the first floor is a tavern and dining room, and the second floor is an inn.

I tried to arrange a room a little better, but it didn't seem like Leila was too ridiculous, so here I am.

'Cause I'm easy to wait here' (Bukuya ~)

"Oh, nice to meet you"

As they entered the tavern and dining room, the gaze of the sparse guests concentrated on Chrono, but soon they turned away.

I guess you don't really want to get involved with nobility.

"Baron, even today?

"Visitation. Oh, sometimes, general."

I'm not a baron because I didn't inherit the housekeeper, but I didn't dare correct him, and Chrono poked his elbow at the counter.

Zuzzah! and I was impressed by the great momentum with which both neighbors left.

The general is in her thirties.

He has no children, and both his husband died five years ago.

She must be having a lot of difficulty chopping up the store with one woman, but she has kind eyes that don't make her feel that way.

The body is fleshy and gives a sense of mature adult colour fragrance.

Sleek nods and back hair are high points.

"What about my men?

"I'm eating without leaving a meal, so I don't think you need to worry about it."

"Right."

Chrono took out a piece of gold and made the general grip it.

"Ko, what's this?

"Now I want Layla to eat something nutritious. No, of course, I'm not assuming the general is feeding you crude... Regards"

"Yeah, well"

The general received gold coins in such a way as half happy and half frightened.

It would be an unexpected income for a damsel because the soldier's salary is two gold coins in a month.

By the way, the exchange ratio is about one silver coin for ten copper coins and one gold coin for twenty silver coins.

Plus there is a brass currency below the copper coin, which is the exchange ratio of ten brass coins to one copper coin.

Climbing a wooden staircase, Chrono continues down a dim corridor.

Leila's room is upstairs on the edge.

Knocking on the door as a courtesy, Chrono opened the door.

As it was, Chrono froze.

First, it was the brown skin that jumped into my sight.

The freshly stitched wound is painful, but the brown skin is shiny enough to tremble.

Wipe your body with a wet cloth so that Layla avoids new scratches.

"... Master Chrono?

They noticed this one, and Layla hid her chest with both arms.

"... Huh!

As Chrono swallowed his saliva, Leila bit her lips to withstand the fear.

Realizing immediately that he was frightened, Chrono popped out of the room.

Strike your body against the hallway wall over and over again,

"No, no, no, no!"

I rolled down the stairs.

"Baron! Are you hurt?

"It's okay, it's okay"

Hand controlled the running general, Krono stood up to make sure there were no injuries.

I couldn't get a reception, but I don't see any major injuries.

After nearly three years of working out, his body seems tougher than Chrono thinks.

"... Ouch"

"Yes, Baron."

"Oh, don't worry. I'm sorry, can I borrow your shoulder?

The pale-faced general trembles and supports Chrono's body.

"Again, because I want to go upstairs"

"Yes."

The general was so trembling that she didn't know which one was supporting her body.

Either way, with the help of the general, we reached Leila's room again.

Chrono knocks on the door and waits for Leila's reply.

When she entered the room, Leila was staring at Chrono in silence.

No, are you staring?

By accident, I saw you naked, so it's a natural reaction.

"Admiral, will you step away for a moment?"

"Yes."

Chrono handed the lady a bouquet of flowers and stared at Leila.

"... Leila"

……

Leila doesn't answer.

Chrono walked over to Layla early, poking both knees on the dirty floor and rubbing his head.

It is a dungeon.

"Hey, what are you doing!

"This is called a dungeon, a gesture of apology at the highest level in the country where I was born."

Chrono briefly explained to Leila, who hesitated.

"Look naked, I'm sorry!

"" Eh!

As Chrono rubbed his head to the ground, Leila and the damsel joined together and raised their voices.

"No, please stop."

"Until you forgive me, I will not stop earthbound!

Chrono reluctantly resisted Leila pulling his arm and continued to sit in the ground.

"Wow, I get it! Okay, I forgive you, so please stop Dogeza!

……

Krono stood silently up to Layla's screaming plea.

"Admiral, a bouquet of flowers."

"Yes."

Chrono received a bouquet of flowers from the general and offered them to Leila.

"Ko, what's this?

"It's a bouquet of sympathy. So, it was awkward to come with my bare hands, so I bought it on the way... would it have been better to have something decent?

Receiving a bouquet of flowers, Layla chewed her lips to tears.

Ten or twenty seconds, tears finally spilled out of my golden eyes.

"... wah, to half an elf, like me, why?

"Half an elf?

If you ask me, I feel Leila's ears are shorter than the other elves.

Without having to explain, half an elf is an elf and a human half.

Half elves are often discriminated against or persecuted by both humans and elves in fantasy novels.

The reason for this is that the elf is pureblooded or the half elf is recognized as a child born after the elf has been humiliated.

However, in the case of the Kepheus Empire, the elves belong to the ruling class and the elves also take it as a fact.

If asked in person, they would return answers similar to fantasy novels, but wouldn't they actually want an underground presence more than they do?

A human being in a miserable state of affairs relieves himself of the existence of a human being in a more miserable state of affairs than himself.

Chrono himself is a memorable sensation.

"Did you know that you didn't?

"Oh."

When Chrono answered, Leila gave a lonely grin.

Oh, I'm sure this guy thought I was an elf and he was nice to me.

Anyway, I can't believe I'm half an elf.

It's a grin that conveys such emotions.

"I... no, I think Leila is a very brave woman. Knowing you're a half elf doesn't change this feeling, and I'm proud to have had men like you."

"... Huh!

Leila whispered like she had been beaten with an invisible stick, covering her face and crying out.

"... Dear Chrono"

"Leila, again, I'm coming to see you"

Encouraged by the general, Chrono left Leila's room behind.

Leila's whimpering like she pushed him to death was heard through the door of amplification, and Chrono wanted to turn back, even soon.

"You mustn't, Baron"

"... ok"

The general drew her hand and Chrono had no choice but to return to the ground floor.

The customer's gaze is concentrated, but it's a flash of events.

"Baron, how about a meal, if you don't mind? What?" Oh, let's have it "?

Huh? and the general's face dramatically attracted me.

"No, make fun of the poor."

"I'm not teasing you, though?

Scenes and painful silence dominate the neighborhood.

"Yes, sir, I understand! Look, if you do, the baron's gonna eat, so get out of there!

"No, because they were sitting first, even in the corner of the counter"

Klono sat in a seat at the counter end, sidelined by a damsel who had just kicked out other guests.

"Ya, vegetable salt soup and it's in bread"

"Uhm."

A broiled vegetable soup and completely hardened bread are placed on the counter without being placed between them.

Chrono sips vegetable soup with a wooden spoon.

"What do you say?

"Uhm, that's salty"

Chrono dips the hardened bread in the soup and cheeks it a little softer.

I want pepper, but spices are precious.

Scratch the knife and the knife,

"Mmm!"

"Duh, what's wrong!

Chrono brutally wiped his mouth,

"I'm sorry... I'm keeping my deputy waiting outside, but can I get some of my men's share?

"Huh? Ahh, I almost stepped through the floor yesterday! One moment, please."

The general switches the soup from a large pot to a small swing pot and goes outside the counter.

"I'll take it"

"The Baron?

"Um, I guess what I'm taking is muscle"

With or without said yes, Chrono took the pot from the general and put it at the deputy waiting outside the store.

"I'm sorry to keep you waiting. I'm eating right now, so you can have a meal and wait."

"Admiral!"

Pushing the pan against the peeling deputy, Krono resumed his meal in the counter seat.

Flattening all the food, Chrono was intoxicated by his fullness.

"Admiral, how many?

"No, I'm not getting money from the Baron."

"Yes... no, it doesn't matter who you are about this kind of thing"

Lucky I thought ♪ but Krono disciplined himself and offered him a piece of silver coin.

"Ha, the Baron is changing, isn't he?"

"Hmm, I'm going to be normal myself?

This is a little bit of a lie, I think Chrono.

Chrono values are shaped on the assumption that they do not exist in the Kepheus Empire, such as freedom, equality and human rights.

So we often act out of common sense in this world, and it's not uncommon to be called a freak.

Now, even if the general doesn't tell me, that's how much Krono knows.

"… General. See you soon."

"Yes, I'll be waiting for you"

When Chrono left the store, the deputy was standing in his hand with an empty pot.

"I'll give it back."

"We can't let the Admiral do that. Admiral, I'll leave the pot here!

The deputy opened the door and placed a pot near it.

"Come on, let's sloppy."

"After all, the Admiral has changed."

"Yeah, the general told me too. But all of a sudden, what's wrong?

That was when the deputy cut out half the way to the hospital.

'No, I'm impressed. I thought the Admiral was lying.' Cause you are. The Shiraya are abandoned pawns who cut their lives off with a single piece of gold. Come on. I hung up on the Crown Princess for that one and saw how the wound was... finally, I thought I'd believe the Admiral. '

The deputy told him to stand up and groaned pompously.

"By being so grateful... is that it?

"What's wrong with you?

"You know, now... did I say a piece of gold?

"Yeah, what's that?

The soldiers of the Marquis of Elakis are not private soldiers of the Marquis, but soldiers of the historic Kepheus Empire.

The salary is paid by the Empire, and the monthly salary should be two gold coins, human or subhuman.

That means...,

"Come with me because you want to be sure."

"Heh."

Chrono rushed to the city centre, the Marquis residence of Elakis.

Without being blamed by the gatekeeper, Chrono and his deputy passed through the gates of the Marquis Elakis residence.

The Marquis Elakis residence consists of a castle made of natural stones and four towers.

The central castle is a four-story building close to the English country house.

There is a department in charge of accounting here.

Chrono opens the door and pushes to the accounting officer.

"Oh, if you think of someone"

……

Chrono silently punched the accounting officer who floated his hips.

The documents placed on the desk collapse and the accounting officer falls unnecessarily from the chair.

"Hey, what?

……

In addition, Chrono silently kicked up the accountant's dovetail and looked down at him silently sprinkling diarrhea.

The accountant, who had sprinkled all the contents of his stomach, looked up at Chrono, apparently frightened.

"... let it out"

"Hey, what the hell?"

"Hey, can you see these hands?

Chrono showed his trembling hand to the accountant,

"Why can't you see this hand is trembling? I'm mad at you! I'm so mad this hand is trembling! I want to strangle you as skinny as your chicken gallows, and I'm desperate to restrain myself from that! So, get it out! You traitor!

Calling as he kicked the scattered paperwork, the accountant screamed and removed a bunch of paper from the desk drawer.

He received a bunch of paper offered with a trembling hand, and Chrono streamed and read the contents.

"So I told you I was mad!

Chrono kicked up the accountant's groin.

"Ready? I'll tell your bird head to understand. Give me another book!

Dropping a bloody piss, the accountant took a bunch of paper out of a locked drawer.

"I, by order of the Marquis,"

"Embezzlement of public money is capital punishment."

Squirting briefly, Chrono snatches a bunch of paper from the accountant and compares it to an earlier bunch of paper.

A bunch of paper is a book... a double book.

Apparently, he was really embezzling public money.

"Restrain this guy."

'Heh... what, Admiral? What the hell is going on?

"In short, Marquis Elakis was misleading your salary."

The deputy twisted his arm up, and the accountant drooped like a sinner awaiting the death penalty.

"If you think it's noisy, what are you doing?

"Hi, Tilia. Is the kingdom of Argo better?

"Don't return questions with questions"

When Chrono inquired, Tilia put her arms together to emphasize her abundant breasts.

"The Kingdom of Holy Argo has no problem. According to multiple sources, the first heir to the throne was seriously injured in a recent incident and is now in the middle of a factional dispute over the right to inherit the throne. You did what Chrono expected. So, what about you?

"I just got evidence of embezzlement."

He receives the books from Chrono and Tilia reads them in a flush.

"You're handy, Chrono."

"The reward is good later, so I want you to deal with it soon."

"Oh, sure."

Tilia laughed and left the room.

Tilia acted fast.

He detained his men, his servants, and sent them to the Imperial Capital, saying that they were involved in embezzlement, with the Marquis Elakis and his family, with good hands, as if they had noticed embezzlement from the beginning.

Besides, it's thorough enough to let Tilia's ministerial delegation rule on its behalf until it decides on a successor.

As for Chrono, I only pray that Marquis Elakis' successor is a decent figure.

The next day,

"... Phew"

Looking up at the thin dirty hospital ceiling, Chrono sighed in a dark mood.

"... I need to wake up and go check on my men"

Out of bed, Chrono quickly changed into his military uniform.

Good morning, Admiral.

"Oh, good morning"

Out of the hospital room, Krono exchanged greetings with his deputy.

"Admiral, do you have something to report?

"Is something wrong?

"Ah, well, it's very hard to say."

When Chrono asked back, the deputy said rarely.

Leila just said she was leaving the army.

"To? What do you mean?

Not knowing what the words meant, Chrono turned his voice upside down.

"Anything...... you think I'm the kind of woman who can be proud of Master Chrono? You know what that means?

To the words of his deputy, Krono was struck like he had been hit in the head.

The words I told Leila yesterday were Chrono's true intentions.

If that wasn't serious, there wouldn't be one thing in Chrono's life that could be called real.

"Oh, is that it? Huh... Anyway, I'm gonna hold you back!

"Already, he's easy to get citizenship." That's okay!

As Chrono raised his screaming voice, the deputy turned his torso like he was barometric.

"That's what I thought I'd say, and I'm restraining you downstairs."

"Squeeze!"

Chrono thumbed up and ran to Layla to roll down the stairs.

Surrounded by a large number of sub-people, Leila was nestled in the center of the hall.

Worn clothes and one bag, that was Leila's property.

"... Leila"

"Dear Chrono,"

When Chrono called his name, Leila opened her eyes to surprise.

"How could you, all of a sudden, quit the army?"

"Because I was in the military to gain citizenship, so. As long as we get citizenship, there's no point in being here."

Leila had a no-face faceless expression and mouthed a dialogue like a coincidence of sounds.

"If so, how could... I'm not the kind of woman to be proud of"

"From whom, that"

You must have noticed from your deputy.

Leila glanced at the deputy sitting near the stairs.

"I need you to tell me why. Otherwise, I'm not convinced."

"It means as it is. I was... born in the slums of Empire City. It is the mother of an elf who was a prostitute and a child born between customers. Until I enlisted in the army, many times, I was raped... and assigned here, then to the Marquis of Elakis. How can I be so proud of you for being such a filthy half-elf?"

Leila smiled sadly.

Too harsh... even that harshness can only imagine Chrono being born and raised in Japan and welcomed as an adopted son by the nobility of this world... I guess Leila has given up on all sorts of things in her life.

Because she's a half-elf, because she's a whore's daughter, because she's been raped so many times, and Layla must have convinced herself every time there's something painful going on.

So this time Leila tried to give up. Before Chrono learned about her past and had an unfortunate ending.

Chrono couldn't say anything. I have to say something, if I don't, I know I can't hold Leila back.

Chrono's thoughts remained empty, and Leila slowly walked out.

And

"... Goodbye, Master Chrono"

"... Huh!

Chrono was reflexively grabbing Layla's wrist.

"Please let me go, let me go!

Even as Layla screamed, Chrono wouldn't let go.

"I was delighted with the words you said. But with you, I feel miserable. Born and raised too differently. What do you know about me? There's no basis, it's just hard to be nice!

"..."

Rolled unilaterally by Layla, Chrono shrugged small.

"Huh?"

"… the Universal Declaration of Human Rights"

Krono desperately remembered what he taught in middle school as he panicked in the middle.

"Eh, all human beings are born free... equal about dignity and rights, was it?

"I've never heard of Sekaijin Kensengen"

Leila groaned as confused, and Chrono panicked this time.

"You may not believe me, but I'm from another world."

"Are you going to be lied to?

"It's not! I'm really from another world! In the original world, nobility, civilians... I grew up being taught that way that I shouldn't discriminate against anyone or beat them up. So, so..."

Chrono desperately spinned his words, but at the same time felt uninterrupted helplessness.

It's too absurd to be from another world or something.

If I hadn't seen you like this, I wouldn't believe it myself.

I'm being ridiculed, I can't help thinking.

"How could you, for my sake... throw up to lie like that"

"Well, you don't have to believe I'm from another world, but I'm not lying about how I feel about trying to hold you back. That's all I want you to believe."

Layla was staring at Chrono with her eyes moistened with tears.

"Am I... can I stay?

"Stay here."

Chrono nodded quietly.

"I'm a half-elf, a whore's daughter, and I've been raped so many times... still"

"Still. It's not your responsibility to be a half-elf or born a whore's daughter, and does that determine your value and life? You're a victim because you were raped... oh, sorry, I can't say"

Tears convey Layla's cheeks.

"... Dear Chrono. A little, just a little bit of time to sort out your feelings. I want to think about it for one night, and then I want to answer your feelings about Krono."

Feeling something uninterrupted by Leila's appearance that red tides her cheeks, Chrono exhaled relief at being held back by her men.

That night, in the private room of the Marquis residence of Elakis...... Krono was lying in bed, spending time for no reason.

"... overnight, think about it. I was relieved earlier, but you didn't decide to stay in the army, did you? But if Leila thinks about it and gives you an answer, you have to respect it."

As Chrono was whining to himself, the door was knocked.

Who could it be at this hour? and as I tilted my neck open the door, Layla stood on top of me, subtracted.

"... oh, that Chrono-sama"

"What's the matter, at this hour?

As Chrono inquired, Leila narrowed her shoulders in fright of something.

"Maybe, you snuck in?

"... Yes"

Katoon, Katoon and footsteps sounded.

Unfortunately, Tilia's ministers are not as indistinguishable as Chrono.

If you find out Leila, a soldier, snuck into the Marquis Mansion, you should be in custody, and then interrogate him or so.

"Come in."

"Yes!