Monster no Goshujin-sama

Four.

Five days have passed since I asked Silan about his future policy.

While causing the damage caused by the outbreak of Ghoul, the cremation of the war dead was completed by yesterday.

Siran tells me that he will give the soldiers a day's rest today and then leave the fort tomorrow.

The corpse of the monster, which was massive, has also been handled smoothly by Lily's diligence, day and night. When the work was done by the end of the day, Lily, who was face-to-face, reported it this morning.

Discount in terms of what happened then.

... Lily, who can only take time in the morning or so because she is busy trying to get the work done by the due date, seemed to unconsciously seek to make up for it.

Every day, morning defenses are becoming more dangerous because of the increased intensity of the offensive side as well as the loss of defense on the defensive side.

In short, I myself felt rusty somewhere in my heart.

Iron self-control was needed to avoid being flushed.

Either way, the work is going well.

All you have to do is get ready for departure.

I just looked at it a little farther, but this one seemed to be going well.

What was a little surprising to watch was the presence of 'automobiles' in this world.

"It's not like the Running Iron Box, which is in the world of Lord Takahiro."

It looks like a simple front carriage.

However, there is no sign of a horse pulling a car.

By using demonic stones, using the magic of the atmosphere as a power source, this car moved.

Not much speed, at best to the extent that the constant runs. It seems normal to operate at walking speed.

Especially in the Tree Sea, the magic of dwelling in the land is high.

It was a story about accumulating magic not just during the day when it would be moving, but during the night when it could not move, allowing for continuous operations during the day.

"The magic of the other world is amazing."

"You're ecological. I only know by memory, but I'm like Solar Carr. The inability to drive at night is a safety issue, so it's a little different there, though."

"Though I think Lord Takahiro's world is more amazing. You have the technology to get magic from the sun, don't you? Lord Kanahiko said."

"... subtly different, but for the most part, that's a good understanding"

I had trouble explaining what was different, so I was going to cloud my words.

By the way, there are horses in this world, but they're afraid to enter the tree sea.

It has to be a specially trained military horse to run the tree sea, and if the speed of travel increases, it becomes more difficult to deal with when a monster strikes you.

For this reason, this type of car was used with less effort than horses, especially when transporting supplies to fortifications built in these tree seas and when travelling without haste outside the tree seas.

This time, this car is used for the transfer of soldiers who have difficulty moving due to the after-effects of the injury.

One of them was to be loaned to us, too.

Because there are people in need when they are seen on the road, such as Rose and Gabella.

I have decided to be graciously sweet.

After hearing from Silan about the detailed plans for his departure tomorrow, I headed to Rose's.

Lily and I will behave differently in front of the room with the last job remaining.

I have an accompanying knight, so skinship is at the very least, hugging my luxurious body and then waving it apart.

I knocked on the door of the room.

"Rose, it's me."

There is a hard noise in the aisle.

... it seemed as if it represented a slight tension born inside me.

"Good morning, sir"

What greeted me was not a topless mannequin doll - but a gray-haired woman wearing a mask that wrapped herself in clothes borrowed from Lily and covered her face.

I'm unfamiliar with the outfit, but this is what Rose looks like now.

On the day of the Fort Chilean raid, I joined Rose before pursuing the hillside. By then, she was already dressed in this outfit.

The mask covering the face is a new one, with holes only in the right eye area.

It was also clear from the peek of one eye from it that her face was no longer a tasteless, dry, up-and-coming thing.

Apparently, Rose was sneaking up on her body to make a change.

I understood that what she had hidden from me until now was her obsession as an artisan, not wanting to show it until she could convince herself.

Rose's facial parts were damaged when she encountered the monster that pushed her over to Fort Chilea, and I have not yet been shown her face under the mask because she is not yet in a condition to be shown to others in the process of being created in the first place.

Still, it was easy to imagine that her face under the mask had an elaborate construction that could barely be distinguished from that of a human being, even if only by a slight peek into the eye area.

Shortly after joining Rose, that was already a surprise.

Anyway, I was with Kato because he was a stranger who hid his face in a mask... but by a pass connecting me and my family, he was certainly the girl who knew it was Rose.

Rose now still has her lower body remaining a doll from her neck and her legs extending from the hem of her arms and skirt out of her cuffs are peeled out of the joints of the joint part.

Skin colors are also those of inorganic mannequins, which I can't say is yet human-like.

But at the same time, it was a sure fact that she was so girly that she couldn't compare to before.

If you say so, it's adorable as a doll with a girl's heel.

The girliness of living together amidst inorganicity is gorgeous as a unique pity.

I see. I was convinced that making the 'cute doll' I used to say was about 'this'.

Stretching out her gray hair and turning it into a thick threesome at the back of her body, dressed in one-piece type clothing, from under a mask that conceals anything that stands out from her nose, this is all she has ever looked at with the same thoughtful gaze as before, as if she had a different impression of what should be called asexuality.

... Is it because of that?

There was a little confusion in me about dealing with her right now.

The girl in front of me is Rose.

It's my precious Rose. Nothing changes there as one.

But there is something mixed up in those perceptions. There's something I've missed so far.

Maybe that's the awareness that Rose is a girl.

... If I told someone about this, I'd be stunned.

In all the days I have spent with Rose, she became speechless, changing from a rustic wooden carving doll to a mannequin-like look.

In the process, I found out that her spirit was feminine, and I also found the girliness of her age in her relationship with Kato.

However, this transformation of her was somewhat decidedly different.

That's the first time I've ever felt the fact that Rose is heterosexual.

Around there, I must have been confused in my conversation with Rose.

Of course, just because she's heterosexual, there's nothing confusing about it.

Because it doesn't change anything that she's an important companion to me.

... that's supposed to happen, but there's no way I can actually manage the emotions in this chest with those reasoning.

I can't do anything about it. What a troubled state.

While I was deeply confused by the poor sitting situation, I walked through the door that Rose had opened to me, and I entered the room.

In the room, there was a girl.

"Good morning. You look good, Kato."

"Good morning, seniors. Thanks to you. It's all better now."

On a rug laid in the center of the room, there was a figure of Kato sitting with his front seat leg broken.

Leaning on Rose, who performs the work, he practiced feeling the magic flow while she was making magic tools.

It was her immediate goal to be able to handle magic by doing so.

"Gosh, shh, sama!

"Morning, Asalina. You look good, too."

Kato greeted her as she stroked her fingers as Asalina, who had grown up outside, snapped and rang from the back of my hand.

As I looked at them sideways, I straddled the room to a table placed at the window.

When Kato got up and sat down on the bed, Rose, who followed me, told me to sit face to face with her hand.

From beneath the mask, one Rose's eyes turned to me.

When I snorted at her, she got to her seat, a little lost.

Seeing that, Kato brushes a slight grin on his mouth.

……

During that time, I was somewhat observing, but there was no way Mr. Kato was forcing me.

- Mr. Kato has severe male phobia.

She was also in a bad mood when I tried to make my way with the transferees and knights I discovered on the trail in the tree sea before heading to the fort with Lily and the others.

Later, she was acting with Rose and Gabella, who were the residual group, but this time, as a force to catch up with Berta, one of the monsters who raided the fort, after I took them both, I heard they fell on their way to shelter in the tree sea with the Allied Knights.

He looked fine until he broke up with us, but I guess he was just acting like he wasn't worried about us.

He snuck up on the imposition, and then for a few days, he was sick and asleep.

As far as I'm concerned, is it even imprinted that I protected her in that mountain hut, and I've never been turned towards fear or rejection by her while traveling the tree sea before?

I'm just worried that it's still after I hear about you falling for being near a man, and it's something that makes you feel better.

So there was something to relieve me that I was still talking to face to face.

……

I was aware of myself feeling that way.

If it had been before, I might not have been able to honestly admit the relief in myself.

The changes that have taken place inside me since I came to Fort Chilea apparently have also worked in a good direction for my relationship with Mr. Kato.

And, as I noticed unexpectedly, Kato glanced at me.

"Is that it? Speaking of which, Kay, aren't you there today?

"Oh. Kay says he's busy today getting ready to leave tomorrow, so he's going that way."

Until yesterday, Kay was with me when I came here.

Because I needed her. [M]

For the last five days, there has been nothing I could do about the reprocessing of the fort.

Or, if you seriously think about the future, you can't have an unprovoked time.

We will set foot in the human world.

Even though we have allies and the immediate guiding principles are just as good as standing, it doesn't change that we are in a situation where we are not allowed to predict until we ensure a safe life.

But I was also tempted to wave my sword and train even though I knew everyone was busy working.

Because of this circumstance, I was practicing quietly manipulating magic in this room that Rose rents as a workplace, and I asked Kay, who had relatively little time to spare, to learn about common sense in this world.

Today that Kay is also busy preparing for tomorrow's departure.

When asked about those circumstances, Kato dropped his shoulder small.

"Really?... Too bad."

This time, when Mr. Kato fell, Silan and Kay were the only women nearby, he said.

There was a history of lending a hand at that time, and there was also a time when Kay looked after Kato, who was sleeping, at the fort, and they seemed to get along.

The presence of same-sex people like Kay is more comforting than Mr. Kato has about his male phobia.

The three of us, including Rose, were naturally interacting, and the girls' interaction was a smiling one.

"Ah. It was"

Kato's gaze, who raised her voice, shifted to Rose, who sat opposite me.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Rose. You said you wanted to talk to Senior Mashima."

"I don't mind if I talk to your husband about the real vegetables."

Apparently, Rose waited until our conversation was over.

"What is it, Rose? What are you talking about?

And when I urged him, Rose answered in awe.

"One is about the demon stone you borrowed."

"Is that it? What do you got?

By asking from me through Silan, Rose had borrowed from the Allied Knights some magic tools with demonic stones that I had also shown him before.

Those items are arranged on a rug in the middle of the room where Rose was working.

The assortment includes water bottles that overflow with magic, lighters that produce small fires, Knights rings that distinguish humans from ghouls, and tool bags that expand spaces and preserve objects.

As for the unprocessed demon stone Rose said she would like to get if possible, there was one used for the Knights ring, so she's giving it up.

As a demonic stone, it is not very valuable as a scrapstone, so I was also given permission to process it.

"As your husband knows, demon stones produce the same effects as magic by letting magic flow. I was interested in this. Because I wondered if there was anything I could do to help your husband."

Rose is right, Demon Stone seems like an attractive substitute for me too.

Even if I can manipulate magic myself, I can't handle magic.

I have no regrets about my previous decision to choose to strengthen physical abilities rather than attribute magic and increase my ability to avert crises, but if I could complement my combat abilities by magic by demon stones at all, I had nothing to say.

Demon Stone is a valuable substitute, but if Rose can master the art of making demon stones, the story changes.

The question is, is that possible?

"We need to know how it works first. So I asked Kay about how the Demon Stone works, and unfortunately she didn't know more."

"From what I told Silan before, it seems the Demon Stone was originally created for people who can't use magic. I guess I can use it without knowing how it works."

If you know how to use it, you can use it without knowing the principles, which is important for the spread of goods.

For example, even if I knew about solar power itself, I could not explain the principle to Silan.

Just like that, I guess there is hardly anyone but the side that makes it, who knows the principle by which demon stones work.

I can also ask that because the method of making the junction stone that protects the mountain huts deep in the tree sea from monsters has been lost.

Besides, unlike the world we were in, if tens of thousands of books are published each year in one country alone, the information shouldn't be coming and going like rage over the Internet.

There was no wonder, even if only human beings had limited knowledge of magic technology.

"I actually tried using demon stones, but I didn't know the principle. So I decided to talk to Sister Lily."

"To Lily?

"Yes. A sister can use magic without demon stones. I wondered if there was anything I could tell by comparing them."

I tilted my neck wondering if I could tell, but soon I realized that this was not surprisingly a bad idea.

The feeling is crazy because I have spent more than the last two months in the Tree Sea myself, but if you think about it, Lily is a monster deep in the Tree Sea and a magical user of the Third Staircase where this otherworldly human can't win the Zone.

This was the highest class of human reachable magic in this world, and rather as someone to consult, it could be said that there were no more candidates.

"So, what was Lily saying?

"My sister says that Demon Stone is an article that assists with the creation of the magic formations needed to build magic."

I frowned unexpectedly when I asked him in momentum.

"... I don't know what the magic team looks like when it comes to magic."

When I asked for a description of the jargon, it was like a jargon mixed response came.

These reactions seemed woven, "This is what Sister Lily was saying," and then Rose politely explained to me.

"You need the skill to manipulate magic in order to use it. But you can't use magic just that."

"Right. If I can do that, I can use magic too."

"In conclusion, it is necessary to move magic in certain streams. Doing so causes some kind of phenomenon that corresponds to it. There are laws like that in this world. In the case of magic, the flow manifests itself visibly as a magic formation, but this law itself does not work only for magic. The abilities inherent in us monsters follow the same laws."

"Hmm? So we humans can use the unique abilities of monsters?

"You're right, I think it's possible on reason, as long as we can shed magic in the same way"

When I was hooked, Rose nodded once and shook her neck to the side after that.

"But in practice, humans and other monsters won't be able to use monster-specific abilities. Because each individual monster has its own unique magic flow."

"I see. Speaking of which, you've heard that a knight's ring with the ability to discern Ghoul recognizes the difference between the pattern of human and Ghoul magic"

"My sister also used magic with her senses, so she didn't realize these laws until she tried using Demon Stone. I had the same ability to make magic tools."

"It's hard to question the obvious."

Same as an apple falling from a tree.

Someone in this world noticed those laws in the past, and I guess they used them to develop the Demon Stone.

"If I had told Mr. Rose before that it was strange to make magic tools, he would have given me back what was strange"

When I was convinced, Kato added as he remembered.

I ask Rose, who nodded back at her.

"If so, the function of the Demon Stone is to create a magic flow, right?

"You're wise."

As an image, you just have to think of the flow path through which the water flows.

I would have to make that flow myself, but the Demon Stone has a stream path dug from the beginning. Think of it that something special, like the demonic stone of translation, for example, that needs training to be used, is incomplete for some reason its flow path.

"Rose was a little bit able to successfully process the Demon Stone?

The mechanism of the Demon Stone turned out.

If you know how it works, the rest is whether you can create it with your own hands.

When I asked with anticipation, Rose waved the first time.

"No. Unfortunately,"

Rising Rose picks up a few from the magic tools of this world lined up on the rug and brings them here.

It was one stone that rolled out of the doll's palm onto the table.

There is a knight's ring with similar finishes, and one unprocessed one is rolling. None of the colors are black, and neither the unprocessed nor the processed remains the same.

"You have to know how magic flows if you want to carve it into a stream aimed at magic. But there seems to be a habit of every original stone of the Demon Stone. Three years...... no. If you have two years, you will be able to grasp the habit by trial and error, but right now it will be difficult."

"Right. Then there's no choice."

Rose said to me, breathing heavily.

"Yes, therefore I have tried with my own doings"

"... what?

Rose put on the table what was in the opposite hand to the previously unprocessed demon stone.

Finely carved blue stone - looks like, but has a wooden pattern rising on the surface.

"This is what I prototyped. Did I just say" mock demon stone "?"

"Impersonating Demon Stone...?

"I talked earlier about the inherent abilities of monsters, magic, demonic stones, all following the same principles. That means that if you prepare a particular path through which magic flows, magic can be reproduced, even if it's not a demonic stone. And I had the ability to make magic tools. I don't know about stones, but I know about trees."

When Rose touched the demon stone, a small amount of water jumped out of the stone's surface to wet the table.

That was certainly nothing more than a magical reproduction of the water attribute.

"It's still a prototype now, and some of it's sweet to make, but we're going to try to get it to the same level as the original Demon Stone any day"

"This is... really amazing"

"Thank you. Previously, I followed your husband's life and lived the experience of making various articles. Besides, I think I've been fortunate to have done a lot of fine work lately. It was a difficult job, but somehow the prototype was successful"

Rose pointed her eyes at the corner of the room as she touched the masked cheek with the doll's hand.

In the box placed there, a piece of wood, I guess, was making a small mountain.

"But my simulated demon stones also have problems. First of all, I cannot handle magic, so in order to grasp the exact flow of magic, I must actually use demonic stones. The simulated demon stones you can make will naturally be limited to copies of the demon stones you have used."

"I see. But that's enough."

I'll take the mock demon stone of wet water from Rose and let the magic flow through me, too.

This is a demon stone for life, but if I could copy a demon stone for combat, I would have as many uses as I wanted. I just wanted to get it somehow.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa

"Okay. Let me think about it for a second. This kind of thing is a use."

You might want to talk to Kanahiko.

Because he's more suited to this kind of thing than I am.

"I understand the report. I want you to continue your research."

"Accepted."

"This is the first part of the story. What do you mean, something else?

Put the mock demon stone on the table, and I urged Rose.

"Yes, Kay told me about this, but your husband told a woman named Silan, who's new to his family, to learn swordsmanship at this fort."

…… Yeah, only once. "

While confused that an unexpected name came out of Rose's mouth, I answer honestly what was asked.

"If I get a chance, I want you to tell me again, and I'm asking you to. What's wrong with that?

"It can be when you have time. Could you ask if our family would like to teach us too?

"... that's abrupt. I don't care if you just ask."

"Thank you"

To Rose, who bowed her head, I leaned my neck.

"But how come again"

"... because I was saddened by my lack of strength"

Rose raised her face and lay down her eyes under the mask peeking at only one side.

"I crossed the blade with that Doppel Queen named Anton the other day.... It was a monster with terrible powers. I was moving to cut off the enemy's exit, and I could not fulfill the service entrusted to me by your husband."

In a serious tone, repentance seeped in.

I'm not going to blame Rose for that.

That's more because I was responsible for misreading the situation and not realizing Anton was lying down.

But what she thinks of it herself is a different story.

If I tried to be a loyal girlfriend, failure to do my part must have been a matter of hatred.

"And then, isn't that even that anton just one of Kudo's manipulative monsters? On the contrary, this time, the man named Ten Letters that your husband fought was an opponent full of eating down even that gabella? Sister Lily told me I wasn't even stuck on my own. Even a sister stronger than me is. It won't even be a fight for me."

That's Rose, but she's never weak either.

She was originally a rare monster deep in the tree sea, and the doll's body has been rebuilt and strengthened compared to when we met. Even gear is powerful.

They are all obtained by her constant efforts.

But still, it's hard to interact from the front with having cheats.

I was going to be ready, but their violence was so overwhelming that I was still scared to run.

Regardless, that is fine if it is not contested, but the status quo does not allow for prediction.

He's missing. There's Kudo, and there's an unidentified person in the expedition who was connected to the Ten Letters and Kudo.

Even if not, our position in this world is unstable.

Though there is a twat called the Knights of the Alliance, I can never be relieved.

In case of unforeseen circumstances, the forces of war had to be aligned whenever possible.

"We must be strong at all costs."

"So, Cyran?"

I exhaled convincingly.

"Regardless, I don't think we should only explore that, but also other measures, such as the use of mock-up demon stones that we reported earlier. But......"

"I know. Learning combat techniques would be one particularly effective means"

"Yeah. Originally, our battle, a monster with powerful physical abilities, was only left to strength and speed, the fighting instincts we were born with and the combat experience that has survived this forest. There's no such thing as cultivated technology, and it takes time for us to systematize it ourselves."

One of the things humans do well against monsters of great power is to be able to pass on knowledge and technology to future generations.

Whether oral or written up as letters, accumulated knowledge can be a major weapon.

Rose's suggestion was an eye-opener there.

"Whatever the case, acquiring combat skills backed by a long history should be a huge plus -"

Rose, who spoke enthusiastically, accidentally missed his face there.

"- That was the suggestion from the genuine vegetables."

I was followed, and I saw Rose's face.

There was Kato, who looked distracted.

"Hey... Mr. Rose!?

For a few seconds, Kato, who was frightened, leaned back from the bed in a panic.

Rarely, the expression was full of wolves.

"Didn't we talk about that to make it a suggestion from Mr. Rose?!?

"But this is a very useful measure. You shouldn't hide what was suggested by the genuine vegetables."

"What, was this what Mr. Kato said?

When I asked, Rose turned around and nodded.

"Yes, I decided that these things should be known to your husband as well"

Sure. Rose was right about that.

But even I owe Kato.

I didn't want to do anything as sweet as I could to her liking without knowing anything.

Besides, it's important for her to be duly acclaimed.

Around here, you thought the same thing, and I told Kato in such a way that Rose would include it.

"That's better, 'it's really good for real vegetables,' right?

"... ahhh"

Kato was under the impression that the valve would stand in my body, but now she was just pounding her mouth.

Zhu rises on his cheeks, no heart. His eyes look moist.

With her like that on her ass, Rose continued.

"The genuine vegetables are really giving me a lot of thought. We also get some suggestions regarding simulated demon stones"

"Heh. Really?"

Kato pointed at me when I hit the hammer.

My face was immediately laid down.

"No. The... it's not a big deal. Someone would have said something like that."

"No. These things better start as soon as possible. Thank you."

It's a little bad for Kato, but my voice was laugh-inclusive.

panic or shy. She looked like one of those younger girls, fresh to me, and honestly seemed to smile.

"Thank you, Kato. I want you to keep telling me if you've ever noticed."

"... ok"

My face stayed down, but Kokuri and Kato nodded at me.

I have a grin on my mouth.

The shadow, which had always fallen on the expression, is fading.

Being here was a natural girl who could be thanked and illuminated.

Being seen like this.

That in itself seemed to make me feel the change in my relationship with her, and I was delighted.

That's why it was a little unfortunate.

"Even so, can't we rely too much from now on"

"... Huh?

"Unlike Kato, we're not going to the capital. We need to be stronger too."

As Silan has said before, as for the surviving metastasizers other than me, we have decided to head to the Imperial Capital.

Unless you have the ability to lead a monster, there's no reason not to be welcomed in the Imperial City.

Of course, so is Kato.

Kato, who had traveled with us all along the Tree Sea, meant goodbye when he arrived in the next city.

It is unfortunate to break up with her for making friends with Rose.

If my relationship with her has only just begun to move, it would be displeasing.

But the first promise we made to take you to a safe place must be fulfilled.

So I finally got a little reward for what she did.

"I don't have much time anymore, but I want you and Rose to get along"

Kato, who heard my words, slowly raised his face.

The redness of the cheeks had already caught.

"... Yes"

Ugh, the presence of the girl in front of me turned away.

I felt that way, and I was confused.

Kato's smile made me feel that way.

That was a completely different, dry grin than the one I showed earlier.

There was a shadow that should have been gone.

Intuitively, I realized that something of the words I had just spoken had made her do so.

But I don't know what made you do that.

I can't even speak to the detours more than it is.

I kept my mouth shut.

Kato has a powerless grin on his mouth and drops his gaze on his lap.

Awkward silence falls.

It was then that a calm voice called about me.

"Your husband."

Rose turned to me.

"I only have one more thing left to tell you, are you sure?

Speaking of which, were you in the middle of a conversation?

"... what"

"I need a favor."

Rose said.

"Can't we take the real vegetables with us to a small country where we're going?

Bullshit Kato raised his face, which was reflected on the edge of his sight.

"Get Kato...?

Rose nodded at me bewildered by the abrupt suggestion.

"Yes. I'm sure your husband knows about the fall of the genuine vegetables. In that state, all of a sudden, she should be too careful to be all the strangers around her."

……

It was true.

Mr. Kato's condition is known to the Allied Knights, and will be given considerable consideration.

But even so, it remains the same that all those around them will not know.

Regardless of the normal state, Kato now has a mentally unstable part.

I can't imagine how much Rose's presence supports her, but it's not a very smart choice to pull them apart.

"If it's going to happen, I want to stay beside her, too.... and to your husband. If possible, I want you to stay with her."

"I...?

I'm not sure about this.

It's not like Rose, a friend who has spent a long and intense time in the Tree Sea.

Even if I'm with you, it doesn't make much sense.

... No.

If you think about it, it may be precious to her that even though it is true that all the men around her are the object of fear, the coincidence of becoming, it is okay for me to be nearby.

"I know what Rose's trying to say."

I nodded one thing.

"But why don't you come with us?"

"Is your husband disagreeing?"

"It's not like that. However, by the very nature of me leading the monster, my position in this world would be unstable, right? Being with me makes it undeniable that Mr. Kato could get into some sort of disturbance."

"So, if you want the real vegetables after you know the circumstances, your husband won't object to you taking her."

"... don't be like that"

Even for me, if it's what Kato wants, there's no difference in making it happen.

I nodded and Rose looked back at Kato.

"Your husband says this, what about the genuine vegetables?

"Wow, I..."

Weak, Mr. Kato missed his gaze.

Seeing her like that, Rose took a seat.

When I knelt in front of Kato sitting in bed, I took her squeezed little hand.

"Remember, genuine vegetables. the dialogue I said."

It was a gentle tone like I'd never heard either.

Kato glanced at him as if he was angry.

"In my happiness, thou art. Remember that."

"Mr. Rose......"

"Or is Mr. Kato going to make me unhappy?

"... I don't think that's a good way to put it"

A stubborn tone is for a distracted friend.

Rose seemed to laugh under the mask.

"You may be sloppy. You must be properly happy. Say it, be honest. If you make a sincere appeal, your husband will respond properly."

Interactions I don't know about.

But I guess it was important to them.

Kato, who was looking at Rose as if she were looking at him, glanced at him.

"Se, seniors..."

She clearly looked frightened.

But that was so much better than the earlier faint grin that made her feel far away.

Because that meant she was fighting the cowardice in herself.

"I... want to go with my predecessor,"

Pompous, said Kato in a small voice.

"You could pull your leg. It could annoy you. So I know you can't say this. But still..."

"I can't believe I'm pulling my leg..."

I almost noticed.

The dialogue the girl in front of you is looking for is not like that.

I'm sure Kato is talking to me for the first time about me.

Fearing to be rejected, but diligently.

Then what should I do?

Shouldn't we be paying her back now?

By Kato's side, Rose is staring at me.

It was a trustworthy look.

I laughed small.

"... Okay, I get it"

If you think about it, it's possible that there's a man with a cross among the equally collected metastasizers who went to Imperial Capital.

Even the expedition stinks of kina.

If you start thinking about the possibilities, any bad things can happen.

If that's the case, you'd better stay within this reach.

Then, at least, we can only protect it with this hand.

"Kato, come with us."

Kato's delightful expression when I said that was so fascinating that I accidentally fell in love with him.

Tomorrow, a line, including me and my family, and Kato, left the fort with hundreds of surviving soldiers.