Sairin Yuusha no Fukushuu Hanashi

Episode Two: Unusual Things/Things That Don't Change

The Demon King's army is focusing on the kingdom that summoned the brave men.

They have multiple Four Heavenly Kings out there so other countries can't send reinforcements.

It's only a matter of time before the enemy falls into the king's capital.

How long has it been since you've been a brave man to be told such a story?

It is an ambush that the kingdom has chosen against the demon king's army, which gradually narrows the siege net.

The status quo, where more than one Four Heavenly King is coming, the longer the battle prolongs, the more exhausted the kingdom becomes due to the difference in individual powers.

To avoid that, he decided to steal the enemy's eyes and ambush them, setting up a short-term showdown.

Naturally, it was I who played the most important role in the ambush.

With all his might, he could also have fought from the front with the power of the brave.

But at the time, I was cluttered in my handling of magic and unsuitable for prolonged combat.

"If we keep going north through this forest, we can get out directly beside the enemy battalion. Let's go before our enemies find out what's going on."

"Oh, oh."

Moving forward is in the deep, poorly scaffolded woods.

I knew it as knowledge, but naturally, it's hard for just high school students to go smoothly through the precarious woods of scaffolding.

"Ugh!?"

All I could think about was moving forward on the wet ground, on the exposed roots of trees, on the mossy rocks, and I almost slipped and fell over again and again.

"Oops. Are you all right, sir?

It's the blonde knight walking next door - Lucifina - who gives me that kind of support.

"Are you hurt?

"... oh. Bad. It's too late to move on, and it's just annoying."

"That's not true. If you do something unfamiliar, it's only natural that things don't work out at first. Besides, you're fighting for us, so you don't have to worry about anything."

There's a trick to walking in these places.

Lucifina told me, smiling.

"Lucifina and the others are amazing."

"No. If you become a knight, you will be taught how to walk as much as you dislike in training. I was born in a forest, so I was able to walk naturally before I was trained."

Lucifina followed me in a soft tone, feeling sorry for me.

"Ha. Though, if we keep going at this pace, the sun will go down."

I heard a grumpy man right behind me.

Looking back, a red-haired man in a robe was walking in sweat.

Sure, it was a man named Luisas, a court magician, who leads the sorcery division?

"Mr. Lewsas. I don't know how to say that."

"But I'm sure it's true. I wonder if Meltsama and I could have been given a little more accommodating protection."

…………

As a brave man, I decided to fight.

But there was too much stuff for me.

That's because I've never done anything in the original world before.

Because it just got flushed and I wasn't even trying to do anything.

So even in this situation, I can't do anything.

Yeah, that's when I thought.

"Mr. Luzas, look up there"

"Ah?

Just after Lewsas turned up, following Lucifina's words.

"Ugh!?"

Luzas stepped on the roots of a tree that was protruding from the ground, slipping and rolling down the ground.

"Here, because you say bad things about people."

Lucifina scolds as she forces her fallen Luzas to stand and swell her cheeks.

"Chip...... that's enough. Hey brave man, at best watch your step and your back."

Reddish his face, Lewsas falls back with his tongue pounding.

with that look in anger. Lucifina dropped it off,

"Heh, heh"

With a pranky look, it erupted.

I was quite surprised at what Lucifina said and did that seemed serious.

"You don't have to worry about it, because it's good. Yeah, I'm telling you, Mr. Lewsas isn't very good at exercising either. Maybe you should."

At the same time, I felt lighter about the follow-up she would give me.

"... thanks"

"No. But don't take him badly. Yeah, I can see it, he's a good looking after man. However, I think I am concerned because something hard happened a while ago."

Talking about that, we move on through the woods.

Now, events in distant memories.

When it was sweet and pitiful, it happened.

Remember, what I think.

That you won't be able to go back to being a fool, like you were these days.

It's just a sentiment.

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- We're in a forest covered in depressed trees.

When I heard of the underworld, I imagined a blurry, heavenly place.

A place like that, covered in yellow clouds, where anything you want comes out pompous.

But it wasn't, actually.

A place where there is ground, where there is nature, where there are laws of physics similar to the present world.

This was such a realistic place.

"- We'll talk later. It's a pain in the ass, but before they find us, it's gonna be a long way off."

Soon after repelling the strange monsters, and not long after hearing the circumstances, Luzas started walking with Tsukatsuka.

I was cruising to see if I could trust this guy, but Lucifina started walking with my hand, so I decided to follow him first.

That's how I followed him. It was the woods that were ahead.

Wet in the woods, poor scaffolding.

Avoid exposed tree roots and rocks and move on.

"Kind of reminds me of the old days"

Shut up and go ahead. As I stared at Luisas' back, Lucifina walking next door shrugged about that.

to the chewy Lucifina voice, choosing words,

"It's not gonna be a problem for a second."

Where it opened, Lewsas stopped his leg.

When I think I've waved my wand, the light ripples around me.

It's a junction that covers up existence.

When Lewsas magically cut a nearby tree, he sat back on the stump.

Lucifina has also used the sword in her hand to make an impromptu chair and tell her to sit down.

"For one thing, it's good to see you, Mr. Io"

"... oh. But I'm sorry, but I haven't swallowed up the situation yet. Why are you two here?

For the first time in a long time, I can't even afford to rejoice.

The same goes for those monsters, but it doesn't surprise me that these two are here and acting together.

"Do you know where this is?

"Underworld, right?

Nodding with a serious look, Lucifina continues her words.

"We have a general understanding of the situation in which Io is placed. So I was able to rush under Mr. Io, who was being attacked by the wreckage"

"About me?

I don't understand it in detail, but this world and the underworld shouldn't be able to interfere with each other.

How did you figure out my situation while I was in the underworld?

Or are we free from the underworld to see what is going on in this world?

"You're on the side of thinking stupid things. It's a simple story. Not long ago, I saw Hardia's shit coming out of the underworld. He sent my eyes where he went in."

"That's where we saw her and you fighting."

…………

"Ha. Nevertheless, you really don't learn. Hey."

with a distorted grin and said Luzas as he threw up and threw it away.

"Oh, my gosh, whee, trust someone else, and get betrayed by a quote. It has to be a joke."

"... what?

"It's true, Wo. Whatever, you can smash him in here so he doesn't expose any more idiots, Amatsu."

It was when Lewsas sat down and tried to put up a cane.

"Here!"

"Oops."

Lucifina's fist pierced Luisas' belly.

"What the fuck!

"You must be the one saying something stupid, Mr. Lewsas! We talked about that kind of thing before we got here!

"Ouch, hey, stop it, idiot!

"You are the fool! Here!"

Lucifina swells her cheeks as she pounds Luzas' head off the stump choking.

Looking like he had been detoxified by the look of it, Lewsas sat back on the stump again with a tongue slap.

"I'm sorry Mr. Luisas said something weird, Mr. Io. But I know what's going on out there, and I owe it to Mr. Luisas to help Io. Would you mind not fighting and listening to me for a moment?

If I had taken it from Lewsas, I wouldn't be able to talk about it.

I don't care, but I decided to listen first.

"I came here, maybe, about the void labyrinth, and I think it was right away"

When I woke up, Lucifina said she was already in the underworld.

That time things go past the back of my brain and pain runs on my chest.

As soon as it came, Lucifina understood the situation in which the underworld was placed.

That this is not a paradise as it is told in this world, but a hellish place where the weak are fed.

The weak of will and power cannot withstand the air of the underworld, and their souls are melted.

Even if that is avoided, he will be assaulted and killed by those who are making it wide here or by the wreckage.

"This is what happened to the underworld, and I soon realized it was something due to Hardia's power over this place. Hardia, sealed by Master Melt, is distorting the underworld."

I just made a move to do something about this place, and Lucifina seems to have met Lewsas.

At first, Luisas was attacked without question, and Lucifina managed to persuade him.

I was half-hearted at first, Luzas, but when I heard about Hilde Garda, I seemed convinced.

"Still, it doesn't change that my body has sinned..."

"Amatsu killed that cunt, didn't he? You wouldn't even be able to come to the underworld anyway, and now I don't care. If you didn't want to do it, it doesn't mean you blame Gucci."

Being in the underworld means that Lucifina died satisfied, at least.

I couldn't do anything. I have no right to say anything.

I was just a little relieved to learn that Lucifina's death wasn't just about regret and suffering.

... Not that I have any idea that Lewsas is coming to the underworld.

"... Yes. I'll keep talking."

Luisas, who had come before the underworld, also understood the tragedy of this world.

The two of us acted together to try to do something about it, and something immediately went wrong.

Hardia opened the gates of the underworld.

From there on out, as I just heard.

Two people who saw the end of the battle came under me, falling, and to this day.

"I couldn't help but laugh when I saw those skeletons about to be killed."

"... what is that wreckage?

"It's the fruit of a person who has lost his or her self. The souls of those who have been melted in the underworld are called 'wrecks' here."

So it's a wreck.

I was finally good at who they were, who looked like neither the Demons nor the Subhumans.

That's the end of being the victim of the underworld, which is a story that gets a lot worse in the chest.

"What does Io intend to do now?

In the bitter air, Lucifina opened her mouth again.

"I'm getting out of here and going back to this world. I owe Hardia something I have to pay back."

"Then it's the same purpose as us."

As relieved, Lucifina laughed.

"We're heading to the gate to stop Hardia, too."

"We mean you, too?

I turn to Luisas, who was silent with a rugged look.

I can somehow guess for what purpose this guy is moving.

If you were listening to me in this world, you know that the forest where Lewsas lived was attacked by the Demon King's Army - and that Hardia was responsible for her sister's death.

If the reason this man betrayed me is the death of my sister, the action this guy is going to take is determined.

But that's no reason to trust Luisas.

Because one of the causes of my sister's death lies with me.

"Oh, no. But I can't believe I'm going to get along with you. If I could kill Hardia, I'd do anything. Me alone, but I'm gonna kill that fucking Fallen Light God."

"... Mr. Lewsas. I know I have no right to pinch my mouth to the circumstances of you and Mr. Io. But you do know that, don't you? Alone, you'll never get under Hardia."

…………

"Mr. Io."

Lucifina's silver eyes stare straight at me.

"... I was betrayed by him. That's why I killed him in the Abomination Labyrinth. Vengeance itself, is already over. But I can't get along with him because of that. If I get stabbed in the back again, it's not like I got stuck. There's no way I can trust you."

If so, and.

"- About me, can't you trust me?

I was a little surprised by the words.

"Lucifina is something you can trust."

Thirty years ago, I found out that Hilde Garda was the cause.

Then there's no reason why I don't trust Lucifina.

Lucifina was who I thought she was.

"Hehe, thank you. Then why don't you leave Mr. Lewsas to me?

After laughing happily, Lucifina has suggested that since she turned her gaze to both me and Luzas.

"As I said, I have no right to speak to the circumstances of both of you. But now, our purpose is the same. It will not be possible to reach the gate without all of us joining forces. That's why I want you to join forces now."

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"If anything happens to Mr. Lewsas to harm Mr. Io, I will definitely stop him. I'll protect you from Io."

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"Besides, I trust Mr. Lewsas. By the time I got under Mr. Io, I made Mr. Lewsas promise not to hurt you. So I believe that there is nothing like him betraying you. Right, Mr. Lewsas?"

"Hardia is the only target I have right now. More or less."

Lucifina's reaching for me.

"- Trust me, will you cooperate now?

I remembered Elfi's words.

See for yourself whether you trust me or not, and decide.

I believe in Idler and he betrayed me again.

Now I know he was using some kind of magic to interfere with my mind.

He took advantage of my sweet heart.

"I knew I couldn't trust Luisas."

…………

"But I believe in Lucifina. So I swear I'm not gonna do anything to Luisas."

Grab Lucifina's hand.