Seirei no Moribito

This must be a nightmare.

Little little my resistance was a pointless word before too enormous a power.

- We found him, traitors.

... No, there's no reason for that. My resolve to worry and worry and to believe - was easily broken.

That voice is the voice I have heard every day...... the second faith of the village...... too young woman village chief,

"How dare you hunt me down?"

Dear village chief, it was.

I just had to be stunned by the fact that I was unconcerned and by the least emotional cold eyes I've ever had and their “wings”.

Yeah, that's all I could do.

The mayor of the village, scattering his overwhelming presence and looking down on this one with the sun on his back from above... was, as he said, a "protector”.

The colour of the wings that tear through burnt clothes with flames and grow from the back is - lacquer black. While it is the color of the village mayor's hair and eyes, it combines beautiful modeling colors with the poisonousness of even being hesitant to touch, and even the sun's rays are deactivated.

The word that stands for the current village chief is yes… "Black Wings".

“The Wings of the Rainbow" shrugged “The Black Wings”... was about the Mayor of the village.

"Protector" with color. That's who she is. "

A week ago, the words he spoke to me come back to life with clarity.

I didn't want to believe it. Because the village chief is the village chief...,

"If the mayor of the village is a“ protector, "all the Tsuji fit. The witches are the people of the West, the attitude of the villagers who are uncomfortable with the system of dedicating their" contributions, "and… the ease with which they can use" spiritual art. "

So I denied it.

Because I believed, because I wanted to believe. But the effort went away as a bubble.

Because the sight that spreads in front of me was the reality.

"Her purpose is probably 'Ifried'. That way, I can convince you of that unusual vigilance. Maybe this village itself is her purpose. '

Oh...... all the questions have been raised.

The village chief... the village chief was using us. It's all for the Spirit Tree.

"You're a boulder, Leo. He summons the" Great Spirit ”while he is a man, and performs the legendary" magic "called the" Golden Ideal Theory "with ease. Yes, I've never seen him before. There's no such thing as a skewed, heterogeneous being like you."

"... that's polite. Thank you, village chief. - No,“ Blackwing. "

He lifted his gaze over the sky, supporting my body, which was about to collapse unexpectedly,

"- I knew you were a" protector ”. I raised this village in consort with the Spirit Tree just to continue offering sacrifices forever. Yes, it was all just dancing in your palm."

"Well, why didn't you point me out as a“ protector ”when you knew so much?

"It's a simple story. I could not betray the thoughts of the villagers who believed in you. In fact, when you told Laura that you might be the“ protector, "she said you could never do that. I may be a convenient believer for you, but I thought I had pure faith in you."

Using the pure trust of the villagers… a place that continues to mass produce as a convenient “tribute".

That's the village, the "black wing” boxyard.

He was right, we were just dancing on the palms of the "Black Wings”.

"Why... no,“ Blackwing. "What were you... using us for?

Hide the grid and inquire with my gaze at the sky in the same way.

The question that arose when I assumed it was true.

to my voice, "The Black Wings" shake their wings slightly,

"... okay, I'll tell you. This is what the Spirit Tree I worship said - can't you produce a large quantity of" Protector "? Even as they chased away the foolish rats who tried to defy the great" Spirit Tree ”, they snubbed inside... As they repeatedly fought against them,“ Spirit Tree ”was discovered to be a grand tour as it is now. That's why. The Spirit Tree has entrusted me with this project as a more efficient means of destroying it."

Pale, just telling the facts.

"Having considered that eating together alone would not do much good, I wondered if human beings would, and thus I experimented. I've made repeated attempts and mistakes to dedicate human beings and create" protectors. "

In that conversation,

"But devoting a human being didn't keep a" protector "... so you tried to create a“ protector ”in a different way"

He also talks pale speculation.

"For example... trying to transform a human into another being, or a“ protector "based on a human being, or something."

Without any grin, he says off.

In contrast, "Black Wings" return joy in the grand grin I know.

"You don't listen... you reincarnated an incompetent person into a more capable" protector. ”You should be thanking me and not getting resented, right?

"But do you hear the sacrificed people say," Spirit Tree ”? I used myself to reincarnate the word" Spirit Tree ”into a quote I killed."

"It can easily be rewritten, such as human memory. When they are reincarnated into the Guardian, their self-consciousness disappears. All you have to do is add faith so that Master" Spirit Tree ”comes first. That way, they wouldn't think that they were going to turn against the Lord."

In a world of just two, the two rush off.

The same rush as usual, but each other's emotions are like the opposite.

He glances back at “Black Wings" with a scornful eye, and “Black Wings” looks back at him with a gaze that just says he looks like a bug. A calm rush, stripped of hostility and malice.

He was the one who broke the equilibrium as the invisible sparks flew across.

"... then can you explain to me what Laura meant to be a" contribution ”?

"... let me show you that in practice. Leo Travis?"

A cold glance like “Black Wings” steel moved from him to me, who was relative - in the form of plundering my cheeks, a black wind blew.

"... eh... eh?

A muscle of red streamed down his cleaved cheek,

"This is why I made you a" tribute. ”I need you to stand around as a good lady, Laura."

A black wind gathers in the right hand of the “Black Wing" and a two-wielded sword forms.

hold in her right hand the dagger and dagger she always used, with a fierce grin,

"I don't choose the means for the purpose. But I don't want to die. Well... it's hard to add and subtract."

Mumbling like a solitaire, the village chief threw a black sword at the same time.

It moved in front of me during the moment - his flaming sword bounced it off.

I don't even know when the hell I pulled the knife out and let the flames wrap around, a flash of defense.

Different dimensions, the battle between the two began.

A metal noise called kakin,

"The brilliance of a burning fire." Explosion "!

"Ice sword falling quietly." Ice Out ""

The two spoke of "spirituality” at the same time.

The flames that explode in front of the "Black Wings" show an artistic sight, sealed by ice balls, cracking and falling as if they were heart-shattering.

with glittering sun reflections and glowing ice cubes on his back, he pulled out another sword,

"" Flaming Sword/Crushing Slash "!

By creating an explosion on the soles of the feet, it is used as a stepping stone in the air and cut into “black wings”.

Rip straight and horizontal with the right knife and slit vertically with the left knife. A small explosion began to occur in a chain from the edge where the sword was waved,

"Downpouring is the bounty of the water tree, and floating in the devil are the bells and the ten wheels." Blue Ecstasy ""

Speaking of the “spiritual art” of water at high speed, instead of exploding, he also broke the sword of his flaming attributes,

"Come disease." Windcutter "!

But he used the remaining sword of the wind attribute to draw the magic formation, cutting off all ten currents of water that he tried to strike at him using the blade of the wind.

I thought it was a rare way for him to cut off his power. But what I thought was that Black Wings felt it in a clearer way, too.

"Come disease." Windcutter ""

Speak of the “sorcery” he spoke of as “spiritual art", a blade of wind that is more powerful and faster than before… turned into a sickle, which makes a sound and looms.

"" A needle springs "!

As he danced in the air, he drew a knife from an upside down state, releasing a poke that wrapped water around the sickle.

A knife crashed into the center of the sickle embodied by magic - his right arm bent backwards without waiting for a second poke released at high speed.

A blood splash rises from his right shoulder, and the sickle cleaves over his right arm at the cradle.

"Eh... wander into the sky, countless meteors, now is the time to praise the earth!" Meteo Drive "!

A mass of flames equal to meteorites poured indiscriminately in the "spiritual art” that he chanted as he fell according to gravity,

"Then pierce him with a scorching flame, a savage barbarity." Raising Shots "!

One breath and the same “Spiritual Art" bullet goes straight for "Black Wings”.

I thought the boulder "black wings” would also show a rush for two consecutive sorceries: Advanced Spirituality and Intermediate Spirituality.

"The countless brilliances that swallow everything, the certainty of silence that glorifies infinitely." Splashwall ""

But "black wings” were “black wings” everywhere.

Chant without disturbing while looking down with a spare smile and activate “Spirituality”.

A massive stream of water revolves around the “black wing”, swallowing the touched object from one end and causing it to disappear. The look is like the eyes of a typhoon.

"... earth movement, rock iron crushing." Rock Break "!

Watching the water flow unmissable, he chants the "sorcery” of earthly attributes as if it were a bad scratch, causing rocks to appear above.

to a rock that falls just in the area that hits the eye of a typhoon,

"Resurrected again, in the narrows of the underworld." Zero Shaft ""

Offset by bumping black chunks.

finishing such a series of offenses first. He descended to the ground,

"Leo!"

A knife slipped off as he made a noise from his hand.

"Eh... after all,“ Black Wings ”is amazing... I'm seriously going to fight for it..."

He stares “black-winged” somewhere in regret.

I examined the wound on my right arm and took the shavings I had put on instead of the hair fastening, and then spoke small.

I always wore it, with the magic team's painted bamboo as an aid.

"... a whispering fairy healing." Fairy Light ""

A small circle of light rises around him, and the light of healing falls from above.

His wounds clogged and the bleeding healed. but......,

"It's just a bad scratch. You can't even fight me with infinite protection and you with limited protection."

"... come on, we need to try that till the end... I don't think we know what it is"

He speaks in a seemingly strong way... but the situation is headed for the worse.

Previously, I heard from him that "summoning" was not so easy to use once used, and he would fight without cutting his strongest trump card. Yes, you summoned 'Ifried' earlier to help me, so at least you'll never be able to use it in this fight.

And his duplicity can't give him all he can without a single knife. Neither am I... useless in terms of offense.

“Black Wings” laughed invincibly as if to mock this one's disadvantage like that - raising his left hand and creating a black breeze over the sky without chanting.

It was... a common sense office or a phenomenon that overshadowed the premise.

"... lied... activated“ Spirituality ”without any magic formation or chanting...!?"

"... Sounds like it's really starting to taste bad"

In order to activate the “Art”, it is necessary to go through two processes: “chanting” while flowing magic into the "Magic Formation”, a benefit of the Spirit.

The Black Wings activated it only by magic. This was a rough business that I could do because I was the best to benefit from the "Protector" … "Spirit," and it was the most proof of the difference in strength from the ground up between me and him….

to my fear that I couldn't bear to put it on my face,

"... Apparently, my strength has been tasted well enough. So... special, final announcement."

“Black Wings" smiled with a brutal luster that attracted 10,000 people,

"Sacrifice one of them. That way... only the other one will help you. Well, that's not a bad story, is it?

"Huh...!

I mean... if you want to help, cut off one side... I'm trying to get the Black Wings to choose again.

But... I don't know... I want to help myself, but I can't just sacrifice him. I don't even have to think about it. The conclusion is… the fact that I tried to save the "village" at the expense of myself… comes to the same end.

To protect the village, to protect him.

Yes, in the end everything was a futile resistance... "Black Wings” had said it in the dark.

"... me, is..."

I came here - in a true sense, ready.

Neither of us can help as it is. If only... he was the only one who got involved.

I don't need anyone's help anymore. No one is allowed to sacrifice.

'Cause you can make a mistake. So... he's the only one I can try to save.

Take a step, two steps, toward “Black Wings,"

"... Laura...?

with a slight grin on his face that looked suspicious,

Dear "…" Blackwing ”… I -!!"

I try to release my voice towards “Black Wings"...,

"- No, Laura!!"

"... eh...?

I can no longer speak out for what happened in front of me.

… "Black Wings” compresses and instantly stretches the black wind collected on your left hand…,

"... I knew this was happening..."

- A giant spear came forward trying to pierce me, and he tried to shelter it...... it popped out in front of me and was pierced by the spear instead.

Really, there were no words.

It was the most incredible sight I've ever seen, so I don't know what to do.

"Leo... how..."

In the end, all I could say was words like that.

He grinned as he looked at the pain,

"... from the beginning, this was what I was after... when I tried to stop Laura... and she was going to kill me..."

Interrupted words enter my ear, and in the meantime, pounding, blood runs down and spreads down.

There is so much blood. So even though I have to heal fast...... I can't move my hand.

"... a leftover,“ Spirit Tree. "I have the opposite idea of faith... I was in the way. So Black Wings... just to get rid of me... created this situation...

- It means……,

"... to kill Leo... to kill me... everyone sacrificed just for that...!?"

- My decision, everything was “wrong” from the beginning.

He hurt in my place in front of me, and that's what “Blackwing” thought... all, all... was just a wasted footscratch.

I decided that I would never make a mistake again... and I, again, have repeated it.

Foolish and heavy mistakes without help, again......

“Black Wings," he tells me, turning to me in dismay at such a brutal reality.

"Laura. From the beginning, my aim was Leo. The leftovers will take away my“ pawn ”... contempt for the" Spirit Tree ”and take in the“ Great Spirit ”by eliminating the“ Protector "..."

“Black Wings,"

"- I couldn't help but hate such a person as Leo."

I glanced at him with a blatant hatred.

The more frozen his spine, in that gaze filled with malice, Sang, he grinned after all.

"... I guess.... the first time I saw him... I felt something I could certainly call“ hatred "at that time..."

"I was aware of that, and you saw me as the“ village chief. "At that point, your death was definitive."

Push the spear in your left hand,

"Yes... now let's liquidate all“ sins ""

Hearing the words, I panicked.

He will be killed as he is... He has just sheltered me, and he is innocent of all sins, for my sake...

I know exactly what the Black Wings are trying to do. I am trying to kill him on this occasion, an intrusive being. That's all I know, but that's enough.

This is destiny...... I won't let you say it was inevitable. I won't let Black Wings kill him.

Obviously, wins and losses are visible, but there's something I can do.

I squeeze my trembling hand so hard, I look forward.

"... the bounty of the earth that dwells in the veins, now is the time to be full of blessings." Impact Wall "!

Highlighting my determination and readiness, I uttered "spiritual art”.

The earth pulses and the ground protrudes toward the “black wing”.

!?

Stunning appeared on the face of the "black wing” that was now about to stab a stop, and a spear of a sharp and pointy earth tried to stab her like that,

After all, could the witch also use "spirituality”?

Turn around and smile full of confidence.

The spear of the earth was prevented by a pitch-black wall that suddenly appeared,

"Simply imitate."

Instantly throw the sword that was held in your right hand. It was faster than I threw earlier. It decided on my arm, and the walrus left my hand danced through the universe.

The bell that was attached to my sleeve rang violently,

"Apparently, you should disable me first."

Two spreads formed with dirt wrapped around my legs, hovering me...... the spreads beat me to the hard ground with all their might.

"Oh, Laura!

His screams echoed and all the air was spit out of my mouth.

A severe pain that I've never felt before runs around my back.

"Huh...!!"

Again, I was slammed to the ground.

There is constant pain worse than bad cuts and bruises, and still I move my body willingly.

If I fall here, he dies. That's all I don't like, because I have to stop it... I put my hands and feet in pain.

Just a little at a time. I manage to get up and I reach out hard to pick up the flying tweezers.

But a black dagger pierces the back of my stretched hand, and a sharp pain, unlike a beating, strikes me.

But you can't stop it to this extent.

Absolutely, we have to protect him. He's the only one who can't let him die.

So I kept reaching out,

"... thanks, Laura"

His kind voice stopped my hand like that.

"I didn't expect you to do that for me... but I wasn't there."

"Les, o... what..."

"- That's why he wants to protect you even if you risk your life... yes, did you think?

Bleeding from his mouth, he laughed.

He spins his words with his usual gentle voice with his usual gentle, gentle grin, even though the unparalleled intense pain should be hitting his whole body.

"... I regret that I was no match for" Black Wings "... but now, if Laura helps..."

"Wait, Leo... what... what are you talking about...?

Now, if I'm going to help...? Hey, what are you talking about?

Why... what are you talking about? Hey, Leo!

"... if I die, Laura will be used up... right, Black Wings?"

"If you sacrifice one of them, the other will help you. There is no lie or falsehood in this word. Besides... all I want is your life. I don't like the fact that it came at me... but that's fine. I'm gonna miss you this time."

"... yes, then... to Laura, don't get your hands on me, I want"

... Wait. Is he... trying to save me?

Sacrifice yourself... trying to help me...?

"... no... no, no...!

It's decided that Leo is better off alive than I am... the duplicitous use of "The Great Spirit Ifried"... much better dressed than I am, much stronger than I am... kind...,

"Laura...... thanks for everything"

Why are you laughing at me like that? With a smile that's no different than usual... do you say such sad things?

Please, wait... I'll take your place, so only Leo... only him...,

"It was really good to meet you. So, please... be happy for everyone..."

... help me...

"- Goodbye, Laura..."

- The big black spear was pulled out of the noise, and let the blood dance... he fell quietly to the ground.

"... Leo... Leo... Huh!

Pull over the painful body, and I'll get to him.

He's not dead. 'Cause he's strong... and he's always laughing...

"Leo......?

Even now, yes, I'm sure he's just asleep.

He looks peaceful and I'm sure he's just asleep...

"... hey, Leo..."

Neither my aching back nor the feeling of my pierced right hand was felt by me. I just hugged his bloody body and called his name over and over again.

He's not dead, there's no reason. It's a lie, it's a lie... I kept denying it just the same number as his name, and I... admitted it.

I lived until just now, and my body keeps getting colder and colder. From the face I always laughed I lost more and more blood......,

"... how did you do that...? Why did you protect me...? How can you pass away on your own...!?"

Once you've made up your mind, you go through it. No matter how much he stops around, he never stops.

It still is. Decided to protect me... he chose to die. Leaving only unsolicited words at the end... he died trying to help me.

I feel like I'm paying for what I'm trying to do...

"No... no, Leo...!

I couldn't stop trembling.

Tears overflow from his eyes one after the other, dropping a clear Shizuku over bright red blood.

No matter what you do, he won't come back. There is no way to come back to life... but I could only cry.

"No... hey..."

"-No, no, no, no, no!"

In the quiet woods, only my screams echoed in vain.