Seirei no Moribito

The foreground was long, but the settlement was for a moment.

Without pulling the blade out of the sheath, Lynn defeats the opponent and returns to the edge of the training field with a courtesy only.

Students of the same grade spare no praise and applause, but actually speak only the upper side. There was no way he could have shown interest in such a thing, ignoring everything as the air, and sitting directly next to the entrance, which was the designated seat.

Rose, who dared to sit next to him like that, clapped her hands in a petty manner.

"Hehe, you're a boulder, my lord chairman."

But I glanced sharply at Lynn and groaned.

"... but only today, why did you settle like that?

Lynn understood what Rose was trying to say.

Subject of the day, simulated combat. This is a battle for students to fight each other in anticipation of an actual battle, to produce their moves, and to hone them. Of course, it's speech and morality that makes you suffer a killing or life-threatening major injury. To reduce the danger at all, members of the Knights of the King's Capital have been placed in the referee, and other instructors have turned a blind eye.

And because it's about simulated combat, there's a rule that even if there's a difference in strength, you have to keep fighting.

Some things can be seen by fighting the overwhelming strong, so in that sense, you could say that the person who hit Lynn was lucky.

But...

"... the rule of simulated combat is to keep fighting no matter how powerful the difference is. We don't just avoid it, we attack each other, we avoid each other, and we gain strength. You know that, don't you, Lord Chairman?

Every time, the difference between Lynn and her opponent was visible, but the simulated battle meant that Lynn fought out of hand without defeating her opponent in an instant, winning or losing after a long enough time.

But only today, he won or lost in an instant until he broke such a rule. At first the referees also gave a reluctant look to this result, but had to shut up to his gaze without saying whether or not.

Rose was asking why he had to win or lose in an instant for that action he had taken, the meaning of it.

Usually, Lynn would have answered the reason pale in concise terms, but only today, he really looked different.

Just silent. I held a knife, I meditated my eyes. Lynn just kept quiet.

"... Phew, it doesn't look like it, huh. Yeah, I don't think so. The usual lord chairman always seeps a grand style and stares with a killing spirit that overwhelms all who see... yes, that seems to be what it is, isn't it?

Rose looked somewhere fun, with a luscious grin.

"You must be tired, Lord Chairman."

As if to reveal a secret, she leaned into Lynn's ear,

"- Looks like yesterday's Iselia punishment worked out quite well."

to the words, gave an invincible grin to Lynn, who gradually reacted,

"Equivalent, tired. Yes, that was a very lively play that didn't even leave room to restrain the surroundings. Oh... it doesn't seem, it doesn't seem“ Chairman. "When I look at you like that, I laugh unexpectedly. It's so funny, it's so delightful."

To the challenging words of Rose, Lynn looked at her with a seemingly billionaire, but sharp gaze.

"... you know, you pushed me?

"No... it was the chairman who said it first. At least, I got results. It was Irene who couldn't raise it."

Rose peels off the mask she was wearing, smiles superbly as a "wind discipline commissioner," and spins.

"... so? I guess it wasn't just whipping, the punishment? Iselia seems to have played quite a bit with the chairman's fatigue so far."

A cold laugh that combines fascinating but poisonous evil. With the ease of even talking to the public, Rose does not hesitate to reach out to touch Lynn's harp line.

"But Iselia is kind. Knowing what you're hiding, I won't force you to reveal it and allow you to lie... so you've been shaken. Isn't that right, Chairman? Oh, you must be. Otherwise, I'll want to torture you."

In a corner where metal sounds, an act.

Gradually, but surely, without losing sight of the increased intensity, Rose says.

"Well, I don't care about my personal feelings or anything. All that matters is the fact that I couldn't help but scream at Iselia's torture, even though you... Oh, I wanted to see it. It would have been pleasant for you to distort your face and raise your voice in pain without breaking your face."

You actually imagined that, Rose laughed in the back of her throat with a tranced look on her face,

"Hey, Chairman? You always wear a mask."

It changed the way I enjoyed it so far.

Even the look of suspicion and a fake smile, it creates a freezing atmosphere and just stares at Lynn.

We don't distract each other from each other's gaze, but we don't stop them while we tow each other.

so that you can't suddenly stop the gear that keeps turning,

"Everything, acting. Loyalty only on the upper side and words only on the upper side"

Neither can the two cracks be stopped.

"I couldn't trust you from the beginning. You have nothing. You don't have the meaning of living that even we have."

No, I refused to even stop.

"For me, Iselia is everything. Hey, Chairman? You must have mocked Iselia inside.

? Obsessed with you and laughing at you dancing with your hands, Iselia. "

……

"I've been wondering. I wanted to know why Iselia was so obsessed with you. I have sworn allegiance to Iselia, I have absolute faith in the Spirit Tree, and I have come to you as Commissioner of Wind Discipline."

Shivering tingly killer skin. in the wake of it. Unconsciously, Lynn switched the sword to her right hand,

"You only give people a look when you kill them. Full of abuse,“ Commissioner Kazaki ”grins. But the next moment, it disappears. As if nothing had happened from the beginning, you are flat."

Rose hangs her fingers on a knife pocket and slowly, but surely squeezes them.

"Four years. I've seen you for four years. Still, I couldn't see you as the same" wind discipline commissioner ”. More than Iselia likes you, you're definitely on this side. Yet you've felt different."

Lynn narrowed her eyes and filled her with killing,

"... what are you trying to say, 'Rose Marie'"

Rose still doesn't change her expression.

"... I realized, gradually, to the identity of the discomfort"

seeping the joy of the mighty into a laugh, she speaks.

"... 'Eileen'... no -"

Rose is

"- The real name is," "

Quiet, speak the name of a boy no one should know,

"Always, you think. When you face Iselia, when you take orders from the Spirit Tree, when you kill people, when you act with us, you..."

As a member of the "Wind Discipline Commissioner,"

- I'm just thinking about revenge.

I said a decisive word away, changing the relationship between the two of them.