Seirei no Moribito

Twenty years have passed since my brother flew out of his hometown.

After all, I haven't even heard from my brother to let him know he's safe where he's been coming home for the last twenty years.

... thin, I was feeling it.

My brother, loving me as his only family, but neglecting me for the love I couldn't give him.

My brother's heart is a mass of contradiction.

A distorted and broken affection, mixed with love and disgust. A complex intertwined obsession, mixed with killing and respect.

My brother must have jumped out of the house because he was aware of himself like that.

I want to see broad lower boundaries, not narrow boxyard worlds, and I want to believe that there are people there who are just as broken as they are but keep scratching their feet, and...,

"What are you thinking?

I glanced at the shadows that had suddenly interrupted me as I watched the sky blurry.

The first thing I notice is red eyes shining with passion as if they were on fire.

He who, like his brother, became a “spiritual magician” who manipulated the “flames” and went off the path of men.

She suddenly appeared before me on a journey she had no intention of going on, and she named herself 'Chris' and told me she was part of the 'Elves'.

... Still, I don't know why Chris was interested in me, but still, traveling with her isn't a bad thing.

"... will you stop showing up in front of me all of a sudden?

"Hey, you're gonna be bald when you care about me?

"Extra help"

... It's not a bad thing, but all I want you to do is show up suddenly and have a bad mouth.

But it's just impossible to impose my muscled personality now, and I end up sighing small as usual before answering Chris' question.

"... I was thinking about my brother."

"Ah, not again, you bracon"

"No, sir."

Chris tilts his neck with his arms together in a masculine crude, rough tone and a feminine trick opposite.... really, he's a shame in many ways.

"Speaking of, Atashi, you don't know your brother very well. Hey, what was your brother like?

"Well... in a nutshell, he was calm and harsh."

My brother never stopped smiling calmly.

Of course, that's not in front of me or the “spirits"... but at least I'm sure they're not the ones who put killing intentions and hatred on the table so easily.

He was basically a calm, gentle, honest person, but the opposite is true of what he thinks.

Always observe and evaluate the opponent, showing no gaps, attacking the opponent without being noticed with a smile on his chest with vigilance and willingness to kill.

Yes, my brother is still a distorted and broken man.

However,

"... even if my brother doesn't like me, I respect my brother, and I like him"

"Phew... your brother is pretty broken..."

Though there are few words, I lurk my eyebrows in the words Chris tells me that he sees the essence of my brother.

"My brother, is he crazy?

Sure, my brother is only broken, but he's not crazy.

I had good sense and common sense, and I knew what was normal and what was not.

If it's just behavior, my brother looks like a mediocre ordinary person. Whatever you hold in the back, there's no way you can say that your brother, who hides through perfectly, is crazy. Now, being my brother, I had no idea what my brother was thinking.

Plus, a madman is a word that refers to someone who says or does something as strange as it is obvious from anyone's eyes.

My brother is not such a fool.

"Oh, I knew it was Bracon"

Chris laughed lavishly as he spotted the grump in his faceless,

"It's crazy enough, your brother..."

Turn around, Chris looks at me with a serious look.

... I've only met him for a few days, but I know.

These Chris eyes never contain lies or exaggerations. Just a pure glance by the foolishness of telling the truth... I unwittingly take my gaze off.

I don't want to hear it. of my esteemed brother, the truth you don't have to know, etc.

But she can't overlook me like that.

"Look, listen to me now."

Chris forcefully grabbed my face and aligned it with his own gaze,

"Your brother loves you but hates you at the same time. I'm jealous of you. That's why I loved you. I've planted my feelings as a family in a blessed person who doesn't know how to doubt my family."

……

"Now, you know the face behind my brother, and you want me to respect him, right? Well, I'll ask, then, yeah? What do you respect about your brother?

with a gaze from the top as if it was worthwhile. Chris inquired,

"... my brother is a strong man"

I whine slowly as I look for words.

"My brother continues to be a good man, even as he becomes aware of himself being abandoned by his real parents and becoming more and more broken. That's something you can't do except your brother."

My brother hated me...... I know that.

He had feelings for me to say even hate love, and in the end he knew he was going to act.

However,

"If you just hate me, you won't scold me. I would never hit a selfish, selfish genuine and honestly apologize for that. My brother was really worried about me, but he didn't push his mind."

I can't tell you I know everything about my brother.

Unfortunately, even the words I've just spoken are just speculative ideas.

Still, what I say is that I respect my brother,

"My brother was gentle, strong, honest, and distorted at the same time. I respect my brother because he never stopped, he kept walking."

That was something I could never do.

Both my parents who cut off my brother, my neighbors who denied my brother, and my hometown who tried to kill my brother, are equally important to me.

I grew up in a privileged environment, no matter how stupid and ugly they are, and I can't be as ruthless as my brother.

Because I'm only one of the fools who knows nothing.

"... Ha, really, he's weird, you"

word by word. Chris let go of his hand, which was holding his face as if to emphasize,

"No, is it weird that your brother, too? Hate and sweet... like Idea and Alicia."

"Who is it, the... Idee and Alicia, who?

I asked Chris for his first name to come out of his mouth.

"Atashi's important childhood tame. Idee and Alicia, and Shu and Eve, why Atashi and Louis. Eight of them, plus Alice and Roy, who are already dead, are also important to Atashi's family."

Hiccup, Chris laughs as he shows his white teeth.

"Idee and I are three close sisters, and Atashi and Idee used to run around the mountains and play with each other. No, I was wondering what to do when the bear came out there, but I don't know what to do."

Chris sparkled with grief for his hometown in his eyes, but looking back at the past with pleasure, sometime.

But I didn't know he was already dead... No, let's stop asking. Anyway, it's decided not to be a busy story.

... That would also be about the cut that was supposed to stop humans.

With my mouth shut, I turned my gaze toward Chris back into the sky and lay down on the ground.

... In the first place, the cut I was supposed to make on my journey was the same 'elf tribe' as Chris.

The woman, who appeared flustered in her hometown and laughed at me and looked just like her brother, had disappeared from the city the next day.

Coincidentally, the only clue she had left behind was a mask that pictured an animal that Chris was lowering to his waist.

But after more than twenty years of worrying about my unsharpened brother and the impatience of not seeing him for the rest of my life, it was enough to make me decide to go on a journey to find him.

If it's impossible for my brother to be an "elf" - and he says he doesn't remember his own Chris - then I've had some opportunity to consider getting to know him, and I'm on my way to a serious northern village of the Spirit Tree Faith.

... Though I didn't expect to have more fellow travelers.

"... I wonder how you are, Alicia and the others. Well, it can't be just the two of us. Talk about it. Ha ha ha ha!

Leave Chris alone first, convinced to laugh on his own,

"You're the problem."

All this time, Chris puts his body on me and peeks into my face and points at my fingers.... plain heavy.

"What is the problem?

"... did you sign a deal with the Spirit?

……

... Again, Chris has a vision, huh?

Chris, who received silence as affirmation, looked up to heaven,

"You know what I mean by what I did?

"You can gain superhuman power by making a pact with the" Spirit ”and letting the" Spirit ”reside in you, but at the price of it - you will stop human beings... I know, Chris. I made a deal knowing that."

"... you really don't know when you're left behind."

"Still, I needed strength."

From close range, I gazed into Chris' red eyes,

"- My brother is already dead, isn't he?

"Huh! You don't know!!"

"I knew it from the beginning. I've never been able to tell if Chris knew his brother."

But to tell Chris's surprise, even though she knew her brother, she'd never met him in person.

As for the connection, I heard a little bit from the "Elves" woman in the example, to what extent...

But I didn't think my brother was already dead, and I wasn't expecting a boulder... my brother wasn't the kind of person who could risk his life for someone... if he bonded with me, that would have been good for my brother.

If that's why you're dead, you don't have an ex-child.

Oh, no, there were still other possibilities... but other than that, none of them equals the odds of my brother dying.

I can't say I didn't have any suicidal aspirations at all, but I'm not one to risk myself... why is my brother dead?

I'm probably looking for that answer.

Chris just stared at me like that.

"... interesting. I can't believe you chose Shura's path on your own. You have a surprising liver. I've reviewed it."

"Thank you very much for that...... it's time for you to step aside?

My words go through completely, and Chris puts his hands on his hips and makes an exhilarating laugh.

"All right, Atashi, let's follow you. Looks like you're having more fun, and most importantly, I'm interested in you."

"... at your disposal"

reply appropriately to Chris, who once decided not to move even with Kiko,

"See you soon, Serra."

Chris shook his shining silver hair in the sun and gave him a full grin.

This was the beginning of my journey with Chris.

We rolled all over the place in search of a clue for our brother, and even though we were in danger at times, we both got over it... it was in the first capital we visited that we met Al and the others.

... Oh, Chris.

I didn't tell you... did you realize that I was distorted somewhere from the start?

Even now, I don't think there's anything left to know... other than dying.