Yomigaeri no Maou

"So, you figured something out?

In the Adventurers Union (Guild) building, in the large conference room, Orotos asked his men that way.

Normally, I almost hear reports in the office of the union president (guild master), but now that this large conference room has become the countermeasure room for logsuela-related incidents in the imminent situation of the finals here, I am deciding to hear these reports here.

Sometimes people representing the finals are replacing and replacing the newly purchased information here to see if it has brought new information even if they find time between their usual tasks, and it was decided that it would be better to share the information.

Orotos now asked about the results of an interrogation about the two captives who had caught him attacking the adventurer during this time.

Since then, where I have woken up and drawn information, the officials in front of Orotos have been precisely in charge of it.

Whatever the means, even if I tortured him, he said it was acceptable in this situation, and I thought that if I did all that, I would get some information, but I could tell from the officials that this thought of Orotos had apparently gone a long way.

"It's really painful to say this,“ I found out I don't know anything. "I just... Those two hardly seem to understand the circumstances..."

"What...? You're telling me you don't know anything!?

To the exclaimed Orotos, the official shakes his head and says the same word again.

Plus, highlight a part of it.

"I'm not saying I don't know. You said you didn't understand the situation in the first place. Especially if you're a girl... My name is Hard to Know..."

To that word of the official, Orotos tilts his neck.

"Don't you understand? They must have attacked us, right? Do you know anything about being attacked by people?

"No, on that point, 'cause the glass told me to do it,' the two of us are about to say. If you ask who it is, you say it's a friend. That seems to be the whole reason..."

Not that I don't understand it as a motive.

A friend asked me to help, so I acted accordingly.

But wouldn't that explain the situation a little?

When asked so, the official said,

"I also asked if you didn't ask for any purpose or anything for a little while... you don't seem to have heard anything"

"Aren't you lying?

At a time like this, it's natural to say captured prisoners are lies because they don't know what's inside them.

That's why he was Orotos, who allowed torture, and he asked far away if he had tried the way he said it.

The official nodded, looking down and answering with an indescribable voice.

"I also thought about it and heard it in many different ways, but it didn't work"

Orotos, who felt something strange shaking his emotions in the way he said it, asks even deeper.

"I didn't know you couldn't?

To Orotos' question, the face-raised official says with a face like he saw something incomprehensible.

"... before that, Dear Orotos. Is that... is that a person? It doesn't seem that way to me. Whatever you do... it's like you're not responding..."

Ask him in detail and he says he did what he could think of as torture, such as stimulating pain or inciting fear, but neither the girl nor the giant seemed to enjoy it.

Don't be patient, because it's not unthinkable, but to some extent, from the eyes of an official experienced in what he said, he obviously wasn't patient.

On the contrary, the officials who do that, they both stare with similar strange eyes and say they were leaning their necks.

If you ask if it doesn't hurt, they say they answered.

I can make sure I don't feel any pain.

If you keep going on like this, you will die. If you are a giant, you will have no choice. If you are a girl, you will die.

So far, the officials seem to have noticed.

These guys, they say it's crazy.

He said he wasn't responding approximately.

Orotos held his head when he heard such a story.

"It wasn't normal from appearance... heterogeneous to the contents? I understand that you can turn down pain, but there is no fear of death, or do you say that a girl doesn't know death itself..."

"Probably. Isn't it impossible to extract information that seems certain from those two? At least not the kind of people who talk something out of pain or fear of death. I just... feel like I wasn't lying. Glass, it seemed to me that the adventurers had asked me to attack them."

That's just a personal inquiry of an official.

If a girl and a giant are not afraid of anything, it is useless to incite what they say and try to listen.

The only remaining means is to have them speak honestly, but it is rarely possible for prisoners to do such a thing.

It's just that officials say they're being honest...

This must be ascertained with your own eyes and ears.

Orotos thinks so and informs the official thereof.

The officials nodded,

"I understand. But the giants are a little tricky... so the girl would be better off first. It's connected to the dungeon, so come here."

That's why the staff walked out.

◆ ◇ ◆ ◇ ◆

The girl is in prison, standing and staring at Orotos.

The expression is not the kind of fear or plea that a prisoner usually floats, but a bright one out of place.

"... how are you feeling"

Orotos, for now, I'll cut it out that way.

The girl answered.

"Not bad, but here, it's giddy! I wonder if it's more comfortable than in the woods...... But the rice is delicious!

Like that.

It seems to be a whole lot better and it's kind of a reaction that gets me out of the poison.

But Orotos has a role to play.

Helps me to get good information from her and tell her that I can help her plan for the future.

That's why Orotos tells the girl.

"Well...... good. By the way, you've already been asked so many times, why did you attack the adventurers in the woods?

Orotos thought it might not be an answer, but it was a good question.

The girl did her hand on her lips and answered immediately.

"Mm-hmm. Glass said it would be fun to do that. 'Cause I said they'd all play. Guys, you played, and I, I enjoyed it. Play again!

To the answer, Orotos sees the faces of the officials next door.

Officials put their faces to Orotos' ears,

"... for some reason, there was a verse in which she thought the adventurers had played... which is a little different from what the giants perceived, but neither of us seems to have done anything wrong."

"It's..."

I'm told, I see the girl's face again.

Stared, the girl leaned her neck wonderfully.

Sure, there's a look there that doesn't feel any evil or anything like that.

Yes, it's like... a newborn baby look.

But Orotos shook his head.

Because that can't be right.

The girl looks at least around ten years old.

If we live with that much, whether we follow it or not, what we call ethics and normative consciousness sprouts to some extent.

To say you really don't know anything is... impossible.

It should be.

Think so.

But such Orotos' certainty gradually shakes with every word he exchanges with the girl.

"... it's no use lying like that. If you don't talk, you don't have a life. No, I just talked to him, and I don't know if it'll help. However, we may be able to die easily..."

Orotos said that in a heavily painful and determined voice, with a sticky expression as much as he could.

Of course, I didn't joke about what I said, and I said I was going to do that if I had to.

Officials say similar things to girls.

So many times, no one can persevere in such words and be sure of their own safety in view of their own disabling situation.

And if we can find a glimmer of hope in that, we'll talk about a lot of things as soon as possible.

That was supposed to be what happened most of the time.

But the girl,

"... life? Die? What do you mean? Is that fun?

They ask me, "What?"

Orotos distorts his face to this overly bare answer.

Because I wondered what this girl was talking about and that's what I thought.

The adjacent official, speaking, is holding his head and shaking his head.

"I told her something similar, but it was the same reaction. In fact, I also tortured him like he was about to complain about pain... as I said earlier, he could block the pain, and it didn't make sense... like a punch in the hand"

Orotos, indescribably, continued to speak to the girl.

If you say you don't know what death is or what life is, then I wondered what you were going to do to attack the adventurer.

"... what do you think would happen if you turned magic on a creature?

"It'll shatter when you hit it, won't it? If you don't, you run red water."

"That's death. I'll never go back to normal again."

Orotos said so to plead not guilty.

But the girl,

"Really? Then you'll be fine. If that happens, now you can be another creature! It's fun! I, I know!

and so on.

It is clearly the wrong way of thinking.

I just can't laugh just because I know exactly what I'm serious about believing that.

Orotos continues.

"... I can see that. You say you saw the creature you shattered that way turn into something else?

Thoughts are.

It's a roundabout idea.

The creature dies and rises only the soul, and after some time, gives new life and resurrects.

It is a religious way of thinking and a gentle idea that gives up on life that also often appears in fairy tales.

But no one can be sure it's right.

At least, in history, Orotos doesn't know those who have ascertained it to be true.

It's obvious.

Whether you're a man, an animal, and even a demon, if you die, it's over.

That's the truth.

So the creature has to make even the whole of his own life.

I've lived with that in mind.

So the attitude of the girl, the ignorance of things, strongly chooses the deep part of Orotos in a bad way.

The girl leaned her neck towards Orotos' fiercely dwelling expression,

"I've never seen it, but you know what? A creature can be another creature..."

Say it.

Orotos is

"There's no reason for that!! If you die... if you die, that's where it ends! You..."

"Dear Orotos, don't be so fierce...... calm down"

Officials rub Orotos' back trembling in anger.

Orotos exhaled to tremble.

The anger didn't seem to quell forever, but it seems silly to use your efforts for such a girl, perhaps.

I told him to put his expression back to what it normally is and throw it away.

"... I can't forgive you. Unless, at least, we change the mindset of that different thing, the attitude of taking life lightly...... What do you mean I threatened you, but I'm not even comfortable here anymore... sorry, please..."

Yes, tell the staff, Orotos climbs the stairs and goes.

To Orotos like that, the girl told him to scream.

"Hey! What's life! I haven't been told yet!

Maybe this girl is talking unexpectedly and very seriously, which is what the officials left feeling.

In response to that question, Orotos said, from the top of the stairs,

"Once you lose it, you never return it. It's about the most honorable thing in the world!

I said, I shut the door that leads to the basement thoughtfully.

The tall, huge sound of a sturdy iron door closing sounds in the dungeon.

Both the girl and the staff blocked their ears to the sound.

Then, when the employee's youth slowly took their hands off their ears to make sure the noise stopped, they heard a fuss.

"... once you lose it, something you will never return. The most honorable thing in the world......"

It was not the voice of Orotos, it was the voice of a girl.

I don't know why, but they're repeating it.

Because you told me, maybe I was telling you to remember.

And on that look, I felt like there was something strange living there because of my mind or something...