〈 Episode 353 〉 Now moving forward (1)
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“Hey, Raniel.”
“uh.”
“If there is such a thing as deserving of being called a hero, what do you think it is?”
“What is this nonsense all of a sudden?”
“It just suddenly occurred to me.”
Kyle said while smoothing the hilt of the holy sword.
“In fairy tales, the expression ‘hero’ often appears. hero. Those who receive praise from the public. As a result, a destination that the protagonist of a fairy tale reaches or has already reached.”
“It doesn’t come up often.”
Click, click.
Kyle pushed the hilt of the holy sword with his thumb. The blade that emerges from her sheath is platinum colored. Platinum, the color symbolizing starlight and warriors.
“That hero.”
Kyle said while looking at the platinum colored blade.
The young man who dreamed of becoming a hero asked a question.
“I thought, what can I do?”
“suddenly?”
“It was a sudden thought.”
“It’s so unexpected.”
“so?”
“So what.”
“What do you think, Raniel?”
“Well…”
Raniel smoothed his chin.
“It seems like you and I are already called battlefield heroes… but the hero you’re talking about is the hero depicted in fairy tales, right?”
Kyle nodded.
Raniel said, smoothing his chin.
“Well then, isn’t that what it boils down to?”
Raniel chuckled.
“Those who live by idealism.”
It is easy to talk about the above.
It’s easy to put these ideals into words.
Because it is easy, it can easily become light. There are people who live with it heavily in their arms forever.
“Guys who move forward no matter what the situation. “Those who set ridiculous goals and take on challenges.”
Raniel stretched out his arms.
He stretched out his finger and pointed to the spreading horizon.
“When everyone mocks it for being impossible.”
The end of the horizon where you don’t know where it will be.
Raniel said, pointing to the end.
“These are the people who make it happen no matter what. “Wouldn’t you call those guys heroes?”
“is it?”
“It’s like that.”
Kyle let out a chuckle.
“These are extremely difficult conditions.”
“So you must be a hero, idiot.”
How easy would it be to become a hero?
Muttering that, Raniel sipped his bitter coffee. Kyle looked at the horizon that Raniel had just pointed to. The sun was setting over the horizon.
Sunset horizon.
Is there an end to that horizon?
If there is an end, will you be able to reach it?
Thinking about that, Kyle let out a short breath. She then slowly stood up. Raniel also stood up, shaking off his robe.
Night has come.
It was time to deal with the demon army approaching from beyond the endless horizon. Kyle pulled out the holy sword. Raniel pulled his gloves straight.
“Then what…”
Raniel patted Kyle on the shoulder and walked forward. As always, Raniel takes his place one step ahead of Kyle.
“Let’s get through today too.”
Kyle looked at the back.
The image of my friend heading toward the horizon, where I don’t know where it will end. From behind, Kyle saw the heroes he had seen in old fairy tales.
…I don’t know where the horizon ends.
I would be able to follow the back view in front of me.
Thinking about that, Kyle smiled.
“okay.”
The holy sword shone platinum.
2.
It’s been two days since a guest from the future visited.
Raniel van Trias looked in the mirror and straightened his hair. Blue eyes were reflected in the mirror between flowing gray hair. The blue eyes reflected in the mirror are no longer blue.
Platinum starlight twinkled in the blue.
Raniel closed his eyes and opened them.
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She let out a short breath and wrapped the robe around her shoulders. After brushing away the wrinkles caught in her robe, she took a step back from her mirror.
“······.”
If you turn your head to the side, what you see is a necklace lying on the table. What I found in my hometown that had become a heap of ashes.
“I catch the devil.”
“That is my oath. “I will never forget the oath I made in front of my hometown that was reduced to ashes.”
That promise.
Raniel grabbed the necklace, remembering the promise he had thought he had already forgotten, but which he had kept in the end. I pushed the necklace I was clutching deep into the inner pocket of my robe.
And then he took a step outside.
When you open the door and go outside, there is Rosell. Roselle stood up, straightened the hem of Raniel’s clothes that he had not yet managed to straighten, and took something out of his arms.
It is a badge.
It is a badge symbolizing the Gray Magic Tower, and it is a badge that Rosell once gave to Raniel. A badge that was stolen by the Succubus Queen and returned to its original owner. Roselle attached the badge to Raniel’s robe.
“Raniel.”
And then, he said the same words as the first time.
“Spread your shoulders and raise your head.”
Roselle laughed.
“You are my proud disciple.”
Raniel pursed his lips and ended up laughing. She let out a long breath and lowered her head in front of Roselle. Her gray hair was flowing down.
“Master.”
“OK.”
“I’ll be back.”
Roselle tapped and touched the top of Raniel’s head.
“okay. “Please come back.”
Raniel walked forward.
I reached into the shoe cabinet. What I took out were not well-polished shoes. These military boots are full of stains that cannot be erased no matter how much you wipe them.
Kang.
The soles of the iron-padded military boots hit the floor and made a loud noise. Raniel looked back as he pushed his small feet into his military boots.
“Raniel.”
Because Roselle was calling him.
Naturally, Roselle’s expression is not the same as usual. How can parents who send their children to battle keep their usual expressions on their faces?
Nevertheless, look as normal as possible.
Roselle turned her back and smiled at Raniel.
“I won’t stay here. whenever.”
so.
“Come back. please.”
“···Yes, Master.”
Raniel nodded.
Putting on military boots, she opened the door of the mansion and went outside. Spring, when the sun was shining warmly, is gone. The summer that heated the land has dissipated. The autumn leaves fell and crumbled.
Winter has arrived.
It was snowing with a cool wind.
Raniel took a step forward, stepping on the loose snow. And then, with a squeak, the door to the mansion closed. I could no longer see my teacher.
Footprints were left in the pure white snow.
Raniel walked towards a place he had never set foot in before. She thought as she moved. It was a long break. It was so long, it was long enough to look back on my entire life.
A life that was like hell.
A life where even the end was expected to be hell.
But he was given a second chance. His approaching death was far away. His broken body recovered perfectly. Now further from his death than ever before, Raniel moves forward.
“I have to pay my debt.”
Kyle once said that.
I owe you a debt, and I have to pay it back. Raniel remembers those words.
“Crazy guy.”
I muttered that much to remember.
Raniel let out a chuckle. The guy really paid his debt. Ah, he gifted himself a second life so perfectly.
“They said they were going to beat him up, but now they’re just making him a hero. “Aren’t you really crazy?”
The warrior’s party is destroyed.
After leaving those words, he turned me into a hero and sat there so that I couldn’t even attack him. Raniel laughed at this absurd situation and stroked his hair.
“really···.”
I can do this and that as I please.
A place where no one’s eyes can reach.
There, Kyle Torben achieved a feat of his own accord. He became the hero he had longed for. The world is still unaware of the feat he accomplished. They also don’t know that Kyle ended up being a disaster.
So now is the time.
Now is your only chance.
Now is the time for Kyle to act, as he has not yet committed a crime and before he becomes known as a disaster.
Sabak.
Forward, looking into the snow where footprints are made.
Stepping forward again, Raniel raised his head. The horizon is not visible. Raniel moves forward while looking at what cannot be seen.
Backstage, Kyle accomplished the feat.
If so, you should do the same.
In a place where no one can see, he will also achieve the feat of turning disaster back to humans. This time, I will grab him by the collar and beat him to the ground.
Say, Sabak.
This is the moment when I stand in front of the carriage that Raniel has prepared.
Other footsteps were heard next to me. The sound of footsteps heard was light. Raniel turned her head toward the sound of light footsteps.
“Let’s go together.”
Shrine, Remia.
“Raniel van Trias.”
She called Raniel’s name for the first time and slowly, very slowly, lowered her head.
“You can treat me like a slave. It’s okay to use it as a throwaway word. So take me with you.”
She said.
“I also want to do something.”
“You might die?”
“But it doesn’t matter.”
Remia raised her head.
Raniel looked into those eyes, sighed, and pointed at the carriage with his chin. The carriage carrying the two began to move.
To the battlefield.
To the Demonic Land (？？) located beyond the battlefield.
3.
Cardi van Armiel looked at an old photo.
Cardi smiled bitterly as she looked at the photo of her colleague, who had now all changed. But that smile is no longer the same as before. That smile does not contain ridicule about his current situation.
Because I saw the possibility.
Because I realized that the time I spent was not meaningless.
Cardi was now able to look at the photo with a slightly lighter heart. Cardi looked at the photo for a while and let out a short breath.
“Whoa…”
Everything starts to change.
Stagnant time passes.
Cardi thought about the young elf who came to visit her last night. Shrine, Remia. Her first impression was indeed the worst. But the Remia she saw last night was a little different from what Cardi remembered.
···Some people change by losing something.
Even if the sins committed cannot be forgiven, there is no need to prevent that change. She thought about it and after much thought she made her choice. She forgot everything and chose to move forward instead of returning to the World Tree.
She has changed.
It’s not just her that has changed.
Raniel, who had been broken, stood up again.
She now looks forward again and walks. I won’t stop any longer. After a long break, Raniel became a sage once again.
Raniel van Trias.
Cardi hoped that the child, who resembles him and is his junior, would have a happy future. This is Cardi, who originally did not wish for stars. Kardi denies the existence of a god who can answer the wind. Cardia claimed to be a wizard because she did not pray.
Nevertheless, Cardi prayed.
And, that is the moment.
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Flash.
Cardi opened her closed eyes.
I stood up, opened the door to the store, and went out. Snow was falling in the narrow alley.
Scattering snow.
Cardi reached out and grabbed the air.
When I opened my clenched hand, there was something that had not melted among the water droplets flowing from the melting snow.
It’s ash.
Looking at the ashes, Cardi inadvertently burst into laughter. When you look up at the sky, there is an unfamiliar energy blowing in the wind. Cardi muttered as she felt that energy.
“···He must have gone, I guess.”
Cardi leaned against the wall, ashes blowing away in the wind. He is a pile of ashes that rises to the sky on the wind. She is the goddess of ashes who gave her the answer. Cardi prayed to the goddess who answered her long-standing prayer.
I don’t know if I will reach it or not.
“thanks.”
so.
“Leave the next time to me.”
From 13 years in the future, to 13 years in the past.
The meaning was passed down through time.
Now it’s time to move forward.
Next, then again.
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